Welcome to the Franklin Township Public Library Board of Trustees meeting being held in the library. It is June 18th, 2025. I'll call the meeting to order and we'll start with a pledge of allegiance to the flag.
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. Calling the role.
Nick Champa, I'm here. Deborah Kelly, here. Agnes Kulabana, she's not here. Kevin McNeel. He's not coming. Okay. Amy Arala, Aisha Ali here.
Mayor Kramer, Tiana. Okay. And January Adams here. Okay. This meeting is held in accordance with the Open Public Meetings Act, also known as the Sunshine Law. The schedule and
notification 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 they're also available at the reference desk. I'd now like to open the public portion,
the first public portion of the meeting to any member of the public who might want to say something. Seeing none, I will close this first portion. I would entertain a motion to uh approve
the minutes of the u May 28th meeting. Is there such a motion? Tiana has motion to and is there a second? I will second the motion. Deborah has seconded. Okay. Is
there any discussion about the minutes? I have just one little uh issue. I never said virtual up here. Okay. Oh, you're right. Yeah, you're right. I'll fix that. Okay. Um I have made one tiny
omission of one word um which was a typo. Um, those in favor of approving the minutes from May 28th signify by saying I I I opposed. The uh motion passes uh unanimously.
Okay. Director's reports. Would you like to start with the financial reports? Yes. They look very nicely in order. I really don't any have anything to add
to them. Um I welcome questions if anybody has any questions or comments. I certainly don't. I left them open pretty carefully. If there are no questions, uh I will ask January to go on with her the reports,
her program reports. Effective May 1st, we uh transition to automatic item renewals. That means that um if you have a book out or something else out and it's um coming due that we will automatically renew it for you so
they you don't have to call up and that's cut down quite a bit on overd now that we know what time it is. Um that's correct. It's correct. Sweet. And on June 6th, uh the library
participated in the townships Pride Day and we had a table and it was kind of dreary weather, but um about 80 people stopped by the table and we gave out our usual um information and uh information and um
stuff about the library. All the summer of the library summer reading challenges will begin on June 23rd. The adult services department had 46 programs and 668 people came to. And I just want to mention that some of the
statistics I'm going to tell you about are less than usual because this was a shorter period. The youth services department had 41 programs that 1,298 people came to. And at Lewis Street, they hosted an
information table focused on volunteer opportunities for teens and adults at the library, Lewis Street Library at the Youth Resources Fair on May 31st. Those are what I consider to be the highlights.
Thank you. Are there any questions about uh the uh oper operations report? Okay. I have no president's report this month. We have received some interesting
correspondence from January. Um I hope we've we all read I've read them all and uh a lot of information there. some of the troubling. Any discussion or questions about
these five articles? I'll just add that for our newer members, um, reading these articles, it counts towards your continuing education obligation, in addition to things I think that you
you might want to know about and think you should know about. Okay. So, we've we are all continuing our education. [Applause] Is there any other correspondence that
any other members have received? Okay. Seeing none, let's move on to old business. Um, does anyone have any old business to bring up at this point? And I might note that uh
we will in executive session be talking about a gift a gift proposal which could have gone under old business but it's it'll come a little later. Okay. So you know other old business is there
any new business? apparently no one wants to come up with any new business tonight. So, um there are two reasons to go into executive session this evening and they are separate.
So, I would entertain a um motion to go into executive session for the for negotiation of a gift proposal. Is there such a motion?
I'll make a motion to go into executive session. Deborah has made a motion to go into executive session for the purpose of negotiation of a gift. Is there a second?
Second. Aisha has seconded. Any discussion of this motion? Seeing none, those in favor of passing this motion signify by saying I. I. I. I. Four eyes. This has this motion has
passed and um we're now in executive session. So I'll make a motion to end the executive session portion of the meeting. Is there a second? A second. Tiana
seconds. Is there any discussion? Are you ready for the question? Those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Uh the the the motion to exit executive session has passed unanimously.
Okay. Um is there a motion to accept the contract for a gift as amended?
Yes. A motion to accept the gift. Okay. Is there a second? Go ahead. I second. Aisha seconds. Any discussion on this
motion to accept the amended contract? Seeing none, those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. This motion has passed unanimously. You might want to fill the public in on
wait. Would you like to uh do you want to say that I talk about what happened during exit? No, just the matters were discussed that one that one we're putting out a contract that's that
becomes public. Okay. I'm not what I'm not sure what you mean. I think explains to the public what contract we've just Oh, okay. Do you want to do that? No. The contract under discussion is a
contract with um Jennifer Kellogg, who is a cousin of two sisters who used to teach in the uh township, the Diamonte sisters. And the gift is going to be $40,000. And what the library is going to do is
name the children's section or the eastern section of the library that wing um after the sisters. And there will also be a plaque placed nearby that gives brief biological biographical information about the sisters. That
might be more interesting. Thank you. And we're very happy to accept this gift from the Kelloggs and the Diamontes. And um Diamontes, I understand, are two sisters um who
they're twins. Twins. And they and taught in the li and they they taught in the township for 50 years each. 50. So there's a 100 years of service here. Wow. Okay. Thank you. Uh, is there a motion
to concerning uh compensation? I make a motion to um to move forward with the compensation as discussed during the executive session. Do I need to be specific? I think so.
Yes. How specific is the person in the number that we are increasing the director's salary to 159,000 per year. Um starting
starting July 1st, 2025. Sorry, I was looking for the tea company here. Um I make the motion. Is there a second? A second. Tiana, is there any discussion? Seeing no those Seeing none, those in
favor of the motion um signify by saying I. I. I. Those opposed, this motion has passed four to nothing. And I would like to take the opportunity to thank you and to thank you for your
support during the year. And also um they're not here, but to thank the staff. You can't do a job like this by yourself. And I'm appreciative of everybody being behind me. You and they do a great job.
Okay. So, where are we now? Executive session. The public comment. Is there any Let's uh let's move on to the second public comment portion. Anyone have any comments to make?
Okay. Our next meeting date is scheduled as August 27th will be at 5:45 here. July meeting, right? Pardon? There's no
July meeting. And you're off in July. Yeah, I just confirming. I remember that from last year. Well, we did a lot tonight, so that we made up. You're all you're all set for the summer summer break. Um, is there a motion to adjurnn?
I will make motion to adjurnn. Tiana, yes. Tiana to adjourn and Deborah to second. Those in favor signify by saying I. I. Okay. Now
we are adjourned.