SWAN Board, Fees Committee:

I most likely will not have an updated document for the SWAN Quarterly meeting next week, June 1. The data needed for the chart must be gathered from the Cook County Treasurer, and I do not have the data yet.

I would also like to talk about the fees with a few of the library directors with the largest increases. This means Oak Park for starters.

Lastly, something annoying happened that I want to alert you to. The Fees Committee was originally operating with Anne Slaughter as the MAGIC ex-officio rep. We utilized an email list feescom@swanlibraries.net to share information easily. The draft version of the Fees Document was deliberately not posted online and only shared with the Committee and Board. Anne took the liberty to share the document with the RAILS leadership team, which included the Carolyn Coulter of PrairieCat and Kendal Orrison of RSA. While Dee and others were complementary of the report, I specifically asked them to allow me to work on the document further, to talk with some key stakeholders, and that it was not ready for public consumption. They apologized and requested Carolyn and Kendal not share it further with other libraries. I removed Anne from the Fees email list yesterday once I realized what was going on.

I am very reluctant to get into a Fees overview next week at the meeting unless we have the final document and chart. Due to this, I am going to keep this off the agenda and make a brief comment that we have some additional work and it will be scheduled for an overview with other meetings in June/July and posted online.

Aaron Skog
Executive Director
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