Arts and Culture Commission - Regular Meeting

Oh, so this is 7.03 on June 3rd, 2026. And I call the Cupertino Library Commission meeting to start. And now, yeah, we start with a roll call.

Commissioners out. Okay. Commissioner Pan? Yes. Vice-Chair Sachtsev? Yes. And Chair Hsu? Yes. Commissioner Chokshi is either absent or late closing.

Okay, and the first item is approval of the meeting minutes of our last meeting on April 23rd, 2026. That is a special meeting. Is there anyone? Both part. Motion?

Yeah, I read it and I make the motion. We approve the minutes. We second. We can start to vote.

Sorry, once again.

Commissioner's out. Commissioner Pan? Yes. Vice Chair Saksipal? Yes. Chair Hsu? Yes. Great. Four yeses and one abst. Thank you.

And the next is our communication. So if there's any community member or maybe email, is there any written communication? Okay. So the next is, oh, this meeting, there's no old business. So we start with a new business. And the first one is, yeah, here's an update of Cupertino Port Lorraine.

all right all right great good uh good evening everyone right so so as far as update so i took uh i took my seat uh earlier this uh january as you uh as most of you know all of you know um so we did one i'm going to talk about two events we uh we did uh one indirect so which happened at the the library which we planned for poetry months in April but unfortunately there was an electrical outage in April so we had to reschedule and the only date we found was Mother's Day so but we did we did the event which was you know we had like a good like 25 plus RSVP and ended up being a dozen participants So it was an open meet. People were coming and kind of reading, reciting poems from their country in their own language. We had a mix of multiple languages, including English, of course, some other languages from the participants, including a bit of English. A bit of French. So that was one. We intend to do another event like this in September. So an open meet again, which we are planning with Bryant. And then the other one will be one in December, which will be a bit same open meet concept, but it will be poetry in the dark. where we light small candles, you know, electrical candlelight and read poems this way. And the other event which we did, which span out actually multiple months, was in partnership with the Rotary Club of Cupertino. So they do a poetry contest for teens and high schoolers. So that involves like the five, you know, high schools from the Fremont Union School District. We had like 73 poems submitted from all the schools. And then I assembled a jury, like the Poet Laureate was like the chair of the jury committee. So we had the jury of like four people. And we're going to do an event, in fact, next week at the Quinlan Community Center. So that's organized by the Rotary. And, you know, I'll do a few words to thank everyone, congratulate everyone, thank the jury member. We'll have some poetry readings as well at this occasion by the laureates, right? And that's going to be attended by maybe 80 people or so. That is it. Yeah.

So next week the UN needs to register or is open to?

If anybody wants to participate, just reach out and you can get invited. But it's not open to the public. It's open to the I get the Rotary Club, the friends of the Rotary Club, the students and their families, plus, you know, the jury and myself. But I'm sure they're welcoming anyway. So if anyone is interested, we can make it happen. Yeah. Is there any flyer for this? On the Rotary website, I'm sure. In fact, the poem will be published there as well. And, yeah, digital flyers, yeah.

Okay. So, yeah. Okay. It can help. Like, if we get a flyer, maybe we can circulate to some school maps. Like, the blocks have groups, etc.

Yeah, maybe I can work with Brian when he's back on this, yeah, to make it. And we'll do some communications on our platform as well, right, which I'll try to maintain as much as possible, yeah? Yeah?

All right?

Great.

Thank you.

Any other ideas, feedback? So at the end of the day, it's a competition or just like... Well, it is a competition because we had to choose three people. So top three plus one honorable mention. out of 73. The theme was Unite for Good, which is like the, each year, like the Rotary, they have like a theme for, you know, this, but also like all the events, right?

So, yeah, it was our choice. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah. They will go to some, like they will promote it to some level?

They will, I don't know if it's going up to like some national or regional level, but that's a good question, actually. Yeah, yeah. um and um yeah we'll do some communication to make sure like so they're gonna put the winning poem on lines at least we'll realize this right and most of the students can make it and can come and read their their poll which is which is nice

And out of 80, is it all high school?

It's all high school, yeah. All high school from, you know, 9th to 12th grade. So we have like the winner is a 12th grade girl. And then I think it's mostly girls, actually. And then two 9th graders and one 10th grader. They were all competing same level, right? So it was anonymous. In fact, we didn't know their name. We didn't know their grad level either. So it was pure like here are the 73 poems, which one are your top three, right? we had like uh the way we made it work like each jury member kind of came up with their top and it was out because mine i had the top 15 i couldn't choose and so then we end up meeting and kind of coming coming to selecting uh like looking at the one we had in common and then coming to some art choices right So we'll see. One of the jury members, actually a former Cupertino poet laureate, proposed also. So the top three are going to get a monetary prize. But we came up with the idea to... That's from Rotary Club?

