Board of Library Trustees - Regular Meeting

Hello. Congratulations for having me and Sarah, congratulations for Thanks for coming back. Thank you. Um, okay. So, Sam, correspondence. No. Okay. Um, public comment. No. Okay. Um, minutes of prior meetings. Has everyone had a chance to review the minutes from April 10th, 2025? Yeah. Okay. Um, does anyone have any updates, corrections, little thoughts on that? Okay, then let's have a um motion. I move to approve the minutes from April 7th, 2025 library trust union. I second that. All in favor? I I see. Okay. Oh, wait. Okay. He wasn't at the moment. Though I was present. I wasn't. Cold. Yeah. Go. All right. State aid. We have $35,782.51. Mmdt has $19,29.78. Gift has $38,62742. Lead has 116,895. Bill and Gift has $35,447.81. Um BLC has $686,44. And the bar month ending statement value is1,683,155.50. That's back either back up or it's steady. It's steady. They dropped in February and they've been holding since. Okay.

Okay. Thanks, Katrina. Does anyone have any questions about those numbers and they've been emailed so you want to email now? Okay, great. Okay, thank you. Uh, friends report. Who went to the friends? Who's the friends? friends update is what I'm Sam. Were you able to I think um yeah, they made what was it? $3,000 at the book sale. Something about that. Yeah. How was that in terms of what they usually? It's about average. Okay. Yeah. Um I think that was it. I don't remember what else they talk about. Sorry. Was they doing staff appreciation or staff appreciation maybe in in September? September. Yeah. Um, yeah, that was about it. I think uh this coming Wednesday is their last meeting for the summer. So, okay. Like next week. Yeah, next week. Wednesday the 7 in or actually it's so the 21st. Yes. Should that become the lean? Well, we'll vote on one. Um, but for next week, we'll vote on one and then hopefully someone can go to next week's. Yeah. And if whoever is voting cannot, then we'll find someone else who can. Yeah. Um Okay. Thank you for that. Um building updates. Okay. So, the elevator has um been fixed. So, it went offline um last week on Monday. Um they took it apart basically and they think they found the issue that's been causing a leak. Um, so they had the highway department come out and cut a piece out and then they replaced it and so so far so good. Um, they're going to of course do another inspection soon, but it's been repaired and hopefully will require future

repairs for a long time. Um, the front door is also uh broken. Um, the opener has been causing issues for the last well for a while now. And um basically it's um at the moment it's the accessility button is not operating. Every day it'll turn off. It shuts off on its own. So we have to reset it. Then it works for the day by the next day it's not working again. And then a recent thing is that it also will start jamming the door. So even though the door is programmed, it's unlocked technically it will not open. Um, so the door will even if you use your key fob, it's just it won't open. It's just closed. So, um, the solution that they've come up with is to replace the opener. Um, question. Yeah, sure. Um, just one. And it's the it's the buttons both in both outside and inside. Yes, it's only the front door and it's it's it's not the buttons themselves, it's the opener. So the buttons I'm sure are fine. It's just the opener won't open them when the button is pushing. And so why how is that jamming the door that we have open now because the door has to um cuz that's not the door that's next to the right. So the the opener has to tell the push bar door to to close and that way the door will open um when it's when the the system is unlocked. So whenever um during the day when we're open the system will automatically push that door closed and that means that the door is unlocked and anyone can open the door and when you use your key fob on it say after hours then that's causes the key fob the the the push bar to close. Um

