did you come together no no you just happen to come in okay the same time so that make three and then close one two three there's pam hi pam can you hear us hi marian
hi elizabeth is here and brad is here okay oh there's a smudge in the camera is there a smudge in the camera oh yeah is it a smudge or is it a light screen yeah it's right where i am smudge
in the camera oh so like on i think it's in the um the owl oh it could be in the owl okay oh i see it i see it you see it but i think it's really that must look wild we can
maybe get it with like an alcohol wipe yeah yeah i think it's like stuck down stuck down there all right all right pam there might be a smudge some of the time as you're watching i'll color my face yes that's for the witness protection
program um now i thought this was an online meeting um so so a while back the trustees decided to have hybrid
meetings and nobody's ever told me we're not having hybrid meetings so i so i always post them as hybrid meetings kate had said something that i first interpreted as it was a zoom meeting and then i
thought again i thought oh she's coming by zoom wasn't saying the meeting was by zoom but my first impression was oh i think i read it that way i read it was going to be by zoom and i
thought okay that's different but i'll just do that i'm i'm not opposed to them being just by you um if that's what the trustees want so tomorrow's hybrid also it is but
tomorrow we're looking at some finishes so and i was going to come yeah yes tomorrow if i can right um there's a library building committee meeting tomorrow um so oh i can just look at you
here and then i'm going have to turn my um my um so and that we're choosing some finishes tomorrow um but i'll get that in my director report should i text kate i was just
going okay i'll let you do that oh i have something good okay you have something from her no i just found her i didn't know if i had her okay all right santa barbara missed all the
came home to all the lights yes the funny part was i had trouble flying home because dallas was having and i i looked at the dallas weather and it said extreme cold and then i looked at the shootsbury weather and we were you know
10 degrees colder and it didn't say extreme cold in shootsbury it's all relative yes yeah this storm was a doozy like you know the ice that it that piled up
overnight it uh it was supposed to be over but it just kept doing whatever it was doing by the time i got home it was yes yes um i also was gone yes you were
gone too yes and we came home last night and our garage door was stuck frozen shut yeah somebody went tire we don't have a garage our garage is the woods yes we got into our shed for the first day today so and
the chicken feed is in there and it was either it was time to either get into the shed or go to town and buy more chicken feed i had you know like we've been giving them i mean they've had some feed and then we give them chicken like
kitchen scraps and stuff and i like i even cleaned out the fridge and you know but then i was like "all right." and then i cleaned up i finally we haven't been getting mail and i got the mailbox cleared enough that we got mail
delivered today so um anyway no response from kate no all right well let's give her few more minutes few more minutes we don't have a quorum um without kate so um but because four is a quorum so i
drove up here in the dark i couldn't look i haven't been by in three weeks okay yeah so oh yeah it's um so the glue lamp is all um so the glue lamp or the the roof rafters oh that's cool yeah and
so those are um they're they're manufactured beams they're made in quebec and they came like the week of january 18th i think they were delivered um and uh and so those are like those
are all up and then they're going to start putting up the roof decking tomorrow and there are some steel beams but those are mostly like where the windows are yeah to hold the weight of the glass and we'll we'll see those we'll see the glue inside yes we'll see
the glue um it will look sort of like wood beams yes yeah yeah there'll be some exposed wood beams and then exposed wood decking nice um but then there are going to be these things called acoustic baffles so the decking will be wood like
you'll look up and it'll just be wood and then there's these like foam things that will be you know going perpendicular to the roof and those absorb sound um and
then there are acoustic panels on some of the walls too high up um so so it won't be just like flat wood ceiling the baffles will be there um so but it'll
it'll still be nice we'll see the glue yeah we'll see the glue the decking won't be as right you'll still be able to see the decking appreciate the yes the the sound yeah i think so yeah [Music]
um so it's you know and then like all of the spaces are getting pretty defined if you're like walking on this slab which we did today um and so like the you know you can like the team room is everything's framed out so the meeting
room is framed out and the you know there's an electrical room and a oh a storage closet off of the teen room and then i think that's it and then i think the water service room is off the lobby and you can sort of see it when you walk through yeah you can see it and then i
so i asked them today a couple of trustees have asked me and a couple of building committee members have asked when if they can go see it and um so they said yes and they said why don't we wait like about a month because the days
are getting longer and what they'll do is we they won't lock the gate and then we can all go after our 5:00 or 6 yeah like five o'clock so that we have time before it's dark um and all the workers aren't there so we don't have to worry
