okay the director's report motion to accept anyone make a motion second any discussion um I printed out new ones because I have gotten any statistics in for circulation after I already sent um emailed them out so the ones that you
had on the table are correct so our circulation still really good we're very close to hitting 5,000 active card holders which I'm very excited about um we have the first graders coming at the end of April so that will just over 3 5,000 marks so I'm very excited about
that um should I talk about Melissa now or items not anticipated U I guess no it's in the director's report U Melissa has sent in her resignation for Library A1 as of last Thursday so we um I will be
talking I guess to the Personnel committee and we will be putting her position out there to hire someone new has the town said anything about any any new hire no no okay good this this wouldn't really be a new high it's a replacement
right okay I think Replacements are have always been exempt from um just kind of like they are needed people they're not extras um uh we moved the other desk as
most of you saw earlier so we have an opening open space in the reference area now and a lot of libraries have been going to study pods or privacy pods that I've been looking into so I did print out some information if anybody wants to look at it later but basically there's a
bunch of different ones you can get some of the little ones let me find a picture looks like a little phone booth so it's kind of a one person um you can get a larger version also um you can get little rooms there are tons of different things I kind of
like the one on Wheels kind of move it if you yeah that's the one the nook one is called a that's the Nook and now one has wheels on it that could be moved um the only thing someone had mentioned there's been a lot of talk among directors about them a lot of
people are getting into them and it was the um do they need a fire suppression system some of them have louvered tops and other towns have said that's okay I think our town is a problem so it's something we would have to yeah into but um there are tons of different options
they range in price from we would have to get elected to it right they are supposed to be like plug-in play so we have internet and electricity over there already for people to plug in their laptops and everything so and that is kind of the number one request we have
that is very hard for us to facilitate what other prices is some of those uh the they didn't give you the price online yeah only one has a price online um which which is I think it's called room and the single phone booth style starts at
$6,300 and then the like three person room is about 20,000 so I have a question on um if you put it there we would be able to see in it yes um there's a lot of different options but you can get ones that are just glass around them so it wouldn't block any of
the light coming in we can still see you I'm just CU you're like see something yeah I wouldn't like these are very um closed in kind of which I don't really like but there's a lot of them you can just get kind of glassed in so you could do the separate ones you can they just make little rooms you can have there is
a showroom for one of them in Boston so um it would be possible space in New Bedford it's kind of like a work incubator space and they have open areas and lot of the open concept offic are using these I mean it's not to look at to buy but we have a lot of people need
Zoom meetings or they need somewhere quiet and with our kids section is always busy now which I'm so happy about but it does make the library a little louder so we do let people use this room but then it's not available for its actual use of you know local history
research so having is this something friends is going to help with I haven't spoken to them yet this is just something that I've been looking into recently so since it's it would be a large purchase I think it's great you have that interaction with other libraries yeah and a few people have bought different ones and um have liked them so far somebody
bought I don't know if there's anybody really local have one I don't I don't think so they have study rooms where is it in the bedf that you so it's right it's really easy to get to right come off the highway you know Glazer
glass used to be whatever that street is right there it's that brick building right next door in the corner and it has um couple floors it's got all kind of right get off the exit and take a left take a left and it's right there on your right before you get to the light at
wherever that Walgreens or whatever that um kind of place is I don't know what it is it's I don't know the street names I'll have to look it up what do they call it I don't know but it's nice some information email I'd like to go yeah
yeah it's a cool spot I'm trying to think of the organization that I went to that works out of there so I've already forgotten that I don't have a problem I just any I have a bunch of pictures I printed out and specifications for different things so you can get an idea of kind of what that looks like but it
can't be claustrophobic yeah some of them are larger than others and they do I can't remember which one it was but um most of them actually most of them I think are um wheelchair accessible as well so the really skinny ones aren't but you can
get one that's um a wider with a wider doorway Dimension so and then you can you know stick little ones together there's all sorts of options but I think that's something that would be really good if we have extra money left over um from our big donation after our shed I think that
would be a great use for it so but I will get more information but that was just sort of an idea money on buildings and ground I know you had another issue with heat yes is it the same unit yes do you have any something had wiggled free
this time that um we had gotten a locking box to put over the thermostat cuz we had some people turning the thermostat up incredibly high and then leaving it on and it was costing a lot of money so we did um we have one on the South Side already we got one for the north side and I think when um John was
um you know squaring it to the wallet Something jiggled Free so that was actually really easy now do you have a folder bike per heating unit so we know if we're spending more money on one than another um I can look if anybody any the other directors have left one yeah if we don't
could one so far since um since I've started doing it it's always been the north side that has been the issue and then um for April for um Earth Day we're going to be doing a kids clothing swop at the library so the first two weeks of April everybody can
