Library Board - Regular Meeting

The green lights on. Good afternoon everyone. Glad to see you at the Coffey County Library Board meeting. We'll get started. Are there any public comments that anyone would like to make? Seeing none. Let's approve the May 2026 meeting minutes. They're in your packet if you did not see them. If you want to take a moment and read through them. And then I would entertain a motion and a second, please.

I'll motion to approve.

Jamie or Chrislin?

Chrislin.

Chrislin. Thank you. May I have a second?

I'll second.

Thank you, Erin. All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any nays? Thank you very much. And to old business, Paula, you want to share with us the Manchester update and tell us about being back on a full schedule?

Sure. I am happy to report.

You're good.

Okay.

I'm happy to report we are back to regular hours at the library. Our circulation numbers are on par with our numbers pre-closing. So we have, despite all the negative stuff, we have people are coming in and using the facility. The patrons are happy to have us back and we're so happy to be back. And we started a small summer reading program on the 7th of July. And it's just a real simple page where they color in, they've read so many minutes, they color in that star or that dinosaur. and the end of it is August 3rd, and we'll have the registration tallies once we get all those papers back, and that's when they're going to award the prizes. So that's my update on that.

Very good. Thank you, ma'am. Courtney, you want to share with us about the summer reading program from Tallahoma?

I have it in my board report, if that's all right.

Alrighty, on to item C, 2026-2027, board members. And if I remember correctly, we have... I just saw it and then I lost it.

Under discussion ensued.

Under that one? Five. Yes. Thank you.

It just didn't look the same. Chris Lynn, Rupa, Aaron, Amanda and Linda are finishing their first term and they all agreed to continue on for their second term. Bobby Bush is renewable as well. I think he has another year before he needs to renew. And then Jane Gray and I will be finishing. We're starting our last year of our second term. So we will finish in June 30th of 2027. And then Rupa is going to serve as chair. Chris Lynn is vice chair. And Jamie, are you secretary? Okay. Does that agree with everyone?

Who is Vice Chair?

Kristalyn. Kristalyn.

And we're going to have to present these to the full commission for reappointment.

It'll be August 11.

Do we need to be there, or is that a no? OK.

We just submit them to the mayor's office and they're included in the commission meeting.

Any issues, comments, concerns?

Congratulations.

Did we need to vote on these again, or did we do that in May? We did not vote on it.

No? No.

You did vote on it, but it doesn't need to be voted on if they have agreed to service X term. Oh. So it would only need to be voted on if you were going to be recommending something new for a plan.

Congratulations, everyone, and thank you for serving. On to new business. Let's talk about the library service agreement, and Courtney has generously prepared the packets, and that is the next item after the minutes. Courtney, you want to have anything to say? Polly, you all have anything to say about this one?

It's just a yearly thing that we have to do.

This is something we sign every year. As part of it, we are required to have a collection development policy and an internet safety policy.

And those are attached as well, correct?

So those are attached if you keep flipping pages. That's our collection development policy. I looked through it. I didn't see anything that needed to be modified. But if any of y'all have something you wanted to discuss, we can do that. I've also included our request for reconsideration form along with that because it's part of it. And then our – I just included the electronic equipment, the entire policy. But the part that's required per the LSA is on page 16 of our policies. Item L says Coffey County Libraries adhere to the Children's Internet Protection Act. that is required. We have to approve all three of those things.

And we do that separately, correct?

I would do the LSA you don't have to approve, but the collection development policy and the internet policy, we have to review annually. So if there are no changes, you can do that. I would do it as separate, just for minutes in case anybody ever Let me look. I got your agenda today, so I didn't know this was coming up. But your reconsideration policy, if, and I'm looking for challenges to materialize.

Kate, I don't think your mic is on.

No, it's not. I apologize. So what I said was the collection development policy and internet policy do separately as motions so that, is it on now? Yes. Okay. So that it's just for the minutes. You just have to review them. I would like the board to consider changing the collection development policy to be a little bit more stricter. Later meeting and I can send you wording. I didn't see this on the agenda until because I got it today but the thing that I'm having a lot of libraries add to their reconsideration policy is that Of course before I told you that nobody outside of your county or that is not a taxpayer Basically a community member or community resident is how that's worded can come in and challenge a bunch of materials. What's happening now is that they are overwhelming the boards with challenges, and so people are limiting the number of challenges that people can do a year. Like say, hey, the board's only gonna review so many a quarter, and you as a citizen are only allowed to submit five the whole year, or something like that. So just look, we can pass this as review today because there's no changes, but if you want to consider those and have those in the back of your mind, we can change that later. but it's as if you think you need it. Really, you've not gotten any challenges, you've not had this thing, but it's going across the counties, so we're warning people of, hey, you can make this more specific if you want to, and as the board is supposed to review materials that become challenged and reconsidered, you give yourself more time. Some of the boards are giving themselves 180 days to review, because if you get a copy of War and Peace and you have to review that, then that's going to take you a while. Two years. Or even if you got Court of Thorns and Roses, it's a hefty book. So we are giving boards leisure time. to address the concerns of their citizens, but that does mean that they can't overwhelm the board with a sheer number of challenges, and we're stopping it from coming from outside your community or residency.