about interrupting the workflow so so we'll plan a day at the end like at the end of march for that yeah yeah i'll text you texted kate didn't hear anything you want to try all right i'll try and then michelle's definitely
not coming michelle's not coming she couldn't come um right and and mel was sick she she sent an email um um um so anyway it's exciting to see those
things happening and then we had a construction meeting today and so this is like the level of detail that we fit into this meeting so there's going to be this little kitchen that it sort of in a depression in one wall of the meeting room and the walls of the meeting room
are going to be white so that we can put art displays on the walls and there's going to be a panel that runs along the walls that's like recessed in that artwork can hang from and it's just going to blend in to this this thing and then the kitchen is designed so it's oh
good there's kate um okay goodness everyone i am so sorry to be late it's okay i actually fall asleep in front of the fire
oh you probably needed the rest so i i yeah but did we lose brad or is brad there i hi brad okay so we have a quorum i am very very sorry that's just unbelievably rude of me
um so um let's come to order um and we're going to just make sure that we've got everything on the agenda that we need to have does anyone
have anything else for the agenda nope okay i am going to see if i can turn on um um ai summary but we need to um well somebody
will record minutes it's being recorded okay um and i don't see i can't edit the meeting because it's already started so i i was going to see if i could turn on ai summary to and then we could use that
for the minutes um but uh oh start a a participant did you do that oh so i'm but i'm not useless entirely no okay so ai companion um okay so this
will now take notes yes and we're recording too right yes yes okay great thanks so the first thing on our agenda is to
just review mel's minutes um i caught i had one question i wasn't at the meeting um but uh there's one typo where she's got p o l when it needs to be p o l e
and i can send that correction and the other question that i had um was whether so in the friends of the library extraordinary fundraising summary
congratulations um i'm assuming that trustees will purchase one paver third bullet is that right okay okay thanks did anyone else have any edits
[Music] corrections okay well we're catching up quickly um uh next on the agenda is um just a report from the director
verbal obviously and um building committee updates okay um um are you going to approve the minutes or wait until i we can't approve them until they're
edited and they can't officially be i mean i guess we could approve them as edited if y'all are okay with the edits i thought that was a simple enough edit i would be fine with approving them now okay great so is that your motion she
said hopefully i move that we approve the minutes as amended second all right um so we just do this brad vote please i am foster
okay and elizabeth i and pam i and i say too so thank you and
and next is building and director's reports so um let's see so a brief director's report this saturday is the fire department pancake breakfast and from 8 to 10:30 a.m at shootsbury elementary
school and i will be bringing the library's lego collection to keep children entertained um so i did that last year and it was appreciated so i'll be doing that again um so uh so um so
while at the pancake breakfast stop by and say hello to the library lego let's see um uh let's see so last oh i don't remember when it was
exactly although i just wrote it somewhere but sometime in the past year i got a grant from the american library association the ala access grant libraries transforming communities called access grant and it's about improving services for neurode
divergent teens and tween and children in town and really you know making sure that the new library is equipped to um to serve people of all abilities um and so it's getting to the point where that
$10,000 grant needs to be fully expended so i just ordered um four uh chairs for the teen room um so teens indicated that they wanted chairs that would feel like cozy and kind of
nestl like um and so we found these chairs that are called rock and stack and um and ela leo and molly moss and i have all sat in them and what's great about them is that if you look at the
team room floor plan there are two chairs pictured but these chairs that we ordered stack so um so um so they're just kind of like lounge chairs that are kind of low to the floor and so i could order four and we can keep them stacked
as two and two and then we can pull them apart and have four so that if there are more um young people around there are more chairs and if there are less young people around there can be less chairs um so that was really fun to order those
and i ordered a couple of tables for the children's room i ordered a flat screen tv for the team room i ordered um a couple of ipads and a couple of chromebooks and cases for the ipads and
cases for the chromebooks i ordered a button maker because the teams indicated they wanted to be able to make buttons uh so they can share their artwork and their messaging um and i got supplies for the button maker so the button maker came from the american button company
and it just arrived last week um and so it's going to be fun figuring out how to use it um and so we can make buttons and magnets and keychains um and so that'll be fun and i'm going to uh i'm working
on a plan of having you know a day where people can make buttons sometime this spring and then in the new library it can just be something that is out some of the time you know um and i bought a
