as well okay they had a lot of We're ready to go we're ready to go uh greetings um it is 4 pm on Thursday March 13 2025 welcome to the uh library board meeting we're in the city hall council chambers and we have an agenda
and the first item on the agenda is to approve the agenda we've all gotten this in our packet ahead of time so uh if I could have a motion to approve the agenda so moved do I have a second i'll second any discussion about the agenda
hearing none all in favor signify by saying I i oppos same sign we have an agenda and the first item after the approval of the agenda is approval of the minutes of our last meeting and I think we talked about this a little
ahead of time there is one small correction am I right lyn you found it um it's in the um um the highlights of the annual report
um and it's on page four it's it's noted on page four that the spring 2025 the the numbers were um lower because of spring 2025 instead of 2024 when Minuteex and our inter library loan
provider was updating so it's just the year okay so we'll make that correction any other corrections hearing none i'll take a motion to approve the minutes so moved do I have a second second uh any other any further
discussion hearing none all in favor signify by saying I i oppos same sign all right we've got minutes now we've got our financial report and we have a ringer here so Megan go ahead okay um we are
17.26% through 2025 and our budget is approximately 13.11% expended bills paid during February included 330 to Bloom for repairs to the meeting room projection
system 4978 to collaborative summer library program for the manual and materials for the color your world summer reading program special events programming and printing advertising and
promo 455 to Hillyard for cleaning and paper supplies and 249 to likey books for giveaway books for the Clifford's birthday program the contractual maintenance
building line includes annual elevator maintenance fees paid in January okay well I was at Ley Bookstore and there there was a lot of enthusiasm for Clifford the Big Red Dog I'll tell you so that was a good project anyone else
have any comments about the money we spent in February hearing none we'll move on to February's library department activities report megan okay two library aids started at the library
danielle Albrush and Michelle Fineran joined the staff so we are currently fully staffed um update on the doors as far as the rekeying and the
badging we're still waiting to hear from them okay um we thought they'd be here this week but um they haven't arrived yet okay but the week isn't over no um the study pods have been ordered hooray
um we're tentatively looking at May for installation um the library director and assistant library director attended the card holder signup policies access in practice on February 27th it was a
webinar by ALA mhm um the Brooklyn Public Library completed a study in 2024 of card holder policies in libraries throughout the United States during the webinar they shared some of the ways
libraries can evaluate their policies to make sure they're offering equitable access to their communities they plan to publish best practices documents in June 2025 new Alm Public Library strategic plan
includes updating its circulation policy to meet its objective to create library services that are welcoming and accessible the full strategic plan can be found on the libraries website in the about us section okay
questions good thank you any questions or comments about that uh hearing none we'll move on to what's uh happening in March another big month uh some of the programming is happening in March um the Wanda birthday
celebration is this Saturday March 15th at 1:30 um they'll read the funny thing make a craft play games and eat a snack to celebrate Wanda thanks to the Wanda
Gog House Association for partnering also Wacky Wonders is on Thursday March 20th at 3:30 this program's for children in grades 2 to 5 and will focus on fun as
we explore art crafts and STEM projects registration is required um I think that's all she wanted me to report yeah any questions or comments about things that are going on i I just
wanted to say that u um in last month's uh there were actually you know uh 23 days that the library was open because and you had like 18 of those days something was going on or two things
were going on so it's it's amazing it's just amazing what the staff does leroy and Katherine have been very busy and very creative in their programming and it's all been really popular so they do a great job and much appreciated oh and
much appreciated the Clifford birthday party held at the library was very very cute and lots of lots of kids there that's the most kids I've seen at a library story time so that was very fun great you gotta love Clifford
anything else otherwise we'll move on to our real work here accepting money what do we do yes uh this is resolution number 202508 accepting arts and cultural heritage fund grants um at its February
2025 meeting the Traverse Due Regional Library Board awarded Newm Public Library with the following arts and cultural heritage fund legacy grants $800 for Midwest Circus Legends and Lore
with Chad Lewis and he's been here before right uh Mr dr lewis will present on the fascinating history of circuses in the Midwest focusing on legends and folklore
lewis has spent three decades researching the paranormal supernatural and legendary he has written over 35 books on the topics and has been featured on the Discovery Channel ABC's
World's Scariest Places and Ripley's uh Believe It or Not Radio lewis will present on Monday April 21st at 2 p.m at the Dyman Free Library in Sleepy and at 6:30 p.m in New Public
Library that's that's the first grant the second grant is $2,000 for a community collage mural installation the Downtown Action Council plans to install a second community
collage mural in the library's entrance hallway in spring 2025 the first mural is installed on the side of the thimblebox store in downtown Newm art photographer Josh Madson
captured portraits of NewM residents with the goal of celebrating the heritage of all community members the library's mural includes these same portraits rearranged to fit the
dimensions of the hallway it will be printed on two vinyl banners that can be removed uh as needed to make space for other exhibits or so that the mural can be displayed at other locations
well that's fun yes if you've seen if you've seen the library you know that uh Carl's uh acre is part of So all right uh any questions or comments about that
otherwise uh secretary you want to call uh the role for the resolution dustin yes caitlyn yes ruthanne yes yvonne yes manan yes lynn yes nancy yes
all right now oh gosh I All right i goofed up here and I went to park and wreck so should we make decisions for them too that's right that's right that's right here help me out and we're way behind schedule gosh darn
it today's meeting well I think I'm on the wrong page here let's just switch away here oh that we've done this before there we go here we go let's make a while that's we Here we go all right
um this is we're gonna we get stuff and we get rid of stuff this is um this is resolution number 20259 approving disposal of surplus items um during January 25 2025 the
library replaced 12 Chromebox public computer stations with new Chrome boxes the old stations were nearing the end of their Google support date when they would have stopped accepting security
updates the old Chrome boxes were originally installed in 2018 and have no residual value to the library the library director recommends that they be declared surplus and disposed of through
the library's technology recycling program also the library has three wooden carts on casters that were previously used for programming but are no longer needed now that the meeting room furniture has been replaced photos of these beatup carts
photos of the carts uh follow the library director recommends that the carts be dis declared surplus offered to the city departments and sold at the citywide garage sale if no department claims them
so there you go anybody Anybody have any uh questions or comments we do this on a regular basis keep the place clean all right um Secretary why don't you call the role on that resolution
dustin yes caitlyn yes ruth Anne yes yvonne yes manan yes lynn yes nancy yes all right we The resolution passes uh any other business any other business to come before this
board if not we're ajourned thank you