[Music] This is the September 12th, 2025 meeting of the Kushet Public Library Board of Trustees. We are being audio taped and
videotaped and we do have a quorum. Our first item on the agenda today is the secretar's report from August the 8th. Does anyone have any clarifications or questions about those minutes? Anybody? Motion to accept.
Okie dokie. Second. Yes, you can. Second. All in favor? I I Thank you. Next, we have a budget. Um, we are still
very early in FY26, so there's not much to discuss regarding the budget. Um, we've gone through two pay periods. Um, since our last meeting, um, the building and grounds line, uh, we
had our quarterly bill for the alarm system in the building, and that was for $114. Um, I haven't received August's energy bill yet, so we're still dealing with just July's at this point.
Um, and then in our library gift fund, um, I got the reimbursement from the Kushnet Cultural Council for $2,500. Um, and that was deposited back into our library gift account. As of right now,
we are 21.8% spent for FY26. Any questions on the budget? Yeah, what was up? uh 21.8. Awesome. Anybody have any questions?
No. Okay, I just need a motion. And a second. Awesome. All in favor? I. Thank you. old business summer reading program. So I am just going to wrap up our summer
reading program review over some of the statistics. I know last meeting I uh discussed uh the amount of patrons we had signed up which was 287. I will say we had 11 children's
programs. So these are programs not uh run by the library. These are programs uh run by um outside uh presenters uh or performers. Um in total we had about four uh 542
um patrons who attended uh all 11 programs or across 11 programs. Um all of the children's programs were paid by from the from the friends of the Kushinet Public Library and their summer
reading sponsors. So, uh, a so in total, uh, those programs cost the friends $4,180 and that was all funded, foot the bill by the friends group and their sponsors.
Um, and the friends also um, so the the prize cut that we had for those who were above nine through adult, they get scratch tickets. The prizes on that cart were also funded um by the f uh friends
of the cushion at public library. So $200 went to uh prizes on the cart. And what I did this year is I bought um board games uh from Five Below. It went really well with the theme for summer reading and they were the first to leave
off the carts. Awesome. Um, in addition to that, we also had books that we gathered over the over the previous year from a free read serve or just donations. Um, and then
the friends also um gave us $250. So those scratch tickets who do not win get entered into a second chance raffle. So, we had 10 $25 gift cards to a Cushion Crearyy that the friends paid for and 10 of the winners were chosen.
Um, and so in total over $500 was uh donate uh given by the friends for prizes uh for summer reading. And then uh Kushna Cranery also gave um us 150 coupons. So when you sign up for
summer reading um you get a free kitty cone at a cushion and crearyy. And uh we also had the rescue cafe in Fred Haven. They also gave us um coupons for a free
shaved ice at their cafe. But that was done uh through they have to turn in a little project that we had. So, if you're familiar with the Flat Stanley project where you take him and take him everywhere, write something about him.
We did a a similar um project with the logo from this summer reading, which was Gordon. Um so, I know it means nothing cuz like, okay, Gordon, but anyway, he's a a children's book character. And um we what we did was they created a flyer
with Gordon on it. They could take Gordon anywhere, write what Gordon did with them. We had 45 of those returned. Awesome. Yes. So, some were colored, some were just they were amazing. My favorite one went to Margaritavville, though. Okay.
And um they was 26. Yeah. They um so all we kept them all, put them on the back side of the children's room door. At the end of summer reading, uh we had them taken to
the rescue cafe and Jodie was in tears. Oh, they told she wrote a nice little social media post. Oh, that's so nice. About reading the the summaries of our of the Gordens of where they went. So, it worked out really really well and um
I hope they enjoyed their uh pre-shaved ice there. Um so, I think that's it for the the children's uh part of summer reading. Um and then our summer concert series. So we had seven seven summer
concerts uh on Wednesdays and then we had one play music on the porch which was on the last day of August. That was completely paid for from a mixture of the friends of the Kushnet public library, the local cultural councils of
a Kushnet Freetown in Rochester plus the Kushnet Lions Club. So all the money donated from them went to the summer concert slash play music on the porch. Um, so we roughly had over a thousand
people attend our concerts during those weeks. Um, and we roughly had between June through halfway through August, roughly 7,164 patrons who visited the library.