what's happening is that pusher bar is not closing because the opener up top the the thing up top is not telling it to close. And so the other door that is currently open is open because um a it's the only door that we can prop open. Um it's also for accessibility because people can't get in and out especially you know people can't who would usually push the button and also because it's been jamming. So even when the door is technically unlocked it doesn't that's a different situation from the accessibility buttons or that is the same situation. It's the same situation. Okay. Yeah. It's just a new thing. I think it's because it's been broken for so long that that's kind of come up now. So Eric's going to have to look at Yeah. So Eric's been working on it. Um I think we had it fixed. I found a bill from like 2023 where we paid something like $5,231. Um the problem is that so the one that's currently in there is proprietary. So, in order to fix it, you need to be a certified repair person on that system. So, Eric can't even order parts for it. They won't allow him to if he tries to call. So, I think that's why he wants to replace it is that a it's a new it's a more generic opener and b he can Eric likes to to learn and and kind of learn how to fix things so that he doesn't have to keep calling repair like the gate like he's been doing that so he can now go and order a part for it with no problem and he can fix it if he if it's necessary and he can go to Eric um So, it's kind of a twofold thing where it's like you can't even order the parts to fix the current one because it has to be a certified repair man and it also keeps working.

Um, so yeah. So, the estimated cost from the show for that is $9,869 and that's to replace the operator and the labor and service client. Will that theoretically also fix the jamming of the other door? Yes. Yes. Yes. So, they won't have that problem anymore either. And Eric's been through this estimate and feels like it's Yeah. He said that it's uh the average cost. This is what it would normally cost for something like this. Um and then you know the added benefit is that in the future he can just fix it himself. You don't have to worry about calling the [ __ ] every time. if it does break, which hopefully it won't. In your email, you say that you were you were asked if we will cover it. Um, who were you asked by just to So, Eric originally asked me. Yeah. Um, he sent the same uh like five minutes before I sent it to you guys that he that's when he asked me. Um, I think what's going on is it's the end of the fiscal year, so there's no money in his budget to pay for this. Um, I think repairing the elevator probably cost probably close to this amount, too. And that's in addition to all the other buildings he takes care of. So, I don't think there's money in his budget for that. And it's a system that needs to repair. You can't really wait until the next fiscal year, a month from now, because it's the front door. I mean, we've been propping the door open, which is not ideal. Um, it's also like I keep coming back at night to make sure the doors closed because we have after hours people using the the rooms and so I have we have to keep the door open just because the other door won't and we're not in compliance now. Right. Right. Right. So I know that you know we had worked out with the town that you know they would cover repair costs but I think they just don't have the money right now to cover it.

All right, let's uh looking Can I ask more questions? Yeah. So, looking at this invoice is just as we think about this number like 10 9,000 whatever number that's in front of us. Um I'm looking at the invoice and it's stated that um that an electrical source nearby is needed. Is there one currently present? I'm assuming so given the current system. Yeah, I would assume so. I mean, I I don't know the answer to that, but I would assume it's it's I think it's didn't mention to you that we would also need to run electrical in order to do this. Okay. Because that said that the bill would increase. Yeah. Um and then it says that auto opener works with a door in an unlock position only. So, I'm assuming that this will play nicely with the access control panel and that Eric's aware that inter interaction. Okay. Would that cost extra to integrate it with the with the vent control? Nisha has been doing the show is great at coming out and doing it. I mean, they weren't the ones that originally installed it. It was another company door. So, it's close and shovel right there. Well, they do the other doors in so Did you Sorry. Oh, no. I just wanted to know if anyone else had any questions or anything like that. So great. Yeah. Um I just want to make sure everyone has a chance to ask questions. I had the question, but I think you answered it because it's so specific. We can't get another bid, right? Or it doesn't sound like it would make sense. No, it would only require another benefit if it's $10,000. It's just under the town would have gone for another. Yeah, they would have done that or Eric would have had to. Yeah. 10,000 is the threshold. How hard a hit is $10,000 to your budget at the end of your office? So, it would come from the trust fun. There's a

