Shoreline Regional Park Community - Regular Meeting

Call to order. I'm welcoming folks to the board of library trustees meeting on Monday, 04/20/2026. I'm now calling to this meeting to order at 07:01. All votes will be taken by a roll call vote. I will now ask the library director to proceed with roll call. Chairperson, Khaldip Imbasta?

Present. Vice chair, Barbara Lee Sinbert? Present. Board member, Kristin Higaki? Present. Board member, Eric Nerdlich?

Here.

Board member, Sharon Tzu? Present.

Excellent. Minutes approval. Looking at the minutes for the 02/23/2026 meeting, these meeting minutes have been delivered to board members. If there are no corrections or additions, a motion is in order to approve these minutes. Would anybody in the room like to offer corrections or additions? I

was just gonna address the minutes. Have, Barbara listed as vice chair before the Oh, before the vote was taken. It's because the city clerk's office has updated Legisstar, so it it when your name is written, it automatically populates that. So that's why. Okay. Should be not

I mean, I'm assuming that's a citywide. Right. Right. It's not

It's a let you start thing.

Not a big issue. Yeah. Alright. Well, I appreciate the candor. So but if anyone has feedback on minutes, now is your time to speak.

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Okay. Section five, no donations. Section six, we start with 6.1, youth bookmobile and collections division update. We'll be reviewing and discussing with presentations from four individuals. We're seated here to my right, Renee Ting, Brooke Hansen, Katie Holm, and Julian Gullo, which I may be mispronouncing. Apologies. But I will turn it over to you all.

Thank you all. My name is miss Renee.

Hi, miss Renee.

I can't help it. My name is Renee Tsing, and I'm the manager of Youth Bookmobile and Collections here at the Mountain Dew Public Library. Today, we have presenting, three other of my colleagues, and not everyone. So we are not presenting on everything that we are doing, but, focusing today on Bookmobile outreach and our career online high school. I, since you've already introduced them, I will go ahead and turn it over to Rick for, the first part of it, which would be on Voplopin. Great.

Thanks, everyone, and I'm sorry I came in just as we're ready to begin. 74701. My name is Rick Hampson. Part of my job is to manage the, the supervisor of bookmobile operations by coordinating service routes. I supervise staff of the bookmobile, and I maintain the collections.

We improve access to library resources by bringing services directly to neighborhoods that may experience limited mobility or even connectivity. Another part of my job is to serve as a backup driver when needed and, also to troubleshoot scheduling issues as they might come up. Maynard Martinez is our primary bookmobile librarian. He couldn't be here today. He's presenting at another meeting called DLAC.

It's a district level committee made up of primarily parents and guardians, related to English learning students. But overview overview of the bookmobile, let me show you I'm gonna review some stops from this past this current fiscal year that we're in right now, 2025 to 2026. I am showing you a picture on the screen of our Google stop. This is, one of our great community partners, and we go there on Tuesdays. It's the bird's eye view on the left and the site location of where the bookmobile stops on the right side there.

It's a wonderful stop with a great community, as I mentioned, and they're checking out all kinds of materials, for their themselves, for their families. And we've been there 33 times this fiscal year. We've issued 59 new library cards. That's pretty high rate number averaging 1.8 new cards a week. We've seen 580 people during this time at that stop and checked out over 1,500 items.

Main Earth worked pretty hard to build good relations with the the customer base there and the site operation coordinators. Those are the ones who sort of, allow us and to come on to their property and their campus there. They've very much warmed up to us and just recently approved our using an interior location. I think it's the building we're looking at there, during, inclement weather, which rarely happens. But over the summer, it can get too hot or, rain like we're having today. I could cancel and stop. And it's so quick it's quite popular. We hate we hate canceling it, and, it's, we think, a big win to be able to have that indoor space when needed. Let me bring you to our next slide, talking about some of the schools that we visit with the bookmobile. And Stevenson's one of them.

In just nine visits this fiscal year, we've seen 776 students and sometimes their families too. The parents that is we've checked out 1,472 items to these little guys and gals. That's a total of nine elementary schools that we go to though and two middle schools. Those stats I mentioned were just from that one Stevenson school. And Maynard wanted me to share that in forty five minutes one day, he saw more than a 100 customers.

They clear out all the books on on some of those carts. Overall, we go to we have seen from those nine schools and two middle schools, that's the nine elementary and two middle schools. We've, had 92 visits total this fiscal year. We've checked out 5,783 items during those times, and we've seen over 4,200, customers during those visits. So some of those schools I mentioned, Crittenton and Graham are the middle schools in Mountain View.

Maynard, again, worked very hard to include middle schools in the rotation for the bookmobile, and we started visiting them just this past January. He opened communications with their on-site librarians and scouted the locations on their campus, discussed collections to bring that what they thought the students might like and helped plan the regular dates and, to rotate biweekly basis. And we're thrilled, also to have Julian, who you'll hear from in a little bit. He previously worked at the Teen Center, and Maynard and I would go to schools and brainstorm how we could involve the Teen Center a little more. And so we're just thrilled to have, Julian, who used to work there as a librarian with us.

On the left is, Graham Middle School. They put us right in this active area where the kids are, and we have a lot of shade, which is nice. And on the right is, Crittenden. And as I described, we were getting mobbed by the kids. Were fun. Yeah. We also learned from the librarians that they thought crafts would be a good way to get the kids to visit us at the bookmobile as we arrived. It would be a fun way to engage with everyone, and there are many creative people on our team I can help. Renee Kitson was one of them, and she developed a a bookmark with wings to celebrate a new book release, and we brought that one month. And, buttons remained, quite popular.

I think we did that nearly two months, and, you see some examples of kids making them and some, templates that we brought. We also go to senior centers and visit adults, with special needs. For the senior centers, we go to Villa Siena. We go to Kinston Terrace. Avanitas Rose Kleiner Center is the senior center, and, Hope Services is the special needs location for, sort of a daycare for adults during the day.

The seniors, we've seen 512 customers this fiscal year so far and 809 checkouts at at Hope Services, 337 customers, and 241 items circulating. And between those sites altogether, that's 75 visits we've had this fiscal year. But there will be times in which we don't have the materials for every reference question, but we make an effort to help as best as possible. For example, there are patrons at, the Avanitas and the Hope Center that are blind, and we've paired them with the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled. And they provide US government funded program is a that program providing audiobooks, braille materials, and free playback equipment.

So we we do what we can to help all the customers we have at these locations. Also, Maynard regularly uses our our subscription to Hana translation service. Not weekly, but it's it's common for him to use this, when he has a customer that he can't communicate with for, language differences. Maynard himself is bilingual Spanish, but we do have Mandarin speakers and others, and he uses this service, dial up the phone number with his phone, and you can have a translator right there. But we're fortunate to be in Mountain View where the community loves and appreciates their bookmobile.

This is a stable reaction for most visitors we see. Just enjoying the books we have and us. We are very happy to have that. I also wanted to mention that I started supervising the bookmobile in the fall or end of summer last year, and I was fortunate enough to attend ABOS, which is the association of bookmobile and outreach services, and that came out of, Saint Louis. They work closely with the American Library Association. And these are some examples of things I saw and good ideas that come with, connecting with other professionals in the same field. There's a there's a bike book. Actually, yeah, bike book, I think is what we're calling it. Library book bike. Let's say that.