Yeah, from the Rotary Club, yeah.

And we came up with the idea to maybe organize a class for everybody who would want, like from the 73 submitters, everybody who would want to participate. So more to come on this. Oh, that's nice to hear.

Yeah.

Everybody wins, right? Yeah.

Yeah. And especially in this situation, the tech on people, everyone is just looking at phone and things and making them to write a poet.

Yeah, it's a challenge, but I mean, I was surprised. It was a short turnaround. They had like maybe a month and a half and, you know, still like close to 80 poems is not bad, right? And then, yeah, the other thing maybe worth mentioning is that so both at our events in May, uh as well as just prior we also had some interviews with um ls tokyo which is like a student journal from uh nantavista high school so i know the inter i think they interviewed some of us here um and then uh the uh one of the the students working for the journal also came and met it so he interviewed like a few of the participants etc is gonna he's gonna make an article so be more submissions for the years to come.

One last question. Yeah. What do you think we can help as commission for anything that you think?

I mean, any feedback, any, you know, event, you probably, you know, talk to multiple people and stakeholders, right? So any other ideas of anything we can do, you know, differently or extra or maybe something that worked well in the past years? Because I must be candid and honest that I could not look at all the history of everything that happened and the transition with Kaiko was quick anyway, right? So, yeah. So I'm here to listen as well. And show up at the event. That's another thing. Show up. Show up at the event. Half-East and College participation.

So I just want to know for the participants, could you share their school information? So there are five high schools, how many each?

That I didn't, so per high school, I don't have the stats there. But I know from what they all told me, like every high school was represented.

Because it looks like the Monta Vista High School, their journalism, they got really involved. They got with the journal, yeah, that's true. If the other school kids, they didn't, the news didn't spread.

I think, so the way it happened, the way I understand is that they actually reach out to like the teachers directly and they have like their own channels, right? So it's not only through the student journals that it happens. But yeah, I can, that's a good question. I can ask for next time we take a look.

I think somehow that flyer reaches to its school somewhere.

That they did, yeah. So they did a flyer to like what Harvey did, yeah.

Yeah, no. Yeah.

Yeah. But yeah, next time, we can maybe put it online relate at the library level. This one was my first first experience with them.

So can you have flyers, you can just send it to us. We can just spread to promote.

Yeah. Yeah. Right.

No more questions. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Appreciate it. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.

All right. Appreciate it. All right. So I'll leave it up here. I'll let you continue the meeting and wishing everyone very nice evening.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Okay, so the next item is Santa Clara County Library District Story Walk Project Subcommittee Update. So who is going to? She can start.

Oh, I will start. So then I will let the, you know, share the details. So, yeah, thank you so much. You know, I'm very, very appreciated Vice Chair Turner's support in the subcommittee work. And as a process of work is we split the parks. We each go to, you know, different park and taking photos. and put together our thoughts about it. And Charlie did, I want to say, 80% of the work here. Because he's skilled, I really appreciate him. And we have a map of the city, and then After we have the slides together, we first work with Brian at the first round of review. And after Brian's review, I think Karen and Diane had an opportunity to look at it as well, provide a recommendation. And after that, we submitted to, you know, Molly. And I very appreciate Molly and the director's feedback. It's coming the same day, actually. In the morning, like, the email, and the transistor had the job, and because the fire was so large, it was on the cloud, we have some... access in a little bit of glitch on the access issues and but you know end of the day so that's that and then you got a feedback from city so this is a final version we're going to present it to park tomorrow and uh me so i i will give chandra you know provide us a more updates because we don't have slide we don't have a project today so marley print it out did you have one

I think, first of all, thank you for

great support you're like if you are like if you didn't post me maybe it could have been slowed it out right so there it is you're lightning fast so and then and again thanks for uh the i think you don't send that red template brian or are you uh so that the model family template health law the story work oh that's from the district district yeah yeah from district it is a template you know that's how had his other slides about to the yeah so thank you I appreciate it that helped to make like how do we pitch our like inputs right basically we are not doing much so there but you just see mr. Tupac's and I went to blackberry form and I took almost 70 pictures and my kid was walking around with me and we were taking pictures and then and then eventually it dropped then we went to the other variant power picture and i think that's very um it's very nice place too but it's a little remote compared to the other box i think we covered hopefully the location uh perspective and also like most of our pictures and input from uh from how everything is pointed out so it's uh their pictures it's great teamwork as well you know That's great. And we try to put the facts and strengths and considerations that could, if somebody want to look at this report, hopefully it looks like a thorough study that we did in terms of park size and the crowds footprint of things, and then how often it's accessible for family environments, right? So we try to put all the facts. and um a very unbiased way okay and um and also like uh the other other aspect of that loop right they just need to end and start so hopefully that also covers well all these three three parks too so and um let's see where it goes and which park is lucky part to have this holy walk

Yeah, so let's see tomorrow, you know, park commission and we can have a discussion and based on information we provided and they can pick one and what's, you know, next, this is what's next step.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Go ahead.

