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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay, welcome everyone. It is now 1101.
We have a quorum and I'd like to call</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>this regular meeting of the Seattle
Public Library Board of Trustees to order.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>If there are no changes to the agenda,
may I hear a motion to approve the agenda</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>as published?</v>

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<v Bendixen, Carmen>So moved.</v>

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<v Faith Pettis>Second.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>All in favor, please say aye. Aye.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Yeah.</v>

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<v Faith Pettis>I.</v>

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<v Bendixen, Carmen>Kai.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>That passes.
As noted at the top of the agenda,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>the library board is accepting public
comment that is directed to matters on</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>the agenda by email,
in person at the Central Library and in</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>this remote meeting.
Is there any public comment, Amy?</v>

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<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>There is no public comment by any of the
three methods for this meeting.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay. In which case, let's move on.
We need Ron to be able to vote on the</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>consent agenda.
So we're going to move on from that and</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>come back to that when Ron is able to
join us. So Tom, over to you,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Chief Librarian Report.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Right.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Start O'Neill.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Switch gears here. There we go.
My mic was giving me problems. Thank you.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>A few things of note.
I met with the superintendent of Seattle</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Public Schools at the 1st of June.
Ben Scholldiner.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>It was just a good introduction.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>As far as what the library has been doing,
working with the school,</v>

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<v Tom Fay>some of the efforts we've had in the past
and where we hope to work with them in</v>

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<v Tom Fay>the future. As many of you might know,
they do have quite a bit of budget</v>

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<v Tom Fay>challenges coming up this year as well.
So I think we'll be touching base a few</v>

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<v Tom Fay>times during the course of this year to
see where they're at.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Moving forward.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>On June 6th through the 10th, I,
along with quite a few of the folks from</v>

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<v Tom Fay>our wonderful foundation,
including Brian Lawrence,</v>

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<v Tom Fay>attended the 10th Annual International
Public Library Fundraising Conference.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>As many of you might know or recall,
that was co-founded by the Seattle Public</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Library Foundation and Carl Bloom
Associates.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>A decade ago, and now it is one of the.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>kind of staples of foundation advancement
and development in the country for public</v>

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<v Tom Fay>libraries.
When I walked into the room over 10 years</v>

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<v Tom Fay>ago, it was a very few people.
There were about 300 in attendance this</v>

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<v Tom Fay>particular time.
It's almost outgrowing its ability to be</v>

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<v Tom Fay>in a library.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Hello.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>I want to thank the Columbus Library
System for really doing a great job</v>

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<v Tom Fay>hosting. Everything was perfect,
from the venue to the recommendations.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Really appreciated Lawrence Hospitality,
who's the Executive Director there. Well,</v>

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<v Tom Fay>great.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Great work by their team.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>A couple of things to note around branch
closures currently.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>As some of you might recall,
we have the International District</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Chinatown branch closed.
They were remediating an odor issue</v>

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<v Tom Fay>reported by staff.
It was found to be coming from the wall.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>There's been much work done to clean and
repair it. And while we had hoped</v>

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<v Tom Fay>as in my report,
to have us reopened by June 29th.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>That is going to probably be no sooner
than July 6th.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>We're working through the final
remediation issues with the contractor</v>

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<v Tom Fay>and the landlord to make sure everything
is satisfactory before opening and</v>

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<v Tom Fay>getting staff back in and then opening up.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>to the public.
So we will keep you up to date on that</v>

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<v Tom Fay>when we have a final date so that you're
all aware of its reopening.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>The Rainier Bay,
I'll use all my words here today,</v>

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<v Tom Fay>the Rainier Beach branch has been closed
from June 4th through the 26th.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>While repairs and energy efficiency
improvements are made,</v>

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<v Tom Fay>we look forward to the branch welcoming
folks back.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>for the summer. And right now,
that's still on schedule.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>We hope to see that building open up
again by tomorrow.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>We'll let you know if something changes,
but that branch will have some great</v>

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<v Tom Fay>improvements to its HVAC systems.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>And just a note for everyone,
I will be heading out to the American</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Library Association tomorrow.
It is in Chicago.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>I'll be there for three or four days with
a bunch of vendor meetings. Pardon me,</v>

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<v Tom Fay>and it's the 150th anniversary of the
American Library Association. So</v>

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<v Tom Fay>They are back in their hometown of
Chicago for that event, so that's great.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Just a side note in this,
for all those who have worked with Sarah</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Johns, our state Librarian,
you might recall she's retiring here in</v>

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<v Tom Fay>June.
I will be attending her retirement party</v>

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<v Tom Fay>at the Obama.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Library Event Center on,
I think it's Sunday.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>So looking forward to that event.
Of course,</v>

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<v Tom Fay>also seeing the Obama Library will be
most certainly a fun thing to attend.</v>

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<v Faith Pettis>Wow.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>And that sums up my report pretty brief
this month, but anyone have any questions?</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>I see Carmen has a question.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Okay.</v>

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<v Bendixen, Carmen>Yeah, well,
I'm excited for your trip for you, Tom,</v>

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<v Bendixen, Carmen>but my question was about the U District
branch and if everything was still on</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah.</v>

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<v Bendixen, Carmen>track with that.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>That one I'm waiting for additional
information on.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>I got some word this morning that we may
be delayed a little bit on that.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>I'm trying to figure out what the delays
are for.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>We had hoped to be somewhere in the
September,</v>

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<v Tom Fay>early September opening that may have
slipped.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>I'll have more information as I get to
the end of the day and I'll try to send a</v>

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<v Tom Fay>note out to the board.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>before I hop on a plane if I get more
details.</v>

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<v Bendixen, Carmen>Okay, thanks.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>That would be great. And also, Tom,
I know that the Rainier Beach closure was</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>a planned closure to do the work that you
described. So that's not of concern.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Correct.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>But obviously,
the Chinatown International District</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>branch</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>That was not a planned closure.
Nobody wants to close a branch because of</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>a bad odor.
But I just wanted to underscore that my</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>understanding is that the library has
been working effectively with the</v>

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<v Bendixen, Carmen>I.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>landlord who owns the actual building.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>to remediate the problem.
So it sounds like everyone's doing</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>everything they can to get that branch
reopened as quickly as possible. Is that?</v>

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<v Tom Fay>They have, yes,
and they have been responsive as we've</v>

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<v Tom Fay>gone through it.
Our team's been Capital Finance has been</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/73-2
00:07:18.397 --> 00:07:22.047
<v Tom Fay>working with them.
They manage the leases and the landlord</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/73-3
00:07:22.047 --> 00:07:24.768
<v Tom Fay>has been responsive throughout the
process.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/74-0
00:07:25.448 --> 00:07:30.157
<v Yazmin Mehdi>That's great to hear.
Because obviously it's important for the</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/74-1
00:07:30.157 --> 00:07:36.287
<v Yazmin Mehdi>public to know that the library actually
owns most of our buildings where we have</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/74-2
00:07:36.287 --> 00:07:41.145
<v Yazmin Mehdi>library branches open,
but there are a few where we are actually</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/74-3
00:07:41.145 --> 00:07:46.901
<v Yazmin Mehdi>a tenant and we have to rely on the
landlord to help when there are building</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/74-4
00:07:46.901 --> 00:07:47.648
<v Yazmin Mehdi>issues. So</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/76-0
00:07:48.008 --> 00:07:51.645
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And this is one of those cases,
unfortunately.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/76-1
00:07:51.645 --> 00:07:56.597
<v Yazmin Mehdi>But nobody wants to work in an
environment where it smells bad.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/76-2
00:07:56.597 --> 00:08:02.787
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So especially because usually a bad smell
indicates something underlying that's</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/76-3
00:08:02.787 --> 00:08:06.888
<v Yazmin Mehdi>probably even less pleasant than the
smell. Yeah, so</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/75-0
00:08:04.648 --> 00:08:05.248
<v Tom Fay>Yes.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/77-0
00:08:08.488 --> 00:08:11.535
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Looking forward to having that reopen
though.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/77-1
00:08:11.535 --> 00:08:14.648
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Any other questions for my colleagues for
Tom?</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/78-0
00:08:16.648 --> 00:08:23.293
<v Yazmin Mehdi>What I'd like to do is quickly note a
couple of things from the reports that</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/78-1
00:08:23.293 --> 00:08:29.420
<v Yazmin Mehdi>are in the packet that we will not hear
from staff about. One was the,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/78-2
00:08:29.420 --> 00:08:35.288
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I'm not sure I'll pronounce it correctly,
but Deng Kien co-op work.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/79-0
00:08:35.928 --> 00:08:40.485
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And I just wanted to like thank staff for
that program.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/79-1
00:08:40.485 --> 00:08:46.507
<v Yazmin Mehdi>One of the things that was really
interesting to me to read about was the</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/79-2
00:08:46.507 --> 00:08:52.772
<v Yazmin Mehdi>idea of co-creating programs with the
community that really best serve their</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/79-3
00:08:52.772 --> 00:08:54.888
<v Yazmin Mehdi>actual needs as opposed to</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/80-0
00:08:55.168 --> 00:08:59.361
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the library saying, well,
this is the programming that this</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/80-1
00:08:59.361 --> 00:09:03.344
<v Yazmin Mehdi>community needs and we're going to impose
that upon you.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/80-2
00:09:03.344 --> 00:09:08.794
<v Yazmin Mehdi>This idea of co-creation is one that I
think I may have first heard from Kate</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/80-3
00:09:08.794 --> 00:09:12.498
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Tang or Tom.
And I find this really interesting work</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/80-4
00:09:12.498 --> 00:09:18.088
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and I really appreciate the chance to
read about how the library is doing that.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/82-0
00:09:19.288 --> 00:09:23.971
<v Yazmin Mehdi>One thing that stuck out from that one is
this, you know,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/82-1
00:09:23.971 --> 00:09:30.026
<v Yazmin Mehdi>basically interest-free loan and loans
and how important that those are to</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/81-0
00:09:27.488 --> 00:09:27.808
<v Tom Fay>Yep.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/82-2
00:09:30.026 --> 00:09:34.385
<v Yazmin Mehdi>particular communities,
especially because, you know,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/82-3
00:09:34.385 --> 00:09:36.888
<v Yazmin Mehdi>one of the ways of interpreting</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/84-0
00:09:37.528 --> 00:09:42.536
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Islam is that, you know,
it's against the religion to, you know,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/84-1
00:09:42.536 --> 00:09:47.928
<v Yazmin Mehdi>take on or charge interest.
So the idea that the community would come</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/84-2
00:09:47.928 --> 00:09:53.860
<v Yazmin Mehdi>together and figure out ways to encourage
businesses without loans that have</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/83-0
00:09:52.928 --> 00:09:53.088
<v Tom Fay>Ku.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/84-3
00:09:53.860 --> 00:09:56.248
<v Yazmin Mehdi>interest is, that's a big deal.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/85-0
00:09:57.848 --> 00:10:02.591
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Anyone who's run a business, I'm sure,
understands that, you know,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/85-1
00:10:02.591 --> 00:10:07.688
<v Yazmin Mehdi>often you have to take out a loan to make
investments in your business.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/85-2
00:10:07.688 --> 00:10:11.016
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So I wanted to just quick call that out.
Also,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/85-3
00:10:11.016 --> 00:10:15.688
<v Yazmin Mehdi>there's a celebration on July 9th from
1230 to 230 at Beacon. And</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/87-0
00:10:16.168 --> 00:10:19.786
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I'm going to try to get to that for this
program.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/87-1
00:10:19.786 --> 00:10:25.430
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And so just encourage my colleagues and
of course, if there's a quorum of us,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/87-2
00:10:25.430 --> 00:10:31.074
<v Yazmin Mehdi>we have to stay away from each other.
But it would be not a bad thing to have</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/87-3
00:10:31.074 --> 00:10:36.356
<v Yazmin Mehdi>more than one board member there.
Also wanted to note the Sunday science</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/87-4
00:10:36.356 --> 00:10:40.408
<v Yazmin Mehdi>parties that were written about.
Those sounded awesome.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/89-0
00:10:40.728 --> 00:10:47.939
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And I love the idea of the Dia de los
Ninos programs that were in languages</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/86-0
00:10:44.168 --> 00:10:44.288
<v Tom Fay>Yeah.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/89-1
00:10:47.939 --> 00:10:55.244
<v Yazmin Mehdi>other than Spanish. One thing, you know,
I was missing in May from our board</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/89-2
00:10:55.244 --> 00:10:59.608
<v Yazmin Mehdi>meeting and I was in Peru and got a
chance to</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/90-0
00:11:00.088 --> 00:11:04.311
<v Yazmin Mehdi>meet, you know,
a lot of people there speak Quechua,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/90-1
00:11:04.311 --> 00:11:08.933
<v Yazmin Mehdi>not just Spanish.
And these languages go really far back.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/90-2
00:11:08.933 --> 00:11:12.678
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I have an avocational interest in
linguistics,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/90-3
00:11:12.678 --> 00:11:18.813
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and so for the library to help create
opportunities for these languages that</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/90-4
00:11:18.813 --> 00:11:20.008
<v Yazmin Mehdi>might otherwise</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/91-0
00:11:20.088 --> 00:11:24.193
<v Yazmin Mehdi>you know,
die out to be spoken is really important</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/91-1
00:11:24.193 --> 00:11:30.552
<v Yazmin Mehdi>so that we don't lose those languages.
Last thing is I read about Ken Gonzales</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/91-2
00:11:30.552 --> 00:11:34.979
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Rud Aaliyah,
who celebrated 35 years as an employee at</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/91-3
00:11:34.979 --> 00:11:39.326
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the library,
and I just want to wish him well for his</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/91-4
00:11:39.326 --> 00:11:39.728
<v Yazmin Mehdi>work.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/92-0
00:11:40.328 --> 00:11:45.148
<v Yazmin Mehdi>That's dedication, 35 years of work.
So hats off to Ken.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/92-1
00:11:45.148 --> 00:11:49.969
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And then the last thing,
there's a great report from IT.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/92-2
00:11:49.969 --> 00:11:56.734
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And one of the things that kind of stood
out for me was this idea of self-serve</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/92-3
00:11:56.734 --> 00:11:58.848
<v Yazmin Mehdi>installation of software.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/93-0
00:11:59.608 --> 00:12:06.325
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And that might sound risky,
but the idea that IT has come up with</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/93-1
00:12:06.325 --> 00:12:14.060
<v Yazmin Mehdi>ways for some software to be installed
that doesn't cause potential risk is</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/93-2
00:12:14.060 --> 00:12:16.808
<v Yazmin Mehdi>terrific because of course,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/94-0
00:12:18.328 --> 00:12:24.411
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the work that they do is so important,
not only to the public side of library</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/94-1
00:12:24.411 --> 00:12:28.310
<v Yazmin Mehdi>operations,
but obviously to the internal side of</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/94-2
00:12:28.310 --> 00:12:33.145
<v Yazmin Mehdi>library operations.
So any kind of efficiencies that they can</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/94-3
00:12:33.145 --> 00:12:38.448
<v Yazmin Mehdi>gain mean that they can keep their
attention on public side things.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/95-0
00:12:38.808 --> 00:12:43.082
<v Yazmin Mehdi>or enterprise-wide systems that, you know,
if they fail,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/95-1
00:12:43.082 --> 00:12:48.781
<v Yazmin Mehdi>a lot of things don't happen. So anyway,
thanks for indulging me, you guys.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/95-2
00:12:48.781 --> 00:12:53.430
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I like to call that stuff out because
otherwise we, you know,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/95-3
00:12:53.430 --> 00:12:59.128
<v Yazmin Mehdi>those folks may think that we don't read
these reports, but we actually do.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/97-0
00:12:59.288 --> 00:13:03.128
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So, before I move on, does any, yeah,
I see Faith.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/96-0
00:13:02.008 --> 00:13:02.248
<v Tom Fay>I.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/98-0
00:13:03.288 --> 00:13:06.282
<v Faith Pettis>Yeah, and I had, thank you for doing that,
Yazmin,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/98-1
00:13:06.282 --> 00:13:10.216
<v Faith Pettis>because I had wanted to call out the
blanket fort reading parties.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/98-2
00:13:10.216 --> 00:13:14.796
<v Faith Pettis>I thought that was just so special and
brilliant of the librarians to come up</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/98-3
00:13:14.796 --> 00:13:17.907
<v Faith Pettis>with that idea.
I can see how that would appeal to a</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/98-4
00:13:17.907 --> 00:13:20.549
<v Faith Pettis>child,
and the science fair things resonated</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/98-5
00:13:20.549 --> 00:13:23.720
<v Faith Pettis>with me as well.
What a great use of the libraries to</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/98-6
00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:24.248
<v Faith Pettis>stimulate</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/100-0
00:13:24.648 --> 00:13:28.880
<v Faith Pettis>and give an opportunity for kids to
engage with scientists and on science</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/100-1
00:13:28.880 --> 00:13:31.397
<v Faith Pettis>projects in a way that is super
accessible.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/100-2
00:13:31.397 --> 00:13:35.171
<v Faith Pettis>So the reports this month were really
interesting. Appreciate it.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/100-3
00:13:35.171 --> 00:13:38.088
<v Faith Pettis>And thanks to the staff for putting them
together.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/101-0
00:13:39.608 --> 00:13:45.626
<v Tom Fay>And I just want to mention a few other
things. So thanks for starting it out,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/101-1
00:13:45.626 --> 00:13:51.413
<v Tom Fay>Yazmin and Faith. But on the collab,
it's been a huge effort over the last</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/101-2
00:13:51.413 --> 00:13:57.739
<v Tom Fay>year. I want to thank Tina Mat, Jay Lyman,
obviously for their work in community.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/101-3
00:13:57.739 --> 00:13:59.128
<v Tom Fay>Tina is, you know,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/103-0
00:13:59.688 --> 00:14:04.084
<v Tom Fay>She is the central hub in the southeast
region and really promotes what we've</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/103-1
00:14:04.084 --> 00:14:07.184
<v Tom Fay>talked about in the strategic plan of a
community hub.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/103-2
00:14:07.184 --> 00:14:10.115
<v Tom Fay>You can see that as you read through that
document.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/103-3
00:14:10.115 --> 00:14:14.172
<v Tom Fay>I also want to thank Kate Tang for
supporting them and working with our</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/103-4
00:14:14.172 --> 00:14:16.821
<v Tom Fay>capital improvement team to improve the
space.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/103-5
00:14:16.821 --> 00:14:19.808
<v Tom Fay>We still have a little more to go in that
space, but</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/104-0
00:14:20.248 --> 00:14:23.692
<v Tom Fay>compared to where we were a year,
a little over a year ago.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/104-1
00:14:23.692 --> 00:14:27.594
<v Tom Fay>You can actually hear each other now
because we put in a little air</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/104-2
00:14:27.594 --> 00:14:32.358
<v Tom Fay>conditioning unit that actually keeps the
room cool without blowing something that</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/104-3
00:14:32.358 --> 00:14:36.777
<v Tom Fay>sounds like a jet engine into the room.
They've got some new technology that</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/104-4
00:14:36.777 --> 00:14:38.728
<v Tom Fay>they'll have available, ability to</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/106-0
00:14:38.768 --> 00:14:42.842
<v Tom Fay>charge devices and connect into the
monitors, etc.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/106-1
00:14:42.842 --> 00:14:49.151
<v Tom Fay>So a lot of good work there and much more
going on in that community. And yes,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/106-2
00:14:49.151 --> 00:14:55.381
<v Tom Fay>I did love the Fort, Planket Fort.
I know I did plenty of those with a child,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/106-3
00:14:55.381 --> 00:15:00.732
<v Tom Fay>so I truly appreciated that.
Maybe my crawling around down on that</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/106-4
00:15:00.732 --> 00:15:03.288
<v Tom Fay>level isn't as good anymore, but</v>