drop their stuff off and they can come in the second two weeks and take whatever they would like and then whatever is left over at the end we'll donate somewhere and I think that is it that Lobster rocking bat is cool it's
so that was a very exciting donation [Applause] okay vote on director's report to accept all in favor all right okay B hi you're on hi okay uh wait I'm
sorry one of these days I will get it right but then it'll be too late uh motion to accept the assistant director's report motion second all right allit on
Facebook ex I have I have a question how do you know that how do you it keeps account for us so every time you hit like it okay M yeah so it's very exciting um and then Baker and Taylor has been working out great um we got a huge number of books in last week so we're able to keep up with all the new
releases which is amazing vote on assist except friends update I emailed everyone there's a copy in theack thank you I have nothing more to add to it is
is um does it say that they'll start collecting books April 1 is that in the uh I don't have that information now I just passed on what s had email people on the board that's kind of a good thing
right they're going to start taking books on they started advertising already we have I think they're putting them around town too so April 1 they're starting earlier this year which I think is good if they put them around town try not to put them where the town has to cut grass
no not outside I think that's probably one of these and things like that some such book s is this weekend com oh okay okay Safety Committee anything El the doors have bit
ordered and I I thought we could just wait until the doors are put in to have the alarm guy come in okay cuz then he could do everything at once and we can have S go do the outside water anytime okay I just have a little questions about running a water line up through the library it's not heated up there
yeah it gets very cold in the C yes that might be I think maybe we can just revise that a little bit and run it along the outside of the building shut it off in the fall turn feel more comfortable with that I think I just get nervous about water up there freezes it's a disaster but that's anytime we want to
do it um I've we got a couple quotes on buildings we have one that's from uh guy that's doing the constru doors and
stuff and his quote the other bit it's 48,000 last Friday or the Friday before I took a ride up to Morton Buildings in Norton to look at for them to give us a price on a building that's 20 by 30 and I was kind of Blown Away when they came
back with the price so I think that was off the table that's like $94,000 I mean it looks nice and everything saying but it looks nice I think it's I think it's out of our reach though now did we
have a quot of 42,000 from it was 42 no 42 from kudo but he forgot to put the skirting around the outside and the insulation on the floor I so you get these quotes you got to kind of look at them and make sure they got everything in them so it'll be a little higher than that by the time they add those things in well this would
be for 48 I'm with the skirting and and okay I'm guessing on electric we have to put electric out there um and we probably put one of those split duck units for heat they're relatively expensive like $3,000 or something but we'll need plugs and lights so that's
I'm saying May maybe $88,000 for that stuff I don't know I have to have electrician come out and look at it to see where they get the power from I know we got a lot of extra power in that room but what's the best way to get the power over to that so I would say if we have the 48
plus eight more for 56 probably that would do it but I'll wait get the prices for the electrical I don't want to gas and be wrong anything else safety wise I think that's it it's okay Personnel committee we've
[Applause] had a staff resignation um there was an issue with absente is sometimes at the last minute which put
strain on other staff members to run in when they've had other PLS for the day so Bonnie put together an attendance policy to use going forward with non-union employees because the position
that will be refilled is a nonunion and it'll be helpful to have this on hand new person is it any different than the union I think fairly similar it it's sort of um I looked at a
bunch of you know different ones and kind took does this have to go through the Personnel Board at the it has to be voted on by us and that's it yeah we just need a motion yeah so I make a motion we accept I second it any
discussion further discussion all in favor that's it it's official so go and employee hand up go new business I guess we're up to the
Easter holiday schedule um the town again has we have the Friday and Monday where the town offices will be closed so the question was do we open on Saturday it's similar to the um Thanksgiving holiday what do you want to
do I would like to stay close personally I'm okay okay yeah anybody else as long as it's posted people arew yeah we um you know we can put it up at the in the Bas and do you know if it's
usually busy at that time probably the holiday weekends no they never really busy so they never happen in the past but a lot of people travel and make a will should we accept Bonnie's recommendation I second do all in
favor okay thank you we've done the shed esms grant for new carpet update it's been put in yeah I did have to I emailed the she emailed to me the the one that uh let me gave examples of how to do it but I
didn't get a copy back of our new one that we submitted this is yeah but I did email it cuz I had one of the numbers on the door count I said was over 7,000 I had to send it corrector because it's not 7,000 it's like 5,000 something
average so she said thanks and she corrected the application I didn't want anything to be put us off on it but mhm that's a two to three month thing so maybe by the beginning of Summer mhm and is that the only are we waiting for the grant for
the carpet or do you have a plan B to pay for it if that doesn't get accepted we don't have a plan B I think we keep our old carpet if AC for now at least all right it'll get accepted if typically have has the board or has
the library requested funds from B coost this is the first time for B first time they give up to a lot of people they I know they just gave $50,000 for the Vietnam veterans out of Westport to buy a new van great so they give a variety of
causes they don't usually get the full amount but they give an amount mhm MH if they give us half what do we do half the library how does that work well maybe we can figure out the other half yeah yeah okay yeah once we figure out what okay
