Southeastern News Online July, 2004 Vol. 2  No. 2

SENYLRC Board Set to Begin New Fiscal Year

Celia Seupel, author, professor and owner of the Whispering Pines Bed & Breakfast in High Falls, NY, is a recently-elected member of SENYLRC’s Board of Trustees. Celia, who along with David Barnhart represents the public at large, joins fourteen other members of the board to start the new fiscal year.

Also re-elected to the Board to serve second five year terms include Barbara Durniak, Electronic Reference Services Librarian from Vassar College, Jeff Katz, Director of the Stevenson Library at Bard College, and Judith McGrath, part-time public services librarian at Middletown-Thrall Public Library.

At the June meeting of the Board – the last one of the 03/04 fiscal year - the members of the Board elected the Executive Committee:

• Barbara Durniak, President, replacing Judith McGrath who served as President for two years.
• Jeff Katz, Vice-President
• Stuart Moss, Treasurer (Stuart is Director of the Health Sciences Library, Nathan Kline Institute)
• Lynn Denman, Secretary (Lynn is the Director of the Sullivan BOCES School Library System)
• Josh Cohen, Assistant Secretary Treasurer (Josh is the Director of the Mid-Hudson Public Library System)

The other members of the Board include:

• Gerlinde Barley, Sojourner Truth Library, SUNY New Paltz
• David Barnhart, from Hyde Park, NY (lay member representing the public at large)
• Geralynn Demarest, Director of the Columbia-Greene Community College Library
• May Knapp, Library Media Specialist, New Paltz High School
• Mary Ellen Leimer, Office of Human Resources, Newburgh Enlarged School District
• Barbara Liesenbein, Director of the Library, Dutchess County Community College
• Stan Ploszaj, ANSER Project Manager, Ramapo Catskill Public Library System
• Muriel Verdibello, Director, Newburgh Free Public Library

Some of the major issues that the board will be discussing include the new building project, strategic planning, and the annual applications for various categorical aid programs (HLSP, RBDB, MISP, LSTA, etc.) plus the revenue and expenditure projections for the next fiscal year. The full first meeting of SENYLRC’s Board of Trustees is Thursday, August 19 at 9:30 AM. Subsequent meetings are generally the third Thursday of the month, excluding October, February and August unless otherwise needed.

By John Shaloiko, Executive Director

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