They say for some people, it's great in the lobby. Other people use it when the bookmobile itself is scheduled somewhere else, and this could go to an event. Or if the bookmobile wouldn't fit at an event, this is a little smaller. We sell products from a company called Acore that uses the book carts that are inside the book folio. And then there's I got to hear from the president of ALA at one of the speeches, and so you can see some of those pictures there.

The schedule of that conference, this is, some of the items I was able to attend. And at one, one one person suggested, passive programming and and use your statistics. When you go to an event, you could put up a whiteboard and you could quiz your customers coming up and asking how many checkouts do you think we had last month or how many what was the door count last month or how many school visits do you think we saw? And that's just one way for if bookmobiles were looking for it, a passive programming idea. Another program I attended was called driven discussions, and it was great to hear about, topics that came up, and some people were asking about, how freely little ones could browse the material inside the bookmobile.

Some of them are in quite rural communities and driving far amongst a state and or county. And, in the room, some people said there's no restrictions. Other people learned, in Texas, the library cards have restrictions on certain materials, and little ones could not check out adult materials. You know, there's different locations for all of our materials, and that was just a interesting question that came up. It was also very close to banned books week, which is a week that raises awareness to support the freedom to read.

It was very timely. There's also a program I attended talking about time slips. Time slips this was an interesting program because it, it calls on the imagination of seniors in care facilities are living with dementia. For such a program, there's lots of training, but essentially, two librarians, bring a photo like the one you see there, and I brought an example here. They give it to each participant, and, they ask participants to respond to certain questions, and they have they want them to remain in the present. They they document the responses live on screen, and the goal is to create a story right there in the moment with everyone in the room. The story is printed and saved in a binder at the facility. The one they created there was called make sure you buy a good pair

of pants. They

wanna keep, as I mentioned, participants in the presence. Same in the present. They might ask them questions like, what are the sounds in your neighborhood? If you could be a superhero, who would you be? And for this one,

I wanted to read it's

a very short story. It's so as you see up there, and as I mentioned, it's called make sure you buy a good pair of pants. It's written by our called our friends at Rose Senior Living. There were eight people listed there. This is the brief story, and it comes from what the participants said. She looks happy. I would like to see this lady. They're laughing. That's grandma. They're neighbors. They're happy people. Yet because they're smiling and happy, they're outside. It's the morning. Fran can hear laughter. She's laughing because he's putting on his pants. His pants don't fit. That's why he's laughing. Well, good. At least people are happy. That's an example of what they'll print.

They'll put in a binder, and it will lift at, this this certain care facility. I think that it was great. Great idea. It's encouraging to hear these things and try to brainstorm what we might be able to do here. Now I just wanted to look ahead a little bit about in a little bit of the spring and summer and coming ahead. The schools often invite us to special events. We evaluate for the type of event, the potential conflicts in our schedule that we might have, the staffing levels. Last Thursday, for instance, we attended a science night at Mariano Castro Elementary School. It was family oriented. It was an interactive STEM and science event with activity stations and experiments that were aimed at getting kids with science engaged with science in a fun and social setting.

It was after school when we left here a little after 04:00 and got back a little after seven. That's one of the photos from the event. In a couple weeks on May 1, we're gonna attend an event at Clerkhoff Elementary School called Dia del Nino Day of the Child. It'll be in the afternoon, three to 5PM. That's a holiday dedicated to celebrating children, their well-being and their happiness and their importance in society, and I think this, started in Mexico about a hundred years ago.

Those are two examples of special school events, but I also wanted to show the other schedule that we take a week off after the schools are out, before we begin our summer. We've had a few meetings to discuss the summer scheduling and and services to bring to Mountain View as those schools are on pause, so we have some openings. We'll plan to go to Cuesta Park, Wednesday evenings from six to 7PM. It's the largest park in Navalvio, so spread the word if you can. We hope to be there eight weeks over the summer.

We also hope to go to another senior living facility, and, we have a couple other fillers out there to see what might work with our schedule. And after the bookmobile, I just wanted to briefly talk about the homebound outreach service, which is something I also run. So our division, YBC, which is youth bookmobile and collections, travels to school, senior living facilities, and parks and events. But the special outreach service homebound is, for residents of Mountain View who experience difficulty traveling to and from the library. And the goal Excellent.

And we bring items directly to their doorstep. It could be a short term need that we've had someone who just was coming out of a ankle injury and out of the hospital, or it could be long term. We worked hard to make it as hassle free a sign up process as possible where customers and their family members can complete a brief form or just email or call, and we take care of the rest. I, in preparation of of, taking on this responsibility, I met with, librarians in Sunnyvale and Santa Clara County Library District's Central Office, and I also, helped create a list serve and had some discussions with other other librarians. And we we learned that promoting the service from our service desks here at the library is the best way to spread the word.

So we create a flyer, and there's an example of one you see there. It's translated into Spanish, Mandarin, and Russian. And if anybody hears somebody mentioned that they had difficulty getting to the library or a or a family member or a friend is struggling in some way, they hand them a flyer, and we get them set up. But the homebound program really ensures that individuals that have mobility challenges, receive library materials that deliver directly to their homes. And we think it promotes continued access to reading and learning.

It offers a sense of community also to those who may be a little more isolated than the rest of us. We try to focus on the connection, the enrichment, and even the digital inclusion, which can reduce isolation and support well-being. For that digital inclusion part, it it comes up through there using the online catalog and our web pages, even digital resources like Canopy, Libby, and OOPLLA, which have ebooks, audiobooks, and other learning tools. And, hopefully, here's a brief video we'll play.

Our library is for everyone. We are a free resource helping our community connect, create, and learn. The homebound services program at Mountain View Public Library connects with customers who can't make it to the library for temporary or long term reasons. Based on each reader's preferences, our team carefully selects books, movies, games, and more. Items are packed in special delivery bags ready to travel from our library to their doorstep.

Once a month, we load up and head out, bringing our library directly to the community. After dropping off fresh materials, we'll take care of returning items from the last delivery. Whether it's a home, an apartment or a care facility, we deliver with care supporting quality of life for all residents. More than a delivery. It's a connection, a lifeline to stories, knowledge and discovery. Know someone who could benefit from homebound services? Call us today at (650) 903-6887, and we'll take care of the rest.

Helped us put that together with one our interns last summer. I so this fiscal year, we've checked out a 173 items. Right now, we have 12 cardholders. That number can range. It's been as low as eight or as high as 13 this fiscal year. Delivery locations monthly could be two or as high as seven. It varies depending on who's requesting items. But overall, this fiscal year, we've had 67 deliveries. And thank you. That's what I wanna share for my part.

So Google, I'm assuming it's HQ. It's on

Charleston Street, yeah, down Shoreline, primary location.

And for something like that so I'm reasonably familiar with this, you know, senior outreach and school outreach, but with Google, is there like, how do they market that so that people actually come out?

That's a good question. They seem to be doing well. I think we they have a perks there. Uh-huh. Like, an amenities fair, and we attended that recently. Julian was there.

They also tell people about it onboarding. That's how I found about it. Okay. In 2008.

Well, that's great. And I

started going every week. So that's kind of my introduction to Mountain View Library. Good.

Okay. And then, you mentioned banned books week, and I saw on the schedule there was a talk about intellectual freedom. Did you attend that, or are there kind of lessons from that?

