Library Board - Regular Meeting

all right let's call this a meeting of the eagle public library board of trustees order is six o'clock on wednesday september 16th uh roll call allman present or president makeover president there is present action item are there additions and deletions and modifications to the agenda i will ask unanimous consent to approve the agenda as uh as presented The agenda is approved. Next up is the consent agenda. All consent agenda items are considered action items. Consent agenda items are considered to be routine and act on the form of motion. There will be no separate discussion on these items unless a trustee, city staff member requests an item to be removed for discussion. Items removed from the consent agenda will be placed on the regular agenda in a sequence determined by the rules of order. Any item on the consent agenda that contains written recommendations from the City of Eagle shall be adopted as part of the agenda approval motion unless specifically stated otherwise. Secretary has remarked that there is one minor correction to be made on the minutes from August 19th, so I will ask to hold the minutes for separate discussion. On that, the remaining item in the consent agenda is the approval of bills. Will entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda or do further discussion on it.

I would move to accept the consent agenda. I second.

So moved by Maycomber, seconded by Moore. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say no. And since agenda is adopted, the approval of bills. I believe we can now address the non-minutes. So the minutes, the one thing that was brought to my attention is that our last meeting in August, I was the one to call it to order, but it was just kept over from the previous meeting that I was not present at to save your roost. So I would ask that we amend those minutes to properly record that I called them in order. I would second that. Are you looking for a motion? I'll make the motion. I think that's in order to amend the minutes and Is there any discussion on that or any other amendments needed?

So, what are we, you know, I made a mistake. So what do I have to do now?

No, I guess we'll just cross it off. Yep.

We can, as long as we're doing it in the open meeting, we can amend it to correct anything like that and move on. Any further discussion? Hearing none, the motion is to accept the minutes as amended. uh in switching on number one that it was called to order by almond after roast all in favor say aye aye all opposed say no the motion carries the minutes are adopted as amended so we can cross it off and fix that one minor mistake moving on to public comment are there any members of the public here who would like to make comments anybody watching remotely won't be able to hear them Seeing no members of the public wishing to make a comment, we will move on to the staff report, Steve.

Circulation in August was even more spectacular than we thought it was going to be.

You said it was going to be a down month.

Did I?

Well, I said you. Yeah, when there were

traffic in the building. So we were up about 9,000 items, physical and digital. It was really surprising and really good. At the last meeting, I think it might have been Ron had asked about, were the other libraries as busy in the summer? And you saw on the chart that they weren't. We had Eagle and Mountain Home have the two largest increases for those three months. So that was really nice. And I think that was the language learning program was the database that everybody was looking at this month. We probably figured out from the number of people that wrote about it and it's kind of it. We've just been busy catching up from the past. very very busy months so how does how does it make it work but a pager wants to use it are they on are they on a computer or okay it's and it's it's interactive where you can you know you do the lesson or whatever it is and then you talk into the computer and you it'll it'll come back and respond uh try that word again or try this phrase again or something so that's it's using ai yes i already do i don't think that around a lot longer than ai has been super popular

They've probably been around about 20 years. There are a lot of things that our library offers. Yes, there are.

And that kind of comes up in the non-resident fees as well. You want to save discussion for that until the action item? Yeah, I think so. So that's kind of all I had. Just a super busy month.

Any questions?

so now we'll move on to board member reports so they had a big pot of money and they we were one of the organizations they gave us seven thousand dollars but they gave up three or four other organizations to the foundation they initially So they put the check to the library. It would have come general time, and I talked to Kenny Goodman. And so he wrote the check after the foundation. So we've got that. And then New York Life, the big check, and then one of the employees there does a monthly, they gave another $6,000 or $7,000. Right now, in the bank, they've got $25,504. And we discussed that the innovation meeting to take $7,000 and put it into a six-month, 12-month, and 18-month . So we're going to .

