Library Commission - Regular Meeting

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With regard to new business, we have

guests today, so I'm gonna make a motion to change the agenda a bit. I would like to move to, move item d, update on libraries and immigration issues in front of item a.

I move that we move

item d in front of item a.

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on the floor. Is there a second?

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Thank you, Commissioner D. Miguel. Any discussions? No. I've called the question. All in favor of removing item d and from item a,

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The agenda has to be as amended. Is there a second? I'll second that. Thank you, commissioner Porter. Any discussion?

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Thank you. We will begin with our guests.

So Yes, please. Good. So we have with us today our city attorney, Michael Lawson, deputy city attorney, Salita Walz. Is that correct? Yes. He is the attorney. Yes. Yeah. Okay. So just I did send out before we go in that.

I just want to mention briefly. I sent out some information to you as you all know with our Jason. With our change with our new president and some. Lot of questions about these issues. And in 2017, also, when president Trump was in power, we had similar situations.

A lot of the local policy states and local policies sort of seem to run contrary to what is happening and what the direction we get from the federal government. So this is some different agencies or special agencies that collect information about the public in a difficult situation. In 2017, the the California attorney general's office put out guidelines on how to respond if we get requests for information and the cases involving integration issues. And we have updated that information now and resent it out to us. So I did send it out to you.

It's called promoting safe and secure guidelines for all. And just to give you a little background on this, this is also they've sent out directions to schools, to colleges, various similar routes about a similar situation. And we already, in the library, had very strict privacy and confidentiality laws, which have nothing to do with integration. It certainly has to do with how we protect information. So a lot of what you said does fit in exactly with what we do.

But in addition to that, the city for this Sanctuary City. On June 2017, the city council passed a resolution declaring us Sanctuary City, and so that also has certain good protections. And so with that, I'm just gonna turn it over to our attorneys to if you have something to add, or we can do it in the discussion.

Let me start by introducing myself. Michael Lawson, city attorney. I'm joined with by Sandita Waltz, who actually serves as the legal counsel to the library, and she's the a team. I'm the b team. No. No. I'm just. So I'm just gonna let me just make a few opening comments. Unfortunately, the federal government is not our friend. I'm very involved in the city attorney's activities around the state.

I attended a session last week of new mayors and council members in Sacramento, like, 400 officials. This is a Northern California session. There's a similar session in Southern California later this week. What are the issues that I'm hearing? Immigration, birthright citizenship, gender identification issues.

Then over the weekend, I think about 12 inspectors general were fired. They serve as the independent watchdogs of various federal agencies. They are appointed by Congress. It's unclear as to whether the president had that authority, but all three branches of government are no longer independent here. So more to the point this morning, federal ICE immigration customs enforcement officers conducted a raid at a Home Depot type facility in San Jose.

And as I understand that they did not necessarily give notice to the Santa Clara Police Department, which is typically just typically been their practice. It is possible that those kinds of raids can take place here. The mayor and city manager and police chief and Hayward have been collaborating on Ben and O sessions. They've developed, really clear communications messages that are going out to the public, to the school district, to the sheriff, to nonprofit community based agencies with the idea of making sure that we have clear and accurate information, up to date information to the extent possible. And I believe that the mayor will be making a very clear statement tomorrow night at the council meeting, so you might wanna listen in.

I'm not sure what point in the meeting that that will occur, but the messaging will be real clear and will support and align with the city's sanctuary city declaration from 2017. And nothing has changed in that regard. And I believe that, the library director has shared the attorney general's messaging for libraries. I have a copy. I have one copy in case you don't have that.

As well as the city's, administrative regulation. I also have that with me. So just with that introduction, you know, let me just, back up and allow Sangeetha to make additional comments specifically to the library. And please note, we actually have had not on immigration issues, but we've had FBI agents come to the library wanting information about patrons. That was about two years ago.

Very interesting experience in dealing with a federal investigative agency coming to a library. So it happens. They come without warrants, and we push back. So that's one thing that really stands out about federal investigative agencies even when there was a fairly sympathetic federal administration. Okay? I don't think there are any rules anymore, quite frankly, and I don't think anything is predictable anymore. So

I don't I don't know what to add to that, to be honest with you. I I think that often we know what you know, like, the beta news changes rapidly. I you know, I think there's been discussions about whether we want to do sort of an internal policy, you know, that that's different what we already have. But it you know, I think to sort of highlight my goal and JC's point, we didn't have procedures now. We have policies now.

We had a conversation just last week with, you know, PD sort of Hayward Police Department. The fact the police chief highlighted for us what their current practice is when, you know, when and if there is a raid, as as Michael mentioned, we should check we should be getting notified. They they are not, required to assist, just as library employees are not required to proactively assist. If if an ICE agent walks through the door, we can't we can't hinder their their front like, you know, we can't hinder them, but we can't we don't we don't have to assist. We can, and I would say, you know, in most cases, if they have a document and we you know, you, staff will have the opportunity to say we need to speak to someone.

We need to speak to an administrator. We need to speak, like, legal counsel. And and I think, really, what what this is gonna depend on is is everyone having sort of stay calm in crisis. Right? These may seem like sort of crazy times and but, you know, I think at the end of the day, we'll, you know, we'll rely on on staff to to stay calm and say, look. We need to we need to look at this further. We, you know, need to we need to pass the bond to put someone above us. We need to to seek legal counsel. And there is room for that in in state law. There was room for that in our, you know, in our existing policies.

And and I think I don't know. Beyond that, I'm I'm not sure what else to add.

I'd like

Sandipa to share how library staff are being trained. What can you share with the commission and with us about I think we can with you. I'm sorry.

Yeah. If I don't know. Yeah. So thank you. Thank thank you for that.

So we do have very strict policies in place because, again, as I said, California has very strict laws about confidentiality and privacy. So every staff member who comes in gets trained in this, and I actually orient every staff member myself. But we do talk about this. Any request for private information about the about about a patron, what they're doing in the library, what they're reading, any of their address, any of that information, we do not give out. The only time any information is given out is when we have a legal court order or subpoena.

And this applies to ICE agents also because ICE agents typically will come with what they call administrative and advance order, and that is not a court order and not a subpoena. So that you know, the only person who is authorized to give out information about patrons, that is myself. So they all know any request that comes has to be referred to them without out of them reacting to. And when when we get that, our policy is always to go to the security and its office. And I will tell you, I have dealt with this from the time of the terrorist, you know, when the and the Patriot Act was passed.

