I am going to call this meeting to order. Uh this uh call to order and statement of compliance with the open public meetings act NJSA 104-8. Uh as revised, this meeting has been advertised in the accordance with
the New Jersey Open Public Meetings Act and is publicly uh publicly accessible in accordance with law. Roll call, please. Roco, here. Dr. George, here. Sarah, Maria, Rosemary, I am here.
Zad, Gina here. Maddie here. Frank, thank you. Or resists. Okay, we will have the salute to the flag. Please stand. 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. And we have a listing here for executive session, but um I believe we do not need to go into executive session because
first of all, our attorney is not here. Um and I think with the barebones quorum that we have I think we really is there anything in specifically we need to discuss in executive session right now um we had no discussion in personnel about the candidates um that are on the
agenda resumes were circulated and unless there are additional questions about those candidates um I don't see a need for the executive session so I will ask the members of the board if anyone wants to discuss any of the personnel that is on here the agenda
Uh if you want that discussion, please say so now and we will go into executive session. Okay. Being that there is no uh call for that, we will get rid of executive session and we will move to the minutes uh approve of the regular
minutes for the April 9th, 2025 meeting. Uh can I have a motion? I will make Oh, can I vote on them? I wasn't here. You can still vote on them. I can still vote on them. I'll make the motion. Second. I'll second it. Okay. Any discussion?
Okay. No discussion. Roll call, please. Okay. Um, yes. Gina, yes. Maddie, yes. Oh, Dr. George, abstain. Roco,
yes. Okay. and approval of the executive session meeting minutes of April 9th, 2025. Uh, can I have a motion? I'll move that. Second. I'll second. Any discussion on the executive session
minutes? Dr. George. Yes. Yes. Gina, yes. Maddie, yes. Roco, yes. Thank you. Okay, moving along now to personnel. Uh we have the approval of the appointment of managing
librarian adult services Shane Gellerman at the annual salary of $74,312 pending background check. May I have a motion to uh for the for this? I'll make the motion. Second. I'll
second it. Okay. Discussion question. Just a comment. Um, could we possibly in the future get these suggestions sometime before two days before the meeting?
Yes. Um, this was a unique circumstance and I am aiming to do that and I like to make sure it goes through the personnel committee first before getting it out to the full board. So, I do apologize for that last one. Um, yeah.
I just have one question. So, I think you mentioned that Shane was from New Jersey. Yes. I just because the 516 is a Long Island. So, my New York I know that. Sometimes you don't. Sorry. Um, so that was one thing that um
he was familiar with this area and knew the library from growing up here and in relocating. um he's got family down in Long Beach Island. So yeah, he's going to be going down there and making the transition,
but with his experience and particularly with Boston Public Library. Um so he won't be coming in uh until July, but we're we're very excited for the experience that he can to really elevate adult services and really help us target
that 20 to 50 age range where we need to increase our numbers. Y yes, I think we're here. Uh so uh without any further discussion, we will have the vote. Go ahead. Yes. Maddie,
yes. Roco, yes. Okay. Uh Dr. George, yes. And I am a yes. Thank you. Okay. Uh personnel, uh B, approve the appointment of full-time staff librarian adult services of Julie Uselli. I hope I'm
saying that correctly. At an annual salary of $64,69427 pending background check. May I have a motion? I'll make the motion. Second. I'll second. Discussion.