And as for the friends, unfortunately, the meeting is not till next week.

if there's anything new that i'm unaware of betty is here and can discuss it under friends i have a little remark for the record that uh ruse has been reappointed to the library board so it's uh we'll be here for another five years and i think that's a that's a great thing thank you maybe we'll get a fifth member eventually But I think we're doing okay with four for now. So I guess that's all right. I have stuff to say about the work session, but I'll save that until the action. That is the board liaison to the council.

As you just said, we reappointed Ron to the it's been busy just with other things we were in that meeting last night it was about the fire training center with city hall we're trying to get the cars out of back here to get them over to the new training center if they can be built um i think that's a goal i talked to the pipe about the cars and talked to fight about parking here i talked to fight about storage and having access on the weekends and i kind of didn't get any real solid answers back

Can you make a motion on those kind of things?

If it's agendized, we can. Like if we put something on the agenda specific to it, but that'd be something that Mary would have to be involved with because her and Brad set the agenda. And then it'd have to be something really articulable to do. i i know nancy will support whatever we got to do but i don't know if we've got the funds number one to help with the source you know we look back there at the your shed that you have um and then i don't know what the ramifications are for security in this building on saturday just getting it out of it there's nobody from staff here i don't know if you've been here a lot of you know storage issues well the storage shed the one that's there we used to finance but i mean this really it's coming back on saturday or So I don't know that that's a feasible thing.

Different organizations use that room. You know, at nights and on Saturdays and stuff, I was just in there last night with another organization.

You come in, you get the key on the front desk, and they tell you how to disarm it, and then you leave it.

And you just turn it down on Monday, or how does that work?

Normally the next day.

Or you can just leave it in the room or put it in a slot.

And we've done that for six. So that's not uncommon.

Yeah. So it's, I would say it's a work in progress. He said that these issues have come up before, so I'm kind of the new guy.

Does the friends need to make a petition to the mayor to do that?

Well, I mean, yeah, I don't know what, cause you run the library. So, I mean, you're going to see where there's issues too. And he's going to maybe even listen to you more than he does me as a councilman, because you're in charge of the library. If I say something and you corroborate it, then maybe it's got more juice. Or if you say something, I back you a bit. I'll stay from there. City art thing is nowhere close to being done. So these 23 cars that I counted back here right now are nowhere here to be.

Isn't that building approved?