Thank you very much. Will you send us the suggested or the possible language?

Yes, I will send a suggested for the possible, because we're just seeing this more and more, and I've sent it to Moore County because... And it's just some recommendations.

We appreciate that very much, Kay. Any other thoughts or comments on the internet safety policy or the collection development policy? Or even the library service agreement? Paula, you have anything to add to any of those three? No. Courtney? No. Okay. May I have a motion to accept the collection development policy?

Motion.

Thank you, Jane Gray. May I have a second?

Rupa.

Rupa, thank you. All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any nays? Thank you very much. Internet Safety Policy, may I have a motion to accept?

I'll make a motion.

Thank you, Erin. A second? I'll make a second. Thank you, Jamie. All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any nays? Thank you very much. All right, Courtney, talk to us about official service area population, OSAP.

This is another form that we need to get signed. We do this once a year. I'm not actually sure if we need to have the board approve to sign it. I usually just have the board chair sign it. But I wanted to make sure it was on the agenda so that I remember because last year I forgot.

I do want to add that if you were a system, you would be a level five. You are qualified. encroach it you are over 60,000 in population this year so congratulations that's up from last year by quite a bit actually I think you were at 27 and 28 thousand last year so no action besides the signatures needed for that one correct correct I brought the copies and

All right, Courtney, share your financial report for us, please, ma'am.

Okay. We met maintenance of effort. Money was spent, as it should have been. Let's see. I wanted to point out on the generated funds page, sort of right there in the middle, June, you'll see that the contributions from Citi is left blank. leaving us with $13,750 year-to-date encumbered. That is technically correct as of June. However, we did receive that $2,500 check the beginning of July, which is why it's left blank there. But don't panic, because we do have it. It's fine. Everything's fine. It just was delayed. Nothing really to report for committed funds. and then these statistics are also included if y'all have any questions talk to us about bird food okay do you all have feeders out that you're yeah for the patrons as part yeah as part of our if you recall last year we were certified as a wildlife habitat so In order to do that, this is with the National Wildlife Federation. In order to do that, you had to meet certain requirements. You had to have food, water, shelter, all this stuff to make it feasible for wildlife. We chose birds because we have that big window in the back where patrons like to sit and enjoy the backyard. So we put up some bird feeders. And them birdies ate a lot. So we started taking donations towards that effort. And patrons love donating their spare change. Kids just love dropping it in the little bucket and saying, OK, feed the birds so the birds get fed so we can continue. There's there's a birdhouse there's for like shelter we included that we have all the trees and it's just an ideal environment does anything come with the wildlife habitat certification that like do they real pretty plaque and the fact that we can tell people that we're certified as well yeah

Very good, I just saw that on there. That made me curious, so thank you very much. Any questions for Courtney about the Tullahoma financial report? Thank you, Courtney. Ms. Pauley?

Okay, so despite being out of the offices for four months, we were able to spend our budget line items by the end of the fiscal year. We only had about $1,673 unspent in our appropriated funds. I'm fairly positive that we met MOE by spending all this money in such a short time. And I think this is outstanding as we were so limited by closing all those months. We worked up the orders but we couldn't send them in because we couldn't have them delivered. So we were very thankful to get back into the library before the end of the fiscal year because that's the first thing we did when we got back was send all those in. And then today we get 22 boxes of books. I really didn't have anything to report on the committed funds or any of that because we haven't been spending any. But now that we're back and we're fully operational, our report will get back to normal.

Are you fully staffed at this point? Yes.

Any questions for Polly? Thank you, Polly, for your report. May I have a motion to accept the financial reports from Tallahoma and Manchester?

I'll make a motion.

Thank you, Chrislyn. May I have a second?

Second.

Thank you, Amanda. All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any nays? Thank you all very much. Kate, share with us your report for Stones River, please, ma'am.