I just want to put it out that I recommended this young lady to take this position or I happened her husband was at my son's barbecue and I met this young lady and I never met a library outside of my son's friends and she got
to talking and I was like you know if you're ever looking I said she goes I really am because when I moved to my row and then we got to talking and I said you know she might be and then I I didn't see her resume until you said and and and I will tell you that she has
been a finalist for other positions here before you met her. Okay. So, she has been a finalist here for other things. Um, and she's always been in that running, but we've just had really talented people applying. So, um, and
Dr. George, this is what took more time with my being away, and I wanted to make sure that our search was extremely thorough. Um, we don't want to have to go through it again. So, that's why I extended the search. Um and and we continued going into we had candidates
we brought in and then we had a wait list and we wanted to get through everybody. Okay. Well, so we'll take the vote on this now. Maddie, she's muted. We lost her for a second. Sometimes you can't
[Music] I'm a Yeah. Sorry. Okay, there we go. Wow, that was suspenseful. Thank you. That got us going. Roco. Yes. Okay, Dr. George. Yeah, we don't have any recommendation
from the personnel committee, which is why we have committees. Uh, but I will vote based on no knowledge. I'll vote yes. Okay. Thank you. I am a yes. Gina, yes. Thank
you. Passes. Okay. All right. We're going to move on to finance um action on the May 14th bill listing in the amount of $363,000. 462 uh 363
$4625. Uh can I have a motion? I I have question on a motion first. Okay. I'll make the motion then and we need a second. I'll second. Okay. Discussion. Okay. Uh is the cleaning people in this bill? It is. So the
cleaning people gets done through the maintenance schedule that we remit to the town. So, we pay for the lighting, the landscaping, and we're sharing a contract for the or the cleaning people. I'm so sorry. I may have to check if they're separate. Okay. Um, we're
working on on working on getting those estimates with your help. Um, we did sign on to a contract there. I will say that the contract, all of the duties in the contract are not being met and I don't think that they can be met. So I'm not Now do you think that they can't be
met because it's not staffing problem or we're just not paying that much to get done? So it it's a combination of things. And the other thing is even if you sub out cleaning, someone's still got to manage that and make sure that it's getting done and that it's getting
done to the expectations of the client. And that is me. Okay. So I I don't have um time to do all of that. So, I think what we want to do is I'm working on two proposals for the board. One is going to
be for the deep cleaning for the building because all of those pipes and things up there that haven't been cleaned in years and then to really start to take a look at the proposals for cleaning outside of the town's contract and put both of those things
together for the board to have a full discussion about that. Any other uh further discussion? Okay, roll call. Oh, hold on. Go ahead. I'm sorry. Dr. George, there's nobody
here from the finance committee. Um, so I are there questions or did you you get any any sometime you say you've talked to the chairperson and are there any comments
or the other thing I had asked since February if I could see a list of committee members and I haven't seen it yet and I don't understand how you could be in May and not know who committee
people for I just it's never happened in the past. But anyway, there are no questions on finance. No, there were not. And I appreciate you asking. Um, so the process for board members who may not know, um, all of the bills get sent
from our executive assistant for finance to the treasurer. If she has any questions, she sends those to me and to Irene first. Um, and there have there weren't any questions this month. Okay. Okay. All right. Let's take a roll
call. All right. Roco, yes. Dr. George, no. I am a yes. Gina, yes. Maddie, yes. Yes. Okay, moving on to uh old
business. Do we have any old business? Okay. Being that there is no old business, we're going to move on to new business. You have anything to uh or you're going to wait for your superintendent to talk about the um I
what I we can do that when we do the reports. Okay. I just wanted to note that what I sent out to the full board was um the proposals from Creative Library Concepts. We went through talking about the need for furniture
renovation um the phases. We met with a couple of different companies and now I've asked them just to give proposals. Um so what they did was they went in and did three levels of finishes. And what that includes is the entryway. The furniture there just needs
an upgrade. The staff room is in need of some freshening. um the circulation desk, the veneer is peeling off of that circulation office and the idea farm which is currently using folding tables. Um and the the community is really
excited about that. So um you have those and what I'd like to do is schedule for someone from Creative Library Concepts to come to the next board meeting um and that we could put on the agenda that item then. But I wanted to give the
board a full month to um take a look to see if you all wanted to have any meetings outside of the regular meeting. All of that I think we need a special meeting for this. It's a lot of money. It's a