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<v Tom Fay>I still thought it was a fun idea.
And I think the one thing the IT piece</v>

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00:15:08.329 --> 00:15:13.628
<v Tom Fay>also gives you is a very good sense of
the amount of work that's going on daily.</v>

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00:15:13.628 --> 00:15:18.666
<v Tom Fay>We highlight many things here and it's
very hard often to get enough time in</v>

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00:15:18.666 --> 00:15:21.544
<v Tom Fay>these meetings to be able to show all
this.</v>

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00:15:21.544 --> 00:15:24.488
<v Tom Fay>I think the Q1 marketing and online
services</v>

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00:15:24.968 --> 00:15:29.527
<v Tom Fay>Review also shows the massive amount of
work that's always going on with that</v>

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00:15:29.527 --> 00:15:34.028
<v Tom Fay>unit and team and really how they're
putting the library forward in front of</v>

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00:15:34.028 --> 00:15:38.120
<v Tom Fay>everyone in the online realm.
So some really great work here and some</v>

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00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:41.802
<v Tom Fay>really good reports.
So I really appreciate everybody's effort</v>

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00:15:41.802 --> 00:15:43.848
<v Tom Fay>and thank you for reading them all.</v>

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00:15:44.808 --> 00:15:46.328
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah, I know I'm not alone.</v>

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00:15:49.288 --> 00:15:54.661
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Let's, if you don't mind, Tom,
can we go back and approve the consent</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>agenda with now that Ron is on? Welcome,
Ron.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Please do.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>So this is the consent agenda basically
consists of the minutes from the May</v>

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00:16:04.102 --> 00:16:08.323
<v Yazmin Mehdi>regular meeting.
And so if no one has changes to these</v>

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00:16:08.323 --> 00:16:11.854
<v Yazmin Mehdi>documents,
may I hear a motion to approve the</v>

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00:16:11.854 --> 00:16:12.928
<v Yazmin Mehdi>consent agenda</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Published.</v>

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<v Faith Pettis>So moved.</v>

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00:16:17.528 --> 00:16:18.168
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Second.</v>

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00:16:17.848 --> 00:16:18.368
<v Ron Chew>Second.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Great. And all in favor, please say I.</v>

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<v Faith Pettis>Yeah.</v>

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<v Bendixen, Carmen>Bye.</v>

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00:16:23.128 --> 00:16:23.288
<v Faith Pettis>Yeah.</v>

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00:16:23.288 --> 00:16:23.768
<v Ron Chew>Kai.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Great. Thank you all. And I,
for the record,</v>

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00:16:29.012 --> 00:16:33.322
<v Yazmin Mehdi>have to abstain because I was not at that
meeting.</v>

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00:16:33.322 --> 00:16:40.083
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Although I did enjoy reading the meeting
minutes. And I see Sean's on the call.</v>

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00:16:40.083 --> 00:16:44.901
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So Sean Lanksbury,
if you want any background on the art</v>

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00:16:44.901 --> 00:16:45.408
<v Yazmin Mehdi>review</v>

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00:16:45.688 --> 00:16:49.175
<v Yazmin Mehdi>committee,
I'd be glad to talk to you about that,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>because I wrote that when I worked for
the library a million years ago.</v>

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00:16:54.196 --> 00:16:59.356
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So anyway, I think just to close that,
that passed not quite unanimously,</v>

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00:16:59.356 --> 00:17:04.168
<v Yazmin Mehdi>but we can move on and go back to you,
Tom, with the system reports.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Thank you. We've got Rick Sheridan,
who will be coming forward,</v>

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00:17:10.070 --> 00:17:14.045
<v Tom Fay>and he will be giving a strategic plan
mid-year update.</v>

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00:17:14.045 --> 00:17:18.942
<v Tom Fay>I know Jessica Smith also worked on this.
She's not available today,</v>

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00:17:18.942 --> 00:17:23.768
<v Tom Fay>and Rick's going to step in and go
through the report with you all.</v>

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00:17:24.808 --> 00:17:26.168
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Great. Welcome, Rick.</v>

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<v Rick Sheridan>Thank you.
Appreciate the opportunity to present</v>

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<v Rick Sheridan>today. Let me share my screen.</v>

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00:17:47.608 --> 00:17:48.888
<v Rick Sheridan>All right, I hope you can see that.</v>

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<v Rick Sheridan>Okay,
appreciate the opportunity to present</v>

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<v Rick Sheridan>today about the strategic plan,
10-year strategic plan for the Seattle</v>

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00:17:59.343 --> 00:18:02.603
<v Rick Sheridan>Public Library.
Jessica Smith was to join me here today</v>

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00:18:02.603 --> 00:18:06.328
<v Rick Sheridan>to provide an update,
but unfortunately she is unable to do so.</v>

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00:18:09.208 --> 00:18:12.767
<v Rick Sheridan>Our agenda for this part of the session,
this presentation,</v>

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00:18:12.767 --> 00:18:17.571
<v Rick Sheridan>is really to provide an overview on the
work of the library system over the past</v>

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00:18:17.571 --> 00:18:22.256
<v Rick Sheridan>year and what our focus is for 2026.
So our agenda will be a brief overview on</v>

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00:18:22.256 --> 00:18:25.341
<v Rick Sheridan>the plan itself for people that might be
new to it.</v>

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00:18:25.341 --> 00:18:29.848
<v Rick Sheridan>We'll talk about the six impact areas
that exist within the strategic plan.</v>

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00:18:30.048 --> 00:18:36.986
<v Rick Sheridan>both in terms of accomplishments for 2025,
but also what the library focused on in</v>

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00:18:36.986 --> 00:18:42.168
<v Rick Sheridan>terms of priorities for 2026,
and then our planning for 2027.</v>

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00:18:46.328 --> 00:18:49.368
<v Rick Sheridan>One second, unfortunately,
I seem to be showing my notes as well.</v>

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00:18:52.928 --> 00:18:54.168
<v Faith Pettis>They're not visible to us.</v>

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00:18:54.248 --> 00:18:55.848
<v Rick Sheridan>Okay, oh, that's great to hear. Excellent.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Yeah, me.</v>

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<v Rick Sheridan>Let's move forward then.</v>

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<v Rick Sheridan>So the strategic plan for new staff
members or members of the public that</v>

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00:19:06.350 --> 00:19:09.797
<v Rick Sheridan>might be listening in,
it is our 10-year plan developed with</v>

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00:19:09.797 --> 00:19:13.244
<v Rick Sheridan>significant input from the public and
staff over many years.</v>

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00:19:13.244 --> 00:19:16.296
<v Rick Sheridan>It outlines our mission to bring people,
information,</v>

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00:19:16.296 --> 00:19:19.800
<v Rick Sheridan>and ideas together to enrich lives and
empower the community.</v>

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00:19:19.800 --> 00:19:21.608
<v Rick Sheridan>And it has six key impact areas.</v>

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00:19:21.888 --> 00:19:26.202
<v Rick Sheridan>three that are focused on the patron,
literacy, empowerment and enrichment,</v>

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00:19:26.202 --> 00:19:30.062
<v Rick Sheridan>and then three that are more internally
focused, funding, capacity,</v>

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00:19:30.062 --> 00:19:32.843
<v Rick Sheridan>and then building technology and
sustainability,</v>

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00:19:32.843 --> 00:19:36.930
<v Rick Sheridan>that it's the work we do inside of the
library to make sure that we can</v>

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00:19:36.930 --> 00:19:39.768
<v Rick Sheridan>appropriately serve the public and our
community.</v>

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00:19:42.488 --> 00:19:46.774
<v Rick Sheridan>So the first impact area I'd focus on
would be that of literacy. So in 2025,</v>

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00:19:46.774 --> 00:19:49.724
<v Rick Sheridan>we had a number of significant
accomplishments. Now,</v>

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00:19:49.724 --> 00:19:53.230
<v Rick Sheridan>this is obviously not all that the
library focused on in 2025,</v>

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00:19:53.230 --> 00:19:57.738
<v Rick Sheridan>but these were key areas of emphasis for
the library system to ensure that we're</v>

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00:19:57.738 --> 00:20:01.968
<v Rick Sheridan>meeting the goals of our strategic plan.
So we established a story squad at</v>

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00:20:02.048 --> 00:20:06.396
<v Rick Sheridan>Bailey Gatzert for second grade
classrooms to ensure that we were</v>

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00:20:06.396 --> 00:20:11.073
<v Rick Sheridan>providing classroom sets to meet the
needs of those students and their</v>

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00:20:11.073 --> 00:20:14.498
<v Rick Sheridan>teachers.
We established a board policy approved by</v>

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00:20:14.498 --> 00:20:19.175
<v Rick Sheridan>you in 2025 to ensure that we were
effectively governing the use of AI</v>

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00:20:19.175 --> 00:20:20.888
<v Rick Sheridan>within the library system.</v>

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<v Rick Sheridan>And we spent a lot of time focused on
ensuring that patrons who use English as</v>

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00:20:25.450 --> 00:20:29.962
<v Rick Sheridan>their primary language had the resources
or access to resources that they needed</v>

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00:20:29.962 --> 00:20:33.138
<v Rick Sheridan>so they could be successful users of the
library system.</v>

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00:20:33.138 --> 00:20:37.595
<v Rick Sheridan>And so that ran the gamut from working
with the foundation to secure a Carnegie</v>

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00:20:37.595 --> 00:20:39.768
<v Rick Sheridan>Grant for English as a second language,</v>

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00:20:40.008 --> 00:20:43.391
<v Rick Sheridan>adding Portuguese to our world languages
collection,</v>

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00:20:43.391 --> 00:20:48.497
<v Rick Sheridan>and doing more work to ensure that access
to library services and programs were</v>

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00:20:48.497 --> 00:20:51.688
<v Rick Sheridan>equitable beyond just English language
offerings.</v>

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00:20:54.168 --> 00:20:59.322
<v Rick Sheridan>for 2026, at the beginning of the year,
we focused on these goals as the key</v>

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00:20:59.322 --> 00:21:04.810
<v Rick Sheridan>elements for us in terms of achieving our
strategic plan across the 10 year span.</v>

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00:21:04.810 --> 00:21:09.428
<v Rick Sheridan>And so for 2026, we focus,
our focus will be on evaluating the Story</v>

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00:21:09.428 --> 00:21:14.716
<v Rick Sheridan>Squad program and then expanding it.
And we are on track to do an expansion to</v>

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00:21:14.716 --> 00:21:17.928
<v Rick Sheridan>additional Title 1 schools in the fall of
2026.</v>

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00:21:18.648 --> 00:21:23.320
<v Rick Sheridan>We're moving forward with AI governance
within the library system itself.</v>

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00:21:23.320 --> 00:21:27.613
<v Rick Sheridan>So based on the board policy,
we have a charter drafted that's been</v>

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00:21:27.613 --> 00:21:32.095
<v Rick Sheridan>reviewed by the senior management team
for an AI governance committee.</v>

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00:21:32.095 --> 00:21:36.072
<v Rick Sheridan>And that committee will then help us use
AI within the system,</v>

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00:21:36.072 --> 00:21:38.408
<v Rick Sheridan>both in support of patrons and staff,</v>

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00:21:38.808 --> 00:21:43.611
<v Rick Sheridan>in a way that we think is deliberate and
makes sense in accordance with the board</v>

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00:21:43.611 --> 00:21:48.003
<v Rick Sheridan>policy. We additionally said for 2026,
we would do a refresh of our summer</v>

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00:21:48.003 --> 00:21:51.342
<v Rick Sheridan>program offerings.
And obviously we have launched Summer</v>

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00:21:51.342 --> 00:21:54.270
<v Rick Sheridan>Quest as a replacement to the summer of
learning.</v>

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00:21:54.270 --> 00:21:57.608
<v Rick Sheridan>And that is our new focus to ensure that
is in all ages,</v>

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00:21:58.088 --> 00:22:03.614
<v Rick Sheridan>literacy focused effort that really sort
of helps promote joy of reading,</v>

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00:22:03.614 --> 00:22:08.168
<v Rick Sheridan>joy of learning as part of a summer
effort. And then lastly,</v>

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00:22:08.168 --> 00:22:14.291
<v Rick Sheridan>one of the things we're going to focus on
this year is establishing standards for</v>

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00:22:14.291 --> 00:22:18.248
<v Rick Sheridan>early literacy components for our pre-K
programming.</v>

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00:22:18.408 --> 00:22:22.202
<v Rick Sheridan>and we'll do that once we have an
assistant director within LEED,</v>

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00:22:22.202 --> 00:22:26.916
<v Rick Sheridan>who this will be part of their portfolio
in terms of enhancing programming within</v>

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<v Rick Sheridan>the library system.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Rick,
can I just stop you for a second there?</v>

