Parks and Recreation Commission - Regular Meeting

Okay. Do I need to start? No. You're still here until you get you get somebody else to take it over for you. Okay.

So public comment, it looks like we might have one person. Yeah. Let's see. We gotta follow the order. Oh, follow the order. Sorry. The library commission meeting went out. Come to order. We're the one person. Oh, we are. Shows us. We don't have any attendee. Okay. Perfect. Okay. Good.

So, actually, before that, we would do consent now.

The consent calendar, so that's where

you guys approve them and

Oh, do that one. Yes. Also, so you would wanna see if there's any comment from the commissioner. Okay. Before you go with voting on it, let any member of the public make comments on the minutes.

Okay. And then you

can call for the vote.

Just in case the comment from the public thanks for you guys. Oh, got it. Okay. Okay. So has everybody had a chance to review the minutes from our last meeting? Are there any additions or corrections? Okay. Then I'll make a motion to approve the minutes. All second.

All good. Yes.

And okay. Was there anything else? No. Oh, are there is there any well, but there's nobody here. Right? But when I Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. I was gonna I'm Okay. I didn't even consider myself again. I said, no. There's nobody here. Go ahead. We have a good guest today. That's from you. My name is Constance Crawford. I do live in District 2. I saw there was a commission, I wanted to learn a little bit more about the library commission. Thank you for having me. Glad you're here. Okay. So, next, we're gonna move on to the library director's report.

Bryce Lovell, library director. With the first item in the report, we have an update in the El Dorado Western Railroad. Of course, the library department oversees the El Dorado County Historical Museum. And then we have the El Dorado Western Railroad, which is a living history program. So that's the the structure.

And we started rolling out annual, programs. So we started with the, pumpkin patch train, which generated about $600, which was the largest, amount of revenue, in the history of the program. And then two months later, the the the team, beat that with the holiday train with Santa. It was two days. They did six rides in total.

It sold out in I think it was less than twenty four hours. It generated about $2,200 to help sustain the program. Very successful. It'll be added to one of our annual programs. The team is already planning the specifics for next year.

So there's a lot of opportunity with these annual type of, special events, train rides, and, helping to sustain the, program. So a lot of excitement around that. With some of the changes related to the railroad and and promotional activities, they had a Facebook page that has has been modified now to where it is the, railway foundation. So that is the nonprofit supporting piece. And then we are absorbing the El Dorado Western, railroad, promotional activities because it is a county program.

So that, happened, I think the initial it's it's been on it's been absorbed now, but I think it happened maybe two or three months ago. So we're starting to promote through our, Placerville, library page, and that's been, continues to be very successful. Some of our reels that have been posted, the the our library social media team, there's there's been a hand a handful of them that they've done very well with over 600 likes and smilies and other things. And you look at the stats, behind the scenes with how many people have viewed some of these, reels, and we had one in particular that had over 70,000 views. So that's very successful and positives for a smaller rural library system.

So we're bringing that same excitement to the railroad and the museum. And so you'll see that, to make a pun down the line.

Can I ask some questions? Sure. So the first one, you said that the ride sold out in essentially twenty four hours. Yes. That makes it sound as if we were able to offer both eyes about being with them. What are the constraints as far as offering new eyes?

So there's the potential to add another, another car, which would accommodate additional riders. I think we've got a max of about 35 seats right now. And this is relatively new with offering the the full size train, as they call it. We used to have

I think

Or or we still have them, but we offer rides in the track inspection cars that are also known as gang cars. But those don't, I think they can accommodate either two or four people in each one of those cars. So mid, last mid yeah. It was mid last year, we got the full size train fully operational. So we're able to, increase the number of riders.

And so we're looking at if we can add, another another train to to offer more riders per trip. There's a few different challenges with that with our existing inventory. We we do have, I believe that there is a train on the the Shingle Springs side or a or a train car. It can't be brought over via the the track because there's some damage to the track, so it would have to be trucked over. And even then, I don't know all the specifics of of of that particular farm, what might be needed to get us to that point.

