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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay, hello everyone. It is now 11 A.m.
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>First,
I would like to request a motion to</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>amend our agenda for today.
And it's a little convoluted,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>so let me just explain it and then I'll
ask for a motion and a second.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>What I'd like to do,
given some time constraints of board</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>members, is to take items A, B, C, D,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>and then skip down to F.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>and then to G,
but only items three and four,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>and then go back to item E and go through
the rest of the agenda.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>So I'm sure that's clear as mud,
but I would love to entertain a motion to</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>make those amendments.</v>

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<v Ron Chew>Still moved.</v>

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

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>And a second. Okay, great.
So Ron moved it and Carmen seconded.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Can we all say yes or say yes if you
agree? I just forgot the language.</v>

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<v Ron Chew>Yes.</v>

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

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<v W. Tali Hairston PhD>I'm a, I'm a yes,
my camera somehow the system kicked me</v>

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<v W. Tali Hairston PhD>out, the video out,
so I'm just audio right now.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Oh, I'm sorry, Tally.
That motion did pass unanimously.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Thank you all. So with that,
can we move on to...</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Wait, we move to amend the agenda. Do we,
I think we should just,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>just for clarity's sake,
let's now move to approve the amended</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>agenda. So I need a motion again.</v>

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<v Ron Chew>Move approval.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Thank you.</v>

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

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

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<v W. Tali Hairston PhD>Aye.</v>

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

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<v Ron Chew>Kai.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay, now we've approved the agenda.
Let's move on to public comment.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>As noted at the top of the agenda,
the library board is accepting public</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>comment that is directed to matters on
the agenda by mail,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>in person at the Central Library and in
this remote meeting. Amy,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>is there any public comment?</v>

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<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 02>At the Central Library,
no one has signed up in Q&amp;A,</v>

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<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 02>and you do not have a comment by e-mail
listing.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay, so without public comment,
we should move on to the consent agenda.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>We have a consent agenda this month with
minutes from our August board meeting,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>regular meeting,
and the August finance report.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>If no one has changes to these documents,
may I hear a motion to approve the</v>

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

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<v Ron Chew>Move approval.</v>

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<v W. Tali Hairston PhD>Motion to approve.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay, I heard Tally move to approve. Ron,
will you second?</v>

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<v Ron Chew>Yes, second.</v>

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

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<v W. Tali Hairston PhD>Aye.</v>

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

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<v Ron Chew>I.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>That also passes unanimously. Okay,
so with our amended agenda,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>I'd like to skip down to old business.
And what I'd like to do,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>under old business,
we have library board goals.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>We didn't include these in the packet,
so I hope you guys will</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>And...</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Bear with me, I'm going to read them.
You will recall that at the March meeting,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>we voted to...</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>approve these goals.
And here we are in September.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>I thought it was worth reviewing and just
confirming where we're at with those</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>board goals.
So the first was to steward the mayor's</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>proposed levy renewal in partnership with
the Friends and Foundation. Check.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Second,
to support the Chief Librarian in</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>developing enhanced staff engagement and
retention, inclusion and belonging,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>communication and wellness strategies.
I mean,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>I think that we are continuously trying
to work on that. Last month, we heard a</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>really wonderful report from DeVante on
the DEIB work that he's leading.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>But we should just check in, I think,
again at the end of the year to see how</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>that's going.
Does anyone want to provide any thoughts</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>or comments?</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>on that goal.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay, seeing nothing on that. Oh,
let's move on to the third goal,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>which is to support budget and fiscal
policy development to address the city's</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>ever-changing revenue landscape and
support the continuation and development</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>of alternative revenue.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Here,
I think the most important thing is that</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>the library's budget has been included,
of course, in the mayor's budget,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>and we're going to have a report on that
today.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>So we can talk a little bit more during
that report.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>The 4th goal was to complete a 360
performance evaluation</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>for the Executive Director,
Chief Librarian,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>that covers his tenure to date and
determine a regular schedule for</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>conducting future performance reviews.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>So here again, I'd like to say check.
We completed that.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Tally and I have talked with Tom about
how to proceed in the future.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>These 360 performance evaluations take a
lot of work and energy, and I</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>I personally believe that we don't need
to do that every year.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>So I think what we should do is come back
with a suggestion about what to do,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>when to do these full 360s.
Tally and I have talked about doing a</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>modified</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>performance evaluation of Tom for next
year.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>So I will come back with a description of
what that will look like.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>And then the final board goal for this
year was in development of the annual</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>operations plan to provide guidance on
the strategic plan implementation and its</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>progress.
And the library staff have done a great</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>job of making this very easy for us by
providing</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>strategic plan updates and elements in
our quarterly levy reports.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>And if you look at the staff reports in
our board packet, they often lead with,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>here is the strategic plan goal that is
being worked on by this group.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>So again,
I think the staff have made that</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>particular board goal very easy for us.
Does anybody have any comments or</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>questions about the board goals and how
we're doing?</v>