lot of a lot of questions. I don't think that five people making a quorum coming to a regular meeting or the people that vote on this. This ought to be an issue that the whole board discusses, agrees to or doesn't agree to. Uh, you know,
we're in a funny time now. The the what they're telling us our electric bills are going up and everything is going up and we're spending a lot of money on the library. I think we have to know that we want to do that, but it has not five people telling us it should be the whole
board voting on it. Understood. Yeah. We we won't be making any motions tonight of of anything along that lines. Um I agree with you, Dr. George. We uh definitely need uh the full the full board to be hearing this and having that discussion and hopefully
next month we will be able to do that. Yes. Okay. All right. So, director's report, we're going to move on. Um as I said, I gave um some statistics. My plan is to if the
board asks for something specific, you can let me know. Otherwise, rather than just giving numbers every month, this is context. So you're going to get five years in a row of foot traffic programs, Lawrence Harbor, and this is what will
drive our strategic plan once we get to that and our outreach with what are our targets, what numbers do we want to hit, things like, you know, what percentage of Oldbridge residents have library cards. That's an extremely important number that we need to be working on. So
that statistics report was in your packet. Um, and that's what we're using. Um, in the report I mentioned we've been talking about databases and I'm due to give you all another database report
um, in the meantime. So, we've got three kinds of databases. We have instructional, which those haven't been performing well. We have research databases and we have materials databases. some of the databases last year that were under hot debate because numbers
and usage were low, we've cut those. We're not getting those. What I put into the director's report is something that I'm very excited about. Um, in place of those databases that we cut, I am
changing our databases to something that the school also is going to be very excited about. So currently New York Times, we have this database. It's very awkward. You have to give your personal email.
You have to get a code to go in and use it. And it's not the database that our students are going to be using when they go to college. It took me two years to get a person from the company. I've got them. So, in the director's report, um
there are numbers for that um New York Times database. So, we're going to get rid of New York Times.com because it's just trying to sell their lifestyle brand. And this we're going to get New York
Times historic. And if we got New York Times historic and we got their also their historic New Jersey package, it means that we would really be a research center for the area and for our high
school students. You would have the Asbury Park Press back to 1887. You would have the Home News Tribune for East Brunswick back to 1903. um people trying to do um you know
trying to do their ancestry. We have those databases, but you also need the birth records, the obituaries, that history. So basically to round it out by taking out the $8,000 that we were spending on Brainfuse and Universal
Class and replacing it with historic newspapers, the New York Times, and then the historic New Jersey collection that evens out to us not increasing the line for databases, but keeping it the same and really making a change to where we
can really promote real research. I'm sorry. Removing brain fuse and what? Brainfuse and universal class. Um there is an additional option to spend another $10,000 to get historic um
US major dailies which is New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, LA Times. I wasn't looking for us to do that. I think we start with the real New York Times. Can you imagine telling your students just to go in and use it and they don't have to give their personal
information. Amazing. Um to be able to do that. So I'm obviously excited about that. Um and that's uh that's in the report. I just want to share these so if anybody has questions about how I'm making decisions with the collection um
you can see where that is. All right. Um siting extremely I like that a lot. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, you mentioned databases and they're all based on people doing research and studying and stuff. There are other databases that
well I've told you before that I think Highland Park has a very good newsletter and there are they have a section in there where they have a database of services for elders. So, if you need transportation, the number is in the
database thing, but anything that that a senior might need help with. Instead of having them look for a number, we have numbers. I'd like to see some some things like that out of the research. schools will kids will do that or
whatever and they're using Google to do it and and whatever, but the the ones that are that somebody really wants to know about here, we don't have I don't know if we have it. I don't No, no, we don't have a directory of social
services or a directory of senior services. We've needed to get the steady adult services team put together and hopefully we'll have that as of July. this that ought to be easy to well I don't easier to get because I think you
can get the information from you know the municipal government must have a list somebody else but it's a matter of just putting it together and telling people we have it that goes on the the Highland Park newsletter they give people you know some direction on where they can find
