Shoreline Regional Park Community - Regular Meeting

Call the order. Welcome to the morning of March 2020 I now call this meeting to order at 07:04. All votes will be taken by roll call.

Chairperson Kristin Higaki. Present. Vice Chairperson Khalid Amasa.

Present.

Board member Eric Nairleigh. Present. Board member Sharon Hsu. Present. And board member Barbara Weisenbair is, not in attendance at the moment.

Minutes approval. Minutes for the 12/08/2025 meeting have now been delivered to board members. If there are no corrections or additions, a motion is in order to approve these minutes. Yes. We have one person.

Okay.

Motion to approve the minutes.

Second the motion.

Chair Higaki, vice chair Ambassador.

Approved.

Board member Nerli.

Approved.

Board member Sue. Approved.

Communications. This portion of the meeting is reserved for persons wishing to address the board on any matter not on the agenda. Speakers are allowed to speak on any topic for up to three minutes during the section. If there appears to be a large number of speakers, speaking time may be reduced to no less than one point five minutes. State law prohibits the board from acting on nonagenda items. Would any member of the public on the line like to provide comment on nonagenda items? So press 9 on your phone, and we can move on to donations. So we have $200 from anonymous and a thousand dollars from Rebecca Galliotto.

Thank you, Rebecca Galliotto.

There we we have a card from one, and then the from Rebecca Galliotto, she asked that it be used for youth and teen programs. So we put it into their account for youth and teen programs.

So move

So, okay, we have to move to approve the donations? Yes.

Motion to approve the donations from, Rebecca Galliotto and the anonymous donor with thanks for their generous support at the library.

Indeed. I will echo that second.

Okay. Chair Hickey. Approved. Vice Chair Ambassador. Approved. Board member Nerlech. Approved. Board member Sip. Approved.

Any member of the public like to provide comments on the minutes approval? If so, press the phone. Presentations. This

is Veronica. Hey. So I thought I would this is a very short presentation, but since it's the beginning of the year and you all do your elections of chair and vice chair, it might be a nice time to just refresh on just a few key points. I know you all do brunette training. Myself, the liaisons do the training.

But at the end, I will have the links to the the board act, the city policies, and the handbook that has all the details, might be good to just review those annually, and so forth. And, I am, just a disclosure. I'm not an expert on the Brown Act. Any very detailed questions that you have and some times things come up with that, we'll, contact the city clerk's office to find out for you or redirect you to the city clerk's office. So this is, some of the general most applicable things that I pulled from, those trainings to to just review and go over.

So with that,

Right.

Okay. So a couple key aspects of the Brown Act. So who it applies to? Local legislative bodies, so city councils, county boards of supervisors, Santa Clara County, school boards, so the Mountain View School Boards, and then committees. What is a meeting?

So a meeting is any gathering of a majority of a legislative body to discuss or deliberate on public business regardless of formality or location. So even email, social media, if there is a majority involved. And that basically means that if a, supervisor, council member, somebody who's part of a legislative body or committee, or board started a discussion on Facebook or a social media platform and other members of that board started to comment, that's considered a meeting, and it has to be set up ahead of time. And so we'll go over what not to do in regarding social media and so forth. And then please just if you have a question or comment, interrupt me.

Public ask access and participation. So one key part of the Brown Act is that meetings must be open to the public, and the public has the right to attend, record, and comment. Agendas with descriptions of the items have to be posted in advance, and ours particularly are seventy two hours for regular meetings. Now special meetings could be called. Like, if there's a disaster, COVID, for example, there were special meetings called for city council, then I believe that's twenty four hour notice, and some maybe don't even have a a notice.

But for regular meetings, you do need to have agendas posted. And if, say, the president or the chairperson wants to discuss something at an upcoming meeting and the agenda's already been posted and it's forty eight hours before the meeting, then it has to wait to go on a a different meeting. Or if it's, a timely issue, a special meeting can be called for that. And then actions generally must be on the agenda. So an action item is approving minutes, approving donations, and then all of the actions that, for example, city council moved to, approve the downtown precise plan or something like that, that was on the agenda.