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<v Bendixen, Carmen>Just thank you for tracking and reminding
us.</v>

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<v Bendixen, Carmen>of what they are and where we're at.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah, happy to do that.
No use in setting goals if we're not</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>actually going to try to hew to them.
So I think it would be useful either in</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>December or January to just do a recap of
everything that we've tried to do.</v>

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00:07:50.918 --> 00:07:55.903
<v Yazmin Mehdi>All right, well,
thank you for your forbearance and going</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/87-1
00:07:55.903 --> 00:08:00.199
<v Yazmin Mehdi>over that.
And I think now what I'd like to do is</v>

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00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:04.238
<v Yazmin Mehdi>invite Ron to give a report on the
foundation.</v>

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00:08:09.278 --> 00:08:16.958
<v Ron Chew>Yeah, thank you, Yazmin.
So reporting back on the September 9th</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/89-1
00:08:16.958 --> 00:08:23.438
<v Ron Chew>meeting, two pieces.
One is on the fundraising front.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/91-0
00:08:25.678 --> 00:08:31.113
<v Ron Chew>As of July 31st,
foundations raise approximately 4.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/91-1
00:08:31.113 --> 00:08:39.055
<v Ron Chew>4 million towards its goal of 5.5 million,
and that includes estate giving,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/91-2
00:08:39.055 --> 00:08:43.758
<v Ron Chew>which is proven to be especially
beneficial.</v>

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00:08:44.318 --> 00:08:50.904
<v Ron Chew>And given where foundations at,
they're pretty confident that their</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/94-1
00:08:50.904 --> 00:08:57.005
<v Ron Chew>fundraising goal will be achieved.
So good news on that front.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/94-2
00:08:57.005 --> 00:09:02.718
<v Ron Chew>The foundation's fall campaign is going
to kick off during</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/95-0
00:09:02.958 --> 00:09:06.348
<v Ron Chew>Banned Books Week,
October 5th to the 10th,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/95-1
00:09:06.348 --> 00:09:12.049
<v Ron Chew>that was announced. Then in general,
Foundation staff wanted to thank and</v>

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00:09:12.049 --> 00:09:17.827
<v Ron Chew>acknowledge the donors for their
generosity and commitment to the library.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/95-3
00:09:17.827 --> 00:09:21.678
<v Ron Chew>That's what's happening on the
fundraising front.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/96-0
00:09:24.798 --> 00:09:30.989
<v Ron Chew>The board also accepted the 2026 tax
returns,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/96-1
00:09:30.989 --> 00:09:42.158
<v Ron Chew>which will be filed by SPLF auditors and
nothing remarkable there, all very clean.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/97-0
00:09:45.038 --> 00:09:50.985
<v Ron Chew>There also is a plan for the board to
visit the maintenance and operations</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/97-1
00:09:50.985 --> 00:09:55.980
<v Ron Chew>center in Georgetown for a tour,
which I myself have not done.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/97-2
00:09:55.980 --> 00:10:01.134
<v Ron Chew>So somewhere in there,
I've got to get down there because I hear</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/97-3
00:10:01.134 --> 00:10:02.878
<v Ron Chew>marvelous things about</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/98-0
00:10:02.958 --> 00:10:07.008
<v Ron Chew>the system,
automated material handling system and so</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/98-1
00:10:07.008 --> 00:10:07.758
<v Ron Chew>forth. So.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/100-0
00:10:10.318 --> 00:10:15.690
<v Ron Chew>On a board level,
they approved the nomination of Lisa</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/100-1
00:10:15.690 --> 00:10:18.718
<v Ron Chew>Danielson as the newest member.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/101-0
00:10:19.838 --> 00:10:25.838
<v Ron Chew>And I think the last thing report really
is that in terms of the committee</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/101-1
00:10:25.838 --> 00:10:31.998
<v Ron Chew>structure, there's some retooling,
retweaking to align the current committee</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/101-2
00:10:31.998 --> 00:10:38.318
<v Ron Chew>structure with strategic priorities.
And so there's some internal work will be</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/101-3
00:10:38.318 --> 00:10:41.998
<v Ron Chew>happening there.
So those are the highlights.</v>