the exact number is we do have state aid and things like that that might cover it a fun Raisor to roll [Laughter] after any other topics I did have one thing that came in this morning um there
there's been I think it came out last week a massachusett citizen has filed a petition for the freedom to read act that is currently in the legislature and they would like to have the language removed that makes Librarians and
teachers exempt from um legal action for providing books that are seen as not um harmful to miners that right now there's an exemption that um if you are I'll just read it it be easier it shall also be a defense in a prosecution under
this section if the evidence proves that the defendant was a Bonafide School Museum or library or was acting in the course of his employing employment as an employee of such an organization or of a retail outfit affiliated with and surveying the educational purpose of such an organization and that is a law pertaining to the prosecution of people
who disseminate to miners any materials considered harmful to Miners and so they have to you know it's legal to someone it has to go to before the committee I guess it's called because a citizen did file that petition um they don't feel
that it's going to go anywhere no that do they want to take the libraries out they want to take that section I just read out that has the exemptions for educator they would be responsible for um we could be prut yes if somebody didn't like our book who who put it
forward a citizen petition yes I I think you're protected the towns Insurance bodies V for that as well I'm not sure how that works but they do have the freedom to read um in the legislation now and I printed out something so if anyone wants to contact their
legislature about the freedom to read act and it would just help codify things for could you email that to us yeah absolutely so we could all contact is there a link on there that you can hit to respond to um there is a link on who to contact and how to contact okay
that's why I just wanted to bring that up because it surprised me that that came up the point of that act is is to prevent books from being banned and to have more information yes the current the ACT regarding free expression which is in which they're talking about now is
to basically prevent book bands and to protect people who work in public libraries and in educational institutions and so there are laws on the books already but they're trying to get them stronger which I think is very important so and it had come up that somebody had
um brought up that the petition had been filed by a citizen so it was just something I want to bring to your attention and I will send the information to you so that that that um petition was for the state it wasn't a local no they want to have the state act
changed to take out that language and the citizen could have been from anywhere in Massachusetts yeah it could have been anybody so um they this came from the or not from Massachusetts too I think they have have to be from Massachusetts to do that I'm
not quite sure probably um this came from the leg legislative Committee co-chairs of the Massachusetts Library Association so um I will send that information forward to you but they feel pretty strongly that it will not go
forward with you know out of the committee thank you thank you Susan um you're welcome years um it went by very quickly and it has been a pleasure to work with you all and I'm just running out of energy as I
get older and have to simplify My Life um I have been fighting for an entire year to get Tesla in ever source to switch the solar panels from one part of my two family house to the other a year and it still isn't done and I'm beside myself because I put in heat pumps that
I can't afford to use unless the solar panels are attached to my meter so I'm going nuts um Good Luck thanks it's awful F fighting them um I do have a kindly solar installer who works in Westport who told
me that everything is in order he told me that there's something called a name plate on the bottom of an inverter which we couldn't find cuz the inverter is as far off the floor you have to get down on the floor to see it but Solar City was so disorganized and even even that's
Elon Musk was the president and his cousins owned it he eventually bought it um and it became Tesla but they were so disorganized that they don't have the serial number for my um inverter and eversource won't put the thing through
unless they have the serial number so because of this kindly man I finally found the serial number and hopefully it's all going to happen but it's been horrible horrible horrible a whole year anyway sorry to unburden myself when it's all fixed and the when
it's all fixed and you relax and these open meetings just come and visit okay it's done I'm going to do the they have a webinar that I'm going to do tomorrow uh for town library trustees
yeah open do we all need to do that again again it's helpful but not mandatory I think it's only an hour or something I thought I'd do I I get rusty on that stuff myself is that what time tomorrow 1130 didn't sign up for
that I have one more thing we used to do an inspection of the library um in the spring I believe we did an outdoor inspection I don't really know why because John usually knows what's happening outside eye on things
and in the spring we would do outside in the in the fall we would do the inside but people here look around the library and I don't really know what we inspected sometimes it's just different eyes look at different things like me I saw the roof
shingles off the shed already it just I look at stuff like that yeah but we didn't need to do it as a group it's just things it seems to me that things just happen people do see things and and we have so many new things going on that
people take a look around the inside of the library all the time yeah so I don't know what this would have been before Co and then I don't think it ever picked up again who did them the trustees we did the inspection with the
director walked around with the director but we didn't do that not the three years I've been here no no I think it's been before Co yeah that we but I don't really know what the purpose of it is because like I said if there anything
outside John usually notices it or I mean I wouldn't look at the roof and know that a couple of sh I would have spoted that either but if there was something wrong with the fence John would notice that or cuz that's the type of thing that used to go wrong would be if there was
something out there yeah he keeps a close eye on everything so maybe one day I'll do a walk with John yeah that would be a good idea motion to adjourn motion to adjourn second second all in favor we are adjourned