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00:22:33.383 --> 00:22:40.060
<v Yazmin Mehdi>The term all ages varies based on context.
And here, can you just clarify,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>I think when you say all ages here,
you're not talking about from birth to</v>

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00:22:46.736 --> 00:22:47.448
<v Yazmin Mehdi>seniors.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>But maybe I'm wrong.
And when I say seniors,</v>

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00:22:50.398 --> 00:22:54.488
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I don't mean seniors in high school or
college. I mean seniors, like.</v>

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00:22:54.168 --> 00:22:58.479
<v Rick Sheridan>So actually our goal was to move this
beyond just students or people,</v>

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00:22:55.928 --> 00:22:56.168
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay.</v>

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<v Rick Sheridan>elementary school, middle schools,
high schoolers,</v>

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00:22:59.408 --> 00:22:59.688
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay.</v>

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00:23:01.619 --> 00:23:06.546
<v Rick Sheridan>but rather have this be something that
potentially could reach people who might</v>

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00:23:06.546 --> 00:23:09.255
<v Rick Sheridan>be seniors, quite frankly,
senior citizens.</v>

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00:23:08.648 --> 00:23:09.128
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay.</v>

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<v Rick Sheridan>We really wanted this to be an all ages
effort in terms of</v>

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00:23:13.688 --> 00:23:18.610
<v Rick Sheridan>working to support the literacy and
reading interest of everyone within the</v>

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00:23:18.610 --> 00:23:20.488
<v Rick Sheridan>community, not just students.</v>

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00:23:21.368 --> 00:23:26.761
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Great. Thank you for clarifying.
One of the things I just would like to</v>

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00:23:26.761 --> 00:23:32.154
<v Yazmin Mehdi>nevertheless underscore here is,
especially given that Tom recently met</v>

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00:23:32.154 --> 00:23:38.146
<v Yazmin Mehdi>with the head of Seattle Public Schools,
is the important role that the library</v>

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00:23:38.146 --> 00:23:40.168
<v Yazmin Mehdi>plays in the, you know, the</v>

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00:23:40.408 --> 00:23:46.317
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the learning gap that is the summer.
So I'm glad that the all ages is just an</v>

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00:23:46.317 --> 00:23:52.454
<v Yazmin Mehdi>expansion beyond school age kids so that,
you know, we're capturing other folks,</v>

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00:23:52.454 --> 00:23:58.135
<v Yazmin Mehdi>but we continue to play our role in
helping make sure that students aren't</v>

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00:23:58.135 --> 00:24:00.408
<v Yazmin Mehdi>backsliding during the summer.</v>

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00:24:01.208 --> 00:24:04.571
<v Tom Fay>Yeah,
and I think the important thing to note</v>

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<v Tom Fay>here is that, you know,
by having it be intergenerational as well,</v>

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00:24:09.469 --> 00:24:13.124
<v Tom Fay>you know,
many families may read together or even</v>

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00:24:13.124 --> 00:24:18.095
<v Tom Fay>seeing reading in the home is such an
important piece for children.</v>

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00:24:18.095 --> 00:24:22.408
<v Tom Fay>This all plays a role in how children
develop and begin to</v>

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00:24:22.488 --> 00:24:23.608
<v Tom Fay>become good readers.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>That makes a lot of sense to me and I'll
look forward to hearing, you know,</v>

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00:24:28.716 --> 00:24:30.328
<v Yazmin Mehdi>what you guys learned from this.</v>

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00:24:32.648 --> 00:24:34.008
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Sorry, Rick, back to you.</v>

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<v Rick Sheridan>All right, thank you, Madam President.
Turning to our next impact area,</v>

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00:24:38.297 --> 00:24:41.784
<v Rick Sheridan>that of empowerment for 2025,
we're proud of the fact that we</v>

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00:24:41.784 --> 00:24:46.283
<v Rick Sheridan>established a new review and planning
process for library programs to include a</v>

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00:24:46.283 --> 00:24:50.839
<v Rick Sheridan>quarterly planning calendar and strategy
meetings to ensure that we were meeting</v>

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00:24:50.839 --> 00:24:54.888
<v Rick Sheridan>the programmatic needs of our patrons and
doing so in a systematic way.</v>

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00:24:55.168 --> 00:24:59.734
<v Rick Sheridan>such that we were addressing community
interest, we were serving language needs,</v>

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00:24:59.734 --> 00:25:03.510
<v Rick Sheridan>we were having consistency of program
offerings across the system.</v>

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00:25:03.510 --> 00:25:07.963
<v Rick Sheridan>And I think one of the best ways to sort
of the proof of the library's work in</v>

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00:25:07.963 --> 00:25:11.175
<v Rick Sheridan>this space is that if you were to go to
the SPL website,</v>

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00:25:11.175 --> 00:25:15.854
<v Rick Sheridan>the screenshot that I've captured here on
the bottom side shows just a small slice</v>

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00:25:15.854 --> 00:25:18.728
<v Rick Sheridan>of the offerings that we have as a
library system.</v>

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00:25:19.008 --> 00:25:22.777
<v Rick Sheridan>that really run the range of different
programmatic activities.</v>

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00:25:22.777 --> 00:25:27.135
<v Rick Sheridan>And so something is related to Summer
Quest, Kaleidoscope Play and Learn,</v>

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00:25:27.135 --> 00:25:30.079
<v Rick Sheridan>Tax Help,
we really want to make sure that we are</v>

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00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:34.437
<v Rick Sheridan>providing in a very systematic way
programming that serves our community.</v>

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00:25:34.437 --> 00:25:37.205
<v Rick Sheridan>So for 2026,
our interest in terms of priority</v>

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00:25:37.205 --> 00:25:41.622
<v Rick Sheridan>activities are to continue to lean into
that work to offer better and more</v>

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00:25:41.622 --> 00:25:42.328
<v Rick Sheridan>programming.</v>

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00:25:42.568 --> 00:25:46.616
<v Rick Sheridan>in ways that are standardized and are
better promoted by across the library</v>

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00:25:46.616 --> 00:25:50.823
<v Rick Sheridan>system and give us better information
about the types of people that are using</v>

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00:25:50.823 --> 00:25:54.817
<v Rick Sheridan>our library system and what the outcomes
are from that work. Additionally,</v>

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00:25:54.817 --> 00:25:58.705
<v Rick Sheridan>we're working on or we've created
standards for library displays to make</v>

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00:25:58.705 --> 00:26:01.208
<v Rick Sheridan>sure that we're addressing community
needs and</v>

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00:26:01.408 --> 00:26:06.298
<v Rick Sheridan>One of the signs that with this work is
well underway is the work we've done in</v>

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00:26:06.298 --> 00:26:10.944
<v Rick Sheridan>terms of heritage months or heritage
events being celebrated by the library</v>

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00:26:10.944 --> 00:26:13.939
<v Rick Sheridan>system. So Jewish American Heritage Month,
MENA,</v>

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00:26:13.939 --> 00:26:17.178
<v Rick Sheridan>the Middle Eastern and North African
Heritage Month,</v>

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00:26:17.178 --> 00:26:20.968
<v Rick Sheridan>those displays have been part of the
library's work recently.</v>

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00:26:21.168 --> 00:26:24.830
<v Rick Sheridan>because of our emphasis thanks to the
strategic plan. And then lastly,</v>

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00:26:24.830 --> 00:26:28.647
<v Rick Sheridan>we have a small group working on
technology to make sure that we have the</v>

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00:26:28.647 --> 00:26:32.413
<v Rick Sheridan>technology in place that best serves our
programmatic and service needs,</v>

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00:26:32.413 --> 00:26:36.591
<v Rick Sheridan>especially when it comes to communities
that have issues with things like vision</v>

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00:26:36.591 --> 00:26:39.170
<v Rick Sheridan>or hearing.
We want to make sure that we have the</v>

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00:26:39.170 --> 00:26:42.110
<v Rick Sheridan>right technology,
the newest technology in place to best</v>

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00:26:42.110 --> 00:26:42.368
<v Rick Sheridan>serve</v>

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00:26:42.448 --> 00:26:45.053
<v Rick Sheridan>those communities.
And so we have a small group that is</v>

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00:26:45.053 --> 00:26:46.728
<v Rick Sheridan>working on that right now this year.</v>

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00:26:49.448 --> 00:26:52.885
<v Rick Sheridan>Turning to enrichment,
2025 accomplishments in this impact area</v>

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00:26:52.885 --> 00:26:56.966
<v Rick Sheridan>include the hiring of special collection
librarians to make sure that we're</v>

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00:26:56.966 --> 00:27:01.315
<v Rick Sheridan>putting emphasis behind those collections.
So A librarian to support the Seattle</v>

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00:27:01.315 --> 00:27:05.611
<v Rick Sheridan>Room collection in terms of historical
materials and a librarian at the Douglas</v>

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00:27:05.611 --> 00:27:09.208
<v Rick Sheridan>Truth Branch to support the important
African-American collection.</v>

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00:27:09.608 --> 00:27:12.506
<v Rick Sheridan>Additionally,
our marketing and online services team</v>

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00:27:12.506 --> 00:27:16.825
<v Rick Sheridan>worked with local largest for a series of
postcards to celebrate and encourage</v>

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00:27:16.825 --> 00:27:20.871
<v Rick Sheridan>visiting all the different library
branches that exist across the system,</v>

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00:27:20.871 --> 00:27:25.409
<v Rick Sheridan>highlighting unique features, collections,
and elements in each of these branches.</v>

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00:27:25.409 --> 00:27:28.088
<v Rick Sheridan>And then lastly,
in the enrichment area in 2025,</v>

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00:27:28.288 --> 00:27:31.189
<v Rick Sheridan>We reached a million checkouts through
Books Unbanned.</v>

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00:27:31.189 --> 00:27:35.093
<v Rick Sheridan>This is the program that's funded
entirely through private donations from</v>

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00:27:35.093 --> 00:27:37.783
<v Rick Sheridan>the foundation that allows Seattle Public
Library,</v>

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00:27:37.783 --> 00:27:41.318
<v Rick Sheridan>as a member of a larger coalition,
to support pushing back against</v>

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00:27:41.318 --> 00:27:45.327
<v Rick Sheridan>censorship and ensuring that teens and
young adults elsewhere in the United</v>

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00:27:45.327 --> 00:27:48.808
<v Rick Sheridan>States have access to works that they
might not be able to reach.</v>

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00:27:49.008 --> 00:27:51.688
<v Rick Sheridan>within their area or their library system.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/178-0
00:27:53.728 --> 00:27:56.346
<v Rick Sheridan>In terms of our priority activities for
2026,</v>

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00:27:56.346 --> 00:28:00.273
<v Rick Sheridan>what we're focusing on for this year in
enrichment, we are going to,</v>

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00:28:00.273 --> 00:28:03.972
<v Rick Sheridan>or we have actually already gone ahead
and hired just this week,</v>

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00:28:03.972 --> 00:28:08.354
<v Rick Sheridan>a collections archivist to increase
access and use in our special collection</v>

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00:28:08.354 --> 00:28:11.199
<v Rick Sheridan>at Central.
We're additionally seeking additional</v>

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00:28:11.199 --> 00:28:11.768
<v Rick Sheridan>funding to</v>

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00:28:11.848 --> 00:28:16.028
<v Rick Sheridan>grow that special collection and
additional history collections within the</v>

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00:28:16.028 --> 00:28:20.597
<v Rick Sheridan>library system such that they really are
of use to patrons when it comes to their</v>

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00:28:20.597 --> 00:28:24.331
<v Rick Sheridan>specific field of interest.
And so we're seeking additional public</v>

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00:28:24.331 --> 00:28:27.730
<v Rick Sheridan>and private funds to do so.
And then we continue to grow the</v>

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00:28:27.730 --> 00:28:32.189
<v Rick Sheridan>coalition with Brooklyn of the number of
library systems that are part of Books</v>

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00:28:32.189 --> 00:28:34.919
<v Rick Sheridan>Unbanned.
So at one point it was simply just the</v>

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00:28:34.919 --> 00:28:36.368
<v Rick Sheridan>Seattle Public Library and</v>

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00:28:36.448 --> 00:28:39.414
<v Rick Sheridan>Brooklyn,
our goal is to make that collection of</v>

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00:28:39.414 --> 00:28:44.015
<v Rick Sheridan>libraries larger and more robust,
so everyone is pooling their resources to</v>

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00:28:44.015 --> 00:28:46.921
<v Rick Sheridan>counter censorship and book banning
nationally,</v>

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00:28:46.921 --> 00:28:50.008
<v Rick Sheridan>and we're making a lot of progress in
that regard.</v>

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00:28:53.128 --> 00:28:57.126
<v Rick Sheridan>Turning to the impact area of funding,
so more internally focused,</v>

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00:28:57.126 --> 00:29:00.646
<v Rick Sheridan>but obviously something that serves
patrons well. In 2025,</v>

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00:29:00.646 --> 00:29:05.419
<v Rick Sheridan>that was the year of our preparatory work
in terms of engagement, focus groups,</v>

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00:29:05.419 --> 00:29:09.357
<v Rick Sheridan>surveys to understand the needs of our
patrons and our community,</v>

