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indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. You should see we're on tap. Can we have roll call, please? Yes. Okay. Jimmy is not here.
Bruce present. Jerry said was coming. Yeah. Jerry said he was coming and I think Johanna just Mark just pulled in. Yeah, she's right. Her
present. Sharon present. Mike. present. Okay. Okay. Did I have approval of the June 9th? I think it was June 9th notice meeting notes.
We're all going to be really tired. A long day. Long day on Bruce did first. I'll do a second. All in favor? I along. We are up to library date. Okay.
Um just wanted to give you an update on the uh facility. The proposal from the engineer uh came in and the committee is going to look it over and have a recommendation to you at our September
meeting. It looks very similar to the proposal from Avakian in terms of the windows. Similar price as well to do the bid process. I'm sure it's going to be over 53. The new bid threshold is 53,000. It used to be 44. So, I'm sure
to redo the whole outside of the building is going to be more than that. So, they're going to take care of all that paperwork and everything that needs to be done. And uh again, Johanna, um Sharon and Mike and myself
will look that over. Um and we'll have something for you in September. And that's uh that's pretty much it for the for the facility. I just wanted to make sure you're okay at the next concert. Is it the Paty concert? Which concert historical society?
Uh Pat. So the next Pat Rody concert uh which we're going to talk about later um as well in old business. Just wanted to make sure we don't have to do a resolution or anything. It's okay for the historical society to have a table, right? Okay. You know, anytime we have
an organization here, we always go by um you know, if it's a a town organization, we're very supportive of it. if it's a um if it's a nonprofit and if it's a profit company, just so you know, then
um they they can't be selling their actual product. So, for example, the person that does the Medicare presentation, they can put their card over to the side and reference it, but they can't um you know,
thank you. Solicit their uh whatever it is that they do. And what's good is um Lewis is down here for all those any of the presentations that are done like organizations like that. So um but if it's if it's a nonprofit or like the women's club that's they can you know do
a fundraiser here obviously because they're a nonprofit and because they're Belmar organization. Is this by statute or by our policy? Policy. Okay. Yeah. kind of just kept it the same as the
school with everyone. That's what we did. Yeah. Yeah. Plus, just to let you know, when the women's club does it, they do they walk around with a license. So, just to let you know, any questions? We have the official license. What do you need? My keys. Are they yours? No, they're not mine.
Thank you. Oh, it's main voyage. I'll call you if I don't get up to chance. Is historical society a nonprofit? I'm sorry.
Is a historical society a nonprofit? Yes. Or is it an entity within this within the municipality? No, I believe it's a non nonprofit. I was curious. Yeah. I don't know. Question. Yes.
What exactly are you getting the bid on? How would you say what it is you're getting the bid on for the exterior? It is the envelope improvements. I'll go. Okay. Thank you. Okay.
Um and that's that's really it for what is the historical society doing? Are they just saying, "Hey, we're in town. We right down the street." What they requested is that they would like to uh uh um uh solicit uh donations for their uh for for their activities.
So when they uh so when they set up they would be uh we would like reference and hey the belt historical site is here if you support their activities uh they're they're uh they're accepting donations and people are will be free to donate
whatever they wish. And they'll have a little display up as well. Okay. And that's it for me. Why don't we I'm going to um Deb, can you go? Sure. Just a couple of quick things. I
just want to remind everyone about the um that our teen book club is up and running. It's going very well. Uh Katherine Quinn is wonderful. The students over there, they just love her. So, she's doing well. They're going to finish out this month. They're going to
take a hiatus for August because the kids will have between their sports and vacations and things like that. And then they'll pick back up in September. So, we just wanted to keep you updated on that. And if you're ever around when they're here, you have to come in because watching them is is just a joy.
So that's going very well. Is that something that can a snippet could possibly be put on our website like a little video just to entice you get waivers? Yeah, absolutely. And a lot of the schools have the waivers
anyway, but just to have it for here. Yeah. Yeah. But I just thought that could entice maybe the next group. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. What is the hour number? They they meet on Tuesdays at 4:00 and then they go on to whenever they're done. Sometimes an hour, sometimes a little more. It depends on what they're doing.
But um yeah, they seem to be enjoying it. And it's it's just it's a lot of fun. So that's good. Uh the other thing is just another kind of a reminder that the summer reading is up and running and it's really very cute. It's going very well. Uh this is the third summer. The
first summer we had 33 kids register and 18 or so finished it to the end. The second summer we had about 38 kids register and then we got about 20 20 to the end. And this year we've got 43
signed up. So, and I'm hoping a lot will make it to the end. But I think we're going to have more make it to the end because if you go upstairs, uh you'll see we have a a string hanging where the kids are taking their pictures with their books at the different sites around town and uh we're hanging them up
as they come in. So, it's it's good. And they seem to be into it. We got a lot of pictures up there. So, we're hoping for a strong finish in September. All right. And uh the last thing is just the update on all of that patron update. Uh we finished all the updating. Where we're
at now is uh we're getting patrons trickling in with oh my card isn't working and uh so we can say oh okay let's update all your information and get everything more accurate. So it it we had a June 30th deadline to get it
all done and we got it all done thanks to Donna mostly. Donna Fork worked very hard on this. She's she took it on as her personal project. So, she really worked hard on it and got it done. So, we're pretty accurate now. We just have um whoever we're missing any information
from, whether it's we're missing a phone number or the address is impartial or email, anything missing now, we're updating as people call us to uh you know, find out why their card's not working. So, that's about it.