It is approved and like technically last night we could have passed it through. They didn't even need it to go the way it went, but we thought it important to listen to the public and there was such pushback that they want to revisit if there's any other land in this entire area or if a county is willing to donate something which it's not 2006 it's not 1996 it's 2026 land is a premium lots of money to be made nobody's going to donate the city of eagle southern 10 acres to avoid it going to this i mean you already own this land right yeah and you just want to add a maintenance section i mean i can read what's on next door neighbor and they're how you're going to ruin yeah we're destroying the city is what we're doing yes i can't imagine just you know putting that in maintenance it's that in the fire training center so the fire tower uh there's renderings last night of what it looks like and they explain how they burn in it there has to be certain weather requirements and the property because it's pallets and hay inside of the building that creates a smoke environment so that they can go in and practice body searches and going up on multiple floors and rappelling off the roof. And we should want firefighters to be able to do that. And it's the typical, we want it and everybody was supportive, but we don't want it in our backyard. So put it in somebody else's backyard. So we're allowing this delay. to see if somebody can work their magic, whether it's Nancy with all of her connections or anybody else to see if somebody comes forward and says, yeah, we'll help you out. So it's just not the parking out there. The truck's going back and forth. It's the fire department. Yeah, I mean, that's pretty much the gist of it. They even brought in PFAS last night and the water being polluted based on runoff from the training because if they're using chemicals or hosing down wood and the water goes in the gutters and gets into the system and goes into the aquifers and the mean it was pretty much you know what we could how tall is the tower 38.5 there's a waiver for it because you can't go over 35 but that's fairly over the limit yeah it's it's not even just that it's you know it's gonna the last trail of mountain bike that comes down towards the parking lot has to be moved they're not going to just cut off and leave it they're going to move the trail over so it still exists but that's not being looked at favorably it's like why even touch our trail it's well i bet when that mountain bike thing was going in the city probably the residents over there probably wanted to go against it because they didn't want that in their backyard or a dog park or whatever so like i said last night when we tabled it It's very well that it may just go in there anyway, but we'll at least listen to them. We all took a ton of notes of everybody's concerns, and then hopefully we'll get some answers. Is there another lot? If there is not another lot anywhere in the city, and there's no way to county land to be had that's going to be donated to us, then we're kind of stuck. We got to do it for infrastructure reasons. I mean, we're at 40,240, I think, or somewhere around there. Population, five, 10 years from now, it's going to be 50,000. And these infill projects that are going on around the city, we're not going to stop growing. So I'd like to have our firefighters remain in our city for trains that'll be going to other places. They've got a Boise now to go start. Why not keep them in town? And then the city aspect of it with all of our equipment, why not have a city guard get it out of the city hall? We don't need the trucks coming in and out of here. If they're worried about safety issues, look at the kids at the library. stuff going in and out so they were even talking about backup alarms on the fire trucks air horns and sirens that they have to roll code out of there the lights on the side of the fire trucks if they're doing training the sounds of the jaws of life if they're practicing on cars that means the fire station right now is true yeah and i asked that last night i said have there been complaints about your fire station too that's right there not So it's just a it's if you look at from their perspective, I get it. It's a wide open preview. It's open space hills. We're going to put this thing on this tower. With a wall around it, you know, our best and they want to build up a firm, but that's on the other side to make it 10 feet tall so that you can't. See in nice bushes and trees and stuff, but. You're going to see the tower and then you're going to see smoke of some sort coming out of it, but they're going to they train Chief Lewis says somewhere around 50 days a year, possibly, and it depends on weather. They won't light if there's any issue with weather, with a west wind, east wind, north wind, south wind, they're not going to do it. And it's not a real fire. The picture where you're seeing the Eagle, I don't know if you saw the last couple days, they're burning a vacant house down. It's a header of black smoke, everybody's freaking out, and the Eagle Road traffic is slowing down and looking. It isn't even that. It's going to be white smoke, most likely. going into searching and things like that so I don't know I think it's a lot of unknown fear thing mountain bike groups and all these other groups that are thankful we all care we all listen had a guy you know giving me the eyes last night and saying that I'm afraid of the boogeyman and also it's so far off track like this isn't

It's like the controversy about Costco.

Yeah, I mean, that's right around the corner too. So that'll be the next thing if it comes back.

I don't know where that's at. Compared to all that, I think it's our concerns with the library are pretty small.

Yeah, it's kind of related because with the car space, the parking, the in and out traffic would be less city business versus people, regular people. and the library's not getting any quieter, you're getting busier too. So just gave us that number. So, I mean, it is kind of all intertwined, but all these things are infrastructure for the city and that sucks. Growth can be bad. You know, like, wow, we don't want it to change, but it is gonna change around us. So do we control it or put it off and then wish we did it? But again, I don't want our firefighters having to leave our city for training. We can keep them here. Why not? And they've got practice rigs. Somebody asked that question last night. Well, if you bring rigs in, they're out of service. They're no use to the city. Like, well, no, they have practice rigs that they use. So if something has to happen, they can cut and run and respond to some if they have to. So I don't know if that fits on all sides. But I do get the the stress of the unknown and the change. And if I had a kitchen window down over that field and looked at the hills, I'd be hurt myself. But I think the issues with PFAS and having to test the air quality and things like that, I think they're picturing black, billowing smoke every day. And that's just not reality. And they're worried about kids getting run over by trucks. People going to them from the bike park getting hit by cars. So. It's a work in progress there. But today is the fiber optic thing. That was another one. ETS was here. We had a working group meeting on the record today.

