Friends of the Alameda Free Library Board - Friends of the Alameda Free Library

2018 FAL Officers

President	Karen Butter
Vice President	Kumar Fanse
Secretary	David Beall
Treasurer	Bill Gibbs

2018 FAL Directors

Karen Manuel		Eileen Savel
Eileen Bitten		Billy Reinschmiedt
Luzanne Engh		Carole Robie
Marlene Grcevich		Karen Roemer
Honora Murphy		Jo Winzenread

The Board meets the fourth Monday of each month except December, at
6:30 p.m. in the Family Room, Main Library. The public is welcome.

Responsibilities of each FAL Board Member

Advocate for the Alameda Free Library
Attend Board meetings
Participate in discussions
Support Board decisions, plans and policies
Work to develop long range Board plans
Serve on committee(s) as liaison or chair; estimated to be 1-5 hours/week
Make an annual financial donation to FAL that is significant to you
Participate in FAL fundraising events/campaigns.

The FAL Bylaws are available in PDF form by clicking here.

Board president’s report for January

The Board noted the full calendar of activities for the next few months with docent talks, screening and discussion of the movie Dark Money in partnership with AAUW and LWVA, and a series of 4 Alameda author talks in partnership with AAUW. In recognition of Black History month, FAL is hosting a program of stories of women leaders in Alameda. Board members and volunteers are needed to assist with each of the events. The Book Sale Committee is experiencing continued thefts and destruction of materials at the storage facility at Alameda Point. Due to the generosity of Allan Michaan we now have a small storage area to relocate some of the materials. We are also negotiating with the city for another space that might be available within a few months to move the remaining items. In the interim we are planning to rent space. President Karen Butter thanked Carole Robie and Peg Rosen for their leadership in developing longer term solutions for storage. The Book Sale Committee is also looking for medium-size sturdy boxes; they can be dropped off at the book sale room by the Café in the library. The Café is doing very well – since its inception it has transferred more than $57,000 to the Friends account for library programs. In the past few months they introduced seasonal items that sold very well. The Café Committee also reported that one of its volunteers will turn 95 this year and a few others are in their 90s. —Karen Butter