We will start the pledge of 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. >> All right.
Thank you everybody for being here tonight. Um we will start with approval of the agenda. Does anybody have some anything to add? >> Just what he did. >> Yes, we've got the
Let's add Yeah, we that's just extra. Okay, so that's already on there. Anything else? Otherwise, if someone would like to move to approve, >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> Motion to approve by Jenny. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Second by Ed. Any discussion? Any discussion? Any discussion? All those in
favor, please say I. I. >> Oppos. same side. We have an agenda, the consent agenda. Um, we are going to pull the January 22nd minutes because we don't have a copy of those yet. We'll just move those to next month. >> Thank you.
>> Um, otherwise, um, any questions? Otherwise, we can >> It says Thursday, January 5th, and I believe it was on a Monday that we met. >> Oh, sure. >> Yep. We should fix that on the January
5th minutes. Anything else? >> Hard. >> Somebody like to move to approve. >> Did you get an answer from Troy on my question? >> I didn't I didn't have time today. >> So move.
>> Motion to approve the consent agenda. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Any discussion? Any discussion? All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppos. Same sign. Motion carried. New business. Christmas tree pickup.
Christmas is over. >> Seems like an odd item. So, Gaylord Sanitation, um, who's our provider, is really asking us to stop the program. They only picked up eight Christmas trees this year. Um, we advertised the heck out of it this year to hopefully get people to participate. it just
didn't really materialize. It obviously cost them fuel and people and um you know we have a organic area where people can drop their trees off if council wants to help with that. Um but Gaylord Sanitation's asking to get rid of the
program for next year. And I just wanted council to be aware of it and to see if you guys had any opinion or feedback on it. >> Yeah. I wonder if I I've used it for years because we always have a real tree, but I'll be honest, the last like three or four years, somebody's on
Facebook said, "I have goats. I will come and get your tree." That I would guess they're maybe reaching a lot of people. So, >> you know, um I guess it's hopefully people have an avenue to get rid of them. And if we do discontinue it, we
could advertise or something that they can still drop them off somewhere. It's not like you have to have them in your backyard, >> right? >> Foreseeable futures. >> To be a motion for that. >> Yeah, I think we do. >> All right. So move.
>> Okay. Motion by Is there a second? >> Second. >> Second by Kelly. Any discussion? Any discussion? Any discussion? All those in favor, please say I. >> I. Same sign. Motion carried. Library board bylaws updates.
>> Hello, I'm Carrie Shy. I'm Rhonda Richard. and we are here on behalf of the Winthr Library Board >> and the Friends of the Library. >> Thank you for for tape team. Um all right, so we have a new board member that we will need your approval for. Um
our board members are Andy Graves. She is our new person and Jen Isaac, uh Julie Kger, who is um our sec, we voted, we met on January 20th and we voted on the offices. Uh Julie Kger is our
secretary. Um she's also played a really vital role in um Friends of the Library as getting um so that we have a nonprofit >> the 501c3. >> That's the number I was looking for. Thank you. Um and it's taken her
>> a year >> at least. We started February 4th of 24 >> and lots of hours on the phone and waiting for responses. Uh Bobby Pollson is also on our board and it's my error
that I don't know if you have any of these names. Um he is our vice president. uh Rhonda Richard who is uh >> president of the front law library >> and Martha Sentleman who is our city council representative according to our
bylaws. We need to have that connection and we want that connection and then myself and I am um the president and I am also the TDS the Traverse Desoo regional library leazison. So, um, I
actually am an alternate on that board and so I bring information back to our board to share what's happening each month. We are our meeting dates are um the third Monday of each month,
which I'm sure you want to put on your social agenda, right? Not um we do have an outlier uh in that group. Uh this this month of February, we will be meeting um >> the 19th. >> Thursday, February 19th.
>> Michael has put this on the city agenda. Am I correct? Not agenda, but the calendar. >> Yep. >> And it is also posted at the library. >> Um >> what time do you meet, Terry? >> Pardon me. >> Five o'clock. >> Five o'clock. >> You're at the library.
>> Okay. Our Winthre City Library staff, Lori Kalcula and Jean Sanders have been with us for three years and they will be taking on more of the responsibilities
that were director duties uh the annual uh report that is required by state and um programming, writing of grants and that sort of thing. And we have a new person and her name is Anna. She goes by
Anna Springst, better than her maiden name. Um, and she is a MLC graduate. She graduated in December and her plan is to get her master's degree in library science. So, she will be with us through May.
And that's the information. Any questions about that? Okay. Um, like I said, I'm president of the Friends of the Library and we are here to help assist both financially and with volunteers to the library system. Um, whether it be for fundraising and so
forth, like we have our upcoming book sale that will be asking for book donations and then of course the sale of those books. And then our Mother's Day plant sale is another one of the fundraisers that we'll be doing. and not necessarily a fundraiser, but another event that we're coordinating is the murder mystery coming up here in March,
the IDS of March to coordinate with a literary theme as well. So, we're a big supporter of the library that way as well. And then you should have a copy also in your agenda of the library board. We do have a a mission st mission statement that will need to be approved.