It is a very similar situation already. So I feel to dealt with this over the years. Like, we resolved, like, we expect this. Know, me take this call to get talk to the library director. Also, if ICE agents are not allowed any public service, they're not allowed into the areas that are not

I'm sorry. That's.

We don't need information on in person status.

So all we may possibly have is an address. Right? Correct. So you only need the address for establishing residency for purposes of the library part. Right? Correct. Why do you need to retain the address? We do need to retain the address just in our records because people do come. We come communicate with the patrons all the time. We send them emails.

We send them so we do need that information. But, generally, the email Right now. Email or phone number, I'm thinking. So why do we even why do we even need to retain addresses for these by ICE agents? Can't we just establish residency for purpose of library card, have a phone number or a text on file, because that's how I've only been communicated with by email, not even by phone.

So is there really a need to keep that information for future possibly used by us. It's a it's a very good point. We do not all of our patrons have email or could communicate through electronic means, but we do oh, pardon me. Yeah. But we are just but it is something it's a good point. We could see if there's some way for us to to do with that. But I we can look into it, but we do use addresses. We do use. And, also, part of our whole the way California libraries are done is we do we have to be a California library resident Yeah. To get a free IP card in California.

So that's part of we go through the process. We do regularly update that information check, but it's a good point. I can take it back and see if that is if that is an option for us.

Can we communicate bands to the library? Like, for example, if someone is banned from you, is that

the sort of information you

might communicate over with the full address?

Or Yeah. We always would use that. Yeah. For all well, that's a very good point. For all legal purposes, we would need the address. At least for now, I don't know. I'd have to look into It's I think we can just say it's. Question for. I can't imagine what ICE would want to do with letter records except finding addresses. Is there something else that you anticipate an ice warrant or ice and peanut might be requesting from the vet?

Certainly, one of the warrant. Yeah. But what do

they see what do they see? What do you anticipate the language will be? You Do have an idea along that line? How would you capture lives? Experience

so, one, it's our understanding, and it's only an understanding from what we read, is that ICE is for example, ICE conducted a raid in Kern County last week at a, like, an agricultural like, a dormitory where ag workers work. And Kern County is probably pretty sympathetic to law enforcement advice. Mhmm. So I don't think they have a problem finding the facility. What we're told is that ICE has specific criminal targets presumably based on investigative material that's been compiled.

So they have names, and that's what we're told. Our experience with the FBI, the library, a couple of years ago Mhmm. They were looking for a specific user. They had a name. And, apparently, they had information that the patron was using computers for access, Internet access. They did not have a warrant. And so even though they had some suspicion with the name, they didn't have a warrant including probable cause. So they were not allowed to have that information. So I think we would have the same protocol for I showing up asking for specific library users. We want a warrant.

We want a declaration of probable cause. Whether or not they have specific specific criminal investigation, I think at a minimum, we would want that kind of order and justification.

Know, that's probably what they're looking for.

They'll have some computers that they know. Yeah.

I mean, just we are being, I think, reasonable using our past experience, but I think we're gonna have some challenges. You know, I think we're gonna be dealing with some new protocols, and we're gonna just have to be thinking strategically, going forward. Now there is litigation that's been filed. There's been class action litigation filed, by a number of federal, state attorneys general to enforce, you know, state law on immigration policy. I don't know how federal judges are gonna handle this kind of litigation, but that may be the only protection we have, at least in the short term.

I would support Genti's real common sense direction to the library staff, and that is be disciplined, be cool, be thoughtful, and don't back down. We're not gonna get arrested. Library staff will

not get

arrested for, just expressing library policy. Those agents will leave, and they'll go away. They might get loud. They might get threatening, but they don't have any authority to arrest any any city staff. So I very much support what we're trying to do really at the counter level, if you will. But there are gonna be a lot of unknowns with this going forward. A lot of unknowns. It's already started in a week and a half into the, you know, the administration. They don't have any they don't have any progress. But I really appreciate your point.

That's less helpful as we can. If they get the records, the records can very good use for them if all they got is the phone number and email. You know? And if there's 20 people by the name of Jose Gonzalez, who could they gonna be? So I'm just trying to think he'll make it more vague just in anticipation of the fact that, you know, you might get a federal law a law passed.

Well, you know sort of up ends everything.

Email addresses or phone numbers, like cell phone numbers or even landline numbers. You know, they probably have to go to Verizon or AT and T or, you know, Xfinity to actually get the names, addresses, and more detailed information. We don't have So but, you know, they'll probably do that if they

actually want that person. But it's another stumbling block. Makes it a little more difficult. Or have a question. Yeah.

I was wondering just from the conference point of view. So first of all, I guess if there's likely policy, it will not trump state law. Right? So so I guess the staff will know I mean, they understand we have policy. You have I mean, if, for example, whoever's coming in is citing a lawful requirement, then, of course, we comply. Like, they have a warranty compliant procedure.

But dietary policy sorry. Dietary policy is based on state law. We haven't made it up. So we cite exactly what laws they are. So we all our privacy confidentiality is all based on state law. We

examine warrants. We examine subpoenas. Those are come over to our come over to our office right away. So anything that says, you know, warrant for, you know, customer x, there has to be a detailed declaration behind that. Our office is gonna look at that closely. So just handing it to a staff person is just not gonna work. So the I

I couldn't stop with the task for reasonable time to, you know, get legal

You can do additional training in 2017 in response.

So I was not here. I was in Montgomery County, but we did. And all did. We all it's very much, you know, something that all IPs are dealing within California. Yeah. But we don't over here have a policy based on that. But, you know, what the attorney general is asking us to do is make sure we have a new policy so we won't call that. Yeah. We just have our regular privacy issues.

No. I've not read at least so far about libraries being targeted. This morning, it was like a Home Depot, type facility, having agricultural facilities, dorms, things of that nature. But churches and schools are not safe spaces. Libraries are probably not gonna be safe spaces. Mhmm.

And I'm not going to guess 100% on warrant, okay, to do what the law says. I'm just thinking to you, like, what 2017 was about. I reported somebody who lives in Hayward to the FBI, and or I said they needed to be reported repeatedly because they said they wanted to be at January 6 and were threatening to kill me. So we might be seeing things like terrorists are using the library to harass people. So that might be the other side of it. You know, trying not to get traced and going through the library because we're gonna have a lot of terrorists released, and there are some in the area.

Yeah. I think about 1,500.