bunch of board games and i'm slowly adding those to the collection now um and somehow we'll have room for them and so we added the first four last week and two of them have already gone out um and
i got a bunch of fidget toys um and uh which i'll wait and we'll put out in the new library and they'll just be there in a basket um in the corner of the teen room and in the corner of the children's room and um and you know library users
can just uh you know check them out and fidget with them at will um so that's what we've done oh and then i'm working on ordering so in the team room there's a counter um where so there's a built-in
milwork counter um where you know people could sit at it and do homework or you know color or you know do whatever one would do at a counter um and um so i'm going to get chairs for that and then we have chairs
for one of the tables that i ordered but chairs for the other table um that'll be in the children's room um with this grant too so um so you know just te comfortable task chairs to sit in um so
that's and that should be oh and i'm going to go maybe this week maybe next week to downtown sounds with um julie staponic who's our our local library music expert and she's going to help me pick out a
guitar a an acoustic guitar and an electric guitar and an amp um because that's what the team said they wanted so um so we uh and i i mean i i have no idea how much an electric guitar costs
so i might you know come home without one um but um but we but she said that we could just go and sort of tell them our budget and they would help us find something so and the forbes library um well first of all i use downtown sounds
and uh the forbes library buys their instruments from downtown sounds and julie buys her instruments from downtown sounds so um and those are that's you know those are the things um in conversation with teens and some of
their parents that um that they said would make the library appealing to them so it's nice to to really be able to focus on that and make it happen um so um so that's
really nice the other thing um so now we can go to sort of the new library so so the town applied for and was awarded a mvp grant um and this was the grant for
the that include that will pay for 90% of the solar panels plus the original grant was to get a ford lightning pickup truck which could be used for backup power but then once um once we started talking to the
architect and the electrical engineers about it we learned that the pickup truck wasn't going to be able to do it so the mvp folks said that they would consider paying for some backup battery storage and then i learned that there are
batteries that come in their own little freestanding houses that can live outside on a concrete pad so um so the select board has signed a new contract with the mvp folks with which um pays a little bit
more money towards because to give us eight hours during a peak winter day with the heaviest usage of battery power um and then we're working on agreements with national grid where you know some
of that battery storage when it's extra will go into the grid um and and um and so it's just it's you know and originally we talked about having some backup battery storage and we let that
go because we couldn't afford it and it was more important to be able to just build the library now and um but now we're going to build the library and have some battery storage so that's really great um and um so the the the
news at the library now is that the framing is continuing um you've probably if you've driven by you've seen that there a lot of the all of the roof rafters are now up um and so those roof rafters are blue lamb beams which are a
manufactured uh wood product um that came from canada um and they're going to start putting on the roof decking tomorrow so the roof is going to have multiple layers but in most of the
library the roof decking um which is uh fur i believe will be visible from inside the library so in the community meeting room and in the adult reading room and in the children's room you'll
be able to see the roof decking ceiling and then there's going to be insulation and a moisture layer and you know the metal roof all on top of that but um so the roof decking is going to start going up tomorrow the windows are scheduled to
be delivered the week of march 10th um which is you know right around the corner um and so that's exciting so the you know once those windows get delivered and then installed you know and then the roof decking should all be
on and then the the building will be you know enclosed and that'll be pretty exciting they've put up i think all of the plywood sheathing is up i was there today and i was kind of looking at other things um but i think all of the plywood
sheathing is up which is exciting um tomorrow night the library building committee has a meeting and they'll be choosing some of the finishes so they've already chosen flooring they'll be choosing or just reviewing um the
cabinets and the countertop for the small kitchenet area and then the countertops um for the different places where there's mill work like the the circulation desk and that counter i mentioned the teen's room and there's a
counter where the printer and the selfch checkout will be um so they'll be reviewing those finishes tomorrow um we've started to look at paint colors um and uh they may tomorrow night we'll
look at some paint colors so the the con the folks who go to the construction meetings kind of look at this stuff first and then we bring it to the big committee um and um and i would say paint colors aren't really ready for um
prime time yet their the first batch that the architects um showed us their their their first you know pass uh i would say we were underwhelmed and then we gave were they too bold or too boring