They're trying to set up a rain of fiber out here.

I know that you probably have done this stuff here before, but we're trying to figure out what to do with that too. But that's under our grant. The ETS will come in at no cost to the city. My contention is on that is how much money is the city going to make out of it? And I got the answer of the maintenance fees is all we're going to get a pass on. So we put the fiber system in, we don't pay for it. Something breaks, we don't pay for it, but we also don't make any money as a city off of it. I'm looking for revenue streams to come in and help us with other things. So that's that. I haven't forgotten to follow yourself, though.

I never forget. And I've had the conversations with the mayor. If I was the mayor, no, I'm kidding.

If I'm a queen for the day. I saw all of these comments.

Mitch covered the foundation, so moving on to report from the Friends of the Equal Public. Speaking of queens today.

I have book lines, because our sale is coming up. Oh, and Steve, can I give you one thing to put in your newsletter? And I don't know how many more. Or gazillion and more.

These things kind of happen every six months, but it seems like every six minutes or so.

Half of our inventory is stocked over here on the building, and the other half is in my husband's shop. And we had a work group that came in and we sorted books, because we've gotten some huge donations, and so we have to store them to get them in our various little pots of what we're going to do with them. And it's a lot of fun work. We've got a lot of neat books. And this sale will have mostly fiction and then kids' books. We have young adult chapter books, little bitties. We're going to have lots of those. So think of that. Yes, you need to be there. Anyway, so we have lots and lots of books. And they're really nice books. We had someone donate a whole bunch of books that looked like they were almost new. I don't know if anybody didn't read them or what. And I think that's about it. We're gonna have a big sales, about 220 banker boxes in there, about 20 to 30, depending on whether it's kids or adults books in each box. There'll be lots.

Well, I walk away from every book sale with two or three bags of books. Yes, and thanks for that.

Well, thank you.

and i think that's it if there's any questions no i was going to ask you if anybody had any great ideas after the month you know that story we've already talked about let's see we have no unfinished business so new business action item a staff development day request to close library for an annual staff development day on friday december 4th 2026 and to consider establishing two additional staff and service days throughout the year

collection sums it up and as you all read in the monthly report that's what we're looking for we staff development day is very productive when we hold um in december and it really helps but with our hours and our uh the various shifts uh for the employees in the building it is it's impossible to meet and have consistent messages go out to everyone So we want to hold a staff development day also in May, and then I think one in late August, September after summer recon's over.

Are you getting pushback from the public because you're closed? Well, there's a few disgruntled, but... You advertise it so that somebody doesn't come to the library and find out it's closed.

We advertise it. There's no guarantee they're going to see it, and so people always come in. but i think i think for the most part people are like oh okay i don't understand i don't think in the 15 years i've ever heard anybody approach me with a complaint that we did it there's a few jokes oh you're being developed but it's no i don't think anybody's ever complained directly to me about it did you do something special on that day with the luncheon or something like that So it's fun. It's very informative. Very, very helpful.

I think it's a great idea to do it every four months.

Because we can't hold meetings at all and have a consistent message. If we hold a meeting before we open, the night crew's not there, either because they're working at night or people are scheduled off. And it just makes it really... hard to get the message through. You can't do like a real email. You miss the interactions. A friend of mine does videos. It's the same thing. We can go around and talk to, I could talk to you. And by the time I got to Joanne, the message probably would have changed because somebody would have brought something up and then I'd have to circle back. And it's like this vicious circle. And eventually the messages are, they're just not consistent. They're diluted. so do you need just approval from the board or yeah because yeah because we have to close okay and what i'd like is to close all day right on those three times a year not just like partial days yeah would it always be on a monday no it's probably it's probably going to be um probably fridays right um it's the start of the week is busier and then it goes out toward the end

you have those other dates already chosen no no because i didn't know didn't know we were going to uh you know vote for it if we uh if we approved the idea of putting them on the calendar here would then it come up at the whatever we can create some dates yeah well actually you know what i can probably do it i'll probably do it right now if you'd like me that won't

you just talk amongst yourselves i can figure this out i don't i don't think it's i don't think it's necessary it's necessary i mean your public schools have a teacher work day so probably like um like may 7th it's probably probably may 7th so that that wouldn't that be the uh spring book sale i don't know

That's usually about the end of May.