Yeah, so that's in a park. We'll pick one and hopefully we'll go to city council for consider and then if get approved, then, you know, park will, park and recreation department will coordinate with Santa Clara County Library District, make it happen. Yeah, and just a side, you know, it's not here. And it's a, I also, hopefully, the Cupertino Library Foundation can sponsor the license for the book. You know, we will see. Yeah, after this project, this is the next. So that's the update. So tomorrow you will do the presentation? We will do the presentation in the Queen's Center, 7 p.m. in the park and commission meeting.

Are they going to pick up the park in the meeting? Hopefully. They will not make decision in the meeting, right? They will

We're hopeful that they will make the decision in the meeting and they're going to rank them. So we're not asking them for just one park, we're asking them to rank which parks they like the best. And then that recommendation will go to city council, hopefully at a July meeting, but I can't promise anything. I don't know how full their agendas are, and typically we need a couple months to know when something's going to go. So I don't know. It would either go in July or it would go potentially in September because there's no city council meetings in August. Someday is better. So hopefully in July it will go in a definitely more early. There's one more meeting, I believe, in June, but that is our big budget meeting. So there's no way they'll take on an additional item for the budget meeting.

So for your role, you just present. Do you have all the chance? No, you just present. Yeah, yeah. They do the discussion. I think that, you know, per...

I think we, you know, even you can go there, speak your opinion as an individual. Which one we like, something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's. But as an individual. As an individual, and since, you know, I'm already working in the working group as a library commissioner, and this will be only information. Oh, you cannot. We going to present, and. Okay.

I checked the Park Commission meeting agenda for tomorrow. Looks like it's not a busy meeting.

We've got three items. So just based on how many questions they have. So I think that there's a presentation on marketing. I think there's a presentation from Grassroots Ecology. It was out at McClellan Ridge Preserve. And then this one. So it'll just depend on how many questions they have for how busy the meeting is. And I believe we're third on the agenda of those three things.

So in the past, I remember if there are too many people involved, we cannot enter the conference room.

So hopefully, I don't think there will be people coming.

Yeah. So necessarily, if we go there, we can enter. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So usually like in the conference room, there's the seating that goes along the side. So you would just come in and sit there. That's where we'll sit until we're called up to the table.

Okay, okay. Yeah, I have time to go speak as a... Come with the part which don't have this.

Hopefully they will make the decision tomorrow.

Yeah, that is our hope.

And either Karen or Diane will go there tomorrow, right? Both of us will. Both of you will be there. Okay, thank you. Very appreciated. Yeah, so hopefully tomorrow, yeah, we make this a lot happen.

Yes. And there's also, I don't know if anybody had a chance to look at that agenda, but you might want to review before tomorrow, but that agenda has the staff report that I presented that has the background information and what the ask is. So I did that. You might want to review that before tomorrow. Okay, sure, definitely. So they have these slides, right? Yeah, so I will put it up, and you can just say, somebody will be running the meeting, and you'll say, next slide.

I think, you know, we were talking briefly, like the first two slides are mostly from the libraries. Maybe libraries will present. And in China, you can present the domain slides.

No, you start with the location, and they build, like, person park, and, like, maybe continue from there.

Okay. You know, it's fine. We can discuss. It's fine. I think maybe you can do the location and I can do the Johnnyman Park and the Wilson Park. And then you can do the Varen Park because you're more familiar with it. And then what's next? Yeah. So we split. Yeah. So we, you know, it's a teamwork. I'm very, very, very appreciative. It's a great teamwork. Include, you know, you're on team, the quick team. Yeah, feed it on.

Trust me, last meeting, I remember I was so much challenging you that without commission, how can we go in person? And now we have everyone listening, seeing the report, right? It's a very happy thing. I'm really like making sure this is missing, but other two are able to see our report before what we are going to talk on behalf of commission.

Thank you for your time and effort.

That's the most satisfying thing. And all because of her fastness. She tack, tack, tack very fast.

