Parks and Recreation Committee - Regular Meeting

5 o'clock, call the meeting to order, and do the 6. Make sure that we're allowed to call the meeting to order, and then we'll do the pledge.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, with liberty and justice for all.

You know, Jason wasn't gonna make it today. Don is with virtually trying to make sure I'm not arrived yet, but they're expecting it. Things of my head here. Our next item on the agenda is to approve the minutes from the previous meeting. Start that off with a motion, please. Logan's guard moves to approve the July 14th meeting minutes. Questions, discussion, corrections on the minutes from last month. None. All in favor of approving the minutes, please say aye. Aye. None. Any opposed? Great. On to public appearances. We don't have anyone who signed up to speak today. We have a new trustee to introduce that a lot of us got to meet at the strategic planning meeting last week. I don't know if you'd like to say a few words about yourself.

Hi, everybody. I'm Anne-Marie Worley-Gonzalez. If I didn't get a chance to meet you at last week's strategic planning session, we're meeting now. I work for the Appleton Area School District in administration, and I'm just delighted to be able to support the work of the library.

We also have our new team representative, Simone Lavalle. Oh, I need to pronounce that correctly. How do I pronounce that?

Lavalle.

Lavalle. So welcome to the board, if you'd like to say a few words about yourself, you're welcome.

Hi, I'm Simone Levai. This is my first anything like this. I joined the Teen Ambassador Program last spring, I believe, and just catapulted me here. So I'm very honored.

I'm establishing the order of the day. Since we have some city policies, we haven't had new policies in a while. We have some newer members, too. We figure we'll go through items one by one. So each one will need to start with a motion. So looking at, actually, item 26.1 is to approve a bill to register before we discuss or anything like that. Could we have a motion to approve, please?

I'll make a motion to approve the bill to register from July.

I'll second. So the bill register, we've got the list of checks. We also have the month, date, spending. So if you looked through the list of checks, if there were anything that jumped out at you, you have questions about. An example, I saw something listed in here called Centurion something or other. I generally look these things up at home, but taking the opportunity to demonstrate what is Centurion? It's like the panic button or something like that.

Centurion is one of our security tools. So there are duress buttons and emergency buttons. Yes.

So usually if there's any, if you see a high amount on there and you want to know what that is, you can, if you see the name of something that you don't know, feel free to ask. After that in your packet, you have the monthly expenditures. It is currently, what month is it now? August. So one question we might get this time of year is looking at the percentage of spending. If it's looking really low, someone might feel concerned we might not be able to spend that budget line if it's looking really high. I mean, we're generally pretty good for a budget amendment later here. We can bring things around, but that's what we're going to ask there.

And what you're voting on is the actual bill register. So one of your roles is to approve those expenditures every month. It's a statutory part of your role. And then we give you that kind of summary of where we are financially for context. You're welcome to ask questions about either.

So any questions about either of those things on the agenda? Hearing none, all in favor of approving the bill register, please say aye. Aye. Is anyone opposed? Now approving the budget amendments also in your packet. I'll start that with a motion, please.

Move to approve.

I'll second it.

So Denise motioned and Kevin seconded. So budget amendment, your back is this thing here. This is when they're moving line items around budget. Sometimes we get things in for programs. The book donation, it looks like.

So the full, that full budget amendment is friends funds. So this twice a year, we get distributions from friends for friends grants. and that last item that's the book that's in the book line that is actually the iris olsen glidden fund so that is actually a fund held at the community foundation that is actually controlled by a donor but the the intent of the entire fund is specifically to go to the friends for the library so that for the purposes of specifically media. So that is why it goes into that materials line. And then this is the second half of the year's tranche of the rest of the regular friends distributions and the budget lines that they're being placed into.

Assuming approval of this, will this show on this light item where we see the cashflow report? Yes.

Missy's at home, and there sometimes is a delay between getting budget amendments to show up in that financial report, and I'm not sure if she's able to unmute to let us know what kind of delays we've been having with that. I'm guessing it won't show up right away next month.

Okay.

that we do kind of keep track of that ourselves to kind of know where we are, but those external budget amendments can sometimes take time.