question for the half of you actually. Yeah. Um, sure. What's So, um, I was hoping you could and I was looking in the director's report for this information. Um, we gave you the $41,000 out of trust. Is there We still have 15,000. And it seems like the town hasn't taken out for materials and Yeah, we haven't started spending that. They haven't started spending that. Yeah. So that means there's about $4,000 remaining. And are you planning to use that lead for everything? Um it was under What was remaining was $1,000 from the staff computers. Yeah. About $1,588 from the workshop conference attendance travel and 750 for professional speaker and 708 for furniture. I think we're done. So, the question I have is whether we want to use that $4,54.92 towards this or do you is it useful if you have it in case there are I mean it seems like our gift funds and our other things you have plenty of Yeah, we have plenty of money liquid money right now for you and um I mean it could even come out of the 40,000 that for the next fiscal year. I think that we're Yep. Yeah, that's good too. How are we down to 4,000? I'm looking at the draft support now. Yeah, if you take the 15,000 out that we give the town for materials towards the mark, it's about $4,52. If my math is correct, so either way, we could just take 10,000. Now, I'm just Yeah, as we do next year's trustee budget, we can consider whether we add a line for potential building repairs into that annual budget. We have money. Like I'm not saying like but we have sources that we can direct Sam to use for this purpose. And I do think the front door and access like being able to walk into the library is important. Yeah. Accessibility. Yeah. An accessibility piece of that is huge.

And security at night, you know, if the door needs to be propped open when there, you know, outside people coming in, then anyone could come, you know. Yes. Um so just to make sure that we're all on the same page that this this will be coming out of trustee funds. We're not asking the town to do this and then we're all on board with that. I just want to make sure that we're all okay with that. Yeah. Yeah. Um do we have prepared something to So the question is do we want to take say saying we can't spend anything more from the trustes budget this year or do we just want to add this one right now say $10,000 to cover any potential coverage labor um a round number for them and then um I don't anticipate using the difference in the next month. So, we could re keep that $4,000 in your accounts right now, too, and just apply it for next year's trustee budget. So, what we have been trying to do is taking our trust funds and use a percentage of the earnings each year and then give Sam a budget that he puts into buckets. So, he'd be like, I'm going to use this for professional development or travel to conferences or other things. So, we can include I think it' just be cleaner maybe if we just it would be cleaner probably for now. That's what I was saying. I think for that when I'm creating the budget for because I just found out about this like two days ago. So when I'm creating that budget for the 40,000 for next year, I can just delete we can keep this 4,000 in here and figure out the number and we and we should talk about that percentage. I can't remember. It's like two and a half% something we pulled from our funds. Yeah, I think last year we used the 10,000. It was about 10,000 for the computers. Yes. And there's nothing else that I can think of that um I was gonna maybe apply towards programming, but we did so much from the friends. The friends had a great year. We're very generous. So, so I am not worried about that. So, yeah. So, if I think it'll be cleaners just I think it will help our finance department to keep it as one number for this. Yeah, exactly. Um but I just want to make sure we know that

4,000's hanging out and whether we should revisit it in July. Whether this was the right place for that, I didn't know. Okay. So, yes, I already pre-thought this. Great potential ask. Um, so I move to transfer $10,000 from 314 second century librarians fund to MMDT for replacement of the library door opener. My name is um so all in favor. Oh, do we have a second? David, your first vote. Congratulations on this one. Already spending one already. First day travel. It's good money. We want people to be able to use the library. And this is money that was given to us to to the library. So, yeah. Um, okay. Next is assistant director's report. Oh, Sam. Anything else we're building? Okay, good. Few. Um, thanks for the elevator, too. Yeah, two accessibility things. Mike, assistant director. Okay. On April 23rd, I did a webinar from MLS on managing difficult employee behavior. Not for any reason, just because it seems interesting. Yeah, it's for um managing up it. Honestly, I was kind of unimpressed with it and disappointed by it, but um it was free and you know uh also I was going to do an effective meetings webinar that they had yesterday but I got the um like packet from them about the information and it seemed kind