Your skill is absolutely amazing, make it so pretty, you know, and the city staff's work, you know. I have to say it's a teamwork, so we can, you know, progress, make as of today. It's a great teamwork, include us, city, and then, of course, library staffs, yeah. So I appreciate it. Hopefully this will happen soon. So I'm, yeah, a little bit ambitious, like hopefully like July, so because we can squeeze into July, so the ball can keep rolling, right? Afterwards, it's, you know, yeah, the ball can keep rolling. Thank you.

So wherever this comes, definitely it's going to be your dream, huh? Oh, yes.

Please, come on. Yes, it's definitely, when this is finished, it will be my dream come true. I don't have preference any of the park, any park. As long as it's happy in Cupertino, I'm happy.

I can see the pressure more.

So this is the end of this item. Okay, next is the Mejley Arctic Reports, and the first one from the Burkina community library.

Okay. Well, I do apologize for not having our larger screen, so we're going to pretend our eyes are younger than they already are. But hopefully at the end of the year we will actually have a whole new screen and projection system in here.

Yep. Looking forward to it. For now.

June at Cupertino Library and May and beyond. For real. One big chart. I'm going to turn it so I can read it. Yes, that's why. There we go. So in May, we had 202,348 checkouts. And it was a very, very busy month here. I don't know if you had walked through our back rooms, but we are forever with full carts, staff rushing around trying to get everything sorted, put back on the carts, back out on the floor to be checked out again. So patrons are very much borrowing our material, enjoying our material and our space. We had 15,840 borrowers this month, which is very nice. We're up from last month. And an average of 14,516 requests. which is a lot coming in. It's kept us busy. We're still trying to push it all right back out. Online, our numbers are very good there as well at 97,724 items borrowed of electronic formats and 72,114 people walked through our front doors last month and we felt it. As you noted, you come here on the weekends, there's no parking, there's no seating, people everywhere, teens studying, so very much a space enjoyed by the community. 529 individual room bookings down a little bit but we've had a reading program in here doing end of like fiscal school year celebrations with all of their students we've had the registrar voters and using our room for voting with student and a year we've had the teen study space available for students to study so we've been doing a lot more bigger things with our spaces We've had 55 programs this month and had more than 6,000 people come to those programs. At least that's what the numbers tell me. And four groups reserved our community room for their own use. And you can see here a few photos from what we had going on. We are in the midst of trying out a Qigong program right in our courtyard. So we've had one last week. It was rained out and we couldn't do that. But there is another one tomorrow morning. The instructor was trained in Germany by a very well-known teacher. She's traveling this summer. So next fall, I'm hoping to be able to bring it back and we can continue it as well. May was Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Month. And Raina downstairs did so many programs with Pacifica Voices. And the middle photo here is children They had learned about top-up cloths, which is very important in the Fuji, Tongan, and Samoa cultures. And so they took what they learned and applied those designs to their own tote bags so that they could make that and take that with them. So that was a lot of fun. um upstairs with the adults we had a a wonderful japanese uh stationary shop owner come in and so we made cards using olaji knots uh and what the symbolism is and how you actually form those knots and what direction they get applied to the card to bring prosperity because if you turn it upside down then you're piecing all of that and that's uh bad luck And we also had Dr. Julia Lee come in and talk about pain management through the lens of Chinese medicine and how that goes. So we had lots of things to celebrate with Native American Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacifica. There we go. You can see here is our children's calendar. We've been full, all of those programs, all of those people. Lots of Voices of Pacifica programs for the children, all of our story times from babies all the way up to families. And this summer we will have special level up reader programming. So this is for those earlier students, first, second grade to come in. They could practice their reading and work on their summer reading goals. So that'll be fun. We have lots of special family programming happening during the day and on the weekend, performances that children can come in and listen to. Some of those are Pescata de Flores, we've got Samoa Dance Workshop coming in, different STEAM programs, Adventure Theater, House of Samba, so lots of fun things for the kids. Here's our June calendar for adults. There's only three days that we didn't have anything going on. The highlight of which June is now starting our summer music in the courtyard series. So that starts this Sunday. Every Sunday at three o'clock, there'll be a different band and group outside for the whole family to come and enjoy and listen and enjoy our space. as well as all of our summer reading programs up here. We've got Hand Embroidery for Beginners this coming Monday. We're starting also a Mandarin for Beginners class that's going to run for eight sessions that Lonnie is leading. Conversation Club will be happening. Melissa will be doing botanical art drawings. So lots of interesting and fun things to do. And you can see summer reading. There is our theme, Plant a Seed Read. So if you haven't signed up, you should go sign up. I hope you have everything up at the desk. As always, we have a fun tote bag for everybody so that when you borrow your books, you can take them right home with you. As always, our goal is to review five books every summer and do a fun activity with us. Children will earn a book for completing that. Teens will earn a Starbucks gift card for doing their full. So we hope to have everybody. Again, Summer Music in the Courtyard this Sunday will be the San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers coming, which I am particularly excited about. I expect we should be able to hear them on the other side of 280. There's going to be a lot of them. What time? San Francisco's got a shadow. Wait, what time? At 3 o'clock. 3 o'clock. It's always 3 o'clock. It's always at 3 o'clock. Sunday afternoons. Because the shadows are most advantageous out there, so hopefully we don't perish at the hues. I'm going to bring a hat and sunscreen. I've got canopies out, and we all have fun. We will also have Lit O'Miley Hawaiian Band come back, who have been very, very popular. Kira Hooks will be returning. She's a Filipino-American artist with a mix of soul, jazz, R&B, and a little bit of folk. She's got a very unique sound. Lunar Octet will be back with some jazz music. Brass Over Bridges, their contemporary brass quartet out of San Francisco, will be coming. Cabrian Quintet will also be back. They're a woodland group that does traditional woodland music. Nellis Coffee Forest woodwind arrangements. Our first bluegrass band will be Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band. I found them at Filoli last year. We managed to bring them over, as well as Hawkins Brass Quintet at the end of July. And so they'll have a mixture of patriotic music in honor of America's 250th birthday, as well as some movie tunes and other brass arrangements that should also be fun. If you notice downstairs we are in the midst of our aquarium refresh, so it is covered up The tank has been drained the sand has been removed Right now it is filled with a disinfecting solution and in a few weeks The aquarium company out of Florida will be here to drain it again and take out everything that is in there We have the largest freely accessible aquarium on the west coast so with such a niche size local aquarium companies weren't prepared to take on a project so big. So we had to go to the, like what the big aquariums used to grade these displays. So it should be very nice. And I'm told that there's going to be 200 fish put into the tank. So that is going to be very impressive when it's done.