Yeah. That one is always helpful to think about because of copyright issues, but also different materials that can be published and are held in different libraries. That one, I it was back in October and can't recall the details of it at the moment. Just curious. Yeah.

Alright. Great. Anyone else? Questions? Anyone? If you're,

setting up at Questa, something that you might consider as part of your collection is, especially for the younger kids, books on some of the ox and owls that are resident in the area. And I don't know if you've done any outreach. You don't sound like you need a lot more marketing opportunities, but one to consider might be the farmer's market. It's not a great time for staffing since it's Sunday morning. Right.

But it might contact, you know, a different cross section of the community. And the other time when there's a real congregation of seniors is when they're waiting to do the food pickups, Tuesday morning at the senior center. There's quite a line, and parking is problematic there, but there's a lot of people just standing waiting. Okay. And it might be a time to just either pass out materials. A lot of the people appear to be, Asian languages, in in that area, so depending on what you've got that but a lot of elders there that might be interested in some of the services. Thank you. That's helpful.

It's a good point about the food bank pickups, because I think there's some churches in the event Ranksville Park itself that do similar, pickups where there's huge lines of people. And I've only really heard of them. I haven't seen them, but I just think look at it.

Anyone else? I was gonna

say for Quest to Park, if you want to publicize it, like, live in the neighborhood mailing list. So if you know, want to

want somebody that lives there to

Great.

Send these out. There. Yeah. Maybe you have somebody on staff that doesn't it, but just

wanted to offer. Thank you.

I noticed in the schools, you didn't mention high schools. Is that because we think that the libraries there are already sufficient?

It occasionally comes up. Can you remind me how?

We have, historically, before I even started here, I think I probably went to some high schools, they said that they, didn't have very much luck with that. I'm guessing it's because their their libraries are very well stocked Mhmm. And well staffed, and they have almost as many resources as we do. That's my guess. It is also, just a perennial we have struggles how to reach the team. So we're trying to trying to figure that out. And, I'm not sure this is the best way to do it, so we're just still trying to figure it out. We're working on it.

Renee, over the years when I was flipping glider, maybe not, you know, twenty seventeenth, we traditionally did not have a good strong connection. Mhmm. We've there was respect, and the teachers sent students in for assignments and various things, but there wasn't anything, and Bookmo didn't do much with it. So there hasn't been a long history of strong stops.

Yeah. I don't know if it was for lack of trying or for

I think it was the fact that students are so busy. Yeah. And many of them were going through that stage of being on their phone and not reading. And and books and materials weren't their, you know, interest or need at that point. And so making the connections with the high school has traditionally been, at least years ago, was harder.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, an alternative view could also be that if you already reached out to them in elementary and junior high, not high school.

Hopefully. Hopefully. Almost.

Yeah. Fingers crossed. Anyone else in the room, including the public, anybody else, send me comments. And for the public, please raise your hand, and you'll be called on or press, excuse me, star nine on your phone or raise hand icon on Zoom. Going online? Anyone versus the public here?

Katie and Julian. Move

on to Yeah.

Of course. Of course. Just wanted to

Yeah.

Go to that first. Yes. Thank you. On to Katie next.

Hi. I'm Katie Colm. I'm the communications librarian here, and part of my role is to organize and invite raise attendance at the citywide outreach events. So, for my part of this presentation, I'm just going to go over the outreach events that we've been to during this fiscal year, 2025 to 2026. And I am pleased to share that, compared to the previous fiscal year, we have seen an 18% increase in the number of engagements at our outreach events.

So that would mean an 18% increase in the number of interactions we have, with visitors at these events. So starting us off, we attend the technology showcase in every July. This is an annual event. And from these photos, you see we kind of have a typical tabling setup. We send out two to three staff depending on the duration of events and the type of activities that are involved with the event.

On our table, we'll have handouts available in Spanish, Chinese, and Russian if we have it, And we also have a binder of upcoming library programs that contains flyers for programs, coming up within the the following month. And we also have it's kind of small on the screen, but you see the prize wheel on the, right side of the table in that left left photo. And, I tell people there's no way you can lose by spinning the prize wheel. You'll win something for sure. So that provides a little bit of engagement with the public when they, when they approach our table, and they can be very excited about getting a giveaway and learn more about the library as well.

At the technology showcase, we typically focus on promoting digital library materials, due to the nature of this event. And at the July, we had two zero six interactions. In August, we had three outreach events, the first of which was National Night Out. This is also an annual event, and this provides a chance for residents to meet and greet primarily with police, fire, and other emergency response personnel. Within the past couple of years, other city departments have been invited to table at this event as well.

So this was, what we did last year. It was a little bit of a different tabling setup, but we have some picture books available for kids to read. They were not able to borrow them at this time, but they could read them together, like you see in the the photo on the right. And, we also included a paper fire truck activity. So sometimes in lieu of having the of giveaways that we bought, sometimes we'll make our giveaways instead, and that can be very engaging for children.

They can take them home and complete them with their families as well. And we also have festive, decorations for the table as well to kinda draw people in. And at this particular event, we had 210 people visit our table. The second August event was the Mountain View Wisdom School District's back to school celebration. This provided an opportunity for families to explore resources that would help their kids in school, and it also had other community groups there as well so families just knew about more resources in the area.

This event was held at Graham Middle School, and you'll see that we brought the Bookmobile out with us. And we have all of the carts out and the display table. And there's a kid looking through some of the materials that we brought. So whenever possible, if staffing allows and if space allows, then we like to bring out the bookmobile to provide full service. So it provides a great opportunity to get materials into the hands of people, and to provide a great opportunity to issue library cards for people who have one.

And at this event, particularly, we were able to share the bookmobile schedule so all of these families knew which which elementary schools and middle schools the bookmobile, provides service at and on which days and which times. At this event, we had 224 interactions with, people of all ages. And here for the last event in August, we have the Google Perks amenities fair that we touched on a little bit earlier. But, Google, puts on this event to promote the services that are available to its employees, and, they typically have two to three per year, and we try to attend as many of them as possible, since we have service location at the Google Mountain View campus. And it's one of the heaviest hitting events for us in terms of issuing library cards.

So, we can issue anywhere between 60 to 80 library cards at any one event. And this event typically lasts two to three hours long. At this last event, we got over about 74 people at the table. And then we're moving on to October to the Monster Bash, which is always a very exciting event. A lot of people know about this because it falls around Halloween every year.

It's annual. It draws a large crowd of children and families. And at our table, we provided a craft giveaway item as our trick or treat item. So we have a very festive booth decorations, and we have handouts and flyers that focused on Halloween themed materials or anything kind of, scary that kids might have fun with. And we also provided three fifteen minute story times, which you'll see on the photo on the right.

We brought the Bookmobile as a backdrop to, trying to draw attention to us and to promote the Bookmobile service, but we did not provide full service at

this

event. And, attendance is always extremely high. At this event, we interacted with 748 people. The weekend following, we had the Dia de Buertos event. So this was the second annual event that the city put on.

And the first event in November 2024, it was it was mostly located in City Hall, and it was such a great success that they opened it up to, Civic Center Plaza and parts of Pioneer Park. And, also, they they also invited other city departments to table and share resources as well as other community groups and performers as well. Since this was a Dia de Muertos event, we prioritized sending Spanish speaking staff, two of which you'll see in the photo on the right, and we focused handouts and flyers on resources available in Spanish. We also provided a skeleton craft giveaway. This was a very well attended event, and we interacted with 462 people.