And we've had a couple out of the area that we figured out that they're using it. um you know without a have weren't paying for a card um one from Canada right we get from everything
but we're getting we had people who we said well you live in Delmar the fee is $40 and some people come in get the card pay the $40 others say oh all right and they don't come back uh but um but it's working okay and everybody's uh understands I think now
we had one person in particular who came in from Wall and um she didn't expect that she would have to pay for the card and we explained you're entitled to a Mammoth County card and you get it for free. Delmo resident
would have to pay I think it's up to 125 now for a Mammoth card and so you know that's the reason and now we also understand that even if you pay the $125 in Mammoth you still don't get access to their ebooks it's just a use of the library
just the hard copies so uh when they know that they can use pay the $40 and use the ebooks with us then they know it's an easy or if they're living in Lake Ko they sometimes they don't realize that they can get the Bmouth County and we explain explain it to them.
Yeah. So, everybody's being educated, including us. And I understand you have two two new members upstairs. Oh, yes. We have our um our uh we're growing butterflies upstairs. We have the little uh I don't know what
do you call that thing? Like an aquarium. Like an aquarium, right? But not Donna brought in uh the milkweed with the caterpillar eggs on them. And uh two of them are already they're up there in the crystallis and we're on watch. She
put out an email today to tell everybody what to do if they should hatch. Call me. Don't touch them. So, and the kids love the kids names. Yes. that that I think is great. And they come in and we pulled um Joyce went and pulled all whatever books we had on caterpillars and put them up
there by the by the case. So, it's it's fun. So, we're all going to be parents, Courtney's grandparents, so it's fun. And that's about it. All right. Subject subjectively, are there a lot of people um that take exception to defeat?
Is it? No, I have I had one person push back until I said you are entitled to a free card at Mammoth. So, no one you can't argue with that. Once you come back with that, oh, I didn't know that. So, we have not had
any. We even had a a woman came in um the other day from Spring Lake, uh Spring Lake Heights, and she was bringing her grandsons in who don't live here, and she wanted a card, and I told her that out of Lake Ko is $40, but we
do offer a summer card. That was one of the things we came to. So, I said, "You can get a card for them to use for the summer and that'll expire September." She said, "Oh, fine. That's great." And she, you know, so I don't think we haven't had anybody
complain. Especially when we explain the situation. Oh, yeah. Are people electing not to not to renew their car now that they have to pay? Not yet. Oh, we haven't had any um we just had that one person who just came in and I don't know where they Oh, yeah.
Uh who filled out the form and everything and then whoever it was working that day said, "Oh, it's $40 out of Lake." And they said, "Oh, okay. I'll come back. It's still sitting there. They haven't come back. So, we'll see. But we haven't had any issues. What is the fee for the uh card like you
said for the 20 20? Just for the expires September, right? September. For the summer card. Yeah. And those cards um we we are we have not been uh registering in books. It's
simply to use the library for the summer. Nice. Oh, Louis. Oh, sorry. I'm sorry, Louis. Okay. Um, all right. I have a gave out a little packet for you. A quick uh summary of the events that happened since we last
met. Um, among was uh the summer kickoff concert was the big one. Over 650 people uh uh attended that last. We had the hot dogs and the uh the pizza served. The pizza was gone like within 15 minutes. The hot dogs lasted a little longer, but
they all went as well. Uh, and as as for those who were there, you know, that was a pretty great concert right there. Um, the the living history series went off. The remaining ones went off uh very well, fairly well attended. They were both here at the library because uh
summertime at Taylor Pavilion, it's difficult with parking and stuff. And uh luckily the the the level of attendance was such that this room was able to accommodate them easily. Still it was a full house 27 for one and like 32 for the other one. Uh so gener was amazing.