or neither uh boring is a better they yeah so it was they were boring and we here at shootsberry we we are not a boring color community we're a bold color community i mean look at pam's
house right so that's what i think of so um so anyway we gave them some uh direction and then they came back today with some with you know so they bring like an 8 by10 color thing um and then
we looked at some of those and we said "okay we're getting better." and then um and so they'll bring you know so they'll they'll show some tomorrow but seeing colors on a computer screen doesn't really look like what it's going to look like but we'll you know we'll keep talking about it and we'll we'll see if
the committee tomorrow night sort of feels the same way that elaine and i feel and then um and then uh and then we'll you know maybe in another month the committee can look at those full-size sheets of colors and and
before we actually paint anything they'll do like they'll actually paint you know the walls in each room they'll do you know a few rolls of the brush um so that we can see what it actually looks like in place uh and you know paint color is it's it's not something
that um you have to order eight weeks ahead or you know it's not more expensive if you get a different color so um so we can change um at that point um and the other thing i said kate um before you came was so a couple of
trustees and some of the library building committee members who haven't been able to be on the site have asked if we can schedule a time for the trustees and the building committee to come out and the contractor thought it would be good to wait another month and
then because the days are getting longer and then come out at say you know 5:00 p.m when there's still daylight but the work crews have left um and so we can schedule a night maybe at the end of march where we can do that um where
everybody can come so in a couple of weeks i'll send out a a doodle poll to get the best night for everybody um and and then everybody can come out and by then even more will be done um and it's
it is really pretty exciting to see so um and then i started to say that these construction meetings can be very detailed so one of the detail you know as they're actually building things and specking out products and stuff they
find sometimes they find that they have to do small redesigns on things so so the cabinets on the kitchen doors are going to they don't they want the kitchen to sort of just blend into the wall and be something that doesn't draw your eye so they don't want like knobs
on the kitchen doors and it's going to be all white and the way that they're going to open the kitchen doors is a way that i had never heard of but it's a a press and open and there's that's not what it's called but you press the door
and it pops open um and um and then the the latches for the kitchen for the cabinet doors underneath the sink weren't going to work with the way it was designed because it because the sink interfered with those latches so then
they said then they explored using a different type of way of opening door where they cut hand holds into the thing grooves and and they explored that but that was going to cost $3,000 to put those hand holds in the door so they
found a way to redesign those cabinet doors on the sink so the latches are down lower um so that they're going back to the original latches so sometimes we have 20 minute conversations about things like that in those meetings you
know just very small little details um but and that's the attention to detail that um is being paid to the project so um so anyway it's it's fun stuff and it's moving along and it's pretty
exciting i wondered if brad i'm sorry i wondered if brad had anything to add or if anyone had any questions no i thought that was everything i great any
questions this is so exciting it's definitely worth waking up to hear thank you all right um um we're gonna i think stay with mary i don't know miriam whether you and brad have had a chance
to talk about the the sort of fin meeting and budget implications but could you just give us a brief overview of the sitch okay so so there so i don't have any sort of specific details that i brought
to brad as the treasurer yet um but i i i went to the last finance committee meeting because mostly because last year when the finance committee was doing the budget there was a mistake in the
library budget and then that ended up being a lot of work to get fixed and so i want to try and be proactive um and um so i was you know aware that the finance committee meeting was happening and i
said well i can you know turn that on you know you can like a tv nowadays um and you know and i can listen in and play with my dog at the same time so i listened in and
um and the finance committee was sharing concerns about um budget issues this year um so the health insurance and the school budgets
are they're they're anticipating increases and so that so what the finance committee usually does is they reach out to the different departments and the different departments bring them their budgets and then they you know for
the most part they because we're all really thoughtful about our budgets um and and you know um and like the library budget is so small compared to most other department budgets and
then the town's budget um but you know but usually it's there aren't sort of surprises or you're not told oh you're not we're not going to be able to do that or and but this year they you know they've just started having these
conversations the finance committee and they're not sure what they're going to do but they they feel like they may have to make tough decisions um and so they have a meeting their next meeting is