this information yeah and it's also part of collaborating with our senior center to make sure that we're not duplicating efforts But we're promoting them. If they already had that information put together, let's give them space on the website and let them do it. And I I think the senior center is good, you
know, for for people who like it, but everybody, believe me, does not go to the senior center. So, I understand. You know, I think we just need to spread it out. Yep. Absolutely. Okay. Um, Library of Things,
we've been talking about this forever. Finally, the purchases were made. The waiverss were done. The tags are up on the board. Um, our first item went out yesterday. It was a mending machine and
someone was very eager and the community is very excited. So, we have an uh we're just starting to promote that next month now that everything's in place, but people are really excited about the maker space and the library of things. everything
from an American Girl doll that a lot of people can't afford. They can come borrow it for two weeks um to a flatbed scanner so that people can have that at home, hook it up to their computer. And we're, you know, this is going to be a fluid process where we're seeing what we
have. But it's finally going. The RFID tagging is complete. The wiring is done. The selfch check machine is in. The security gates are up. We are fine-tuning that. It'll probably take a couple of weeks. I'm working with the vendors. That was this week's um big
project. Um something I want to just make everyone aware of and see if there are any questions. The system the software system that we use for our computer reservations. Um we are they're migrating to the cloud and as you know
with a lot of software the cloud version is not what the regular version is. So, we were given an opportunity to migrate to the cloud now for $3,000 and I don't think we need to do
that right now. They're saying that they would like to give us a savings, but as I've discussed with staff, we're perfectly fine the way that we are. So, we don't see a need to change anything right now. I just want you to know. Okay. Um and then, um the bathrooms. So,
we had agreed with the architect uh on the architect and we'd approved that expenditure. So, I've been in touch with them and just today they sent me the um preliminary drawings. We're almost done with um those drawings and the process
they'll be presented at next month's meeting. the what then happens is ESCJ the project goes to um you have a choice you can either go through I'm sorry it's educational services
commission of New Jersey or you can go out to bid so what will happen is they'll submit our project to ESCJ we'll get um a price the board can decide if they want to go out to bid or if they're okay with that and that's for two
things. Complete renovation of the five bathrooms um on that side of the building and the creation of a server closet so that our executive assistant for finance is no longer sitting next to a server tower that's throwing off heat
making noise and all of those things. So that will um be coming in for the board again next month. Um so those are two big projects. Um the van uh that we just got the brakes done. Maintenance is getting done
on the van, just so you know. Um I'm still working on the garden and getting that cleared. It's the busy season for landscapers. I'm meeting with the Lavalo. He said
landscaping the trees and stuff. No, he did. He did speak to somebody. He said library and the master gardener. So, where we're at with that area is that because none of the doors are wide enough for a stump grinder to come in, someone's got to go in and hand dig out
that stump. And then the whole area has to get graded so that we don't end up with leaking in the building, bug problems, all of that. And then once that's cleared and graded, then we can go ahead with proposals for putting pavers down. Um, I was just when I was
in Ireland, I was at a library where they had a really nice little um, atrium like this and they used it for story times and for kids. It It's We're We're going to get there, I promise. Just a lot of projects. Did we ever get information from the fire department on
how many people we can put in there if you decide to make it a public area? They haven't given me the exact number, but I've been told that you physically could not put in as many people as you're allowed to have in there. So, because we have so many exits, we're
we're not going to have a problem with capacity, but you're absolutely right. We do want a precise number. I I want to see it in writing and I want to know that our insurance company knows that we are changing things and including it. I mean, that's just common sense, but
understood. Um, still waiting. I've asked a couple of times and I'll just keep on asking. [Music] Um, that was the garden. So, the the next thing, and this may have to wait for um a larger group. The last thing
that I have, we have our current HVAC contract where uh four times a year we have them coming in to expect um our eight, seven or eight rooftop units and the three boilers. We've not been
pleased as a matter with the the performance there. We've had inspections from the state where problems were found when they hadn't been found by the inspection by the vendor uh the day before. Our custodian just found two of
the boilers leaking where there's a repair that has to get done that were not found during any of the inspections. What I would like to do is um move to using the same HBAC contractor as the municipality which is
McCloskey. Um the problem is that they cost about twice as much. And the other part of that is that if you look at the 5 to7,000 in repairs, it does start to come up where it's the same.
