Meetings:
♦ Tuesday, January 5 - Annual Meeting
♦ Monday, February 8 - meeting with lunch
♦ Monday, March 7 - meeting with lunch, and guest speaker, Mayor Patricia Butler
♦ Monday, April 11 - meeting with lunch, and guest speaker, Nicole Fanelli
♦ Monday, May 9 - meeting with lunch, and guest speaker, Mary Ann Cody
♦ Wednesday, July 20 - Friends’ Picnic
♦ Monday, September 12 - meeting at The Green Gate Inn
♦ Tuesday, October 3 - meeting at the Coppertop Inn
♦ Tuesday, November 1 - meeting at the Coppertop Inn
♦ June, August, December - no meeting
Fundraising Events:
♦ Chocolate Friends-y Raffle - two totes filled with chocolate, drawing on Feb. 10
♦ Geranium Sale - pick up date - Saturday, May 14
♦ Garage Sale in Orchard Village - Saturday, June 4 with free books to kids
For Patrons and Public - Promoting Maxwell
♦ Hand out Chocolate ‘Roses’ the week of February 14
♦ Free Drawing of 4 books for National Poetry Month, and National Library Week
♦ Free balloons, pinwheels, flags, water at Memorial Day Parade - Monday, May 30
♦ Free books to children who visit our Garage Sale on June 4
♦♦ Annual Open House and Art Exhibit in October were cancelled due to library’s renovation.
Friends’ Donations to Maxwell, Projects, Advocacy
♦ Book Page Magazine - $300.00
♦ Summer Reading Program Events for families - $1000.00
♦ Donated $100.00 for classic DVD movies, a Memorial Gift
♦ Advocated for front windows trim to be painted, anticipating donating % of cost to library.
♦ Sponsored, funded and organized first Summer Reading Program for Adults - $200.00, over 200 entries.
♦ Planters with geraniums (summer), and chrysanthemums (fall) in front of library
♦ Donated decorated wreath to Octagon House in November, and decorated tree to Onondaga Free Library’s Festival of Trees in December.
♦ Funded new furniture in library alcove - $1500.00, and Memorial Gift to Friends for chair - $500.00. *Upon delivery of furniture, est. January, 2017.
♦ Decorated library for holidays, including wreath on outside of building.
♦ Free CD Giveaway - December, 2016 to announce our new space!
Friends of Maxwell Financial Report 2016
Dues $ 865.00
Donations 1900.00
Chocolate Raffle 441.00
Geranium Sale 1351.00
Garage Sale 495.00
Mem. Day Parade 82.00
Better World Books 61.10
Total $ 5440.55
Disbursements
Maxwell Memorial Library $2108.89
Liability Insurance 205.00
Supplies, Materials, etc. 248.92
Total $ 2562.89
Disbursements to Maxwell Memorial Library
Kids' Summer Reading Program $1000.00
Adult Summer Reading Program 185.00
Book Page Magazine 300.00
Children's Puppets 38.97
DVDs 100.00
Window Trim Painting 393.00
Wreath, Poinsettias 92.00
Total to Maxwell $2108.97