Makes sense. Can you hear me? Can you guys hear me? Yes. Okay. Yes, Colleen, you're actually exactly right. The budget amendments this year, as in years past, have been taking a little bit longer to show up. It might not even show up till the fall of the year, but eventually it will be added in and you will see that on the

budgetary the other budgetary report thank you any questions on the budget hearing none all in favor of approving the august 2026 budget amendment please say aye aye is anyone opposed to our next agenda item the procurement and contract management policies, the city policy, and you could likely speak much more succinctly about why we need to approve city policies.

Sure. The next two policies are city policies, and we bring these to the board as they come. So we aren't going to hold these until, say, a personnel policy committee meeting, where we tend to bundle most of the actual library-specific policies. But for these city policies... When appropriate, we participate in the revisions of the policies and then they get brought to you for approval. Sometimes we'll put some as informational when they really have no relevance to us at all. So say the policy bucket lift policy or something like that. Something very, we are not going to be getting into a bucket lift device, whatever that even is. So those will just bring to you informationally typically, but when most of them, if they even have a tangential relationship to us, we will bring to you for approval. So the first one, the one that we're on, the procurement and contract management policy, mostly is being updated to kind of address, you know, what things cost. So most of the limits were increased. And then you have a very helpful memo from our city's finance director explaining those changes. So these also go to council. So you are the only other committee that goes through this step because you're the ones who approve the policies that the library follows.

Any questions about the procurement and contract management? Hearing none, all in favor of approving, please- We don't have a motion yet. We don't have a motion, thank you. All right, we got excited and- I moved. Any spoons? Do we have a second? Second. Second. All in favor of approving the procurement and contract management policy, please say aye.

Aye.

Anyone opposed? Then we have another city policy. Let's go ahead and take a motion to approve the lactating employees policy.

I'll make a motion to approve that policy.

So Kevin approves. Kevin moves. I'll second that. Any questions about this policy? I assume since the staff is in HR, the city HR deals with the staff, I'm assuming they communicate changes to staff.

So we would be the ones communicating any changes. I think that the you know, kind of highlights of this one is we are in a good position because we actually have some spaces dedicated for this purpose in this building. And so, and actually we are a place that some other city employees from other departments will come to use those spaces as well. And, you know, sometimes this is also verbiage that like the health department has been involved in structuring around statutory language issues. um so so yes we will communicate this out it's a unique phrase i wonder if that was a statue that's if human milk was formerly the statutory phrase because that struck me as yes i think that was the phrase when we were developing some of the spaces in the new library that was the term we were told it was at the time and now that term has changed so

Any questions on the Black Dating Employees Policy? Hearing none, all in favor of approving the policy, please say aye.

Aye.

Okay, anyone opposed? The next item on our agenda is approving the slave officers selected by the nominating committee. This includes Jason Brozek as president, and myself, Esther Loepper, as vice president. If we could start with a motion, please.

Move to approve.

I'll second. Any questions or discussion? And do I need to do this in the formal way of yours? Are there any nominations? Any other nominations?

You may ask for nominations from the floor as well.

Thank you. Any other nominations from the floor? Let's just do that once for everything. Hearing none, all in favor of approving this later, officers selected by the nominee, please say aye. Aye. And thanks to John for your work.

And thank you for serving as president. Our thoughts was Jason had served as vice president for two years, and he was no longer able to fill that position. That's just basically how it works. By having him become president for the next two years, hopefully it gives anybody sitting around the table the eye and opportunity to maybe consider the role of vice presidency and looking forward in two years, maybe becoming president. It is not an easy position, but it's a meaningful one, and it is right for some individuals. For myself, for example, I'd be horrible at it. I'm very candid about that. So think about it. If it's something that you're interested in, we have a great young group of trustees here, and anyone that's looking for that role in the future, just let us know. And thank you for your service as president as well and agreeing to serve as vice president. Thanks again.

That brings us then into the information items of our agenda, the administrative report, the library recruitment and status report.

Yeah, I have a little chart in your packet. So we are hiring for three positions, library assistant for public services. That's a subposition, which means that it's less than half time. And we did a panel interview last week. A library page also did an interview process last week. And library pages are the folks who shelve all of our materials. And then the application deadline was on Sunday for our library clerk halftime position. And we got over 100 applicants for those two positions.