But we're in the early discussions with the, rail railway foundation and the the volunteers as we look at the program and how to how to build it. Because not too long ago with the smaller cars and, ticket sales, it it wasn't as, the word has definitely gotten out, and it's a a niche kind of offering that people are very, very excited about. It's it's it's unique. So moving forward, I anticipate that all of our offerings relating to the train will sell out nearly immediately. And the Railway Foundation is currently looking at their ticket prices because demand, of course, is so high, and then our ticket prices or their ticket prices may have reflected a time where there wasn't that type of demand.

So that's one thing that's being looked at. There's a online ticketing system that's being explored because we'll absolutely need to have that in the future to where you can just go online, purchase their ticket, reserve their their seat. So with opportunities around the train and and events, increasing ridership, and generating additional revenue, it's really the opportunities are just exponential. And everybody's very excited that this all happened so quickly. Congratulations.

Sounds wonderful. I did wonder also. This is three rides on this state advisory law firm. How many buys how many train trips are they on train? So it depends. Historically, at certain times a year,

they haven't run the the the train. And moving forward, it looks like we'll be we'll be offering training rides. This season will be longer, and there'll be more, or additional, we'll we'll incorporate these annual events. There's also talk about having rides that is without cost, and you can just reserve a ticket. Because we want it to be accessible to to everyone, in in particular as we look at the pricing model.

We're also looking at ways to incorporate it further into some of the library offerings. So maybe summer reading, kids under a certain age receive a free ticket for the for the train. So with the with the rides in total, the Pumpkin Patch train was pilot, an experiment, and it was extremely successful. That was that was one or two train rides on just one day, and, riders got a pumpkin. And so we're gonna offer that again, but we're gonna offer it for additional weekends.

So I anticipate that that will match the the it it will be the revenue for the holiday train with with Santa. So, really, you're looking at two two events over the span of two months and and several weekends, and that absorbs the cost of fuel and and everything else. And there's there's revenue left over to continue to, work towards securing additional train cars and all those all those pieces. To answer your initial question on with the holiday train, the Santa, that was six rides in total. We did three rides on two separate Saturdays.

It was December 13 and December 20.

Well, again, sounds great. I do wanna just mention that it'd be nice if we could find a an explicit tie in to the library. I I imagine that many of these trips are parents or grandparents with younger children. And if so, it'd be great to be able to offer them a book or some incentive to actually come into the library as part of this whole experience.

Mhmm. Absolutely. And those, we're in the early stages of those conversations. We've talked about a, our breathing train. We talked and what you've mentioned too was riding the train and how does that also come back with the promotion of the library and and the museum.

This is the first point in time really where certain outreach events and and how we're advertising. We're promoting library services, but then also what the museum offers. And a lot of people don't realize that we have we have a railroad, and so that's very, very exciting. One of the recent events, so at, save the grades here in Placerville, we promoted all three at our table, our branding. We're continuing to refresh that with the museum and the and the railroad.

But those conversations, a lot of excited people in the community to learn more about that and how things are building. Thank you. Sure. Continuing with the train theme, the Sacramento Classical Transportation Corridor Joint Powers Authority meeting. I believe they meet quarterly. So this one has actually been canceled. We were on the agenda for February 2. That that is canceled. They didn't have many agenda items, so they decided to cancel, that that meeting. But we will present in May. And I don't have all the the specifics.

I think it might be I don't know if I count too.

I think it might be this Crystal, are you able to click on that little time there so I can see the calendar?

Maybe. Nope.

Oh, Windows likes to change everything a little.

They do. Oh, okay.

I was like, if they haven't updated this yet, but nope.

Well, I can I can send out an an update on that? It's going to be in May. So we have a a little more time. Very excited about the presentation because we're also gonna use historical photos of trains in the area, and these are some of the photos that will be included in our upcoming, historical photo database. And we're let's say we're maybe a month out from making that go live.

Got about a thousand images in there now, and we have about in the first stage, about 29,000 more to go. So each journey starts with the first step. But that'll happen in May for that presentation to the joint powers authority. Moves us to item b, library assistant, mobile services slash electric bookmobile and delivery. We will onboard a new employee on, is it, the twenty sixth of Monday?

