Team Meeting Notes 2/1/2018

Team Meeting Notes 

Manager’s Meeting Overview

Robinson-Westchase Library may open in April.

FY 19 Budget: Just like previous years, HPL has been asked to create different budget plans. There are no plans for laid offs.

Friday, February 9^th is the last day to submit Harvey Heroes (HPL employees that helped others internally or externally during Hurricane Harvey).

Outside Employment: If you have another job besides the one with HPL, a form must be submitted for approval. The form must be submitted every year. City of employees may not use city time or city equipment to perform duties of their outside job.

Mileage Reimbursement: Defensive Driving Certificate must be up to date to receive mileage reimbursement.

Summer Food: HPL is switching vendors to Houston Food Bank.

Printing Updates: In the future, value cards will cease. Patrons will be able to use credit card, cash, or coins to do their printing. Currently unsure about process for patron to get amount left on value card.

Summer Reading Program 2018 theme is “BLOCK PARTY”. It’s Lego theme with a play on words. It is also about our community.

Talent Management System (TMS) training: Please do not sign up for training on TMS that has a cost without first letting me know so that we can fill out paperwork to get approval for funding of training. The TMS system automatically pulls money from HPL training budget when you sign up on TMS. You can still sign up for training that are no cost (free).

I will post a link to the safetyhpl.blogspot.com website. Check it out!

Meeting Rooms

Please let our customers who would like a meeting room know that the meeting cannot be closed/locked door or private. It must be open to the public.

Please see the link below for detailed meeting room guidelines:

http://houstonlibrary.org/find-it/meeting-and-rental-spaces/neighborhood-library-spaces/neighborhood-library-meeting-room

Staff Logins

A general staff login has been created (thanks Hector!)

This will allow staff opportunities to post to the blog when needed. You can post things for the entire team to know about, whether it is a work procedure, asking for assistance with a project, showing off new displays, information about a future library event, etc. As always, please be professional and courtesy.

Also, the meeting room schedule now requires logging in to view the information. This will keep our customer’s information private.

If you are unsure what the log in is, please ask.