In February, we usually attend the new Lunar New Year celebration. These photos here are from the previous year since we weren't able to get photos from this year's event. But similar to the previous event, we were located in this room in the community center. This is the Oak Room. It's located downstairs. You'll see that we have the Bookmobile carts. It's because we meant to have a full service Bookmobile right outside the community center, but it was raining. And so as our contingency plan, we went into this oak room, and we like the space so much that we requested it again this year. And you'll see why. It's because we're able to spread out the carts and people could browse more comfortably.

It's kind of small in the in the photo, but you'll see that people are sitting on the ground and reading together, and it provided a more intimate space for families to just kind of, relax and read together.

So at

this event in 2026, we had 274 interactions. And that brings us to the present day, to the Earth Day Festival that was this past Saturday. Again, we brought out the to provide full service, and we were in a really great location in Pioneer Park, and it was really beautiful outside. We couldn't ask for a better, area or better weather. And we wanted to bring the bookmobile since it is all electric, and this was, a day to celebrate the earth and sustainability.

We provided mint planters, little mint planters as our giveaways. I thought we would run low on them. So one of our strategies was to provide, like, a question that people well, pose a question to people before they received the planter, but, we actually had enough inventory of the planters, so I I just ended up kind of handing them out to kids as we saw them. We had 174 people visit us on Saturday. Here's a snapshot of upcoming events for the rest of this fiscal year and beyond.

On May 2, we have the multicultural festival, and, two of us from the library are going, and our activity for that will be to provide, story time space from different cultures. On May 16, we have the community summer kick which is hosted by the mental stabilization division. And, I had I had attended this event last year, and I remember about a third to a half of the people that visited our table spoke Spanish with limited proficiency in English. So this year, we're going to focus on sending Spanish speaking staff, and we'll we will also be providing a bilingual Spanish English story time at the event as well. On May 19, we had two events that are going on at roughly the same time.

We have a senior resource fair. We attend this one every year at the senior center, and it's a great opportunity to promote some of our services and programs for seniors and to also make them aware of the homebound service program that you heard about earlier. And later that evening, we will be tabling at the state of the city event, and the focus for this year is on volunteer opportunities and ways that the community can, participate with the library or get back to the library. In June, we have our second annual pride celebration. More to come on that, but we're very excited to attend.

Last year was a great success, and, we had a lot of fun with it last year. So we're looking forward to going again. And then just past the end of the fiscal year, in August, we have Kids Talk, which we don't know too much about yet. But, recreation used to have three different events over the summer for Kids Talk, but they're consolidating it all into one big event. So, we're excited to see what they have for us. And, that is the summary of outreach events.

So, interesting out loud here. Google obviously has been a big drug spread, corporate entity. Are there potentially plans to see if there's other corporate relationships that could be initiated?

Not that I know.

That would be a bookmobile probably Mhmm. A bookmobile service. And so it depends on adding a new adding a new stuff to the bookmobile service generally means that one needs to go away, and so it really depends on staff

Staff availability.

Okay. And and Fair. And need. Right? And so we're looking at all different types of places to go and and somewhat prioritizing the the need.

Okay. And I did attend the Lunar New Year gathering. Was good. Oh, good. Very nice.

Thanks. Very well done.

I think you had a comment.

Katie, how, do the, do you decide which events when you're tabling that you do, every card sign ups? And is it do you do that at all tables? It didn't sound like you signed up for cards at every event.

Typically, most of the events you go to. Okay. We usually library cards. Okay. We generally bring, like, a staff computer with us and a scanner, and we have a stack of library cards that are unsigned.

So I appreciated hearing about Renee's article about the number of cards that were signed up. I'll let you if had wondered if these had happened before or after you developed a short form that that you used for that.

Mostly, we don't use the form, because it's, for most of the time, it's easier for people to fill out something electronically, or they can even talk on their own phone with a QR code. Mhmm. It's only when we have, a lot of children involved or parental consent involved that needs to, choose the form. Yeah. That's great.

Good evening, everyone. My name is Julian. I'm a recent member of the Youth Bookmobile and Collections team, and one of the projects I have the pleasure of working with is Career Online High School. So Career Online High School or COHS is a service dedicated to adults without a high school diploma. It's an eighteen month schooling program that prepares students for chosen career paths.

Just to clarify, it is not a GED program. Rather than passing some equivalency exam, students work a condensed curriculum focused on fundamental high school subjects. They experience support and career mentorship throughout their journey to acquire the skills and resources needed to succeed in the desired career path. And, obviously, on the right, I put down the in the program, have these 10 career paths that they get to choose. So in addition to a curriculum, and they're getting a classroom environment virtually, they're mentored to gear towards a specific career path.

So this is more than a GED program. This actually helps empower them. This is a self paced, program. It's asynchronous, and that works perfectly for working adults or, people with families or both, which is actually the case for people in this program. It's awarded by the state of California, and currently, it's available in 88 public library jurisdictions.

That totals 877 out of the 1,100 plus public libraries that are in California that are, working with this program. So the program's mission statement is centered on addressing financial insecurities that arise from a lack of high school education, and they bring up these, pretty important numbers. 15% of Californians currently do not have 25 do not have a career high school high school diploma. With measures, they find that that leads to financial security such as, compared to a high school graduate, the that can earn up to 10,000, annually more. And that extrapolates to a career or a lifetime earnings between the ages of 64.

They'll make, this is a gap of 440,000. As of now with the program outcomes statewide, they've had over 5,000 graduates. They currently have 2,200 of them currently enrolled right now, and a 99% recommendation. And one number I'd like to try and keep in mind is if this if a lack of high school diploma is a 10 k differential and impacts 5,000 people, that's a $50,000,000 impact on the incomes of California residents. So I find that pretty substantial.

The thirteen on the bottom there, that is the, amount of months that the, students are capable of, average completion rate. It's an eighteen month program, but since it's self paced, I'm gonna take full advantage and go right through the program. So, to enroll in the program, residents undergo several steps. Oh, thank you. Sorry.

To enroll in the program, residents undergo several steps to ensure their eligibility to succeed. They first fill out a survey to see if they go through the requirements, but also take a two week prerequisite course. It emulates what they're gonna be going through, and they have to pass the 70% to see if they have the current skills to succeed. The eligibility requirements are student must have access to Internet and computer. It's an online course.

That's absolute necessity. They must commit up to eight to ten hours a week of coursework. They must live or work in Mountain View. They must at least be 19 years old and have completed eighth grade, and they must have a Mountain View Library card in good standing. Once students pass their prerequisite course, they can be in the eighteen month curriculum.

Actually, beforehand, they we the library, we interview them. So just sorry to put the chronology. They do a two week prerequisite exam, then they get interviewed by the library. And then they only if they pass above 70% and above and pass our interview, they can now start the course. What are you looking for in the interview? I'll be honest. I'm two months in. I have yet the opportunity to interview, but I believe it's to mainly check, personally check how vetted they are, invested they

are in the program. I mean

Kinda checking form stacks. Yeah. From a form stack survey. Yeah. Yeah. Starting to see meet them in person and see how committed they are.

Just curious. With this program, would there be an additional any additional value if a GED was offered as well?

I don't believe so because at the end, they do get a diploma through this program.

Okay.