Wow, that's a lot. It is absolutely. That's why it's our busiest time. And um, now it's, you know, the opposite. It's getting quieter. So, that's a little wrap up of our summer reading. So, what I printed for you, um, is something I posted on
social media and I think I posted a newsletter. Let me draw a blank. Um, just explains what I just said. And, you know, a little snapshot of our summer reading uh, program this year. Any questions on the summer reading? Uh, any
thoughts or, you know, suggestions maybe we can do different next year? Um any and you did that. I'm open 10. I think you did. Congratulations. Right. I think you did really well. I mean I don't know how you can top that. I don't know.
Crazy. Thank you to all of the sponsors um you know to help make all this possible and you know obviously to the staff who you know worked hard. Oh yes. Very hard. They all 7,000 people. That's a lot of people.
But absolutely. I mean that's that's fantastic. Those tools success. Yes. So now you'll wait a couple days and start on Yeah, we're looking into next year who to book, what the theme is, what can we do? Uh I really want to do the Well, we can't use Gordon because he's not the
theme next year. Next year the theme is plant a seed, read, which is perfect for a Christian cuz it is uh farm related. So you'll have to figure out something, right? You'll have to figure something
like Gordon to be able to, you know, take around cuz that's kind of cool. We'll have to plan it, which is the fun part. And we'll we'll see. But we'll take a little little break from from summer right now, but I feel like the name, too. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. This one was more gaming and it's it was fine, but it's not as easy as play to see green. That one I think is brilliant and easy to work with. Well, congratulations. Absolutely.
Thank you. All right, we'll move on to uh building maintenance projects. So, this is just updates on some items that have been spoken about over year I guess or for some of these. Um,
so, um, I will talk about the most recent one, which was last meeting we discussed the dehumidifiers for Pioneer Basement. The board voted to go ahead and replace it. I've been fighting back and forth with them to get an invoice of
so they won't do any work until we get a 50% deposit down. So, the town wants an invoice sewing the 50% so that way we can pay. uh wrote to them, wrote to to the person that I've been speaking with. He was
like, "It's this." I'm like, "No, it's not. I need something else." So, I wrote in the assistant accountant. She replied, she called, and I haven't heard back yet. So, I giving it a little bit more time because um one, we do have one
working in the basement right now. It's not as humid. Um but if it keeps going, I'm going to seek elsewhere. Um it's and you know they keep sending me you need to apply for um financial. I'm like we have an
established account here. I just paid the bill for the maintenance fee. So why is this such an issue? So uh we'll see. So okay. Yes. So, um, on the exterior of the
building, uh, while I was outside during the friend sale, so I was here during the friend sale, I came in at 8 to open the building so that they could set up. So, we were outside and when you're outside for a bit, you start to notice things. And so I, you know, I know I've mentioned this, but the window sills
were peeling, but when I looked at them on the weekend, it drastically changed from the last time that I really observed them. Um, so I wrote an uh an
email to the maintenance foreman and um uh in two days they were painted. Well, look at that. Wow. Yes. So I came in, he was sanding them. Um, and that afternoon he came back afterwards, painted it, and it dried
super fast. So they were able to do along the front of the building and the side of the building where you need a ladder to get to. So that is taken care of. It looks so much better. Um, but it's just amazing how quick that the
paint was so dry and chipped. And it wasn't that bad. I sw I I swear it would be that bad. But um they've been repainted. Um while it was here, I also I've had some complaints from staff and notice
patrons who have strollers going into the children's room that where the door is, the two sliding doors, there's a threshold that is slightly lower. So things get stuck on it. So, I mentioned it and then um we Matt had some
suggestions and he was going to work on it. So, I came in this morning and Rick was like, "Oh, there's something installed." I'm like, "What? What was installed?" So, he came I guess they came in this morning and put a
threshold, a wooden threshold into the bar that is there now. It's very hard to describe. You have to see it. So, that was taken care of. So now there's no there's I mean there's it it it things aren't getting caught. Oh god. So it's
it's a slightly like this now. It's a piece of wood but it's screwed in so wheels could go over it. Got it. Yes. Um the big test would be when a stroller comes in. You know there's no strollers lying around here so I can't see. Right. Um but it was a solution. Um we'll see
how it goes. Um, and then, uh, back to painting. While I was outside on Saturday, our book drops are horrible looking. I don't know what happened this summer, but the paint on the the maroon
paint on our book drops, so those book drops are made out of metal, is completely peeling, white, faded, you name it. It's doing everything all at once. the yellow in the middle completely perfect. So I reached out again to a maintenance foreman and he
said that those were painted at an auto body shop when we moved here. That seems like a really big um big project. Um they're bolted in there, you know, into the grounds. Who would pick