But once I have I'm going to get another estimate in, but what we're paying for is not getting done. And having uh the Department of Public Works be able to have the same company doing the entire municipal
complex, I think, is something worthwhile for us to consider. So, I will put that out to the board um again next month. So, next month we've got the renovation, the HVAC contract, and the bathrooms. Yeah, we're coming across a
problem right now with HVAC systems for that new butane free equipment is impossible to get. Okay. Impossible to get. Well, if we can't repair what we have, that's going to be a problem for the summer. Yeah. And and this is where,
you know, maintaining that HBAC system is for any library director, it's like air. Oh, it's air. It is. Um because your facility without your facility, you know, even though we have a lot of people online, you have nothing. So, making sure that that's maintained and
we're not running into emergencies is critical. How old is the system? Do you know it's not that old? Um does Dr. George, do you remember when the uh air conditioning was replaced? Is within 10 years. Okay. Yeah, it's
it's within it's still in lifespan. So when I go down through, I try to have all the major systems of the library and about when we can anticipate having them replaced. And these rooftop units are within lifespan. The and the boilers,
they're man. Yeah. They're the good ones. Good. Yeah. The good ones. So, um, it's it's really about maintaining them and, you know, having someone come in and look at rusty pipes and not say anything to me and the next day it explodes is a waste of our
time and money. Who do we have now? Who's the company? We have HG Clark. There's a big company called Triek. They do the whole state of New Jersey. Yeah. And the town uses McCloskkey and they've been they gave me an estimate. Yeah. It's a good idea to
start getting some estimates from different companies. Okay, I think you said you're going to look for some more bids. I would like to see more bids, not just automatically go to who the town uses. There are good advantages there, but I think you keep
those in mind when you choose somebody. But let's find out uh who else is interested. Um HB Clark has been around for forever. Uh you know, whatever. Um, I thought they were doing a good job. Like if you
find that the details aren't being handled, good. No place. Every single inspection the next day something explodes. And I literally asked, "Do you just wait till it explodes or do you tell me something's rust?" They said, "We wait till it explodes." That's not
acceptable. No. When changes for you do it. And that's, you know, that that's what you're there for, as you said before. Yeah, right. I'll I'll get uh two more. Yeah, if we could have three, would it be three in total then? That would be four. Be four. That's I think
that's perfect. Four is perfect. Okay, they're big company 24 hours and and there's another one that I used in Union County that's very big up there. That was very good. I can't remember unit anyway. All right. Um that's all I
have for the director's report. Okay. Any comments on the director's report? Okay. All right. We're going to move on to committee reports. Uh we're going to start with building and grounds and I'm going to turn that over again to Dawn uh to talk a little bit about some of our
electrical systems. So, one of the big things that we also have coming up um and last month I sent a list of all of these big projects. We do have six or seven big um facility projects that need to get done. So, when I first got here,
the interim director had been working on the lighting. So, in the stacks, that lighting has all been replaced. The rest of the building has not been upgraded and I think is original to the building.
