[Music] Can we do it? Yes, we can. Good morning. Um, this is the Lake Library Board of Trustees monthly meeting. It is Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. I am Ruth Gross, board
chair, and I will let everyone introduce themselves. Jennifer Jones, library director, asking Nancy Lefay, trustee. Patrick Marshall, trustee. Okay. Um, everyone has received the packet. First thing is the secretar's
report from the last meeting. If you've read it or when you've read it, I will entertain a motion to approve. I move we wave the read wave the reading and approve the minutes of sorry about that. March March 26th.
Second. All those in favor? I Okay, moving right along. We have the financial report and gifts. So, no gifts to report at this time. Um, same old
with the water service. Yes. Um, and it's going to continue to go up because we are having to irrigate the new lawns. And then we are overspent on rubbish. That will continue to go up. It was about $180 last month. Um I know
Tracy was looking at contracts that are similar to other departments like the police get a better deal than we do with the COA. So hopefully we'll be able to go to a contract that's more reasonable. And then the other thing that will be
overspent that I know is the heating. We have 392.91 left and we just got a top off for about $1,200. So, I know that's going to be over spent. But again, I'm holding back on some other
lines so that we should even out in the end. Oh god. Like contracted services. Yeah, contracted services. We do have one bill coming up for the waterfall for 1,200 that I know of. Other ones I don't I don't think there's anything
outstanding for other contracted services other than the watch 24. It's just a quarterly service and I think there might be we might have already paid through June so we might be all set with that but I'll take a look.
Electricity probably will have some leftover in it because the bills have been variable. Um, I just set the extra 6,000 to what I thought might be enough to cover it and it should be. So, okay, we have two months left.
The juggling continues. Yes. Okay. Any questions or comments? All right. Moving on to the director's report. Okay. So, we did make a little move. You might want to check out um where the CD shelves are. I have
moved all the CDs over to one side as I planned and on the other side is the YA DVD collection. So, we ended up moving that plus the audio book collection out of the YA room and that is now at the end of the adult audio book collection just
outside of the YA room. And I'm hoping this might actually increase circulation stats because now they'll be visible to people who may be interested in them, right? Who necessarily didn't know they were there. And the spinning racks have gone to Dyon for a new life in their new building. Mark Prochnik picked them up
yesterday. So Oh, Mark is the director of Dyon. Oh, how wonderful. So he came by. He lives in Lakeville, so he came by and picked them up and carted them off and I hope they make it to sharing. Yeah. So we we advertised on freebies. I
guess that's how we found them in the first place. So now we're passing them along. moving right along. Recycle, recycle. Yeah, it's good that it's not going to a landfill. So, story times will wrap up next month. Attendance has been fairly steady to about 30 children
per session. Teresa is kind of playing with the idea of maybe doing backtoback sessions, but it's going to be tricky with staffing and making sure everything's done and ready for the next crowd to come in. Music time will resume in July, and it
had a good six-w weekek run with the highest attendance numbers yet, and plans are to end the summer run with a bubble dance party, I believe, on the stage. Um, playing with purpose um attendance on Saturdays has increased. However, the Wednesday sessions really
did well. 38 kids um came to the first session with their grown-ups. So, or 38 kids and grown-ups came to the first session. So, she's evaluating the Saturday sessions and really was encouraged by the popularity of the Wednesday one. Maybe Saturdays isn't the
day that's good for that program. Pace offered an event with a magician and they had a really good crowd. So, I'm hoping this might get things back on track with them. We'll have to have conversations about future programs with them. And
then Teresa has had a lot of teens looking for volunteer hours and they often call saying I need hours by Friday. Exactly. Um so she's gonna try to work on a schedule to manage dates and tasks so that we kind of cut back on the hasty arrangements of her trying to
find something for them to do. I'm wondering if next year I don't know whether people would see it. I put a note by the checkout saying, "Will you
need hours? Put down your name and email or something like that and we'll let you know when it comes up. We can't promise you hours at the last minute." Yeah. And she she tells them that, but I think it's a matter of they just assume
organizational. It's not their priority until it's a deadline. I call up and say, "I need hours by Friday." She'll find something. Yeah. Which she has been very accommodating. Yeah. Um so she's going to work on that. Plus I want to really work on the adult volunteer
program. So we already have a volunteer policy. So I'm going to bring that as the next I didn't put it in today's schedule. So next month I'll bring it uh a volunteer policy for um looking at that and maybe an application so that we can get started with volunteering for
adults because we've had people come in and ask about it. So, I wouldn't mind starting that up again for people and then maybe we can kind of coordinate so that you know there's this big notice on Facebook and everywhere
that we're looking for volunteers and we need to know ahead of time. Yeah. Well, get that short notice thing with an application. Send out to weed. I wonder if we had an application and gave it to
the high school to the person who does it. It's um honor society that they met the hours. If she could just pass it out at the beginning and people could drop it off. I mean, make it clear that,
you know, you have to have some skin in the game if you want to get these hours, right? I think that's kind of the idea for both of us is to have an application and policy ready so that we can just send it out to people and say this is what we're doing. And will the town do
the Corey checks for you or do you Yeah, Tracy's been doing the Corey check. She did that for the student volunteers that come in the um Aonqua High School transitional program. So I and I'll make sure I'll talk with her because she's going to be leaving in August.
