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all the please I mentioned to today there was a meeting tonight just Sunny you have two children both of them yeah this is true brce I can see you
here thank you she is that's okay hi hopefully okay could I have a motion for approval of the minutes from our January meeting okay we have a motion and we have a second all in favor
work okay we're going to go right to library update okay so I'm just a heads up there's quite a few things to talk about I know I was long winded last time so I'm going to try to help this along um if I could first go to staff raises
we usually start um the town starts them in January last time our staff received a raise was April so this is coming up April 1st we've been doing whatever the town is doing which is 2% so it would not include myself um but it would be
everyone else um at 2% and um I'm just asking if the board would approve that and someone will do a resolution like it da have with the exception of you guys how many employees are there total there is uh 14
but there's some that work like a couple hours one that's not working many so it's it's 14 15 included myself including David and and and Dawn that comes to that comes in um cleans in the
evening okay you're including D is till around 15 okay thank you but it's you know the the only people that are full time lo I have 32 and a half that's our make I'll make a
motion I'll make a motion that we oh do we have to do a discussion yeah we should yeah um about 6,000 man hours to staff Library uh 58 yeah approximately that Y how many
was it 60 B hours B we have we have 60 that were open um so really we're talking about times two and two people there yeah how many how many annually
6,000 uh we do the um yeah hours 52 times yeah it's about 6,000 yes ahead of me with M any other questions comments so I'll reissue uh I make a motion that
um staff members I guess beginning April what we always do is whenever it starts it's around April 1st whenever it's the start of the pay period I I didn't check with so just say uh the the um the newest pay period in April in
April okay so I make a motion that put the newest pay period starting in April that each uh staff employee uh get the 2% race could you say library assistant Li librarian and librarian okay that would
mean everyone except me okay Pat's I see her pen is wavering so I just want to make sure she gets that too so are we saying staff and Library be Library uh assistance and librarian 2%
ws and somebody called staff no take take staff out take staff out considered a library assistant even though she's actually I'm sorry could we it would be just all staff members other than excluding other than the director
excluding the director staff members excluding the director director sorry because David is actually considered a page and da is considered faal so do you want to read it back okay yes
um uh beginning in April first pay perod first first pay period in April first first pay period in April 2025 all staff members excluding the director will receive a 2% rate we have to probably
aoll uh yes Bruce yes J yes Dar yes yes Maria I don't have a vote I keep forgetting you get to use
that line again okay Johanna not here Sharon yes and Mike yes next item is the card fee that we've talked about before we have a couple items with that um there are more and
more libraries that are charging an annual fee rather than a fee for a lifetime um it's something I think we should consider uh Deb can give you an idea of how costly it's become uh with ebooks um so we for example we have
people that sometimes try to get a card without really ever coming here um they just want to get the card because there's you know staying at home and purchasing quite a getting quite a few ebooks yeah it's puts to charge about on
average about two say $2 Aver $2 it could be more than that per book uh with numerous um books that they're getting obviously no problem for our residents but for non-residents that are not using the library something that we have to
consider when that $25 fee that was done that wasn't around um and so the second question is is do we charge L comoo we always did charge L comoo but we during Co we did not the challenge uh the one
thing to consider is and I have had some Belmar residents um come to me and say why can L Como uh use the county system and we can't and they don't pay for a card and I explained to them you know we started
it during Co we continued it Lake Como ped into the county system we have our own Library so something to consider in terms of Lake KO and then what if you decide to do it annually what do we do with people that already have cards how
will you grandfather them Deb has set up the system that everyone is going to have to get a new card within five years but it's up to you whether there will be a a charge for people that have paid the $25 um some have been told that it was
forever some haven't you know it all it it depends there's nothing in writing that said that you know that there lifetime but they've been I'm sure they've been told by Library assistants over the years so this is for for a lifetime
$25 so that's we really I just want to know what where we want to go forward with this and um just if we could started this discussion what rationale would we use to establish a price based on other what
other libraries are using which is anywhere from 25 to 100 but that's the county right the county is 100 so it's usually in the range of4 or $50 that's yearly that's yearly fine I'm
fine with the concept of of charging people on a yearly rate we all pay taxes on a yearly rate so we pay every year right it would only be obviously it's just Mak sure rational approach to establishing what that
number is and is there any um this might be a question for councel but is there any way to extend the courtesy to um Elementary School age students we've been yeah we've been so
so so the the community there so there's the to allow for uh synchronous activities between us and school it seems as though extending it to Elementary or even high school Ed uh patrons as a courtesy would be something
that would appeal to me yeah and and I would hope that this board would um allow us to especially the Lake Como students to to get their cards for for free we've always done that and even before we charge Lake coma they've
always they've always been free yeah that would be that would be a proposal to that yeah so I wouldn't I wouldn't want to see that change either yeah regard to charging for an annual fee I have no reception to that okay as long as it's reasonable
rational and how does does everyone feel uh okay moving from an from a lifetime $25 to an annual fee for non-residents and do we want to it's been a grandfather basically for five
years so far I mean since Co so they've had five years of is that when it started pretty much so yeah people don't like change people will be varying levels of angry but people don't like me anyway so it's do you have a percentage of
patrons that are out of burrow there's there's quite a few is there regularly well I mean depends on what you want to pull quite a few it's you probably have at this point around
300 or so um that's way more yeah out of say 5,000 just to make it round but the thing is there most people who are getting the cards are using it strictly to ACC there way the like the
cost um what is costing the library to service the non-residents I mean that would I think would be a rational basis for for the charge you know because but for those people we wouldn't have those costs so do we have any idea what that
what that is it 1,000 or 2,000 a month what do we for hoopla that's the main right now we're paying 1,000 a month thousand a month and so if you're talking three you know yeah $40 300 I mean that th000 a month covers anybody
right once yeah that's true so and but and it's also multiple copies right like somebody could be using it 10 times this month right so all you have to do is think about taking out 12 ebook right and that's already up to you talking about 300 people over say 5,000
you talking 6% you know so so equating that that how it B approach it the number of borrows is pretty big not bet yeah bet is our cost just based on a fixed amount does it or does it go up with more borrows it
cuts off we we set it where we cut it off at two grand right it's kind of like Easy Pass okay if we use it up we have to put more in but but we have it cut per we we we played with the numbers to see what would work where we wouldn't get cut off
and so far it's been but it's it's getting to a point where our residents it's getting close that you know we outside is using just as much if not more yeah the word the word is out that you can get a card at Belmar for $25
forever and you can use hoopla until it's it's used and there there's actually um some people like on Instagram and whatnot that will tell you the libraries that that offer that you know so you could be in Arizona and you know get a card and that's why we're
asking people you want to have a card come to us we want to show you what the library is all about other than just coming you know a card is there an option or can we make an option for someone to like apply for a hardship you know or have some hardship exceptions um
I'm just thinking about folks who may need to use you know the facil and you know I that may not be I think that would be covered by what we want to do is obviously anybody in town right
can do their application on send us online or do it by email whatever anybody from outside we're requiring them to come in to get the card so if there was some kind of hardship I think that would come out in that conversation like I you can't come in because of this
or um can't you know what I mean it would be more of a detailed back and forth so I I think we could cover that and I think we would make now now under our current under our current working environment that would only inhibit people from borrowing a book yeah that's
very or from getting any e book yeah they can come com in facilities reading all the programing we have is all accessible whether you have a car or not at this point right even you know the support that we provide to to people with tech support we don't ask where
they're from you know which is becoming more and more even on weekends and whatnot it's they walk in they're supported they they walk in and they need copies it's the same five copies for free for everyone we help facts for free so there's no there's no question
of where they're from when they come to to us obviously take kind of Technology classes like for so free y okay yeah what are some of the pricing in the surrounding towns does Bradley Bradley charge
Bradley charges for their non-residents it's anywhere from uh 25 to to 50 and then the county being 100 it's all over the place and it also you can't you can't compare us to