that up? Who would carry it up? Who would even do it in auto body shop? So I'm like, can they just be painted, you know, Rustoleum or something to just paint it so that way it doesn't look like an eyesore? So, um, that's what I I I said. Um, and that right now is up in
the air as to what paint if it's going to be done. Um, but it's something that I think needs to be done sooner because it does not look nice. Um, while also on Saturday, I there was a
lot of observing on Saturday. um our so I previous to the jewelry sale I went ahead and trimmed the lower branches of our tree because it was really low and I know the friends wanted to use the area for the tables so I went out there and
chipped away. It was it was fun and um but the other tree now you do landscaping. I you blow me away. issues. Well, I actually it was two weeks ago when I did it cuz Lori was here and she was like, "You were outside for an hour. What were
you doing?" I like and then I ended up pulling the flower bed. I call you a prairie woman over there, right? You never And I was wearing Yeah. Oh, yeah. So the so the tree so the the the tree furthest so the tree on
the north side is it was trimmed uh by um the senior worker who was here but it's getting to the point where it's reaching the gutters in the side of the building and it's really low hanging so it needs to be trimmed this tree there's
some bigger dead branches so I went on the town's website and I'm like well you know there has to something here like the DPW or or or who who treat who trims the trees in town. Like I don't think I should be going to
get a company to do that. Tree water. That's what I thought. But I guess there's no tree w cuz I could have sworn there was a tree warden when I there was one. There he passed away. Oh. So that's uh because we used to have
trees on the driveway and then I could have the tree were they were diseased or something and this was way back in 2017. They got rid of them because they were sick. Um but I found on the town website that there is a form to request tree
trimming. So you know if on town property I'm like well we are on town property. Yes. So, I reached out to the assist town assistant to see if the form was still valid. Um, I reached out twice. I haven't heard
back yet. So, that's still in the air. But, um, I know everyone's busy. U, but if it's something that could be done through the town, it should be done. I don't want to go pay for a landscaper or
an artist to look at the trees. um before you know those trees hit the building. I mean there one of the gutters already the gutter rail or whatever it's called. It's in the gutter. One of them came out. It's in my office. So the tree must
Don't climb up there. No, no, no. No ladder climbing. Okay. No, no ladder climbing. All right. Whether you're in a dress or not, there's no ladder climbing. Definitely not. Okay. I will not do that. Just making sure. No. even though S did it the other anyway. Oh goodness,
I didn't want to fill out reports for that. No. Um, and lastly, the flower beds. So, I last year we had the Boy Scouts do a fall cleanup and they mentioned mulch if that would be something done. Um, so I
reached out to them again uh this uh this week. I got it answered today that they would be interested in doing it in November after they do other projects and that mulch would be um okay. Um so
you know the flower beds and mulch were also discussed at the friends meeting and one of a new friend mentioned this company called chip drop. So, it's a group of arborists who drop free mulch,
which is really cool. So, the issue is is they drop 20 cubic feet of mulch. And I have no clue how much mulch that is. Isn't it yards? 20 yards. That's a lot of mulch. That's a lot of mulch. That's a lot of mulch. That's a lot of mulch.
Okay. So it probably cuz mulch would be a fl a front under the tree under the other tree under a sign. So they drop it for free. You don't know when they drop it. You just have to mark where you want it. Um I thought it was really neat, but
I'm like I don't know how much mulch this is. Like when I think that's a lot of mulch. Okay. Yeah, you can probably fit like two yards in the back of a pickup truck. So that's like 10 pickup trucks worth. Oh my god. No, we don't need that. And that's the minimum they'll drop. Yeah.
So really cool. If anyone has a lot of property, can they drop it at multiple locations? Because if they can drop it. So what happens is they must have cut trees in the area and then they just drop it, you know, instead of offloading it wherever they offload it. And they do say that some of the mulch has some
twigs and it sticks in it. And you can also get logs if you want. No, we just want mulch. There might be some pieces of garbage. So, it's really raw, but it's free. And I and I think it it was really neat. But I thought, okay, they could put it like in front of the building under the
tree, but that would reach the Very true. Yeah. So, we might have to I'll just scrap that idea. It's wonderful. And um the friends were interested in or I'll ask the friends to see if they would like to purchase bags. Um then it becomes a
question of how many bags. But um I will I'll reach out to the Boy Scouts uh when it comes time to see if they have an idea of how many bags it would require. Okay. Um but when they do do it, I'm going to have them trim the the giant bushes that
are outside. Um and uh you know, clean up everything that's there. And by then, the leaves will be on the ground, too, cuz they're already starting. All right, I think that's it for building updates. Um, probably forgetting something.
