Highlights from the most recent Library Board Special meeting:

• This was the first meeting for new board member Cori Rail, who was appointed by the Pawlet Select Board on July 23rd.
• Rail was quickly and unanimously elected Library Board treasurer, replacing resigning member and treasurer Kathryn Lawrence.
• As part of an effort to respond to recently filed complaints that the Library Board has been in violation of Open Meeting law, the Library Board reaffirmed its commitment to posting meeting warnings physically in the town post offices, the town hall and the library, as well as electronically to the library Facebook page, library home page, Front Porch Forum and the Pawlet Town Clerk’s e-mail list.
• During public comment, resident Fred Stone stated his opinion that people who don’t help the library with the annual book sale should “stay home and shut up.”
• Stone also called for the resignation of any board member who was not in attendance at the library book sale- which appeared to be directed at newest board member Cori Rail. (Rail, who was appointed to the board three days prior to the book sale, told the Manchester Journal that she was unable to attend due to due to a previously scheduled engagement.)
• Board member Joni Lee requested that Stone keep his tone “civil.”

For those who are counting, there have been five Library Board meetings in the last six weeks- four of which were short-notice Special Meetings. As of this posting the next Library Board meeting is a regular meeting, scheduled for Tuesday, August 13th at 5:30PM at the Pawlet Public Library.

Here is a link to the Manchester Journal article.