So, we'll need to find out who's going to be taking that over. So, I'll talk to her before we start implementing the volunteer program and see what the best way to do that is. So, what happens when do the high school
kids have to be Corey checked as well? Yes, because they are over 18. Okay. This group, but the ones under 18, do they have the ones under 18? I don't believe have to have a Corey check. Okay. Um, so programming Matt York's concert
was great. We had 43 people and he actually wrote the grant himself for the Lakeville Arts Council. So he took care of that part. Novelties Discuss Northern Spy by Flynn Barry. That was really a good book. I wrote it read it on the side. Um, very interesting book. I
haven't read anything about Northern Ireland before. So yeah, we were looking for an Irish author and that one came up and had enough copies cuz you always have to make sure you have enough copies in the system. So um they were reading Westwood drafts for this month and then
the group is back in the gallery because of attendance. They're up to like 20 at least coming in in person. And Elsie's art program had 17 attendees and they did their own version of Matis's goldfish painting and they didn't really get to finish. So, we're
considering maybe altering the time so that they get a nice chunk of two hours without having to worry about cleanup. So, maybe just moving it forward a little bit. We had the um Capoera demonstration yesterday that went very well. Not a lot of people came, but it
was a lot of fun from what I could hear. Peepsi is tomorrow. That's sushi with Peeps, unlike the We were wear diarama. Um, learn to play the ukulele is next
week. We have novelties next week. Mandela rock art painting is um something that Christina and Theresa are working on together and that is already full. And genealogy club happens again Saturday, May 17th. For buildings and grounds, we all
saw that DPW finished the front projects and seated the lawn. We've got the sprinklers on to get it started. There is a leaky pipe out behind the boiler room and yesterday our um guy came to do the backflow prevention test and he said
it's the seal that's in the relief valve back there. So Paul is aware of it and he's working on a fix. I think he was going to start with city the city water department and then um I was told a plumber could fix it. So hopefully we can get that fixed soon. Advanced Air is
scheduling the semianual oh scheduled the semiannual maintenance and they discovered more VAV boxes that aren't functioning. So Paul had them returned to fix two of the three and authorized repairs to the remaining boxes. So that is yet to be scheduled. Then we should
be fine for um switching over to AC. Burgess Pest did the seasonal pest management and they should be out monthly to spray the outside. Earth and Water actually called yesterday after I wrote my report and said that they will be by on Friday to take care of the
waterfalls. And I also mentioned to him that the um board across the top of the big one was, you know, kind of warped. Warped and rotting. And he said he could take care of that. Oh, good. And I said it's on both of them. So 20 years old.