And then there's new laws coming out regarding Zoom capability and so forth, but, our meetings are typically held in this room where there's a Zoom option for attendees to participate. And then for just a few notes regarding transparency and prohibitions. So this limits communication between board members outside of meetings. So an example is if two of five members are discussing a topic. So there are cases where if, like, say, all five of you were at the tree lighting ceremony and one of you said, oh, I think we should have programs on text preparation.

And then another one said, oh, yes. I think this. And if it starts getting into a discussion where you're talking about library business, then it, that's something that is prohibited. Prohibit this, the Brown Act also prohibits secret meetings and serial meetings. These are obviously in, so that, council members, board of supervisors aren't having meetings amongst themselves.

Like, if you vote for this, I'll vote for the you know, if you vote for my proposal, I'll vote for yours. So those are kind of what the Brown Act was, we believe, written for. And then closed sessions, which are typically for, if there's a legal issue, real estate, if a city is purchasing negotiating land that they're owned, something like that, it would be in closed session, but then it would also be reported as to what action was taken in that closed session. So it allows some privacy in the closed session, but for the public to know that this is what the topic is and if there were any actions taken. And then violations of the Brown Act can lead to voided actions, fines, and legal penalties and so forth.

And I was trying to think of cases where there have been issues, and sometimes, one thing I thought of is if you're in a in a meeting and you're texting, someone could think you're texting, you know, vote for this or what are you gonna do? You know? So sometimes it's it it's advised to, you know, not have other devices while you're in session of a meeting. You know, obviously, if people have to text, you know, they have a child or, things like that, but it could come up something like that.

And then for the closed sessions, I just had a quick question. I'm presuming the answer is yes. But I I assume the city attorney's office in terms of public notices and then summary reporting, they do kind of potentially a reasonable amount of redaction so that any sensitive details aren't disclosed.

Most of

the mostly, I know on any closed session that I've seen with our counsel, it just has the topic. Or if it's, you could look up closed sessions in other any jurisdictions. It usually doesn't even have redactions. It just has what it is. Like, if it's real estate, you might see an address or something in the agenda.

Mhmm. And then in the minutes, I've seen where it's just the action taken. So any of the details that were discussed aren't aren't aren't typically on the minutes. But, yeah, it would be up to the city attorney's office to say, here's what could be included in the minutes and so forth. For example, when I was in Sonoma County, the, the library board up there, they had agreements with all the cities to rent the buildings, the spaces with each city.

So if a contract was up, like, rental agreement was up, it would be listed as a closed session. And then typically closed sessions are usually before or after the regular meeting or they're at a completely different day or time. But, so up there, they would have the closed session item, and it would say city of Roaner Park. And then the action was no action was taken if they didn't come to agreement or if there was some action. That's all they would record in the minutes and then, reporting out on the session.

A good way to learn this and how I learned a lot of this, Brown Act when I got back into government, was watching several meetings of different jurisdictions to see how all of them did it, and how their agendas were listed and how their minutes and so forth. But it's pretty the the Brown Act covers our state, so all what you have to follow is is pretty standard. So there's not much differentiation, but it's a good way to to see how how that is. And then why it matters. So the Brown Act, and there was a person who came up with this.

I wanna say it was the nineteen sixties perhaps, but it's it's for government accountability, preventing corruption, fostering public trust by ensuring local government decisions are made in the open and allowing citizens to stay informed and involved. So for instance, the city council has a meeting tomorrow night. So if there wasn't a round act, they could meet perhaps they can meet whenever and decide, oh, we're gonna allow this developer. We're gonna allow this over here and that. And then all of a sudden, you're a resident, and you look outside and across the street, a big, you know, construction is starting, and you have no idea.