Because that's when the prince is called.

The Saturday market starts, right? Yeah.

Would that have any effect on the same building?

It would be actually helpful.

Yeah. Because people come here, they put a little sign up that says, the price closed, but there's one here.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

How long are your work days usually go?

Eight hours, like standard. Eight to four, eight to five?

Eight to four, eight to five, nine to six, depends. Okay. And then, so we could say, wherever that was, May 7th, would you prefer us to make a motion and just say the first friday in december the first friday in may in may and then friday no it's too soon um probably the last is labor day ever in august no okay then the last friday of august the 27th okay all right what you want to do then on labor You just don't want it on Labor Day weekend.

I would make the motion to set up staff development days the first Friday in December, the first Friday in May, and the last Friday in August of each year and allow the library to be closed for that staff development.

the other thing i think about the last party in august sometimes it may be later than weekend yeah isn't but isn't labor day always so it's the first day oh but it could be that on the 31st yeah then second um the third friday third friday yeah well i'll amend my motion to be the third friday of august it's been motioned is our motion is there a second

i second it all right it's been moved by trustee ruse to allow the library to close on the first friday of december the first friday of may and the third friday of august each year for staff development days uh seconded by trustee maycomber is there any further discussion on that motion hearing none all in favor say aye aye aye all opposed say nay motion carries wonderful thank you All right next up action item facility planning work session of course discover work session to discuss viability of facility planning process. So, as the notes said, I was chatting after the meeting last week or last month about. Just exactly what it would take to start talking about. Meeting a design review or a master plan to what it would take to. bring our library into the second quarter of the 21st century as uh council member Dilla said we're over 40 000 people within a few more years we're going to be over 50 000 people this library was built for a much smaller population you know it's prepared to go up to about 80 pounds all right it's we're going to keep growing i'm sure uh i actually reached out to a boise architectural firm homeowner architects and i have i'm on their schedule for next week uh next wednesday actually it's just an informal conversation nothing i'm not representing the board in any way just what you know they've done this before what would it take what's the ballpark figure for getting it going and then we could uh carry that discussion into a work session in october and decide where to go from there so the work session are we you're looking for what we the expansion we want on the library trying to get the need for a site survey it's not a site survey right it's like what facility do you need for a library so what do you call that a facility master plan so the idea would be to get together sometime just the second half of october our october meeting is actually on the 21st of october uh would it make sense to just just not be connected to it i think that'd be slow just do it a separate separate one if we're going to meet anyways is there a reason to have both

why don't we just leave the call wednesday the 28th i think i think um it's i think they're more productive than uh than a meeting does this have to be open to the public everything has to be open unless it's an executive session and this would just be an informal conversation

Just bring some ideas. I'll bring whatever I learn in my conversation with the architectural company. And the friends are definitely invited.

And then the city, they had $50,000 set aside a year ago or so to do this, right? Yeah, it's gone. And it's gone. And then the money went away. I guess it went back to the general fund or something. So what are we trying to ask?

You're trying to find a way forward with no one, basically. Right now there's $10,000 in the 2027 budget, right? So there's a way we could do this. It won't carry the same weight as an architectural firm, but we could put together a facilities master plan proposal that you could then present to city council. but know that it won't carry the same or it's possible we could say here's a you know somebody who can do a facilities match put out to bed obviously yeah get the best uh and then take that to the council and say but that's not going to happen anytime soon right it's not going to happen this next year because there's no money sure right so it's a couple years down the road But I believe we need to get a conversation started now. Otherwise, it will never get started. I think even if it was like a proposal, this is what we think a facilities master plan could be. And write something up that you could then take to city council and say, look, you want a real one? This is what we can do. Would you like a real one? Then send it.