Yeah. Over 20 years old. So he said text me pictures. I texted him pictures. He said we'll just take care of that. And I mentioned the gap too to see if we should be worried about the gap. So he said they'll take care of it. And then um the memorial bricks were placed with
the help from Gates Masonry and Construction on Thursday, April 17th. So they were ones that provided a reasonable estimate and had worked with the DPW. So they came highly recommended. We do need a little more sand on them, but hopefully they'll send along the invoice. Yeah. And we'll be
good. And I haven't heard anybody mention anything yet about it other than, you know, people saying that it looks nice. So, okay, good. Um, and then we had our budget hearing with the select board and finance committee that went very well. We I provided some statistics from AIRS reports to back up
our budget requests and then if all goes as planned, we should be on track for meeting June 9th. They did meet yesterday to talk about the general budget. Um, the food for fines proposal was approved. So, I'm going to start collecting in June. Um, I'll advertise
in May and coordinate with Lori for a food drop off and then we'll be closed Saturday, May 24th and May 26th in observance of the Memorial Day holiday weekend. Middleboro Gas and Electric called to check on the leaf blower and um said if anything, you know, parts are
miss go missing or anything happens to it just to let them know. So, I had Pammy catalog it and get it ready for use. Um, there was a waiver of liability that I had with the box, so I will have people fill that out prior to checking it out. And then the friends met on Monday,
April 6th, for their upcoming events, and the mini golf did great. I No, it was between 250 and 275. I think they said 275. People stopped by to play. We were lucky because the weather was rainy, so I think people were looking for things to
do. And I love coming here to do this. It's so much fun. And um they got pretty good amount of donations. I think over 300. And Joe Buckley, who said he was retiring, has decided to continue the mini golf. He had a discussion with his wife and his wife said, "You're going to continue with the mini golf,
right?" So he um we already booked a date for next year. It's going to be April 12th. And then tea in the gallery is on May 4th there. And there are a few tickets still available. Randy Swan had a wonderful
um reception with over a hundred people attending. He was very pleased with the turnout. And next in the gallery is the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators annual jured members exhibit with a big reception planned for Monday, July 14th.
Excuse me. And I've included Teresa's report in the end if you wanted to read through what she had to say about me and stuff.
Okay. Building and grounds. You got that? Yes. Okay. And I kind of did the budget update in the report too, just that, you know, town meeting is June 9th. As far as I know, we're just getting put forward as was noted in the
budget materials. Do we have a theme for summer readings yet? A level. It's level up at your library. Level up. Yeah, it's a gaming theme. Okay. All right.
Um, going up to the policy list review. Is that right? Yeah, that's where we are. So, the computer and internet use was the one that I presented last time. It combined the Wi-Fi with the computer and internet use. Now, I have wireless policy from
last from the paperwork you gave us last time. Is that That's cuz it was separate. It was separate. Okay. And then the one I included in your packet is the one where I combined everything. Okay.
To make it sort of a clean one policy where you're not referring back to the other one. Okay. Do we need to approve this? Yes. So, I would move to accept the updated computer and internet use policy. And I would second that motion. All right. All
those in favor? I. Okay. Okay. And then the rules of conduct we already had approved, but we have to make a small adjustment. And I don't know if it came through on your number six your copy.
You can look at my copy. It has the highlights. Um number six we have to change from age of 10 years to 12 years um as was accepted um in the child policy and as written in the
computer use policy too. So it's just a little housekeeping. Okay. To update it. I will move to approve the change in the rules of conduct from 10 on number six from 10 years to 12 years
and authorized personnel uh sice responsible caregiver and legal guardians. Yeah. Yeah. I second. Okay. All those in favor? I I passes. All right.
Um where anything more in the policy list? Not right now. Like I said, I'll bring the volunteer policy to um next next meeting. Okay. Old and new business audio
proposals. Our favorite. Okay. So, I got the updated quotes from both um East West Associates and Ochres. As we talked about at a meeting, I think two meetings
ago, um Kevin with East West Associates did have to put in some different equipment than was previously looked at because of availability. And the bottom line on his
is 19,72060. That includes um 180 calendar days of um repairs or coverage. They said they'll come out standard response times at no cost to
the client for 180 days, but manufacturers warranties will vary. and then some additional terms. And he said about permits, but I'm not sure if we would have to get permits necessarily for this project.
Permits? Yeah. Because of what? Um installations of things, wiring. If it's uh inind, usually you don't need permit for buildings. I know I don't I don't think we would need it, but he just mentioned it in his proposal that we would be responsible for all
permitting. Okay. If if there is permitting, if there is permitting, how much of a change was this from the um roughly about the same bottom line? Okay. He was around the 19,000 before. Yeah. And then um
ochres comes in at 26,17627. [Music] and Jonathan um came back to look at things. He mentioned getting a projector that is a little brighter for that room.