Did you have a good field for the library assistant position?

We'll lean out for the pot.

Yeah, it was a decent view. Any other questions about recruitment? Next item on the agenda is the integrated library system migration update. I'm guessing that's you. Yeah, that's why I'm at the table.

So first, just since I know there are some new people here, what is an integrated library system? It is the database that holds all of our patron and item material kind of records and all the associated software that make it work for staff and for patrons. As users, probably the thing you're most familiar with interacting with would be the catalog. So this has been a process, probably eight months of active, very active work. It's a huge undertaking for the whole system. Lots of preparation work, lots of active work of training staff in the new system, and then lots of work of helping patrons understand and utilize the new system. So we have switched over to the new system. So we're up and running on the desk. The new catalog is up and running. Everything's working pretty well. Our app is now up and running again. So I think everything has been pretty smooth overall. There are some little hiccups as there usually are with these things when we change how When we change over the system and things like Libby, you might get logged out if you're using e-books, accessing e-books through Libby or Hoopla. You could have been logged out. So we're getting a huge number of phone calls. What's my password? So just if anyone here is a Libby user and needs a reminder for what your password is by default, it is your date of birth in six digit format, month, month, day, day, last two of the year. Because we have answered that question about 1,000 times today. But yeah, things are going very smoothly. Again, there are some little things. If you as a patron notice anything, hey, I was in the catalog. This didn't work super great. Let us know because right now there are so many variables. Anything that might not be working. the way it should be, is very valuable for us to hear. And there are so many things that could potentially, like little errors that are fixable. So the more we know, that's very good for us. So just give us a call, stop at the desk if you notice anything. So I thought I would take a minute and just kind of show you the new catalog, just a very quick overview of some of the interesting, maybe interesting things about it. But let me share my screen so it's up there, okay?

I have to call IT to do it.

OK, so this obviously isn't the catalog. This is our web page. But I wanted to start here because a lot of people bookmark our catalog. So if you bookmark the old catalog, it's not going to work. It will look like it's like, well, you say the catalog's up and running, but it's still not working. So if you've bookmarked the old catalog, you're going to have to change your bookmark. The easiest way to get to the new catalog, go to our website, and then just, you could either search for something if you know you're looking for something, or you could just click this Login My Account button, and that will open up the new catalog. So you'll see it looks a little bit different than the previous catalog. One of the biggest differences you'll notice is just the branding. It's now Appleton Public Library branded rather than InfoSoup branded. It still has the same access to all of the InfoSoup member libraries, catalogs. You can still place holds for items from other libraries. No functionality has really changed in that regard. It's just this allows us to have links to things that are more pertinent to our particular users, and also it allows us to kind of show off the new items that we have at our library, and also for when we have all of our great staff picks lists. Those ones that Appleton has created with our residents in mind will stay up rather than being booted the second some other library puts up their own staff picks list. So we're not all competing for that space. There still is an InfoSoup catalog if you're like, hey, I don't like Appleton for whatever reason. You can go to InfoSoup.info and see the InfoSoup catalog. But again, it's basically going to be the same. It's set for some kind of cosmetic differences and the links and differences in the links. So this is the home page. Then I just wanted to point out a couple of cool features. If I can make this go away. that are pretty big improvements to the use, I think, for people who are big holds users. So one thing I wanted to show, let's say, I should have probably tested this before I did it, but I didn't. OK, so let's say you want to place a hold on a book that is like one of these classics that we probably have 60 editions of. So let me just show you. This one, there are 30 different editions of this book. Let's see, I could keep going. These are all the different editions. In the old catalog, you would have to go through those and see which one had copies available. You could only place a hold on a single one of those editions. In the new catalog, it will, you can just hit place hold and it will give you the most available edition. So that really makes, simplifies placing holds for patrons. You know, you really don't have to search like, oh, which one is available at Appleton or which one, you know, am I gonna place a hold on and have to wait the least amount of times? Because sometimes we also have really popular items and maybe there's like a first edition and a paperback edition. And people don't see that there are two editions, and they all place holds on the first edition. And so the first edition has 200 holds, and then this paperback edition has copies available. And we would have to go in and manually change things, or you would just wait a lot longer. This will really reduce that issue. So it's a huge improvement for both patrons and staff. I see it breaks it up by format, which is also helpful. Does it mean the same for language?