How long will it take for this project?

This is due to be done mid-August, give or take. The fish have to be acclimated to the tanks and put in. Everything has to be balanced and put just right. So that is the working end date, but there might be some wiggle room in there depending on how it all actually plays itself out. Oren at the Library Foundation has been leading it up, so he's got all of the information and everything. But thank you to the Library Foundation, the Friends of the Cupertino Library, the Chan Family Foundation, Lowenthal Family, and Gidler Wong for sponsoring this because this has been a very big project. And we're excited because after 24 years, 22 years, that tank has seen a lot.

22 years already? It's 20 years. Oh, my gosh.

Yeah. So it'll be nice to see it refreshed for the next generations. I'm also going to highlight it is summer and it's a time for us to have fun no matter how old or young we are. So some different craft and hobby resources that we have on our website. For kids we've got Code Combat so they can use, they pick their superheroes and it's a fantasy game they play but it also teaches coding in Python, JavaScript, C++ and a few other languages. So a little bit of fun, a little bit of learning. For the adults, we have the New York Times game. So if you want to play the crossword, wordle, spelling bee, connections, puzzles, that's there for you. As well as Create as Bug. And there's a whole bunch of videos that teach cooking, sewing, knitting, all kind of creative activities. I've looked at a few of them. They give you the supply list CUNE. The videos are done in chunks so you can watch it and repeat it as you need it as you go along. And they do a very nice job and It's a great way to try out something new that you might be wanting to do. Upcoming, we will be closed on June 19th for Juneteenth. And then in July, Friday, July 3rd, we're observing Independence Day. And we'll also be closed Saturday, July 4th for the actual and then say all it is. And that's all I got.

Thank you. Thank you.

Very excited. I was in just the, you know, library questions. And I was in the library like for want to do some work with my colleagues from foundation. In the courtyard, I cannot connect to the Wi-Fi. It keeps saying it's too weak, and that's actually the only place I can find the CD. And of course, I think we all know the library, like the cell signal is very weak. You know, the cell phone signal very weak. So I'm just wondering, you know, like is there any way like I can add more?

I can speak with our IT departments, because they had me done our entire Wi-Fi last year, and so that should have been improved, but there's holes in the coverage. I can ask them to look into it.

Okay, that would be great. It's in Korea. I know in the weekend, it's so packed. It's so packed. And, you know, we want to do some work from library. It's our first choice, and Korea is the only place we can find a seating. But the up, we cannot connect, like both of us cannot connect to. Okay. No, I'll follow up as you, how you can figure it out. Some location. I know other students, like in other locations in Korea, I ask them, can you connect? You look at me, yes. And I feel like I'm a grandma. Don't know how to connect.