march 4th i will um i let's see so march 4th yeah i think that's the thing i plan on just sort of listening in then um and so we so we have two different things going
on so we have our budget request which um which we asked for um we asked to add $1,000 to our library expenses line and then the town adds in
raises we we don't add in raises and they have added in the 2.9 this year it's 2.95% i think is the amount of raises that they added in so they've added that in and that's what gabe has who's the interim town administrator has put into
the budget but i don't know what the finance committee will do and so so that's one piece of it there is that we asked for $1,000 increase and the town has added in a
2.95% raise um and so we didn't ask for a major increase we're required to have a 2 and a half% increase but it's but of of the town appropriated budget but averaged out over five years and we don't need a very big increase or even
an increase at all to meet that i can go back and look at that math so that i'm sure but the problem is if we don't if we don't increase by two and a half% now it catches up with you later and you have to increase by 5% right so
um so so anyway i you know and again i don't know what the finance committee might or might not ask of us but i just wanted us since i was aware i thought we should all be aware that they might be asking of things and that and even if
they don't ask something of the library other people might say why don't they take it from the library and you know so we should just be aware and you know if they have to take anything from anywhere um and then the other piece is so we so
i i have said out loud many times that that we're building this new library and it will need janitor services and so i um so i mentioned that to gabe and and then she asked me to write up a list of
janitor services so i um so i asked several local libraries to send me their list of of you know their sort of schedule of cleaning tasks that their custodians do and then i made it specific to us and i gave it to gabe and
and we're not going to really know like you can say vacuum the floors but we're not going to really know how long it takes to vacuum the floors until we're in there because one library is bigger than another library and it you know and
um so but but but we we agreed she she agreed that we could ask the to add four hours a week to the town hall janitor position um i don't know if she's done that and asked the finance committee for
that because i i thought she was later on the agenda and i missed that part um and then the piece that i hadn't considered until recently is that that this library is going to really need some dedicated snow removal that isn't the library director
um and her husband or her son or her daughter or her daughter's boyfriend um uh you know or some kind volunteers who just happen to stop by with their shovels um shoveling it because it's going to have um 2900 square feet of
walkways that need to be shoveled um and um and so so i've started to have that conversation with the town administrator and and so and these two kind of new needs that are usually the type of thing
that aren't part of our libraries budget they're more sort of a town of in the town of shbury those things are in a town facility budget and that that's the most coste effective way to do it um is to not add it to the library budget um
but those are things that that have to be planned for and um and so and i and so i just you know like we all should be talking about it and and you should know that i'm
advocating for this and um and and maybe one of you has some great idea one thing i did do was i called a local landscaper who does shoveling or snow removal for a bunch of businesses down in ammerst um
and um he lives here in town and i just said you know this is how much square footage there is and um and he said that there's different ways that businesses do it right so some of them just they
pay a lump fee like they we're going to pay you $5,000 to always come and do the snow removal and then some pay by the storm and this guy charges by the storm and every storm is different you know there
are storms where you have to do snow removal but you basically can sweep it away and there are storms like where this like this last one where we're still all working on getting rid of the ice so he said that you know his best
guesstimate was $2 to $500 per storm um depending on what you get you know if you get three inches of snow it's one thing if we get afford so
um so you know so i've i've mentioned to the town administrator um i saw that on tomorrow night's select board agenda snow removal is a an agenda item so i'm going to zoom into that
select board meeting um and you're talking about snow removal of the driveway no so the driveway department the highway department okay you're just talking the pathways yes the sidewalks and the pathways yeah yes so it has to
be done by hand or with a snowblower right it can't be done with a plow truck right because it's sidewalks and they're not designed to be driven on you know um so um and that's why the highway department wouldn't do it or because it's further in the library property
like will they do the parking lot they'll do the parking lot they'll do the the driveway in the parking lot and they don't in in the town of shootsbury the highway department doesn't they plow they don't shovel or
snowblow who does like the walkway into town hall first person in or or or third person in who doesn't want to walk over the snow i see um there's there isn't a person whose job it is um and so that so so