some libraries cuz they're nonprofit they're not Municipal um and so uh um there's no one that's not anual yeah everyone we're the only one that's the only one especially be because um
everyone's because of the ebooks everyone's changing what it because it's it's it's costly um so is everyone in agreement that we do an annual charge would do we want to
keep it at at 25 for the first year and start to move up or we want to go 40 do we want to go 50 what's I would Target 40 personally I have to think about how to get how to rationalize that but okay so uh is everyone anyone disagree with that we could just do a resolution I
don't know if 40 is going I mean it could curtail quite a few but I'm wondering if going from Z to 40 versus 0 to 25 well it's 25 well it's 25 now 25 now oh so just raise it I understand okay no no no I
thought tell I did it Sharon just checking just checking okay so moving from 25 40 when when would the implementation of this be you could we could do it April 1st or we could do it you know whatever whatever you whatever you're looking for
um because really there's nothing in terms of the system now nothing we have to change we start right the second if we want I would argue that like perhaps April 2nd would be a good date to start for new I think we should new cards and then an annual renewal starting perhaps
a year from now to chew everybody up okay first so so beginning of April for this year moving to $40 and then the but we'd have to we'd have to tell them I was going to just
say we have to put up something that make an announce starting April 1st or whatever it is all non right right y not life anymore you might want to reach out you might want to reach out to the lawyers just to make sure that we're not out of bounds anywhere yeah you know I don't
think that's a long conversation and I don't think we're doing anything out of bounds but it would be it would be probably worthwhile to to um to get some consultation we have some resource available in in terms of the people that the 25 changing a fast policy what
exposure we might have to don't you think April's kind of too rush I like May it's right around the corner this affects this this would only this would only affect people who we have no relationship with yeah it's only this is only for this is not for
current just somebody coming off the street who's never heard of us never had a card before they would be imped get the 40 anyone that currently has a card would not be impacted for some time say 12 months next year or till next year some renewal period after that okay so
this would not affect any current card holders who at least uh month period right right by then they'll get all the word and then I guess that Feats the Summer Rush like correct be implemented for summer and then we get the word out through all our channels you know
Facebook email blast we can do a PO uh we can do a a press release so the so the the newspaper has it all explained out in detail you can do that as well the only thing that I you know want to bring up is
though we can establish annual renewal at any time you want yes I it doesn't have to be a January 1 renewal no no it would be the day of registration so no but I mean if you wanted to include everyone I'm not so sure that you know bringing new people
on at one date and then we're going to tell everybody else about their their permanent their card expires on a certain date and they're going to have to renew um you know I'm just thinking you know the library could say
you know all CS will renew July 1st for non-residents moving forward and then you could include everyone in the fee is that what you were saying though were you saying my L my logic against that was that the existing patrons that
have cards are going to be a big block you know but as we bring on new people their renewal would be say a 12- Monon period and not a calendar day so that we wouldn't have 300 people coming in on one day to renew in the future you know
we're going to have that problem no matter what with the fact that um we have existing patrons but as they work their way through the system as we bring new patrons on if new people participate in our in our facility um it would fan that out from a logistic standpoint
you'd have the memberships at different points hopefully but you're still going to have that problem when you if you do it for January 1 you're still going to have the people who automatically you're still going to I don't think there's a way around that though coming so I me I me if you
said how many how many non-residents uh parts do we have it's about three I'd say 320 320 I'm just saying if you if you if you did all that advertising just for the
new people why not just include everyone and say you know it's April what's day March 10th I would include everybody but but Canada is a fair warning period you have April May June they have you know they have four full months to come in to
to um you can hold it off if you want I just think well I I would imagine that anyone who any Belmar resident it really would be immaterial because there's no cost to that there's no there's no cost ofm so uh it it only would apply to existing
those existing card holders whether um I mean if we want to take into account the fact that they they acquired their cards uh with one understanding that was given to them and we can account for that maybe just grandfather them and and just let them be and just move forward with
just a new stuff would I mean practically speaking Yeah you could do the you could do the advertising for the January 1st for a new policy yeah but realistically from from April 1st to that point how many new people you going to get really I mean how many what are
you going to get a handful of you know of Outsiders of Outsiders you what have we been you don't get you say well we get the summer yeah you'd be surprised I've been getting applications for people in howl for people I think it depends on how quickly it gets on
Instagram I would say trickles in if say two to five people a month maybe it depends and closer you get to Summer sometimes there's more but um I don't know we talked about having when you say grandfather
all the the people who are currently in there were no expiration dates ever which we decided was wrong we need to have expiration dates even if it's just to get updated information so at some point last year I went in and I set
every single card that was outstanding already with the expiration date of five years so everybody who got a card last year their card is going to expire in 5 years so now we're as people are coming
in their C is going to expire in 2030 from now right on the date that they got right so what what we were talking about was just grandfathering all those people in until that point which five years from now that
just kicks the can I'd rather pull off the Band-Aid now unless the says no and at that point I'd probably rather get sued really I would we could change that though I mean that's not written in stone we could say all Library CS expire at the end of this year yeah well we can
do what you do whatever you want residents can apply for new ones at no charge and anyone outside the town apply for okay for data acquisition way everybody be on the same
page we have to I thought there was a reason you want residents to is there a reason in five years just so we we get their information no just to update phone numbers addresses things like that they just when they go to use it and doesn't
could you please fill out a you know andew it allows it allows her to easily Purge the system of dead unused numbers so all of a sudden this whole list of we got 5,000 users who in reality we only people who haven't used the card in the five years you know so it'll make it
easier for us a purge it so would we keep the residents after they renew let's say they I renew my library card what would be the time SP that that card would exist another five years five years now for the non-residents we're talking about one year right
right do you think it' be helpful to have two different color cards I'm not trying to but I'm we thought about that but or maybe a sticker put on the on we could put a sticker on them but we but the thing is we in the system we know you have you'll have it right in in your
your computer yeah you know we have a place to not if it's res and what the fee was paid M com and the system will uh when when you scan in the system will tell you automatically if the card is if uh it's been expired right you said it way if a if someone comes in or tries to
use an expired card a little a literal flag comes up C expired and then to to renew it is just flipping a drop down but um yeah so could someone do uh but do we need should we have a separate
resolution for Lake Com or does everyone um agree that we should be charging Lake com the only caveat I have charging L Como is with the school age patrons that yeah that's that we' I don't know if that's ever been a a policy so that
would be something maybe we can just do a resolution to make it official that'd be great so Jerry could you do the resolution for what you said and then Mike if you could do the resolution for the kids and then we're we're set is that is that okay but in the resolution
we're going to start like if somebody if somebody comes in tomorrow or let's say April 2nd ISS I'm out of Belmore and I want a library card are we charging them yes if that's would be right away because they're new and they don't know
and they're not going to know the difference anyway yeah right yeah unless they saw Instagram and unless they heard from someone else we said that policy has been Chang because they affect immediately yeah right yeah for those people who do read the
post and are not looking online okay what do we need ADV so jar could you just to let yeah okay great are not on Instagram or on faceb out our patience I right now yeah if you could
give it to Pat what you I don't want to be that c I'm not usually that cold I get it all right so Jo's doing that we have he's going to email to yeah I can email it to you um
yeah Mike you do the kids come back to yeah I extend a motion to offer Belmar Library cards to school a patrons domiciled in Belmar and Lake
K Fe when you when you say school age children what are your age figure that out anywhere between 18 and 22 they're prison or 22 they have if they have the good news
is if they have an IEP and they're still in school then they can they're School aged if they're if they're you know regular students if they're still in school then they're considered school age which is I think I think the school I think the school school has a budget
has a burden up until 22 it uh no well if they have an i yeah so if someone wants to argue that we'll take that we won't argue very hard right would it be households with students like anyone that live he said anyone
that lives in or Lake Como in Belmore or Lake Como okay so I hold the library card for my child have to pay 40 bucks not here but so really what it what it's doing is it's allowing if you live in in Lake