Yes.

I think the language is as a separate page record. I'm not sure, though. I'd have to go through and check. Also, just one thing to note. Let's go back to the results. This is kind of one of the benefits of having an Appleton specific edition is that it makes it really obvious if Appleton has a copy. So the red here means that we have a copy, but it's just checked out or it's not available. If it were available, it would show in green. and then really you click on that and you can immediately see where in the library it'd be located. So it's fewer clicks to get to the information you want to see whether something is available here and available on the shelves, which I think makes it a lot easier for those especially in the library searching the catalog to see if what they want is here. If it's not available here, will the library just not be listed? that's one of those so yeah if it is like let's say we just don't have a copy of that we can go down okay so here we don't have a copy of the wonder book so then it's not listed um but it will show you where it is available or where it's currently checked out from So I think that's one big improvement. Another one, I know some families, particularly in homeschooling families, like let's say I really like trains. I do, I really like trains. I want all the books on trains. I can just do a search, hit select all. Now this will only select all that are on this page of results and not all 1,800, 18,000 results thankfully. That would maybe be a little bit too much work. And then you could hit place holds and it will place holds on everything you've selected. So you don't have to go through and place holds on individual. I know a lot of homeschooling families in particular, it's like we're learning about autumn right now or something like that, a specific holiday. This is a way to really place holds on a lot of items quickly, which is kind of neat. So then just going through a few more things of the functionality here. Let's see, I'm kind of blocked from this corner. Let me move this. OK, so managing your account is also a little bit easier. You click, I'm already logged in. Well, that's not me. That's a test account. I was going to log in as myself because I have a lot of things on my account. But then I'm like, you don't need to see my bills and junk that I have on there. So it kind of shows you at a glance right away how many things you have checked out if you have bills, when your card's expiration date is. Then you can go to Account Portal. So I see that I have. You can check your holds. So let's click on that. It makes it pretty easy to see whether your holds are available to change where you want to pick them up. Pause your holds if you'd like. Another thing. So in your account, this might be relevant for some folks. Like let's say I know I'm really horrible at renewing my books. I'm horrible at renewing my books even though I'm here every day. But you have a partner who is very, you know, they are on top of things. You can share your account with other people, and then that account, by getting a phrase that you would share with them, then they can put that in their login, and then they would have access to your account. It's just a way, I think, generally for families or other friends to share what they're doing and help manage each other's accounts. I don't think this account that I have has history enabled yet, but our reading history, if you have it enabled, it will show a list of everything that you check out from the time you enable it on. And it's much easier to access. That was kind of a hidden feature in our last system. Most people couldn't access it. You had to kind of go into an old catalog, log in again to set it up. It was really kind of a pain. But it's really easy to set up here. You can set it up just by going to account. and opting into reading history. That wouldn't be something that staff can access at all. That is just something for you to manage the items you've checked out to say, I want to keep track of the things that I've checked out. And it's searchable. Once it starts populating, it's searchable and is very helpful for kind of keeping track of what you have checked out. I think one other thing, I'm just, I won't go too much into depth. There's a lot of stuff in here. I know that we have people who you might have like an author that you follow. And so anything like you want to, to kind of be able to come back, see if they have something new regularly, you can put in a search. So like, let's, Let's search for somebody.

I don't even know.

Louise Penny. Okay, let's do Louise Penny. That's good. Okay, and then you can save that search.

Okay, and then we can say Louise Penny books.

And then you can always just go back to that in your account. to get back to that same search. You know, some of this functionality, I think we've had in previous iterations of the catalog, then it went away, kind of, you know, the functionality of every catalog varies a little bit, but I think this has most of the functionality that we've had in previous catalogs that have gone away. And now most of it is, again, So I'm pretty pleased. I'm excited for people to start using it. And again, if you as users notice anything or like, hey, what about this functionality? Please reach out because we want to know. I know what you think about it. I'm going to, unless anyone has any questions or any searches that they're dying for me to do in Zoom, I'll end my sharing now. Okay.