I mean she did a great job. Um uh the other big event was the Junth celebration concert went off very very well. Uh orchestra played very well. Everyone loved the spoken word poet. Uh James Ellerby did a fantastic job. uh in
uh in his uh in his delivery which is fantastic. Um I have the attendance uh report analysis report uh attached to the packet so you can see more details as the attendees. Okay. Um and the the summer concert for Tommy B and EC has
been rescheduled to August 7th. I didn't put that on the frame there. And uh and uh the Beach Music Studios kids rock band was cancelled due to weather. We're still working on the date for that. We're going to I'm sorry to interrupt, but July 26th and we're either going to
there's three possible four possible locations cuz came up with ideas. Uh either having it here and I'm because of what I'm going to talk to you about with the noise violation. Um I thought, you know what, one less concert here on the law might be better. So he
said, hey, we would love to do it at the school. the school didn't have a a board meeting, but then it did. So, that's a possibility. Uh, but we can also we have already scheduled the plaza is open if we want to use it. And then the other thing Dan just threw out the other day
is, hey, let's have it at Circle Friends. So, uh, you know, somehow I'm still talking to them. So, just so you know, as long as you're okay with either one of that, whatever they want to do, we're paying for the band, you know, uh, it's going to be a it's going to be a hit no matter where we are. I'll talk
about the that's that's the beat the beach music band. His kids music students right now. Yeah. And and that was a that was a ring to um so I have attached the flyer with the
updated dates for the remaining concert series so everyone knows when the remaining concerts are. Okay. I'm particularly looking forward to the Black Friday band. Yeah. And as promised for the egro events, we're going to get two for the johns for
that one because they deserve they they um so we have um uh we have several events in currently in development right now uh that I just want to highlight for you guys real quick and that is Hispanic Heritage Month which runs from September 15th
through October 15th. We have two events uh scheduled for that. We have the field day which is going to be Saturday uh September 20th going to be here on the library lawn. We have a number of different activities that we're going to be running that day including a couple of craft events. Uh we have the the
soccer kickoff and we're going to have two trails. One for u the wonders of South America and another trail for the um for uh Hispanic American personalities. Um like like a trail of honor so to speak. So we're going to
highlight like say up to eight individuals and each one of them will get their own sports trading card that can collect and take away with them. So you know kids can tra they can trade their Shazar shave for for a Ricardo Montabon if they want you know. So so
we'll see. So we got So it's going to be fun. What's the time on that? That's going to be 10:00 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thank you. Okay. Um, and then we have a Spanish cultural celebration event similar to what we do with Diwali and Chinese New Year. So that's currently set for
Tuesday, September 30th at Taylor Pavilion in the evening. And then we have the Diwali celebration which is early this year. That's going to be October 16th at Taylor Pavilion. And finally, the uh we have the Saturday, October 25th. Um we have the beach
readers fall book fair as well. And already I have uh a growing list of authors calling me to participate in this one which is great. So look we'll have another full house of authors and although not listed in here we are also
having our slate of um of live animal series as well having November and December but I can tell you more about that at the next meeting. Good question. The uh times uh the Hispanic celebration are on the 30th. That was 6 p.m.
Yes. Okay. And the Diwali on October 16th again 6 p.m. Thank you. Um I had a question. This was something I think I brought up a couple of years ago when we talked about some of the events that we have.
It's nice to get feedback and I talked about maybe creating like a little postcards or something that people could just quickly put something together. Yeah, we do have those postcards. uh we neglected pretty helpful last time we could bring I think for all of the historian ones
especially because I know that we tend to you tend to pick who who we're going to have the next time right it might be something that they might want to pick you know like I know you've already thought of someone and I thought of someone and right it could be that the audience wants to see something different okay
you know a different female a different male whatever so I think that way we're really including the community as to what they're looking for rather than what we're just presenting I'm sure they've loved everything that we've had so far, but you know, maybe they want to see Bessie Coleman instead of whoever, right?
There were a couple I think she was mentioning um when Daisy was talking and she was talking about a cowboy, a black cowboy. Yeah. Who was a woman, you know, and I was thinking Beyonce, but not exactly not. No, no, no, it wasn't. But that's what stuck in my head so I could remember
that she had. So that might be something even if we put something on our social media, you know, as to so that we get people to comment. We've done that before. We just got to get back. Yeah. I already have I already have it.
Just so they can and then just hand them in and then we can kind of look for the next time. Okay. to see what's next here. Okay, I guess it's my report anyway. Um, I'm Yes, Darling is going to do the
treasur. So, our budget amount was $973,580. Spent to date was $257,613.7. Waiting to pay the vendor is $50,6916. So, um, with the spent to date and the waiting to pay the, um, vengeance is
$38,223, which gives us a balance of $665,357.77. Questions? Just wondering, maybe now we can order more pizzas. You're getting an answer in that much slow.
Yeah, it's amazing what gets new pepperoni. Turkey pepper. We had talked about this was a while back also was maybe getting another shed. I know this is probably in business, but you know, we we always need a spot to put all of the paper goods and all of those kinds of things
that need to be kept dry and so on and so forth. So it might be something that we kind of revisit. Think sidebyside sheds or something like that. So you can keep library stuff versus event stuff. It's getting a little I know. I'll have to bring that. It will be more
than a thousand. So I'll bring it to you guys. What uh just real quick if you don't mind me asking because we were so quick on the food. Do you want me to get more food or is that is that fine? What we had? I mean we because it's fine. Fine. Right.
