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 okay motion to approve the minutes of our January
meeting make a motion to approve January any discussion Corrections all in favor okay D next meeting March March 10th will that be your last meeting I'm
not sure I believe so because the um the election is the eth okay March 8th April 8 April 8 correspondence nothing all right the director's report
any highlights um our circulation motion sorry motion to AC motion to accept the director's report I make a motion second okay comments I was just going to say our
circulation was way up again last month and we we have been so busy for January I think that's the busiest one I've seen our calendar is full with the rooms we're still having heating problems on the North side which was causing issues um sfco had come but it was the right
before John got sick so I haven't talked to John since then except about him being sick um so I'm not sure what if they're coming back or but it's still not working so I'm going to try to um I talked to him yest and he's feeling better so I was going to ask him today what the situation is with that cuz we're having to move the north side into
the south side and it's causing problems so boss he been sick for a while um just since last week oh yeah so he should be back hopefully on the same we have problems with before uh we had no that was the children's that over the summer
we had a problem with we we have something with heat though this year uh think we have heat we just we have there's various vents that aren't working at all oh my office is like she has a cold office right now um I don't know how long that hasn't been working but it's one of the
things we have to have looked at um but other than that we are very busy and things are going well that's great now vote vote to accept the report I I any opposed
any okay motion to accept the assistant director's report okay so the big thing is um Ingram is still second okay comments uh Ingram is still kind of slow um trickling in very slowly so we're
trying Baker and Taylor and they're working out great um we just had a webinar this morning and um they're fantastic this customer support is amazing the getting it to us super quickly nothing damag in the boxes so we're super happy so I think we're going to stick with Baker and Taylor yeah
really happy with so they are what a vendor a publishing house or a vendor of the they from the Publishers and then send everything the same people deliver that opium whatever that name is oh Optima no this just comes to FedEx okay
yeah so we were with a room for a long time and they service H um a lot of sales is switching over right now is there a big price difference between the two no we get the same discounts that we did with um
Ingram motion to accept the report I mean vot the report hi hi okay friends update I I can't remember if I ordered this to you it's
from Connecticut State Library it shows the breakdown of what the director does in a library what the Board of Trustees does and what the friends do and I sent it to sue Bronco at Fel and I asked her if she thinks it's appropriate to share
it with the friends board at their next meeting at which I will be to answer any questions and I we crossed paths here last week and Sue thanked me for it and she said it was very informative and she'll she will
share it did you share this with us I don't remember reading this then I didn't I'm sorry it's new to me okay looks very interesting though I like the way it breaks things down right nice kind of rubric look so good
yeah I think we know what we do and I we all have a good idea of what the friends do I don't know if everyone on the Friends board understands the breakdown because they haven't been Trustees for the most part as far as I know and that's from the Connecticut
State library but it's true for any Library as far as I could see yeah that's helpful can we get a copy of that the right back oh okay safety walkway update
second we're making progress um you can read it I contacted Scott through uh he's the one that coordinated that that through Le landscaping and they're still into it cuz he talked to scuss oh
good talked to Dave Le's father Dave senior so he's he said as soon as the weather breaks he'll get us a date and stuff Mike Mike Mike yeah I'm sorry um he said you know we can't do until the weather breaks I said I know we'll wait on the weather uh the doors
were ordered on 121 um we will be getting an invoice for a deposit on that soon uh they put the the construction company put the deposit down for us so we could go ahead and walk um Samco can do the water line
anytime I think we could just wait till the spring cuz if we're in and out we don't want to track mud and stuff in here and security cameras I've contacted uh Phil okay okay and told him what we're doing for do have an idea what we have to use for the door door opening
and I don't know if we're remember we're going to take one of the the automatic opening is there now and put it on the inside door so the doors can stay closed on the inside cuz the doors are going to be open longer on the outside with the automatic so there'll be a lot more cold air coming
in so the inside door will be automatic as well just one of them one of them yeah just like now we have one outside we have one inside the one on the right as you're coming in and the button will be on that wall over there on the right conveniently placed so we're reusing what we
can great any questions I'm not quite done with the bay Coast M I'm close but I'm not quite done we got our first I don't know if I'm in the right order here but we got a first quote in on the building we got a quote
for 30 by 16 it was going to be 30 by 20 but if we go 30 by 20 they has to have a wall down the middle you know columns down the middle to support it if we go to 16 it's wide open you're on the shed yes and that price is
42,000 but he's got a couple things he's got a tweet that's what you're looking for BOS to um support no we were going to do that with either friends just donating money they had some money available we got that money from uh Anderson oh right right
right B coast is the property okay thank you so I might have went out of order on some of that stuff you did enough security shed y shed check I fig i' go s us on a