of basic how to run a meeting sort of stuff. So I skipped it. It was two hour ironically it was two hours long. Um, and I didn't want to sort of waste my time listening to stuff that I pretty much already knew. Um, we catalog uh, well, we the children's Diane got eight STEM kits from a Girl Scout who did her gold award uh, by making them. So, she and Tracy sort of got them ready for circulation to give them me and I spent a day entering them into the catalog. Um, that sounds like it was a chore, but actually I enjoyed it. Um, and that's going and I are doing our audio book cataloging. We are currently on Epic G. So, all the authors uh starting with G is where we are right now. Uh, and finally, uh, there's a program on Saturday. Um, so if anyone is a singer, songwriter and wants to learn about singing and songwriting in the m music industry, please go. We only have one person signed up and I would like I think I should be sending it to some of the high schoolers. I'll send We should send up the music. Yeah. Is there an age? It's for adults and teens. So So I'll send it to the music teacher. Okay. Especially that when there's eight of those. Uh, it's I think it's 1 to 230. Yeah. Would you be able to forward me the information on it so that I can send it to the teachers? Can you send it to me, too? Send it to trustees won't help spread the word. Sounds cool. I was asking for a friend. It's not secret talents, but we know your kids are theatrical. They got it from somewhere. like the draw. Um, okay. Thanks, Mike. Um, Sam,

director's report. Sure. Uh, so FY26 closure pass county6. Um, so new database called own practice has gone live. Own practice is um online classes and yoga, mindfulness, and some fitness classes. Um, they're free for patrons. Um, so there are scheduled classes and then there's a archive of classes on there as well that um patrons can go to. So yeah, so it's it's up, it's live, it's it's going. So if you're interested in yoga or anything like that, you can check it out. Um, the new position passing in town meeting I posted and we have built the assistant services librarian position for um the July 1st start date. So, James Taber has been chosen. So, yay. Uh, he's awesome. He's he's very excited to take on the position. He's already got tons of ideas and he and Megan are um, you know, they work great together, so I think he's going to David, I don't this is part history you don't know, but James used to be the team librarian over at the old library and so he has a lot of experience with it. Um, and then so and he's been here for about six hours a week, right? And so, we're very happy to have him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 19. So is he still a young adult or is he? Yeah. Oh, no. He was working as an adult as he's probably what 40. I don't know. I have no idea. 36 probably work at college together. But yeah, he's been very active actually. So he runs the D and D campaigns, things like that. Yeah. The kids are very happy. Yes. Him and quite the duo. Yeah. So, um, with his position filled now, um, we also posted the library, his library, current library tech position to fill that. And he has the 19our one, right? He has the 19our library tech. Um, so we also post that internally. So, um, we have three internal candidates that have applied. We're going to start interviewing them

next week. And then, um, that means they're all library assistants. So, that means we'll have a library assistant position to back. But um I'm going to be out on I have my surgery on May 30th. So um I've asked Mike and he's agreed to handle that part of it. So um before I go for um hopefully we'll have that the library tech position assigned and then once that's done, I can contact Michelle about posting the library assistant position. Um unfortunately I also heard from Carla that she has to resign for due to family issues. So she was very upset. She does not want to leave. But um unfortunately some family things have come up and she can't mistake her. Is she the newest one? Yeah, she's the Yeah. So Carla is going also going to be looking. So Mike gets to pick two people for the library assistant. She is also a library assistant. You would It's not possible to do one person for 12 hours. That's the whole thing. Uh it's if someone wanted uh not really. Okay. Yeah. It doesn't really work or the way she does one works. Do you have internal candidates for those positions? No, we uh basically everybody is the lowest is library assistant. So we were posted externally as well. Okay. I know a couple people. Yeah. Yeah. So um yes, they're both six-hour library assistant positions. Um so yeah. So like I said, I'll be out. So Mike's going to handle that in June. Great. Um and I'll pick somebody right. Um no pressure. Yeah. Sure. And so that person uh so Carla has agreed to stay through June. Um so yes so everybody starting their school get some new shirts. I completed all the staff performance reviews. Everyone did great. Um everybody who deserve who can is eligible for uh step increase when you see one. Um there are a few people who