Okay, good. Good. That's what I was hoping. Cuz I I want to I don't want it to get too much. And the early bird catches the worm. So, you know, those that came late, sneez. So, uh Okay. So, then a couple of things
that I had suggestions or or questions about. I wanted to know how our test. Sure. Uh David, so what are we tracking? About 275 on budget surplus for the year. What part? What am I thinking? It's so we're we're spent 308. So we're
probably tracking about 275 budget surplus. Yeah, I think we're be probably we'll probably probably be somewhere around um six maybe um five if we're not if you don't count if we don't get this into the budget the envelope
about um 600 probably be spending. Is that what you're about 375 or so based on just typical operations and programming you're aware of? Yeah, understood. Yes. And it could be it could be less than
that, but you know, that's what I was thinking about. And plus, you have the new things that you have coming up, the events. Have they all been budgeted in already or? Yeah, but it's it's been Yeah, I'm comparing it to last year.
Okay. Uh, a couple of questions that I had because I really don't have official report. Um, I noticed on the website, which I really like. Website's looking great. It's looking really good. Um, Frey Freing that was supposed to be taken off,
uh, F A D I N. Technically, it's still good because it's it's sort of like Hoopla in that you paid we paid into it, but because it was never used, it's still there. We It's like a Do we have an expiration date as to when
subscription? downstairs. So, it's still good. So, it's still an ebook. Yeah. Um, I wanted to know how the summer hours were going. I know that was something that we talked about. I really I think consistency is is
important and we we really can't guess. No, you can't. Well, the weather's been because it's even in the in the evening sometimes in the summer, you you have people that are rushing in to get something done for the next day
electronically or grabbing a book or something. It's it's fairly hard to judge. And I think, you know, because we were and and I'll take the blame for this. was changing and trying to make the hours uh match what you know
how community used. I think consistency is important, you know, like, you know, and they they like I even I even would love to have it open from, you know, 9 to 7 Monday through Friday, but I think that's a little bit of of a
waste on Friday night 5 to 7. But if we find that people are here at 5:00 on Friday, I would and if I can get someone to work, you know, 9 to 7 and then weekends it's 9 to 2, we have the best hours really in the state and people love it. They love
knowing that they can come here and not only come here but get support. There's always someone here to support them. So if if Lewis is not here, Laura um is here, meaning technology. Um we still have that on Sundays.
Yeah. Yeah. People can come in and they can uh ask for support. Laura's right there to walk them through. I was also wondering how many because we had some hot hot days. Was it being used as a cooling center? couple people. Okay. So, it wasn't because I know it's
it's labeled as as one. So, I just wanted to make sure the people were aware. Not that we want everyone coming in just to suck in the cold air. As long as it's on Gloria's radar. Can I just ask that same question in a slightly different manner? Um when you
look at our budget, basically payroll is what we dial. You know, payroll is directly tied to our open hours. Do you feel that we are being responsible in your opinion with regard to the cost associated with the hours that we're providing to the community?
Absolutely. The reason I say that is in the past we had um situations where we were open later where it wasn't being used at all. We had one person here and we have some
situations sometimes where there's people that come and and uh you know the police come in and and um so in terms of the increase in the hours um it's mainly because we're we're requiring two people at all.
Understood. Understood. Then the hours um people are loving I moved it to 10:00 just when I first came here because it um because the other libraries were 10:00 but when we went back to 9 there's people here
at the at at the door um and then in terms of um on weekends we have similar numbers on Sunday that we have on Saturday. Mhm. So, I really think that the the fact that we're open every day and it's
consistent, it other than obviously people are coming to to grab their books uh for enjoyment, but there's also a large percentage of of our patrons that come here for really for this being a support hub of the community. I think we can we're going to do an even better job
of it. But right now, at least that um being open more and having people here that are that are friendly and knowledgeable to help them that it's so noticeable that they are so um thankful for this. Again, that's that's my view where I
would like to see. But in context, two hours a week comes to $2,500 a year, which is two or three of the concerts. you know, I would rather the money be spent having facility accessible to people but in the context of other programs for
doing um that's where focusing on finances. Sorry, can I try to draw? No, no, same thread. Um I know that Mr. Ray had a disappointing attendance and
um I'm trying to figure out what ways we can better get kids here. Yeah. Well, you know what it was with Mr. Ray? Mr. Ray was it sounded like a great idea, but there was mass confusion over because we used him the day of the
summer reading kickoff and Mr. Ray, right? And Mr. Ray appeals to the younger ones. So what was happening was the older kids older the kindergartener now um who signed up ahead of time for summer reading came to
get their summer reading packets and went on their way. They they the older ones had no interest in Mr. Ray and some of the other ones hung around but there was a lot of confusion about that and I think it was the way we put it out there. I don't think uh so for example a
lot of people signed up for summer reading that day because when they saw the Mr. Ray thing they didn't read past that to see that it was summer reading so they didn't sign up ahead of time so it was kind of a a a messaging problem and
I also think having done it and I'm glad we did it because I think um because I would never do that again only because the audience is just so different. Um, but Mr. Ray is worth it if we can
get him. You like when we did the Christmas thing with Mr. Ray, he got a great turnout for that. So, um, as far as using Mr. Ray, I think it's great. And I think we can find other times to market him and use him differently, but not tied in.