So he starts then. His name's Andy. So he'll be the newest, member of the library team. And down the line, when we get our electric football deal, that would be one of his core activities. So we're very excited to be able to add an additional, full time employees to the library team because, of course, recently, we had to compress and delete multiple positions that were unfilled, but we're able to add this back partly because of railroad activities.

So with this individual and with some of their efforts, it frees up a little more time for Crystal. And then in turn, she can help me with certain support functions, then I can spend a little bit more time, with the railroad activities.

Does that mean there will be more book deliveries per week or gonna be one? Yes. Okay.

So this position will fully so there were there was another compression in the in the county and our book deliveries from site to site. So we request an item, and maybe it's coming from Tahoe or it's coming from El Dorado Hills. And we also have our Link Plus items that are from outside of our system. It could be coming from San Diego, and then it goes to our libraries and hub. And then we, are able to allow, our patrons to borrow that item.

So compression, the the number of deliveries, were they were decreased. And, of course, immediately, we saw some hiccups with that change reaction where our patrons aren't receiving their their books in the same, in the same timeline as they've been accustomed to. And, so we've set up a few temporary processes around all that to ensure that still have excellent customer service around all of that. And then with Andy coming on board, one of his core responsibilities will be, delivery. So, yes, Tahoe will have a few different things that we that we pilot, and we'll fine tune.

But this is a a priority, and we we're gonna start very soon with two deliveries

to Tahoe per week. Yeah. Good question. That

brings us to item c, museum branding, catalog it, and Eldorado Hills Friends Of The Library are so not too long ago, we refreshed our library branding, and we will also be refreshing our museum branding. And you can see the, the current, logo and, font and colors used. This I think this was implemented in the nineties, maybe mid nineties. I'm unsure. We don't have all the source files, and that's, of course, difficult because we don't have different lockups.

We don't have a medallion style. We don't have other other styles where certain things are inverted where we can easily put it on different color flyers. It's it's problematic. It's time to take a peek and and refresh it. So we've been working with the with the designer. We have some drafts, and everything's going very well. So very exciting to be able to refresh this as well. And part of the reason that we wanna do this is because our new database catalog it excuse me. Sorry. We want it to be very, very polished.

Just it has the photos are old treasures, and they they're they're amazing. And the database itself and the interface, you can use it on your mobile device, tablet, computer, however you wanna interact with with the content. But we want that added element of of polish there. So that's achieved through a refresh and the and the branding. The other one at Hills Friends of the Library, were generous enough to get us going with cataloging.

It's about a thousand dollars for, for an entire year, which is, an absolute steal for what we'll be able to offer the the community with this database. And then, they were also generous enough to, give towards the logo, refresh. And with that project, we'll have a new master logo. We'll have the logo variations of different lockups, horizontal, vertical, down and lockup. And everything is, you know, digital files, which is what we need, best use, kind of practices.

The the type will be, identified, and then we'll have a specific color palette. And we are taking into consideration when we put these on library, flyers, the library logo, also the museum logo, how does that look next to it, what are the colors that we use? And then down the line with the with the railroad, logos, that'll be something that branding would be rationed at all. That brings us to item d, Library Commission and the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors. So we have an annual, presentation that is given to the board, and so we secured September 15 at 10AM.

You guys are lucky because the other doing theirs in April. So okay. Oh, wow. Yeah. We just did. So

there yeah. There's there's two available slots. And Your fulcrum. The museum commission meets monthly, so it's easier for them, of course, to present in April. So with the library commission, that'll be accept. And that brings us to item e, the ballot measures. So zone f, South Lake Tahoe, and zone g, Georgetown. Those resolutions have been approved by the board. Everything has been sent to elections. There's no cost to the department to place those measures on the ballot.

Any activities related to, to the ballot measures for, for staff and and by myself, that all happens on personal time. So there'll be a few new updates here very quickly with the with the to the friends friends of the library in both of those districts, and then we'll start or continue to to move right along. But everything the the resolutions are beautiful and finalized and approved. And I believe we have our actually, maybe I'll hold off on the measure letters for that, but I think it's moving right along. And it will be June 7?

Yes. June 2. I have a couple questions about that. Sure. So there is some kind of prohibition, right, that, like, the staff can't discuss this or it cannot be discussed at the library? So can you clarify?