So, comparing what Kevin suggested, what Jonathan suggested, there's a difference in the lumens. Um so, how much it would light up? Is it a problem? No. Which is the stronger one? the ochre. Yeah, the
ochres would I think be a lot brighter predictor scope [Music] and which this is coming out of the service fund or um I was thinking it would be good to use the chase fund the
chase fun that's yeah as I said service and then ochres does a 90-day on-site warranty workmanship. So, it's kind of similar. Three year for the projector, one year for all other gear. Both of them seem really easy to
work with. So, I mean, does either of them have local? So, East West was 1972, right? And ochres was 26. six. Yeah. So, Ores is right in
Plymouth, I believe, or they were in Plymouth. I had worked with them um when I was at Plymouth. We still or they're Middleboro. So, they're they're very
local. Kevin, I think, is Barnstable or Bourne Bible, what's the post office called? And did you work with each? So I know Kevin from work at the spire
and he did the pavilion is doing the pavilion right now. Yeah. Oh, okay. Kevin is with poker east west. East west. Well, for the most part, the proposals
are very similar. It seemed to me the lesser cost is Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we could now is there a new projector in the East West proposal? He's he's can
No, he's just the same Epson 5000. Okay. So, we could always upgrade that at another time like we're going to, but yeah. Yeah, I agree with um
Patrick. I mean, six $7,000 is a lot of money. Yeah. You buy a lot of water for that. Yeah. And it's relatively the same, you know, same setup. having a rack, having
the the um the system. I know that ochres is part of the mass higher education consortium. Kevin is not yet. He is working on that as far as I know. He is on the combi state bid lists I
believe, but not the higher education. And this one is through the higher education consortium fitting, but it's still coming out. Yeah. Where will the rack go? Chair room. I didn't want Where will the
chairs go? So, the rack shouldn't be too bad on the side. You know, you have the light switch and then the rack should go right where the like easels and things are. So, we may have to move that around a bit. I didn't want to put it in Lake Cam's office because Right.
because Are those cabinets empty? I don't think so. There's only one cabinet. Yeah. I don't I think they still have stuff in there. Yeah. And I don't know how much is being moved back, too.
Right. We haven't talked about that yet. Yeah. We need to grab our space first. Yeah. So, it shouldn't take up a lot of room. Okay. Okay. Well, this is going to benefit them too if and when they come back because I just want to make sure it
wasn't in the gallery itself. No, we don't want it together. Okay. All right. Okay. So, I would make a motion to approve the proposal from East West Associates
for $19,72060 pennies with funds to come out of the Chase fund. Second. All those in favor? I Okay, so I will contact Kevin and get the process started. Do we know
time frame? Um We have to ask him what his availability is. I know he's coming back. I had to speak to him about getting training on the sound system that will be in the barn. Um so I wanted to see a time that
Joanne T. Oh, you mean the steamroller barn? Yeah, the steamroller barn. The um sound system that's going to be there will need training on. He said he's got to put up some things and talk to a tech about testing the equipment and then it
should be good. Okay. So, I'm not sure what other installs he may have. So, I'll try to get on the schedule for as soon as possible. Do we want to contact the Chase family or eventually I think when we're at a point where um it's in
and we know it's working. Okay. We never did anything. We haven't still haven't because they both could not come at the same time both this brother and sister. So yeah, we do need to What I can do is ask Kevin if he can quote
us with a projector that matches the 6,000 lumens rather than the 5,000 lumens. Okay. And that might make the price go up a little, but but it 6,000. Well, it would probably be good if we
could have everything done at once and not have to peacemail meal it. Yeah, since we do have the money. Yeah. And it would be a wonderful addition to the lending library. I know. Well, we do have one that is a portable one. So,
that did go out quite a bit in Matapoet, the projector. Yeah. And screen. People like to check that out. Okay. Um, anything more on the audio proposals? No. Okay. Sabbath funds proposal. So,
Teresa put together a proposal with [Music] um some phonics equipment for phonics kits. So, I can't find my first page. [Applause]
So she has a whole list of things she would like to purchase with Savage funds that come to a total of 99279. So this would be stuff that we would circulate like a lending, you know, sort of library of things. But this phonics kits that tutors could
check out to use in the library or people could take home. Um we've been finding that um there are some adults who were expressing an interest in reading, learning how to read and then children
who are struggling with reading. Um she thought the kids might be a good idea to add to help boost literacy. So it's 900 and 900 and we have $51,666.664 available that we can use. So I think it would be I move that we
fund this project to expand um materials that are going out of the building. Right. Yes. Yeah. I would second I and certainly not in opposition to it. Just wondering as far as um does this go does this go along with like the
school curriculum too or not? Um I'm not sure if it goes along with the school curriculum. She looked at a lot of stuff on I think it's mostly from Lakeshore Learning. Yeah. Um, and looking at what people recommend.