I checked in with DPW and they had made a decision a while back that upgrading to the LED and rewiring was they didn't think that it was um worth it um as far
as savings went. The problem is that when I first got here, I asked them to give me an estimate for updating the rest of the lighting and there were 250 of those 4 foot lighting units that were out and needed to be redone. The
fluorescent ones. Yeah. So, we are now up to I just had our custodian go out and count. We are now up to 370 that need to be done. So, it's getting dark in here. And it's getting dark in here quick. So, the problem is I
only had one lighting contractor and this estimate's two years old. The other problem is that his estimate at that time was 22,500. That's not good. It's just over bid. And since the town won't allow us to use
their QPA, then we have to go out to bid. So, basically, we we need to get ready to put this bid together. And that's another project, but this one is getting really important because they're literally starting to lose light in the
youth services area. I guess what I don't understand is why do we have to rewire the lighting? I mean, you can That doesn't make sense to me. I mean, you can change lighting to LED without having to change wiring. It's the what the the mechanisms that are in there are
broken. They're brittle. And like you put a new bulb in, one of the old bulbs, and it's not working. The fluorescent bulbs are probably just ballastes, so you have to take them out. It's minor wiring to do that, but I've changed all my buildings to LED. The cost up front
is expensive because the material, but the long run, the savings is there's no comparison. And this is where when I came in, the interim director had started having the lighting done in the quiet area over by the tennis courts because half the lights were out there
and that area got done, but the rest has not gotten done and we've not moved ahead with getting that lighting done. So, I just want everybody to be aware that it looks like I'm just going crazy with spending on the building, but it's because we have a lot of things that are
aging out at the same time. Like I said, the circulation desk, the veneer is peeling off it. The lights are going out, the bathrooms are, you know, all the pipes are exploding because they're corroded. So, it's just things. This building is now over 30 years old and
those pieces that were original to the building or over 10 years old need to be looked at. No preventive building the building does not belong to us. Um long ago here I go long ago we had a
committee meeting where we the I think I was on the school board then but we met with the township to talk about who responsibility. We had a discussion. Not that we're not willing to pay stuff, but it isn't our responsibility and if we're
donating the money to that, we want someone to know that's what we're doing with it. Um, when you talk about do redoing wiring, when you rent a place, you don't expect light to be provided. I mean, if we have to do a massive and I
think working staying in the dark is stupid. You shouldn't tolerate that at all. you should it should be comfortably feasible. And I think Well, Maddie, you're the mayor's representative. Yeah. So, I was just thinking if you can itemize just a list of things like that
that I can um present to the mayor and just say this is this is what we need right now like ASAP or So, not to disagree, but I do want to say Dr. George, as my 30 years in libraries, the um municipal appropriation does include
maintenance on the building because we aren't charged rent for the building. And I understand that that we have a difference of In all due respect, I get that kind of advice from attorneys. Okay? I don't care what other libraries do. What I what I do care about is if you're working in the dark, if the staff
is inconvenience, and I think that the mayor is a caring person and if she knew what the problem was, she could just at least have a meeting. Let's talk about it. The people across the street have all changed. Her mantra wasn't there anymore. I don't know who's in charge of
what. So, it's time to to sit down and talk about But you need to wait. Are we going to get flashlights for the staff? I mean I I understand that but we have the funds and part of what's calculated the state's calculation of the municipal
appropriation is maintenance of the building. That's a standard in that maintenance. Is that maintenance? With all due respect, I I want an attorney's opinion on that. Uh it's common sense.
Could you make the list of the building? All right. All right. So, here's what let's let's take a second here. I think what we'll do is Dan, please make the list for Maddie and let her bring it to the mayor. In the meantime, we will contact uh I think
it's best that we contact the lawyer and answer that question for you, Dr. George. Um but I think you know, you know, obviously this there is a time constraint on this. I guess my question is are we talking maintenance on the
interior of the building? I think should be coming out of our funds. I believe that's the case. Neighbor maintenance on the exterior of the building might be something the roof and things like that which we've been battling with the town with for a long time has never been made to me.