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00:29:09.357 --> 00:29:10.968
<v Rick Sheridan>in terms of library system,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/182-0
00:29:11.128 --> 00:29:15.839
<v Rick Sheridan>the library system to set our team up
well for 2026 and the work we've been</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/182-1
00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:20.240
<v Rick Sheridan>doing this year. Additionally,
we strengthen our partnerships with the</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/182-2
00:29:20.240 --> 00:29:25.384
<v Rick Sheridan>foundation and the Friends of the Seattle
Public Library to put us on a footing so</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/182-3
00:29:25.384 --> 00:29:30.095
<v Rick Sheridan>that when we move forward in areas of
seeking additional private funding or</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/182-4
00:29:30.095 --> 00:29:34.248
<v Rick Sheridan>promoting the library system,
that we're working really as a tight</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/183-0
00:29:34.968 --> 00:29:36.408
<v Rick Sheridan>well-nested team.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/184-0
00:29:37.528 --> 00:29:39.768
<v Rick Sheridan>So in 2026 in funding.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/185-0
00:29:40.808 --> 00:29:44.346
<v Rick Sheridan>Our key priority was the support
development of the mayor's 2026 levy</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/185-1
00:29:44.346 --> 00:29:47.126
<v Rick Sheridan>renewal proposal,
which we have successfully done as a</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/185-2
00:29:47.126 --> 00:29:49.907
<v Rick Sheridan>library system.
We moved it through the process of the</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/185-3
00:29:49.907 --> 00:29:54.102
<v Rick Sheridan>city budget office and the mayor's office.
The mayor then sent the package over to</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/185-4
00:29:54.102 --> 00:29:56.831
<v Rick Sheridan>the city council.
We worked successfully with council</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/185-5
00:29:56.831 --> 00:30:00.572
<v Rick Sheridan>members there to essentially have a
measure that is now before voters for</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/185-6
00:30:00.572 --> 00:30:02.088
<v Rick Sheridan>their consideration in August.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/186-0
00:30:02.568 --> 00:30:05.943
<v Rick Sheridan>Additionally, for 2026,
we're also focusing on the issue of</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/186-1
00:30:05.943 --> 00:30:09.936
<v Rick Sheridan>e-materials. And so the work of myself,
Tom and Kiersten at the local,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/186-2
00:30:09.936 --> 00:30:12.804
<v Rick Sheridan>state and national levels in terms of
e-materials,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/186-3
00:30:12.804 --> 00:30:17.191
<v Rick Sheridan>we're really putting a lot of emphasis in
that area because we feel that only</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/186-4
00:30:17.191 --> 00:30:21.128
<v Rick Sheridan>through advocacy from library systems
like the Seattle Public Library</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/187-0
00:30:21.368 --> 00:30:26.359
<v Rick Sheridan>Can we really turn the page on immaterial
terms and conditions and pricing in a way</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/187-1
00:30:26.359 --> 00:30:29.448
<v Rick Sheridan>that will serve the library system and
our patrons?</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/190-0
00:30:33.928 --> 00:30:38.352
<v Rick Sheridan>For the impact area of capacity in 2025,
a number of successful accomplishments.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/190-1
00:30:38.352 --> 00:30:41.903
<v Rick Sheridan>We hired a director of belonging and
inclusion, DeVante Daniels,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/190-2
00:30:41.903 --> 00:30:46.218
<v Rick Sheridan>who's actually on the call here today.
This was thanks to private funding from</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/190-3
00:30:46.218 --> 00:30:49.167
<v Rick Sheridan>the foundation.
We were able to move forward with the</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/190-4
00:30:49.167 --> 00:30:52.881
<v Rick Sheridan>hiring of this key role,
and so we're pleased to have him on board.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/190-5
00:30:52.881 --> 00:30:55.448
<v Rick Sheridan>Additionally,
we leaned into the area of staff</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/205-0
00:31:00.553 --> 00:31:05.192
<v Rick Sheridan>of wellness resources that are available
to them through the city or the library</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/205-1
00:31:05.192 --> 00:31:05.593
<v Rick Sheridan>system.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/258-0
00:31:06.873 --> 00:31:11.048
<v Rick Sheridan>In terms of our focus for 2026,
DeVante is now working on reviewing and</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/258-1
00:31:11.048 --> 00:31:14.353
<v Rick Sheridan>updating a diversity action plan for the
library system,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/258-2
00:31:14.353 --> 00:31:17.426
<v Rick Sheridan>and I know he's well into that effort.
Additionally,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/258-3
00:31:17.426 --> 00:31:21.542
<v Rick Sheridan>he's also focused on policies around
diversity, equity, and inclusion,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/258-4
00:31:21.542 --> 00:31:25.833
<v Rick Sheridan>and accessibility for the library system
to make sure that we are serving</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/310-0
00:31:26.233 --> 00:31:29.908
<v Rick Sheridan>both the public and our staff well in
terms of policy. Additionally,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/310-1
00:31:29.908 --> 00:31:33.956
<v Rick Sheridan>there's been a lot of work internally on
some key elements like onboarding,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/310-2
00:31:33.956 --> 00:31:37.632
<v Rick Sheridan>scheduling, and employee wellness.
We're very close to being able to</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/310-3
00:31:37.632 --> 00:31:40.455
<v Rick Sheridan>announce a new onboarding process for
library staff,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/310-4
00:31:40.455 --> 00:31:44.556
<v Rick Sheridan>one that we think is more complete,
more robust, and will ensure that staff,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/310-5
00:31:44.556 --> 00:31:47.113
<v Rick Sheridan>when they start working for the library
system,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/357-0
00:31:47.313 --> 00:31:51.050
<v Rick Sheridan>are set up for success in terms of
awareness of library policies,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/357-1
00:31:51.050 --> 00:31:54.956
<v Rick Sheridan>awareness of library training,
such that they can be successful when</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/357-2
00:31:54.956 --> 00:31:58.693
<v Rick Sheridan>they go out into their branch or
elsewhere in the library system.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/357-3
00:31:58.693 --> 00:32:01.694
<v Rick Sheridan>Additionally,
we have a small team that's working on</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/357-4
00:32:01.694 --> 00:32:04.751
<v Rick Sheridan>selecting scheduling software for the
library system.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/357-5
00:32:04.751 --> 00:32:06.393
<v Rick Sheridan>We're well into that process.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/408-0
00:32:06.593 --> 00:32:10.142
<v Rick Sheridan>We think that having a scheduling
software will allow us to more</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/408-1
00:32:10.142 --> 00:32:14.620
<v Rick Sheridan>effectively utilize the personnel that we
have and schedule them more effectively</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/408-2
00:32:14.620 --> 00:32:18.497
<v Rick Sheridan>in a way that serves both staff interest
and library management needs.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/408-3
00:32:18.497 --> 00:32:22.756
<v Rick Sheridan>And then we're of course working to make
sure that we have the right wellness</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/408-4
00:32:22.756 --> 00:32:26.633
<v Rick Sheridan>resources in place in 2026 to make sure
that staff are well cared for.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/460-0
00:32:28.153 --> 00:32:31.959
<v Rick Sheridan>The last impact area I'd touch upon is
that of building technology,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/460-1
00:32:31.959 --> 00:32:35.822
<v Rick Sheridan>buildings technology and sustainability.
A lot of successes in 2025.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/460-2
00:32:35.822 --> 00:32:39.628
<v Rick Sheridan>You see them listed here.
LEED Gold certification for a Green Lance</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/460-3
00:32:39.628 --> 00:32:43.491
<v Rick Sheridan>Branch, Green Lake Branch.
We hired both a cybersecurity analyst and</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/460-4
00:32:43.491 --> 00:32:47.913
<v Rick Sheridan>an environment and security services
manager to help us in those areas of both</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/509-0
00:32:48.273 --> 00:32:52.520
<v Rick Sheridan>cybersecurity and security,
physical security of the library system.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/509-1
00:32:52.520 --> 00:32:57.444
<v Rick Sheridan>We launched a mobile app that had 25,
000 downloads in the Apple app and Google</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/509-2
00:32:57.444 --> 00:33:00.767
<v Rick Sheridan>Play stores.
And then we did a lot of the preparatory</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/509-3
00:33:00.767 --> 00:33:05.937
<v Rick Sheridan>work that was needed for the replacement
of the integrated library system, the ILS,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/509-4
00:33:05.937 --> 00:33:08.153
<v Rick Sheridan>which is the technological backbone.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/562-0
00:33:08.393 --> 00:33:11.903
<v Rick Sheridan>for the library system.
It's how we manage patron accounts.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/562-1
00:33:11.903 --> 00:33:15.939
<v Rick Sheridan>It's how people place holds.
And we did a lot of work in 2025 to set</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/562-2
00:33:15.939 --> 00:33:19.157
<v Rick Sheridan>us up for success in 2026,
the year of implementation.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/562-3
00:33:19.157 --> 00:33:22.199
<v Rick Sheridan>So turning to what we're going to focus
on in 2026,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/562-4
00:33:22.199 --> 00:33:26.762
<v Rick Sheridan>a lot of good work has already been
accomplished or is moving forward in this</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/562-5
00:33:26.762 --> 00:33:27.113
<v Rick Sheridan>space.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/612-0
00:33:27.433 --> 00:33:30.029
<v Rick Sheridan>Andee Walton,
who's our new security manager,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/612-1
00:33:30.029 --> 00:33:33.585
<v Rick Sheridan>is already deep into a security audit,
going to each location,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/612-2
00:33:33.585 --> 00:33:38.101
<v Rick Sheridan>physical location of the library system
to understand the needs and interest of</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/612-3
00:33:38.101 --> 00:33:42.334
<v Rick Sheridan>staff and patrons in those spaces.
We've upgraded physical security tools.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/612-4
00:33:42.334 --> 00:33:46.850
<v Rick Sheridan>Early this year in the first quarter,
we replaced the camera system here at the</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/612-5
00:33:46.850 --> 00:33:47.753
<v Rick Sheridan>Central Library.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/666-0
00:33:48.033 --> 00:33:52.414
<v Rick Sheridan>And we're looking at ways to improve the
electronic control system the library</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/666-1
00:33:52.414 --> 00:33:56.185
<v Rick Sheridan>system has that manages access to our
branches. And then of course,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/666-2
00:33:56.185 --> 00:33:59.069
<v Rick Sheridan>we're doing additional training for
security staff.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/666-3
00:33:59.069 --> 00:34:03.561
<v Rick Sheridan>Our cybersecurity analyst has done great
work in adding new tools to protect the</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/666-4
00:34:03.561 --> 00:34:07.942
<v Rick Sheridan>library system and new processes and
procedures for the library system to make</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/666-5
00:34:07.942 --> 00:34:09.273
<v Rick Sheridan>sure that we are keeping</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/711-0
00:34:09.673 --> 00:34:12.724
<v Rick Sheridan>the library's technology safe,
patron information,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/711-1
00:34:12.724 --> 00:34:16.911
<v Rick Sheridan>staff information safe to ward off
against any potential future cyber</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/711-2
00:34:16.911 --> 00:34:19.542
<v Rick Sheridan>threats,
because that sort of issue is only</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/711-3
00:34:19.542 --> 00:34:23.610
<v Rick Sheridan>growing in terms of the threat to
entities like the library system.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/711-4
00:34:23.610 --> 00:34:28.455
<v Rick Sheridan>So we want to make sure that we're well
positioned and UV is doing great work in</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/711-5
00:34:28.455 --> 00:34:29.113
<v Rick Sheridan>that space.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/760-0
00:34:29.473 --> 00:34:33.561
<v Rick Sheridan>And then lastly,
we are well on track to launch at the end</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/760-1
00:34:33.561 --> 00:34:38.411
<v Rick Sheridan>of Q2, if not the beginning of Q3,
the new integrated library system,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/760-2
00:34:38.411 --> 00:34:43.746
<v Rick Sheridan>the new backbone Polaris for Seattle
Public Library to make sure that we can</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/760-3
00:34:43.746 --> 00:34:48.873
<v Rick Sheridan>effectively serve both the public and
staff with a technological platform</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/764-0
00:34:49.073 --> 00:34:52.633
<v Rick Sheridan>that makes our job easier and provides
more services to the public.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/828-0
00:34:54.233 --> 00:34:58.455
<v Rick Sheridan>So the last thing I touch upon just in
terms of the strategic plan for 2026,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/828-1
00:34:58.455 --> 00:35:02.841
<v Rick Sheridan>we're already starting to think about
2027 and to understand what we need to do</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/828-2
00:35:02.841 --> 00:35:07.172
<v Rick Sheridan>to sort of to set goals and to continue
progress against our 10-year strategic</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/828-3
00:35:07.172 --> 00:35:09.804
<v Rick Sheridan>plan.
We've done some work internally to ensure</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/828-4
00:35:09.804 --> 00:35:14.299
<v Rick Sheridan>that there's alignment between strategic
planning work and our budgeting process,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/828-5
00:35:14.299 --> 00:35:14.793
<v Rick Sheridan>such that</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/891-0
00:35:15.193 --> 00:35:18.526
<v Rick Sheridan>The items that are highlighted in our
plan are effectively funded,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/891-1
00:35:18.526 --> 00:35:20.764
<v Rick Sheridan>whether it be via private or public
dollars.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/891-2
00:35:20.764 --> 00:35:24.495
<v Rick Sheridan>But we are waiting on some critical
external funding decisions that really</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/891-3
00:35:24.495 --> 00:35:28.276
<v Rick Sheridan>will help us understand the resources
that are available to us as a library</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/891-4
00:35:28.276 --> 00:35:30.564
<v Rick Sheridan>system.
And so the voter consideration of the</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/891-5
00:35:30.564 --> 00:35:33.051
<v Rick Sheridan>replacement library levy,
which occurs in August,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/891-6
00:35:33.051 --> 00:35:36.633
<v Rick Sheridan>we'll wait to see what the voters'
determination is on that in terms of</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/939-0
00:35:36.753 --> 00:35:39.987
<v Rick Sheridan>that funding resource,
but also we need to ensure that we</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/939-1
00:35:39.987 --> 00:35:44.336
<v Rick Sheridan>understand the mayor's priorities in
terms of her budget and what is actually</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/939-2
00:35:44.336 --> 00:35:47.013
<v Rick Sheridan>transmitted to the city council come
September.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/939-3
00:35:47.013 --> 00:35:50.080
<v Rick Sheridan>And so our planning work for 2027 is
getting underway,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/939-4
00:35:50.080 --> 00:35:54.039
<v Rick Sheridan>but we want to be cognizant of those
budget concerns that exist within</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/939-5
00:35:54.039 --> 00:35:57.273
<v Rick Sheridan>decisions that are in the hands of
parties like voters or</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/942-0
00:35:57.393 --> 00:35:58.633
<v Rick Sheridan>the mayor and the city council.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/946-0
00:35:59.593 --> 00:36:02.153
<v Rick Sheridan>And with that,
I'll pause to answer any questions.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1007-0
00:36:03.433 --> 00:36:07.352
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Thank you, Rick.
That was a thorough report and I really</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1007-1
00:36:07.352 --> 00:36:12.714
<v Yazmin Mehdi>appreciated you sharing both what the
accomplishments were last year and then</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1007-2
00:36:12.714 --> 00:36:17.870
<v Yazmin Mehdi>sort of how you how the library is
building upon those accomplishments and</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1007-3
00:36:17.870 --> 00:36:21.445
<v Yazmin Mehdi>moving further forward.
Before I ask any questions,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1007-4
00:36:21.445 --> 00:36:25.433
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I'd like to see if my colleagues have
questions. And Ron,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1018-0
00:36:25.673 --> 00:36:29.187
<v Yazmin Mehdi>For some reason,
you show up on a separate page for me,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1018-1
00:36:29.187 --> 00:36:32.073
<v Yazmin Mehdi>so can you just unmute if you have
questions?</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1028-0
00:36:33.513 --> 00:36:36.020
<v Ron Chew>Yeah, can you, I mean,
I'm hearing everything.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1028-1
00:36:36.020 --> 00:36:37.353
<v Ron Chew>Can you see me or what's?</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1047-0
00:36:37.753 --> 00:36:40.384
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Ah,
now you appeared because you began</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1047-1
00:36:40.384 --> 00:36:44.633
<v Yazmin Mehdi>speaking. Yay. Yes, I can see you now.
Did you have questions?</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1041-0
00:36:41.993 --> 00:36:42.473
<v Ron Chew>Okay.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1046-0
00:36:43.553 --> 00:36:44.193
<v Ron Chew>Okay, great.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1076-0
00:36:46.953 --> 00:36:53.425
<v Ron Chew>I actually had a question which related
to another hat I'm wearing,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1076-1
00:36:53.425 --> 00:36:58.945
<v Ron Chew>which is the AARP, aging senior,
vision issues beginning.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1076-2
00:36:58.945 --> 00:37:03.513
<v Ron Chew>And I know I've brought it up with Tom as
well.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1081-0
00:37:04.553 --> 00:37:07.513
<v Ron Chew>Have you guys thought about some,
you know, maybe...</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1114-0
00:37:08.953 --> 00:37:16.052
<v Ron Chew>kind of walk audit through the central
and the branches just to see, you know,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1114-1
00:37:16.052 --> 00:37:22.432
<v Ron Chew>I know one of my pet peeves,
ever since the development of the central</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1114-2
00:37:22.432 --> 00:37:26.835
<v Ron Chew>branches,
that floor where we have our meetings,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1114-3
00:37:26.835 --> 00:37:27.913
<v Ron Chew>that has the</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1119-0
00:37:28.713 --> 00:37:32.633
<v Ron Chew>red colored walls. It's very, very...</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1151-0
00:37:33.913 --> 00:37:38.909
<v Ron Chew>disorienting and actually potentially