What about the um what about the signs? So, I didn't write this down in the director's book. The other day, actually was last week, we had a patron come in and they were like, "Do you know your sign's crooked?" And I'm like, "Yeah, the big one. Yeah, the one out front."
He's like, "Do you mind if I look at it?" I'm like, "Won't hurt it." So, so he he I guess this is what he does. So he came in the following day self-sufficient, had tools, buckets. He's like, "What I'm going to do is I'm going to dig a hole and I'm going to put
rocks in there." So he came, he was digging, digging, digging, digging. And what he found was that the sign is cemented in the bottom. Like it's a giant pedestal cemented. So who he could not do anything. Which leads me to
believe that when the sign was put in there, it must have settled crooked. Yeah. and the wind hits it though. So, he couldn't do what he thought he was going to at least help it to to to prop it up. But he did he he did say that there is wood in the columns. We
weren't sure if there was that there is wood in the column. So, this would require a much bigger uh it would require bigger to uh vehicles, tools or um more manpower to fix it. I don't know to be honest with
you. So he couldn't do what it to me. I think it looks better. I don't know if he like slightly like gave it a little push, right? But um he um it was extremely you know he was really kind and was like I'll look at it and he was there digging put everything back and um you know he
couldn't do what he thought he was going to be doing. Isn't there a crack in it anyway? There is a crack. There is a crack. The crack is remaining the same. It's the same size. It's still not It hasn't got any bigger. It hasn't got any bigger. It is lifted on the if you're facing the side on the
left corner, it is lifted because the they put one giant screw going this way as opposed to doing this way. Um but it it that looks the same, you know, unlike the window sills. Um it looks the same. Yes, it is crooked. Uh but it has
been crooked since we've been here. Um um I know I did reach out to point science. They got back to me. Uh Cody was very high for it and then they never got back to me for the other sign over
here, the hour sign. Y um so that kind of just went out the window. Um are you going to look into somebody else to maybe try to get that hour sign done? I I don't know who. No one like I put I
requested information. The thing is it's a small job and and these places don't want to do small. What about um try like Voke or Old Colony? Old Colony has a threeyear weight for things. Threeear wait. That's okay. Well, I mean it's not going anywhere.
No, it's not. And we keep putting um and then you know the friends are you know they do have funds for the building and you know it comes up and like what do you need? I'm like we need a new sign. But I I never, you know, even received a
a a quote or a a draft of what the sign would look like. I don't know if there's any other like sign places that you could you could go to. And there's, you know, there's I mean, got four of them right here. All right. iconic signs and graphics in the buffet.
They have five stars. I I'll show you the list. Okay. Maybe we could just try like just to try to see if we can get I just something like to see what what it you know I mean not that we have to do something about it right away but at least it would kind of give you like a
like a thought on how much a proposal comes you know and then try to see what you know I mean if these people charge you like a crazy amount these people you know you can kind of see what see what what what's out there I mean I
don't know I mean the sign has been repainted so so many times. It's original. I don't know if it's original to Russell Memorial. Um, but it was at Russell Memorial. So, it's I mean, it's solid. It's just It's been redone so many times. And if you look at
it, you can see through the white paint on it. So, and then the hours. I mean, we're pretty good with the hours, I think. So, I think we could probably solidify the hours now versus like what we have over them. That has been the same for a few years right now. I think prior to co so this has been set. So, if
you're good with that, then I would just I am I mean I like the I like the idea of being flexible like holidays or or Oh, yeah. But I think that I mean I think that's you don't need to I mean you want your regular average things and you post I mean you're great about
posting the signs on the doors as far as like we're closed or you know what I mean and even on social media too. So, I don't think if somebody was to drive by like on a, you know, holiday that they would be like, "The library is closed." But,
so, okay. I mean, try to get some stuff. Try to revisit that. Um, the sign is so for both signs like fixing the I mean, it it doesn't hurt to ask. Okay. Like, do you know what I mean, right?