there have been times when uh maryanne and her husband had shoveled the library and then walked across the street and did town hall um and like a couple of weeks ago on a sunday i had a program and there was snow and i knew that there
would be snow and so i got here early to shovel just a small back you know i didn't shovel the front but i shut it back so people could get in for the school has this issue too well the school has has fulltime they have two
full-time customer outside walkways they do the outside walkways yeah so i don't know what they do you know well like at the fire station it's they probably plow it all you know um because they don't really
have a walkway um and so so it's just a thing that i hadn't sort of fully considered until now and it's conversations that are happening and and so so when i when we talk about sort of
janitor services or snow sort of falls under maintenance um so um we haven't had those things as part of the library budget and a lot of libraries don't have their janitor services are part of sort of their like
in many small towns like us the janitor is also the town hall janitor and they do a certain number of weeks at town hall and a certain number of weeks at the library and it's part of the town hall sort of town facilities custodial budget and um and it's not part of the
library budget and if you add something like that to the library budget then the library's budget goes up and to maintain our certification from the state our budget has to go up by 2 and a.5% every
year so so and we and that we're required to spend 20% of our appropriated budget on materials so say if we add $4,000 a year to the library budget for custodian services then i
need 20% of $4,000 extra which is $800 that sounds right oh good i did that really fast um uh extra for new materials for the library and then next year our budget needs to go up by
another two and a half% of that extra $4,000 so and now can i spend $800 extra dollars on materials yes but somebody has to give it to me that the $800 right
so and and is $800 less on materials enough for yeah you know um so i so i think fiscally for the town it
makes more sense to keep it part of a town facilities budget right is the janitor for the town already working 40 hours oh no the janitor for the town works 8 to 12 hours okay and he before
co he came over to the library more often and then because he would maintain the composting toilet and then he would vacuum or sweep over there and then he would do the trash and then he like change his light bulbs um uh and um and
since co well we closed the composting toilet and then we've just um like we never got back into a habit he wasn't coming over and cleaning because we weren't going into each other's spaces um and then we never got
back into a habit of him coming to the library to do cleaning he does do light bulbs yeah so do you have a question kate mute oh you're muted kate thanks um i'm already over my yearly
limit it's only february of you're muted kate um so a couple things it i don't know this for sure but it seems to me that the library is likely to be a much higher foot traffic inside and out than town
hall and i wonder whether a couple of roombas um might be a really good idea just so that there's not so the floors are maintained in between custodial visits um and
then i do think that maybe buying a snowblower if for the library might be a good idea um i don't know how to think about what you're talking about in terms of janitorial services and what you know
needing more of those um but i do think that while we're raising money for essentials these might be a few i can't anywhere carpeted in the library
the adult room is carpeted um and i was definitely planning to get a roomba um and to set it free every night you know um to because that will help keep the floors clean and it's going to be all
one level and so it should be pretty easy to um to let you know to let one roomba do the trick i would think um the thing about a snowb blower is um i don't
know where we would keep it um well because we ditched they had to ditch the shed didn't we right right the outdoor storage yes the thing for me with equipment like that is it needs to be maintained right and i
mean it's it reminds me of when i deal with sound in concerts i hire sound people who bring equipment because i don't want to maintain it right and it might be the same with if we hired someone to do snow shoveling right they might have the equipment to do it right
right yeah so so so i think i'll i'll definitely plan on going to that select board meeting tomorrow to to listen to and take part in that conversation if
they're entertaining comments from you know people outside the select board um and uh because i think snow shoveling or snow removal at town hall is also a topic um you know it i mean we were
we're sort of a town of do it ourselers you know but um but that only works some of the time and um and it's not and you know and we're we're the
town wanted this new library um and uh and we um you know we've worked very hard to build it and we want it to be acceptable to people and um so
and it may be that we so there's 2900 square feet of walkways to each of the different egresses and it may be that we don't have to shovel to each of those egresses all winter long um but um you
know but we would certainly want to keep you know two um and uh and so that might you know cut back on it but it's it's just a conversation that um needs to
happen you know before next november fire safety right issues that determine how many right right yes yeah so so that's you know another thing i've
been spending time doing so i'll i'll go and then i'll report back at at the next meeting and i can send if there's anything sort of you know especially important i'll send out an email in the interim