So I find it's an added advantage. It's they get the same credentials as well as the actual, empowerment and training. Okay. So for the eighteen month program, it consists of 36 sections, so two a month. And the first thirty days, they're on a probationary period just again to see that they're able to manage the pace of it. So they have to complete the first two sections within thirty days just to see that their everything is working. Students are then assigned an academic coach from COHS. So they're they're not just left alone. They have a they have a support system. They have an academic coach to help with the actual curriculum in mind.

If they have any, questions, I'll talk in advance about the site, there's also others. It's mainly academic support. And from our end on the library side, we do pacing and mentorship support. Every week, we monitor how they're doing in the sections. We communicate with them if we feel that they're, well, falling behind pace and also collaborate with those academic coaches to make sure they have what they need to be able to finish the TeamUp program in time.

Okay. The state provides a limited number of stipends to each library participating in the program. We partner with the community financial resources and community services agency. The commune the financial resources, they provide the stipend, the actual funding. And CSA, that's actually where the, academic advisers come from.

So they kind of a two pronged support. They generally work face to face with CSA, but CFR is the one providing the actual funding. The students receive $720 per month for every month that they're enrolled. If they complete early, they actually do receive the remaining of the stipend, and that's a total of $12,960 for the total eighteen month program as a whole. Currently, we have four, Mountain View residents on on the stipend.

We've successfully given out six, from alumni who graduated, and we're waiting until May, but we're looking to receive six more from the state. Students have praised also how the stipend has helped them. It's provided funds for their professional development or simply providing financial relief to allow the students the time and resources so they can complete the program. And, actually, I feel it directly addresses the root cause of why many people are and have incentivized to join this program in the first place. So, it really I really find it a helpful addition.

Has anyone dropped out?

Dropped out in total of the program. In total, we've had 29 enrollments. Two did not pass the initial vetting process. We yes. We have. There's, there has to have not been able to pass.

And with stipends, I'm assuming the answer is no. But are there clawback provisions if someone drops out of the program? Like, they they have to return the money?

I believe

They don't. With the stipend, they're paid monthly, and they have to keep up with the month. So, like, Julian will check-in and monitor. And as long as they're keeping up with the program, they'll receive them monthly. If they fall off Then going forward. Then going forward, they won't receive any Okay. Any funds.

So every month, we we mark their pacing and report to see if we can just to say that they're on pace, and they can require get the fundings that they require. But, again, if they finish early, they do receive the remainder of the stipend, and that's been, I think, a great incentive. And also why that he try and finish early, Nothing helps you get ahead if you got a few months of some extra funding, and, they can put it into other resources or certificates or whatever they need down the line. So as of now, we've had this program since 2022. We've had total of 15 alumni who graduated.

But I wanna bring up that of that fifteen, thirteen have been in the last two years. It's really shown some success and some, interest from our public, especially the last two years. That's a huge ad. We've given out 10 stipends, currently to students, and we have two paced on pace to finishing this month. So we're hopefully getting to host once again a graduation ceremony.

Right there, we have one from our previous ceremony, but probably one of the better impacts because this is all done virtually is to finally meet them. Since the interview, welcome back, and, have a ceremony dedicated to them, which I don't know. I've had an Easter in the pandemic, and they missed the graduation ceremony. It's I think it's pretty impactful itself too. The website also has a ton of vetted, quotes from everyone, and I gave some quantitative measures, but I think the best ones it's, on the website itself, you hear the people who've really benefited from it and what they've gone through.

It really adds personal touch to it. Mine was short and sweet. I'd like to thank everyone. I provide also an FAQ, for further details, especially about the stipend program, and I encourage everyone to go to the California State Library site because they see a lot of success stories. And it's a good feel good read. And thank you.

Billing, how do you market this?

So it is on our website. It's marked on it's helpful that it's on the California State Library's website. So it's been promoted mainly through this.

I was thinking most high school students doing well in high school, and they fall out of that system are not gonna be connecting with the library usually. It it doesn't seem like a typical connection they would make. But if if you were checking in with the high schools, with the counselors, providing them with information about it might be useful. Trying to think of any other places where you might have a, you know, a gathering point Some

of

these people might come across this information. You there are flyers in coffee houses or that kind of thing, you know, where people might see something.

It's a great point. It might not always be time to go to the library to be aware of this service.

Right. It seems that the two the overlap of those sets may not be a strong one.

Our multicultural coordinator in the city manager's office has also, we partnered with them to market to a lot of the community members that they work with that vision and

the city manager. That'd be a good connection. Do you know how is there any particular information on the directions they have chosen?

Yes. There's 10 primary peripets.

Mhmm.

Oh, I can just state them out. It's for instance, it's childcare, commercial driving, food and hospitality, general career operation, home care professional, hospitality and leisure, manufacturing, office management, retail, customer service, and security professionals.

But do you need to keep stats on which ones they choose to to know what directions they're choosing and if they're good matches for for if they wanna stay in the area?

I am not looking at those outcomes.

Can you ask a different kind of question?

So we have a whole bunch of

different programs here. How do we decide how to allocate our resources? Right? So for example, you mentioned that you would have to decrease take away a stop if you were to add one. Right? But you can also think about it in terms of the different programs that you support. Right? Like, how do you assess what you're gonna support and what you're not going to?

Well, there's two two resources that we have at our disposal, and that is staffing and money. And for, say, a bookmobile stop, we're almost entirely looking at staffing, our staffing resource, and how many how like, what impact that has on our staff in order to go out for another bookmobile stop. For example, we found we were when we first got the new bookmobile, we were really ambitious, And we had planned, on a few days of the week, three stops per day. We thought we could go to three stops per day. We could go in the morning, and then we'll go two in the afternoon.

We'll go back to back. And it was so tiring for the staff. And we we didn't realize how it was tiring it would be until it happened. And then after one season of doing that, we pulled back, and we're like, okay. We can't we can't make our staff do this.

And so then it's the question of, well, we could send different staff. Right? So it's like we can shuffle our staffing around, but we only have so many people. And we have so many other incredible programs that we're doing here at the library to that, that it's it it's just a matter of can we can we how many people can we spare to do this one more program? Is it more important to do that one more stop or more important to do the thing that we were wanting to do with with, with that staff hour here in the library?

And so it I mean, they're all moving parts, and they're all you know, you're right. We're juggling the priorities and and where to put our resources. And and where we've landed on right now is that two stop a day, just just there's no there's no hard and fast reason why it has to be only two stops a day, except right now, it's it's comfortable for, for the staff and for their

Stops.

Okay.

I I wasn't necessarily trying to focus on that that amount of stops, but more how you think about the programs in general. So how you would give a priority to, you know, let's say, homebound service versus the the online high school. Right? Like, all of these take time. Mhmm. So how do you weight these to decide that you're gonna do these or, you know, like, maybe do less and do more of something? Right? Like, go deep instead of the the breath. Like, I'm just curious. Frankly, I thought this thing

Again, it's a staffing. Right? But but once the library administration decides that we wanna do a a big project like Career Online High School, and we're we decide, yeah, we wanna dedicate our time to this, then, some well, each service is different. Like, the career online high school, it it takes a finite amount of time. And it's not like you you can spend more time tracking someone's progress.