My my observation on that, too, is like having an eight-year-old, right? Burnt down after camp. I'm burnt down after a beach or whatever we're doing. When we have a concert like this that caters to the large format and we have a
narrow target demographic to attend, we're already setting ourselves up for limited numbers. And I can say that like this time of year, the little ones are spent. They're not always going to make it to a concert anyway. You know, Mr. Ray I really enjoyed at the talent pavilion and he seemed more
suited toward that smaller venue and that worked really well with that time of year. But we we should be strategic in and look at how use those demographic targeted entertainment options. It was the trying to combine those two
audiences didn't work. Yeah. So, but we can work with the school better in terms of he's very popular up north in the schools and and and I when I guess it was was it Joyce or Don Joyce
and she was telling me how, you know, he's there every year all the schools and everything. Not really around here. So, so one of the things is to I'll talk to Jimmy about, you know, seeing if if they want to have him because if we have him over there and he's glove, then the kids will
come that remember him from the school. Yeah, we go fishing. Yeah, we're just fishing. Yeah. Yep. Speaking of fishing. Yeah. Fishing club. Good. Yeah. Yeah, it's um it worked out well in
terms of you know us paying for it and whatnot. And I don't know, he has not talked to me about the budget for next year. So that's something I'll I'll have to do actually. Let's see if that has to go into the budget this year. Y the uh teacher that uh leave
Yeah, I know. Okay. Yeah. Yep. Got it. But they will have somebody. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, we should have gotten some fish at least, you know. Yeah. Potential release. Potential release. Responsible fishing. Just a picture. You know, responsible fish. You know, we put the little picture up.
We last trip. Last trip to Lake Como. No one pardon me. Look at the annual Belmont Library fish fry. How about that? Oh, no. Those kids would be very upset if you were. Hey, fish fry. Bradley Beach Fire Department has one and they make just,
you know, off uh they make a tremendous amount. Oh, I heard it was well attended this year. It's ex very well. Very well attended. $10 or $14 you can eat. Oh my goodness.
They lose money on you, right? Do we still have a mobile um projection screen? Yes. Okay. So, I have a followup. Wait. Screen or projector? Screen. We used to have a screen. Remember when we did over at the church, we had the screen set up for whatever
the Christmas movie was that we showed um uh Polar Express. Had to think of the first. Okay. Yeah. Well, the big screen always assemble for each. Yeah, we have that. That's all right. So, I don't know, but I thought maybe before school started, we could maybe
have a outside movie if and if the weather's bad, of course, inside. But I thought it would be nice. I think it's a little short notice to try to do that. Think so. And to get it out to the kids, we have to do that. It'd be a bit overlapping with the with the Well, I know they got rained out once, I
think. However, along that line, you know, uh you know, Debbie and I were talking about we're going to change up this year instead of a Halloween and Christmas movie like we did in the past because we're kind of running out of movies, you know. Uh we're going to try and do something more interactive that uh for
the kids that is going to tie in with some kind of a literary work. For example, we're looking at a slending Sleepy Hollow for Christmas or something along those lines. Okay. And then for Christmas, um there's a there's a couple of other opportunities come across like
either the Polar Express or something else. Something that engages them in in a literary work that's actually interactive, more fun, exciting. So something a little different. That's what we're developing as well at Daniel. So we we we pay for the licensing to be able to provide the
correct. Yes, we do. We we should really look at opportunities to use that more frequently than just targeted for Christmas and Christmas and Halloween. You know, you're you're right on target with tying it to a literary work, but it seems as though we could probably
do that monthly without major effort or expenditure, you know, just to just to better because I I believe we play fat flat fee for the service. We don't pay per movie. Correct. Right. So to get the most out of our subscription,
it might be it might be worthwhile to figure out times when we can do that sort of programming. We can we can we can workshop that. We can put together a little that could be a fall winter kind of thing, you know, before this Belmore movie start on the beach. We could have it in the, you
know, the off season. Yeah. And it could be could do it do whatever we want. We can do it monthly. We can do it for any age group. No, I think it's a great idea. similar to the the story time and I think it's excellent that the story time is is is read and spoken word you know but we
could we could have programs like that using a book in a movie or along with the movie license work isn't it certain movies though we can't get all well our our original license company I forget I'll get off the top of my head
what we did they limited us to only uh a certain number of of movie of movie and unfortunately that limit was subset. It excluded all the major studios. So we couldn't show Star Wars if we want but the current one swank
okay much much better. We have full horror movies including Disney. We're just we're just limited in how we can represent correct the movie. Correct. I can't I can't say you know come see Star Wars come see a science fiction adventure.
That's what I can say. I can't say Darth Vader or Yeah, you can't use or if you're tying it to a book. Yeah, if you can tie into Don't see this movie based on the book. Yeah, exactly. So, we could do something like that. So, yeah, but my point my point is
we're paying the money. Okay. We could show Wicked one because Wicked 2 is coming out in November. Isn't that like three hours long? So long. You do it in parts. My 8-year-old sat through it no problem, loved it, and is really upset that she
has to wait till November. November, just it is long, but for some it's engaging, and anyone who's met my 8-year-old knows that sometimes she's distracted. Well, well, there's a lot of movies is based on literary work.