can i ask a question would you like i can't do it so i'm i'm a little reticent to even ask but um do you need any trustee support at that meeting tomorrow um i don't think it would hurt i think
[Music] sometimes sometimes i sometimes i think it's good if it's not just me if i you know if there are other people so that so that we so that
everybody just remembers that it's not me we're talking about it's the library that we're talking about so um so um select board is probably at 5 or 5:30 [Music]
um i'll look it up oh it's earlier than i thought i might be able to do it are you looking it up let's see you want me to i'm almost there okay i'm almost there let's see
it starts at five and then so um so they don't put so starting at 5:15 they have general business and they have eight different topics under that and snow
shoveling is number five so could be anytime yeah it could be any time and you know and like i went to the finance committee meeting and the town
administrator was almost done and you know because sometimes agendas get shuffled around depending on who's there and things and that's all that's fine um so um so you know so any time from 5:15 to probably 6:15 i would
say was possible okay well um i could send an email to trustees with just putting out a request i don't know if any um would oh elizabeth i don't know if you could let
a couple of friends know um because that would also maybe be really good sure no problem awesome i can i can most likely join tomorrow i don't see anything on my schedule so
great and then well yeah that's good that's very good yes good that should be helpful okay um moving on through uh the last thing that i had was
scheduling a meeting early in march to discuss naming opportunities so you know of of the many spaces in the news library there's going to be obviously the marian antelis director's office and things like oh you
watch um and um but uh naming opportunity $200,000 so that it can't be bought okay there are like at least a half dozen papers with my name on them that's
enough so [Music] that's lovely that's lovely this is lovely yes um so uh and i i think the building committee are kind of eager to get i don't you
know trustee input or um so um but michelle uh really wanted to be part of that conversation which makes a lot of sense i think so we're not going to have it this evening we're gonna have it at a
march meeting that we will have early so what's the just seeing who might be available to attend march 3rd that works for me okay with me
i think i can do it that's next yeah that's okay okay um then i'll send an email to this group the whole trustees group and see if anybody can't make it um but
we should at least have a core michelle said any monday in march was okay with her so um so that's a couple of next steps for me to do after this um but yeah if we could post that
um i think if if something goes haywire we'll we can reconsider but maybe we'll just default to to that for now what time are we talking kate um i think our usual time works for us
is that okay with folks sure okay then another hybrid meeting always hybrid unless stated otherwise i'm i'm having a little trouble understanding brad
so it be a hybrid meeting do you want it to be hybrid or just on zoom yeah i realize that at this point i default to zoom only for everything um and but it's not my call it's maryanne
you're the one i think doing the work to set the room up first of all and then what trustees prefer right so what do do you prefer coming in person i do you do okay i always come in person
okay all right then we'll we'll just do hybrid okay it matters more to me with the stuff we talk about in the building committee right things to look at right i could go either way here there have been times when i was too tired to right come on up yes if i feel for this
meeting if if um more of us were electing to be zoom it starts becoming easier just to have everybody on zoom trustees there's a tipping point when right when it's just easier yes and i
i'm happy to go either way i'm not me too you just may hear more crying if i'm on zoom because 7:30 is prime time for crying at my house excellent well happy to give you a permission slip out of
all right we very slightly remember that you know you probably remember a little better kate because because vanessa is younger than you know those memories fade you know
okay um so i think unless i hear any objection we'll adjourn and i'll send an email to trustees with the new date for march and the opportunity to attend the select form meeting
woo okay and i'll just post it for march 3rd and then it i can always okay and and i'll post it as hybrid okay okay interesting and then will we again in march later to discuss normal business
or is this going to be our march meeting well maybe michelle and i can look at the agenda i mean how many spaces are there to name well more than you might
think so um yeah so well maybe we can do maybe we can skip minutes and we just got an extensive director's report and building update so
maybe maybe this is our meeting and we just meet again in april but does that sound okay unless unless the finance committee needs trustee input a after that meeting
on that i go to on tuesday unless you know um uh okay well we can decide that then i think that'll be fine okay yep do we have to
um vote on a journ or do we just no i just get to i just get to do it all right i really again apologize um but thank you all for waiting for me and for being so efficient so that we still
ended on time i appreciate you all thank you thanks kate all right all right good night everybody good night bye