Let's stop. No searches, but I see a link for the event calendar. So if that's the first time that's been linked in our catalog, we'll be able to count clicks, I guess, to see who might be jumping from the catalog to the event calendar. I don't know that the board cares that much, but will you be able to see that for the marketing purposes? Definitely. Very cool.

I had a question about the other libraries. Yes. So if it's not available here at APL, Are there addresses included for those other libraries? Like, there's one Forestville. I would assume it's in Forestville, but I don't know where Forestville is, to be honest. Does that have addresses?

That's a really good question. I'm going to admit that I don't know. I think often there is a directory of the other branches. Yeah. Oh, here we go. Let's go Forestville. I'm no longer sharing. Should I reshare it? Oh, no, that's okay. I will just show you. Gosh. Somebody's going to have to remind me where Forestville is. Here it is. Door County Library, Forestville.

123 South Forestville Avenue.

Okay. You can get in there. It's just at the top navigation. Okay. Like a little building with a book. That's the symbol for addresses. I learned something new today.

I know I got a text message from Shout Bomb or whatever saying that something's like, yeah, I know if something's changing, but I don't know if you've gotten questions about that. People worried about scam text messages.

Yes. So, so that is, that's an expected thing. So one, another benefit of the new system is that is very easy to sign up for text messaging before Shout Bomb was kind of, you had to go through, you had to like text this number, sign up, and then send your library card number and your PIN over text. And now staff can just sign people in the system directly. So that message was inspected, part of the changeover. But certainly some, if you get weird notices, let us know.

Any other questions or comments about the ILS migration update? online. Next up, we have an upcoming committee meeting. So the details about that are in the agenda. Where am I on my work calendar? So I should be on this one. Does everybody who's on the Finance Committee know you're on the Finance Committee? Actually, you would because Jade's been in

And you're all welcome. They're open meetings also. So anyone may attend.

Second quarter, 2026 statistics.

All right. So you have the beautiful new version of the statistics that Jade has put together for us. I'm just going to go through the June. But if you have questions from April and May, just let me know. I think looking at the furthest along is helpful. And then just a reminder that I'll probably be talking mostly about the month percent change, which is the second in from the right, rather than the year percent change. Because if we compare to last year, we were closed for those first couple months. So it throws everything off and just makes everything look just amazing because we don't have that month and a half in there. So looking at that month percent change, I'll do a couple call-outs here of where we're doing really, really well. So in children's circulation, children's AV non-book up 9% for the month, 22% for the year. And then in general, our total circulation is down just slightly, which we expect from that opening year and that opening month in the summer. And then the year percent change is 18% there as well. When we look at e-materials, e-audiobooks never seem to slow down. They just keep on going. So we are up 15% for the month compared to last year for e-audio. And then overall, if you go down to the teal line, total e-circ up 6% for the month, 8% for the year. So doing really, really well in our e-offerings. Any questions about... are kind of electronic offerings at all. That would be hoopla added together with overdrive. So they're put together into our total here.

Have you defined ILM?

Yes. So ILL is interlibrary loan. Those are items that are shared in the system. So Owen just showed you the catalog with all of those libraries as part of it. And these are items we receive from those libraries and provide to those libraries, as well as items that are done in a more traditional interlibrary loan where we mail books from across the state primarily to one another. Door Count is doing really well for us as well with a 4% increase and a 28% for the year. And I should have talked about the one right above that, two total registered patrons. So when we were in with the consultant, I was like, uh-oh, she's really focusing on that total registered patrons and talking a lot about it. And it's going to plummet because we just did a new catalog and a new ILS and created for some of those folks who were in our system only because they had existing fines. And so we let a lot of folks go from that process. So we are now at a solid 50,000 and that's just data cleanup sorts of things. So that's where we'll probably be around there and climbing from that from now on. Volunteer hours, which is under the customer assistance piece there, Colleen Holtz is just doing an amazing job. If you remember last year I talked, those of you who were here, I talked a lot about how well she was doing last year and she's doing even better and adding to those volunteer hours that we receive. We have over 200 volunteers who volunteer at the Lively regularly. Let's see, going down to programs, children's programs, the number is flat and program attendance is up 10%. One-on-one visits doing really, really well as well. Those are our folks who go out into homes and meet with people individually and families individually. Young adult programs up 21% for the number of programs down a little bit for a number of attendance and adult programs up 52% over last year. And then the attendance down just slightly as well. And then if you go down just a little further from there, the adult one-on-one instructions are doing really well for us. Those include technology help, genealogy, those sorts of skilled help that we provide people in a one-on-one format. Down to meeting room usage and that's Jade's world. We are doing really, really well there too. So this is over last year where we were having such success with our rooms. Public room reservation is up 14% from those numbers for the month. And then events or library programs up 30% in our bookings. So we're doing incredibly well with those. And then last is the electronic access services or all of our IT sorts of things. And all of it is performing really, really well for us. Public computing sessions up, the amount of time people are spending on the computers as well, amount of data that they're transferring, and then the distinct clients on our Wi-Fi too. So doing really well for the use of technology and the building overall. And I'm happy to field any questions you have.