You know, we used to I used to teach a course um that we called um read the movie. Oh, okay. Right. So the kids would read the book and then we do the movie. That's a nice a nice connection there. You can use the book as a as a program. Read the movie.
Oh, okay. There you go. Yeah, we could do that for adults, too. So, none of this costs us much more than we're already spending as much. Yeah. Yeah. Read the movie series. Like, for example, um, Boys in the Boat, which I loved the movie. It was just
wonderful. Don't laugh. I know we didn't record it, but my husband doesn't like to read, but I found the book in the teen section upstairs and I took it and he read the whole book and I was just amazed. I was like, "Wow." So, there was a nice connection right there with something that he had
seen the movie, you know, I would have preferred reverse, but you know, hey, I'll take reading anyway and get it. So, so, but that I thought would be, you know, another suggestion. That's that was a a really good movie. Okay. probably more PG-13,
but um again that might be something to tie in with the teams. There's movie there's movies for all different age. Oh, absolutely. And just tying with the book I think is wonderful. We could look at tying tying into book club activities, you know. I think we have the the professional resources here to really
make a program work. And I think we have the the technical and resources to put together a a a program with minimal cost um effort during the workday and get a little more bang for a buck.
Yeah, we could tie something in for the summer program for the older kids, right? Put a movie on it and li it. I see it. All right. I think I am a
pop-up rainy day movie. I just thought the idea since we have a nice big lawn, I just love something outside and we could face towards the neighbor over here. Put the screen there. So, make sure the speakers are facing toward the building. Bounces off her house instead of
facing to the east. Yes. Just so you know, just so you know, I am looking into a new projector technology that's currently out now that requires the projector to be only 18 in away from the screen and it'll project up at the right angle.
It's a laser projector and it you get much brighter uh imagery, sharper pictures, things like that than what you currently could actually. Well, we we ain't going to approve that unless you start putting more movies. Well, that that could be the that could be the
incentive right there. So, if I find a a good uh model to propose, I will suggest it. So, and my last thing was um we've always tried to get the seniors involved a little bit more. So, I I hope that maybe in September we could come up with
something to get them if we have to go to them since they can't get here. I spoke to Paul over at the senior building and I told him that uh I'm going to be stopping by there in the next week or so
with uh um a brochure that outlines for them and this is a brochure that I'm also planning to distribute to all the B&Bs and hotels. Okay. So that outlines patron and visitor services. It focuses on things
like our print, copy, fact, scan, laminating, things like that. But also we'll have um uh like every month or or every other month I'll have an updated with uh the upcoming events that we have lined up and uh and a brief instructions
on how to how to register to attend or or who to call to have help for registering which we talked about last time. So we're just kind of like putting something together to bring that. So hopefully what that means that the seniors will now have a more regular
sight as to what we got going on so they can come. Perfect. So I' I've heard a contention from from members of the community that part of the uh confining aspects of the seniors home is that facilitating getting them out of the building. you know, because there's a
comfort level staying in the building. Delivering content to them would be a perfectly viable approach, but it'd be nice if we could look for opportunities to engage and facilitate getting people out of the building. I don't know if we could talk to Jimmy
and see if there would be an opportunity to use the buses during the day, during the week to get them into the library or potentially for some of the events that we do. I know it's only two blocks away, but I get the sense to some people that can be a barrier. Absolutely.
Whereas if we could if we could look at resources within the community to alleviate some of that barrier, it might have a positive impact. Yeah, we talked what was the event we were going to get to kids band was playing the band.
It was was it the uh the lunchon? Oh, the lunchon. Yeah. So we we but it wasn't he wasn't able to put it on the agenda, but I I'll talk to Jimmy about that. So conceptually going forward, even if it's not if we could get an opportunity to for transportation to an event, that
would be positive. Even if it's just there's an opportunity during the day that works with the school schedule. We would use that as a resource, you know, where we get shared services. The bus driver has an event after school. They come in
2 hours early just to to provide transportation to the building if nothing else. Yeah. So, it would have to be between like 11 and and 1:32 cuz their their routes without without detail. without detail.
My statement would be can we look at opportunities to engage the the the senior building in a manner that gets them to at least the property if not the events. Yep. Because we used to have the Wednesday opera used to be every Wednesday we have
an opera we showed down here like a simal cast kind of thing or video. Yeah. They I think they just popped in a DVD and yeah, you know, it was like Madam Butterfly and you know what and there was always a steady 10 that would be here every Wednesday just to come and you know watch it
again trying to meet the needs of of the underserved demographics within the town and that was just mentioned to me in passing. You know what? Getting people out of that building might have Yeah, I think transportation is the key because I've gone over twice and had a
meeting with them and talked to them and different, you know, but I I think um the key is providing absolutely transportation even though it's only two or three blocks away. That seems like it is a a barrier. Yes.