Well, I want to thank all of the returning trustees who are serving once again. Thank you so much. And then my job on getting the LSA done today. Both Coffey County have had all their staff do this Title VI training. We are just working on the survey that is due August 1st, so this is just a quiet reminder on that one. We have our first training of the year August 3rd, so in about two weeks, where it's just lot of stuff we just want you to know we're coming up there's also a lot of changes with your ingram this year so we are having one on august 5th but that one is going to be duplicated a couple of times because we can't get everybody on the same days so we're just letting you know um it's just kind of to go over some of the new fiscal requirements and to go over some of the ingram changes because they're doing is that to ingram in general or to ingram purchasing

With our state and federal funds. With state and federal funds. Oh, okay.

But some of it is to Ingram in general because we're going to be doing carts differently this year with allocations, but Ingram's changed a little bit of what they're doing. So you know how they've been doing in the past, and there's been a lot of upset with this, and it's nothing we can control. We have failed in negotiations, but we... They have made it to where now you only get free shipping if it's 15 items or more. They don't tell you if they're going to cancel items. Even though they were on your order and they looked like they were in stock, sometimes you'll push the order button and then it'll come up back with like... I think it's been that way. It's been that way for like a year or so, but now they're doing even more in the shipping charges. And the processing charges have went up, and so we're just letting everybody know and we're just giving you a heads up of how that's going to, mainly our job is for the allocations, but that is affecting you guys too for local purchases. So we're just giving you some information. And then disaster preparedness training is going to be in little sessions on August 25th, September 1st, and September 8th. We are also having the trustee workshop this year at the Tennessee State Library and Archives, so we are very happy to do that and host it for the first time at the new State Library and Archives. Parking is going to be limited, so if you want multiple people, please carpool because it's going to be in the garage, but that means you don't get wet, so we will be directing traffic and to greet you all there. It's going to be Derrick King again, like we've had at all the ones in Brentwood, but we're trying something new this year. So thank you for your patience with it, and we hope to see you there. Can we attend at Crossville usually too? You can either attend the Crossville one or the, and you guys are kind of in the middle, it would be as easy for you to go to Crossville as it is for you to go to Nashville. It's moving from Brentwood to here? It's moving to Brentwood to Nashville. Yes, because we want to do it in the State Library and Archives. Our new building and show it off. And so not that Brentwood hasn't been terrific hosts for many years. We're just wanting to try it at least once. Parking is an issue in Nashville as always, but we are still wanting to try it. So we're very excited to see you there. And remember, only one of you has to go to either one of these. You do not have to attend both. So it's just one of you for tech grant purposes needs to attend. But multiple people can attend. Multiple people can attend.

Please carpool if you're going to go to Nashville, though. Oh, this is a question. So if I wanted to go to the Nashville one, but we only had one board member and they wanted to go to the Art Circle one, it doesn't count. I don't get to go.

You don't get to go. No. Sadly, it only counts if the directors are attending with a board member. for them to count for training. But that's the rule, that's been the rule.

So I'm just, tell me when you want to go. I'll take off. I'll take either place.

Thank you. But we will send out registration for that digitally in the next couple weeks. We're trying to get more details and agenda stuff. The other thing I have, and I sent you the letter, but that is a donation from Secretary Hargett. So I'm pleased to share two books that Secretary of State's office and Tennessee State Libraries are donating to your library. The first book is Kenneth McKellar's Feud and Son of Tennessee, written by author Ray Hill of Knoxville, Tennessee. Kenneth McKellar was a Democratic politician from Memphis, Tennessee. who represented both the House of Representatives and the Senate. He's Alabama-born, an educated lawyer, but he was one of our longest-serving congressmen at 42 years of service. He is on the short list for congresspeople in American history who served for that length of time. Mr. Hill poured over schools and newspaper articles, both on McKellar's political career and on politics into his seat. making this book an exceptional choice for both students of political science and those who wish to learn more about Tennessee's place in US politics in the early 20th century. The second book, is Lamar added Alexander's education of a senator from JFK to Trump. This is a behind the scenes story of the last 60 years American politics told with purpose and humor by a political legend who worked with 10 presidents made deals with both Obama and Trump and believes that serving in public office is the best way to help the largest number of people and keep our republic from falling apart. As all of you know, Senator Alexander was also Tennessee's 45th governor who was the first to be elected to consecutive terms, serving from 1979 to 1987. We hope you'll enjoy having these books in your collection. They certainly represent stories of two of Tennessee's finest public servants. Your library is a wonderful resource for your community, and I thank you for your leadership. Keep up your good work. Sincerely, Secretary Hart. So, there is a book donation, and that is all I have. Thank you so much.