comoo then your child can have the card we have we have cards for children we for children right anyone second that yeah they come first only trick with the with the
charging them immediately is though you know those cards of the year yeah so you know if somebody comes in in November really not would be a year from their registration date I would say a year from the
regra when they renew one one offs then we get we won't get everyone do you have do you have a way of monitoring that yeah comes up syst we put when we register a card we put the registration date and the expiration date in the system as long as you have a way of knowing that so
somebody comes in you'll just like you can make sure that Danielle helps to spread that news in the school so that they'll know of this ahead of time well there's no change it's for the lake comoo kids that they'll know that there's no change right because once
their parents here there is a change got it got it got it okay okay uh any discussion on M on M I mean that's pretty straightforward so I mean effective immediately all non-resident patrons shall be charged an annual fee
of $40 per year for a Bor Library that's basically say this slowly again we have to do roll call okay sorry I all
these okay okay so you want me to read that again please okay um mik has made a motion to offer Belmar Library cards to school age patrons domiciled in Belmar or Lake Como without fee correct
okay all in favor no we're not doing okay um Danielle yes Bruce yes Jerry yes darling yes yes my vote don't
answer Johna yes Sharon yes yes we go to Jo okay um jury would like to move that effective immediately all non-resident patrons shall be charged an annual fee
of $40 per year forar Library do we want to just read reading that we're not going to put the April in we're just going to say effective okay from the date of their registration yeah there when I get a card does that say that it's a year it's
a year it doesn't say annual says annual it doesn't give specific exploration but it says annual says annual B on the registration date effective immediately all nonresident patrons shall be charged in annual fee of $40 per year for a vmer
library card is there a senior age for that because I pay 15 brle it has to be a board discussion then you so uh is anyone seconding that my question would be whether or not we want
to consider deferring current patrons to a later date new Patron limiting that that statement to new patrons that's yeah I'm I'm interpreting that as effective immediately everybody so you want to change add the word new
patrons and then what you do with your old P I think that would be a separate resolution we have to have something separate we're going to do yeah okay effective immediately all non-resident new patrons shall be charged an annual
fee of $40 per year for a bmer library card yes yes discussion I would love there to be some consideration for hardship for Lake comoo I'm thinking specifically about like Lake comoo parents who I know are
struggling who may very you know much need to for the sake of their families um have access to the library um not just our facility but our books as well and I'd love there to be an option for
you know applying for a a hardship card or something that isn't you know s s izing but you know there to be some exceptions exceptions to County to buy that schools also have the information
the financial yeah the county did they Prov I'm not the hardship for somebody well like's entitled to County CS without I'm just curious I think there's two ways to to do this we either you you we could
establish a a committee that to take the information and make a decision on a one toone case to give cards out you could do another separate resolution because I think it's important to just say this is what we're doing for non-residents boom
but then a separate resolution that you know something I think that's receptively difficult criteria to to evaluate I would I would say we go I would personally want to go forward with establishing the new fees and then
return that because that that's yeah uh implementation wise that's that that's tricky yeah we could we could meet and come back to the board with a recommendation maybe anyone that wants to meet we could meet and and with um
with Deb perhaps is that okay and yeah and perhaps we could have a member from Lake home for to come and give input because I I know when I was teaching that there were certain students that you knew would rece re special remember
students are getting it but but the parents the parent financial information is what you would need to know if it's really a hardship case if it's a student it's easy can ask them if they're willing to tell us if they're on doesn't matter doesn't matter it's a
student because they can get a card anyway I'm saying if the parents agree that we can get the information from the school if they're on free and reduced lunch and the parents could get it but that would be something we could do are we doing that just for lake comoo or you talking about anybody I think that's a
very sticky conversation's already getting it we can't I mean talking about households with no children right but I I mean I'm just thinking even about like you know um those in our you know in our community
and I put like homo in our community who that this would be a financial hardship for or whether there is an exception whether there can be exceptions I think the cleaner thing would just include Lake home as for a free card rather than going through
hoops trying to find out you know who's in need who's not in need in the long run it'd be just easier to say just charge right I'd rather charge and I'm not the I'm not the one who wants to charge for anything in most context so it's a little it's a little peculiar but
I can't find a a legiate administratively but I think you'd have a concern that there's significant people who might have an issue with BM more residents are not res probably not too thr idea because they can't get a mou card without paying 100 I agree I
agree you know how many other how many other libraries have hardship um I could do that's what I'm saying we could come back we could come back think we sharping the pencil at a later date CU I think that's a deceptively difficult thing to and there's nothing
about these proposals now that are unalterable we can always change we can add as we want yeah okay so we'll come back to Mar we meet and I'll do some research with other libraries and sounds good come
back with that good have to V on yeah yeah okay so do we have a second I'll second all right so does anyone need to have it R please okay effective immediately all non-resident new patrons shall be
charged an annual fee of $40 per year for AAR Library all right Danielle yes Pat before afterwards I thought that too but I think it actually is grammatically correct the way it was WR with it yeah I
had that same thought okay cuz it's a new Patron right with it a new non bmar resident we still have open them the old Patron yeah we have to do that we have to talk about that yeah step Time One
Piece of Time chip It Away Jerry yes yes um darling yes Maria no I don't answer I can't remember this Johan yes
okay Sharon yes okay Mike yes so what about those um people that already have cards um do we is it they're done um what are we going to do with you know the 300 the
new now is easy and have that done would you would you issue them new cards if they want to pay or it's just I think we should just leave them and when their cards expire they're then subject years yeah true but
I mean instead of going through I don't know just to all old Patron nonresident cards do we have an issue date on the cards I'm sorry we have an issue date no no not on in the computer I did comp no no no no
but in the computer we have an issue mhm then we could just establish it 12 months M from the month of that issue date right you know so you have a minimum of 12 months notice up to 23 months notice that would be one
approach if in the computer you were uh May 3rd was when you got the card well then you have until May 3rd of next year if the computer November 1 first was when you got the
car then you have November 1st of 26 so it's not perfectly Equitable and then some people have 12 months and some people have 23 months but no one will have less them another that would be one way to approach it we could snap a DAT I think it would
either be that or go with what we have set in the system whatever you you want the idea is you know do we give them more time because some of them you know might have been told this was for a lifetime or do we say I'm sorry this is
the new policy you you have a year so it's really it's up to the board to kind of just uh give if it wasn't if it wasn't a massive number of people 300 people 6% so you could you could notify
them of you know of their expiration date you could say you know absolutely you're You're such such except until last year there was no expiration that's the whole thing no one no one was I'll be honest with you
before two years ago weren't even putting registration dates in no I got you okay so so maybe we just stop line on the side that's that's yeah I almost think you have to pick a date too only because I know with
Sumer like ebooks I find more popular I know I have more eBooks on my iPad in the summer when I have more free time say so that if you wait too long you know if you do two years talk I mean your average person you're saying could be
taking 12 books in two months three months that's the cost of the card right there right I mean the shortest amount of time that person would have had the card would be somebody who applied for the card today right right so that means they'd be told if we went to the end of
the year well they got that card for what n months you know everybody else is going to have it longer than 9 months probably well more than a year so I mean that's the issue just pick the end of the year you know maybe somebody who got
the card today will say oh I paid $25 you know and I only getting a nine months out of it well cheaper than the 40 at it that way too you know D logistically when would it make if you had an influx of people that needed to renew logistically when in the where
make the most sense you think she's the doing it it slow this time of year so you want more people coming in this time of year the thing is it's it's to renew it is literally nothing oh you go into their
the patron file and on the bottom where it says you know expiration data it'll say card expired and you click it just drop down and it's not you just change the exploration on another note what's the mechanism by which we can collect the money the other thing we we might
have an issue with why would that be they because a lot of people come in and they want to use a card which we don't take we have a cator oh yeah but we've never had I mean we well but it's 40 no 220 I think the
