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Saturday- 11/19/2016

Breakfast at Bob’s Diner. Talked about future of DOG. Shopping. Felt very sluggish. Hung up more pictures  

Board meeting at HAL. 7 new people on the Board. Must get list. Talked with Carol Pledger about volunteers. 

When I left library the Community Room was jammed with kids and parents. This for the Parents Academy program that just yesterday at the Program Committee mtg. was described as having trouble recruiting participants. Amazing. 

Back home the gallery was open. Very few visitors. Then  at 5 for the opening a bunch of people showed up for the opening. Suddenly at about 6:45 the people evaporated. Took two artists to train station. 

Dinner then watched more of The Fall series. Maybe too intense and violent. img_4304 img_4305 img_4306 img_4307 img_4309

Hudson Area Library – 1/1/2016 thru 4/8/2016 – meetings and events

We received notice during early January from Galvan that the Armory would be ready for occupancy in March. this lead to an enormous number of decisions and meetings during the months leading up to the Saturday 4/9/2106 Opening of the New Library.

Here is a partial list of meetings (no accounting for telephone and email exchanges):

1/6 – HAL Executive Committee

1/8 – Program Committee

1/9 – mtg w Miranda Barry

1/13 – Emily Chaimedes

1/16 – Long Range Planning Committee & BOT mtgs

1/21 – Fundraiser at Cafe LePerche

2/2 – Exec Comm

2/4 – Exec Committee; Civil Rights in the 60s

2/11 – tour Armory – look at progress

2/13 – Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom

2/16 – tour Armory – develop punchlist

2/20 – Finance Committee and BOT mtgs

2/24 and every Wednesday until move in – weekly Noon telecon with David Murphy and Emily Chaimedes

3/2 – weekly telecon; meet w MidHudson Cable about fiber connection

3/3 – Exec Comm – grand opening date of 4/9/16 is set.

3/4 – photo with Friends in Local History Room in Armory

3/7 – furniture install begins – AR Kropp

3/10 – weekly telecon

3/11 – mtg w Eileen Halloran

3/14 – mtg w Sal Cusumano in re alarms, video; Michael Grisham

3/18 – Program Committee

3/19 – BOT mtg – 1st in new library – Annual Meeting – term limits ends my formal participation. Miranda Barry becomes President.

3/21 – mtg w Ken and Heather about office design reqmnts

3/23 – weekly telecon – decisions about security, cleaning, dumpster, naming plaques

3/24 – Program Committee – VIP sneak peak in Armory

3/25 – Program Committee – VIP sneak peak in Armory

3/30 – Emily Chameides

3/31 – weekly telecon

4/2 thru 4/6 – Arnoff move 

4/2 thru 4/8 – tech installs

4/7 – Exec Comm; appearance on WGXC

4/9 – Grand Opening

 

 

 

 

Saturday – 2/13/2016 – HAL Event & Music

Breakfast at Bob’s followed by grocery shopping

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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom

a presentation sponsored by the library at the Montgomery C Smith Intermediate School. Sold out crowd – mostly school kids and parents – extremely cold and windy afternoon.
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Music at Bard in the Evening

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More Cold.
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Thursday – 2/4/2016 – Civil Rights – show and tell at the library

borrowed from HAL website.

borrowed from HAL website.

Civil Rights – show and tell at the library

I participated in this group discussion. Part of the run up to the weekend events with the Turning 15 on the Road to Civil Rights book dramatization. 2/13/16

http://hudsonarealibrary.org/civil-rights-a-uniting-topic/

Saturday – 10/10/2015

More work on office in barn, then pick up food at Letterbox Farm.

HAL information table at Farmers’ Market 11 to 1pm. Talked with quite a few people. More are aware and even enthused about the new library.

View out from table at Farmers' Market

View out from table at Farmers’ Market

DOG Opening

Good turnout. Chinese food after the reception with David Drake, Liz Allen, Ellen Slotnick.

Thursday – 10/8/2015

Got up at 7am.

Worked on hanging new DOG show until 9. Spoke with Gwen Gould about business planning on phone.

HAL Fundraising Thermometer

Went to library for 10am ceremony.

Before

Before

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After - $1.2 million

After – $1.2 million

 

The line up. Sarah Sterling, rep from Barrett's office, Emily Chameides, MMO, Betsy Hamilton, Theresa Parsons

The line up. Sarah Sterling, rep from Barrett’s office, Emily Chameides, MMO, Betsy Hamilton, Gwen Gould, Theresa Parsons

Back home by 11am

Hung up rest of DOG show. Looked for tax materials – worked on taxes – spreadsheets of transactions. Office project from 3:30 to 7pm.

Picked up roast chicken and rib dinners at Shiloh Baptist Church. reminiscent of CCC.

Thursday – 10/1/2015

Work Decision

Woke up at 4:30 am. Decided that today was a good day to tell UTM, David and Seth, that my days with them are over at the end of the year. Got to bring this engagement to an end.

When I signed on formally with UTM in March 2014 you were aware of my involvement as a founder with my brother Ed in a start up medical devices company, Prescient Medical Devices, LLC (PrescientMedicalDevices.com). For a number of reasons we had put the development of the company on pause while we addressed some IP issues. This made it possible to make a commitment to UTM for a year which was the time frame we talked about at that time.

PMD is now restarting. My brother is making presentations to investors and we expect that these will be fruitful. This means that I need to position myself to focus most of my energies on PMD by the latest January 2016.

I suggest that we move the project of finding a sales/marketing person on to the front burner. You may have other priorities. Lets talk about how I can be most helpful.

Thanks,

Felt immediate relief from taking this step despite the deceptive statements about PMD. Nothing new is happening as far as I know on that front.

Problems in Basement

Controller on boiler

Controller on boiler

No heat. Waiting on plumber Ihlenburg.

Went to Belvedere Home Healthcare in Albany for UTM meeting. Good meeting gathering requirements. They will conduct a survey of potential users.

Back to Hudson for HAL Exec Comm lunch at Mexican Radio. Followed by mtg with David Murphy, Betsy Miller and T Parsons about upcoming hard hat tours of Armory for high rollers. Then, at 3pm meeting with Ann Rosenthal about her role as Chair of Program Committee. Smart, energetic, engaged…. big plus for library.

While Karen taught her online course I went to Bell’s Pint Nite at The Spotty Dog. After chatting up the regional sales rep for Bells I was given a Bell’s Pint glass. Also had good chat with Sherrie Jo Williams and Pauline DeCarmo and a couple of their friends.IMG_0916

Friday – 4/17/2015

Busy day with clients. Reviewed materials from Mary Vaughn Williams at 6:30 am; talked with her at 8:30. Hopefully she got her application in to Martha Lane before leaving for her high school reunion.

Spoke with Alan Coon about the UTM website project again. He had a tough conversation with David Ackerman yesterday and is now doing the repair work on his own dime. Then, Matt Almeida. Spent time catching up on diary.More on this1Some company

Great meeting of HAL Marketing Committee at 4pm. Agi Clark presented her ideas and we had a lively discussion and brainstorming session. Left feeling very buoyant about this work. It is clear that we need to organize the messaging around the various classes of users, children, parents, teens, etc.

David Drake’s 64th Birthday

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