Yeah. Well, there were a lot that weren't caught. There are

a lot who were not caught. That's correct. Okay.

And there might be people it's like, you wanna go after the other, you know, you've got some. I don't know. I'm just you know, that would be nice, actually.

I think that's a different issue than. Well, I gotta be saying.

But it would be the same policy. You know? You have a warrant. You don't come.

These are some really, really good questions. Really, really appreciate your thoughtful support of library, library staff. I think we wanna be, rational, disciplined, but also nimble and flexible. There are a lot of lawyers, around the state, public lawyers, private lawyers who are who who really understand the urgency of the moment. There are a lot of, at least in my profession, a lot of online forms trying to give us as much information that is accurate.

But it's sort of like a moment by moment kind of a deal. Right? So I think Sandeep and I are really up to date. We're communicating with the city manager, the mayor, the police chief. And they are, by the way, having daily meetings just to sort of understand what's happening at least at the city level in order to adjust communications and strategies. There's a lot going on locally, statewide, in response to what's happening generally.

I don't. Don't know. The last word on this.

I was just gonna say because there's so much chatter online about ICE agents being spotted around town, and I wonder if some of it is just fearmongering people just trying to rile people up. And so I know the city then is you know, the the chief tries to sort of dispel those rumors when he can, you know, confirm it. And I you know, I'm glad that everybody's responding so quickly and trying to get the word out that this you know, there was one Southland Mall. I said that Southland Mall, that wasn't true. And so I think, yeah, people are purposely fair at this point.

I do have one question about this, though.

So if somebody was a patron in the library and, say, ICE came in and tried to sort of question somebody, you know, and they were able to get this card, that doesn't stop ICE from potentially detaining them. Right? They could still detain them if

they had some suspicion.

They're just not giving them any extra information to is that right?

Yeah. ICE will continue to. We can't hinder if they're here to depict someone. If they're here, like, we can't hinder them in any way. We don't have an obligation to assist or provide information. Mhmm. But but, yes, they can go about their work as long as it's in a public space. So we can't and we mentioned we can't you know, they can't be in, you know, private spaces, employee building spaces. But, yeah, you're right. If they're here detaining someone and that's something that we should just allow them to do, unfortunately. Is

there a warrant? Could they go on the apartment's fences? If they had a warrant, we would take it to the school attorney to make sure it is

But then they could. Is that a warrant?

Depending on, you know, we would review it and if it seemed legitimate and yeah. They make you

Perfect. Then

And I would distinguish, an arrest warrant with search warrant. Search warrant would have to specify, you know, specific areas. It's a private area. The warrant would have to specify that. There would have to be a declaration around that. But, Katie, can you sort of explain the the red cards?

Red cards, these are cards that you can hand to a NICE agent if they're coming into your house or coming onto your private space, and it basically talks about your constitutional right to protect, do not allow other people to talk to your into your home. And it basically says, I have to write to a lawyer, and you can't come into my house. So that and so we actually do have one of the things that I'll just say part of this is part of what we do as the primary we are one of by a lot of them are more trusted government agencies. Most people are very comfortable over here. We do a lot of citizenship programs.

We do bilingual you know, we do literacy programs. We've had a lot of programs where some and we don't ask. I do. Do I have to have you documented with legal people in this country? So we do have this. A lot of people in who are asking for our services, so we've made these available. Or and this, again, twenty seventeen, this is what we all libraries all libraries were doing. We're doing this now also. But I just want to say one of the big fears that are going on, they do come to us for information, whether they're looking for a lawyer. There is a lot of fraudulent services that become available where people will say that I am an immigration lawyer, and they aren't an immigration lawyer.

They are they are trapped into and then are reported. So there is a lot of fear between more reliable sources. It is a very difficult time, I would say, the public. It is very stressful for the staff also when they're dealing with questions like that all the time, and people really don't know what's happening at personal lives. So it's been a very, very tough time. That's one of the things. We're just trying to make these available. You don't have to go and ask us for it. It's just time out there for you to do.

The city website has resources available too, and I can read those reviews on Google. So if that's something that the public wants to know more about, you know, that's all should be information on the city websites.

So let me just say, and I mean this in a good way. The library is our most fun fun. The library gives us questions that I've never seen before. It's just an international center. I mean, everybody comes to the library, young, old. Just there's just an amazing array of questions and challenges that come from the library. And you all are just a great client, and I mean that in the best way possible. I think we just love I mean, you might think that the police department might be the busiest one, and it's not. It's the library. Would you agree?

I don't know. I don't know about that.

This is the time when I bring our mid year budget review to show you where we are and how we are how we're positioned. So maybe just for the next. Sorry. One second. Okay.

It was it was the additional documents emailed from director Abbott. It's not

the first one, but the second. It's not that's not progressing. Yeah. Oh,

yes.

Yeah. We'll just scroll like this.

It's not going into presentation mode.

Okay. So just go to the next screen. No. More. It's not moving. Oh, it's not going on there?

Well, it's on there. The first slide is there.

If you just didn't encode it. No? I I can't. Well, as as we're getting this, I can just tell you. So we are right on target the way they're doing, we should be you know, we are right where we should be.

It's one of the only areas where we look like we have spent more than we should have is in salaries, and we are at about 67% of what we above our salaries at this time. And the reason okay. Okay. Got it. Okay.

There you go. Alright. So that's just an overview of what we how we get our money. We depend on the general fund, but I'll tell you one of the things we have done really well this year is we have actually almost well, over 20% of our budget is through grants and donations. We've purely done an exceptional job raising money because the general fund doesn't give us very much funding.

And so that's what our it looks like. Most of our money comes from the general fund. We get some from grants and donations. We have some, which is still continuing from the Americans, the ARPA funding, which was the American Rescue Plan. And that was that was during the pandemic, and so we have to spend that by 2026. So we will give it some time, but we still have some money back from from that. That. The next screen. Okay. So this shows you how we spend our money.

Majority of our our money goes towards salaries and benefits. Internal service charges are things like our IT and our cleaning, you know, things like that, facility maintenance, all of that. So you can see we have very little what we call discretionary funds. There's a little bit for supplies and services, and that's really what we where we have some discretion and for other nations and events. And this is our expense categories.

We you can just go to the next one. And ARPA expenses, we've spent that. That has been largely for tech lending library is what we've used it for. Some of it is for our lease branch renovation. So this is where we are.