Just to get Okay. I mean, you know what that the first place what you know what they were going to charge you know to fix it and now just see you know if we can get a couple other I mean it doesn't mean we have to do it but at least we could get you know well I mean if you find that the
you know the second or the third places are pretty close to the first quote then you well hey that's got to be about what it is but if they're drastically different then well hey gez we could you know at least it'll get a good idea you know depending on how much it is
maybe we do one sign one year and we do the next sign or vice versa. Or if the crack's not, you know, if it's if it's cemented into the ground and it's not going to fall over, it's not and it's and it's not the crack isn't I mean then that one I mean I it would probably be better to do the the hour
one first, especially if you're going to that just needs to it does the sign physically it sounds like it just needs aesthetically painted. But but if you're fixing up the the book dropy, well then you're going to see that brand new looking book drop with the
curly crappy hour sign next to it. Like so it's kind of like okay well we're going to fix it but then let's do not draw your attention to the so we'll just cover it. Yeah. So I think I mean I think it you know it might be good to kind of get that Mhm.
you know. Okay. That sounds good. Yeah. Why not? Now that we got the flower bed and the I mean hope well be done. You fixed the deck so you're all set. Yeah, we're good. I mean there's not very much left for you to do.
There's always something. All right. Uh anybody else have anything on the on the building maintenance? No. All right. Uh new business is the ARIS report or the um financial. So state aid
requirement is I have to do the errors report which is just statistics over the past fiscal year and the financial report which is financial statistics over the past year. So I'm not going to
bore you by reading everything. Um I just want to just point some things that from the AIS report. So this is regarding um collection count um and circulation
statistics. Everything else is like preset you know address I don't need to read that salaries um this is just to report this is what has happened over the past year to the state. So one big thing this year is that the ebook
collection was no longer part part of the collection count. So for example, uh ebook collection plus physical book collection um it was roughly 6,000 67,321
items last year. This year it was brought down to 13,926. That doesn't mean anything bad. It's just you there's a major difference um because they removed the ebook collection count from that statistic. Um
we roughly added um 633 books uh in print this year. um our total SER, so items being circulated in the library,
um through our patrons, so borrowing and lending, um went up 25,562. Um so that also includes ebook borrows. So this year we uh borrowed and lend 84,27 [Music]
items. Last year it was 81,645 items. Um we also increased our lending to other libraries which I thought was really nice. Um so we lended uh compared to last year we lended uh
the difference was 1,169 and the so this year we lended 8,964 items and the previous year was 7,795 items. Um, which I thought was really
neat that we were uh lending more of our items to other libraries as opposed to borrowing from from other places. Yeah. Um so that's pretty much
it for um statistic purpose uh for for the state aid require for errors. So the the survey part of of items um you know I have copies of this if you want to look at it line by line just to see what
you know what goes on here what's the difference from the previous years um just let me know and I could give you a copy of this um so this has already been submitted it was due oh boy it was due August 15th
now the second part to this is a financial aspect where I report all our financial financial um information uh to the state to to make sure that we're compliant in order to receive state aid. So this is due October 3rd, but I have
completed it. Um it just needs Jen's signature. So the big thing from the financial aspect uh financial part of state aid um is uh making sure we spend uh 16% of our budget on materials. So,
I'm happy to report that we spent $50,74 on uh materials. We in order for us to be compliant uh our 100% uh spent 16% on materials, we would have had to spend
47,782. So roughly we were about $3,000 over from spending. So if those who were here the previous year know I had a bit of a panic. We were I think it was in June May or June I was not even anywhere
close to 16% of spending. So this year I spent a little bit more aggressively. Um it does help that our ebarro so our book our circulation for books and audio books is very high. that does count
towards state aid. Um, so I I put in a few extra thousand into that. Um, so I just want to say that I am I I hit all the targets for um the financial aspect,
you know, in order to in order to receive state aid, you know, you have the library has to be open uh 40 hours, we're open 45 hours. Uh we're open six days a week. Um, and you know, you have to have a librarian with an MLS, a
license, and all of that. So, the big thing here is the 16% which we're we're all set with. So, upon the signature, I'll go ahead and submit this and then they will start awarding awards, I believe, at the beginning of this year
of next year. So, um, that's it for for state aid reporting. Any questions about state aid? And if you want a copy of this, I can happily give you a copy or email it to you. Um, great job on hitting that 16%.