issue is people come in and they want to pay 10 cents for a copy you know it's like I'm not paying credit card for that have 10 cents in my car now you come and say 40 bucks it's but I think if if you're wanting a if you're saying okay I'm sorry you can't have the book
because you know I think we have to be reasonable and say um you know you can have this book today but if you're going to do it again next time you come back you bring it back we need $40 for you to take add another how you operate how you
yeah right asustes know I know uh but I think the I think the the heart of my statement is making sure we have Logistics infrastructure and make sure that we have the town CFO on board so that they
understand that this Revenue stream is potentially going to exist you have the right control you accept money now or a c we accept it it goes you know we take it over week we're going to have to take it over daily probably instead
of weekly because of the it's not going to be a big influx of money but still would it be possible for the 's ability to take credit cards like say you currently use credit cards to accept payments for Beach badges is that possible to extend that a fe I don't have a problem eting the 3%
we could just post a sign saying that you know annual um Library fee is paid either by cash or check a lot of people have that on me ever I also but remember
we've been doing it $25 we've been doing it forever people who've been paying the $25 here forever it just means that they're coming in they're coming in yearly now to to do that and that we can give them the three the people that we
could tell the people that receive the cards this is annual and we can send out an email saying that you you know you're going to need you're going to need cash when you when you come in to get your card and would be reasonable I think I think we can figure I think you can figure out the logistics of it yeah
between with your team but my other point is that figure out the logistics of it to make it as accessible as possible to current and future PS and if we can get the a board decision how we collect it but that's something that I would say that we should task you with
okay Logistics we're asking them to pay they shouldn't have to come in I me my opinion they shouldn't have to there should be an on some sort of renewal that they can do online it's I think for the renewal they should be able to do online but they but I still think they should have to come in for the first
card oh I agree agree the first card we we can we can do that um so I'll I'll I'll talk to Kevin and just see and I'll talk to Marshall and see how we can get a would it be a burden to send for the people that already AR to send them a
letter with an application for and say you can return this with by check uh to the to the library or you rather just come in with a form it would be I see that as a challenge because for her she's going to be doing this on a
rolling basis as people's cards expire okay there'll be like maybe 20 people expiring one month another month that like five so every month you'd have to be determining who's about we have we could have 300 people expire next say we say 12 months so so next march we 300
people expire the rolling basis is going to be when they come back into to renew not all 300 people are using a amenity every day if you don't use it for 2 months then you're not coming in until the end of May okay you know if you use it every day then you're going to be in
the first week of watch then it's going to start to Fan out a little bit def it's not it's not going to be driven um yeah but he's talking upfront he's he's talking about an upfront uh proactive approach where we determine who's about to expire and we said I'm just saying
now the people who we know are all going to expire to go with at the end of the year okay just send them a letter now and say your your library card is going to expire on December 31st that's be fine you may renew it at any time between
now and that point and just either come to the library or fill up this form these These are you yeah and we what we'll do is we will we'll talk about it and we'll take a look at the numbers and we'll take a look at at everything based upon your resolutions and we'll come back at the next board me and say this
is what we're proposing we we'd like to do based on what you've discussed and based on how the process of the the library Works talking to the staff as well and possibly to make it easy at the very when you're issuing these new cards you put maybe little stickers that's
that have expiration and then month and year so that they know ahead of time when they get their card oh mine expires you know oh mine's different than yours oh yeah we have different expiration dates that way they're not questioning you as much but you already have it in the system but they'll have the
information so just a suggestion and so the that we have a resolution then based on the the people that already have cards could you Mike could you do that what you said doesn't sound like we
do information right well no the remember the the the one resolution uh was for new people so we need we need a res something like all existing non-resident card holders
uh card holders cards will expire on December 31st 2025 current non-resident Patron library cards will expire
on 12315 12312 right doable oh it's doable okay all right we have to but they can renew any time now then they can come in and yeah face somewh yeah okay right uh
question um Rene in advance should still set the renal date No it should set the renewal date right December 31st at least for the first cycle anything renewed before December 31st should set the initial renewal date
at December 31st and then anything renewed after December 31st it would be based on the dateing paying early to reupping of time okay that's logistics thing okay so you want to read it one more
time I have current non-resident Patron library cards will expire on December 31st 2025 okay and that was posted by Mike second second last roll
call oh no oh I me oh okay yes on this okay all here I again Danielle yes Bruce yes Jerry yes darling yes me
Johanna yes Sharon yes Mike yes okay I'm going to jump the gun because I know Anita is going to bring up about seniors uh afterwards so uh how about if we we meet as well and I'll do research on what seniors are so it'll be
hardship and seniors and we bring it to the next uh that would be great charges 15 for seniors yeah so we I'll research what everyone else's you know I was thinking 40 20 or if it's 15 you know whatever I'll I'll do the research with all that and I'll bring it back to you
okay all right what about in that case of hardship seniors what about veterans we do that we do that with the beach course the law says we can to do it so we're have hardship seniors veterans I'll I'll check everything
we'll meet and we'll come back to with that next meeting okay um okay so strength and balance class we have a class right now it's great um that we have 40 people per class but it's at a point where it's it's possibly
concerning in terms of safety and the reason is is we have some other class is not quite that big but uh a chair yoga they're seated they're not moving uh Erica's classes are great because she challenges everyone based upon where
they are and it's very important that the technique that she teaches is followed and she's a little bit nervous with the number of people that we have so what I'm proposing to to the board and I spoke to Erica and you were at the class did you like the class very much
good class right good class um that we increase the and Erica agreed with this that we try to increase another class asking people on the honor System to come twice a week I will tell you when we tried to do this with Cher yoga it
helped a little bit but people then came to three okay but uh in talking to Erica she said she would like uh to do that it will be a 1:00 class uh on Thursday so right now she's Tuesday and Friday at 11:30 at 12:30 this will be Thursday at
1:00 Barry is is uh been great he said I'll cover it it's wonderful um I would think after that if we still have a problem with numbers we're going to have to talk about I know um the option I
know I said I would never bring it up again but the option possibly of $5 for non-residents would bring down possibly the number or some way that our residents can make sure that they're getting the CL cles and then when there's extra space that it can be
filled with with non-residents that's my recommendation and after we do this extra class if it's not working we'll have to look at our system with right now we couldn't do it because there was there'd be too many classes right but we have to look at a a different system
that's kind of like you know you sign up for your for your Fitness classes my only concern is with that is I think that we should have some way to make sure that our residents get the class first and then the non-residents are
only in the class based on what Erica feels is safe um can that what we can do well our QR Code system that we have we can enable it so that we can issue uh Belmar residents a QR coded
card with their name on it so then they come in you just scan them in and then you now have a report of who checked in and if and we only issued them to belm res so if a non-resident person wants to come in there's no QR code you automatically know they're non-resident and you can either charge them or they
need to know whether they're in or not beforehand that's that's what we're looking for you know what I mean there let's say you can only have 20 right you got to register you got to register this time you give the time to Belmar and then after this time then non Belmar people can get in that wouldn't do that
well yes it could because we can set we can set in advance uh online registration for every class if we want so that every class there's a pre-registered list those people who pre-register have their QR codes and if
you don't and if you don't pre-register you know you don't get a QR code but that doesn't NE but that doesn't necessarily differentiate between Belmore that's what I mean that's what we need so I think one thing that we you could look at is getting perhaps a more sophisticated system that would allow a
tiered registration you know some people can register sooner than others where it would be say Belmore residents can register two weeks in advance patrons can reg register one week in advance and non- patrons can register three days in
advance and also seeing if the system had controls where it would limit how many consecutive classes you enroll in you know so in this example were there three classes well you can't you can't enroll you can't have enrollments in consecutive classes every other one that