rollf do you want to do the security project anything more no we're just what we're going to do with that and when he comes in we'll have Bonnie and and where do you want the cameras mhm okay which includes your employee door right door and front door we had a fight in the
parking lot last week and it would have been very nice to out there after school yeah kid fight right yeah with the girl who was about to be yeah who was being chased her mom happened to drive in and she took care of the situation
say so it was a you know it didn't it was averted I guess but it would be really nice to have cameras out there so okay new business late opening for staff development if we were hoping we could open um at 1:00 on a Monday coming up so
then we could have the entire staff here and have a big staff meeting and then have our holiday party which we never have a few months late it's really hard to get everybody together so um with your permission we were hoping to do that do we have to vote on that I think
so we need a motion I make a motion that we approve Bonnie's recommendation to open later on Monday I second it all in favor thank you a date um we were thinking the was it the Monday after cuz
next wedes is yeah I think it was the Monday after 24th the 24th how do you notify people um we would just have to put signs up that we were going to be and we can put on the website and then we have a group at 12 Maan comes in but we could um just
let one of them in and then the rest could come in the side door Town Hall did that for a luncheon and then they just let people know that it would be closed yeah I think if we put it on um social media and stuff like that and let everybody know and have a sign on the counter same thing we do
with um we have the President's Day one out right now to give people an idea so we usually do it like two weeks in advance at least cuz then that's the cycle of two weeks when you come in for any other topics motion to adjourn um I did you
find out anything about the AED um yes I did contact Town Hall he um Jim hartnet recommended I talked to the fire department so I have a contact over there um that I'm going to get a hold of and he said he can um help us buy one
and then do a training for the staff but there is no um Town policy as to like official Town policy they do have one at Town Hall and they've had training but there's nothing in writing I guess we just got wanted the credit union and we got it through the firefighter noones I
think his name is and he does the training too yeah that's too and Rober Bell set it up to get it for us so he has a NS has a company he works with so he's going to get us a price and we just have to tell him how many people for training if you want to do training he's
doing the training for the VFW I mean for the credit union at the fire station at at a 4:30 it's like after hours so I don't when you can set up training I don't think think he comes here I think we'd have to go there oh okay yeah iance to talk to him yeah
we'll figure that out so um do we all want to move forward with that I think we should yes yeah do we recommend that all the staff gets strained on it appr yeah um I know one person is not um thrilled about the the idea they don't want the responsibility I'm not going to force them to do it there's a both of us
here so I agree who I think would do the training so it's not like it's only one person here you might find a patron who knows which would be there yeah also so would anybody here like to go to the training as well I'm going to the training for the Fred Union probably it
has been suggested my grandson can we get a date we can get a you can get a list of who from this group would like to go okay I'll talk to him and I get started on that Does it include CPR training as well I think so I'm not sure but I think
so this was one other thing we had a question about whether or not we can converse via email and I was going through my file cabinet cleaning out the drawer and came across the open meeting law so I started
to look at the open meeting law and all meetings are open session so if you and you have to have a quorum so we cannot make decisions
via email MH just so that everybody knows you couldn't do it if you had everybody there open meeting means open to the public okay but is that different than just sharing information like if you're not making a decision that look that's
dat 2015 is that still I remember George sort of scolding us more than once where we would share information anything yeah so you just hold it till the meeting exactly I would have think if you're not voting on anything that might make a difference but if there
were things that were being voted on I mean you can always send out a notice about something or information but going back and forth I think so I can send something out I just don't want any
comments but I think at the time we were concerned about that it did come up in one of our recent meetings yeah I think we did have a discussion that was what it about I forgot what it was now but yeah
okay so you could send out updates let's say but we can't say could you get the price lower or something like that yeah yeah okay I'm probably the worst offender of that well it's so easy on email I know
right yeah but it's so easy to reach out to everybody yes yeah but I wonder if there is an updated cuz I look look at this 2015 I thought I had one in here um it might be updated but I think the premise is the same cuz she's not the Attorney General anymore an open open
meeting is is an open meeting but I wonder because email is such a thing I mean even from 2015 to 2025 it's more a thing of how we communicate since open meeting means open to the public public right and they're not privy to our email right
right just like the selectman or whatever I I don't think they can do you can send things out but I you can't discuss them discuss which is fair yeah the public has our email address it's on the website but they
could use it to ask a question make a comment but not start getting involved with board stuff that goes to the board I get it yeah when we were doing Zoom meetings people could come into those Zoom meeting at any
time I mean nobody comes to our meetings but they can but they can right yeah the door is open literally today that's good it's good to know yeah anything else motion to adjourn motion to adjourn
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