Um, I did actually talk to the literacy teacher in um, Plymouth when I had an adult who was interested in learning how to read and she recommended a lot of flashc cards and things like that. So, we've been trying to figure out what would be best to buy, right, to
support Bonex. and some of the readers just aren't they're great but they're not getting into phonics the sounds that yeah so yeah she kind of looked at things that would fit and kind of looked
at Amazon and like shore learning in different places like I said I think it's great I just I hear phonics and I still wonder everyone's using it which I think I think they're using lots of Well, you know, everybody's every child has
different learning styles. So, the more material that umbrellas everything that has to go is something people are going to fit with different things. So, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. So, and I This isn't replacing elementary school education. This is a support. This is Yeah, absolutely. And
we get so many tutors in here and I think they'd enjoy like checking it out and then using it in the library. They can return it right away or take it home. Kid can take it home. So yeah, and it I know I think I can talk to Maria Maria from the French. She's a reading
she does reading specialist kindergarten reading. We can chat with her about it too to make sure you know if we're like I said I think it's great. It's just more curiosity on my part. It'll be interesting to see how what the um trail is of uh people taking it out too. So
Patrick, yours was a second. I did second. Okay. All right. Those in favor. Okay. then this passes and yeah it's wonderful. I'll let her know to go ahead and probably you can go
ahead and order it. Yeah. So, do we anticipate that this will be available by summer vacation, too? Because I mean, if I order it quickly enough, you know, and then we've got to get the boxes to put things in and that that price might
go up or down depending on how the kits are and how we our little boxes. But um hopefully, you know, working with Pammy, she might have to do some talking to sales for
some cataloging issues and then we can get it started. Yeah, I'm hoping. Okay. So, so we we figure that it probably be late June if maybe at the earliest because of the band hours involved. then this is something that parents might
need, you know, to use over the summertime, too, to help kids. She's been thinking about um doing the thousand books before kindergarten again, too. We're definitely going to have a more literacy focus this year.
Wonderful. Okay. Food for fines. We've heard of that before. Yes. So, that's all set. I just wanted to let you know that it was approved and wonderful. We'll get it started. I'll get the stuff out there. Okay. The butterfly house from the brownie troop. So, they came by
and I let them know that it was approved and they also said that they have a seed bomb um to go with it. Okay. So, we discussed, you know, I mentioned the garden space out front. So, if they're if you're okay with them throwing a seed bomb in there. Yeah. I'm going to take
out a bomb. Light bomb. No, it's um it's like it's a seeds within a dry thing that is round so that when you throw it disperses the the seeds and then mother nature takes over.
It's like a t-shirt gun at a sporting arena for seeds instead. You're just going to be out there say that we'll have brownies out there with a t-shirt gun thrown. There was actually an article in the mascot week about it. Yeah. and they show houses, so I'm not
sure which one we'll get, but it should look very cute. Great. Okay. Um, request to honor Dr. Bournestein. So, Doris from his staff, Doris Kawuchcci, has been in contact
with me and Teresa about um a way to honor him. And at first, she mentioned a bench, but kind of told her that had to be outside. And they were looking for something in the children's room. So, we've talked about possibly having a sensory wall unit, one of those
manipulative things that you can um have the kids play with. Doris has looked at a few. She has some ideas. We've kind of talked about how, you know, we want to make sure it's good quality, that it gets a lot of good
reviews. and um she's going to talk with I think on Monday she's having lunch with a few of the former staff who are coming up from various states. This is Dr. Bournestein staff. Dr. Bournestein staff. So they they I think she mentioned something about about $1,000
in the budget. They're doing it in Middleboro as well. Yeah. So she's she brought a few things to us the other day. she might stop by on Monday with the staff to talk about the the ones that they like. So, we're looking at a
wall underneath a window on the right side of the room under one of the bulletin boards. Um, that should be enough space to put it. Um, we also are, you know, trying to
figure out which manipulatives will hold attention. We want to make sure there's something the kids are going to play with. She also would like a plaque to go. Oh, we know just where to get this. Mention that to her. So, if is it a age
geared to a certain age level? So, it's going to be like prek. PreK. Okay. And maybe a little older. People will be interested in it too. But yeah, I'll play with it. Me too. um so that we know just so that we know
what the age group is that the main focus that would be good because not that we're short on stuff but I think it's another thing to stimulate. So, I let her know, you know, the process would be to kind of write a letter to the board and um so at some point,
probably next month, we'll get the letter, we can talk about it, and then I can let them know that you're ready to accept the gift. And so, how who does installation? Um, we'll have to see. It could be me. You could be might might call on Paul or
Anthony to help out a little bit, but I do have power tools so I could. It's just screwing it in. Good. I think it's a great idea. Yeah. Okay.