would limit you to save two a we uh I would also be curious to see if the burrow had any use for a system like that where Recreation or something that that had a need to register things you know because if we got to pay for it anyway just just seeing what the
Burrow's needs might be to to to share the service from a a functional standpoint I I believe you said that this class um specifically had at one point there were like 19 that were non-residents and 42 with the was the
total class size so we're talking about almost half yeah it's about 50 it's always about 50% anywhere from well the when we had the other night we it was 30% for the um Chinese New Year I think but but it's
normally like 5050 I think one of the other discussions I think along this line would be I think that would better enable us to establish waivers and to track waivers yep to limit liability you know tying it to that registration process um I think that would protect
both us and our vendors and then the discussion being not just non-residents but whether or not uh people are patrons particularly since we just talked about charging an annual fee this is an amenity um further restricting this class perhaps to
patrons you know well you know we have waivers already where are they yeah re has them we have waivers they F out what's that where where are they Barry has them we no we
do I believe they were waiver signed no I believe they were waiver submitted yeah I feel a lot more comfortable being able to click on a database I I see what you're saying this is the traceability of the documentation right in a more relevant real time matter versus a take
a waiver in uh a filing cabinet in especially for an active class as this one is I have a question I don't quite understand you're not talking about adding there are two sections to this class you're saying two two milon times Tuesday and Friday okay you're talking
about just adding one more class and asking the participants to come to two um classes instead of three and this was after talking to Erica too we gave different options we talked to her um
and you know if it cuts it down by 10 people we should be okay because this this will be a stop Gap measure we're still going to need to plane yes for other controls um because I haven't taken Erica's class
but I know how she runs classes CU I'm friendly with America she's very good at what she does and that's an exceptional venue it's going to fill up even if we limit people to one eventually it's going to fill all the way up I think we need a control mechanism which also
could help some of our other events y you know in in a more in a more meaningful manner with regard to signing up for the cultural events tracking the D metrics there understanding what we've got ahead of us but it's not cost effective to go to a Tuesday Thursday session at a Tuesday Friday session it's
actually four meetings oh the only way you're saying you're oh okay you're asking for another well just like you sign up for classes at school yeah I see uh we don't have right now because of the fact that we have the way we have the game day we
don't have space really in the schedule to fit one in on a Monday and right now we we're filled in terms of the morning the whole all the mornings are I think I think the use of the facility is also a constraint yeah so it's it's um the fact that we we're this is the first time we're ever going in the afternoon for a
um for a class and um and it's limited because it's going to be ending soon yeah and the idea is that we're going to push back Game Day next year by a half hour and we're going to sneak this strength and balance class in before
game day after what is it all around Fitness um because there's more people that really not wanting to come at 1:00 so but we can't do it right now because of way the way game day is right so so we have to end that sneak that in you
know next year um if you're saying go to four yeah yeah um so that would have we're already filled we would have three we would have to have some you know we'd have to go to an afternoon I guess on a Thursday and we'd have for I would just
put more money in the budget yeah that's a that's an option what's the earliest the classes start 11 N9 well her class 11:30 but this one most of them start at 10:00 but the one on Monday morning starts at 9:30 because of game day you know starting earlier to get tables done
and everything so um that's pretty much what everybody likes it uh those times but we could if you're saying go with an earlier class you're thinking um I'd have to talk to Erica and see if she's available yeah I know she's
getting well they follow her is he taking into consideration all the programming that the the has yeah this is considering all together you know what I'll um I'll take a look at that I'll talk to you know I know what Mike's saying is you know
we're going that direction anyway so we have to yeah it would be an so it would be an extra you know $100 we're going to go an extra $50 week this would be an extra 100 it'd be easier for me to budget for that you know um I think we'd be okay too budget wise so let me talk
to Erica about it um I know she does a lot of private individual work as well but um okay so we're going to add the class I'm going to do research on a on a new system uh to be able to you
know keep the classes to a to whatever size that Erica wants with a system that will identify people um you know whether they're Belmore residents or not Belmore residents right are her classes ending in May or June so her classes will be
ending when um when everything goes when the St Rose goes out of the gym uh St Rose Elementary uses a gym and then the kids go in there we go over there but the problem is just so you know during the summer we don't have all of our classes we I'm thinking people aren't
going to get get a parking space at Taylor during the Sumer sum so that's why I'm saying I don't even well no it ends it it ends we move totally over to there and and the schedule actually changes okay
so so like what you say m miday she it's usually I think St Rose is done the beginning of June so it's going to go till the beginning of June um but we've um we've always had that but you're thinking because it's 1:00 is that what you're thinking yeah it could be a
problem you know but we you know to try it's it's a problem in June anyway already now well the parking starts they start charging well doesn't yeah because I think Memorial Day is well they start charging
before may I have a question these classes are open only to library patrons no that's why is that well it's just like wreck wreck is same thing it's open to anybody W they p if they're not you know residents so you
have thought just limiting the classes the size of the class so just the people that we can't without a registration mechanism and and just having okay we going to shut the door 30 people that's a little difficult people and I tried that when we had it over there where I
actually remember saying you got to be in by a certain time we're cutting down and boy we had like a rush of people coming in and people were upset that they would walk in literally just after I cut off and I would have to them away and the problem is is if you have nonresidents getting in
there residents they've already told me just so you know if I'm going to be cut out of this class you know I just want you to know you know I'm going to be at that meeting and I said you can come to the meeting come you know and hear the discussion you know but I I do agree
with them that you know the resident should get you know but it's a challenge to do that yeah we don't right now I mean we can ask them to be patrons I mean that's a you know they I would think if they're in our our programs
that we should say you know hey if you you know we're looking for yeah we could do that for sure but that won't help the number they' be willing to pay $25 well4 that's still a good I mean I think that's the I think
for me that's the ultimate answer is yeah is it is it the role of the library to be a to have to become a uh you know a gym you know or a health club basically I justify I justify it as
personal enrichment I I justify part of our mission as when I take a library I take of books I know that's what I thought years ago a lot more books days it's great to do but I think at some point we have to look at what is the major function
what's what's the major thing we're doing here are we conducting classes for exercise and health or are we or are we doing what a library does discussion well Library community involvement it's Community gave us books we just came in
here and spelled like books and was only books but again I see in in this day and age the library needing to have a role in personal enrichment because when when the library was founded we went to library because library is where you get books when library was founded you got to think books primary source of
entertainment primary source of person enrichment primary source of learning new things in the context of what a library was in 1914 you know versus when the library was in 1980 and 1990 when I became
kid it's it's spend a lot of time a lot of time and effort on accommodating not only residents non-residents and people who aren't even part of the library so that they can get their exercise classes in and I don't know if that's if that's
something should be doing one of the major changes that we are one of the major changes that occurred over the years in libraries is that we've trended from years ago where libraries or centers where people would come and learn or study or work individually
singly by themselves and there wasn't really much of demand for programs and events and group efforts but we've morphed into a situation where people come and learn and grow and educ together in groups and the fitness classes are just part of that Trend you
know I wouldn't mind if we were having classes on like you know the history of this or you know you know classes where you're really going to learn something you know as opposed to and not exercising is not you know of course is a great thing I desperately want you
have this conversation what are we what are we learning how many you know we have we done a class on the United States Constitution have we done a class on I mean this is have health and wellness of our community I believe that that is
part of our strategic planning I think that is the role of our library that we have taken on in in conjunction with Recreation I feel like that's a partnership we have taken on which I fully support we can definitely explore way
into making sure that they're paying if they're coming you know that that they should get a library card at the very least they should have to get an annual library card so they're supporting us in and this was mentioned at the class when the
class that I attended just recently we did talk about how there was a possibility a good possibility and he did go and mention that two board members were there and we were like okay and that a decision would be made and always like oh my gosh I'm just