So those those activities within the ballot measure, it has to be it has to be a clear division. So for example, I communicated with the friends, recently, and that was, I was I was on e ETO. It's vacation time in order to do that work and send it off because it was in the beginning of the of the day. And so I wanted to make sure that was clear, and it was sent to my personal email. So, yeah, yes, we want to, not meet at the library sites.

We wanna make sure it's clear, the the vision there. If staff, choose to be part of those, discussions and and and advocating, that needs to be completely separate. It needs to be a 100% on their own time.

Okay. Mhmm. And is there any reason I could not head back and be a library commissioner?

I don't know the answer to that. K. However, I would encourage you to check email related to the the Tahoe friends Mhmm. In the very near future. Okay. Mhmm. Good

day. Okay. I guess we're moving on to the election of the twenty twenty six chair and vice chair position. Are

you sorry about that?

Sorry. No.

Wait. Let me drag you down. There we go.

Was anybody interested in being a chair?

No. I I was about to move to nominate you to be chair.

You, buddy. I wanna be the vice chair. I would love that.

You do a great job.

No. I feel like I'm not getting it still. You don't wanna do it? Really, Jen? No. No worries. Well, just

one more year.

How about we switch and let you and me, you then if somebody else joins, and then to do it. I guess you're really familiar. Like, you're a good class.

I think I think you're great chef.

Rather not. I'm not making that. Sarah, do it. Hey, Crystal.

Can you see that door? Thanks. Mhmm.

George, really? Can you nominate somebody who's not here? George Lloyd's not here. And, you know, we might

as well have a Crystal. Did it show?

Yeah.

Yeah. I do not wanna do it.

I would love to be vice chair.

Who has to act as chair if you're something chair? The vice chair.

Hopefully, we don't have. For the bubble around, then fine. But, I mean, I'd prefer not to, but I will do it. But I would wish that you could do it. And then maybe next year, if nobody wants to do it, then I would take over again. Oh, can you do that?

I see that.

Right? Yeah. But if you if you don't want to, then it matters. Yeah. Well, then I I wonder

There's a motion in the second. And then I

mean, honestly, would you do it or no? Like, if you no. I just

With your guidance.

Okay. Okay.

I would like that. And I would do I would do vice chair this this time around. And then I could take notes when you do it and then kinda, you know, of, like, what to say. I would like that if if we'll do that.

So

I'll make a motion. Okay. If you would have to have we'd have to open it up for public comment. Oh, okay. Just in case somebody, you know, wants to sway the voters. There's no attendees online. Okay. Alright. But

does anybody from the public wanna talk?

I think each of you is a woman. Thank you. Heather, I don't think you should tell yourself short. Think she's done. Feel like yeah. I Okay. I'm gonna make

a motion that George is our chair this year, and Heather is the vice chair.

I think it's possible. Without headphone.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Was there a second? I second. Of course. In favor? Aye. Any opposed?

No.

Alright. Perfect. Okay. Now we're gonna move on to the review and approve the 2026 meeting schedule. Per the commission bylaws, the library commission shall meet a minimum four times a year. The previously established schedule is met the January, April, July, and October at 3PM. So the proposed dates are April 16, July 16, and October 15. And that we would meet in July then and probably get our presentation ready for the September meeting, I would assume. Right? Okay.

April 16.

These have all been updated on the library website as well. They can really just Mhmm.

It's a few weeks out already.

October 15. Make those days are definite work for me. Excellent. How about everybody else? Is that word? And I guess if George can't do it, then he just let us know. Then K. Then October 15? Yeah. So we did set this up as a formal action. So we wanna make a motion to set this these as proposed and, you know, a lot of you would have to vote, and we would wanna open it up for public comments. So do do a public comment before you vote?

Yes. Because one one of the

public comments Okay. Weighs your vote. Okay. Is there any public comments for the dates? Okay. Then I'll make a motion for the proposed 2026 dates. All second. And then all in favor?

Aye.

And then moving on to review and discuss the duties of the library commission. Was that what you had previously. Was Correct? Has everybody had a chance to look at the the bile acid again? Perfect.

And now Do you wanna guide this conversation in any way? Yeah. Because it's, you know, a nice opportunity to discuss what everybody's supposed to do, what their role is.