Can the friends support that with them coming forward with that proposal?

i don't know maybe i don't see what good that would do quite frankly i think it's probably more something we should be doing yeah the friends are a small component of it so is the foundation but this is border driven it's it really has very little to do with the friends or the foundations okay right this is where in the city do you need services and what are those services when they first created the library

I don't know if it was friends or another group that were behind getting the library built. So was it the friends or was it somebody in some other group?

Did the friends give some money? How much was it?

Well, what it was is you have to understand this is a small town. And the friends went out and supported it.

There was a lot of advocacy.

Well, yeah, lots of it. I mean, actually down to the thing of we moved the books from the old library to the new library. So, yeah, that was partly why it was mass.

But that was like that. And what the friends did then is way down the road. Like way down the road, that's not even part of this.

Okay, you're saying later on? Yeah. Okay. Well, let's get something on the calendar and then we can have this discussion then. Does the 28th of October, Wednesday, work for everybody? It works for everybody. Yes. Is there a 6 o'clock, just like the time? That should be fine, okay. Hold on. i would entertain a motion to schedule a special library work session on wednesday october 28th at 6 p.m i'll second that yeah i'll make the motion i'm sorry you're asking for a motion right here um yeah i'll i'll just go ahead and make a motion a motion made by me and seconded by the wrist uh to meet the work session on october 28th at 6 p.m is there any further discussion on the motion to schedule the work session hearing that all in favor say aye aye all opposed say no motion carries we'll get it on the calendar and we'll uh we'll have a conversation and then finally action item c non-resident borrower fee it's a request to evaluate current annual non-resident borrower account fees

So the last time the non-resident fee was evaluated, we came up with $114, right, per year for household. And that was determined by the levy rate at the time and the after homestead exemption median value of a house value in EGLE. So kind of looking at the same formula, Ron was able to get the median value of a house after homestead exemption. And then Lori, the city treasurer calculated the levy rate out for it and it ends up being exactly the same.

So why does the levy rate get cut in half?

Huh? Why does the levy rate get cut in half? You guys may need to help.

Because the property values are double.

understand that's why it's bad huh we're a budget-based state so they just they want to maintain the same in other words we can't i know you said we could do a feel good or something raise but you know why when your property taxes the city says we need this much money in our budget right

and then you divide it by the that the overall value total value of what's in the city of eagle that's how you get the levy rate so if the property value is double your library is going to need that now if your budget stays the same i had a couple of questions uh when it comes to the levy rate of the libraries that the libraries share of the city budget or you could explain it more and secondly um i was wondering how many uh non-resident car holders do we actually have

i think 20 25 not very many because for a long time we were the most expensive um non-resident fee right you could go out to caldwell and you could get a library card for like 10 bucks right you wouldn't have access to did to the eagles digital collection right because they they either don't have that much they didn't care they've never raised their or their um their borrower fee So people would shop around, and if all they wanted was the physical stuff, they would just buy the cheapest of the cards. But as we all are residents and live here, we're paying a lot more, right? And so at the time, it was like, well, let's raise it so that it's at least equitable and at least we have a median fee that people in the city will pay.

I'm just trying to figure out why somebody would get an honor in a cart at this point. Anywhere you live in the Treasure Valley, you can be a member of your mobile. Still don't get access to the digital stuff.

It's the digital stuff. And you may live in Middleton, or you may live up on Horseshoe Bend, or up to the, when you go east of Emmett, that stuff is all unincorporated. So you would, if you want the digital resources or you like coming here, you can buy it. What do other libraries charge? It ranges from like Caldwell's like 20 or 25 bucks to, I don't know, I think Meridian is the highest, That's what they're paying to get the library card? Yeah, for non-residents. But Meridian's, you know, levy rate is like two or three times higher.