I was just saying. So in salaries and benefits, a we're little bit higher than we want to be, which is at 67%. But the only reason for that is because of the the negotiated cost of living increases for our for all of the different union groups. And those that's why it looks like we're at 67%, but the city will adjust it because the when we made our budget, we made it based on the previous pre COLA salaries, but now there have been increases. And so it looks like they'll put a little bit higher than we should be, but we're actually right on target.

And that should be by March, that should be fixed. So next. This is our materials budget. It just I'm just showing you that we're really right on target for everything where we should be. We thank you for getting us the extra money for the for our materials last year. If you remember, you all advocated for us. And so but we're doing really well, and we are, again, right on target.

This is

next screen or chart. Okay. And the reason I just showed that you can't really see it very well, but we are for the first time in I don't know how many years, all our positions are filled. We have no. I do. That's good. I'm really, really proud of that. That's that's been amazing. Those of

us who've been around a long time ago.

And and you know what that means. I forgot the agency for us to be in a situation, but I feel really proud of that. So no one better quit or get an

Yeah. Exactly. And

so, again, we are fully just fully staffed, fully filled all positions, and no new positions. So we, at this point, we're not expecting to have anything, ask for anything, not even the next budget. So with your requests with your requests have to be, you know, very specific. They have to be needs based and defensible, so it has to be something really, really, like, critical in that way. We are not as I said, we've actually we are fully staffed for the first time in a very long time, so we are not making any requests.

Can. Okay. And with that, do you have any questions? First off, the Sorry.

Yes. You perceive that the revenue for the the grant is gonna stay the same next year? Does it

It will be it will be lower. So we actually for example, we have close to $800,000 in there for the Weeks branch renovation. Okay. So it will definitely be best next year because that was a onetime grant. But a lot of the other things, you know, tend to be I I'd say we think close to what we have done in previous years since the.

Mhmm. Do you foresee that being or how is that being a large problem? Having less amount of money.

No. It will be okay because this was a specific brand for a specific project once that project is done. So the vibe we are really good about, we don't get a lot of the extra money from the city. So we try to make sure we find sources. So for example, both of our bookings were big big expenses, and for both of them, we went and found a donor, and we went and found.

So we will try to do that, but we've been lacking so far. Commissioner Ford has a question. To staff center that just got underway in terms of being built, would you anticipate that would be built? And do yours will your staff have a have a role in a particular part of that statin? Yeah. So I did actually give up. I did I know I gave a good update on that last time. Let me see if I can find my sheet. But we will be in phase two. Our right now, we're in phase one.

Phase two starts next year, and we have our satellite branch in the back. So we hope by 2027 to have our satellite branch over there. Okay. You'll you'll have additional staff designated for that branch. Oh, we have no additional staff. What we would do is it's not gonna be a big branch. It is a satellite, as I say, a satellite branch. So right now, the way we're planning it is to have some, you know, staff sort of circulating in there. It is something we might depending on how big it is, how busy it is, we might have to go to the city doctor for additional staffing, but it was not. Okay.

I'll just. Okay. We yeah. We'll be at the next one. Professional development type of the library. Like, for the librarians who wish to attend my conferences, that's all included. It's sweet, take it out to a bar of supplies and services, that's where we do everything. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that the friends part is sort of our brand.

Okay. So we accept donations. Living within our needs. And and doing a good job. Testing director. Annual report and stats, please. Alright. So I am very excited. I sent out a new I'm sorry. The plus one had some.

So I was thinking I found out what I sent it So out. We changed it up a little bit from the previous year. So one of the things you have been asked me when we sent out, we this is what we shared with the public, and so we really it's very simple, but you're gonna ask me to count because I don't compare it with previous years. And so I just want to tell you, give you some of these amazing numbers. So last year, our total cards, we had a hundred and fifty two hundred two thousand and ninety nine cards.

Our number of cards now is a 189,301. That's a 24% increase. I just also want to say K word's population is a 160. Now you say how We have a 189. So that just shows you how popular our library is.

It's pretty standard. If you have about 80 of your population in cards the number of cards is 80% of your population that's considered 35, you can see we are well. But one of the things and which we are continuing to work on right now, we have we I looked at the number of A world residents that actually have cards, and so that's a 108,552. So about 57% of percent of the cards we have are Hayward residents. The rest staff, we will complain about the area.

But, also, you need to be aware, Hayward residents also have cards in outside areas. So it's not often a certain level of payment pay, but we'd like to work a little hardcore on getting more Hayward residents to have cards. So that's sort of the same as an area of growth for us. New cards, we've had 15,000 over or close to 16,000 people get new cards this year. So looking at this checkout of materials, it's it just keeps going far.

We have programs. We've seen a huge, huge, huge increase in programs for our for our system. Last year, we had 481 adult programs for the whole year. This year, we had over 1,500 over 1,500 more program. We one of the things we do notice is our neighborhood residents really love our programs.

And it is given the type of cognition it is what you would expect. We are largely working class working sort of working community. We have a lot of middle class, you know, residents. So it makes a lot of sense, a lot of new immigrants, people who don't always speak or read English perfectly. So I think we've been very successful in that area, and we're continuing to go.

So the number of people that attended our programs last year was 18,477. This year, it was 32,281. That's a 75 increase in program attendance. Gurubi, also visitors went up by 25%. It's just really, know, just totally amazing.

The one area where we actually saw a drop is in the checkout of physical books and and DVDs. So it was at 371,613 last year. This year, it was 339,000, so it was a drop of about 8.5%. However, digital, check out audio, clean, and things like that went from 84,300 to 117,000. That's a huge.

That's that's. So overall, you've had had an increase, but it's not so much. So, yeah, I think that's sort of, you know, what I wanted to just really bring your attention to. We also put down our social media following because that is something you have been very interested in how we reach out, how we communicate with the public. And so I just wanted to put that information down here showing you how many followers we have.

Many of you have seen the success we've been having with our social media, but that's something that you'll get we're trying very hard to make sure that's no doubt. So stuff. So we get, you know, getting close to a thousand people daily. And this is, I hope, But it's most of it has been downtown in. No. Okay.

So, Janti, do we have the substats on how many of the guards are actually active, like, actively used?

Because, actually, all cards are pretty much active because we do remove cards on a regular basis.

Okay. I'm having to ask, you know, cards against which some checkout or some action is taken by the patient. Do you have stats for that?