um serving the community by providing equitable access to information, fostering lifelong learning, supporting literacy and offering diverse resources for all ages and acting as a vital community hub for connection, discovery, intellectual freedom guided by
responsible governance and a fiscal stewardship. So that is the key points of our um mission statement and there's of course highlighted parts as well. So we do ask for your approval on that as well today. >> We we use this It's extended here. It goes onto the themes, but this was sort
of our guideline as we opened the year and doing training for new people. Okay, this is what our plan is. Are you willing to do that? This is our goal. And then we talked about those themes, those specific themes. And each of us
board members then did also sign a copy of it as well. >> Great. Okay. And then the next thing that we would like to discuss are the bylaws. If you would I'm assuming that you have a
copy of that as well. Um you'll see at the bottom it that the city council approved this in a August 22nd 2023. We have made some changes some revisions to the bylaws. if you would uh go to
section five dubbies and letter B, we changed some of the wording. It was originally that we were that the board would set the budget, but the council sets the budget. So, we changed the words to assist in
preparation and presentation of the annual library budget request to the city council. so that we would come to you and say okay this is you know the monies that how we would advise that you would plan
to make the budget. Um, we also eliminated one of the letters under there and it was um the board was taking on the responsibility of the building maintenance to make sure that the building was clean and whatever. Well, we want to make sure you know we're
going to pick up scrap paper if we see it or whatever, but that that's not really something that is, you know, that we would take on as our responsibility. And um section three changed that so that we write in the date. We we we re
will review the bylaws in January, the begin the first meeting of the month of the year, I should say, and um then set that date. So the date has changed. Originally, I believe we met on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 or whatever. And
because we have people that, you know, work outside of the home, um, we needed to change that date and time. So, that will be decided by the board at the beginning of the year, where and when, how are there any questions on bylaws?
>> I'm wondering section five under duties, it says make recommendations to city council and or sibly county library board. Should we delete that since there is no such thing? Okay, say that again, Julie. >> Section five. >> Yep.
>> It says the it's our duty and responsibility to make recommendations to the city council and or Sibly County Library Board. >> That should be Yes, because there is no more Sibly, >> right? So, I mean, if we're updating these, that should probably just be deleted, right?
>> Yeah. We must There was a lot of those in there that were removed. >> Well, right. Because when we did these originally, it still was >> okay. that. Yeah, that was the only one that I think that I saw. Um, does anybody have questions for >> uh
in order move to approve the uh bylaws? >> Okay, it's a motion to approve the bylaws first of all, second by Martha. Any discussion? >> Any discussion? Any discussion? All those in favor, please say I. >> I.
>> Opposed? Okay. I'd like to thank publicly Terry and Rhonda for working on these because they worked really hard on um going through all of the wording and so thank you for doing that. >> You're very welcome and we want to thank you for your financial
support of the library and also for patronage to the library. It's an important hub of our community. So, thank you. >> It is indeed. Um the next one on the list is the mission statement. We need to have a motion approving our mission statement.
>> I'll make a motion to approve the mission statement. >> Motion by Martha. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Second by Kelly. Any discussion? Any discussion? I like it. You hit 120 points. >> Um, any discussion? Okay. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. I.
>> Oppos. Same sign. Motion carried. The last one is the resolution appointing the new library board member, Andrea Graves. >> So move. >> Motion by Kelly. Is there a second? I'll second. second by Martha. Um I would just like to say way to go for finding especially somebody new. It's nice. It's
a good way to bring people in >> and we have you know a variety of ages which is great. >> That was that's really a bonus. >> Good representation of library users. >> Yes. >> And she prefers to go by Andy. >> Andy. Yes, she does. >> All right. Good to know. Um any
discussion on that? >> Any discussion? All those in favor please say I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carried. Thanks for all the library stuff, ladies. Thank you. >> Thank you, guys. >> All right. Um 4.5 snowb blower replacement. Please, can we have no more
snows? >> I know. Um so this is um you know, we for the last two years have been looking to find a replacement that doesn't cost $300,000. Um our current unit is from 1968. It's
does a great job at handling really light snow. Like last night was a good example. Um you know that's not a really heavy duty snow and so it does okay usually when we get snows that are not heavy. Um but as soon as it gets icy or
choppy, we have a lot of problems with it. Um the last snow, the one before this last one, if you can remember, um it was a lot heavier. It was like, you know, that Minnesota heart attack snow. uh it broke down so for three hours they
teared with it fixing it and that is a pretty common occurrence for it. Um the unit that we're looking at is from the municipality. Um it's a Laru D50. Not that that means anything to anyone. It only has 871
hours. Um we allowed they allowed us to take it. Um and they'll buy it back if we don't approve tonight. Um but we already went through it. We changed the oil on it, looked at hydraulics. It's a really clean machine. Um, >> this gets hooked up to the front end.
>> That's the payloader. Yep. The payloader. It gets hooked up to the payloader directly. >> Um, and >> it's the one that loads it into the trucks, right? >> Yeah. So, it it's, you know, all all the way down Main Street and then obviously Second Street because we don't have that boulevard access. So, that is used to
load it. you know, it was about two inch snow last night and they loaded 25 loads of snow. Um, that's what Troy told me last night or this morning. So, I mean, it's pretty significant. I mean, when they're
cleaning up that many blocks in a row, it's used quite frequently. Um, I will say that for snow equipment, this is um our kind of our last puzzle piece. Um, you know, everything else