Paraprofessional Minutes

North Birmingham Regional Library

May 28, 2008

Meeting was called to order at 9:05 a.m.

Debbie Dahlin introduced Kerry Cleverdon, Collection Management.

Norma Blount spoke on Retirement while Alisha navigated the powerpoint presentation.  She also distributed a handout of the calculations presented at the meeting. This information and more is also available on the intranet under staff information.

 Retirement

• 30 years of full service at any age or
• 5 years of full service and 60 years old with pension

Early Retirement

• 25 years of full service (1.8 %)
• must be 55 years old or older

Ordinary Disability - related to a non job injury

Extraordinary Disability - related to job injury (no service requirement)

After 5 years of full time service you are vested for retirement pension.

Norma gave examples of how your retirement benefit may be calculated.  See handout. She also stated that City Hall uses their own calculation to determine retirement payments. Everyone is presented with two options: with insurance or without.  Once you reach the required age for Medicare, you are dropped from the city insurance plan.

DROP Option (Deferred Retirement Option Plan)- you are given a lump sum. Please consider investing this money to avoid tax penalties. At any time this plan can go away.

All pension loans must be paid in full or the remaining amount will be deducted.

Norma suggested that you should start your retirement procedure at least eight weeks before you plan to retire.

Hunter Murphy - presented retirement and investment books available in the system.  He distributed a handout of bibliographic information that included the call number, title, and author.  He also gave a brief review of some of the titles and showed two websites that are good for reviewing.  One is on the AVL databases, Morningstar and the other one is www.fool.com. 

Debbie suggested that libraries should consider putting up displays from the summer reading lists to advertise books.

The next presenter was Robert Jones while  Richard Manoske navigated.  He presented a very, very detailed demonstration on how to access PBwiki (www.pbwiki.com) and how to edit a page.  He also demonstrated how to insert plugin for videos, chats, photos, and youtube.  How to perform all the things that were shown can be found on the Pbwiki Front Page.