It just takes the time that it takes. So we don't have to worry about this. Like, so if we so Julian, say, has that responsibility, then that takes up a a finite amount of his time. And then it's then it's you know, what else can Julian do with the rest of his forty hours a week? But with something like Homebound, we could, like, we could invest more resources into this. We could market more. We could reach out. We could go meet people personally. There's so much more that we can do. Mhmm.

But Rick only has so many hours per week. So we are really just we're always finding a balance between between, well, we would love to grow this program. What would it take to grow this program? Do we have the time? Does Rick have the time? If Rick doesn't have the time, does someone else have the time to be able to help him out with this? And we're constantly Yeah. Weighing one thing with another.

I think what I'm what I'm hearing Kristen's question is like, yes, you are constantly joking, but how how do you think about that? Yeah. Why do you decide, like, should we add go at a new service or go deeper on the service you already have? Like, you have the staff. The staff is limited by the budget.

Okay. Okay. So is

it also the numbers that are kept in order? Like, when you take attendance at baby story time,

for example.

Right. We're deciding yeah. What is the impact? I think one of the biggest questions that we always have is where's the impact? What if we spend every dollar, every hour, what kind of impact are we making?

And then I like to tell the staff, it's, we're always striving to do better and make our programs better. It doesn't necessarily mean that we have to have more. It just means that they can do they can make a greater impact. So when we're, like, when we're debating how to spend our resources, we have to look at what is the impact, how many people does this impact, but how great is the impact? For one high school graduate, it's only one person, but look at the size of the impact.

Right? So but then we also can, like, take your hour and speak to 250 people at a story time, and that's also a great impact. So and then there's things that are obviously not as good. Right? And so then if you're if you're really lucky, you can weigh two things. And when there's one obvious winner, of how to spend your time and your resources. Impact is probably the the the way I would I would phrase it.

I will jump in and say from the perspective of the department within the city, It's also, as you know, every few years, the council comes up with their strategic priorities. So they have the nine current strategic priorities. And in their priority of community for all, One of them was to pilot the basic income pro program, and another big one was the the the workforce development. There were some council members that were big. This was probably, I think, during the pandemic with the workforce development.

So we had been participating in the career online high school, the stipend programs. The stipend, was funded has been funded by the California State Library. So for us, knowing that the impact of, okay, this is gonna fit in the community for all, when the the issues in the community are housing, our cost, our education, how can the library help. So Career Online High School fits very well with, okay, as Julian talked about the the outcomes and the the monetary attachment to getting it, not getting having your high school diploma. So the stipend program, which came about of offering the stipend came about, well, what if we could offer this amount?

Because what we were hearing from the staff, who we're hearing from the participants were they don't have time to you know, they're working several jobs. It's a big commitment, as he mentioned, to do the program. You have to keep up and so forth. So I I always give this example, but one of ours who finished early, he he said, you know, I can quit one of my part time jobs and focus on this. And he focused on it and was able to finish early, and he used the money to take some tests in his field that cost a significant amount.

So at at that level, when myself and the managers are looking at, okay. It's how do what we do affect what the council priorities are in that respect too. And then so all the details within it, you know, kind of and then like Renee said, the details going down into the programs of what we continue, what we expand, has to do with staffing, cost cost of the cost analysis of of, you know, doing three stops per day or two and that kind of thing. So there's the that level and then the granular details. There's a big piece of it that we're continually doing every year.

So we'll be as we're fading into the end of the fiscal year, our meetings are, okay, what are our big goals for next year and so forth, and then continue to do that.

Scheduling a prep time is always an issue too because that doesn't show up as impact and how much you can compress your prep time to get an effective program out that does have the big impact was always a stress. Staff is always struggling, having enough time to really put together the kind of program that they want to put together, but knowing that they have had so many more things on their plate. Yeah. Sounds like you do a tremendous job with the variety that you're offering and the different aspects of the community that you're addressing.

Of prep time, one last thing to show everyone, and it's that we're gearing up for summer reading. So I wanted to just show you what we've got this year. It's very similar. The the program for kids is very similar to last year in that they're gonna get a scratch off card. You're familiar.

We saw this last year. It's got 30 scratcher spots on it, and, you can scratch off a spot for each day of the summer that you read. So we're just encouraging people to read every day. It's not like number of books or number of pages. It's just read every day, which we have found, through our research, is what, what researchers have found to make the biggest difference in keeping up, keeping the summer slide from happening and for for getting kids to enjoy reading.

So halfway. So, as you might know from last year, there's a craft. When you start the program, you get to do a craft. And then when you get halfway, there's a spot that says you're halfway. Come to the library to to make a craft. So this year's theme is plant a seed, reed. And so the first thing you're gonna do is gonna be seed related. We haven't figured that out yet, but something with a seed. And then when you come back, halfway, you're gonna make a flower. And so the seed can go last year was caterpillars and butterflies, the series of seeds and flowers.

So the seeds will go up on the bulletin board first, and you'll see them populating the bulletin board. Then halfway through, fifteen days in, you'll see the flowers start appearing. And then the flowers will fill up the bulletin board.

You might wanna connect with your Master Gardener programs or your

Oh, yeah.

California Native Plant Society. This is the time that a lot of the early growers in that are California natives are producing seeds, and it may be something that they just had the the native tours this weekend for all the gardens all around the peninsula. And there was a program up in San Carlos at the outside the library about, seeds for annuals. And this would be something that there may be a connection that you could make where the kids could be given native seeds. Mhmm. Something like that is part of the program. Okay.

Thank you. Oh, I forgot

to mention that the program will run exactly June 1 through July 31 this year. There will be, as usual, a kickoff celebration, and then we and then for the end, we're gonna do something that I hope will become a tradition every year, which is the the library DJ dance party for the December. We have different cards for teens. The teens don't get a free book, but they get a $5 gift card to the lobby shop, which I think they're enjoying very much because then they get to choose something from the lobby shop that they want. This year, the adults are gonna do something different.

They liked our scratcher so much that they also wanna do a scratcher. Adults are getting scratchers too. I don't know. I I believe that the prizes have always been, like, enter a raffle for for some prizes. So as far as I know, it's gonna be something like if you read a book, you get to scratch off a certain number of spaces. If you visit the library, you get to scratch off a certain number of spaces. It's gonna be sort of like that. There'll be many more options for the adults to, to to scratch, but the kids are just three.

And then probably then, it will be a raffle. Yeah.

I think so. I think so. I'm not super clear on what the adults

are

from that. But we're we're creating a scratch of that summer reading. And that concludes, what we have today. Really wanna

thank you.

Thank you all. Thank you all four, and I know I enjoyed seeing some video information and getting some updates. Are there any other questions from the board, or should we move towards if there's any public comments, raise your hand. Okay. Go ahead.

I just I'm Paul Donahue. I was on the library board for for eight years, and I was, around when the, career online high school started in, I think, in 2022, you mentioned. I'm glad to hear that it's been so successful. And I have I mean, if if I may, I I guess I have a question. One of the things that I, I was also on the board when the new bookmobile came in, and there were some trade offs between the the big gigantic thing that was hard to drive and all that kind of thing, but there wasn't a lot of setup. And now the new bookmobile requires some setup, and I'm just kind of wondering how that trade off has has played out in reality.

Yeah. Setup is pretty quick. It's efficient, and we get into a groove of a good way to work depending on the site we're going to. I I wasn't here with the older bookmobile, so I can compare it to that. But right now, it's nice to have the smaller size that fits into most locations around the city.