Yeah. That's what it says. So we annually do regularly every six months, we bleed out. Yeah. So if there's something is, like, competitors, if if they have to abuse it at least once during the year, yeah, so that's how we do it. If they kick you out, I found out the. Think we have to make my car. Yes. So it depends. Yeah. At least it depends. I And mean then

the other limit question, the $15.30 at other programs, that's, like, in greater than, you know, one day. Right? Hopefully. Yeah. So so what's another program?

I didn't join. It's so new.

So if you look at our events calendar, we have one of the highest rate of daily programming. So you will see in in, like, each of rooms are really hard to go. So it might have, say, an citizenship program. Then we have yoga. Then we have something. So the rooms are just booked nonstop, and it's and then we also do some outreach programs. But, yeah, we have a lot of programs that we go on. And so there'll be something like there'll be a digital class going on. And then so if we just count all of them, it's fairly high. Yes. Tell us about the Yes. Where do

we now like, you know, you get talking about the collection, you had given that statistic about how we were one of the lowest. You know, where are we still like, where are we now in that statistic?

We are still low. And what is it?

You just just might be.

So I don't have the exact numbers with me now, but we are we're moving up a little bit, but we we are not anywhere near even near the median. Okay. We're just slowly we would need to have almost double up with budget in order to get to Can

you tell what tells what what that statistic what is it gauge?

So that gauge is the per capita spending. That's what we looked at. Right. And, obviously, I would like, for example, San Francisco Public Library has a has a good collection development policy of over over 4 and a half million dollars. Mhmm.

We are at half $1,000,000. Mhmm. So I'm not gonna compare directly. They have a much larger population, is compared for catheter spending on all the. Is that updated annually? Yes. And you will have those I will. Yes. Probably at the end of the year. Or Yes.

So just before when we're getting ready, like, towards the end of the year, I go through. Because right now, we just sent all our statistics, and it usually takes them two to three months to get it all assembled. So by about April, I should have this. Absolutely.

Yeah. I mean, I just think it's a really good service reminder every time we're talking about budget.

Like, you look at, you know,

The one with customer question, you know, Jenny, if we had some stats around what is the impact of the because we don't have as big a physical correction, it may turn out that, you know, people come in to check a book and say it's already checked out. Right? So what if you can convert that to some stats that become actionable for, say, the council, because it's showing back on the community. Right? That might be a useful thing that's too, perhaps.

It it yes. It is a really it's a very difficult statistic for us to gather. We can do things like what's the average weighted period and things like that. But be because we sort of some of our some of our collections we share with neighboring libraries, so that sort of benefits us. Like, for example, they be overdrive. We are sharing. So sometimes it impacts us negatively. Sometimes it impacts us positively. It's a I think this is a number we really try to work on. It's a very difficult number.

In fact, San Francisco just came out with something based on that because they have sent you a collection without a budget. A lot of people try to lose their library. A lot of people, we try to borrow their books, and they overdrive. They try to make sure that they are people who beat the hard person in queue. It's a hard thing to do. What happens is if we buy an overdrive book, then our staff get, like, I mean, our patrons get popped up in the queue. But we might add one copy. San Francisco will add 10 copies. So it's it's a really difficult number for us to really retry very hard, but I will

It will be brainstorming on what that you know, what those metrics might be, then, you know, I think it'll make it make it as much my a much stronger.

I I completely agree with you, and I will try to put some good numbers together this time. Do the Zipit numbers help? The Zipbooks? Zipit. Zipit?

Those were so I'm just turning the book.

Remember you told us the Yeah. Yeah. That's Zipbooks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They do. Definitely. So I keep an an understanding.

So for those of you who weren't at that meeting, ZipBooks are when the library doesn't have a book that you want, you can request it through ZipBooks, and they will buy it and send it to your house. And so I did this. I learned this at the commission meeting, and I did this, and I got it into my house, and I just returned it a little late, maybe two months.

But I have to sleep very long. Know?

I did return it to

a live prayer today. And, yeah, it was pretty cool. Yeah. And and, you know, so similar to that, you know, we have, for example, where we borrow. It's the one people in. Yeah. We see whether we're a net borrower or a net lender. Things like that really help us move up. It's that's it. Commissioner? Yeah. I am trying to use that borrowing, the interlibrary borrowing. Mhmm. And I think as a justification for why we should have more books in house, There is currently no way when I can go to book on your website. If I ask for a book, I never get noticed that the book is in.

I know it's not physically. I never got a saying that the book was in. I didn't got the name of the book. You have a book waiting for me. No. We don't. Well, can you tell me if it's hanging in a past? They sent me an email. It went to my trash. No. I can't. Can you track my request? No. I can't. So I think a lot of books, and I've had this experience a number of times, a lot of

folks have are requesting. And he says, well,

if they don't send it to us or when we make the request and they don't pull it, it's not there, then it just gets lost in the shuffle. So I think that another justification for people may use attempt to use this lending, interlibrary lending system. But for me, probably that one book that I requested through, and I probably request to have a dozen. So either you know, when you send an email, generally goes to trash.

So people aren't thinking about looking

in their trash. They don't find out. And I was gonna suggest a better way to notify them maybe by text. Your book is in. That doesn't go to trash. That goes to Robert. But I I don't know if there's no way to track what happened to my request. Same here. There could be lots of reasons why it's not there or they never got it. They don't know. So to me, that's just But that doesn't change. I'm not I'm not sure. Like, you're saying if you don't get a book, you're not getting notified. But when you get a book, you do get notified. Correct.

Like I said, five out

of six times, I never got a book for a notification, so I don't know. But I did get a notification on one book. So the staff apparently had no way to track what happened to that request. We put in the request. This is the way

it was explained to me

for the booking pass for that is in one of our lending in our lending community. We don't know if they're okay. I will check on this one. We don't know if somebody called you or somebody sent you an email. We can't tell you what happened with that request. So, yeah, we did it. It I don't know if it came in or not. So and I don't know either because I never got the dose. So I think that that's something that I've worked on because that makes sense. It doesn't make sense.

It's extremely unusual for a migraine to do something like Okay. Okay. Anything else about animal important status? Well, just just one

quick thing. This is really good. On the collections, think I mean, it's not just physical books. Right? Because we know from the statistic that physical items are going down. So this collection of the per capita has to do with all the items that are digital and everything. Yes.

Thank you, everyone. Director, I'm gonna move the volunteer. Okay. So just very quickly, you know, you'll have asked me. So every I try to do this annually, bring you a list of current volunteer opportunities in the library.