Well, you can always ask us and we can try, because sometimes just having a second set of eyes or the magic librarian powers is enough to get the one by the gate.

Two of us, you know, two of us, both of us, we cannot connect. So I said, all right, okay, so it's not me. don't know how to hit the right button, cannot connect. So I told my colleague, well, you know, we have Kamishimini coming up. I will bring it up to the library. And yeah, otherwise, yeah, it's great. So excited for the new aquarium, you know, to happen here. Yeah.

I want to share some information. So in the AAPA, that multicultural festival, I talked to some community member. So on that day, there was a high school girl, maybe from Lindbrook, and she just showed people how to make the Chinese traditional tea. And she said in some other library, public library, they were invited to show this every month. So they are wondering if they want to start. This program at Cupertino Library, maybe only a small corner, just show people how to make the Chinese tea. And yeah, they're wondering how can we start?

On our website is the event application. That would be the place to start. Oh, there's an instrument. Once that's filled out, it gives us all the pertinent information for us to reach out if it's something that we've got. time and space and depending on whatever else that we have already programmed, then we can figure it out from there.

Okay. And, yeah, I also heard from some autistic family, they said in other libraries, they have some story time for those special needs kids, like the Down syndrome. Like the same story time? Yeah, so we, they're asking if we have any. So we already have some.

I believe Rayna and her team have done them.

It's called Sensory Storytime. Oh, Sensory Story.

Okay. I know our children's librarian, Jennifer, has done it in the past. I don't know what her current schedule is right now. I'd have to ask.

Okay. I can track online too. Yeah. If I cannot find it, I'll ask you again.

I think Kubernetes is so popular. Sometimes, you know, you probably can easily get programming out of the library, but in Kubernetes, it's so popular, so much fun. Yeah. But they can try. I think you can try it out. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you.

You have one question on the library. How libraries usually engage with the private company who want to contribute some events, like who want to get the response of the events, especially the Keypoint Credit Union, which seems like working with Santa Clara City Library. And they used to run some programs. I met him in one of the Cupertino U100 Memorial Park. And he was basically interested to have some sponsoring to the program like financial adult or teen financial education or other things. And also like related to more specific to library interest, works with the library and then help on the library. So how that can happen, like what kind of steps that...

Sponsoring as in they would like to lead like financial programming at the library? Or they just want to provide funding to the library?

Maybe that also like they would, for example, if you have aquarium opening ceremony, right? Then obviously you have some even planned out. And that during that even they might have some sponsorship also they can come and put there. Obviously they have a business interest in the back, right? So

It really would depend on what the event is. In the case of the aquarium, that's being led by the library foundation, so that would be the person or the organization that would make that decision. For library sponsorship, that would

Well, I think it would still go through the same application process. DMN application?

Mm-hmm. Okay. For any of the organizations and add all the information on the application as well, and then that's... They can shroud it, the team.

Yeah, they can shroud it to whatever it would apply to.

Okay. And the other one is the summer read program for the kids. At the end of the program, do you guys have any plan to give free giveaways for the kids?

Yes, the kids do earn them both. Earn them both? Yeah.

I think last year some lunch bag or something like that, right?

The lunch bags we handed out were in celebration of opening up our children's play spaces. Traditionally, what we do for summer, just to continue to encourage kids to read, is that we have a selection of fabulous books for them to choose from, and if they can have that for their own.

And for the sign-up time, do you guys increase by giving anything?

Children get a bookmark and a pencil for signing up.

Okay.

Teens have a pencil pouch with some trinkets and some book recommendations and things that appeal to them. And the adults get the bag for signing up.

Because I see that is one of the good facts. My one kid referred somebody else and he was saying, oh, library has this program.

When is that coming? When you look at his, he's using a pouch and then other guys will look at the, when my kid look at that pouch, then he ask a question. It's giving him spreading words, right? Like basically it's an advertisement for the library also. I see that value at that moment. When my kid was coming and asking then, okay, It seems like it has its own, like when somebody, his peers have the thing and obviously the other kid's trying to find out what's that. Yeah.

Well, that's what we hope. They talk to each other and bring each other in and make those connections. And we love that. We love seeing them here and having them hang out.

Okay. We'll request you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Update. So the next is an update from county.

