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Lloyd discussed the budget calendar for the fiscal year 2015/2016. The Ad Team will meet with Tim as a group and discuss their requests regarding the budgets instead of meeting on an individual basis as in years past.

Lloyd also added Paycom training will begin next week with all staff at all locations. Supervisors’ training will last 45 minutes while other staff will receive 30 minutes of training. Lloyd is meeting with the managers today, January 21^st, to update them on all the progress of the payroll conversion. A Paycom representative will be available to train supervisors on scheduling computer lab (Downtown) on February 11^th. Time clocks are being installed at various locations. The projected go-live date for the time clocks is February 16^th.

Outreach – Dana displayed the 2013 Summer Reading – Early Childhood, Children and Teen poster boards which were all original artwork from the MLS Marketing Department. This year’s Early Childhood and Children’s theme is ‘Dig Into Reading’. The Teen theme is ‘Beneath the Surface’. Summer Reading will begin June 1st through July 31st. Brochures were sent out to libraries and area schools this week.

Dana also stated the ‘Day at the Zoo’ event sponsored by OETA and Read Across Oklahoma went very well.

Library Operations & Planning – Kay announced the monthly summary for MyMetroMinute. Staff created 261 original written content and added 33 comments for the month of March on MyMetrolibrary. There is a new job opening for a Virtual Librarian.