dangerous. I know even for me,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1151-1
00:37:38.909 --> 00:37:43.470
<v Ron Chew>because I trip and I don't know where the
walls end and again,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1151-2
00:37:43.470 --> 00:37:49.262
<v Ron Chew>and where the floor and the, you know,
so has that been thought about at all in</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1151-3
00:37:49.262 --> 00:37:52.593
<v Ron Chew>terms of just that age-friendly
navigation of</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1154-0
00:37:53.193 --> 00:37:54.553
<v Ron Chew>The facilities.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1191-0
00:37:55.273 --> 00:37:58.988
<v Tom Fay>Yeah,
I think we're beginning to look at things,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1159-0
00:37:57.193 --> 00:37:57.513
<v Ron Chew>Cool.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1191-1
00:37:58.988 --> 00:38:03.765
<v Tom Fay>all of those things,
like the all ability needs in a number of</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1191-2
00:38:03.765 --> 00:38:08.921
<v Tom Fay>ways as we redesign spaces.
The red floor has been something people</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1172-0
00:38:04.673 --> 00:38:04.793
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1191-3
00:38:08.921 --> 00:38:14.153
<v Tom Fay>love and something people hate.
And to your point, those with vision</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1233-0
00:38:15.193 --> 00:38:20.224
<v Tom Fay>issues really have a struggle in there.
It is something that I think we will have</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1233-1
00:38:20.224 --> 00:38:23.415
<v Tom Fay>to address,
even if that's to change the floor to a</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1233-2
00:38:23.415 --> 00:38:28.140
<v Tom Fay>different color to at least provide some
kind of sense of what the space is.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1233-3
00:38:28.140 --> 00:38:31.208
<v Tom Fay>That's something we'll have to look at
over time.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1233-4
00:38:31.208 --> 00:38:34.153
<v Tom Fay>The other one that has come to me
recently from</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1241-0
00:38:34.713 --> 00:38:40.633
<v Tom Fay>Several patrons that have made inquiries
is, can we do something with...</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1283-0
00:38:43.113 --> 00:38:46.992
<v Tom Fay>new types of signage that is audible
signage.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1283-1
00:38:46.992 --> 00:38:52.726
<v Tom Fay>Because we had a couple of people write
in and they said, you know,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1250-0
00:38:49.513 --> 00:38:49.673
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Mm.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1283-2
00:38:52.726 --> 00:38:56.520
<v Tom Fay>a lot of people don't learn Braille
anymore.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1283-3
00:38:56.520 --> 00:39:01.749
<v Tom Fay>They want to be more self-reliant in
space without, you know,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1283-4
00:39:01.749 --> 00:39:04.953
<v Tom Fay>assistance from staff or LEED staff or</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1348-0
00:39:05.073 --> 00:39:09.153
<v Tom Fay>or library staff in general.
And so I've actually had our capital</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1348-1
00:39:09.153 --> 00:39:13.727
<v Tom Fay>improvement folks taking a look at what
those costs are for those type of</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1348-2
00:39:13.727 --> 00:39:16.942
<v Tom Fay>technologies.
That would be something that could be</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1348-3
00:39:16.942 --> 00:39:20.404
<v Tom Fay>used not only in central,
but also in branches. So yes,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1348-4
00:39:20.404 --> 00:39:25.473
<v Tom Fay>trying to where we can take advantage of
new technologies and also understand the</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1348-5
00:39:25.473 --> 00:39:29.553
<v Tom Fay>need of patrons better.
When we inquired a little deeper with the</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1371-0
00:39:29.633 --> 00:39:32.229
<v Tom Fay>patrons that had put forward this
information,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1371-1
00:39:32.229 --> 00:39:35.654
<v Tom Fay>one of the things that we were hearing
was that it, you know,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1371-2
00:39:35.654 --> 00:39:39.742
<v Tom Fay>current way of doing it just doesn't
allow them to be self-reliant in the</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1371-3
00:39:39.742 --> 00:39:40.073
<v Tom Fay>space.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1417-0
00:39:40.873 --> 00:39:44.831
<v Ron Chew>Yeah, no, thank you.
Those are wonderful ways to look at</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1417-1
00:39:44.831 --> 00:39:49.066
<v Ron Chew>tweaks that could help. And I'm mindful,
obviously, as well,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1417-2
00:39:49.066 --> 00:39:53.719
<v Ron Chew>there are costs involved,
but there may be some low-cost solutions</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1417-3
00:39:53.719 --> 00:39:57.052
<v Ron Chew>on that issue with the colored walls and
floor.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1417-4
00:39:57.052 --> 00:40:00.593
<v Ron Chew>Maybe there's some some way to keep the
aesthetic.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1427-0
00:40:00.953 --> 00:40:06.372
<v Ron Chew>piece that people would like,
but then accommodate some of us who have</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1427-1
00:40:06.372 --> 00:40:07.593
<v Ron Chew>physical issues.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1430-0
00:40:08.473 --> 00:40:09.033
<v Ron Chew>Thank you.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1472-0
00:40:08.633 --> 00:40:12.595
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah, Ron, I think that's a good point.
And, you know,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1472-1
00:40:12.595 --> 00:40:18.069
<v Yazmin Mehdi>one of the things that I'm grateful for
is one of the city council members,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1472-2
00:40:18.069 --> 00:40:22.967
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and I should remember who,
it was either Dion Foster or Dan Strauss</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1472-3
00:40:22.967 --> 00:40:27.433
<v Yazmin Mehdi>or Alexis Mercedes Rink added funding to
the mayor's package.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1499-0
00:40:27.993 --> 00:40:32.597
<v Yazmin Mehdi>for the levy that would give money to,
you know,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1499-1
00:40:32.597 --> 00:40:37.389
<v Yazmin Mehdi>make changes and fixes to the Central
Library. So,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1499-2
00:40:37.389 --> 00:40:41.993
<v Yazmin Mehdi>that's a possibility in the future,
potentially.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1545-0
00:40:41.593 --> 00:40:46.855
<v Ron Chew>Yeah. Yeah. Well, one thing, you know,
I'm pushing a city on this issue of even</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1545-1
00:40:46.855 --> 00:40:51.656
<v Ron Chew>the sidewalks, because, you know,
we have these nice bike lanes and that</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1519-0
00:40:50.953 --> 00:40:51.193
<v Tom Fay>IT.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1545-2
00:40:51.656 --> 00:40:55.406
<v Ron Chew>helps address the needs of 1 demographic.
But, you know,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1526-0
00:40:53.273 --> 00:40:53.513
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1545-3
00:40:55.406 --> 00:41:00.273
<v Ron Chew>we've had a lot of sidewalks that are
buckling with these tree roots. And</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1584-0
00:41:00.593 --> 00:41:06.425
<v Ron Chew>it's caused a real hazard for us older
adults who one fall, you're away from,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1584-1
00:41:06.425 --> 00:41:10.015
<v Ron Chew>you know,
reduced mobility for the rest of your</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1584-2
00:41:10.015 --> 00:41:13.604
<v Ron Chew>life.
So hopefully we can keep that balance and</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1584-3
00:41:13.604 --> 00:41:17.193
<v Ron Chew>keep pushing that everyone can be
accommodated.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1600-0
00:41:18.033 --> 00:41:22.913
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah, thanks, Ron.
Appreciate your role on AARP to help with</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1600-1
00:41:22.913 --> 00:41:26.113
<v Yazmin Mehdi>that nationwide. Faith, I see your hand.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1639-0
00:41:27.113 --> 00:41:29.676
<v Faith Pettis>Yeah,
and I apologies if we talked about this</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1639-1
00:41:29.676 --> 00:41:32.240
<v Faith Pettis>before,
because I know we've talked about the</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1639-2
00:41:32.240 --> 00:41:34.692
<v Faith Pettis>integrated library system that's coming
in.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1639-3
00:41:34.692 --> 00:41:38.871
<v Faith Pettis>Can you remind us what sort of impact
will that have on the normal library</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1639-4
00:41:38.871 --> 00:41:41.713
<v Faith Pettis>customer coming in?
Will they see a difference in?</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1637-0
00:41:43.393 --> 00:41:44.273
<v Tom Fay>They want.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1648-0
00:41:43.553 --> 00:41:47.153
<v Faith Pettis>screen that they log into or what an
impact.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1697-0
00:41:46.513 --> 00:41:49.930
<v Tom Fay>So it'll be,
there'll be an impact in the sense of the</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1649-0
00:41:48.353 --> 00:41:48.473
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1697-1
00:41:49.930 --> 00:41:53.223
<v Tom Fay>cutover, right?
There will be some downtime for that</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1697-2
00:41:53.223 --> 00:41:56.951
<v Tom Fay>cutover. And yes,
and so we have a technology that allow us</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1670-0
00:41:54.753 --> 00:41:55.793
<v Faith Pettis>Remember that, yep.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1697-3
00:41:56.951 --> 00:42:01.673
<v Tom Fay>to, you know, keep track of that.
People still be able to check out and all</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1697-4
00:42:01.673 --> 00:42:04.469
<v Tom Fay>that.
Where we will have the greatest impact</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1697-5
00:42:04.469 --> 00:42:05.153
<v Tom Fay>will be on.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1755-0
00:42:05.713 --> 00:42:11.141
<v Tom Fay>requesting old material. So as we do this,
the underlying piece, the ILS changes,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1755-1
00:42:11.141 --> 00:42:16.172
<v Tom Fay>but then the BiblioCommons piece,
the piece that people are used to seeing,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1755-2
00:42:16.172 --> 00:42:21.600
<v Tom Fay>has to be integrated in with that new ILS.
That will take a little bit more time.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1755-3
00:42:21.600 --> 00:42:26.433
<v Tom Fay>The time has not yet been fully
determined and how long that might take.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1801-0
00:42:26.833 --> 00:42:31.106
<v Tom Fay>but we'll have more details as we get
into the August timeframe.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1801-1
00:42:31.106 --> 00:42:35.576
<v Tom Fay>And then as far as what people will see
initially in the phase one,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1801-2
00:42:35.576 --> 00:42:39.848
<v Tom Fay>probably not a lot in the sense of what
they will see initially,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1801-3
00:42:39.848 --> 00:42:42.872
<v Tom Fay>but as we move into secondary phases of
this,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1801-4
00:42:42.872 --> 00:42:45.633
<v Tom Fay>as we can bring in new self-check systems,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1850-0
00:42:46.193 --> 00:42:50.818
<v Tom Fay>other technologies that allow you to
actually use your phone for a checkout</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1811-0
00:42:50.793 --> 00:42:51.073
<v Faith Pettis>Bo.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1850-1
00:42:50.818 --> 00:42:55.748
<v Tom Fay>device versus using a self-check machine.
All of those things will come in as we</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1850-2
00:42:55.748 --> 00:42:59.217
<v Tom Fay>move through and make sure the system is
stable. I mean,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1850-3
00:42:59.217 --> 00:43:03.964
<v Tom Fay>one of the critical things, I think,
is everyone knows with any kind of major</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1850-4
00:43:03.964 --> 00:43:06.033
<v Tom Fay>systems migration is that you want</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1898-0
00:43:06.193 --> 00:43:09.178
<v Tom Fay>you know,
that 90 day to 120 day stability first,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1898-1
00:43:09.178 --> 00:43:13.237
<v Tom Fay>and then you can start looking at what
else new you might bring in.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1898-2
00:43:13.237 --> 00:43:18.132
<v Tom Fay>The beauty about these processes is the
staff and the IT teams have done a lot of</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1898-3
00:43:18.132 --> 00:43:22.371
<v Tom Fay>work on our business workflows,
not only from the library perspective,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1898-4
00:43:22.371 --> 00:43:25.833
<v Tom Fay>but what other workflows may be
integrated at some point.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1946-0
00:43:26.033 --> 00:43:31.294
<v Tom Fay>And so all of that work has already been
done in many ways and will allow us to</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1946-1
00:43:31.294 --> 00:43:34.648
<v Tom Fay>leverage the new system better as we move
forward.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1946-2
00:43:34.648 --> 00:43:39.908
<v Tom Fay>So much more to come on the ILS front.
For the first time in 20 some odd years,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1946-3
00:43:39.908 --> 00:43:44.775
<v Tom Fay>we actually will have the ability to do
some different types of potential</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1946-4
00:43:44.775 --> 00:43:46.353
<v Tom Fay>business integrations if</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1956-0
00:43:46.433 --> 00:43:49.517
<v Tom Fay>If so, if we choose to,
and also to introduce some new</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1956-1
00:43:49.517 --> 00:43:51.873
<v Tom Fay>technologies that we haven't been able to.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/1962-0
00:43:55.553 --> 00:43:58.833
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Great. Thanks, Tom. Any other questions?</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2000-0
00:44:01.313 --> 00:44:09.016
<v Yazmin Mehdi>The thing I want to underscore here with
this report is that the library, you know,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2000-1
00:44:09.016 --> 00:44:16.076
<v Yazmin Mehdi>took time to put together a strategic
plan that really incorporated feedback</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2000-2
00:44:16.076 --> 00:44:20.753
<v Yazmin Mehdi>from the community.
We set these six impact areas.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2042-0
00:44:21.313 --> 00:44:24.922
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And, you know,
I'm really proud of the work that the</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2042-1
00:44:24.922 --> 00:44:27.918
<v Yazmin Mehdi>library staff are doing to track this
work,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2042-2
00:44:27.918 --> 00:44:32.413
<v Yazmin Mehdi>to report back regularly to the public on
what's being delivered.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2042-3
00:44:32.413 --> 00:44:37.248
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And the thing that's really most
impressive to me is that we set these</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2042-4
00:44:37.248 --> 00:44:40.993
<v Yazmin Mehdi>goals and we're just meeting them one
after the other.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2082-0
00:44:41.953 --> 00:44:47.024
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And so it's just,
it's easy for the library board to really</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2082-1
00:44:47.024 --> 00:44:53.955
<v Yazmin Mehdi>just underscore that this amazing work is
happening and it's wonderful to be able</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2082-2
00:44:53.955 --> 00:45:00.632
<v Yazmin Mehdi>to report all the progress being made.
So thank you, Rick. Regards to Jessica,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2082-3
00:45:00.632 --> 00:45:02.153
<v Yazmin Mehdi>who I know is key.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2092-0
00:45:02.913 --> 00:45:06.392
<v Yazmin Mehdi>to getting this,
tracking this work and making sure it</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2092-1
00:45:06.392 --> 00:45:08.353
<v Yazmin Mehdi>gets done and it gets reported.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2095-0
00:45:10.353 --> 00:45:10.833
<v Rick Sheridan>Thank you.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2132-0
00:45:10.753 --> 00:45:15.091
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay, thanks, Rick.
So let's move on to old business.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2132-1
00:45:15.091 --> 00:45:21.357
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And this old business is Chief Librarian
Performance Review and Compensation.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2132-2
00:45:21.357 --> 00:45:27.865
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And so what I would like to do is just
quick give a little bit of a preamble for</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2132-3
00:45:27.865 --> 00:45:29.873
<v Yazmin Mehdi>what we're talking about.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2134-0
00:45:31.233 --> 00:45:32.993
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Um, so...</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2188-0
00:45:34.073 --> 00:45:39.196
<v Yazmin Mehdi>What I'd like to do is return us to the
April board meeting where we conducted</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2188-1
00:45:39.196 --> 00:45:42.503
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Tom's performance evaluation in executive
session.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2188-2
00:45:42.503 --> 00:45:45.681
<v Yazmin Mehdi>After looking at the meeting minutes from
April,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2188-3
00:45:45.681 --> 00:45:50.934
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I realized that we didn't share in the
public session Tom's accomplishments that</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2188-4
00:45:50.934 --> 00:45:55.473
<v Yazmin Mehdi>led to our decision to award him
additional leave and a pay increase.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2235-0
00:45:56.273 --> 00:45:59.999
<v Yazmin Mehdi>In part,
this was because the meeting had already</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2235-1
00:45:59.999 --> 00:46:04.694
<v Yazmin Mehdi>gone over the normal time limit,
but it was a miss on my part,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2235-2
00:46:04.694 --> 00:46:10.582
<v Yazmin Mehdi>so I'd like to make up for that now.
Tom accomplished a great deal in the last</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2235-3
00:46:10.582 --> 00:46:14.457
<v Yazmin Mehdi>few years,
and the list of his accomplishments goes</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2235-4
00:46:14.457 --> 00:46:15.873
<v Yazmin Mehdi>over several pages.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2273-0
00:46:16.673 --> 00:46:20.551
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Among the most salient, however,
are these.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2273-1
00:46:20.551 --> 00:46:26.896
<v Yazmin Mehdi>He successfully advocated for new sources
of federal and state funding,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2273-2
00:46:26.896 --> 00:46:31.302
<v Yazmin Mehdi>specifically a $1.
4 million federal earmark, $5.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2273-3
00:46:31.302 --> 00:46:33.153
<v Yazmin Mehdi>8 million FEMA grant,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2315-0
00:46:33.953 --> 00:46:39.868
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and a $1.8 million state commerce grant.
And each of these was the first of its</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2315-1
00:46:39.868 --> 00:46:45.858
<v Yazmin Mehdi>kind, and hopefully not the last, Tom.
He advanced statewide and national e-book</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2315-2
00:46:45.858 --> 00:46:49.481
<v Yazmin Mehdi>licensing cost remediation and advocacy
efforts.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2315-3
00:46:49.481 --> 00:46:52.513