And then we are pretty quick with getting up up to planning ahead so we know how many cards we're bringing particular genres to particular sites, whether it's a school or a senior center or park, and it may be a different set of collections. And we may need to bring a table and chairs and a canopy for the sun or not if it's indoors. And Maynard has that set up quite well into a weekly schedule, which tells us how to prepare. So in the evening, we come back, and we turn the bookmobile over, have it ready for the morning so the morning staff can get in and go. And all this stuff is in the back, and Doesn't take long for everyone to to understand what to bring out and how quickly to do it. Try to be as quick as possible with that part, and it works pretty well. Okay. Yeah.

If I may add, I think the benefits far outweigh the amount of work that needs to be done. One thing that we noticed right away was that we got way more engagement with the with the public. I I was not expecting this because I thought the bookmobile itself would be so exciting that people would wanna go on, but it turns out that I having all your yellow carts and everything spread out and a big sign on your table, it really brings people in and they wanna look what it is. Oh, it's the library. And, you know, either they're very happy to see you or they're curious.

Whereas with the bookmobile, we found that a lot of people just wouldn't come on. They wouldn't come in. And and we are like, the number of people that we speak to at every stop is much greater than it used to be.

Great.

Also, yeah, like like Rick said, we could get into smaller spaces, so now we can go to more different places. The only real drawback is the weather where we need to cancel our stops if it's raining or if it's too hot even. That's the only real bad dream.

And a big big advantage is an adulting that was a class three license or something. They use it.

Our previous opiates just the right size where you didn't need the special license.

The old one was the real The old one. Yeah. People had to train for that with the firefighters for a long time as you very had very few people on staff that could drive. So if you didn't have a driver that day, the bookmobile didn't go. It did mean something up to, like, six, seven stops a day was how it was around 03:20. You didn't have to offload things.

Any other public comments? Please raise your hand. Yes.

Yeah. I just wanted to say, you know, I'm Robert Cox. I live here in the Old Mountain View neighborhood. I'm chair of the Neighborhood Association right now. And I just wanted to thank you for giving me the opportunity about the great work that you're doing here. I've, you know, I've seen the bookmobile going around and stuff like that, but never really delved into exactly, you know, how many people are being reached now. And, I mean, you know, the high school diploma is really something that's miraculous that, I mean, you know, it'll give me a chance to talk to more people about in my neighborhood about the good that you're doing here. Doesn't need to be such a secret. Great.

Is there anyone on Zoom in terms of potential public comments? Okay. No. Any other public comments from our guests? Moving on then, we will go to again, thank you very much. And section seven, there's no unfinished business. Section eight, renew business. Directly gray will be walking us through the fiscal year budget and goals presented fiscal year twenty sixth twenty seventh. Mhmm. So please, Dorothy Gray when you're ready.

Okay. I'm gonna move so that we can see better. Mhmm.

It's all important, Keith.

K. I have a brief update about the library budget. Okay. So fiscal year twenty twenty six, twenty seven budget. The city does not expect cuts as you've as you may have heard from other jurisdictions in the area that are looking at cutting.

The city council meeting budget schedules. So last Tuesday was the preliminary review of the fiscal year twenty six twenty seven recommended budget. Tuesday, June 9 will be the presentation of the recommended budget. The preliminary review, the city manager has added in the last few years to give opportunity for city council to see the budget first, with enough time to make any adjustments so that staff has time to go and and make any adjustments. So that's why there's the gap between April 14 and June 9.

So they will hear the recommended budget on June 9, and then the adoption is Tuesday, June 23. I do include, the link to the city's budget web page. It doesn't have the shares on it yet. And so the request that we submitted to the city manager, which the city manager put forth at the preliminary budget in which we'll continue for the June meetings. We, had asked to continue our limited period library security services guard and our limited period half time library assistant.

And just as a reminder, the limited period position are what it means is it's, when it's put forth in the budget, it's for that fiscal year. So it's it's council will if they approve it, then that position will be there for the fiscal year.

Doesn't get auto renewed, so you

have to request it every year.

Right. Right. And then we did ask to continue our contracted security services and to continue, the career success allowance program, which Julian talked about, the stipend program. So we did ask for for that. And then this was approved in last year's budget, but the public works department had put it in for this fiscal year coming up, our automated material handling system.

So that's our big sorting system, which is about 18 years old. So it's definitely, past its its typical use. So that will be one of our big projects this year to replace that system. So it's the sorting system. I think all of you have seen the behind the scenes in the back of customer service.

It includes the the return station out at the main entrance, the inside station, and then the station in the garage as well. And then we will be bringing our request to the friends at their main meeting. And as you know, the friends come to the board to give their updates every fall. And these are some of the requests we will be asking the friends for this year. So for programs, as the team today talked about, our summer reading programs and all of our youth and adult programs.

They typically sponsor a staff in Leadership Mountain View. They're very gracious for hosting a holiday party for the staff. And then the other items, the FOL collection, that's the sort of lucky day collection, the high holds, the popular titles that you see on the book display in the lobby, the online speaker consortium, and some of our digital resources. So this will be our request that we will bring to the friends in May. PBC.

Go ahead. Yeah. Go ahead.

BBC Guru speakers. What is that?

So this is an annual speakers consortium. So if you've attended any not all, but a lot of our online author series that mostly, it's the adult authors is sponsored by The Friends. So it's probably 3 or 4 a month we have, and it's a nationwide program that we it was developed during the pandemic to offer the Zoom online author series, and then it was so popular that they continue can have continued it over the last several years. And we and those are the ones you could go on live, but you can most of them you can watch after, which is which is great.

I was gonna ask about brain fuse, but I was like, that's pricey. But I Yeah. I mean, I guess, I looked it up. It's the tutoring program. I guess

Yeah.

There. And there's a resume component and help with, job seeking and and other other and that was part of the workforce development, that we that we began a few years ago. K. And then lastly, we have our department goals that I had just talked about how we start from the top of what our department goals are gonna be. As you know, at city councils midyear in February, they they asked what it would take and cost for us to expand our Sunday hours.

We brought that proposal to them in February, which they approved at the midyear budget. So we will be, hiring the the additional staff that we need and implementing the two additional Sunday hours, after we hire. So more information, we don't have a set date on that yet. Most likely, we'll probably our hours are one to five. Most likely, we'll probably have Sunday hours being noon to six just so that the closing hour is the same as Saturday just to make it easy for the public to remember.

And then the automated material handling system will be a big project because we'll need public works involvement, IT with some of the technology needs, so that, we'll probably need to do a request, for proposal for that. We assume that may take several months. And then we will, there's a lot of growth and, being developed in the Wizman area. So, the council just approved, I believe, two new housing developments in East Wiseman. So right now, we don't have a bookmobile stop in there.

So as Renee talked about, when we, look at expanding services, what areas can we go to, do we need to eliminate a a stop. So the team will be assessing that and seeing if there's some location over there that we can try. And then next year, we will start planning. So 10/27/2027 is thirty year anniversary of this building. So we will take some time to plan a good event for that. So that's our goals. If there's any questions, be happy to answer.

Are there preliminary ideas about the thirtieth anniversary? What that

No.