Kate, we thank you, and please share our thank yous to Secretary Hargett for the kind donation. From our patrons and community, the board, and the directors and staff, appreciate it very much. Any questions for Kate? All right, Courtney.

All right. I have a little thing for you in your packet. So in May, we had 26 active programs with 1,379 in attendance. We gave out 187 take-home crafts, and we held one one-on-one tech training. There were 97 log visits to the Story Trail. 20 for the Friday scavenger hunts, and 249 educational worksheets were completed. There were 17 participants for Scrabble and two for the puzzle. We had seven volunteers completed, 12 and a half hours in May. It is Tennessee Promise season. In June, we had 30 active programs with 1,599 in attendance. We gave out 277 take-home crafts. There were 67 logged visits to the Story Trail, 431 for the Tuesday scavenger hunts, and 3,879 educational worksheets were completed. There were 32 participants for Scrabble and two for the puzzle. We have 13 volunteers. Complete 17 hours before I get to summer reading. A quick building update for the roof. I have no update at this time. Don't ask me.

Thank you.

Otherwise, the last two security lights that needed to be changed have been changed. Thank you, Rick. And Squad 1 has completed our annual fire extinguisher service. So we are... really good for the most part uh summer reading this year was a blast we had a huge turnout and everything went really smoothly the staff worked for months to plan for all the scenarios and they did an amazing job i could not be more proud of how they handled this summer Because the Manchester branch was closed for much of the summer, we welcomed an influx of Manchester residents to the Tullahoma location. It was really wonderful to meet so many new patrons and have the opportunity to serve them. Our numbers were exceptionally high, as you can see there on your last page. We had 900 participants signed up. We had 16,340 books checked out during those five weeks. which those are just the books that got taken out of the library. Those are not the books that got brought back in that had to be checked in and then checked in again to make sure that they were actually checked in and then put up. It was a lot. We logged 690,180 minutes, which is like 180,000 minutes over what we did last year. So we got a lot of readers this year. Once again, the highest we have ever recorded. but it is important to remember that these numbers do not represent the total demand for library services in Coffey County. They represent the activity of two communities being served primarily by one library. This summer reinforced the importance of having both libraries fully operational. Coffey County needs a minimum of two public libraries, and both locations are necessary to adequately serve the residents of our county, and I am so glad Manchester's reopening. As are your patrons, I know, and I hear. every day how happy they are now a staff update part of the reason we had such a successful summer reading program was largely due to the work of our children's librarian which is why i am loath to report that she has turned in her resignation and monday will be her last day who is that alicia oh that's alicia yeah does she have a different job I'd rather not discuss, it's nothing bad, it's just she doesn't want her business talked about. I want to express how deeply saddened I am to see her leave. She has been truly special in her creativity, organization skills, planning, dedication. They've really made a huge impact at our library and the children and families that we serve. We're incredibly grateful for the time that she has spent with us, and I know we will never have another children's librarian quite like her. We wish her nothing but the very best in this next chapter. At this time, I do not have a replacement selected, but there were some applicants for the children's librarian position over in Manchester, so we have some applications, and I will be posting it to get more applications. The position will be posted Monday. So if you know anybody, send it my way. That is my report.

Courtney, we want to thank you and please share with the staff how grateful we are for all that you all have done for the libraries, plural.

Oh, well, you can do that yourselves. Our staff meeting is Friday at 4 o'clock. And I hope that you all can make it. They're very much looking forward. They have They have demanded that I not do any icebreakers.

Darn.

So, yeah. Yeah. I'm the fun one of the group, really. They don't want to do icebreakers, so I'm just going to introduce everybody, and then we have some training planned. So we're going to go over some hotel stuff and some library stuff. I think it'd be nice for y'all to get to meet them, for them to meet you, and... Yeah, it would be really nice if you could make it.

This Friday?

This Friday.

Yeah, 4 to 5.15.

Will you send an email tomorrow reminding all of us, please, ma'am? Yes, I will. But we thank you all for the exceptional job that you have done to help the communities. Any questions, comments, concerns to share with Courtney? Holly?