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00:10:43.038 --> 00:10:45.118
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Oh, that's great work.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/102-0
00:10:43.318 --> 00:10:43.438
<v Ron Chew>And.</v>

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00:10:45.518 --> 00:10:45.838
<v Ron Chew>Yeah.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/108-0
00:10:46.958 --> 00:10:51.048
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Any, oh, Tally,
you were there and then you disappeared</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/108-1
00:10:51.048 --> 00:10:55.210
<v Yazmin Mehdi>for my screen,
but I hope that you might have moved to a</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/107-0
00:10:53.758 --> 00:10:54.318
<v Tali Hairston>I'm here.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/108-2
00:10:55.210 --> 00:10:59.373
<v Yazmin Mehdi>different page.
Any questions from the rest of the board</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/108-3
00:10:59.373 --> 00:11:01.198
<v Yazmin Mehdi>on the foundation update?</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/110-0
00:11:04.718 --> 00:11:09.484
<v Yazmin Mehdi>We're just so lucky that the foundation
is one of our partners,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/110-1
00:11:09.484 --> 00:11:15.217
<v Yazmin Mehdi>not only because of the money that they
raise and then grant to the library,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/110-2
00:11:15.217 --> 00:11:19.909
<v Yazmin Mehdi>but also because of their incredible
advocacy for the library.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/110-3
00:11:19.909 --> 00:11:24.078
<v Yazmin Mehdi>We're so lucky to have had their
partnership this year.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/111-0
00:11:24.478 --> 00:11:28.638
<v Yazmin Mehdi>in particular. Great. Thank you, Ron,
for that update.</v>

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00:11:29.358 --> 00:11:33.536
<v Ron Chew>Yeah, and can I just, yeah,
and can I just add, you know,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/112-0
00:11:29.598 --> 00:11:30.638
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I will in.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/113-0
00:11:33.278 --> 00:11:33.758
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Mhm.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/114-1
00:11:33.536 --> 00:11:37.786
<v Ron Chew>I've really seen the foundation staffing
team really mesh.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/114-2
00:11:37.786 --> 00:11:42.252
<v Ron Chew>They've had a number of changes,
additions, all for the good.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/114-3
00:11:42.252 --> 00:11:46.646
<v Ron Chew>And so it's exciting.
That'll probably be my last, I'm sure,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/114-4
00:11:46.646 --> 00:11:47.438
<v Ron Chew>foundation.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/116-0
00:11:49.038 --> 00:11:52.458
<v Ron Chew>meeting in the capacity of, you know,
the liaison,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/116-1
00:11:52.458 --> 00:11:57.084
<v Ron Chew>but it's just a wonderful team
acknowledging Brian and the staff and</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/116-2
00:11:57.084 --> 00:12:02.180
<v Ron Chew>what they've achieved and how they're
starting to pull together and move to</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/116-3
00:12:02.180 --> 00:12:03.118
<v Ron Chew>another level.</v>

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00:12:05.118 --> 00:12:10.226
<v Yazmin Mehdi>That's great. Thank you, Ron.
It's a little hard for me to think about</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/117-1
00:12:10.226 --> 00:12:14.758
<v Yazmin Mehdi>you not being with us.
But it's a good reminder that I need to</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/117-2
00:12:14.758 --> 00:12:20.369
<v Yazmin Mehdi>make sure that someone steps in for you
to be the liaison for the foundation.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/117-3
00:12:20.369 --> 00:12:23.678
<v Yazmin Mehdi>We are not going to say goodbye to you
today.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/119-0
00:12:24.958 --> 00:12:30.280
<v Yazmin Mehdi>But it's worth noting that you have been
the foundation liaison, I think,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/119-1
00:12:30.280 --> 00:12:32.078
<v Yazmin Mehdi>is this your second year?</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/120-0
00:12:33.278 --> 00:12:38.638
<v Ron Chew>I think, I can't even remember now.
Might be, yeah.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/121-0
00:12:39.438 --> 00:12:40.478
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah, so.</v>