Good evening, commissioners. It's so nice to be back with all of you. I'm Marlene Iwamoto-Rothschild, deputy county librarian, and it's my pleasure to share highlights from our library district report. Karen already shared summer reading, so we kicked off on June 1st. summer reading. One of the core goals of summer reading, I think probably all of you know, is to help school age children avoid the summer slide when valuable skills and learning throughout the school year can fade during summer break. And then also just, you know, truly summer reading is for everyone. So as Karen said, I do encourage all of you to sign up. I think Cupertino is one of the libraries where sign ups are phenomenal. So please be a part of that as well. And also let your friends and family know about our summer reading programs. Last month, Campbell Library celebrated its grand reopening. We welcomed more than 3,000 visitors to the library. When you all get a chance, please come by. It's a refreshed space with bright, inviting design. We do have small meeting rooms now for collaboration. There's a flexible community room and a new state grant funded generator for support to support reliability during outages. And the building is now fully electric as well. June is Pride Month for our libraries, and we'll be celebrating with displays and book lists. And also teens ages 12 to 18 are invited to enter a What America Means to Me photo contest. Photos can be nature, historical, community focused, just anything that's original that reflects their individual voice. And, you know, that's the end of my report. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have. And I thank you for your time tonight.

So for the Campbell Library, I usually go to the West Valley. What's the name of the library? It's called?

Kalapaza?

Not Kalapaza. Is it the West Valley? West Valley, yes. It's different. The Campbell Avenue is different. It's different, yeah. It's further east. So it's a new building? It's very close to the prune yard.

Have you been to the prune yard in Campbell?

Yeah, it's a shopping sector program. So why close? Did it reopen?

So it was our oldest building in the system, and so what happened was about, oh, how many years now? Maybe six, eight years ago, they went for a bond measure, and it passed. to renovate the building. And so the Campbell Library moved to a temporary location about four years ago, and it took about three years for the building to be built. Wow. It's totally new. I guess we call it renovated. Renovated. Because they did not remove like some of the pillars and all of that. And it was a bond measure that was combined with the Campbell City Police Department as well. It was a $50 million bond. Twenty million of it went to the library.

Oh, wow. Is that close to the Campbell Community Center?

Yeah, it's down the street, and the Campbell Library's temporary location was in the community center for a few years, but yeah. It's on the other end of the downtown.

Oh, yes. Never been there before. We can raise the library.

You know, if you want to arrange a tour of the library, we'd be happy to do that. I know that the Milpitas commissioners are scheduling a tour. Yeah.

So let's please sit. I'm interested to raise the library. But that would be never before.

Maybe we can find a time together. Yeah.

Thank you.

So the next is staff from the commission reports. So, yeah.

Okay, I have just a couple things for you. The first is a Commission update. There is an updated Commissioner's Handbook that at the April 7th City Council meeting, the City Council approved several updates to the Handbook. The revised Handbook has been sent to all of the Commissioners, so you should have seen that in your inbox. And then the updates are also online. So if you look at the Commissioner Handbook online, they're also there. The updates are intended to provide additional clarity regarding Commissioner roles, meeting procedures, communication expectations, and Commission operations. So I would encourage you all to take some time out and familiarize yourself with what those updates are. And then a few event updates. Our Summer Concert Series, the City Summer Concert Series begins on Thursday, June 11th and it runs on Thursdays through August 20th from 630 to 830 p.m. at the Memorial Park Amphitheater. and the full lineups online. Our 4th of July celebration is on Saturday, July 4th, all day. We have a pancake breakfast, flag raising, children's parade. The Blackberry Farm pools will be open this year. There's kids activities, concerts, and then fireworks will be shot up from the same location as we have for years now. So for more information on that, you can check out Cupertino.gov backslash July 4th. And then finally, Free Shakespeare in the Park is coming back. And that is Saturday and Sunday, July 25th, 26th, August 1st, 2nd, 8th, and 9th at 6 p.m. in Memorial Park. They say summertime. Yeah, summertime. Thank you.

One question, the soccer World Cup is coming, right? Any of that related events, the library, nothing?

I don't know the library, but the city, not so much. I don't think that there's anything in the city that I know of.

Maybe some of the individual organizations that run, like, you know, soccer camps and things like that.

We have books on soccer. Who?

So, yeah. The next is to discuss the future agenda setting.

In your... You will have noticed if you opened your agenda packet that we had sent out, there is a new document that you'll be getting moving forward that it talks about the next couple of months. And so the... And it is not included with this. So you'll have to check your packet when it comes in its future agenda setting. So the things that we have scheduled as of right now will be an update on the StoryWalk project in August. And then in October, we'll be inviting the teams to come and join us to talk about team needs in the libraries. So those are the two things I know for sure are coming up. There will likely be other items added, but for now, that's where we're at.