<v Yazmin Mehdi>We heard a little bit about that earlier.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2359-0
00:46:53.313 --> 00:46:57.920
<v Yazmin Mehdi>If ultimately successful,
this work will reduce the cost of e-book</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2359-1
00:46:57.920 --> 00:47:02.939
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and audio books for libraries,
which I don't have to tell anyone on this</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2359-2
00:47:02.939 --> 00:47:08.508
<v Yazmin Mehdi>call would have a significant impact on
our collections budget. Just a reminder,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2359-3
00:47:08.508 --> 00:47:13.597
<v Yazmin Mehdi>those books cost, or those formats,
cost three to five times what a print</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2359-4
00:47:13.597 --> 00:47:14.353
<v Yazmin Mehdi>book costs.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2372-0
00:47:15.153 --> 00:47:20.673
<v Yazmin Mehdi>He successfully ensured the library
recovered from the 2024 ransomware attack.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2413-0
00:47:21.793 --> 00:47:28.431
<v Yazmin Mehdi>He restored open hours to pre-pandemic
levels. He completed 2 retrofits for,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2413-1
00:47:28.431 --> 00:47:34.035
<v Yazmin Mehdi>wait, I wrote URM, that's right,
unreinforced masonry buildings,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2413-2
00:47:34.035 --> 00:47:39.294
<v Yazmin Mehdi>our branch libraries.
He completed a new automated materials</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2413-3
00:47:39.294 --> 00:47:40.673
<v Yazmin Mehdi>handling system.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2449-0
00:47:41.633 --> 00:47:46.668
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and he completed a new library app.
Obviously, Tom did not do this work alone.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2449-1
00:47:46.668 --> 00:47:50.238
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So thank you.
This is a moment to say also thank you to</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2449-2
00:47:50.238 --> 00:47:53.744
<v Yazmin Mehdi>library staff for their work on these
accomplishments.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2449-3
00:47:53.744 --> 00:47:57.313
<v Yazmin Mehdi>But Tom is the one who made sure these
things happened.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2481-0
00:47:59.233 --> 00:48:03.613
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Lastly,
we were not clear that Tom's pay raise is</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2481-1
00:48:03.613 --> 00:48:10.007
<v Yazmin Mehdi>retroactive to December 31st, 2025,
which is the date that other library</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2481-2
00:48:10.007 --> 00:48:14.913
<v Yazmin Mehdi>staff received their annual wage
increases. So I'd like</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2482-0
00:48:14.193 --> 00:48:17.473
<v Tom Fay>I'm sorry, I hit dinner. It was 20.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2486-0
00:48:18.033 --> 00:48:18.993
<v Yazmin Mehdi>2025.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2491-0
00:48:18.993 --> 00:48:20.993
<v Tom Fay>2025, correct? Okay, thank you.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2529-0
00:48:21.313 --> 00:48:25.369
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Last day of,
it's the very last day of 2025.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2529-1
00:48:25.369 --> 00:48:29.786
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So I'd like to request a motion to
clarify this.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2529-2
00:48:29.786 --> 00:48:36.547
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Can I hear a motion to make Tom's pay
raise as approved at the April board</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2529-3
00:48:36.547 --> 00:48:40.513
<v Yazmin Mehdi>meeting retroactive to December 31st,
2025?</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2530-0
00:48:41.473 --> 00:48:42.513
<v Faith Pettis>I'll make that motion.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2534-0
00:48:43.713 --> 00:48:44.353
<v Ron Chew>Second.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2533-0
00:48:44.273 --> 00:48:44.833
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Second.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2541-0
00:48:45.593 --> 00:48:48.753
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Great. All in favor, please say I.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2540-0
00:48:48.513 --> 00:48:48.993
<v Bendixen, Carmen>I...</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2542-0
00:48:48.753 --> 00:48:49.233
<v Ron Chew>Kai.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2543-0
00:48:49.113 --> 00:48:49.473
<v Faith Pettis>I.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2589-0
00:48:50.353 --> 00:48:55.355
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay, that motion passes unanimously.
Thank you, colleagues,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2589-1
00:48:55.355 --> 00:49:00.849
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and for your forbearance.
And I apologize that we had to come back</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2589-2
00:49:00.849 --> 00:49:06.835
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and fix that miss on my part. Okay,
so now we can go on to new business.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2589-3
00:49:06.835 --> 00:49:10.033
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And 1st is the staff systems accessible</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2594-0
00:49:10.273 --> 00:49:13.873
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Sorry, acceptable use policy introduction.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2615-0
00:49:14.993 --> 00:49:17.914
<v Tom Fay>All right, for that,
I believe we're going to be bringing Rob</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2615-1
00:49:17.914 --> 00:49:20.411
<v Tom Fay>Gannon up and Charles Wesley,
or maybe just Charles.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2615-2
00:49:20.411 --> 00:49:23.473
<v Tom Fay>I'm not sure who's introducing it.
Charles, are you introducing?</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2631-0
00:49:25.793 --> 00:49:29.492
<v Charles Wesley>I am happy to do so.
I see Rob is on the call, but yeah,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2631-1
00:49:29.492 --> 00:49:31.633
<v Charles Wesley>I'm happy to lead the discussion.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2633-0
00:49:33.233 --> 00:49:34.753
<v Tom Fay>Alright, take it away.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2675-0
00:49:36.753 --> 00:49:40.795
<v Charles Wesley>All right,
so I have included in this packet a memo</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2675-1
00:49:40.795 --> 00:49:44.914
<v Charles Wesley>briefing on the staff systems acceptable
use policy.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2675-2
00:49:44.914 --> 00:49:51.287
<v Charles Wesley>This is a policy that we are internally
working on that we would like to bring to</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2675-3
00:49:51.287 --> 00:49:55.873
<v Charles Wesley>your consideration in a future board
meeting for approval.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2714-0
00:49:56.433 --> 00:50:01.873
<v Charles Wesley>But today is an opportunity just to give
you an overview of what this is,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2714-1
00:50:01.873 --> 00:50:06.284
<v Charles Wesley>why it will be important and useful
policy for the library,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2714-2
00:50:06.284 --> 00:50:11.136
<v Charles Wesley>and what it will cover.
And then also have an opportunity just to</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2714-3
00:50:11.136 --> 00:50:14.738
<v Charles Wesley>ask some,
or give you an opportunity to ask some</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2714-4
00:50:14.738 --> 00:50:15.473
<v Charles Wesley>questions.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2749-0
00:50:16.033 --> 00:50:20.265
<v Charles Wesley>just so we all understand kind of what
this is about.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2749-1
00:50:20.265 --> 00:50:26.379
<v Charles Wesley>This is a continuation of a lot of the
work that we have been doing in the IT</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2749-2
00:50:26.379 --> 00:50:32.805
<v Charles Wesley>department broadly to address the overall
operational needs and priorities of the</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2749-3
00:50:32.805 --> 00:50:37.273
<v Charles Wesley>organization and also to increase our
security presence.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2790-0
00:50:38.193 --> 00:50:43.430
<v Charles Wesley>So this policy is in the context of both
policy and security.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2790-1
00:50:43.430 --> 00:50:48.498
<v Charles Wesley>The National Institute of Standards and
Framework, or NIST,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2790-2
00:50:48.498 --> 00:50:55.255
<v Charles Wesley>has a cybersecurity framework, or CSF,
which is a very industry standard way of</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2790-3
00:50:55.255 --> 00:50:56.353
<v Charles Wesley>understanding</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2828-0
00:50:56.913 --> 00:51:01.069
<v Charles Wesley>how organizations can holistically
address cybersecurity.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2828-1
00:51:01.069 --> 00:51:06.300
<v Charles Wesley>And there are six different pillars in
that framework. There's A govern,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2828-2
00:51:06.300 --> 00:51:10.385
<v Charles Wesley>identity, protect, detect, respond,
and recovery pillar.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2828-3
00:51:10.385 --> 00:51:15.473
<v Charles Wesley>And each of them have strategic and
tactical strategies you can deploy</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2866-0
00:51:15.793 --> 00:51:21.548
<v Charles Wesley>to cover all of those bases.
So policies is in the govern framework</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2866-1
00:51:21.548 --> 00:51:25.525
<v Charles Wesley>and realistically from a practical
standpoint,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2866-2
00:51:25.525 --> 00:51:30.010
<v Charles Wesley>you can have policy controls and
technical controls.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2866-3
00:51:30.010 --> 00:51:36.273
<v Charles Wesley>So just to kind of illustrate the
difference of technical control is like</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2918-0
00:51:36.873 --> 00:51:41.631
<v Charles Wesley>a restriction that doesn't allow you to
share a social security number document</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2918-1
00:51:41.631 --> 00:51:44.961
<v Charles Wesley>to the public.
So that's a technical control that would</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2918-2
00:51:44.961 --> 00:51:49.362
<v Charles Wesley>prevent you from doing something.
A policy control is really articulating</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2918-3
00:51:49.362 --> 00:51:54.180
<v Charles Wesley>that it is the policy of the library to
only share information appropriately and</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2918-4
00:51:54.180 --> 00:51:57.986
<v Charles Wesley>just make it really clear for folks kind
of what the rules are.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2918-5
00:51:57.986 --> 00:51:59.473
<v Charles Wesley>So a technical control is</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2922-0
00:51:59.713 --> 00:52:02.913
<v Charles Wesley>an enforcement mechanism of a policy.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2971-0
00:52:03.953 --> 00:52:08.106
<v Charles Wesley>Historically,
the library has addressed a lot of these</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2971-1
00:52:08.106 --> 00:52:13.468
<v Charles Wesley>issues across multiple policies,
the student or the employee handbook,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2971-2
00:52:13.468 --> 00:52:18.904
<v Charles Wesley>and then there's also the broader
acceptable use policy that applies to</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2971-3
00:52:18.904 --> 00:52:23.209
<v Charles Wesley>city staff generally.
But as we have been increasing our</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/2971-4
00:52:23.209 --> 00:52:27.513
<v Charles Wesley>maturity around some of the technical
controls, having a</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3012-0
00:52:27.913 --> 00:52:32.910
<v Charles Wesley>dedicated library specific staff
acceptable use policy that clearly</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3012-1
00:52:32.910 --> 00:52:38.496
<v Charles Wesley>articulates all of these things in one
place is a logical next step just to</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3012-2
00:52:38.496 --> 00:52:43.126
<v Charles Wesley>provide more clarity.
So our intent really is to is to provide</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3012-3
00:52:43.126 --> 00:52:46.433
<v Charles Wesley>that in a policy that then can make it
just.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3064-0
00:52:47.473 --> 00:52:52.638
<v Charles Wesley>more clear and easy to understand for
staff what the expectations are,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3064-1
00:52:52.638 --> 00:52:58.167
<v Charles Wesley>both in terms of how they can operate
safely and within the policy and some</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3064-2
00:52:58.167 --> 00:53:03.987
<v Charles Wesley>specific examples of things or uses of
technology that fall outside of approved</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3064-3
00:53:03.987 --> 00:53:07.188
<v Charles Wesley>uses.
So a little further down in the memo,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3064-4
00:53:07.188 --> 00:53:09.953
<v Charles Wesley>I list a couple of kind of categories.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3105-0
00:53:11.073 --> 00:53:16.095
<v Charles Wesley>That would fall into that.
So it has everything related to who the</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3105-1
00:53:16.095 --> 00:53:20.518
<v Charles Wesley>policy applies to.
So that's a really key foundational one</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3105-2
00:53:20.518 --> 00:53:25.541
<v Charles Wesley>that this is about staff use.
A future policy around patron use of</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3105-3
00:53:25.541 --> 00:53:30.638
<v Charles Wesley>technology will be coming,
but this is just going to focus on staff</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3105-4
00:53:30.638 --> 00:53:31.313
<v Charles Wesley>to start.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3151-0
00:53:32.433 --> 00:53:36.942
<v Charles Wesley>And it will talk about how technology
resources can be used,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3151-1
00:53:36.942 --> 00:53:40.416
<v Charles Wesley>how library information can be used or
shared,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3151-2
00:53:40.416 --> 00:53:44.998
<v Charles Wesley>particularly confidential information
about patrons or staff,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3151-3
00:53:44.998 --> 00:53:50.320
<v Charles Wesley>how we're going to monitor systems for
unauthorized or compromised use.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3151-4
00:53:50.320 --> 00:53:52.833
<v Charles Wesley>So detect is one of the pillars in</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3192-0
00:53:53.553 --> 00:53:59.108
<v Charles Wesley>the NIST CSF and so being able to detect
an attack requires that you be looking</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3192-1
00:53:59.108 --> 00:54:04.178
<v Charles Wesley>for monitoring unusual activity.
So it will talk about how that is going</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3192-2
00:54:04.178 --> 00:54:07.720
<v Charles Wesley>to work.
It'll talk a little bit about how devices</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3192-3
00:54:07.720 --> 00:54:12.511
<v Charles Wesley>are used, so library issues, laptops,
phones, those types of things.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3192-4
00:54:12.511 --> 00:54:13.553
<v Charles Wesley>So it will set.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3227-0
00:54:13.953 --> 00:54:20.706
<v Charles Wesley>expectations around how those should be
used and also about how, you know,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3227-1
00:54:20.706 --> 00:54:27.370
<v Charles Wesley>staff will have an expectation to not
circumvent or otherwise kind of get</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3227-2
00:54:27.370 --> 00:54:33.313
<v Charles Wesley>around these types of controls.
So more to come in the subsequent</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3272-0
00:54:34.273 --> 00:54:37.149
<v Charles Wesley>weeks and months as we put this policy
together.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3272-1
00:54:37.149 --> 00:54:41.845
<v Charles Wesley>But that's really where we're coming from.
The other primary thing I would just</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3272-2
00:54:41.845 --> 00:54:45.249
<v Charles Wesley>highlight is that the policy will be at
the policy level,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3272-3
00:54:45.249 --> 00:54:48.478
<v Charles Wesley>and there will be a companion acceptable
use standard,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3272-4
00:54:48.478 --> 00:54:51.237
<v Charles Wesley>which will have a lot more operational
detail.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3272-5
00:54:51.237 --> 00:54:54.113
<v Charles Wesley>And the intent is that the policy will
establish</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3333-0
00:54:55.153 --> 00:54:58.817
<v Charles Wesley>the priorities and kind of main
objectives of technology use,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3333-1
00:54:58.817 --> 00:55:03.486
<v Charles Wesley>and then the standard will get into much
more granular detail that will evolve</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3333-2
00:55:03.486 --> 00:55:08.096
<v Charles Wesley>over time as our tools and systems change.
So those level of details would be</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3333-3
00:55:08.096 --> 00:55:12.174
<v Charles Wesley>delegated to the standard,
and all of those changes wouldn't have to</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3333-4
00:55:12.174 --> 00:55:15.779
<v Charles Wesley>come back to this group,
but the policy would really set the</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3333-5
00:55:15.779 --> 00:55:16.193
<v Charles Wesley>policy.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3337-0
00:55:17.153 --> 00:55:19.953
<v Charles Wesley>guardrails that everything else would
operate within.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3338-0
00:55:21.833 --> 00:55:22.033
<v Charles Wesley>Um...</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3367-0
00:55:23.353 --> 00:55:26.034
<v Charles Wesley>I'll pause there.
I think that kind of covers the broad</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3367-1
00:55:26.034 --> 00:55:28.620
<v Charles Wesley>gist of it.
But if you have any comments or questions</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3367-2
00:55:28.620 --> 00:55:31.492
<v Charles Wesley>or anything I can elaborate on,
I'm happy to do so. Or Rob,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3367-3
00:55:31.492 --> 00:55:32.833
<v Charles Wesley>if you have anything to add.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3370-0
00:55:36.433 --> 00:55:37.873
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Rob anything from you.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3382-0
00:55:39.073 --> 00:55:42.370
<v Rob Gannon>I have nothing to add at this point,
but I'm happy to also answer questions if</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3382-1
00:55:42.370 --> 00:55:42.913
<v Rob Gannon>they come up.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3389-0
00:55:43.713 --> 00:55:48.113
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Great. Colleagues,
what questions do you have?</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3392-0
00:55:51.953 --> 00:55:52.913
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay, I can start.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3432-0
00:55:55.873 --> 00:56:03.219
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So the idea of limited personal use is
one that when I worked for the budget</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3432-1
00:56:03.219 --> 00:56:07.989
<v Yazmin Mehdi>office,
I was part of a data processing standards</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3432-2
00:56:07.989 --> 00:56:12.377
<v Yazmin Mehdi>team,
and that was the language that we used.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3432-3
00:56:12.377 --> 00:56:14.953
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And so that elicited for me</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3482-0
00:56:16.233 --> 00:56:20.407
<v Yazmin Mehdi>What, I'm assuming, Charles and Rob,
that you're looking at whatever</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3482-1
00:56:20.407 --> 00:56:25.427
<v Yazmin Mehdi>equivalent policy the city has for this
topic. Great. Okay, I just saw a head nod.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3482-2