And if you talk about outside of the building then why did we give money to fix the roof? Okay. So what maintenance is and maintenance isn't I I'm not I don't want to fight about that. I want to get it done, but I if we're going to pay for it, I want the
township to know that we're contributing something to the township. We don't have to do that. And maintenance in my mind, if you talk about your house, it's fixing something that was there already that's broken, right? Isn't that maintenance to make it work? It's not
redoing the whole thing. But let it's going to be expensive and I don't think it's something you can save money on. I mean, uh, we're going to have to spend the money, but let's find out what we're doing and put these, you said you had a number of these. Put them in priority of
importance. I I was thinking is very important, but I don't know what else you have on your list already. And this is two years on this one. So, please excuse my frustration, but no one from the township has come and looked at it. They have, and that's what
I said. I discussed it with them that they decided they came in and did a replacement of light bulbs years ago. They decided not to go through with the LED. The fixtures are where they're at. We've had a professional electrician recommend what has to be done and all I
can do is give the information and then just wait. That's all. That's what I'll do. But again, I think this is giving you a task that um maybe is above your pay grade. It really needs the mayor and
the township to to talk about it because that's where the money is involved. So, let's just see what we have to have done. Put it in or start attacking it uh but in a sensible fashion. I I'm sure
when you go to the furnaces and I have a Black Seal license, you know, but don't ask me to go down and inspect the furnaces. I'm sure when we go to that we're going to find maintenance needed and it you know all along the line. It's an old building.
I we'll have to do what we have to do. It's 30 years old. It's got enough. Yeah. I I'm just of the opinion that, you know, it seems like from what it sounds like if we want to just get the lights replaced, the town can cover
that. But if we want to redo the entire lighting system, which it seems like that's where we're at right now, that is going to be something that we I think ourselves are going to have to pay for because it's an upgrade, right? Because we are it's not the original. It's not
the original. It's it's it's an upgrade. So, if you want the lawyer to clarify, Dr. You know, Mr. Barton to clarify that, okay, but it seems to me that that's what we need to do. I think we need to, you know, get get this out to bid, figure out what's going on and and,
you know, move on this very very we have this has to be moved on very quickly because seems like we're losing lighting very quickly. I actually think it's a very big issue, especially 30 years old, too. You know, I think I'm at the point now where it's like whatever the fastest way to do this and the most efficient way to
get this. I agree. Whatever we Yeah, absolutely. get some more. Okay. Um, so buildings grounds were done. Finance,
the budget has there's been no meeting about the budget that was submitted in February. Okay. Outreach and marketing, right? No one's here for that. Uh, personal personnel negotiations. Dr. George, no, I don't
know anything about it. I'm not on committee. policy. There is no uh we are looking at AI and at the AI policy um but due to time time constraints uh we have not really formalized anything. I am also uh
waiting on right now as we speak or it probably it might still be going on. Uh there is a board of education meeting on AI policy for the school district. Uh I'm waiting to see the results of that meeting which I will find out about tomorrow. So, I'm hoping that next month
uh or sometime within the next few weeks, we'll have a policy meeting and may have something for the board to look at. Uh I'd like to base our policy based on what the board of ed is coming out with. I think um it just makes sense. Is the board of ed for students or for teachers? For all of the above. Okay.
Students, uh teachers, anyone, uh limited use, parents? Um it's pretty wide ranging. Okay. Um but I think we might need to do some like additions and subtractions obviously. Yeah. uh because we're a library, not a school system. But I think it will be a good base for us to go off to develop some kind of AI
policy. Sounds good. Is Chris at that meeting? Uh no, Chris is I I'm I'm assuming Chris is at the budget meeting. Tonight's meeting was curriculum instruction and policy. Oh, never mind. Um okay. And technology Frank is not
here, so we don't have anything on that. Uh public comments. off. Yeah. Do we have any public comments? We have no public. Nobody's done. Okay. Okay. And does any board
members have any last remarks before we uh call it a day? Uh just real quick, what was the estimate that you got u for the lighting system that you need? So that is two years old, which is when the problem was recognized and started. Uh that was
$20,000 for the 250 um lighting units and we are now at 370 being out. Now was that estimate the rewiring?
Um sorry, let me find it. And this was the contractor who had been asked to come in. Yeah. I'm sorry. It's in my pile here. Don't go again. If you have it, you have it. Triple quadruple. Yeah. Easy.
Yeah. All right. So, with all that being said, I will take a motion to adjurnn. I will make that motion. Second. I will second it. All in favor? I. Okay. Have a good night. All right. Thank you everybody. Have a great night.
We will uh see you soon.