Okay. And if you want to have any topics, can we go and add it and then you review it or we need to have the motion need to be passed?

Yeah, so you would discuss here right now. You can discuss it. And then you would just need a second. So you would need to say, I would like to talk about this. You would need to have a commissioner second that. And then we'll add it to our list. After that one. Where it can get. Yeah. Then we decide we will work with your chair to decide if it is an appropriate topic and where we can... work it into your agenda.

So let's actually follow up for this question because we only have meeting every other month now so that two months gap like you know if anything happened during the week I know chair can have you know set up the agenda like if any but if for the commissioner so for example I have some idea during the two months how can I find a second Can I reach out to another commissioner?

That is a great question, and I don't know for sure. So I'm going to have to get back to you on that. Logistically, I'm not 100% sure. I mean, you could always potentially talk to your chair and see if she was willing to put that item.

Oh, yes. All right. Okay. That seems to be the easiest way to put the item. It was in addition to that. Yeah.

That doesn't violate the Brown Act as far as I can see. Yes. As long as it wasn't obviously three of you discussing and I didn't know you wanted on the agenda.

No, that's, you know, yeah, if, you know, if liable with chair is the easiest way to get out. But, you know, oftentimes maybe some items that chair not interested, but the Just to give an example, okay, I just, because the only reason is because we space out, you know, too far. And so it's like, yeah, if we waited two months, then next it will be another two months, half a year is gone, like, you know, gone like that. And if you're sick in between, then, you know, miss the meeting, then it's like miss the opportunity. Okay, so it seems right now logistically is, you know, get the chair spy is the easiest.

So let me follow up with you. Okay. To confirm that.

If like the email communication, if it's possible, you know, for example, like this project, just the example. Okay. I know, you know, Chandra had an interest as well. So I just emailed him. Oh, you know, I know this one will be on August. So that's not an issue. Just the example. Okay. So can I just email him that, you know, both of us consider this? And since we cannot involve the third person, so then, like, we email you, like, okay, Molly, you know, Changjia, I think we want for this project. Next meeting agenda, can you consider?

Oh, I will have to double check. It needs to be done at a public meeting and not through email channels?

Put the item on the agenda. Put the item on the agenda needs to be on a pile. I don't know. I don't know.

That's why I need to get back to you. Okay. I'm not, nobody's ever asked me that question before. So I would not have the answer. And since most commissions meet, Actually, that's not true. We do have a lot of commissions that even just meet quarterly. I know.

Let me find out. But they are tasked probably every season. Each commission has a different role. So maybe in the next commission meeting, you can give us an update.

I can just email you guys an update. So I'll find out, and then I'll email you. Okay. And that's what that process will look like.

Yes, yes. Okay, that's fine, yeah.

But I think if Quinn has idea and discuss with me, then if I think, okay, if I take it to chair, that's Brown Foundation.

That's the Brown Spice Action. Yeah, that's Brown Foundation.

It is mentioned. Yeah. Yeah. So that's why there is that element of it being public that is really important also to the Brown Act. And, you know, that I will follow up and get back to you.

Okay, great. Thank you. Sure. And I want to share some information. So the CUSD board member, Long Jiao, he, every month, he started some community survey. And yesterday, he sent out a new survey asking the family, especially the CUSD parents group, to ask them give some feedback on local libraries. So I'm wondering, Because this is only the second day of the survey, I don't know if the data, he can get valuable data. Just in case, maybe next time, if the survey had a good turnout, maybe we can consider to invite him to make some presentation. And at that time, the Teens Commission will also come. Maybe we can find a way to better work with our local school district, if possible. Just an idea.

I think it's a great idea. You know, Eddie's a very strong... He make the survey by himself, right?

Yeah, every month, he has, like, yeah, on some hot issues in our local community. So this month, it's about library. Yeah.

He usually put a lot of community surveys, like Jan. And not just only like really previously. Yeah, previously. He put in all the issues too. So I feel that this library survey is very useful. Like it was asking families that how do you feel in the library, that what kind of books you use, spending time, and what you want to see more. And for kids section also, they kept a lot of portions. It was very useful. I think our suggestion is really on the spot, I guess. Maybe if we will usually publish the results also, if we see that, then maybe it makes sense.

Great. Thank you. Yeah. Anyway, yeah, I think his survey will close in this month, and our meeting in August, so we have time to discuss if we can add it to the next meeting agenda. Good, thank you, dear. Any more suggestions or updates you want to share? No? Yep. This is eight. There are two minutes past eight. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Thank you, Molly. Thank you.