If they are there, just if you have any questions. But, otherwise, really to be aware that we do have our website. And on the website, if you click on the get involved button, it always has our opportunities. We have opportunities for for young people, for the teams, and we definitely know that friends of the library really do need volunteers. We would love it if you would invite your friends, family, children, parents, everyone.

Okay. If you don't have any questions? K. Well, thank you. That was good. Thank you, director. I want you to take a breather. Is there any old business from the letter writing committee? No. Alright. Is there any old business from the local committee? Nothing bad. So we're just waiting our we're just waiting the finalization of welcome packet in physical form. And then there's a form that you all have ready for. The welcome packet.

Yes. I should get yeah. I will. And that is still subject to Yes. Right. Right. So there is a section in it. We still have the best best practices that was but that would be replaced once the committee Yeah. I'll give a quick update on that one. Been. CSU, East

Bay Shipville Partnership Committee, that really is now in the director's hands with the some work on MO potential MOUs, excuse

me, those two campuses. So we will meet the director whenever there's an update there. Budget support committee.

And I met just

to talk about that. We just had a budget update, so there's really not much there.

Community outreach.

Thank

you, Commissioner Porter. Any recommendations from commissioners?

With the recommendation section. Think

it's.

So

that would come in probably

the directive report. The recommendation section is where we make directions recommendations to the commission. So, for example, I've been seeing many people on social media posting that one of the most disruptive government agencies is the library. So I've

been seeing people posting what? I'm gonna finish my sentence. Disruptive in that it serves the public,

meaning it provides banned books. It provides all these services we've been talking about. So people have been posting. Please encourage your neighbor to get their library. So recommendation I'm making is to support the library and recommending your neighbors to get their library card and to think about hosting. April is, what, the youth celebration of library staff week?

In April? Oh, the bad books week.

And bad books week is coming up, so I wanna think about what can we

do to support our library during bad books week. Yeah. That's the one that's Yeah. I'll send out pretty much. Yes. So let's think about that so we

can maybe put something together in our next commission meeting so we don't get, like, caught flat footed. And I've heard more the since the library wants to make sure neighborhood residents have library parks,

this is a chance that we can ask commissioners. I know I'm supposed

to go look. I'm always posting goofy stuff on my social media, like, from your neighbor. Friend, the neighbor of the library commissioner, sign up for your library card. This is this week's banned book. I'm always posting goofy stuff, so that's something we

could do together. You could have banned book group. Like, you just posted the you know, where the the then the group talk about books.

Really? I have it. There's some

It's on real love. Okay. It's like some real good, like, classics.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. So you're like, why is that band? And you're like, no.

National Library Workers Day is in April. Yeah. And so I do wanna think about how do we

celebrate our library staff. That's the one all

of this stuff. It's January, so we have some time to plan. So that is I wanna put that on the table. It can be just something simple as coming together on a after our next meeting and writing some cards to them.

Right? I love that idea. So so go on the agenda agenda building item? Or It's a recommendation. A recommendation for discussion. Right? Yes. For discussion. So so we'll discuss. You know? You can say yes. I think That's okay. We should discuss it. I think we should put it on our next. Yes.

So we move that we would like to

do something for our for our National Library's Workers Day, which is in April. So

Oh, yeah. No. I I was just gonna ask. So we're going to put this on the agenda? Yes. Okay. That's all we're doing for next day. You need to vote. You need to vote? Yes. Discussion? If all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Right. So I'll put this

on the agenda for next meeting to have a discussion on what we're

gonna actually do. Thank you. Any other recommendations? Ban I was looking at when banned books week is. It's October. October is I think we should have

a monthly banned book thing for the next four years,

I think. It's probably more because I could

It's gonna be worth it. I've read most of them. It'll get weird on top of

me right now. Fair. But what's then what we can actually achieve? K.

I think I'm doing a book a month. Sounds great. To do okay.

Just What is your recommendation, Commissioner Purcell?

I don't know. Let's all do a book for you to listen to. Where? And it's well, everybody read their own book, and I don't know. Read

together in the library. Like,

is your recommendation to No. Okay. Thank you. You have a motion to put ban on the agenda to discuss her. Thank you. Is there any discussion? No? All those in favor, please say aye.

No. And your toes? No. Thank you. Are there any other rest of the Okay.

During your hour, did you get a break? I do. Okay. Ready to record? Yes.

Okay. So I I do want to say it's been somewhat a short period because we were closed for two two weeks and then with the holidays and all of that. But the big news is that we have our new city manager. So, you know, be back, though. We're really busy.

Again, we had our New York celebration last Saturday. It was amazing as always. You know, I think that's such a big crowd. It's just really fun. Thank you for you know, with commissioner Dozier, mister Navarro. You were both here, so thank you very much for that. We had a really good turnout. Yeah. And it's just lovely. And then apart from that, Leach's branch is is on track.

All of the repairs are on track. It is it is closed, of course, and the temporary fencing is going to go up. We were hoping we have the permanent fencing up first, but we need to sort of, what's it called, notice it so the public can have the thirty days to comment on the what is gonna look like. So that is gonna open on Friday for that. But meanwhile, we just have a change in fence to keep people out while we're doing repairs. And we're still still on track to be closed through the March. Might be a little more than that, but definitely till the March, we will be closed. Sac center, nothing new to report. We were just, you know, as I had said last time. And beyond that, I just want to say I'm going to be gone.

It will take three weeks in February. And Yeah. I it's a long time. Yeah. Yeah. But it actually it's yeah. I'm I'm going to my family for the reasons. So I'll be gone for three weeks. So next week next month, Vinci will be here in my place.

Really great event. Okay. Yes. So we have the swearing in of our our new STD manager, which is very exciting. So we're very hopeful for the new STD manager. Have you all, like, read a little bit about her? Yeah. She's a pretty amazing woman and has all these great bona fides, and I think really reflects our community. And so we're very excited about with Doctor. Anna.

Let's see. So things are coming up. You know, we also obviously had slow time. We didn't have our first meeting until I think it was last week from from the holiday breaks. So next week, we're gonna be we have a work session on the Capitol Corridor change. I don't if everyone's aware, but, you know, we're potentially gonna lose our training station and have it, like, normal. Right here. Here. Yeah. And I and I hope I really we really want people to come out

because I I did go to a meeting. Work. Interesting. Yeah.

Yeah. No. It's terrible. And and they just have this grand plan that they're gonna move the, you know, commuter train out to, like, you know, the Bay Edge, basically, and then built some new huge station in Ardenwood, but they're skip Hayward and Fremont now. It's gonna come yeah.

