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January 15, 1962 The Appropriation Committee met Monday evening January 15, 1962 at $:00 P. M. in the office of the Town Accountant. Present : J. Harper Blaisdell,Chairman Raymond L. White,Temp.Sec. Frank E. Douglas Maurice F. Shaughnessy John R. Bevan Alfred Viano C. Roland Christensen Mildred B. Marek and Karl Nyren, Trustee and Director were here at the opening of our meeting to discuss and go over the Library budgets. The first budget considered was 59-A Personal Services. Mr. Nyren stated that personnel problems were difficult due to our housing problem here. Also stated that our libraries are active busy ones. The Library employees work 371 hours per week. Also Mr. Nyren stated that they had at least five employees leave for better salaries in other libraries. Also it was stated that they are going to re-catalogue all books in the Library. At present they are using the Cutter System and are going to re-catalogue using the Dewey System. On budget 59-A we were asked to add to this budget an item as follows: - two part-time girls and pages for cataloging, total of $5,960.00 in accordance with their explanation sheet. This will change the total of sheet 59-A to $10,7$9.00. Mrs. Marek asked about the State Aid to Libraries which we received in the amount of $5,$15.11, whether they could get that. This money was received by the Town and was put into the estimated receipts as required. Mrs. Marek also stated that the State grant to the Town of Lexington is estimated at $6,922.25 for the year 1962 and that House Bill 366, if it passes will allow this money to be immediately available to the library. Librarian I as shown in the budget represents seven employees with a college degree. Library Assistants are five employees graduated from High School and some library training beyond High School. Activity in the Library has gone up 12% this past year. The next budget was Library expenses. In this budget is included the purchase of an additional card file, one electric and one manual typewriter, newspaper and magazine rack and a duplicating machine. Telephone expense is up 5475.00 due to two new lines in the main Library and the branch had a party line, now has been changed to a separate line, also $17.50 per month for key switch board system at main Library, Books, 316,100.00 is for the purchase of approximately 5,000 books. The cusdotian's salary in budget shows a 71% increase. This increase brings the Library custodian in line with the three custodians of the Town. The Library expense budget has increased 21.3%. These budget increases mean about a .33 increase using $77,000 for each dollar of tax rate. The Library Trustees left our meeting at 9-:15 P. M. Mr. Blaisdell states that the school budgets as submitted means a $7.20 r {,,l