To access and that might be a survey question again to pose to them. Would you prefer to see a movie? Would you prefer to do an activity? You know, like what what would you like to be doing at the library? Maybe they're not interested in movies anymore. They might have streaming channels. Yeah. But the other thing is bus shows
up and I don't I don't want to go to the library. Bus shows up, I got nothing else to do. Maybe I'll just jump on and go to the library and say, you know, I'm not and I'm not I'm not joking with that. You know, you might be asking, what do you want to do? Well, I don't want to do anything. Well, that's the problem. That's a
problem in its own. You know, just having something going back and forth on a semi-regular basis might just entice people that otherwise wouldn't want to have anything to do with it and realize, oh, this is a nice place to Yeah. probably the only thing we have to
pay for driver. I think Johanna I think I mean I think that would be a very good idea as far as like the fact that they're taking a bus somewhere because I know like the feedback like they feel like they used to do bus trips to Atlantic City and things like that and they're not doing that anymore and
they they really want that. They want so there was something that could bring them out of the building. I think they'd be more than willing to do that. Yes. But again, I don't think the incremental cost would be it would just be the cost cost for the driver
the driver to the extra hours and and sometimes that driver is is available too because they have to pay for the person. So that that it would be during the middle of the day after the special ed
routes right in there. Figure something out. Yeah, I'll figure it out. Would be available. It could be could be that goes into the whole bucket of figure something out. Figure it out. Got it. Come up with an idea and then we can we
can we can talk about it as a board. But the concept being on paper. Okay. Those are my thoughts. Thank you. Uh old business. Okay. So I gave you the noise violation that we received. Um,
so if if you remember when we talked about this before, our ordinance here is okay because of the changes that the uh the mayor made in terms of making our events um
exactly yeah, not not having to deal with the the the noise ordinance in the town, but uh with their their ordinance, but in terms of state law, um it's 65 dB that you have to keep it
below person call during the Pat Rody concert and um it was above that. So, I spoke to uh gentleman at the the health department and um the key is that we
have to show that we're trying to uh modify uh you know make some changes, try to bring down the sound. Um as long as we're doing that, then you know he's going to work with us. Um
the one of the things that I did if you look what Lewis gave you in terms of the concerts this sheet right here um I spoke to Tommy B we're okay he doesn't have a drummer or saxophone player again this is all communicating
with the gentleman in the health department the black ties is going to be more of an acoustic uh band Danny White as well um I haven't really talked to the Euro bandits yet. Um, again, this is just my I'm proposing
this to you because the bottom line is if we do have something above 65 dB, again, they can find us a,000 $1,000. Um, and so, well, let me let me just Yeah, let me just So, I think we're going to be okay without changing with those bands
because of the type of bands they are with Pat Rody. Um, I think that we're going to have to consider facing it to the east in some way. I talked to Tina. We can't shut down 10th 10th Avenue. Um, we could have
it over kind of where the guitar is having the music facing this way since the person who is is putting in uh this contact the complaint uh lives to the west. So, um,
just so I better understand it because I don't know, maybe everyone else understands it and I don't. So, I just took out the sound level thing. Just where we are right here. It went up to 82. Yeah, but that's a different he was he was explaining that. So, is it a distance that it travels?
So, so it's a there's different ways that you the way that they judge it is not he said these are very inaccurate. We have these things here. First of all, he's going to the person's property line because it's an individual. Um whereas
if it was a group of people, it would be on our property line. But because it's one person, you go to that person's property line and it was anywhere from 65 to 70. I said, "Oh, that's not that bad." He said, "Well, Dave, that 70 is kind of that's kind of high. It's like thinking of a you see he gave an example
of an earthquake coming from you know this to that is you think oh it's just a little bit now it's considered to be a lot. So um you say it's kind it's kind of like it would sound like if you're standing across the street is that right? Yeah. Right. So, my suggestion
make sure you're you're okay with this is to I'm going to for the I'm trying to make some modifications with the bands that are not pat um and then to keep the sound down. Uh we do have a few bands that said that
they have a decibel reading on their speaker. I'll then stand at the person's property line. I'll ask the health department what is the most accurate one to use. It will depend on whether that person calls the health department to come again. Um but with Pat Rody, I
think we should get a stage from either the town or from the school and face it more towards the east. Um and it's not as nice. I mean, it looks so great on our front porch. The bottom line is we
don't have a choice unless because if we go above that level again, we're going to get a $1,000 fine. And I spoke the gentleman I know very well said, you know, Dave, there's nothing I can do if if it if that's the once this letter goes out.
Is it one for concert? And it could be up to 3,000, but he said, you know, do that. But um so I mean I have a question. Yeah. Has has have have we ever tried to
monitor like where when they play at the plaza to where his house is what the decimals will be because you can hear that music from We don't want to ask a question. We don't want to ask a question. We I don't think I don't think we want
other community programs here negatively impacted. Yeah. Yeah. But I'm saying he's it's just him that's ruining it basically. Absolutely. You know. Absolutely. You know, so it's Yeah. And so because we're a public entity, too. That's part of it. So bootstrapping on Johanna's question
there. Did Did you just say that the the department is mostly concerned with the complaintant since there's only one complaint cuz by repositioning the stage,
we're going to blow out all these houses. If they're good with it, then it doesn't matter, right? You know, but it could You're right. But if it's not impacting his property, you know, he could still complain. Oh, it's still No, he can't. He can't complain for
someone else. Right. It's specific because I found that people who want to complain creative and figuring out new ways to complain about the same thing. Great. Yeah. So, um, now I did talk to Pat Rody's
manager. He said he would work on the sound, but you know, his his sound, you know, he's got a saxophone. It's going to be it's not going to and all it has to do is be above 60. It's going to be above 60. It might come down a little bit. Not much, you know, not but we've got to face it.