So it's really all of it was to allow the public and sit and citizens of a jurisdiction to be involved in decision making to have the information, of what's happening in their jurisdiction. So it's it's just a way to to include the public on on what's going on. Okay. And then some of the best practices. So some of the best practices, and these are really more that, relate to the boards and commissions, which, your group is.

So sending communications through the staff liaison. So say one of you saw this article about book banning, and you're wondering, oh, I I would really like everyone to know about this, or, you saw something in the news that, oh, this library is doing such and such. It'd be really cool to talk about it or to see if the, you know, the library has interest. So the best practice for words and commissions to do is to send any communications through the staff liaisons, which is me and Joy. And this is an email that say you'd you'd like, can you share this to all of the board members?

So, typically, if you send one of us something, we will send it to everybody. And using a blind copy is a way to have to follow with the brown hat. And I will say this was many, many years ago, in Arizona when, the library board there, somebody had sent an article just of interest to the board. And then another person this happened on a Saturday. I just was checking my emails on Saturday working.

And I was like, oh, this isn't good. And then before I all of a sudden, I see a reply from another board member that commented on it. And then a third. And I was like, oh, no. And then so I'm like, on my phone fast going, please stop responding to everyone.

You can't do the the the brown act blah blah blah blah. Mhmm. So and it, you know, was innocent by everyone's part. But when when it starts to become now the whole body is commenting on this wonderful article, it becomes a violation because now it's considered, you know, a meeting, so to speak, and and business. So it was, you know, was before the last person.

So blind copy, which is one of the technologies that we have that if you send us something that we wanna share, we'll send it out to everybody. It's a blind copy then. It just you know, because it's very easy to reply all. And so we will blind copy you all. And then using caution when posting or responding to a post on social media.

So this is a tricky one, and we can get more detailed, information from the city clerk. But it's typical, like, if you if you comment on a post that one of the librarians on their program, tax preparations coming up. And one of you said, wow. So great. You had 25 people show up blah blah blah.

And then another one of you said, oh, and made a comment related to the tax preparation. It could get tricky because it could be, like, you know, now a dialogue is happening between board members. So, doing the likes or smiley faces and things like that aren't considered such. So it's just being cautioned if you see your board colleagues commenting on something and so forth. And then just so you all know, because sometimes things come up where you don't know, can I when can I bring this up?

So any of you individually can talk to me or Joy at any time about anything. So there's no like, if one of you got an email from a customer, good or bad or something, and you wanna share, oh, this person or you were at a meeting or a community event and someone came up to to you and you introduced yourself and, yeah, I'm on the library board. And they oh, I love the library. They gave you this tour, and you wanted to share it. So this would be one of those.

You could call me, call, send me an email and say, Joe Smith, I saw him at this event. He loves the library. Wanted to share that with the staff, wanted to share it with the board. So you all could individually call me, talk to me about anything in a meeting, one on one. If we run into each other on the street at lunch, which has happened, You could bring up anything to me. Like, if we saw out on Autumn Franklin.

Eric education clause in case everyone's

No. So you could ask me anything. It's you to you all talking to each other outside is where it gets a little tricky. Like, if we go if we were like, the history center I know the history center was renovated. Or I say, after the meeting, we're gonna show you the the new history center, the new items we have.

You can go and talk and and but it's you just couldn't start having a conversation about, oh, maybe we should this, maybe this. You could you know? So it gets kinda tricky. But yeah. So and if you ever have questions about what you can do outside or in the meetings or where it should happen, always feel free to reach out to me or to Joy at the staff liaisons, and then we can guide you. Or if you get something related to form 700 or something, we can relate refer you to the city clerk's office.

The disclosure, doc. That's what we do over here.

So that's

that's kind of it. So we're at I'm always here to help you all if you're like, I'm not sure what you know? Or there's something, hey. Can we talk about this at a meeting? Or I wanna ask this. Or it could be even it could be, like, a couple hours before the meeting, and you say, oh, I have a question. Can I bring it up at the meeting? Does it fall within one of our agenda items? And, you know, if I'm not sure, we'll try to find out right away, for the meeting where, otherwise, we'll agendize it for a future meeting. So those are kind of just the main the main things of practice.