I think we can.

Oh, there are powers and duties right there.

Or at least half of them. Guess we have a lot of there's a lot of additional text. There is.

This is the powers and duties,

number eight.

And so let's see. Does does it mention when these were first implemented?

2000. 2000.

I thought that was when they were we bought.

Oh, it probably was. '63. That sounds that's tough. February 1953. Yes.

Yeah. Last week's vision. You you said it

was 2000? Yeah. March 2000. Okay.

We do. Yeah. If you scroll to the top just so everybody in the room, if they haven't already reviewed it, they can they can take a key. Yes. If they could

just pull up. I don't

know if you can You can't. Have to do the K back up.

It's gonna always have to stay there. I think

it's only two or three pages, so maybe you can scroll

slowly. And

we have this listed on our site as well. Maybe scroll up to where you have number eight at the very top. Right?

So at this point, I'll have a question. One taken one by one, just in general. One of the responsibilities or powers and duties of the clinician is to make recommendations to the board of supervisors on a training issue related to the library that might come before them. Do we, at this point, have a formal process to notify the commissioners about issues potentially coming before the board?

What do we come to you?

Well, we have the the opportunity to address all board members during the yearly presentation. And then with most of the most of the supervisors, I I meet with them monthly so I can always relay information or bring up concerns. And, so there's things that, of course, you know, in those conversations with library library centric and and updates and then the the commission and then, you know, advisory asked me if there's other things that come from your your districts where there's a concern or an opportunity or additional input, you can always share those during these meetings. You can always contact me, and and then I can relay the information. You can also reach out to a supervisor as well, but those are the you know, they there's different options.

Mhmm. Thank you. I I think balling around the most clear. I understand we have come to this meeting in the past with issues of using the libraries or in the friends and library group in our respective districts. I I hope that has worked quite well.

Mhmm. And I know that you will be regularly report to us very much. Here's what department has been doing amenable since we last met. But I'm imagining a scenario that hasn't happened to the last, right, where a member of the public goes to the board of supervisors and says, I have a concern that's somehow related to the library. And so, potentially, the board could say, well, we can't act on that now.

Take that up for this discussion that we need. I would like us not to be tardy in providing information or advice to the board if they were to have an issue come up in discussion with you. But for action, they kinda fell in between our board.

Sure. And I typically watch those the board meetings and keep a keep a pulse on that or typically watch sometimes I have it on in the in the in the background as I'm completing other other work. But I also scan them to see if there's anything that's come up from a library, museum, or railroad scope. And for example, in the last meeting, the topic of the Oregon came up, and there's a few things, mentioned that I offered clarification on a few things. One of the things mentioned was the organ, along with other certain discussions that that were had.

It was mentioned that it was possible to fit the organ in the museum, which, it it's not. It's far too large. So I offered that, clarification. Does that help answer?

Well,

not exactly because that's not something that we as clinicians necessarily have expertise on. So, I mean, that's falsehoods in your realm as the overseer of accounting departments. Mhmm. I was thinking more, again, why I first came on the commission about really maintaining access to a high quality library program. And if something came up to specifically address that, that would be something that does fall within our responsibility, I think, in terms of offering advice.

We would say, here's the policy. Here's how we understand the policy. Here's how it relates to policies at the state level or in other counties and so forth. Sure. And so what I'm thinking, and you can correct me and say, no. It doesn't work for it. It's unnecessary. I'm thinking that if something that really dealt with the poor function of the library came to the attention of the board that we should be able to offer our input. And if he scheduled our meetings, aligns with them, we're gonna just take it up at our next meeting. So I could say we had just had a meeting, then comes up before the board of supervisors.

To me, that would be the kind of thing I was seeking, Heather. But the vice president or commission can call for a special meeting to where we should get together to talk about this thing that the board is going to be talking about. Yes. That that's possible for a special meeting. And depending on

what, if if something did come up and from, my information sharing scope, it could be that I provide information to the to the commission through through an email, and then I would just, blind copy everyone so that we're compliant. Brown axe. Yes. Thank you, Crystal. Crystal, love wearing a hat today because today is the national thing. Yeah. Right? I know you mentioned that before.