Um, library irrigation. So, fun topic. One of our monthly topics during season. I know. Um Ruth and I had a discussion and Ruth ended up meeting with Andrew um town administrator.
Um kind of trying to figure out where we are with the well process and everything. And as far as I can recall from the email that it's probably going to be late summer, fall before the dwell is
starting 2025. I'm hoping. Yeah, of course. We heard that in 2014, too. So, we'll see. So, he said that they're still in the um they're waiting for the scope to come back from the company that they're
working with or a quote. Scope. I think he said scope. Scope. Scope. Yeah. And then that will have to go out for bids. And where are they going to put this? Well, in the backyard. That I am not clear. I I don't know. And he didn't
know. I I specifically asked him because I said, you know, we're looking at redoing the irrigation. It makes sense that the irrigation waits is connected to the well. So if we
go ahead with the irrigation now, where should it come from? You know, be coming for time right now. And we um that's something that hasn't it's going to be another year of large water. Well, we probably during this growing
season will not have less expensive water. So, it will probably not be effective until 2026. If they're going to do it in the fall, but we'll have fewer plants to die. Well, I mean, we already do more grass.
Grass is going to get brown. Yeah. Well, the question too, I mean, the hard question to look at is is if we're concerned with the budget and whatnot, especially maybe not so much for next year, but the year after, is do we irrigate the whole property?
Jim um had mentioned the foreman. Jim had mentioned not bothering with the back of the property and just the front, right? Well, we're redoing removing a lot of growth back there. So, maybe that would be the logical place to put it. Yeah.
But nobody seems to have any thought as to where it's going just yet. Yeah. And they're still waiting to get the whole It's we we're just kind of in a holding pattern again. And he did mention that
we should probably have the irrigation system looked at to see what work needs to be done and then also get a kind of a quote as to how much it would be to replace. Right. Well, we did have a question. We did have discussion with Frank from the DPW,
the commissioner about this and when we were when you were doing the bricks and when he was hanging around the other day. So, um, yeah, I think somehow they need to be involved, too, even though this is not their project, but they do
do a lot of the other stuff for us. up. Yeah. But so far as the sprinklers that are out there right now, they are monitoring them and there's a lot of water going into the parking lot at the
um handicap zones, but he said he can't get all the w all the grass without that. So, right, we know that just yesterday sprinkler for the part that there's no irrigation for. That was one of the big challenges I had and I have
some experience with growing grass. So, um, yeah, the question is if we take the season and don't do the back of the building, then are we going to have to recede it? Well, I think you might have to receat it anyway. Yeah, because
they're going to go in there with come in and take some of those trees out. Stumps. The stumps will have to go out and let it go. But it would be nice if we could do everything at once so that we don't do something and then have to redo it because of traffic or cutting or something like that. And we know they're
not going to be doing any more. The DPW isn't going to be doing any more work here until the fall, right? Because they have roads to do and other things. So they got the that last piece behind Kathy's bench was the last thing that they're going to do this year. They've done such a wonderful job. A wonderful
job. It looks really good. Um thank them. are. Oh, never mind. Forgot what else. Okay, so this is an ongoing issue. How many years? How many years have we had this as the end is in sight? I think
how many directors have we had this issue for? Well, should should we um we should go ahead and replace sprinkler heads and stuff in the front at this? If it's not if they're not working, if they're just doing that little dribble thing, we need
to replace them so they'll at least do their job. Do their job. Yeah. Yeah. And I have no idea what the status is near the stage. Well, I tried to find out about the um historic townhouse site because when the historical commission oversaw that budget at the end of the um
fiscal year, we would always have set aside over $1,000 to go back to the library to offset our share. Now, I'm not sure if it's a little cloudy about how that's actually taking care of it now because we don't have any