And then if there are items not on the agenda, so you there is, a little leeway on briefly responding to a member of the public. So if a member of the public comes in and it's an item, we have the agenda item for something that's not on the agenda, and they come on and they make, a comment or question, you all can briefly respond. There's a little gray area. It can't become a discussion where maybe one comments and another starts coming, then it turns into an agenda item. But, typically, it's like, thank you for letting us know, oh, the library is open until nine on Thursdays.

Like, say someone comes in and says, I, you know, I want the library to open till 09:00 on Wednesday and Thursday nights. You can say thank you for the your comment. The library is open. You know? Or, you know, if they have something misinterpreted or something, you can make a comment like that.

Probably the chair would be or someone. But if one of you said something and the other one started, then it if if you don't want it to grow, and then it becomes an an agenda item. And you could make a brief announcement or report on your own activities that you wanna announce. And I believe we have our agenda items, board announcements, updates. So, say one of you attended a conference, and you can make a brief announcement about that, and so forth, or you represented the board at, a luncheon or something.

So and that is part of our agenda. And then during the public comment, you can make time limits. So our city a lot of city councils, a lot of, larger city, county governments do make time limits just so that, just for the sake of not having tower meetings. So you all could say you have three minutes or five minutes. You could do that.

Criticism of policies, procedures, programs, or services of the agency cannot be prohibited. Although if there are disruptive speakers or they're, they can be ejected. So I think this was happening during COVID with this quote, unquote Zoom bombing where people were just going to random meetings and spewing things that had nothing to do with those meetings, they can be, ejected. And then the action typically takes place after the public comment.

So for city council meetings, presumably, there's, like, security guards in the room. But for point number three, disruptive speakers can be ejected. Say hypothetically at a meeting like this, who does the eject?

It would be the staff liaisons or the board chair who could do it as well. Actually, I think that's a good question. I would think it would be the board. I have seen other jurisdictions where it was other cities where it was, like, the mayor or the the

Chairperson. Yeah. Signing officer. Yeah. And hypothetically, of course, does that person have limited immunity for that decision to eject, not to eject a person?

There are certain guidelines, so we'd have to we can double check the city clerk's office.

Okay.

Yeah. Yeah. Alright. So the role of the council advisory bodies, they serve in an advisory capacity on a wide range of matters. As you know, there's all these other boards and commissions, the visual arts committee, the downtown committee.

So there's several boards and commissions that, advise serve in this capacity in our city. They don't establish city policies or provide administrative direction to city staff. So they, do advise the on the particular advisory topic. So for example, the virtual arts committee may recommend certain things, so there's more recommendation and advisory. And then the structure and composition of the library board You all Members are eligible to serve a maximum of two consecutive terms.

And then the responsibilities adopting rules and regulations to for the administration and protection of the libraries, assist in planning library services with the community, and then accepting money, personal property, or real estate. And this was written when this was written back in the sixties when the city charter was, I don't recall real estate being accepted by the library board at that point. Generous. We'll take

it. Yes.

Yes. That would be wild for someone.

This much real estate.

Or someone said I'm donating. We I believe there's a house somewhere in the city that's now a park, and I believe the person in her willed when she passed donated the property to the city. And so, it's, one of the cities that she donated to the city, her property. So she wanted it to become a park. So Mhmm.

And then there is a city policy on accepting of donation. So just because you wanna donate something to the city or the library, it doesn't necessarily get accepted. So there that would be up to the city, the department, And, like, typically, what you all would accept would are the monetary donations. Once in a while, we have had, statues and things brought that they wanted donated, but we didn't bring to the board because it was something that we just couldn't fit in the library or on the library property if it was I think there was one thing that we've we've had in the past, but it's typically mostly the monetary donations. And you all accepted a couple years ago.

