President Gretchen called the meeting to order.

SECRETARY'S REPORT

A motion was made, seconded, and passed that the minutes be accepted.

TREASURER'S REPORT

Treasurer Pam Goucher presented a poetic treasurer's report.  A motion was made, seconded, passed that the report be accepted.

MEMBERSHIP

Susan Allison Membership Chair reported that MASL now has a membership of 275 members.  2006 membership dues can be paid now by seeing Susan or going to the registration desk.

EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE GRANTS

Kelley McDaniel announced that last year's winners of the EBP grants were on the Fall Conference schedule to present a workshop on their grants.

$500 adapter grants were based on the seed EBP projects.

Kelley announced that Roxanna Morris and Christina Fricke were the award winners for the innovative grants.  Roxanna's cross-curriculum, cross-cultural project involved fourth graders working with trickster tales.  Students will study tales with teachers and SLMSs and write their own tales.  Differentiation will allow students to create a puppet or a mask of a character, rather than a complete tale.

Christina's project involved students studying the poetry of specific poets, and will feature "poems in your pocket."

The adjustment of the timeline for both MASL grants was discussed.  A motion was made, seconded and passed that the deadline for the 2006 innovative grants will be four weeks after the Fall Conference, the deadline for the 2006 adaptor grants will be six weeks after the conference, and that the grants will be announced by Kelley via mail and/or email.   

NEW BUSINESS

President Gretchen Asam advised the membership that the MASL Executive Board had discussed a possible contribution to disaster relief.  The Board felt strongly that the decision should be made by the membership.  After a lengthy discussion involving many suggestions, concerns, possible recipients, suggested amounts and an unsupported motion, a final motion was made, seconded, and passed that MASL will make a donation of $2000 for disaster relief.  A committee, to be chosen by the incoming president, will decide on a specific school library or school district.  If that kind of entity can't be found, then the committee will make the donation to ALA to be dedicated to disaster relief.  (The membership gave the secretary permission to edit the motion for proper grammar while retaining the intent of the motion).

The donation will come from the Special Projects line item in the MASL budget. 

For the record the following ideas were discussed: donations to specific school libraries or school districts damaged by hurricanes in Louisiana; to the Red Cross or the Red Crescent; to a sister state library organization in Louisiana, Mississippi, or the area between Gulfport and New Orleans; to the ALA general fund dedicated to hurricane disasters, to an international organization to aid children affected by the earthquake in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and in all areas; or to another kind of library organization. 

The following suggestions were discussed: seeking matching funds from vendors for a startup school library collection; seeking advice from ALA regarding a recipient, consulting Sylvia Norton's southern colleagues; and supporting specific recipients suggested by members.

Other points raised were making a one year donation or pledging ongoing support; protecting moneys donated from being spent on administrative costs; pledging an amount but allowing a committee to research the best way to dedicate the money.

Gretchen presented a gift to Sue Leiter for hosting the MASL retreat at Sunday River. 

Teri Caouette presented a plaque to Gretchen Asam for service as MASL president, noting that Gretchen went more than the extra mile by traveling back and forth from The County.  Teri extended an invitation to all members to become involved with the work of MASL and the Executive Board that meets once a month. 

Door prizes were drawn for note pads and pencils with the "Every Student Succeeds at your Library" logo and a gift certificate to Demco.

The next Executive Board meeting will be November 5^th at the Maine State Library.

A motion to adjourn was made, seconded and passed. 

Respectfully submitted,

Margaret McNamee, Secretary