And please let send me any ideas you have. We're hoping to have some speakers involve some of our, collaborators and city organizations we work with, the Mount View Historical Association. We, I'm hoping to have one of the public works staff who is retired but worked on this building and knows a lot of history. And so I'm hoping he'll come speak and talk about everything he knows. Yeah. Mhmm. Yeah.

So one idea then, building off what you just said, would be potentially you could do a joint session or, you know, one person at a time. You could do oral history type sessions where the audience could learn kind of Yeah. How how the building came together. You could do maybe, like, the former mayor, a works person, other people, you know, from different

backgrounds. And to build on that, you could offer possibly people's memories of the library and recording those and adding that to the historical collection.

Yes. So that would definitely take a year to prepare Yeah. I agree. To to work on. Thank you.

Anyone else? Any questions about the goals or the budget? Public comments, is there anyone on Zoom? Would any member in person here would like to add comments? Raise your hand.

And then to director Gray again, we're going to do board and staff excuse me, announcements, updates, requests, and committee reports starting with the library director's report.

So I won't go over unless you have questions about the, the printed report that you received, some updates. I will pass this around, and we can send this to you. But I was at a local director's meeting on Thursday and received an update on the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. So I was happy to see that Mountain View has one of the highest participants. So 19.3 percentages percentage of active children are participating in the Imagination Library.

So today at, our library leadership meeting, I talked with the managers about how we can keep promoting it, to get the word out for more participation. Then And then I also learned that and this was a request, I think, from vice chair Weissenbearer about information literacy programs and so forth. So our regional consortium is offering staff trainings to in June, they are partnering with the trust project is what it is to provide information literacy training. The library will close in thirty minutes. All computers will automatically shut down about ten minutes before closing.

Please save your documents to an external drive or print them now. And so the trust project helps people assess the integrity of news worldwide, and they work with civic leaders to help the public rec recognize trustworthy new sites and trustworthy that. So they will be doing free trainings. So we forwarded that to all of our staff, in June. And then there, our regional consortium has also put together a literacy toolkit.

So we're hoping to add some classes here for the public. We've had them in the past, but we're hoping to add add them again with the new toolkit that the that the consortium is providing for us so that, people know how to cite cite proper news, news sources, and and and that kind of thing. Typical in academic where librarians teach information literacy on how to properly cite sources, why a certain site might not be a reputable academic kind of reference for an academic paper and so forth. But, so we're hoping staff will be able to do that in

the near future. Tracy, will that be all geared at adults? Are you gonna take it down to the high school or middle school or Yeah. Good

quest we haven't talked about that yet. So, yeah, hopefully, once they're the training happens, we'll some more insight on how we can do it on all levels. Great. And then Renee Ting who is here, she, just became elected to the board of association for library services to children. So beginning in July, she will be serving on that board, and it's the largest organization, dedicated to the support and enhancement of library services to children.

So we're very excited about that. She'll be attending the American Library Association and doing that business there while she is there, and then attending the other programs as well. And then librarian Renee Kitson, who couldn't be here tonight, she was presenting, over the last few days in Sacramento to for children's services, librarians. And then noted in the director's report, the Friends book sale is May. And May 2, as Katie mentioned, is also, the multicultural event, so it's gonna be busy around here on May 2.

And then lastly, just an announcement from the Friends had their board meeting last week. Pat, Kasner, who's a longtime board member of the Friends, she's the treasurer, was nominated and will be receiving one of the Athena Awards, which is a big annual event from the chamber of March. She will be getting one of the volunteer of the year awards. So very excited for for for Pat to receive that and give some recognition for all the friends too. So that's May 15, at, the Ameswell Hotel.

So excited for for them. That's it.

Excellent. So, actually, now that you mentioned the Imagination Library, I do have a question. It goes back to the budget. I saw that there was line item for the Imagination Library. I'm assuming that that's mainly marketing materials that need to be put up and then assisting with getting books delivered to each household. Is that fair to say?

So, both. Yes. So Santa Clara County Library District is, respond is basically doing the biggest legwork for all of the cities within the county. And the funding so the Dolly Parton Foundation matches, and then the local organizations find it's I believe it's about a little over a dollar. It's like a dollar 20 or something.

It's a real small amount that the local organizations pay per per child. So the Dolly Parton Foundation does their own, fundraising, and so the local organizations do part of that and then some of the marketing. And so the Santa Clara County Library District found, their foundation covered a lot of the expenses this year and found that they're funding through their friends. And so at our meeting, we talked about just to be able to sustain it longer. So what I'll be proposing to their friends is if they elect to contribute to that, then anything they contribute will go to just Mountain View kids.

So, however, that it's just to help with the the contribution, so the match of the of the program.

K.

Anyone else? I have a question about the, the SAP that went to the Public Library Association Conference. I think my spot is it Rick and Charles?

Yes. So I I was trying to zoom in. It was. So Ashley Lang, our adult Rick who was here, Renee Ting who was here, Katie who was here, and then Charles Mosner. So, luckily, we were able to, increase our staff development funds over the last few years because, as you know, we've hired a lot of new librarians, new to the city.

And so, we've had a lot of interest to attend the the conferences. So we were able to send, five of them to the conference this year. Yeah. And they were they were all they actually yeah. I said you sometimes you go to conferences and you don't even run into people because they're so big, but they I was happy they got this photo, and they they they got together and maneuvered who go into what programs because there's often programs at the same time. So they all got a lot about out of it. So It

was really helpful to hear Rick talk about also going to his conference. Yeah. So really happy to hear that there are opportunities for professional development. Yeah.

And it's great that there's a focused conference for just the bookmobile site.

I haven't been there till today. Right?

The ABOES conference is Association of Bookmobile and Outreach Services. So the staff have been going for the last few years. In fact, they when we especially when we knew we were getting the new Bookmobile, that was where they started, was at that conference to get to know other other libraries and companies that provide bookmobile. So that's kind of where they they started off that. So, yeah, definitely a lot a lot of benefit for attending the conferences.

It's so great for staff morale to be able to do that, to get away. They do that for many years. Only these supervisors. Yeah. Had had funds to go and some to have other staff be able to go.

Yeah. And they get to see other libraries, so they got to visit the Minneapolis libraries. See what they're doing also, and visit the, they all visited the, vendor area, so they got to see a preview of some of the automated material handling systems, so get a little information and ideas.

Here's a random question. Have you had much impact from the loss of the parking lot?

Oh, that's right across the street.

Yeah. It you know, so far, I should ask you all that coming here. You're really gonna park downstairs. You know, it it's definitely an overflow. We'll see on nights where we have an event in center for performing arts, but so far, it's been okay. It's been okay. Yeah.

Yeah. I found a spot in our outside walk just fine. Good. Didn't Didn't have a waiter in.

Yeah. I think the tree lighting in December, but I think you all decided not to meet that night. So you made the good decision because parking here during that is

That'll a challenge thing.

Yeah. That's what I know the most.

Yeah. Challenge would be good. Sure. Any other questions, comments? Anyone on Zoom? Any member of the public would like to comment? I

hope that it rained tonight if I find

a good parking space closer.

Alright. Well, with all that said, thank you everyone for attending. I especially appreciated the staff presentations. The next library board of trustees meeting will be Monday, 03/18/2026 at 7PM. May 18. And

Sorry. You said March 18, which

Oh, sorry. Monday,

May 18. I meant

to say Monday, 05/18/2026 at 7PM. Good catch. And this meeting is hereby adjourned at 08:39PM.