So I can see where that would be a lot higher. Sure. And is theirs based on the same calculation that you're using? I don't know.

I imagine it's based on something. I doubt it's just like a deal with a number. What's Boise's, do you know? The last time I heard they were going to increase it to, I'm not sure if it's now higher or not, but it's going to be closer to 140, 150.

Would it be prudent just to raise ours to 140 so we're equitable with the other cities?

You can. You just have to be able to justify if you're talking to somebody about why is it so high. And you can say, well, this is what the median household pays.

it's a live user and say you know what this is what this is median household pays plus the equal premium right which we could do i would i don't know i think i would justify it just it's what the other cities are charging and it's it's what the the cost is plus to be equitable with everybody else there is extra work involved is there not yes

and it's not a lot of extra work for it right it's like it's some coding sure but but there is and there's um and no interactions and you know what are you building my mind are you building them no the card just expires if you really want all the services of eagle then add x well there's that too no that's what i think because we all have the choice to live someplace else and here we are right and we don't mind paying whatever whatever it is for the for the services through the city what would you recommend steve if you think you might get complaints and that you can justify it i'd go for 150.

Are you, do you think you're going to get much complaint to that? Or are you willing to deal with it? I think we're going to get like 20 or 25.

I don't think we're going to get that many. And honestly, you know, I truly believe if you, if you don't like the annex, just stand next to your property. That's all it takes. Everybody has the choice.

about where they wanted to live and the people who buy the non-resident cards deliberately chose to live outside the taxing district outside the industry i don't think it's a hard part of the cell i wonder what the uh median property value of houses near legal but not in city limits would be it's hard to quantify stuff hard to nail down i don't know off the top of my head i could find out but it's probably going to be very similar honestly

It's just the taxing district and the difference in the tax district in unincorporated Ada County in around Eagle. So, and it's specific because you're in the West Ada School District too. So, you know, if you're just outside of Eagle, unincorporated Ada County versus Eagle, it's not a huge difference. I mean, it is a little lower outside of the city. But it's not that much though. No, it's not. in fact probably that 140 bucks or 150 bucks is probably more than what they would be paying uh honestly then we're so like if if they were if they were annexed it wouldn't be it'd be probably a wash honestly yeah because i mean honestly a lot of the other tax districts are are one of the most i mean i think the

uh Eagle Fire is higher than Eagle City at this point oh by far yeah right by far Boise is like six times higher Meridian like the city of Meridian is I think like five times the library district I think is two or three times well they have their own library district too already and so they're totally separate yeah and so it was it was added together yeah

I mean, I would, I would be open to a motion to raise it to $150 and I have no issues with that at all.

Would that make us highest in the building?

Yeah, but I think Boise is going to come in higher. When was the last time a Meridian raised theirs? It was just within the past few months.

Okay. Very recent. And I don't I mean, I guess I don't mind being a little higher than other cities.

I mean, I don't think it's going to be hiring. Exactly. And we were we were hired for quite a while.

And then everything and it didn't cause any issues.

Well, if you think about what we're talking earlier, what the library offers, then you know, all of the online services and digital library movies that you had to cap, you know, too many of them you add that up to like a netflix subscription 150 a month divided by 150 12.50 it's just not that much but it's still a much better deal than amazon prime and netflix right yes we offer far more digital i think than anybody pretty good deal yeah all right i would make them uh i'll make a motion to raise our non-resident fees to 150 dollars a year second that's been moved by trustee bruce seconded by the question essential to raise our non-resident library card fees to 150 dollars per year is there any further discussion on that motion bring none all in favor say aye aye aye all opposed say no motion carries thank you That is all our business for today. So we will entertain a motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. Moved by DeRosa that we adjourn. Seconded by Mitchell. It's an non-debatable motion. So all in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say no. We are adjourned at 6.45.