Not on camera. Does

does that help answer your question? Yes.

Yeah. I think if you send like, if something came up and then we notified Bryce, and then we could email us, and then we can respond back that way. But probably the quickest way to do something that since you it's super important. You meet with them often, though.

When he mentioned the brown eggs, that includes prohibition on serial needs. So those we can't meet as a group Right. Without public notice, but we also can't meet, like, you and me Right. Right. Me and her, you know, her music. Stuff. We can't do that without public notice. Right. Well, then if I was to copy everyone that's part

of the library commission and send out an email and then and without without it being a blind cop and then somebody hit reply all and then everybody sees that reply, then then that would would be in live. Right. That's still me. Of the Brown app. Yeah. So we always wanna make sure that we're in our lane following all the correct process, which we do.

Yeah. So thank you. Sure. That makes sense. It's a question.

K. So we have the formal action from duties. Review district to vacancy. Are we yeah. But this one, guess. Yes. We'll see. We can figure that out. Okay. Let me oops. One. Yeah.

I'm just gonna stick it on. Yeah. I don't I'm kind of back.

Alright. Barely on. So we have one person here so far. I'm not sure if we have two for just book two with vacancy. We don't need to meet yet. Hi. I'm Melody. I emailed from, I guess, but Oh, okay. Christ. And Yeah. I'm here. And I believe my application was sent. I don't know if the materials were shared. Should I give a background, my interest?

So, well, thank you both for, for submitting your your applications and some of your interest and just being involved with the the library commission. And it's been quite some time, that we've had a vacancy in in District 2. I think it's been since, like Last January. Year? Yeah.

So it's fabulous to have, not one, but two applications. And so in the past, as we we've redacted certain information and brought, elements of that application to the commission for review, but knowing that we both were are able to come and attend the meeting, I figured that you both wanted to share, anything about your about yourselves. That might be one way enough to go about it. And I'd be curious too curious as well with, both of you what your, comfort level is with technology and then also with public speaking. Because with how to shift in technology and then the the board presentation, the board's very nice people, but it is public speaking, and that's not something that is something that everybody enjoys.

We're just out of curiosity.

I can go to a chair.

Bryce, before the potential commissioners that you thought about themselves, corrects my understanding. Our powers and authority do not include appointing or approving the commission system by the time supervisors?

It's it's done by the, yes, the the count the district, supervisor. The commission can choose to recommend. We have not historically, had many, applicants from the same district. So this is something that's a little No. I I got New and wonderful.

So, I mean, if the the commission wanted to make a recommendation, you know, I can take that to the to the supervisor. But that is that's the commission's choice, formal recommendation for.

I'm

happy to go first. Okay. Constance Crawford. I live in Cameron Park, and I am oh, I

have always been in love

with my brothers since childhood. So I was eager to kinda put together my new interest in Cameron Park and a little bit of the lucky person, and my long standing interest with my brothers. I also have a background in volunteering. I've been on several boards in the past. The Brown Act actually was kind of bringing me back. Like, oh, that's right. Thought about a little bit of that for a minute there. I also currently work in technology. That is my job doing kind of external communications and public speaking. So I do that from my home in Camden Park.

I'm very lucky to be able to bring all those things together. So I would be honored to be a part of this mission, but also understand there's probably very fierce competition in here at Park. We're a great place to work. It's a special place to live is what our science does.

So thank you very much.

Thank you. Actually, I'm Melody. I'm a resident at Cameron Park. I've been there for going on five years. I myself am a librarian in a different municipality. I've been in libraries for over a decade. I understand a lot of the challenges with budgeting, job compactions, bidding any of the RFPs, engagements, getting the surveys out, and making sure each pocket of the community is represented. I also have a background in, coalition building. I've worked with nonprofits in the past. Before that, I had a large like a lot of things.

But I was working in a key firm with their databases, and that's how I ended up in librarianship because I loved the access to information part. But I am probably more a public service oriented person at the end of the day. My spouse actually is the one that got me more engaged because he's in Rotary. So we're heavily involved in all the Rotary events. I'm not an official member, but I will attend with him.