started a few months ago. of town policy is that you have to work your entire year before you you're eligible for step increase. So that's mostly the reason why. And then there are a couple of people like Diane and um Susan who are getting ghost steps because they've reached the maximum of step 10, but the town created a new policy where they can get a additional monies which has already been passed and is in the budget. Um, yep. Um, the Ren County ceremony for the new center on Cher Street will take place tomorrow at 1 p.m. Um, the parking lot will be closed the whole day. All of it? The whole all all of this? This part. Okay. Yeah, this part. Yeah. Um, yeah. One of the things Eric asked me to do tonight was build. So, um, yeah. So, I'll be closed. So, you're all invited if you want to go. It's I've already been over there. It's beautiful and it's great. So, I hope you guys come. Um, and everybody's very excited about it. They're cleaning it today. They're doing deep cleans today. So, it's good. Um, yeah. So, that takes place tomorrow. Um, and we've been letting patrons know that the parking lot's going to be closed. So, and um I think the teams know that probably not, but they'll they'll figure it out. Um, yeah, I think I saw it on Instagram, so you might get to some of them. Wait, did you post you posted it on social as well, but Yeah. Um, and then finally, I put a call for artists for the gallery. We're getting towards the end and so, um, usually we choose nine people and I already have eight applicants. So, it's much better than last year. Last year I had to like chase people down. This year, I don't know what happened, but people got the message. So, yeah. So, it's going to be opening till June 15th. So, when I come back, I'm going to meet with Cheryl and um Geraldine. We've been doing this for the last few years to um go through all the applications and then

uh we choose uh nine people um to display their work and three are for one for the elementary school, middle school, and high school. And then I usually assign them a month and uh we go from there. Yeah. Um Yeah. So, the rest is um the stats. Budget-wise, we're pretty much on track for the year. Um we're almost I think we're actually probably by now we're done with um town book materials. So, we're going to be start we're going to start dipping into trust funds and um yeah. Have we hit the mark? Yeah. Yeah, we hit the mark a while ago. We're like $6,000 over. Excellent. Yeah. So, we're good. Go less. Okay. So, any questions? Yeah, just about. So I'm just looking at the e library statistics. You had the same question. I was wondering about practice. Are you same question? Okay. Practice and then there's a you have a bunch of databases, right? And so I think this is specifically ones where you can check things out as opposed to research databases. I'm wondering whether or not practice and other ones they don't necessarily need to be in here every time because there's so many of them. But are you keeping track somewhere how they're doing each of the databases? Yeah. So, own practice does not have most of the databases have like an admin portal that we can go and look at. That's where we get all the numbers. Yeah. Um, own practice I I spoke with the the woman who runs it. Um, she says that she will send us an immersed that she hasn't created an actual portal yet. Um, she said it's it's there's something about the way it works with all the other libraries that it's hard, but she she has the numbers. She just doesn't have an admin portal for me to look at. So, she will every month she will send me a report and it hasn't been live long enough to get a report yet. So, I don't know the answers yet. Yeah, I have questions about the report actually. You're director of the report. So, I'm having trouble for the e library

statistics. It says 2025 and there's numbers and then year to date and those numbers are much bigger and it is 2025. So I'm very confused how year to date is much bigger than I think I um so Susan compiles all the numbers for date and I think she does it by calendar year not by fiscal year and so I realized that okay that makes a lot more sense. Um year to date by fiscal year makes a lot more sense than so when I was making the report I was thinking about how I won't be here next month and I have to give it to Mike to do and I figured if I cuz I I know it I know what's going on. So I just like do it in my head. Yes. And then I but I knew if I gave it to Mike it would just be confusing. And so that's why I set it up this way now. So that why I give it to Mike he can just copy the numbers that Susan gives him. Okay. So can you explain the like so 2025 is literally the year to date because it's January to now January and year to date column. Maybe we can clarify the headers if the fiscal year to date. Okay great. Yeah. So maybe if we just fix those headers it would Yeah. With the new fiscal year I think I'm gonna like Yeah. that let's let's do a revamp of this and make sure we're reporting what we want to see. Yeah, I have um some feedback I can also give you on the home delivery report. Just making simplifying it for Amy. So, well, any other questions for Sam about the director's report. All right, moving on. Um old business. So, we can start. We have announcements for Ray Grande scholarship. Very exciting as of half an hour ago basically. Um do you want anyone else want to say it? Okay. Um we have decided on two applicants. Uh we have we have we have decided on the two people who will receive the great art scholarship. Um they are Lassia Barla and Lacy Oorski. And we did interview five people. Um and everyone was great. Um they did great essays, they did great interviews, everything like that. But we were in