All right, so most of my report I've already reported. But I will go over this month's story time and programs. Leslie came in, hit the floor running. You know, she has a good following in the community herself just from her work at Lanham and in the Centerstone and all that. So she hit the ground running and we had, for the summer reading programs, we had movie Monday, we had two of those, 12 children, three adults. On Tuesdays, we have a craft that had, we did that twice, nine children, nine adults. Wednesday story time, three, 45 children. and 34 adults. We had three Thursday story times, 47 children, 39 adults. And Friday they go, we had one program, six children, four adults. And today, for story time, we had 29 children and 23 adults. So this month, we had a total of 148 children and 112 adults attend programs. These are all comparable to pre-closing numbers. So like I said, despite all the negativity and everything going around, people love our library, the libraries, and we strive to make it the best experience we can with what we have. And I'm very proud of Leslie. Like I said, she hit the ground running. She's good with the parents. She's good with the children. And I'm just really proud to have her on the team now.

Is this Leslie from Lanham, the children's librarian from Lanham? Yeah. Oh, how wonderful. I was like, zoom, zoom, zoom. Oh, gosh. She's wonderful. Congratulations.

Congratulations to her. We love her.

She really knows her stuff.

She does. Yeah, what a great person. And so we're just so proud to have her.

You know, Mr. Sperling came in today and we were chatting. And he said, did you know they got Leslie? And I said, well, yeah, of course I know. And he said, well, they're so lucky to have her. I said, yeah, they deserve to have her. She's amazing. She's going to do a great job there. So everybody, and everybody I've talked to has said the same thing. Everybody knows her and everybody thinks she's great. She is. She's so good.

Yeah, I'm happy to hear she's come back. That's wonderful.

Yes, I was so thrilled when she mentioned it to me and because I worked with her at Lanham. I was the assistant director. So yeah, she gets along with everybody.

it's it's just been a whole new world and we're loving it well please thank the manchester staff for all their calmness and professionalism through the closing and also to get opened back and everything firing back on all cylinders we appreciate them and you very much polly thank you thank you so much any questions for polly All righty. May I have a motion to accept the director's reports from Stones River, from Tallahoma, and also from Manchester?

I'll make a motion.

Thank you, Erin. May I have a second?

Second.

Thank you, Amanda. All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any nays? Thank you all very much. All right, trustees, what kind of fun updates do you all have?

I took my kiddo and enrolled him into summer reading now that he can read and it was so fun and he like ate it up all the like rewards and everything like that that he had able to do so I was I just I didn't ever have to try to incentivize her to read but with him it was amazing to get him to like actually want to for beads. So, like, New Orleans down in there. So, yeah, it was awesome. It was awesome.

So, thank you. It was good to see him there, too. Yeah, he was wild.

Thank you, Rupa. Anybody else?

One of my kids was at the library last week, and she asked the lady behind the counter to help her find chapter books. like beginner chapter books and she asked her all the things that she wanted or what she was interested in that's laura and she was so nice about it she was so nice about it no not that laura laura vaughn and uh she's fantastic she walked her around and showed her all these options and sent her home with a handful of chapter books so that was really nice it was a really nice experience for her to talk to the lady behind the counter children's reference is like

her niche she's so good at that she asks the kids all the questions yeah it was really nice that she didn't just start like hey what about this this and this right what do you like first yeah that's great thank you who else uh we've been at least five times since they reopened and they've gone through stacks of books already we had to go on the way here um but i got to see firsthand leslie in action and it was full It was full. She was interacting with them. You know, you would have never known she just started at our library. And the kids were really into it and just excited for what's to come. And when we signed up for summer reading, it was super easy. And we were very excited and quick.

Thank you, Jamie. Anybody else?

I want to say thank you to the officers who are rolling off. Yes, thank you for a great year.

Thank you. Anybody else? Well, I'm going to close it out.

No, we can't close it. Sorry. We need to schedule our next meetings. Oh, God. So, usually our meetings are the second Thursdays. The room here is booked on Thursdays. Solid. Pretty much. So... I was talking with Cindy. She's the person who runs all the tech stuff for the county. And she gave me the rundown what days would be good if we were planning to adjust and change when our meetings would be. And I think she said the second Wednesdays are pretty much clear. Wonderful.

So if we wanted to... Are you talking about Wednesday the 9th? that's when the trustees workshop is.

If we wanted to, so like right now our meetings are second Thursdays. If we wanted to say that our meetings will now be the second Wednesdays, and then we can adjust when there's something that comes up on a second Wednesday. I think pretty much all the Wednesdays are clear except, what did she say? Hold on.

November 11th, that would be the next one, correct? And that is Veterans Day.