00:56:25.427 --> 00:56:29.177
<v Yazmin Mehdi>That's all I need. Yeah,
as I read through your draft policy,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3482-3
00:56:29.177 --> 00:56:32.807
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I was like, well, wait,
what's the standard? And of course,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3482-4
00:56:32.807 --> 00:56:36.073
<v Yazmin Mehdi>what you're saying is you haven't
developed that yet.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3520-0
00:56:36.273 --> 00:56:43.120
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So that will be interesting for us to
look at. But I hear what you just said,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3520-1
00:56:43.120 --> 00:56:48.298
<v Yazmin Mehdi>which is that the board needs to look at
the policy level.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3520-2
00:56:48.298 --> 00:56:55.233
<v Yazmin Mehdi>The standard itself will be set at the
staff level. Is that right? Okay. Okay.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3515-0
00:56:53.713 --> 00:56:54.353
<v Charles Wesley>Correct.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3562-0
00:56:56.833 --> 00:57:01.290
<v Yazmin Mehdi>The other thing,
a couple of sections that I highlighted,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3562-1
00:57:01.290 --> 00:57:05.669
<v Yazmin Mehdi>which I'll just,
we don't have to necessarily talk about</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3562-2
00:57:05.669 --> 00:57:09.358
<v Yazmin Mehdi>it here,
but I'll be curious when you come back</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3562-3
00:57:09.358 --> 00:57:15.658
<v Yazmin Mehdi>with a final version for you to talk more
about this no reasonable expectation of</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3562-4
00:57:15.658 --> 00:57:16.273
<v Yazmin Mehdi>privacy.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3557-0
00:57:16.593 --> 00:57:17.233
<v Charles Wesley>Mhm.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3601-0
00:57:16.673 --> 00:57:23.362
<v Yazmin Mehdi>That is definitely language that I recall
from when I worked for the city that no</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3601-1
00:57:23.362 --> 00:57:29.643
<v Yazmin Mehdi>one should have an expectation of privacy.
But, you know, I'm curious, like,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3601-2
00:57:29.643 --> 00:57:34.048
<v Yazmin Mehdi>has that language been updated in any way?
And again,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3601-3
00:57:34.048 --> 00:57:37.393
<v Yazmin Mehdi>you don't have to answer it now, Charles.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3602-0
00:57:37.713 --> 00:57:38.433
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Um...</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3649-0
00:57:40.113 --> 00:57:44.394
<v Yazmin Mehdi>The other thing that I wanted to
underscore is this point about</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3649-1
00:57:44.394 --> 00:57:47.939
<v Yazmin Mehdi>confidentiality,
that employees should be aware that</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3649-2
00:57:47.939 --> 00:57:52.821
<v Yazmin Mehdi>significant categories of information
held by the library about them are</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3649-3
00:57:52.821 --> 00:57:56.834
<v Yazmin Mehdi>legally exempt from disclosure under the
Public Record Act,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3649-4
00:57:56.834 --> 00:58:00.513
<v Yazmin Mehdi>including personnel records and financial
information.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3687-0
00:58:00.913 --> 00:58:07.453
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So library employees should feel
confident that the Public Record Act does</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3687-1
00:58:07.453 --> 00:58:11.464
<v Yazmin Mehdi>allow that to be exempt,
that kind of detail.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3687-2
00:58:11.464 --> 00:58:18.353
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And then the other thing I would just
suggest for future when you come back is</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3710-0
00:58:19.873 --> 00:58:23.691
<v Yazmin Mehdi>As you,
like when I looked at the smartphone and</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3710-1
00:58:23.691 --> 00:58:27.899
<v Yazmin Mehdi>mobile device section, could you,
when you come back,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3710-2
00:58:27.899 --> 00:58:31.873
<v Yazmin Mehdi>share instances of problematic uses from
the past?</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3734-0
00:58:34.273 --> 00:58:40.524
<v Yazmin Mehdi>to test the policy and make sure that the
policy is covering those problematic uses.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3722-0
00:58:39.873 --> 00:58:40.353
<v Charles Wesley>Mhm.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3734-1
00:58:40.524 --> 00:58:46.113
<v Yazmin Mehdi>That would be that would be helpful to me.
And then the other thing that...</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3774-0
00:58:47.073 --> 00:58:52.234
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Under specific prohibitions and
limitations, the first two items are,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3774-1
00:58:52.234 --> 00:58:55.331
<v Yazmin Mehdi>you know,
the library expressly prohibits</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3774-2
00:58:55.331 --> 00:59:01.451
<v Yazmin Mehdi>activities including, but not limited to,
one, conducting a private business, two,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3774-3
00:59:01.451 --> 00:59:03.073
<v Yazmin Mehdi>political campaigning.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3819-0
00:59:04.153 --> 00:59:09.021
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And like part of me is like,
I hope this isn't the first policy that</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3819-1
00:59:09.021 --> 00:59:12.548
<v Yazmin Mehdi>these two things are listed in.
Because in a way,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3819-2
00:59:12.548 --> 00:59:17.487
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I hope it's self-evident to library
employees that they should not be</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3819-3
00:59:17.487 --> 00:59:22.355
<v Yazmin Mehdi>conducting a private business or
politically campaigning. So anyway,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3819-4
00:59:22.355 --> 00:59:25.953
<v Yazmin Mehdi>that's a curiosity.
I'm kind of hoping that's not.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3827-0
00:59:26.033 --> 00:59:31.953
<v Yazmin Mehdi>This is not the first policy where those
two things expressly prohibited appear.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3872-0
00:59:33.233 --> 00:59:36.316
<v Charles Wesley>Thank you.
I've taken notes on all of those and we</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3872-1
00:59:36.316 --> 00:59:40.486
<v Charles Wesley>will definitely address those in a future
meeting. Our intent is to,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3872-2
00:59:40.486 --> 00:59:44.838
<v Charles Wesley>so we are collecting some internal
feedback as well on that draft and I</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3872-3
00:59:44.838 --> 00:59:49.190
<v Charles Wesley>expect that we'll be able to share that
draft in the next board packet.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3872-4
00:59:49.190 --> 00:59:52.273
<v Charles Wesley>Just a couple of super high level
comments. We are</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3918-0
00:59:53.033 --> 00:59:57.618
<v Charles Wesley>aligning our draft policy with both the
city policy and just generally best</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3918-1
00:59:57.618 --> 01:00:00.574
<v Charles Wesley>practices.
So some of the things that you'll see</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3918-2
01:00:00.574 --> 01:00:05.520
<v Charles Wesley>will look familiar because they kind of
are standard. And as I mentioned earlier,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3918-3
01:00:05.520 --> 01:00:09.080
<v Charles Wesley>other policies or like the employee
handbook, for example,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3918-4
01:00:09.080 --> 01:00:11.553
<v Charles Wesley>touch on some of these. So in most cases,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3977-0
01:00:11.953 --> 01:00:16.547
<v Charles Wesley>there likely is some language somewhere
that speaks to that. So in some cases,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3977-1
01:00:16.547 --> 01:00:21.142
<v Charles Wesley>we're just consolidating things that are
already said in other places into one</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3977-2
01:00:21.142 --> 01:00:23.759
<v Charles Wesley>place.
So you can kind of do a top to bottom</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3977-3
01:00:23.759 --> 01:00:26.201
<v Charles Wesley>look.
And for other things like political</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3977-4
01:00:26.201 --> 01:00:30.156
<v Charles Wesley>campaigning, for example,
coming up into the levy season, you know,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3977-5
01:00:30.156 --> 01:00:34.866
<v Charles Wesley>the city folks have come to the library
to remind folks about what is and is not</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/3977-6
01:00:34.866 --> 01:00:36.553
<v Charles Wesley>permissible. So I think there</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4015-0
01:00:36.553 --> 01:00:41.219
<v Charles Wesley>There is information about that generally
available to folks, but again,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4015-1
01:00:41.219 --> 01:00:45.502
<v Charles Wesley>just explicitly and clearly stating it in
the policy. So that way,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4015-2
01:00:45.502 --> 01:00:50.807
<v Charles Wesley>there's no confusion or misunderstandings
around how these things apply as part of</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4015-3
01:00:50.807 --> 01:00:54.067
<v Charles Wesley>the intent.
But there will be some things that are</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4008-0
01:00:53.433 --> 01:00:53.553
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4015-4
01:00:54.067 --> 01:00:55.473
<v Charles Wesley>new in the policy that</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4032-0
01:00:55.633 --> 01:00:59.039
<v Charles Wesley>you know,
maybe are more specific than has ever</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4032-1
01:00:59.039 --> 01:01:03.793
<v Charles Wesley>been previously commented on.
So there'll be a mix of new and old.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4068-0
01:01:04.593 --> 01:01:08.001
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And that makes perfect sense to me,
Charles.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4068-1
01:01:08.001 --> 01:01:14.212
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Like you wouldn't be bringing us a policy
that had nothing new because what would</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4047-0
01:01:12.113 --> 01:01:12.433
<v Charles Wesley>Yeah.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4068-2
01:01:14.212 --> 01:01:17.999
<v Yazmin Mehdi>be the point?
But one thing that might be useful,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4068-3
01:01:17.999 --> 01:01:23.073
<v Yazmin Mehdi>just so that in the probably completely
impossible situation where</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4102-0
01:01:23.153 --> 01:01:26.918
<v Yazmin Mehdi>a member of the public is reading this
policy and saying, wait,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4086-0
01:01:26.713 --> 01:01:26.913
<v Charles Wesley>Mm.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4102-1
01:01:26.918 --> 01:01:31.624
<v Yazmin Mehdi>is this the only place where it tells
employees they can't do these two things?</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4102-2
01:01:31.624 --> 01:01:35.153
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Maybe you could just cross-reference the
employee handbook.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4090-0
01:01:31.993 --> 01:01:32.193
<v Charles Wesley>Mm.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4098-0
01:01:35.633 --> 01:01:36.033
<v Charles Wesley>Yep.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4107-0
01:01:36.033 --> 01:01:38.513
<v Yazmin Mehdi>as a way for people to understand.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4151-0
01:01:38.993 --> 01:01:43.072
<v Tom Fay>Yeah, and there are some other areas too.
There's the city's ethics policy,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4151-1
01:01:43.072 --> 01:01:46.507
<v Tom Fay>which talks about some of these things
around campaigning, etc.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4151-2
01:01:46.507 --> 01:01:50.479
<v Tom Fay>So there are multiples in here,
and we'll make sure they're referenced in</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4134-0
01:01:50.273 --> 01:01:51.313
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah, and sorry.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4151-3
01:01:50.479 --> 01:01:54.558
<v Tom Fay>the document. Some of them already,
some of them already are other areas in</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4151-4
01:01:54.558 --> 01:01:55.793
<v Tom Fay>the library's policies.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4191-0
01:01:56.513 --> 01:02:01.658
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay, and then the, sorry,
I did have one more thing and then I saw</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4191-1
01:02:01.658 --> 01:02:05.062
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Faith.
The section about potential conflicts</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4191-2
01:02:05.062 --> 01:02:11.342
<v Yazmin Mehdi>with the collective bargaining agreement,
I'll just be curious to know if you have</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4191-3
01:02:11.342 --> 01:02:16.033
<v Yazmin Mehdi>an example of that where the CBA would
supersede this policy.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4189-0
01:02:17.233 --> 01:02:17.713
<v Charles Wesley>Okay.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4212-0
01:02:17.473 --> 01:02:22.113
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So if you would just think about that and
come back, and maybe you don't have any,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4212-1
01:02:22.113 --> 01:02:26.251
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and it's just important to have this
language, but I'm just, I'm curious.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4212-2
01:02:26.251 --> 01:02:27.313
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Faith, over to you.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4260-0
01:02:28.033 --> 01:02:30.292
<v Faith Pettis>Yeah,
and this one also isn't for answering</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4260-1
01:02:30.292 --> 01:02:32.911
<v Faith Pettis>right now.
It's just that as we're working through</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4221-0
01:02:31.953 --> 01:02:32.273
<v Tom Fay>Pass.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4260-2
01:02:32.911 --> 01:02:36.454
<v Faith Pettis>this and thinking about it,
I would love to see the patron policy as</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4260-3
01:02:36.454 --> 01:02:40.099
<v Faith Pettis>a side, kind of a side by side,
just to see where the differences are.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4260-4
01:02:40.099 --> 01:02:43.129
<v Faith Pettis>So for my own education,
I know it was referenced in here,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4260-5
01:02:43.129 --> 01:02:45.953
<v Faith Pettis>but if someone could send it out,
that would be great.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4259-0
01:02:48.593 --> 01:02:48.913
<v Charles Wesley>Kate.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4275-0
01:02:51.233 --> 01:02:55.616
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And I think you said that you're
expecting to develop that after this</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4264-0
01:02:51.553 --> 01:02:51.873
<v Charles Wesley>Good.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4275-1
01:02:55.616 --> 01:02:56.993
<v Yazmin Mehdi>policy. Is that right?</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4317-0
01:02:57.633 --> 01:03:03.449
<v Charles Wesley>So yeah, there are some existing,
like the end user agreement type things</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4317-1
01:03:03.449 --> 01:03:09.579
<v Charles Wesley>that speak to like what patrons can do,
but what we would be bringing forward</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4317-2
01:03:09.579 --> 01:03:16.102
<v Charles Wesley>again would be a more complete policy so
that it wouldn't be kind of spread across</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4317-3
01:03:16.102 --> 01:03:17.753
<v Charles Wesley>a couple of different</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4351-0
01:03:18.593 --> 01:03:22.219
<v Charles Wesley>area.
So I can definitely supply what we have</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4351-1
01:03:22.219 --> 01:03:27.343
<v Charles Wesley>existing around what patrons expectations
around technology are,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4351-2
01:03:27.343 --> 01:03:33.414
<v Charles Wesley>and that that will inform the patron
policy. I can just say at a high level,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4351-3
01:03:33.414 --> 01:03:37.513
<v Charles Wesley>the primary distinction between the two
is that the</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4391-0
01:03:39.153 --> 01:03:43.434
<v Charles Wesley>commitment to, you know,
privacy and intellectual freedom for</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4391-1
01:03:43.434 --> 01:03:48.475
<v Charles Wesley>patrons is a core function of the library,
and that is distinct from the</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4391-2
01:03:48.475 --> 01:03:53.584
<v Charles Wesley>expectations of someone who works at the
library, and they are different.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4391-3
01:03:53.584 --> 01:03:57.313
<v Charles Wesley>And so ensuring that we're making it
clear around how</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4432-0
01:03:57.713 --> 01:04:01.384
<v Charles Wesley>those two uses differ,
those two types of user differ.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4432-1
01:04:01.384 --> 01:04:06.591
<v Charles Wesley>And then also on the patron side, again,
going back to our security controls,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4432-2
01:04:06.591 --> 01:04:11.130
<v Charles Wesley>circumventing, you know,
cybersecurity controls or using, you know,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4432-3
01:04:11.130 --> 01:04:15.002
<v Charles Wesley>technology for, you know,
hacking or something like that.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4432-4
01:04:15.002 --> 01:04:18.273
<v Charles Wesley>Those are types of things that would be
in both.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4434-0
01:04:18.833 --> 01:04:19.313
<v Charles Wesley>So...</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4435-0
01:04:20.433 --> 01:04:21.633
<v Faith Pettis>That's really helpful. Thank you.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4436-0
01:04:22.033 --> 01:04:22.633
<v Charles Wesley>Mm-hmm.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4445-0
01:04:24.193 --> 01:04:27.553
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay,
any final questions for Charles or Rob?</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4465-0
01:04:29.953 --> 01:04:35.066
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay, seeing none, Charles and Rob,
thanks again for remarkable work.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4465-1
01:04:35.066 --> 01:04:40.033
<v Yazmin Mehdi>You guys get a lot done in your work day.
We really appreciate you.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4466-0
01:04:41.393 --> 01:04:41.873
<v Charles Wesley>Thank you all.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4507-0
01:04:44.513 --> 01:04:50.364
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay, so going on,
normally we would bring Jesse Lucas in to</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4507-1
01:04:50.364 --> 01:04:57.079
<v Yazmin Mehdi>talk to us about her union report.
Jesse is on vacation and sends her</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4507-2
01:04:57.079 --> 01:05:02.162
<v Yazmin Mehdi>regrets. So,
and her backups from the union are also</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4507-3
01:05:02.162 --> 01:05:03.793
<v Yazmin Mehdi>unable to attend.</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4547-0
01:05:04.193 --> 01:05:10.496
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So Jesse's report will stand as written.
I'd just like to note that it was really</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4547-1
01:05:10.496 --> 01:05:16.031
<v Yazmin Mehdi>wonderful to hire that, you know,
things seem like they're on an upward</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4547-2
01:05:16.031 --> 01:05:20.874
<v Yazmin Mehdi>trajectory in terms of working with the
union. And I'm really,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4547-3
01:05:20.874 --> 01:05:22.873
<v Yazmin Mehdi>really happy to hire that.</v>