I have a question, just a comment that the report looks really nice and it's very easy to read.

On the readers, you said Hoopla and Overdrive. Does Libby fit in that same, like if you check out ebooks? Overdrive and Libby is the same. It's synonymous. I'm so sorry, but I just wanted to make sure. So Libby is the name of the app that you use to access the Overdrive materials. Yeah. Synonymous with one another. Thank you for that.

I wrote lots of, I still get confused.

Yes, completely.

Any other questions on the statistics? To the overview from Wisconsin DPI resources for library trustees. This was neat.

Yeah, I jumped on to the Zoom so I can show my screen. So you have some really great resources from the state of Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. The URL on the agenda does work if you copy and paste the full agenda so um so the first item the overview of the wisconsin trustees um it's it just broke it up into two lines so you just have to add that second part of the line to get the actual url so this is the main page it's a really great resource that includes direct links to that chapter 43 which is something that you know, by the time you're a trustee for a year or so, you'll just be, you'll just know chapter 43, that's the Wisconsin library statute. Um, and you'll be able to use that in trivia. The other thing it does is it gives really great summaries of the role of the trustees, the activities, and then breaks down different topics here that, again, each of these has a drop-down menu that provides some great information and then cites that other great, really wonderful resource, Trustee Essentials. Trustee Essentials is then at the bottom, and that is the handbook. That is maintained by the Department of Public Instruction and a somewhat new revision has been done, I think, spring this year. So it's as up to date as you could possibly imagine. So these are just awesome resources. I've been working with Jade on updating the kind of out-of-date board binder that we have. It's a virtual board binder. So by next meeting, you will get a link to that and we will link to this resource as well as several other really helpful resources. So we use the trustee essentials as kind of springboards for different meeting discussions. But if there's anything that you see in here that you're like, I'd really love to dig into privacy more or any topic, let me know. Um, one of the things that the future planning committee will do is, um, kind of develop, help develop those, those training topics that we do in the meetings. So this, this part of the agenda usually has some kind of a discussion or training topic. And so that, that planning committee can also help develop what that agenda is for those, um, discussion topics. Yeah. Any questions about this page?

All right.

Great.

The other item was on the last week was the trustee training webinars that are offered for trustees throughout the state. Was anybody able to attend any of them live or caught a recording of them?

I've got emails about the recordings.

No worries, because they're archived and you can access them all. I found them.

Yes.

