Parks & Recreation Committee - Regular Meeting

Okay, here we go. I know, it's good to start with a quote like that. It's just gonna be so great. All right, thank you all for being here. We're going to start the library board meetings here by calling it to order. Second thing on the agenda, our request to amend. Does anybody want to amend any part of the order so that they can get out of here? No, okay, that's great. So next we have public comment. I look around the room and I'm going to note for the camera, we can't see anybody from the public here. However, we will call for public comment a second time. And we will call for public comment a third time. And hearing no one asking to do public comment, we will therewith close public comment. Moving on to noting the minutes. you have the minutes does anybody have any amendments or corrections they would like made to the minutes seeing none we will move on you don't need to include them next month because technically per robert's rules you are not required to have approval of the minutes you simply have the minutes presented so that people have a chance to amend them okay so now we can post them so we can post them they go through you do not require an approval next we have the financial reports which we will not be approving for lack of a quorum however we'll happily take questions and concerns i had a question and this is probably just on how i read it but on page one at the very bottom you need to tell me which one you're looking

Oh, sorry, the one that says... Is it from 2810 or 2813, and is it April or May? Can I look at it? It's the one that looks like that. 2810, and this is April, the fourth period. Yes.

So it's 2810. Yes. All right. On the first page, it says we have year-to-date amount, $10,000. Yep. Then it says next week we have minus $10,000 because that's a variation, I guess, from last year.

Is that how I read that? Well, from the period before.

Okay. We had zero.

Okay. And now we have 10,000.

Okay, so then how do we have minus 10,000 available?

Minus equals plus. Minus equals available.

That's just a financial report.

It's an accounting thing. Yeah. That really means minus means we have it.

Yes.

So we have $10,000. Yes, that's the $10,000 from the library account. Okay, I thought there was something. I just didn't, that made no sense to me. Okay, because, and then that's why all these numbers are positive in the learning numbers we spent. Because that's what we gave away. Yes, that's what we bought. All right, I just got on a habit of reading those, I think. Hold on one second. One other one I had, which is probably the same thing. Yeah, because we got money, so it's minus. Mm-hmm. Obvious. Okay, I'm sorry. Thank you very much. No, it's, yep.

And some things minus means minus, and some things minus actually means you have it. So you should never feel bad about asking.

I just felt like $10,000 that suddenly we have, we don't have, I should make a request. Kind of like we have. We didn't have, so now we have. OK, thank you, Karen. Any other questions?

OK, all these reports will be back next month, I know that's exciting, where we will actually hopefully approve three months. worth of budget status reports. I don't know what the record is, but we may be getting it.

We've done two.

Yeah, we've done two before. Next we have correspondence, and there is no. Balances out the financial reports. Next we have the administrative reports, and I will turn it over to the director.

You see... My report and the manager's highlights for the last couple of months.

I have a few things. First, I want to really thank the Master Gardeners. They've done a lot of work here, especially for that layout that they're going to do for us. I mean, it's very kind of them to do all that. And also, thank you to June for her work at Home Loan Services. Thank you to Max for IT, the stuff that they've done for our library. And also, thank you to Betty. for the 20 years of service in the youth department. That is wonderful. That's all I came up with.

Thank you.

Meredith, I appreciated your quick trip outreach with your summer reading program t-shirt. I thought that was nice. That's really cute. You should have a program for adults.

Honey, you should say that.

I know. I started that program 15 years ago.

I thought that was great.

And then lastly I'll just note that the American Library Association conference is this week and myself, Karen, Meredith, and Tony, our librarian, will be attending. And Stacey and Sharon, one of the days Stacey will hold down a fort. So everything will happen.

No, but the one-to-one literacy training story with the license is really nice as well. Yeah. Good job.

Okay, anything else under administrative reports? Seeing nothing, we'll turn the page to new business. We have an update there, information from the nomination committee and their meeting.

I can speak for Megan. Per our minutes, you see that the nomination committee came up with a slate for next year, which will be president is Pam Brick, vice president will be Darian Katarovic, and treasurer for one more year is Chris Abel. That's the slate they came up with. If anybody would like to put their name forward, let's say you need to reach out to Megan as the nominating committee chair. Otherwise, we vote next month.

And you can always nominate somebody at that time, too. Sure. Unusual to nominate yourself, but that could be fun to see. Okay. Next, the information, and I'll let you take this, too. More appointments.

So everybody completed their reappointments. Thank you to Michelle and Stephanie who are here. Three more years. Yay. And Darian did as well. And then we do have a new library board member, which is taking Basil's spot. So Lynn Keahan, and she did let me know that she couldn't make this meeting, but looks forward to coming in July. Yay. So we have a full slate. Awesome. I know.

And Lynn has been putting her name in for several years.

Oh, good, good.

Really nice to know somebody who really wants to be on a library board and know about libraries. Getting a chance to serve, so that's very nice. Okay, and now the, I'll let you take this one too because I would be too snarky about it.

Okay.

The Employee Policy Manual update.

As required, I bring forward any changes to the Employee Policy Manual. I noted that this one does not affect library employees whatsoever. but I wanted to do due diligence as well as point out that there was something in place if ever in the future there was a relation between whoever is mayor and whoever is library director, that there would be something that you could turn to to look at what's appropriate. Besides our state statute also putting the policy does say that it does not replace existing city policies, ordinance, or state statute. which is the dictation that the library board oversees the library director. So that doesn't play a part. But it was important to still let you know what employees are getting in their policy manual. And that's all we have.

Great. And now we have everybody's favorite, Segal update. Coming from the roof.