agreement. Um and Sam is in agreement. And so, um, Sam will follow up with them either tomorrow or Monday or sometime with all. Excellent. Thanks for doing that process for the students. And I would just add that we asked where they saw this color. I mean, I don't know how useful it is for next year, but we asked everybody where they saw it and most of them were guidance counselors or school. Yeah. Some of them mom told me about it. Yeah. Yeah. word of mouth or whatever school you get or at least hitting the right groups. Yeah. Um is there any other old business? Okay. Ah new business. We have the new officer slate liaison positions and I think we should also do the um committees, right? Yeah. Um so the slate the people that the the officers we need are chair, treasurer and lord. Yep. Okay. Um so have a conversation. Does anybody else want to be chair? If you do please I'm fine. So you're like yes I do. I know and I know that we've talked about somebody else taking taking it over next year. Um, so I will do it for one more year and that's what's that? Are you sure? What about a choice? So that's what I'm going to do. Um, um, so okay. So unless somebody else is done. Yeah. Um, I think some I don't know if someone needs to probably nominate me, right? Do we do it once after discussion about it? So the next one is treasurer. Um tell me be let's talk about that. Who wants to be treasurer? Who Katrina are you still do you want to? Do you want to are you ready to give it up? Like what

do you want? I can continue this job. It's okay fine. Or if there's somebody who wants to do it happy to work with them to learn the positioning. Anybody else would any would anybody else like to be treasurer? Or if someone's saying in a year I'll be treasurer then we can totally shadow and work through that. Yeah. Um, okay. Sounds like it's you. Okay. Yeah. All right. Um, and Clark Chris, you've been doing it. Do you want to continue doing it for a year or would you rather give it up? I'm fine. I'm fine doing it unless anybody would rather do it or don't think I do a good job. You do it. You all do. Yeah. Good. Okay. So, it sounds like that's we're at where we were. Yeah. We'll hopefully have some changes next year. Just I think we should have changes next year. That was that was part of our discussion. Yeah. A few years ago, making sure we have everyone can do more than one test. Yeah. Yeah. And just so that people don't get burnt. Yeah. 24 years sounds like a whole lot of years to share. Like way Yeah. Okay, cool. So, do that. What's that? You should not. 24 years. Yeah. She won't. She's like a speaker. I would not run again if that was the situation. Okay. Um Okay. So, uh, would somebody please like to, um, list those nominations? I nominate Kimberly Herman for chair, Katrina Hag for treasurer, and Chris Hasselin for clerk. I second nominations. Okay. And all in favor? I. Okay. I wait a bit. You good? Do you know what your be? No, I got it. Okay. All right. Um, I believe there's only one leazison position, right? Is friends. Yes. um which mirror which which means we definitely need someone to fill that this year. Um it I believe consists of going to a meeting about once a month and not even once all of us. Yeah. Third Wednesdays you get summers off. Yeah. Um and basically you go to the meetings,