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01:05:23.553 --> 01:05:29.423
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And then next we would have reports from
the foundation and the friends.</v>

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01:05:29.423 --> 01:05:34.730
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I know there was no foundation meeting in
the last month. So Ron,</v>

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01:05:34.730 --> 01:05:39.313
<v Yazmin Mehdi>you're not nodding,
but I'm assuming that's right. Okay.</v>

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01:05:37.953 --> 01:05:41.708
<v Ron Chew>Yeah, yeah,
there was there was no meeting.</v>

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01:05:41.708 --> 01:05:48.449
<v Ron Chew>I just did want to mention I had a great
coffee discussion with Sarah Stanley,</v>

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01:05:48.449 --> 01:05:55.105
<v Ron Chew>who was head of the foundation board and
we talked very optimistically about,</v>

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01:05:55.105 --> 01:05:55.873
<v Ron Chew>you know,</v>

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01:05:56.433 --> 01:06:01.662
<v Ron Chew>efforts to recruit new board members to
increase the diversity,</v>

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01:05:57.793 --> 01:05:58.113
<v Tom Fay>S.</v>

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01:06:01.662 --> 01:06:07.791
<v Ron Chew>and then to pair fundraising efforts with
obviously the levy bond measure,</v>

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01:06:07.791 --> 01:06:12.693
<v Ron Chew>assuming that passes,
so they have momentum on both fronts.</v>

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01:06:12.693 --> 01:06:15.553
<v Ron Chew>Resources come from both fronts. So</v>

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01:06:16.113 --> 01:06:17.153
<v Ron Chew>It was fun, yeah.</v>

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01:06:18.353 --> 01:06:23.922
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Great. So even on an off month, Ron,
you're off meeting with foundation</v>

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01:06:23.922 --> 01:06:30.033
<v Yazmin Mehdi>members. I love to hear that. Faith,
over to you on a report from the Friends.</v>

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01:06:26.193 --> 01:06:26.273
<v Ron Chew>Kai.</v>

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01:06:30.033 --> 01:06:34.796
<v Faith Pettis>Yes, happy to report.
And our friends at the Friends are busy</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4712-1
01:06:34.796 --> 01:06:38.561
<v Faith Pettis>as usual.
They attended the Seattle Storms Black</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4712-2
01:06:38.561 --> 01:06:43.708
<v Faith Pettis>Excellence Game on Friday,
June 12th and gave away 500 tri-branded</v>

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01:06:43.708 --> 01:06:49.393
<v Faith Pettis>totes in 50 minutes to game attendees.
So they really enjoyed doing that.</v>

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01:06:46.593 --> 01:06:47.153
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Wow.</v>

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01:06:49.953 --> 01:06:53.631
<v Faith Pettis>And then at the end of June,
they also had a couple of events,</v>

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01:06:53.631 --> 01:06:57.601
<v Faith Pettis>one passed and one to come.
They did the Juneteenth celebrations at</v>

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01:06:57.601 --> 01:07:00.462
<v Faith Pettis>Jenkins Park,
and then they're doing their pride</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4762-3
01:07:00.462 --> 01:07:04.666
<v Faith Pettis>celebrations on Capitol Hill.
Those are their two biggest events of the</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4762-4
01:07:04.666 --> 01:07:07.293
<v Faith Pettis>year.
They expect in total to give away 2000</v>

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01:07:07.293 --> 01:07:10.913
<v Faith Pettis>totes and 2000 books at those two events,
which is fantastic.</v>

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01:07:12.233 --> 01:07:17.738
<v Faith Pettis>The other thing they raised is they do
have board positions coming up and there</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4798-1
01:07:17.738 --> 01:07:21.867
<v Faith Pettis>are four open positions that will be
available in the fall.</v>

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01:07:21.867 --> 01:07:26.890
<v Faith Pettis>So they are seeking board members and
applications are on their website.</v>

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01:07:26.890 --> 01:07:30.193
<v Faith Pettis>So round up your friends.
And then finally, the</v>

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01:07:30.353 --> 01:07:35.293
<v Faith Pettis>Next board meeting on July 21st will be
held in person in Ballard following the</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4825-1
01:07:35.293 --> 01:07:39.615
<v Faith Pettis>foundation event that I think is
happening at the Rubens Brews there.</v>

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01:07:39.615 --> 01:07:43.073
<v Faith Pettis>So I'm looking forward to attending that
one in person.</v>

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01:07:44.993 --> 01:07:45.473
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Wow.</v>

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01:07:44.993 --> 01:07:45.633
<v Faith Pettis>All I've got.</v>

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01:07:46.513 --> 01:07:52.221
<v Yazmin Mehdi>That's so great. In-person meetings,
post-pandemic. Yay. Something we,</v>

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01:07:48.913 --> 01:07:50.113
<v Faith Pettis>Yeah, right.</v>

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01:07:52.221 --> 01:07:56.401
<v Yazmin Mehdi>by the way,
are considering for the not too distant</v>

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01:07:56.401 --> 01:08:02.430
<v Yazmin Mehdi>future. So stay tuned, board members.
Any other updates from library board</v>

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01:08:02.430 --> 01:08:03.073
<v Yazmin Mehdi>members?</v>

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01:08:06.513 --> 01:08:07.393
<v Ron Chew>Can I?</v>

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01:08:08.673 --> 01:08:12.536
<v Ron Chew>Just mentioned,
I was in Spokane and I mentioned this to</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4901-1
01:08:12.536 --> 01:08:15.856
<v Ron Chew>Tom already,
meeting with his counterpart at the</v>

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01:08:15.856 --> 01:08:21.277
<v Ron Chew>Spokane Public Library. And by the way,
he has such high regard for Tom and all</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4901-3
01:08:21.277 --> 01:08:24.462
<v Ron Chew>of his work.
Seems like every library I go to,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4901-4
01:08:24.462 --> 01:08:25.953
<v Ron Chew>Tom is sort of like...</v>

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01:08:26.993 --> 01:08:31.820
<v Ron Chew>The subject of our conversation for the
first five, 10 minutes,</v>

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01:08:31.820 --> 01:08:34.913
<v Ron Chew>and then the rest is the other stuff. But</v>

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01:08:36.513 --> 01:08:40.339
<v Ron Chew>I was there for ARP meeting,
Spokane chapter,</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/4951-1
01:08:40.339 --> 01:08:45.495
<v Ron Chew>and I visited the library.
They're doing amazing stuff there.</v>

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01:08:45.495 --> 01:08:51.983
<v Ron Chew>But part of the conversation was around
this issue of the immaterial pricing.</v>

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01:08:51.983 --> 01:08:55.393
<v Ron Chew>I've been looped into a friend of mine is</v>

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01:08:56.513 --> 01:09:01.367
<v Ron Chew>who Tom knows well, Jenny Pugh,
she's director of the Hoboken Public</v>

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01:09:01.367 --> 01:09:04.955
<v Ron Chew>Library,
and she's been on this task force looking</v>

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01:09:04.955 --> 01:09:08.472
<v Ron Chew>at that whole issue of e-book,
audiobook pricing,</v>

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01:09:08.472 --> 01:09:12.201
<v Ron Chew>which I know has come up many times at
our meetings.</v>

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01:09:12.201 --> 01:09:14.593
<v Ron Chew>So what I'm trying to do actually,</v>

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01:09:14.993 --> 01:09:19.440
<v Ron Chew>with ARP and we've got support from the
state ARP,</v>

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01:09:19.440 --> 01:09:26.330
<v Ron Chew>we're trying to bring it to a national
level that we can be an ally in pushing</v>

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01:09:26.330 --> 01:09:33.481
<v Ron Chew>for this because it affects older adults
who it increases their ability to access</v>

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01:09:33.481 --> 01:09:34.353
<v Ron Chew>materials.</v>

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01:09:36.033 --> 01:09:37.313
<v Ron Chew>And so.</v>

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01:09:38.513 --> 01:09:42.894
<v Ron Chew>I'm hopeful that we can hopefully be
allies,</v>

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01:09:42.894 --> 01:09:50.489
<v Ron Chew>ALA and then AARP at some juncture.
I have some national conversations coming</v>

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01:09:50.489 --> 01:09:51.073
<v Ron Chew>up. So</v>

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01:09:52.313 --> 01:09:58.422
<v Ron Chew>Appreciate Tom bringing this up at all of
our meetings and the financial impact</v>

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01:09:58.422 --> 01:10:01.553
<v Ron Chew>because it's huge. So just to share that.</v>

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01:10:01.953 --> 01:10:04.689
<v Tom Fay>Yeah, and thanks, Ron.
I'm glad you brought it up.</v>

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01:10:04.689 --> 01:10:08.338
<v Tom Fay>It's one of the things I'll be talking
about when I go back to ALA.</v>

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01:10:08.338 --> 01:10:10.913
<v Tom Fay>I'm meeting with Steve Potash,
who's now the...</v>

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01:10:12.993 --> 01:10:16.293
<v Tom Fay>President of the board of directors for
OverDrive.</v>

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01:10:16.293 --> 01:10:19.205
<v Tom Fay>There'll be a new CEO was announced as
well.</v>

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01:10:19.205 --> 01:10:24.252
<v Tom Fay>We'll be meeting with them at ALA and
they've just announced some things that</v>

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01:10:24.252 --> 01:10:28.264
<v Tom Fay>are going to be some,
hopefully some positive changes with at</v>

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01:10:28.264 --> 01:10:32.728
<v Tom Fay>least two of the big five.
So more to come on that after I have some</v>

41cc7402-cacf-4c77-b9b4-17c01d0b117b/5136-5
01:10:32.728 --> 01:10:37.193
<v Tom Fay>discussions back in Chicago.
Jenny has been doing a great job as you</v>

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01:10:37.273 --> 01:10:40.661
<v Tom Fay>ULC and really pushing and promoting this,
PLA as well.</v>

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01:10:40.661 --> 01:10:44.714
<v Tom Fay>So a lot of folks working on it.
I know there's been a lot of work</v>

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01:10:44.714 --> 01:10:48.404
<v Tom Fay>individually at various state levels.
And I think, you know,</v>

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01:10:48.404 --> 01:10:53.183
<v Tom Fay>one of the things we've been focused on
at ULC is that this really has to have</v>

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01:10:53.183 --> 01:10:56.873
<v Tom Fay>national push. State efforts are good.
It stirs up the nest.</v>

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01:10:57.153 --> 01:11:02.016
<v Tom Fay>so to speak, but at the end of the day,
it needs to be something that is covering</v>

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01:11:02.016 --> 01:11:06.049
<v Tom Fay>the entire country, not just pockets.
So as I get more information,</v>

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01:11:06.049 --> 01:11:10.913
<v Tom Fay>I'll be happy to share all that with you,
but some positive steps here this week.</v>

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01:11:11.473 --> 01:11:17.261
<v Ron Chew>Yeah, and I might just add,
I have a meeting with the AARP National</v>

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01:11:17.261 --> 01:11:21.602
<v Ron Chew>Advocacy and Policy person in about a
week or two.</v>

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01:11:21.602 --> 01:11:26.880
<v Ron Chew>And they have a pretty set agenda in
terms of top priorities.</v>

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01:11:26.880 --> 01:11:32.753
<v Ron Chew>So my state director says,
we've got it up the chain now. So there's</v>

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01:11:33.073 --> 01:11:38.850
<v Ron Chew>possibility it can be added to, you know,
the docket in terms of, you know, privacy,</v>

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01:11:38.850 --> 01:11:41.976
<v Ron Chew>very insurance,
Social Security and Medicare,</v>

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01:11:41.976 --> 01:11:46.054
<v Ron Chew>family caregiver,
but if we can push that up to that level,</v>

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01:11:46.054 --> 01:11:47.073
<v Ron Chew>it'll be great.</v>

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01:11:48.353 --> 01:11:49.633
<v Tom Fay>Absolutely. Thank you.</v>

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01:11:50.193 --> 01:11:51.073
<v Ron Chew>Yeah, thank you.</v>

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01:11:50.433 --> 01:11:56.283
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah, Ron, that's astounding.
It would be wonderful to have AARP's help</v>

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01:11:56.283 --> 01:12:01.077
<v Yazmin Mehdi>with this. And, you know,
another opportunity here to say,</v>

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01:12:01.077 --> 01:12:05.708
<v Yazmin Mehdi>as you noted,
Tom is well regarded among his colleagues,</v>

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01:12:05.708 --> 01:12:11.233
<v Yazmin Mehdi>but like this work that Tom is doing will
have a nationwide impact.</v>

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01:12:12.673 --> 01:12:17.359
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And again, it's not just Tom, it's Tom,
it's Kiersten, it's Rick.</v>

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01:12:17.359 --> 01:12:20.696
<v Yazmin Mehdi>But this is going to have a nationwide
impact.</v>

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01:12:20.696 --> 01:12:26.660
<v Yazmin Mehdi>It will help people across the country if
libraries don't have to pay three to five</v>

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01:12:24.553 --> 01:12:24.713
<v Tom Fay>Okay.</v>

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01:12:26.660 --> 01:12:29.713
<v Yazmin Mehdi>times more for e-books and audiobooks.
And</v>

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01:12:30.113 --> 01:12:35.578
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I just want to note, because in an old,
older board meeting,</v>

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01:12:35.578 --> 01:12:41.311
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I poo-pooed audio books.
And I just want to say that recently I</v>

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01:12:41.311 --> 01:12:47.941
<v Yazmin Mehdi>have been checking out audio books,
forcing myself to say whether or not,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>why I was poo-pooing them in the past.
And</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>I have like doubled my intake of books,
thanks to audio books. Yes,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>my colleagues are nodding their heads and
saying, yes, where have you been?</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Because they're wonderful.
Like I just read a memoir that was,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>it still feels weird to say read,
but anyway, I read a memoir that was</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>narrated by the author,
and you just get these nuances from the</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>author reading that you don't get if
you're looking at the printed book.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>I'll never give up my printed books,
but yeah, audiobooks are wonderful,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>and I'm sure e-books as well.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Yeah.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Yeah, thanks, Brad. And I, you know,
I did a podcast recently and it was a</v>

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<v Tom Fay>younger group of podcasters,
and they wanted me to settle their bet</v>

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<v Tom Fay>about e-audio versus what they call
traditional reading. And I said, no,</v>

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<v Tom Fay>it's reading. And I think for folks,</v>

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<v Tom Fay>It really does provide an all abilities
approach to reading,</v>

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<v Tom Fay>which I think most people can appreciate
and have being someone right now that's</v>

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<v Tom Fay>listening to one that's a very complex
science fiction book,</v>

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<v Tom Fay>I can assure you I have a whole different
level of focus.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>And I think those are the things too.
It brings in different</v>

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<v Tom Fay>census to the equation and the experience
of reading and activates the mind in a</v>

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<v Tom Fay>different way.
So a lot of positives with the audio as</v>

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<v Tom Fay>well.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah, absolutely.
I have a friend who listens to audio</v>

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<v Ron Chew>And.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>books on twice or three times speed.
She discovered this as a 40 something</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>year old and like astounding much.
She has a superpower.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>I do not have that superpower.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Anyway, sorry, we digress.
We go on and on about audio books.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>But Ron,
really wonderful to have AARP's help on</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>that.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Do I have any other comments or updates
for my colleagues?</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>In which case,
it is now 1216 and this meeting is</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>adjourned. We'll see you all in July.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Thanks, all.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah.</v>

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<v Faith Pettis>Thanks, everyone.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Yeah.</v>

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<v Bendixen, Carmen>Thank you.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Thank you.</v>