control over that budget because it's in with the building maintenance group. So, I have a feeling that we're not getting comp we I have a feeling that the library is paying for the historic townhouse watering because it's considered one system, right? In
reality, it's it was a 50/50. There was 15 heads on each property site. But the library is using that lawn area more than we. In reality, we are not responsible for the other side of the driveway. That is the historical
commission and the towns for the historic townhouse site and the steamroller barn and now the pavilion which was center stage moved because of the water man for Tatan that was there. So anyways, um I think that we need
to look at that because that is a um is at least half of the difference in the irrigation is over there. Yeah. I mean we still haven't and we should not be we shouldn't the library should not have the historical commission or the town
property as part of their budget line. Yeah. unless we're going to get compensated for it because it looks like we are over budget for us and in reality half of that is the water for over there. Yeah. Now I'm talking as a
trustee but I'm also talking as a historical commission appointee. So I mean I think it's only fair that we we not share the whole burden. So when the well goes in, that's going to still be on the same system, but it won't it's just going to
be electricity at that point, right? And they should be pay we the they should pay for half of whatever it is it costs. Okay. We'll have to try to figure out they have to electrify. So the only way to know what actually is happening is
um to see if they have in within their budget a payment of for water. If they don't have one for this build, this site that site, then they should have one. Yeah. I don't know what they're doing with the budget for that. I haven't
looked at the what goes under building maintenance, I think, right now. You know, they're Yeah. under Paul's budget, but and I know they're going to start using his as a like revolving capital or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Trying
to give him some like 50,000. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Um 20th anniversary, we're meeting on May 7th. Yes.
Okay. Um have one more thing when we get to Yep. Anything else? Um, so in your the back of your packet is the resignation from Carol Magner. It's an email.
Yeah, she sent it to me yesterday. So I didn't hadn't included it on the agenda, but she did send that she wants to um finish out her time here June 26, 2025. So I know she retired previously
from full-time and now she is retiring from part-time. And this gives her how long? I know. She wanted to be the long have the longevity. It's more than Diane now. Yes, that was her her point. She wanted to She stayed for a whole year and she didn't have to
to beat Diane, I think. So, well, and she told me she didn't want any big because she will, you know, she'll get emotional, but she doesn't want to have a big party. So, I did say maybe we
could do like a cake and coffee. Um, we could also do like after she retires, stop by and say goodbye. Yeah. So, I don't know. She might get emotional with that. However, she did say she will come back and volunteer.
So, that's good reason to get the volunteer program started. And maybe she'll be become a member of the Friends. Yeah. Hopefully, yeah. And she said she would volunteer to help decorate. You know, we need the decorating help.
Okay. We don't need to officially accept a resignation, do we? Yes, we do. Do we? I move that we accept it with regrets and appreciation. Uh second. Those in favor? Okay, she's out of here. Well, not yet.
There, there's a lack of emotion for you. Okay, now we come to the reorganization of the board officers. Um, unless you have anything else in old or new business.
Okay, I will uh accept um motions to reorganize and a list any suggestions you Patrick nominations chair Patrick I
will become secretary and you will become treasurer okay I like that job it's always easy after being the chief here. Thank you. Okay. So, and I will start m taking minutes officially once we voted in May.
Okay. Is that a motion? The All right. The motion is on the floor to accept Patrick as chair, Nancy as secretary, and Ruth as treasurer. Do I hear a second? Oh, I'll
second. So, he doesn't want to give up being secretary. I know. Oh, I'm getting I'm finally getting the rhythm going now. All year. Well, maybe he could, you know, fill in some while he's while he's chair as well. Okay, we have a motion
and a second. All those in favor? All right, then. Uh, you have a motion to pass. Well, we need to uh pick our next meeting. So, May 28th, the fourth. Fourth win. I know that's a
late Is 9:00 good? Works for me. 9:00 a.m. Okay. Work very good. Mhm. All right. Okay. Great. I move. Second. 9:49. 9:49. All those in favor? Okay, we're out of
here. Thank you, John.