And so Cameron Park Rotary is something that's I'm just always happy that he's out there, so we'll see what's going on with and whatnot. And I saw this opening last year, but my schedule would not allow attendance during the meeting dates at the time. And in the New Year, my schedule has changed. We probably made these now. So, I would be very happy to serve my own community, since I've been a public servant in other people's communities.

But I wanted to be civically involved in my own community and put my expertise here. I am strange in that I like public speaking. I've addressed council on a number of issues in other municipalities representing certain groups and organizations there. And I understand the core need to build coalitions with nonprofits and certain partnerships that you may have. So I'm very interested in what's going on with the museum. And, anyway, we'll see what happens. And either way, I'm still a library member and a cardholder, so I'll be seeing you on the camera.

Any questions there? No.

But I wanna encourage both of you to get involved with the Friends of the Library in Camden Park.

Yeah.

Okay. So there's no formal action being taken here, so we will move on to the library commissioner reports. Are there any committee reports?

The South Lake Tahoe Library is right next door to the new rec summer, which is a joint city and county project. We all know how well those work. And the rec center is supposed to be opening in mid April. I think April 18 is their grand opening. So the city is actually taking control mid February, start moving everything in and that kind of thing.

So, our librarian, Catherine, has been working with them now to try and establish, because we have to share the parking lot, which is not big, especially when you figure out the staff needs. Like, you we do kind of programming on alternate nights or, you know, can we arrange the programming such that the parking lot is not overwhelmed at, you know, these particular times? So programming and also working with them on things like snow, clearing the snow from the walkways. And, you know, if the walkways here are getting cleared, we need these cleared too and all that. So that's that's probably the big excitement up there.

February is lovely library month, so we're having a flash fiction contest. And we also have Rocky's reading challenge going. Flash fiction. The whole story is a 150 words or less. Yeah. It's gonna be written on the back of the playing card. So

I'm kind

of excited about that. I think I'm.

Sorry. Anything

Yeah. No. That's okay. And, like, the reading challenge and oh, we have book clubs every Wednesday now. So there's four book clubs that meet at the library, which is that's been a great thing. And both the reading challenge and the book clubs are using the StoryGraph as kind of their platform for the digital component of it. So And

TopUp has a a romance book club. So it's something that you you don't find. It's been very successful.

Yeah. I mean, we have mystery and true crime, the first Wednesday, romance, Wednesday. The third Wednesday is the legacy group, which does a lot of, it's more literary fiction and nonfiction. And then the fourth week is sci fi and fantasy. So right? We've had new people that have come in and really wanna get involved. So it's kind of exciting we have, like, especially with younger people. So There's

there's a lot going on there. Yeah. That parking situation for us. Okay. It's crazy. Yeah. Well, they George? I don't have. I don't either. I wasn't able to meet in this month. So I emailed the other George my notes, but he doesn't need to do that. Okay. Okay.

No report for surgery.

I guess I can mention that Alvaro Hills, they have a new monument sign. So it was late December, I think, it all came to be. Most great will last a very, very long time. Aurora Hills Friends of the Library and the Sprottleman's Book Club helped to make that happen. So that's fabulous.

But the previous sign, it was we have a car that has a clear coat coming off that resembled that. So this is very much improvement. And I guess, something from from Georgetown was heavy, heavy rains recently, and, sometimes water is an issue. It gets a little too close to the to we're not having so close to the building.

It ran

right into the front door.

Some sandbags that we put out there during certain times, and everything was just fine. The water got in there, but we sure did have some heavy rains. So buildings just fine.

And camera part would be security cameras, or would it be other security cameras? I don't know. But probably got some on there. Pablo got some on there.

No. Camera Park, yeah, it's a really grand funded project for exterior cameras. I think a camera park.

I think there's three total,

and that was done in two phases. I don't know why. Let's see. I think maybe

two weeks ago, the project completely finalized. So everything's been

installed. It's been about three years in the works with that product. Okay.

If there is no further business, move to adjourn the meeting until I don't know. Should I adjourn the meeting?

Don't know. You should be seated.

Bye. Okay. Yeah. Right. Sorry. And then next meeting will be April 16 Right. At three. So this guy stopped, so they won't record what you're all gonna

say.