you take notes on behalf of the trustees and you come back and share um share and you share our news with them. So they are right. Yes. Good point. Yes. Yeah. Um so is there anyone who would like to take that one this year? I think you can do it. Terrific. Excellent. Nice. All right. So, let's do a nomination for David for that. David S Pen, I nominate David Spanigel for um trustee friends. I nomination. Great. All in favor. Great. Thank you. Um we also have two is it two or three? Three committees now. We have Ray Grande, we have policy and we have the directors the director director evaluation. Um I don't know we need to do R so let's do policy. Um so right now in policy we have um Sarah and Steph and Chris. Is anyone like I really just don't want to do this anymore? Be honest it's okay. No, I was about the trick like the new hand like they'll be so I just want to make sure people feel like they can be taught us. I'm fine on track. Yeah, same. All right, good. Then we will just establish this um I guess nominate to place on the committee. Someone nominate them. We just I think we have to vote on it. Yeah. Yeah. Right. nominate Sarah Donovan, Stephanie Griff, and you're on it, right? Great. The policy committee. Second. Um, all in favor? Great. Great. Thank you, everyone. Um, that's what we'll do for now. When we get around to break, that's probably around November. We'll want to do that. Um, and then director probably around

January. So, yeah, I'll add that to the calendar. asked, "Do you have an administrative calendar for like the people things?" Yeah, I'll But yeah, I don't know that we all have it. It's just on my computer. So, I will share that to you. I think we went over it last year. So, thanks. Yeah. Um, do we need to do sign for just 30 seconds to update this? Um okay. Um so next is the meeting date. Um and what we've been doing is the second Thursday of every month. Um is that I'm going to talk about summer in a second, but does that generally work? Does that still work for everybody? Correct. The second Thursday of the book. That's what we've been doing. Yeah. David, that works for you. I'll make it work. Okay. Um, good. Then see, yeah, the 6:30 time. 6:30 is not for me. But what's better? It doesn't matter. Yeah. I saw you at the high school. Dropping the kids off. I'm dropping the Lauren off. I'm dropping Y off. Yeah. Well, so let's talk about this. Thursdays are hard. We can, you know, let's I don't see any other day of the week being any easier. 6:30 is tough because it's like coming home getting clo like kids. It's just 6:30 is very 7:30. I already used to do seven, but we were 6:30 so we could allow our staff to go home a reasonable hour. So, um, but I run quick meetings now. We do run our our meetings are not Yes. like when the building was or being advocated for the vote. So,

it's up to you guys. I mean I it just adds a buffer for making sure I can get here. Does seven work for Yeah. How about our staff? Yeah. Okay. Um Okay. So we could do that. Is that probably have to look at the motion for this? 7 a.m. Thursday. 7 p.m. on second Thursday is the motion. Um, so I move that the board meets on the second Thursday of every month at 7 p.m. whichever meeting room can get. It'll probably be the same. I book it for like two hours. Yeah. Yeah. 9. I second it. All in favor? I Great. Thank you for shaking your time. Can I ask I think we haven't done it yet, but it's okay to join by Zoom occasionally. Yeah. only their bedtime. Is that still allowed by the state rules? Yeah. So, um it is still allowed and then do it on the fiscal year. So, we'd have to double check. Yeah. Um I would just I would just share the Zoom link with whoever wants it. I wouldn't post it on the agenda cuz then we had people who were like um Okay. And then we don't have to decide the summer dates now. We can do that probably in June, but we tend to do one date in the summer instead of in between July. July and August. Yeah. Kind of somewhere in the middle of there. We tend to do one. There's less stuff going on in the summer and people are all traveling and stuff like that. So, but we can talk about that in June. Um, so come on dates. I'm going to put that in. I'll just put it on my table. Let's present [Music]