going to count I just gave them nonresidents a warning that you know there might be some type of charge y uh there might be some type of limitation for you because this is paid for through tax dollars um that's that's why I you
know I I'm a huge Fitness person I I I um love what we're doing down there um I'm also a believer that this is the Hub of the community for support I believe that it is learning but I do think it's sticky and it's very gray in terms of
how we're doing it so I actually like the idea of giving it to wreck and then we supporting them financially and calling it wreck but we support them because then it could just be $5 and it's you know um which I think we talked
about and because it gets and I don't I don't care whether it's it's you know some people say oh but that was our program and we shouldn't give it up no we know that we're helping the residents by supporting them financially whether it's called library or wreck who cares
it's supporting our residents and now they don't have to pay for this these great instructors great facility you know what I mean um and so that anyway but so why don't we just leave the classes open to residents
only I would argue I I would argue opening it to patrons of the library I wouldn't I wouldn't necessarily be in favor of the residents's only approach particularly now particularly now that we are charging an annual fee
for carss yeah but the but the use of the of the of the facilities and all that those those are all facilities that are paid for by the residents and not the non-residents so yeah the library being a patron of the library gives you access to the books
and all the other stuff but doesn't necessarily should it be giving you access to things where other bural resources are being being Ed why can't we just limit those things to borrow residents I don't know that other libraries are doing this are they other
other libraries do not as not as many Fitness classes as as we have real has has a lot because they have a large facil and but it's but it's nonprofit they don't receive they don't receive the money from from the municipality Bradley is like us but they don't have
as many Fitness class but they don't have have a relationship right now with wck uh you know they could um so but they have other things so um Neptune doesn't Avon has some but not
much so it's just that we've grown I mean it's really uh we just have great instructors it started here started with meditation and then it was Cher yoga and then it kept going like this so uh you know because usually it that's the way it starts at a library it's meditation
and Cherry yoga and kind of sometimes it stops like that cuz they don't have facilities well we have this great option you know down at Tor so these town like I know wall like you get a resident ID from the from the
town like if there was a barrow ID that that you could use to to go to these things and not have to pay yeah I I would say let's do if you don't mind let's do this uh let's increase the class and let's come back to this just like we come back to the seniors and the
hardship and the veterans does that something good and see how it goes and if it helps in Num we're good but my guess is it probably it probably won't but my my my position on this has been uh the aspect of incremental cost if we have an additional incremental cost
associated with something then a fe wants more attention if we don't then I don't see necessary fee to charge people who are patrons or are residents so we need to run this program to service 10 vmar res
and we can safely accommodate 20 participants for basically no additional incremental cost well then fill the program you know I see that as good marketing for the town I see that as a taxpayer improving my property values because we have these wonderful
amenities in towns the best way to get that out there instead of paying a marketing consultant next to paying a marketing cons it's for people from other towns to come into our community and see how great we have how grass our green and grass on this side I agree with there's no add increment I'm just saying I don't think the library should
be doing that oh I I I see this as a as an institution of Education of learning we disagree that that's perfectly fine but don't you think there is an incremental cost because we're adding a we're adding a class you know what I mean because with with the other
class right yeah you know so that's um but let's let's just go with it and see and I'll bring it back at the next meeting and then we have time really during in the summer to talk about it because there's not as many classes that happen over at the gym and we can have
it make the change for the for the fall um okay so we're done with that the last uh tomorrow night uh Mike Johanna and Sharon and myself will be meeting for the facilities committee um talking about what our priorities are using the
Strategic plan and I just thought before we meet is there anything that the Comm wants to share in terms of what they think we've talked about um really you can I mean you can do a mix of things but if we're going to do the
bathroom um that's probably going to be I'm sure more than $44,000 which we would then be using we'd have to go out the bid and use the engineer like we did for the for the uh windows I talked to Jerry um I thought is that remember we
kept the v in because um we were using them and then we had to change um and engineer my thought would be unless someone disagreed that we if we are going with the bathroom uh that we go with the new engineering uh firm um but the really is
bathrooms is kind of the the one option and then the other two are is the um uh the envelope of the building including the doors or the the inside so the inside would be the the painting The
lighting the wifi the furniture mainly upstairs some down here um outside would be again the doors and redoing the membrane membrane thank you membrane or the bathroom is there before we have a discussion and we come back at the next
meeting when we have our committee is there any that you want to share with the committee on your thoughts on that okay all right um and that is it what time is it about I did that as
quickly like oh it is not it is not uh we have one position um that has been open since December and um we did
talk um Jerry agreed to to Mark Fury um part he was part of the Strategic plan he was on the school board he was a wonderful School Board uh member for probably more than 10 years lives right here but you know couple blocks away and he said he
would be willing to do it and um so I'm giving the information to April uh for him to be appointed at the next meeting probably be at the next the next meeting Tuesday and he said he okay great and he said he would be um available for the
next meeting in there okay all right old business no all right if there's no old business we'll move on to the treasures report which is a quarterly report
okay um now we're working off of a temporary budget so I did give I did do the Jan uary and February breakdowns though so our budget is $234,950
and4 um in January we had spent a date $ 47,6 5263 waiting to pay the vendor was $17,995 which gives a total of $ 64,66 28 which gives us a balance bance of
$170 $1 17,33 12 now our February um budget was again the 234,50 40 spent a date was
9,631 39 waiting to pay the vendor was $ 4,263 with a combined total of $13,800 $1 4752 leaving the balance of the budget of$ 131,132 188 and again that's a temporary budget
so it's not that's not really what's what's left that's just with the temporary situation probably in a couple months will be regular budget I think there more I think U April last year we put yeah I think last
year may or got Bridget's been great in terms of um for example our programs that were at maximum uh for the temporary she's showing us how to do requisitions where
you encumber instead of transferring over and then transferring back so she's working with us with that so it's great all right thank darling um okay I just had a couple of things that I wanted to talk about in my
report um I had a couple of questions um I don't know if everyone has a chance to look at the windows they really look nice it took forever but they really look nice um I know they pretty much just finished up like last week I think the the dumpster was removed or the
trailer whatever you want to call it I looked and I was like oh it's empty over there um I had a chance to pick up and I'm going to be using using uh one or two of the old windows to my benefit at home so I I'm very excited about that um
do you know if they returned the keys no so we need we need to we still have to have a meeting with the engineer to look everything over okay um they have to do the the gates out front um and so that's
why you still see their stuff here so um that we're not totally complete yet but they look nice they do they think that their tape yeah I think yeah I think all the blue tape is off because they I remember the gentleman was doing the final painting outside on the nice day
so that was nice um there still some painting inside but we're close but it okay um I know that the door was worked on today um and I did get my key back so that was good um but that seems to be an
ongoing issue with the door so is that something that maybe that's we have to I mean we have to do that that's why I'm waiting for so tomorrow yeah but that's something you know when I was saying the the membrane and the doors would go with that if we
wanted to do that uh and do something different that that's fine because that's not as costly as the front door that that was a very important door from an egress and security standpoint since it's underst staffed down here yeah we have it now where it's we can lock it
and unlock it but we can't do it with the key key right now remember it was already broken and fixed so um but we have a a system now that we're using that um until we decide on that door but it works um but we just have to not use
the key for a little bit yeah it's a little sad when Atlantic lock and key got their own parking space out there yeah and I was worried I was here Sunday and I couldn't get to lock and they weren't open DPW wasn't here and I'm trying to how am I going to get this door locked so I was and I'm not very
handy I got it to to lock but we have it now where it lock okay um the next thing I had on my list was um the plaques are the plaques in yet for to ask you oh you mean for outside yes for outside yeah I'll put them up I'll put them up I was
waiting until it got nice it's it's getting close so yeah and I'm going to have my husband check check it over put some mulch down but yeah so we have new pla for um uh the Pringle tree I think I call the Pringle tree but the Pringle