Oh boy. I was I was a bit of a panic last year, so Right. Well, at least you have a plan. Yes. So, you know, Yeah. And I was I was frugal. I you know, it was my first time. Exactly. You know, this year I'm like, well, I need to spend it to get to get it. And you still made it last year. So, you
know, don't discredit that. I mean, you still hit it. So, yeah. Yep. Yep. You hit the mark. So that's good. Excellent. Nope. I think that's good. Thank you. I think um I don't think we don't need to uh we don't need to vote to accept it. So we're good to go there. Does
anybody have anything else on the ARIS? Any questions? All right. We're going to move on to the director's report. Okay. So, um you know, this time of year, you know, it's end of summer, so I'm catching up on things that have been
put aside. So, you know, like building things that weren't urgent. Um, we've started to do some weeding in the library. Um, I have started to apply for local cultural grants. Again, it's that time. Um,
uh, we had an inquiry from a staff member who, um, wanted to know if they could bring Narcan into the to they were trained in it. So I reached out to I will say props to the health department. I reached out
to the pro the health department. I got a reply instantly and asked if that was okay and if we could be trained those who would want to be trained in it could be. So it's we we have two training dates on October 8th and October 10th
and um that we will be uh we will have it in the building. Um we will receive more information that day regarding usage. Um, but I think it's it's something that um, you know, we hope we never ever use, but it's
something that unfortunately in this day and age it it's available. So, and that's training for the staff that wanted not for the public. No, no, sorry. So, it's training for staff members who wanted to do it. It's not a requirement. I reached out who
wanted to do it. Um, some are doing it, others aren't. Absolutely fine. So this will be a it's a in the event um because we are a public building. Y um but it is not open to the public. It is not open to the public. No, this will be training will be done uh before
we open and um doesn't take long and it's done through the southeastern Massachusetts uh public health collaboration. So there's nurses that are are coming to to to show us. Great. Um and that was done super fast
and um it was uh I think it will you know Mhm. Absolutely. Um and then that's basically it for the director's report. You know the usuals here a lot of it was building related. Um I will mention the
two items that we have coming up that are um when so when uh this Wednesday uh the 17th uh fall story time will resume. So, I got my hands on I guess this this
is a PBS show called Peep in the Big Wide World. They uh WGBH was giving uh kits out. So, you would subscribe or you would ask if you could get have kits. So, we were able to receive I believe 30 kits for free. So, they're cute little
bags with this awesome character on it. And then we're going to do two k uh two story times this Wednesday. one at 11 and one at two. So, the kits are it comes with a book, a drawstring bag, some stickers, and all kinds of things. And it's science related. So, Lori is
going to do um it's bug themed, so they'll have magnifying glasses. They get to draw what they see. Yes. So, and we're um you know, this it's sponsored by WGBH Education Foundation and the Krueger Charitable Foundation. So, this is all completely free that all
the kids are in my office and it's um adorable the little character. So, I've been looking to see for for more books for the children's room with with this character. Um and then uh we will have a back to school craft uh next Saturday on
September 20th at 12:30. They're doing the gecko beads. So, it's a key chain of a gecko. They were popular back when I was in high school and they're back again. I actually made the demo out there. It was a lot of fun.
So, um, so that would be a sort of a drop in craft that day. Um, and there'll be also other things that if you don't want to do anything too intense as the gecko, we have other beads, other items that you can make with the beads and it'll be cute to hang on your backpack. And then we do have a Lego club uh
September 24th at 2 originally. It was an early release day from uh the Christian public schools, but it has changed. Um all our calendars went out, our newsletter went out prior to us knowing, so it will be there. Um so
homeschoolers, anyone else are more than welcome to come to the LEGO club at two. We're not going to change it. It just be more confusing. So, that's pretty much it for the director's report. Any questions on the director's report?
I just love seeing what you're doing. It wraps everybody from the youngest to the oldest. Absolutely. Yes. And we will have a coming up. Uh so, in the Thanksgiving uh the week before Thanksgiving, the friends are we
are doing hopefully a centerpiece program. Oh, yeah. But more information to come on that. That'll be exciting. Yes, in our regular programs, you know, our book clubs, our history clubs, they're coming and our outside use of the community room has started. So, the
brownies have been in here. DND was in here last night. So, we're getting back to our regular our regular stuff. So, everyone's coming in to use it. Yep. Sounds good. Yes. Anyone have any other questions, thoughts?
Nothing. All right. Um, we're gonna set the next meeting date. So, our next meeting will be Friday, October 17th at noon. And if we have no other business, motion close.
I second. All in favor? I. Thank you. This September 12th, 2025 meeting of the Accession Public Library Board of Trustees is officially adjourned. It is 12:45. Thank you.
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