this is the Franklin Public Library Board of Trustees meeting it's February 26th and I'd like to call the meeting to order we'll start with a pledge of allegiance
F I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all I'd like to Now read the
roll call Aisha here here Tiana no Agnes K yes yes Kevin is not here he called Zach Wickman
no Nicholas I'm here and Amy here and mayor Kramer is not coming January Adams here okay so we have a quarum um I'd like to um state that this
meeting is being held in accordance with the open public meetings act also known as the Sunshine Law schedule and notification of this meeting have been provided to The Courier News the home News Tribune and the Franklin Township Clerk copies have
been posted in the library's vestibule and are also available right there at the reference test I would now like to open the first public comment session of this meeting is there any member of the public who would like
to uh say anything no okay I will call the first part of the public comment session closed is there any discussion of the
minutes for the uh January 22nd meeting you've gotten the minutes and okay is there a motion to accept the minutes I so M am me okay now according to Robert's Rules now
is when we discuss it is there any discussion there's still none okay those in favor of the motion signify by raise uh saying I uh the motion has passed unanimously um
so let's uh hear from our director January um you might want to start as usual with your financial reports which look pretty much like they're supposed to Yes um I'm happy with how they look
um I hope you will be too it's a very nice format you have to yeah present this everything very easy to read any comments or questions on the financial reports January would you like to talk
about your operations always always yes the Adult Services Department had 46 programs and 457 people came and youth services had 35 programs that 770 people
enjoyed and the winter reading challenge has ended it ended on February 12th by conclusion of the program we had 118 adults 72 children and 40 teens and we've started a yearlong reading challenge CU we do love reading
challenges here it's titled your next chapter and participants are challenged to read 24 books before December 31st so we have something for everybody just encouraging everybody to read and let's
see think that's it okay [Applause] any questions there is no president's report and uh about the correspondence and
communication I want to thank January for keeping us up to date with with what's going on in the industry and also with libraries and I found these both interesting and I passed them on to
another librarian who is in my family always happy to hear luckily we don't uh generally have violence here at thebr been some that's why I wanted you guys to see this because it's nothing
like this year but there's been some there's been some occasions it's not what people think that o the library is a safe quiet place some people don't even realize you know that was why I commented that when
you remember somebody asked about extending the hours Sunday hours you perhaps I said I don't think we need extending Sunday hours CU you don't know what is in people's mind this is really
okay well we are next to the police station so is there any old business is there any new business I don't think it's new business but I went the my first time was on Saturday I went to the Piscataway
Library mhm I was really stunned at the way the library is built it is so gorgeous it is so organized it is they have an arterium is it what they call the water in the center yes it is huge
yeah it is very very it no yeah that's why I I don't know they I don't know maybe they modify it they must have modified oh it is beautiful water in the center the blanket your Public Library used to have yeah but it's dry it's been
dry for a long but it's working now it's really beautiful beautiful and our library is beautiful oh yeah no I'm not down in my library to see a library of that nature in that part you know because when you
think play field I'm not down in Playfield but I don't know much I don't either I don't know much about Playfield but I don't think a libr like that should be it is beautiful really I haven't been there in some time check it out check it
out well we got a grant for our branch and at the same time fan would got one and they had a little tiny library and you should see it now they they built they just opened up their yeah oh another place to check out okay yeah
yeah yeah and what CH is G do some renovations to their terrible building but so I guess speaking of Renovations I should say that um what I've been thinking about and what I've mentioned in the past is I would like to
reconfigure the layout of The West Wing of this building because as I've mentioned people are using the library differently they don't come in and use the computers as much they bring in their own devices what they're really looking for quiet places where they can be by themselves um and I would also
like to enlarge the historical room and I just think we could make the building work more efficiently according to 2025 standards so I'd like to what I was thinking of doing is getting an architect to give us
some Concepts and then we could decide on um what kind of a plan we'd like to go ahead with do we still have the quiet area here I haven't walked past a while area yeah like where you can work like little there's tables there
one of one of the problems is that the reference desk is of right there and the reference is a working area so they're on the phone they're helping people and if you're sitting at at those tables it's not going to be deadly Qui because I was working there on my dissertation
and I was like you could hear it yeah so I'd like to do something about that maybe consolidate some of the desks so we know have people so spread out but I think there's a lot we could do and I think we can make building still be beautiful but work better spes that's
great I would suggest you go go look at the scway yes and the family City Family yeah okay I I think that's a good idea and
I if I had to choose between that and the door on on the uh um Youth Center I I'd say we should do both of them I think we can we should do both of them I think we can yeah
okay now I'm betting that there's still not going to be any public comment but maybe it can surprise me maybe someone can surprise me okay so uh the second part of the public comment session is open and now
closed so um our next meeting is scheduled for March 26th here in this room 5:45 would anyone like to move for adjournment okay
Amy and Anisha has seconded those in favor adjourning okay we are adjourned I ask you now