It was money for the table Mhmm. Downstairs that we had the

So the family not

The family. So they wanted the table donated, and we had a three d printer, one or two donated, and one with the plaque. And when you come off the elevator from downstairs parking lot, you see a board of some money some donations. A lot of those were from a couple decades ago. Right.

And then the board, just a few more slides, typically meets on the third Monday of each month in, the 2nd Floor Program Room. As you know, with, from our last meeting, with the holidays, we've adjusted those. Sometimes it doesn't always fall on that, but that's the the typical regular meeting schedule. And then these three boards, because these the Environmental Planning Commission, the Library Board of Trustees, I have that mixed up. The Board of Library Trustees.

Sorry. That's twisted around. And the Parks and Recreation Commission. Because these three, commissions are were part of the city charter, it was written when those were written that members may not hold any paid office or be employed by the city of Mountain View as set forth in the city charter. And then all advisory body members receive no compensation, so it is all voluntary.

And then the city charter does require an office to become vacant if an advisory body member has been absent for three regular consecutive meetings without a qualified excuse. And then this is a just a snapshot from the council advisory body, the city council policy. And this, I have on the link, and we'll send you this PowerPoint that has a link to this and the other documents for for you to review. And then this just has the absences. And then just to note, as responsibilities and obligations, members of city advisory bodies are representatives of the city when expressing opinions outside of a publicly held meeting of the advisory body.

Advisory body members should indicate they are speaking on behalf of themselves and not their advisory body and or the city. So this is just one way to help with the not to violate the Brown Act if you're in the community at an at an event. Obviously, everyone who's on a border commission is a resident of the city. So, you know, people might know you as the the board of library trustees, but you can if you're somewhere and you wanna give an opinion on, something, you can say, just ask me. I would like this or and, that kind of thing.

And then these are the resources with some of the Brown Act and the open public meeting laws and all this fun stuff in detail we'll send you out so you can read at your leisure.

Great. So that's it. That's great. Thank you. Yes. Was.

And please feel free to send me feedback because I'll try to do this once a year and as needed to as we get new board members. K.

Okay. So let's see. Is there anybody on the line? I think there is. Like, We can move on to unfinished business, and there's none. So then we'll move on to new business. And we need to, a chairperson. So we need to nominate and vote. So I'm nominate somebody for. That's great. I would like to nominate Kaldi. Yep. I

will second that nomination. I will accept being nominated. Does he have

to accept?

If that's needed.

This is actually a real question because we don't

have Yeah.

I mean, okay.

We need because we should tell on hold. But, hypothetically, if

you can make a statement, I accept.

If you need

to make a statement.

If yes. You can accept before the vote. Otherwise, it'd be awkward with you saying no. But they can vote you without you wanting it. No. It typically yeah. And then you can just do public comment, then I'll do the vote. Okay. So we do Oh. In between? Yeah. This this I always get mixed every year if we do we use typically do one at a time. One at do one at a time.

So would any member of the public like to comment provide a comment on this item? If so, you press 9 on your phone.

Okay. Now we can do the vote. Okay. Chair Higaki? Approved. Vice Chair Ambassador? Approved. Board member Nirlik?

Approved.

Board member Sip?

Approved. Okay. And the reason why that question had come up because we're talking about Barbara. For vice right?

I mean, if she's not president

But now it's the newest person. So that's why we're wondering what we should I

mean, are we allowed to shift that to the next meeting? Yeah. We we said

We said unfinished business.

Yeah. That's a good question because this hasn't come up before. If you all wanted to elect the vice chair who's not here, you could postpone this, and we can do it as unfinished. She

is the next she would be the next person.

Is that right? I believe Yes. Yes. If you do it in the order. Yeah.

We have The last four years and spent one two three four. That's right. Hard wise.

You know?

For time Everybody else has served as chair and vice chair at this point.

Yeah. I get confused with the musical chairs. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. But, yeah, you go you all can postpone this until next meeting.