um Okay. Um payroll invoice signatures. Yeah. So the um we have to vote on how many signatures um for how many trustees can sign on payroll, how many um trustees can vote on payroll uh and invoices and um so it's it's been two for the last few years. It can continue to be two if you want. It's up to you guys or it could be like and you should also decide who wants to do it who won't because it's usually docy sign. Yeah. So Susan usually sends it to whoever reads um is we've been doing two forever. Yeah. For at least the last five years. Does feel Susan feel comfortable with two? Yeah. As long as um I think everybody usually gets it done pretty quickly. So I think it's fine. I think in the past we when we had to actually sign it with a pen, it was hard to to hunt people down. But since this docu sign, it's not a big deal. But four or five years ago, was there one or were there more than two? I think it's always been it's been two for as long as I've been here. At least 10 years. Um I don't see a reason to change that in this redundancy. Yeah. Eyes on the books. Not yet. Okay. Um, it's been me and Sarah. Um, that part doesn't have to be official. Just the fact that it's just easier to for me to tell Susan. Yeah. You guys want to change? Sometimes have Yeah. Because if it's in here, then it has to be whoever. If you just say two, it could be any. That's true. Yeah, cuz I did it before in the past and like fine. We need that

today. I check a lot of email every day anyway. So, yeah. I move that the trustees have two payrollinvoice significators. I second. All in favor? I new business. Okay, we're going to go to other business. Is there any other business? I hope not. Can you remind us what dates you'll be out? I'm going to be out May 30th with my surgery and I plan to come back on June 15th. Okay. Yeah. June 15th or 16th. Mike is in command. Mike is in command. I'll be back June 16th. If you're not okay, take more time. Let's hope so. You feel like you want that. All right. Trusty updates. We used to do a thing where these were more or less required. We go around. Now we just kind of were like if anyone has anything to share as a trustee. Um please feel free. So um I went to the book fair. I was planning on buying nothing because I don't need any more books. I have all the books. Um I was just going to visit with everyone who was here and then I ended up taking a blade. So it's going to be the book fair is a dangerous place. And then you get to go back to the feeling of the Scholastic book fair when you were a kid. Oh yes. Yeah. It's a little overwhelming because there's so many and just looking being like, did I read this? If I read this, did I like it? Is it a good book? What about good reads? Is this down, you know, whatever. Yeah. Way more pressure than I really should put on. I should just get them. You just get the books. Yes. And then you don't back. Well, I actually read two and then donated them back again. I get to do it again. One of my kids tried to buy a book that we donated. Oh, no. I have had

to stop my kids from Yeah. Glad touches me. I have not been in the building enough recently. Yeah. I came to the book fair and Wayne tried to uh get me to take a book that was over 200 years old and it was beautiful. It was a history of the Dutch Republic published in 184. Wow. And I opened it and I felt my I felt my head clamp in this terrible occasion. So I said thanks but no thanks. I couldn't I couldn't take Do you know what period of the what period it was of like it was about the founding of the Dutch Republic. That's very 17th century in art history. That's what I did. History little It was really cool. And the pages were kind of the pages were kind of had been damp at some point. You could tell Wayne showed me pictures of his cats, his new cat at the fair. So yes. Yeah. Here's the place to see people. It's very fun though. Yeah. and volunteers like and I did buy a book about um ghost stories from the southwest. Yeah. Indian travel stories. All right. Say I this is not library related but it's town related. I went to the groundbreaking of the King Street project last week for actually for work. Um and it was really cool. I mean, I know there's mixed I don't know how people are feeling about it. I thought there's mixed emotions about it, but I thought it was really cool and I was really impressed. Show what it's going to look like. And I got to like see the governor speak. I thought it was really cool. Yeah. Uh they showed some AI ren rendering of it. I mean it looks gorgeous. Yeah. Nice. Do they have like

a When do they break ground? Like when do they start? Uh I think now. I think it started. Do they have like a predicted date for first arguments? That that they don't they didn't share that but quickly. I think it's going to be I guess it's going to approve quickly. My brother-in-law's company is the architect. Okay. Oh, really? I knew that for a long time, but I wasn't allowed to say anything until So, I trust I have trust in that. Yeah, I was say I was really um actually I'll end it there. All right. Uh should we do a motion to adjurnn? A motion to resume. Okay. All in favor? I Okay.