So there were four last week. One was on Wisconsin library law. That was the one that was linked to on your agenda, mostly because it was done in time to easily link it on your agenda. And that was done by Chris Turner, who is a law... librarian, he's a librarian, he's a lawyer, he does a lot of trainings, he has done this training for multiple years. And even if it's not even if your interest isn't just about libraries, it has just a really nice high level overview of like, like, what are different laws? What is the state law versus federal law? So I highly recommend watching that webinar. There was one on what you need to know about AI and libraries, which I highly recommend. That one you do have to request the recording to be sent to you. I guess the rights with the presenter were that to make sure it is only sent out to state libraries staff and trustees. But it was a very good one, and so please consider watching that. There's one, Board Docs 101. I would say of all of the presentations, that is probably the least important for you to watch just in terms of immediate needs. And then the last one was all playing in the same orchestra, and that is about municipal library relations. And it includes Cammie Lynch, who was the former city of Appleton city clerk, and Teresa Schmidt, who actually is the person who updates that trustee essentials document. And it was kind of crafted after realizing that a lot of libraries and municipalities have difficulty understanding each other because libraries are a little different than most other municipal departments. And so they've kind of created this initiative to speak with trustees, library staff, municipal leaders about why those differences exist, what they are in hopes that it will result in better statewide relationships for libraries and municipalities. So I think what I'd love is that when you have an opportunity to figure out if you're going to watch one, let me know, because then we'll bring it back and we can discuss how to, like you said, as a discussion here at the meeting. All right. That's a lot of you last week. And so thank you. I appreciate it.

Thanks to staff reports, starting with the Children's Summer Library Program.

Hello, everyone. I am here with your children's summer library program update for you. So the summer library program is a 10 week program that started on June 7th. And it is hard to believe, but it is, it is officially done. It ended August 15th. So we have kind of a week grace period in children's for everybody to bring in their logs. So folks are still bringing in logs. We have everything from collecting first week prizes to just last week prizes, all 10 weeks altogether. So I can give you kind of a soft number of, we have at least 1100 who've, participated in the program and then we'll of course have more numbers, but it's been a lot of fun. So in addition to the usual kind of grand prize drawings that we do for kiddos, so we have a book that they get at the end of the program and then of course some prizes and coupons from the communities throughout and then at the end we have grand prize drawings that include things like being kid librarian for a day. And then we partner with local city departments. So the police offer a tour, the fire department will do a tour with their station and things like that. We also have a couple of toys. And then this year we tried something new, which was a special drawing for caregivers because we have kind of a book lovers bundle and the caregivers do so much coming to and from the library and driving the kiddos around. So we thought we'd experiment with that and see what happened. And we had a lot of really, really positive feedback. We had one mom who was in tears when she realized there was something for her. And she was so focused on what the kids needed and on trying to get everything for them. And so that has been really, really beautiful and fun for us. Another big part of summer, of course, is programs. So we have our regular programs. We have our story times and craft programs. For folks who can't travel or who like to travel more, we have a craft around the world program where they get to learn about a country and do a craft from there. And then we have big performers in the summer. Special performers are a big part of summer. So we all have some classics to come back. We have Tom Pease, of course, and Miller and Mike is another local favorite. And then this year, we experimented with some new performers also. So we had Magic Morgan and Liliana, and they actually did an ASL magic show. That was really, really cool. We had over 400 attendees over two shows. They came highly recommended by the Children's Library and up in Rhinelander. And I have to say that they were absolutely wonderful. And we had a lot of really great community feedback. So you might see them again. We also had Dinosaur Dimensions who did some animatronic dinosaur puppets, which were also very, very cool. Staff might want us to have them. We also did a summer music series on the stairs. So we had strategic for that. And we also had a new group, a new to us group among rock group called Second Sons. And they did a special acoustic performance for us that had 63 attendees and same thing. We had a lot of folks really excited to see a rock band here. We felt very cool. And then there's a lot of kind of hidden things with summer. So in addition to everything you see in the building, we do a lot of things out in the community. So you probably saw us at Butterfly Festival, Touch a Truck, and events like that. And a lot of kiddos are in child care, of course, throughout the year and in the summer. So Miss Teresa goes out to as many child cares as she can. She emails everybody back in spring and schedules it So she went to 17 child cares this summer. So that means 63 individual classrooms received a story time and 931 children were included in that. So if you see Miss Teresa floating around in the summer, she's a little tired, but she does a lot of story times. That's kind of a quick overview of the summer for you.

Children's Summer Library Program. It's a good reminder, too, since our community partnerships library isn't here, if you did pick up his advice and grab one of those adult reading program cards several months ago and you have it with you today, be sure to stop by the desk to get your stamps and fill out your cards. This brings us to our next item, which is adjournment. We need a motion and a second.

I'll make a motion to adjourn.

Second. Second. All in favor of German, please say aye. Aye. Thank you all very much.