Okay.

Can can I do that?

We have to move to do

that to be But Boy's nodding.

But then if the chair isn't here, who runs the meeting?

Clotilda's chair. Right.

He doesn't he doesn't make it in February.

Make it to the February meeting.

Are you not gonna Oh, because there's It's a Spanish question.

I'll be here. Whether you're

It's ill, though.

We're big trouble.

I'll be here. I'm in Yeah.

For Let yourself away. Yeah.

No. I'm scheduled to

be in town.

I don't foresee any complications at the moment to Right.

To be

here in person.

K. I'm sure we can make it work. K.

And then we'll find out just on our end if yeah. Okay. So I think it'll just be as unfinished business in February. Okay.

I mean, I guess, I could could we call a special email meeting to vote on Vice Chair if she's open? Because I think she would all if she accepts it, then we could just

Couldn't do it, I don't via email. You'd have to call a special meeting outside of this meeting.

Like I'm just having to Yeah. I You know, like, you can't like, if we're all conducting by email, that would be brown out.

That'd a brown out. Violation.

But it's like, can we call it a special meeting and publish it and say that we're doing it in my email? We're doing it when you didn't do one thing. Vote on this one topic.

We will I know. We will

it probably would have to be a separate in person meeting at end of that.

It was $48, but yeah.

Just from a process perspective.

Oh.

To me, that seemed like it would be that. Even if it's for just one item. Right.

Yeah. But this should be fine because I know you're planning to be here in February. Uh-huh. And both.

K. K. Great. And And

I guess we Is it I move that we postpone the election of the vice chair to the next meeting.

K. K. I will suck at that. Okay.

I don't know if we need to vote for that. But

I just don't Joy was Joy was telling me we needed a motion.

We'll put we'll do it just in case that we have to. Because it is act

It'd be safer to Okay.

Call a vote, I think. Okay.

I'll do a roll call vote just so we're covered. Yeah. Okay. Oh, chair of Boston. Approved. Board member Higaki. Proved. Board member in Air Lake.

Proved.

And board member Sue. Proved. See, there's always, little wrenches and a brown hat that, you know, you learn something new every day. Okay.

That was exciting.

Certainly. Certainly.

Alright. So now we are moving on to the library director's report.

Okay. I just wanted to highlight a couple great things. Silicon Valley Reads has started. I did attend the kickoff event at that was a couple weeks ago, and that was very well attended. We have I think it's in February.

The liquor art will be part of that. And then Wednesday, February 18, grassroot organizing hip hop, related to Silicon Valley Reads. So there's a lot of programs throughout the area. If you go to siliconvalleyreads.org, a lot of the events are online. I think it was Friday or Thursday of last week, I attended one of the teen author programs, and it was just she was amazing.

And there were over sixty, seventy teens on there, and they just asked the greatest questions, and it was fantastic. So that was very enjoyable. I said this year, I'm gonna read all of the children and teens books and attend a lot of the the the youth programs. And so that one was enlightening and very hopeful. Just it was a very happy event, I thought.

Wireless printing, which we've been trying to get for quite some time. You can now print from your laptop, and then we're gearing up for the free tax preparation. And then baby story time, we're our librarian Alex is adding it's it's such a high demand, and she's getting so many people attend. She's trying to do the same program on Fridays that she does on Wednesdays just because so many people are and it's inside. So it's in hopes to not turn anyone away, but we are thinking that people may still come to both who want because of just, you know, getting together with other caregivers and parents and so forth.

So she's trying this out to see. And then if, you know, if it doesn't work, they'll they'll flex and do something else, but she's trying to do that. And then just a lot of great programs, and the friends are gearing up for their big book sale next weekend. And then the highlights of all the past programs, lots of good stuff, crafts and team things and educational. So staff are doing a lot of great stuff.