I'm just going to beg ignorance. Is this, like, is the county asking us to continue meetings here, or is this us just in the effort of transparency? Okay, I don't have an opposition. I just want to make sure I understand what the expectation is. They haven't asked us. That doesn't mean they won't. Sure.

The Industrial Board meets on the third Wednesdays at 4. The Highway Commission meets on the first Wednesdays at 3. Second Tuesdays aren't good. Second Wednesdays or fourth Wednesdays would be great days for the library recurring meetings.

25th gets into Thanksgiving, correct?

I think we could probably adjust around a one-off. Yeah, right, yeah. I think the biggest concern would be adjusting so quickly, even though it doesn't seem so quickly, for a September one.

Right, yeah.

I appreciate a Wednesday because I'm in town. Standard on Wednesdays, so.

Wednesdays are better for me, too, honestly.

It seemed like Wednesdays we could get the majority of members, unless that's...

Is four early enough, do we think? That's good. Because of church. Because of church, right? Yeah.

And we could do it earlier in the day because we're recorded. So we don't really have to have it later in the evening when people get off work.

I'm good with Wednesdays, but 4 p.m. is better for me.

Four works.

So what Wednesday are we going for, the 2nd or the 4th?

Well, it sounds like we need to go for the 4th because the 9th wouldn't work, right? For September? Yeah. And it wouldn't work for the November, would it? The 4th wouldn't work for the November.

Well, so our meetings are regularly on the second Thursdays. What if we change it to the second Wednesdays and then for September we'll have it the fourth Wednesday? That sounds fine.

Okay.

September and November meetings November won't be around Thanksgiving That's Veterans Day the 11th and the county is closed Veterans Day the 11th is November so that would be closed as well and the county is closed on Veterans Day correct? Yes

So should we plan?

I'm still down for second Wednesdays and wiggle the rest around. I am too. Sounds fine.

We can just shuffle these next couple of months. Industrial board meets on the third Wednesdays at 4. Highway commission meets on the first Wednesdays at 3. First Wednesday is not going to be great.

So essentially, second Wednesdays, except for September and November, we need to change.

Yes, because of holidays. Third Wednesdays is industrial board.

Feels like we need a second conference room. There is a smaller one, but it will not fit half of us.

Or could we keep the dates and have to, like, no? Do they record in the other conference room? Yes. Okay. so in other words we need to find a date for September and then we can figure out we need to find a date for November but September the second Wednesday is the 9th do you want to email out some options for September yeah what's the date the 23rd yeah and do you want to email options out for November and then we could discuss through email yes okay

okay just for sunshine remember that all the emails have to go to her they cannot be a reply all email just so that you're not communicating about board stuff outside of board meetings right just put it to paulie and courtney and have them on the same one just all your responses go to them that way it doesn't look like you guys are conversing so i'll do what gary does in blind carbon copy everybody so that when they hit reply it just comes to me yes that sounds great thank you yeah we can do that safety The only other thing is that this is a bylaw change because your bylaws have what date you're changing. So you will have to change that in your paperwork and this will have to be voted on for that. Otherwise, and this is my recommendation, that you do it as a trial and then see if you truly want to adopt it.

But if it's the only time the conference room is available, then that's probably going to be it.

But how long of a trial? At least September, see how it goes. Okay. At least a month, two, since it's going to be the hard months. Yeah. And then see if it works.

Okay.

But just remember that you have to send out the agenda 48 hours in advance to the public at least, and we encourage more, but 48 hours at least by law so that they get to see what's on the agenda. Your guys are good about following the agenda, so I'm not worried about it.

So we need to add the bylaw change to our agenda in the next couple of meetings.

Okay. Probably have it for the November one.

That sounds good. That and what the policy that you're going to send to us. Yes.

All right. Anybody else have anything to add? remember as a small child about these guys age going into the coffee county library and it had been recently that 40 year old carpet that we talked about that was finally removed into 2022 i think it had just been put down about the time i really remember going in and spending summers at summer reading and all those different types of things and then as a teenager and college student working later into the evenings and then i was able to spend four years working in the library And then one day out of the blue, Paula emails and says, would you like to be on the board? Well, yeah. So now I have finished my second term as chair, and I have one more year with you all. And I want to thank you for your kindness, for your professionalism, and for everything that you do, not only for the patrons, but also the staff and the community and the directors and all of us board members. And I thank you all for everything that you do and for being so kind to me. And with that, I say we are adjourned. Thank you. Thank you, Gary.