tree and as well as um Lois Gallagher's little garden out and the and the bench all the same so they all same yes we have that that part that's really nice um I did have a question as to whether or not we were doing the gaming at all
is anything going on at the school so we we um we're going to need to change our Wi-Fi here to be able to that's what to do it here um but we did we did get an invoice um Daniel is the is the so we
did get that and that's being put in requisition for the time that tomorrow that's that's part of the you know the interior if if the facilities committee decides to to do that um you know but we really we can't have it with
the Wi-Fi that we we have now but we are as you decided paying for the the the program and the fishing club came that's what rain they came in the rain I so proud of them so um and we also have can
you talk about the book club you met with the uh yeah we're excited about we have um a teacher over at the Catherine cther Quinn Catherine Quinn Quinn yeah she uh came over she wants to start a tween book
club yay so I was really excited about that she's she's full of energy wonderful and she's got she's the type of teacher that a lot of kids like to be around so she's got a little following she's she's um she's working
on trying to decide if it was going to see who migrates to it if it's going to unfortunately usually it's the girls who who like the book but she does have a couple of boys on so that'll make her decide what book to read and when to so she's going to get back to me with more
details on when she wants to start and what book she wants to read and she's open till the time uh of the meetings and she's open to carrying it through the summer which is great so uh yeah is she a Swifty she
is there you go there you go she is so excited yeah she's really immediately like right after you guys met she came to me and she was like oh my gosh can we sit and talk like give me some ideas with books like she's she's really I think she I think she's going to be
great and we also have a couple of um kids um one who graduated last year who's at Manasquan now but the younger sister is still there um that we're trying to they're always looking the older sister's always
looking for volunteer time so we want I asked her about being involved with the book club and she's she wants to do it so so that'll be good great yeah so we're excited about that and one other program that I don't know if I've told anyone yet but as you know I'm working
one day a week uh and then just so you know I make up my hours on Saturday or Sunday at at mounts and there's a an enrichment program right now going on at mounts it's a Legos stem program with a with the media specialist and she actually worked in a
Municipal Library at one time and so I'm watching it kids are having a blast and so I went over I said what are you doing the summer you know you after school yeah what do you get paid here so anyway um she's going to write
up a proposal so I think and we can do that the stuff they were doing we can do that down here so I know you wanting to get uh more of the the kids here so we're working on it but I want to make sure it's it's quality instructors not just the program but just Kevin Kevin
O'Donald's been pushing some Lego related stem activities at school okay so I think that there there's there's already familiarity with it within the student base I think it's been well Reed so I think that would give us an opportunity to bring something in that
the the town kids have already seen y great air conditioned facility y or will be here every day so be it will happen she's very excited about she has some other proposals too but that's the one so um we all just started a Lego Club every
Saturday yeah and the turnout is it's amazing from and they do like all ages they have like the Duplo for the little toddlers and then like the Middle Ages kind of can do free play and then they have like really um some really intense kits for the older kids and we've been a
few times it's a really nice turnout that's a good idea to think about ages and doing she's willing to work on Saturdays too so um I like that maybe I'll go over to Brio check it out okay it's amazing the Lego sets that they have now which are built for adults I
mean it there's like a cherry blossom tree and I'm like what but they're so exed yes not we just want bricks and creativity bricks and creativity kids great no keeping kids together um two
other things um I have been here twice now for the bilingual Story Time with the little ones it is the cutest thing ever and I'm just so pleased to see that our bilingual um books have expanded tremendously and that we have more and
more people coming in so that's great kudos to you guys because that's just a great job Lucy has come she was very tentative in the beginning she kind of let Joyce lead the way but she's come into her own and she's comfortable now so she does a lot more of leading and it
is it's really nice and I mean you even have the monolingual kids that are now learning Spanish and it's just really it really is we also I just wanted I don't know if we mentioned it last time I might have mentioned that we were getting an intern our intern has started um and she's great um she we kind of
have this relationship now with the academy uh charter school yeah this is the second year in she calls every right after Christmas and this is the third one this is yeah and the kids need the hours to graduate and they're she's
wonderful and she also is bilingual so she's useful in that way too but um she's wonderful Erica and she's learning all kinds of things just helping here but she also is wants to come to events she she came to a parade that day and she's she's going to be there Wednesday
night for the soda bread contest so it's it's nice wow that's great great and as we said Word of Mouth you know you spread the good news so she can spread that to the school as well as to the parents and stuff so that's all good now I think someone mentioned there was a scavenger hunt that's coming up did someone mentioned it was going to go oh
we talk about that the uh the summer reading program summer reading believe it or not we talking about summer reading but the theme this year is going to be discover walart and we decided to use the Treasure Trail map as the the
centerpiece of it where the kids are going to all get the maps and they have to choose spots on the maps and they have to choose themes we made up a list of themes that they could pick to match whatever spot they choose and take a picture of themselves with their book by one of the stops we'll hang them up in
the library and um every time they come in with the picture they'll do the raffle ticket for the prize at the end because they all like the prize at the end I like and um yeah it's going to be good and we have Mr Ray coming for the starting of program in June so that'll
be it'll be nice Mr Ray is GNA be outside awesome kids will be outside we'll start it off and I think it's be a fun one do you have a date for that I'm sorry do you have a date for that yet June 21st that's the kickoff date we're going to put it out like May 1st yeah
the registration and all of that and uh and then the week after Labor Day is when they come back for the little party and the Raffles and my last topic is the infamous digital Marina sign I've been working on this for so
long so from what I was told by Dave and I guess this is from coming from the burrow as well is that we can only put one event what put something one thing up for a month okay or two to three weeks whatever it is is for the the program so
one of the things that I wanted to promote that I I think just not everyone knows at still at this point is that the library is open seven days a week I just don't think everyone knows it yet but the other thing is you know we have April coming up and April has as you can see on our uh events update that there's
some things that are coming up um so we I really wanted it to kind of open up to the group here as to what we would like to have at least for the April sign as to what you think would be the one thing that we could kind of we do it from mid you know from now until the middle of
April so um or whatever date whatever you want to accept for do we know how many characters it is or how many is it two lines is it one line no on a sign sign itself whatever you want because you you it's it's you can design a JPEG
image of whatever Ty the only parameters really you want to go by is that the text need to be big and and easy to see and read from a distance right so uh so the simpler the image the better uh but beyond that there there's no really
limited lines you can put whatever you want just just know they I think less is better because easier to see and it's if they're drive you know if they're not stopped it's like event name date location that's I would like just to see
big bold and ugly bmar Library 7 Days see Facebook for events yeah that's she Library there there with the words public library or whatever and that way they
open seven days open seven days check us and redirect not to our actual web page some social media social media okay all right got it right is everyone good with that the sooner we get it up more people
will be all right especially with the cards coming up soon got to check this out uh okay um oh I didn't realize I put all business up there twice my my eror new business new business I think we kind of
covered new business as well as real quick uh we're not meeting again till May but don't forget April by April 30th you have to do your financial disclosure correct so everyone'll be sending it out yeah April will send out a reminder to usually all of us at the beginning of the right but I think everyone here has
done it before so it's it's not it's just a reminder see you're ready Bruce Bruce will come in for his private 101 time oriented oh my gosh all right um comments how many how many patrons do
you have do you know in total in total yes over a little over 4,000 okay cool all right so um I've been in politics unfortunately for the last 10 years I'm not boun b and uh one mayor wanted to sell the library one mayor said shut
down all the classes and uh so my my job is my my thoughts are politics and libraries and the way we're set up you should never give away your classes you never give away your Fitness classes direct because the chance of different politics different uh different mayors
whatever maybe they'll shut down Recreation classes maybe they'll shut down Library classes just for safety just for safety reasons spread your stuff out so never give up your that's my opinion why can't we charge for the non-residents why can't you sit there and take the $5 I we don't have to give
them to Recreation why can't you we can that was the board decided not to okay but I I just again if we're bringing this up we keep rehashing the same thing over and over again why can't we charge the patrons the $40 and why can't we Char why can't we charge $5 at the door