It's Beautiful news. And we're very excited about it.

You know? Because all of cities like New York, we've answered this call to build affordable housing along our transit corridors, and now they're gonna take away part of the transit there. So please come or send in your emails or whatever it is for that meeting next Tuesday because the director from that have a quarter committee, I don't know if they are will be here for this work session. Because, apparently, the mayor has been asking the current mayor and former mayor has asking them to come to Hayward and hear from from citizens here. So that's next too.

That's a big one. But said they were going to build a special new partner with worse than the next one down the line going to the East? So I think I think it's gonna be Oakland.

It'll just go Oakland down to Fremont.

That's absolutely cool. Right? So Yeah. I mean, it's

a part of the management. I just tried to mention

that this one drive.

It was literally on the NPR on when I was driving here, and they're saying No. As I was driving here,

they were saying that they are gonna

meet with Hayward about this and that they wanna do it because it's, like, some really expensive project, like, $600,000,000. Yes. To shorten the commute fifteen minutes.

Yeah. I mean, that's why people

are so so expensive. And it's

a real equity issue.

Like, they are not addressing the equity issue, like, taking the trade away from the very people that were trying to build close to the, know, you the Chex Farm and Stigler, I think, or you know?

So, yes, please come out for that. They're Well, it

was all in here, so that's a

good thing. They just been Yeah. Getting on and then Getting notice. Yeah.

Yeah. They they do the to save, like

you said, fifteen minutes.

And so

it'll send the great parts of me to come down the line. So, again, equity issues me.

Oh, and then Great parts

of our team. Right. Yes. Yeah. Sorry. I know. Don't remember. Okay. Anyway, that excited all about it because it's a really big deal. I have to pull one of those.

Okay. Right. Let's see. Thank you, sir. And then with also in February, I

think maybe February 8 of some of you

have probably seen the sewer rates are going up, and they will go up over the next few years. That's been a really big source of contention. There are very valid reasons for it. Think it's not in the city of China, but in my mind, we are simply causing the cost of a a really exorbitant huge project that everyone every jurisdiction that's on the bay has to sort of offer this new filtration system to not put nutrients into the bay. So it's for a very good cause, but we're talking it's like

a 400,000,000 project.

Like, that's our city budget. And so in order to to make this happen, we're you know, we have to pass the the rates on. So if you're interested in that one, I believe that's February 8, and so please pass the word next. There's a lot of very upset people. You'd be understandably you know, we didn't want this. Our staff has fought against it, but this is now the the new rule. And so, know, you stay aware of that, but if you're interested. And then, again, it looks in in February, we're also gonna be having our annual budget discussion. We start looking at our budget. You know, and and we have some work to

do to sort of, you know, bend down the ashes.

So that'll be interesting. Oh, and then, you know, one final thing just sort of public service announcement. You know, just based on the fires in Southern California, our fire department is, you know, asking everyone to please sign up for AC alert. You can find that, I believe, on the fire page or on the city page. And pass you know, and please pass the word on that to all of your neighbors because should there be a similar, you know, incident in New York, AC alert is

the number one place where you try to disseminate the information. That's all I have. Any other questions? There's people who have a question about the potential to address the status of the. Oh, sorry. Thank you.

I put that on my paper and

not on my notes. Thank you. Yes. So we did

the work for the Ad Hoc Committee. We gave our recommendations to try to, you know, normalize the you know, over overall the commissions what bylaws should

be and all of these things.

But we took a pause in order for Keypair with Planet Green to meet, and I believe they met last week because they're debating whether they wanna become a commission or stay a task force. And so we're not gonna meet now until I I

guess it should be the February if it's gone.

So that's the only pause there. So after

that, the recommendations will all go to

the full council for when we vote on it, Then we'll have a standard set of

Thank you. There was one recommendation that a chair can't serve more than one one year. Am I correct on that? Yeah. Yeah.

And, I am concerned with the library commission just in the sense that sometimes there are folks who it can be challenging to get folks who want to serve the chair. And I understand that there's a particular commission where there's some challenges, and there's a desire for more rotation of leadership. But I do have concern that to address an issue of one commission, every commission may be impacted. I just wanted to share that with you.

Yeah. And thank you for that. I mean, the idea is to generally sort of, you know, to, you know, come up with a general set of recommendations. But there was an out for that sort of like a if nobody else wants to serve with the current chair, you know like, during the pandemic on the planning commission, you know, we just found that

it there was there was a reason to

keep the continuity of the chair that was there. So there's it wasn't there there is an out sentence, basically, that says, you know, barring any other, you know, circumstances where nobody wants to serve, nobody steps up. So it isn't a hard and fast rule, and I I I'll look at that one again, but we did have discussions about it for I mean, partly, it was the sort of genuine reason that sometimes you have a chair that has a little bit more, you know, dominance over the commission, so nobody wants to challenge them. And so we were trying to find an opportunity. Like, the whole point is for all of us to join these commissions and find leadership opportunities. And so if, you know, that's taken away because you have a role dominant chair, then then that was sort of the balance of trying to find, you know, that. So, yeah, I I I hear you on that. My

other question was about not about AC alert, which my family's talked to me

that even an earthquake, they're gonna die.

But about where we get a half in, and there's there's discussion of getting rid of FEMA. Yeah. We have the Hayward Fault. There's a FEMA report called Haywire. Are we prepared, or what are we doing to think about protecting Hayward if there's no morphine?

That's a great question. You know, we had a minor discussion about this at the public safety committee meeting last week, but, I mean, Hayward Fire is pretty amazing and what they are doing you know, especially they're learning all these great things from the Palisades Fire and, like, how to distribute resources and have them ready. But as far as and because this is such an unknown about FEMA, they don't really have any answers to that yet. So I I

don't know. A council reread the Hayward report recently? Have they looked at it?

As counsel, we haven't. No. Yeah. Can they suggest that Yeah.

They pull that out? I will bring that. Yes. Thank you. Hayward is a our fault has not rolled in quite some time because Not in 1900.

So I you know, the a wire people who were created wasn't our fault. There is a there

is a national report on

the paper fault called a wire.

The question for.

