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CITY OF COLUMBIA HEIGHTS
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Patrick Hentges, City Manager
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M. Rebecca Loader, Library Director j'
April, 1994, operational report
DATE: April 29, 1994
I. Significant Accomplishments A. The Friends met on 4/4 with nine members present.
B. The Board met on 4/5 with all members present.
C. Twenty-one people attended Senior Citizen Filmtime on 4/13.
D. Adult Reading Club, "Books the Other Channel "ended on 4/23 with
102 participants. '
E. Six sessions of pre-school story & crafts were held in April with
a total of 126 attending.
F. Three sessions of Tiny Tot story & crafts were held in April with 124 attending.
II. Departmental Goals A. The firs~ draft of the 1995 proposed library budget was submitted 4/21.
B. Marsha participated in a MELSA storytellers' workshop on 4/12 & 4/14.
C. The library participated in the tornado drill on 4/14.
D. National Library Week was celebrated 4/17-4/23 with a variety of contests
and drawings.
E. Mary attending a workshop 4/20 on grant-writing.
F. Kelly and Jeanine attended Municipals on 4/21.
G. Becky attended the county public service meeting on 4/14.
III. _Issues and Problems A. Hoffer Glass repaired the leaking window on the north side of the building 4/26.
B. The elevator construction project has been proceeding slowly.
March
Circulation LIBGIS
1993 1994 --
~ 1993 1994
Adult 7475 7728 Reference 3535 2474
Juvenile 7292 6735 Dir. A 863 296
1~'767 ' 14463 Dir. B 140 45
Work days 27 27 Working days 27 27
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On Thursday, Apdl 21, 1994, I attended the Municipals Spring Banquet held at the
Holiday Inn-Minneapolis West. This was a business meeting to elect officers, followed
by dinner and a speaker. Representatives from 35 different municipalities were in
attendance.
The guest speaker for the evening was Debra Hedlund, a Hennepin County District Court
,JuOge. She was formerly Assistant City Attorney and City Attorney for the City of
Minnetonka from 1974 to 1980. Debra chose to speak about the growing problem of
crime throughout the State of Minnesota. She listed statistics and had rather a grim
outlook for the future. She is trying to institute a volunteer program for lending a helping
hand to non-violent defendants currently involved in the court systems. She cited the
problems that money cannot fix, and there are not enough probation personnel to go
around. Debra suggested that involvement could be as little as maybe a phone call
reminding someone to pay a traffic ticket, or appear in court; or you could possibly decide
that as an individual you might want to 'adopt' a defendant similar to the 'big brother' or
'big sister' program. It certainly was a thought provoking experience.
I appreciate the chance to attend this program.
Jeanine Schmidt