he's at the door the list whatever however you arrange it why can't we do that just just my thoughts but honestly don't give up your classes unless you know you don't want somebody to shut them down but any uh little libraries we have a number of them around this the town they're
awesome I love them clearly I'm finding that some people don't even know what they are and I'm I'm thinking that you know the signs that we have about the other libraries around town maybe the sign should be free take a book and in
Spanish just because I I it's we all know what they are because we're here we're in the bubble we know we do this but there's you know you if you talk to some kids I spoken to some kids they have no idea what it is and I would ask the librarian to maybe talk it up at school and to see if they really have an
understanding that they can open that take a book and they don't have to give it back they don't have to put a book in and you know the books change all the time just just my observation being out there uh next subject not supposed to comment but I know um at one point we had talked about putting like a little
map to show where all of them were remember we had talked about we have list we we have a list so can we maybe laminate one and put it on each of little Library so they know where the others are we have a you have that on each one of the libraries you have a list of where the other ones are some of non official ones but that's not what
I'm saying I'm just please take a book free and and in Spanish yeah I think I it's amazing it's amazing you think everybody knows everything and they don't and no fault of their own they they're not in our
bubble um the PCT um the park story I'm going to uh do the park story and bring it back up if that's all still good and I'm going to ask for sponsors I was thinking to go on a Rob Robins Nest first and see if they want to pay it's about $120 the laminating I've been footing the bill so if if she footed the
bill then laminated uh no not the size of the stuff this is this is Staples you know stuff like that but um if if she agrees if she agrees then she gets like her menu you know this park story was sponsored by Robin nest and then that
would have to be um approved by the board though if that yeah but but so I'm I'm saying I would rather do it for you through our budget you know instead of you putting so then I take it to Staples to get it laminated so yeah we have an account with staples so let's let's talk about that okay all right so then we'll
talk about that okay um so um the pictures of Springsteen and and Andrew are they coming back yeah I was waiting to see you know what we're doing with P if we're going to be painting um you're talking about upstairs yeah if we were going to be painting we were going to keep them down
we did are we planning on paining anytime soon that's our meeting all right all right that's all I got any other comments anybody have any questions on the events or anything like that no I like the attendance by the way
thank you yeah you saw attached I attached attendance reports uh for the past two major events so everyone get a flavor in the field for what um the attendance uh look like how many are residents non residents how many are
actually show up I'm sorry I have one other thought I hit do this but um the Erica that class can she I don't know maybe Pat covered this I wasn't really clear can she have a class on the same day because then people wouldn't go to the class twice and it would split up you would
think when she's available but I'll I'll talk to her about that cuz if you're offering another class on another day they're just going to go you know they're just I like this class I'll take it three times a week but if you offer it back to back or you know an hour later they you know that would be obviously that they you know you really
shouldn't come because we open this class because you know it's too crowded but she is awesome they're all awesome they're all wonderful I love them all um just my input from the the two events I did attend both yeah um of course the Chinese New Year is always a
good one and thank goodness those dancers were great this year fantastic year very pleased we won't talk anymore about it but I will tell you the Adams and Jefferson I wasn't going to go and I did go I was amazed they were unbelievable they were in character the
entire time and what I found out the day of I think I might have found out from either you or someone upstairs that one of the um actors is on a PBS special so no no History Channel oh History Channel History Channel special he's the star of the Thomas Jefferson documentary three
part documentary in like airing on the 27th of febrary so it was really Fe oh March March which was really exciting to have uh to have and really great guy and you saw how well how well they did a
fantastic job I mean there were kids there and everything and everyone was like in awe they answered questions like anyone could throw any question out historical they knew all the answers I was like so we got two more living histories lined up coming up really quick we got on the heels of the of the irisa bre on
this Saturday is um going be Amelia aart cool we currently have 38 registered people for that one and then soon after that will'll be LS and Clark and Louis's Clark is going to be pretty interesting because the the guy who did Thomas Jefferson will be back as U Clark I
believe and then there's another actor coming in and they do this great interactive thing that would be great for students and kids so we're going to be uh announcing through the school as well to invite them to see so it's going to be a really great uh interactive thing they they they talk about their adventures and they actually I believe
if there's enough kids there they will include them in part of the the program time 11 a.m. 11: a.m. it's down here no tell been at have been really crowded right we can only accommodate
comfortably here about 25 anything above that yeah so what we do is if we can have it here we want people here at the library but once it gets too big so Louis schedules it there if it's like 15 people and we might get 20 25 let's have it here we want people here but if we can't fit them then we go
there so the other big events we have coming in April you can see it's a spoken word poetry JY um it's going to be an event where uh at National poetry month so I have two Poets of New Jersey repute uh stature it's going to be
coming there spoken word poets and they actually perform their poetry and they're two really good um one first one is James Elby uh he came recommended to me U through another contact I have in the Poetry world and talking to him he's going to get I've seen his work and he's
going to be uh coming back to us again in June for the juneth concert and I'll tell more about that later more details and then we have a second poet his name is uh his his real name is Kevin Slaughter but he his stage name is Don Krypton and so he'll be uh he'll be
performing as well and it's also going to be an open mic so I'm going to be putting it out there so anyone locally who wants to come and recite and share their poetry they can come do that so it'll be a combination uh uh uh performance of poetry performance and
Open Mic everybody and then and then we have the spring break uh the spring Beach readers book fair uh which is going to be in uh April 26th at Tor Pavilion and I opened up the author call for authors uh we have a maximum of 40
authors that we can accommodate and we're already at over 12 registered to there's more com so and show to bread uh can you ask is anyone able to to help out there okay and what time Lou starts
at 6 starts at 6 so anytime after 4:30 would be ideal cuz we're starting to set up at 430 star set 4:00 four but uh but the first half hour is going to be setting up the tables and chairs and the physical D group coming yes the Darcy group will be coming they're bringing at
least 15 to 20 dancers and we have the uh round the house band Irish band are going to be performing on both the beginning and on the tail end of the event and uh we have four judges lined up and as I have listed on here as you
can see we have 21 uh standard white bread contestants and 14 brown red contestants and we have all four judges lined up ready to go and they'll be they'll be is it closed the closed registration not closed as of tonight
and if you can help could you please email leis if you have his so if not email me so we know when you can come and that'd be great thank you all right I just have two comments regarding the events um are all of the schools notified of the living history ones uh
they will be as I well we did for umom yeah but they were on break I we not ified Sean the history teacher here we also notified two history teachers at mquan High School uh the administration as well but I'll do that for this uh for
Amilia yeah I think you know for women's History Month I think it would be great to let EES know I think they yeah okay for Clark as well yes and and for that one as well and then the other thing I just had a question this is my teacher brain going here for the Poetry dram can
they submit their poetry beforehand so you can see it to make sure it's appropriate for the entire audience well actually yes that's what uh I'm using the same format I did when I did this poetry jams before I asked him to subit poet in advance something like that so
uh uh yeah I can do that um also um is there uh are there any parameters you want me to go by in terms of what's I'll there yeah I just want to make sure you know there's all different forms yeah and I would like little ones are there that they're prepared as
well it's hard yeah then you go home and explain it when you get home I explain many things my girls what time is the Art um the shake the dust off your feet and walk that is going to be at uh 12:
noon Saturday that's Gina Eon economos she is a Belmont resident she's and she tells the story her life story her come back from addiction after she left the convent she started out as a
nun wow left the convent got fell into an alcoholic addiction and the book tells of her recovery back and her journey back to wow I wonderful is that that here that'll be here at the library
that's here that's the first auor time there'll be more offer times as year go and that's 12:00 p.m. at 12:00 p.m. and and that as um what Dave and I were talking about is that in the future as I schedule events on the library uh on a Saturday we're going to be pushing it
back to 12:00 noon start to help more easier for our staff maybe even one so we open 9 to 12 and we're going to push it to 12 and then so the ideas work because really you know we need support sometimes down there so we want to make
sure we're open but then some of our staff then goes down there support okay I make a who would like to make a motion to ad motion to adour Second all in favor