And then just an update on Ingram, our book book jobber or book vendor. Things have been a little sporadic. We around the holidays, we were getting things trickled in. Now all of a sudden, we're getting tons of things. So the staff are trying to get caught up, and we and Ingram's been really good at communicating with us about their just what how they're trying to get caught up and so forth.

So we've had extra staff help get the books processed in out on the floor just because they're coming in quite a bit this month.

So all good stuff.

Sure. And for the printing, I believe I read somewhere that it's an app based on, like, a smartphone. And if you wanna load cash onto your account, you just go to the front desk, and they'll help you with that. Right? Is that

correct? Okay.

And then, yeah, anecdotally, and this is not scientific, of course, but I have heard from people who go to those programs for the babies that people do tend to like, if there's two options, they'll go to both Yeah. Instead of saying that, oh, I'll just do one. Yeah. Right? So it's something just to be cognizant of based on what I've seen it, in terms of feedback from other libraries. Yeah.

And one of the things I know Alex has been doing is she'll leave things out for people after to stay to connect. So, you know, they're engaged during the story time, but then she'll leave things out for the parents, the caregivers to be able to chat and talk in the 1st Floor Program Room after for a while. So I think that's probably why she's not doing an immediate one after on the same day because she's giving that that room so that people have that time to connect with each other Mhmm. Too. So we'll we'll see, yeah, what happens.

But it's exciting that they're well attended. And but yeah. And as you know, our Tuesdays outside in the park are are highly attended, but the babies were having that inside. So and then just to let you know in case any members of the public ask you or you ask you if you're perusing on the 2nd Floor, there are some empty shelves throughout the I saw the not eviction.

That's

right. So we are and, the pages have been doing a great job. As you know, when you walk in, especially at night, the weekends, all the tables are occupied. So we're trying to find space for more tables and chairs for for sitting. And we've opened the 1st Floor program room, especially at the end of the year for finals, and we'll probably do that for midterms and things like that.

But just for our regular, seating, we're consolidating. We're starting to have to use the top shelves again, but we're kinda scrunching the collections together to make room. And, we didn't want just, like, it all in the corner where it's just a sea of tables. So the staff thought it was nice how it is now where, like, in the middle through nonfiction, there's tables, and then they're around. So what we're doing is we're I think there's two sections of two rows that will be removing shelving and putting seating.

So it'll be like you're studying within the stacks.

Right.

Plus it'll break up the sound, so there will be some barrier privacy for people in between as well.

Mhmm.

So we've ordered the tables, and then we'll after they're finished shifting, we'll have the shelving removed, carpet replaced underneath, and then add in the the tables. We don't expect them to arrive. Furniture takes quite a while for some reason, but we're thinking, March, March, hopefully, mid March, but we'll have more tables. So

And when you talk about carpeting, does that mean, like, the whole floor's carpeting has been done? Or

So so, apparently, when the upstairs floor got carpeted, they didn't, they went around the shelves. So when you take out the shelving, there's a a strip that people have to put in. Got it. Yeah. We found that out when we took one piece out to use somewhere else. Like, oh, okay. I understand why they did that, but they probably didn't think we'd ever take out shelving. Said, but this carpet is still in stock. It'll it'll match It's a little it's not there anymore in stock anymore, but Bunch. Yeah.

Yeah. Put into reserve somewhere.

I know. I know. So that project is happening, but I think people will be happy because, yeah, our study rooms are in high use and the tables when I came up, I I did a peek around and

yeah. I was Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's It's amazing.

Yeah. They're used an impressive amount. That's for sure. I mean, every time I've been here, I've seen that.

So Yeah.

So, yeah, that's been in the works for over the December break when we were staff were working, and it was we're never really slow, slow. But, yeah, they worked on that well Mhmm. Over the holidays in our and through January.

That's it on K. So would any member of the public on the line like to provide comment on this item? So press 9 on your phone. No. And I think that's it. Adjournment. The meeting is adjourned at 07:54PM, and the next board of library meeting will be a special meeting on Monday, 02/23/2026 at 7PM. That's the last