Hearing none. Thank you so much. Friends of the public library, as our director mentioned, we really do like volunteers. Our book sales are doing really well, and it's how we fund so many things that support the library. So the bricks and all the things come from the friends. But we only are able to do book sales two weekends a month. We would really love to be able to do the other two weekends, but we need more volunteers to be able to do that. We have a lot of young people from the high schools that come. So if you don't know other young people who need community service hours or not even

young people, seasoned people people,

people, that would be great. We are getting ready to commence our big fundraising drive. So if you're

interested in supporting, I will

be the fundraising chair in my spare time. Be working on that. Book sales are doing really well online on the computer machine, so that is great. Thanks to our our seasoned volunteers, We're getting ready to review our library staff scholarship. We haven't been awarded in two years, so we're reviewing to see if we have funds, and hopefully, we do to go back to avoiding the library staff scholarship so that there is professional.

They're almost taking volunteers and no deletions, so we need to use for the the library of supplements.

I'm sure I was just council member council member for the.

Yeah. What? She's not in the ER too. Oh, she's not in but we she brought in the I think it's

ER the Chabot Fire Academy to help out that day, and they're looking for volunteer hours. And there's a team of them.

So Oh. So that might be a

good one to try.

They were they were asking us. So they might be helpful.

And if you could slow writing the library to make sure, which is what I wanna say, which is flowing into what y'all are talking about. I've been well, it is kinda it's all kinda working. I've been working on a few years of what I wanna do, and I've been trying to figure out a way to collate all the amazing things that are going on in this area. And I've been talking to a whole bunch of people about it. And I don't know John Hardisty.

Does Forrester. Forrester does Forrester does cleanups and anyway, it doesn't matter. It's a computer. And if this ties into what's going on with the world and I wanted to basically, what I'm trying to do is put together a website to have all everything for this area in one spot. All the food pantries, all the resources, all the things that you can do, all the places you can help and volunteer. Because I'm constantly I can't tell you how many people on Reddit have said, go. They wanna volunteer. The whole bunch of them, I just signed up at the library or whatever or Forrester, and I'm tired of typing it all up. So I'm just just one place, and it's never gonna go away.

They didn't have one lane, everything

in the area. And Dawn was like, well, we could do a a fee too. I'm like, no way. And then in the last week, I'm like, you know, because Nextdoor is off the rails. The crazy all all the social media is getting I don't know about you. If you go

on the Internet, whole bunch of

stuff is insecure. And I'm getting Trump gear email every day. 100%. What would

you like to report?

So what I'm trying to say is that we're basically starting we we we talked about it yesterday. I literally started putting together the website today. There's gonna be a feed and a community connections with all the resources. I just put friends on there Thank you. Last night. You know? And I'm still trying to figure out how to do the website, but it's gonna be a website where everything's there. Like, everything. And it's not just Hayward. It's not just Castro Valley.

It's just, you know, it's inclusive. And so, right now, if you all have, like, any ideas of anything, what should I put on there? Please send it to me. Okay. And then in about two weeks, we'll probably once we get it $5.00 6, we'll get it up. We'll start sending out the vehicle, and then y'all can give us feedback of more to put on, and I think it's gonna spread because it's a safe space, which is not tech billionaire people, but where we can put all the resources.

Thank you. Commissioner.

Are there any other library commission report? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I attended the Lunar New Year celebration. But I want to highlight about where I met here, Hector. He was working at

the table, and I just wanna share that

he was so awesome. I do outreach. Outreach is difficult, but he was engaging with every single person that was walking through the door. I mean, he and he was doing this by himself. Usually, I have, like,

a student worker with me or something.

You know? But he was just really engaging, sharing, like, just different programs and resources, and you couldn't tell that he's, like, happy to be here. And people were walking away, like, taking things, and they were smiling. And I just I told him, like, someone walking in today. Because a lot of people suffer from impostor syndrome in library. It's a lot of research on people scared to walk into to the libraries because they don't feel maybe smart enough or, like, they belong here. And the way that he was just engaging with people is beautiful. I just thought I would share that. I just want to say thank you for that. This was the first year we actually thought it would be good.

Think we have a we have a table, information table, because it had such a big event. I'm so thankful for that.

Yeah. I also certain things often. Good. And I also had

a little bit of a

I know you from social media because you're very active in all of your video and everything. So it felt like him I was like, that's him.

I didn't go up to him

or anything, but I want to double down on what you said. In the chat and everything. Yeah.

I said that was just it was so many community members. Okay. Wasn't there an employee coming there? You just Oh, yeah. And there's so many community members that were happy

to talk to him, and I just

thought about it.

And to that point, like, that's what you want to do with your social media where you foster this idea that you feel like you know somebody Mhmm. Especially with the younger generation. So when they come in, they're like,

oh, that was look. Die from TikTok or from the social media, and I

could go and talk to them. Right? Because if me as an adult had that feeling, I could imagine that with the younger students.

Poor guy who's on social media. Yeah. No. He Yes. I saw that one. Yeah. That's cool. I'm sure there's a lot of fun flickers

in in the make.

I wouldn't see the ones with Judy and and Tony. I don't see the ones with everybody. Any other commissioner or counselor? I will just add that I am using the free Rosetta Stone for

the library. I'm in the e resources session on the Slice Island account. I'm in there practicing my elementary French.

Well, I can't make it to the French group because it's in the middle of the day, and I have to go over.

Lastly, we have agenda building, o four.

January. No. Fix it.

I don't know. Don't need my

own first name. February,

we've got abundant enhanced oh, we got enhanced request. We got money request, report on weeks, improvement project, technology programs, and makerspace update, and then we've added a discussion on National Library Workers Day. March programming for adults and seniors.

Community bulletin board policy. Mhmm.

April Patron Court of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines if updated if necessary. Yeah.

There was one in the library earlier, and I was trying to quote this doc.

Report on bookmobile services. May homework support center report, summer slide, and literacy pre K presentation. You all can read. Is there anything that we're missing?

But you're

on it. I thought that commissioner Wait. The what? Banned book? Banned book. We did.

We added the Banned book to me.

Which month? Banned book every month.

Well, we we added the discussion for next month so we can talk about

what we're gonna do. So

next month. Library We're just

gonna figure out where we're gonna Yeah.

We're gonna

put it in March. Yeah. We're talk about national library work is what we're gonna do in February and then books in March. Okay. Is there anything else?

Yes. Commissioner. I don't remember if in the welcome packet is there.

If I can get to a meeting.

Goodbye. Yeah. Just come back to me. Okay. That should then become to me. Yeah. Thank you. My wife's

not You are aware of the absence policy? Yes.

Are there any anything else you can give her? Hearing none of that hereby. It don't want her. Don't want

him. Baby, no. That's not