And this is what um the gentleman from the health department recommended. Can you face the speakers and you know this cuz he looked he got on Google Maps and talked about it. You know, he knew where the person was. Um, and if if the other
thing is is if we're trying things and it and it we're putting forth a genuine effort and it goes to 67 and they're not going to the first time, but they're probably going to say still got to make some other changes if it, you know,
tell Marshall it was scorched. So here's So my plan is to to to you know modify some of the the bands that have already done that. You know uh the Black Ties has more of acoustic. They actually one time had one less person last year.
The last time they performed Danny White said, "Oh, I'd like to do like an acoustic, you know, thing. I've always wanted to do that." Okay, cool. You know, I think people would like that. Earl Bandits I haven't talked to yet. I'll get back to you on that. Um, but but Pat, we got to be prepare
prepared for and the community loves it and they want it they they want it somewhat loud, you know, they like it. 650 people. So So if when you're walking out, we have until September 18th and obviously have to plan before that,
but as you're walking outside, take a look and think of a stage. The other thing Tina said, I don't want East Street blocked and any, you know, an emergency vehicle has to get through. Um, I also the the truck, just so you know, the hot dog truck, if we do that again, they have to fill out a form to
do that next time. Um, that's not a that was just a town, you know, next time, no problem. Um, but uh long extension. Yeah. So, so it's going to be it'd be a pain, but uh kind of look at it when you're outside. And my thought is, you know,
it's too tight if it's over here, not on East Street. If you put it kind of where they the the emergency vehicles can get across, you're kind of next to the um guitar, but it's not great because it's blocked a little bit from where people
are going to be sitting. But just take a look. I mean, that's my uh or the other thing. I don't know. But uh the other thing is we could have it at the at the plaza.
But um one of the one of the things that um town administrator called me and said that Pat was at the plaza, you know, talking, oh, I'd like to play there sometime. Um you know, with the piano there and
this and that. And so and so um Kevin called me. I called Stat's manager and Pat said, "I and I'll do it there. But he said, "And I want to play at the plaza, you know, but I love playing."
Everyone does except except for one. No, it's a neat It's a It's a neat environment like a clam show. Like a clam show. That's what I was thinking. Yeah. For the seafood festival for the band, but it would direct it more. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It kind of enclosed it
from the back. It just barrier. That could that would block a lavala sound and I think it was borrowed from another one of the towns around here and I think that it's they have it in the San Janeiro. Wouldn't that absorb the sound from instead of coming off the building?
I've heard I've heard they there's mobile trailers out that that are built. It isn't that so much as that it just directs the sound more straight out rather than to this way it's going to go that way. Yeah. Oh, we'll get into that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, as long as we
try So, you know, we just have to make an effort to do it. Um, I think it's worth the risk, right? I mean, I just want you to know that we're going to do everything we can, but if we go over and we get this $1,000 fine, I don't want you fire.
We'll bail you out. We'll post your bond. So, but um All right. So I'll look into that and you know just tell me what you think with the my potential the fine in the book. No it's not. I spoke to them already
but they were questionable in my eyes. They're going to I spoke to him and they're going to come with Okay. But these two definitely. Yeah. This this group was um when we had the portrait thing they closed off
from 10th to 9th. No. 198 when he open his plane lasted, they had like nine people. Yeah. And but they did have the side street closed, you know, the east street closed and bikes were there and it was loud and it was great.
You don't want me to do you want me to move You don't want me to move one of obviously not Pat won't move, but do you want me to move Burrow Bandits to the plaza? Exactly. I I'd like to do the clamshell if we
could do the clamshell thing. Will we practice for Pat? Because they might be louder than Danny White, but generally speaking, I think it's that
the bandits were not. Yeah, that's for the stand up double bass. You don't have any really loud type guitar. Yeah, I mean that's true. I do remember I was at a They're much more there. It all depends on the size. They
show up anywhere between three and eight people. Yeah. Earl, we're getting the fiddler, too. The fiddler is Yeah, fiddler player. Okay. All right. So, I'll I'll make that. All the others I think we're going
to be okay, I think. you know, um but um it's just Pat. So, okay. All right. Um any comments? Comments from the public. All right. Um our next meeting is that
September. Yes. Okay. So, that should be the 8th. September 8th. September 8th. Any last minutes? Questions, comments? Meetings.
Well, you got to have the Oh, I'm sorry. See that? I told you. Okay. Just help me out, please, because I'm Yeah. Anyone have a forjment? Someone just has Yeah. Okay.
Thank you. Yeah.