Actually, you can come over and do the zoom for you guys. Close the upgrades so we can do the first floor. We're just going to do the Mantua history area, and one more bank there, and then we're slowly going to move back into fiction and non-fiction. So hopefully, by the end of the summer, I think we'll have a good swatch of it all finished on the first floor. If anybody knows flower beds, we're slowly getting those phase by phase. So you notice the hanging ones, the ones around by the sign. We're doing pedestal ones around the front door. And I think in the future, we might be doing something on the south side with some raised beds. So mostly annuals. We did have the master gardeners kind of touch base with us. They didn't do any of the volunteering, but they did give us some ideas of what kind of flowers to use, what's going to handle the full sun, and how much water we can do. So I think we got a good start. Sam, the maintenance specialist, she has a degree in botany. So that helps. Makes me look smart. Library projects, we get the two kind of going right now. Basics, we're doing the south side renovation, which we had open bids for a while.

I was just going to say, I'll give a little update on that. We had it open and did not receive any bids. So we rebid it. But we have been meeting with Hammond Construction. So it is reopening this week, Wednesday. And they keep it open for two weeks to collect bids. And then, so on the 8th, it will close. And we're hoping to get a number at that time.

And the other one is the family vet restrooms. We've got some really good quotes, really good design make-outs. And we're just looking at maybe probably open bidding that in your future, too. Yeah.

It's hard to get that process going easily. So we kind of deal with one at a time.

HVAC controls, we're doing, I just got done with my training with Energy Controls and Design, who was a subcontractor with Shouse that put new HVAC in. So I've gone through my training, so I'll be training Sam. So we've got double coverage in case something happens, and I'm not here and she's here to do something with it. We'll just give basic stuff to you guys, and if something ever happened, you can, I'll give you my phone number, how's that? It'll be real basic stuff.

But so far so good, no issues this summer.

We're learning how to do zones, so everything's really, I mean, we had the DOS, where I had to kind of set set points, I had to write actually the DOS language. Well, now it's all Windows, where you can just tap on it and make the temperature go up and down. So if you're not a friend of mine, I make it hotter, depending on what day it is. So that's just very nice compared to what we had before. And then seagulls. We have a little less population than we had when we started in April. We're learning new things about how to take care of the eggs, which is called egg depredation. You just can't squirt them with oil, you actually have to soak them, which means you're out there longer with the seagulls and telling them everything's okay, don't worry. Also learned that you also have to hold an umbrella above your head and also between your legs, but they come after your legs too now, they don't just fly above you, so they're learning different techniques. Then also we got in touch with a company that works out in Milwaukee, It does a wiring system, just kind of finding out how much cost it would be, if it's usable. They wire up the whole, just about four feet above the deck, so it would be about my height. And then they make a cross or a grid that the seagulls can't, I don't think I pulled up. I think I'm getting shorter. So the seagulls won't be able to land. So there's that. And they've got a fishing line, so they generally can't see it, but they will try to avoid it if they can't land. So making nests and stuff. Thank you.

Sponsors, right?

That's what we need.

I have a question about that. Is there like a, since we're not the only place that has a problem with the seagulls in the downtown area, is there a comprehensive plan, like with the city, anything?

Well, when we did the roof over and we kind of coupled with the city halls and the roof and our roof were out done at the same time, they get the better of the roofs there. There's no ballast or rocks on there, which seagulls love. So if that's the next step that whenever you have your roof redone, that you sit with just the memory, get rid of the rocks, they have probably no seagulls over there. And just because of the rocks are gone. So if we go to the next stage of a new roof, definitely we won't be going with rocks anymore. So, but with area places, um, capital civic center, breeze, They all have the same kind of problems laterally.

Well, I mean, issues, quote, unquote, is there's a lot of seagulls. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Is there anything we can do more comprehensively? I know they're protected, so. Yeah, because I don't think that we would want to be. No, I don't know.

Actually, the US, the Forest Service, rather than having you not do lethal, they want you to kind of shush them away. trying to kill, so that's what we're trying to do. But we try to do the big boom like we did at the season hall, but there's too many older buildings on here. We have one or two good booms that would be less downtown.

The old system was to chase them up to two rivers, and then two rivers would chase them back down here.

which was a silly but effective system. I get it. Okay.

Shoe away.

Yeah, that's really what would happen. On your jobs that you're not getting bids on, we're having a similar problem at the NPSD right now. Very few people bidding on jobs. Sometimes one, sometimes two. At the most for some of the stuff, it's three. So I don't know how patient you guys can be. Because we're really sort of.

We have a choice.

Yeah.

It's not like we can just start doing it without.

Right, right. I'm just saying you may need to be prepared for it because the summer, it's getting hard to get people.

It's a tough time, yeah. A lot of projects are already, they've been waiting to start for this weather.

So, yeah. But we're hoping.

Hopeful. So hopeful.

Is there anything further? I cannot take a motion to adjourn, but I can just adjourn. So, adjourn. 5-17.

I will not depart until I'm in Spain. I'm just mentioning because I think I'll be gone.

We're going for quite a while, almost three weeks.

So when the email comes, I'll already be gone. Thank you.

That's what I was wondering. I was like, I was like, I was like, wait, that's not tracking. You're in your 80s. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Well, I was very good at figuring it out. Who's your niece? My daughter. Okay.

Yeah. Oh, there you go. Yeah. Yeah, but at least she aren't so close. Oh, t-shirts. I know. These are the ladies. These are the ladies. These are the ladies.

I don't know about that.

T-shirts. We have t-shirts. Oh, here we go. We have t-shirts.