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00:12:39.758 --> 00:12:41.838
<v Ron Chew>Time goes by so quickly, yeah.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/123-0
00:12:42.278 --> 00:12:45.598
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Time goes by. We will be...</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/124-0
00:12:47.238 --> 00:12:51.659
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Faiting you,
I don't know if I pronounced that right,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/124-1
00:12:51.659 --> 00:12:56.735
<v Yazmin Mehdi>soon, but you're not quite,
you're not quite gone. With that,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/124-2
00:12:56.735 --> 00:13:00.910
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I will give the Friends update in Faith's
absence.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/124-3
00:13:00.910 --> 00:13:06.558
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So there are three updates from the
Friends September board meeting.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/125-0
00:13:06.958 --> 00:13:10.525
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Several Friends board candidates attended
the meeting.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/125-1
00:13:10.525 --> 00:13:15.584
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Interviews for the open positions are
nearly complete and approved candidates</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/125-2
00:13:15.584 --> 00:13:18.892
<v Yazmin Mehdi>will be voted in at the annual meeting in
October.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/125-3
00:13:18.892 --> 00:13:22.134
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And I believe they have 5 openings there.
Second,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/125-4
00:13:22.134 --> 00:13:26.998
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the Friends are busy preparing for the
annual volunteer recognition event.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/126-0
00:13:27.438 --> 00:13:31.883
<v Yazmin Mehdi>which is October 18th,
and the annual meeting October 24th.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/126-1
00:13:31.883 --> 00:13:36.625
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Local author David B.
Williams will be the guest speaker at the</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/126-2
00:13:36.625 --> 00:13:42.181
<v Yazmin Mehdi>annual meeting. And then finally,
the Friends have been invited by Seattle</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/126-3
00:13:42.181 --> 00:13:47.441
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Arts and Lectures to table at the LaVar
Burton Event at Benaroya Hall,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/126-4
00:13:47.441 --> 00:13:48.478
<v Yazmin Mehdi>November 16th.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/127-0
00:13:48.958 --> 00:13:54.867
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Two 100 books and tri-branded totes will
be given away at the event.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/127-1
00:13:54.867 --> 00:13:59.321
<v Yazmin Mehdi>That sounds awesome.
I should probably get tickets.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/127-2
00:13:59.321 --> 00:14:05.315
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So then we can move on to item 4,
which is updates from library board</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/127-3
00:14:05.315 --> 00:14:08.398
<v Yazmin Mehdi>members. Does anyone have an update?</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/128-0
00:14:13.198 --> 00:14:15.438
<v Ron Chew>Can I jump in again?</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/129-0
00:14:17.598 --> 00:14:24.834
<v Ron Chew>I wanted to call out actually Rob Gannon
and the team at the library. Back on,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/129-1
00:14:24.834 --> 00:14:31.245
<v Ron Chew>I think it was September 12th,
it was a program at the Central Branch</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/129-2
00:14:31.245 --> 00:14:37.198
<v Ron Chew>involving author Evelyn Iretani,
who came out with a book that's</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/130-0
00:14:38.558 --> 00:14:45.269
<v Ron Chew>been highly publicized of late,
titled Safe Passages. Anyway,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/130-1
00:14:45.269 --> 00:14:50.356
<v Ron Chew>I was there for the discussion talk by
Evelyn,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/130-2
00:14:50.356 --> 00:14:56.958
<v Ron Chew>and a friend of mine who came to the
event was mugged in the</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/131-0
00:14:57.838 --> 00:15:04.357
<v Ron Chew>garage and her phone was stolen.
I knew there was something going on</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/131-1
00:15:04.357 --> 00:15:06.718
<v Ron Chew>because I went down to...</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/132-0
00:15:08.238 --> 00:15:08.638
<v Ron Chew>Um...</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/133-0
00:15:09.838 --> 00:15:17.047
<v Ron Chew>leave the event and their security guards
and so forth. And I saw my friend there.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/133-1
00:15:17.047 --> 00:15:22.345
<v Ron Chew>She was very shaken.
She ended up going upstairs on the main</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/133-2
00:15:22.345 --> 00:15:27.469
<v Ron Chew>floor. And again,
security guards at the library responded</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/133-3
00:15:27.469 --> 00:15:28.598
<v Ron Chew>very quickly.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/134-0
00:15:29.678 --> 00:15:36.340
<v Ron Chew>to the situation and the Seattle Police
Department was called.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/134-1
00:15:36.340 --> 00:15:38.878
<v Ron Chew>They didn't respond for.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/135-0
00:15:39.958 --> 00:15:45.574
<v Ron Chew>trying to remember, it was a long,
long time and they never really got there.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/135-1
00:15:45.574 --> 00:15:46.798
<v Ron Chew>In the meanwhile.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/137-0
00:15:48.118 --> 00:15:50.878
<v Ron Chew>Um, you know, the uh...</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/138-0
00:15:52.318 --> 00:15:55.998
<v Ron Chew>A person who had mugged her had left, and.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/139-0
00:15:57.918 --> 00:16:01.189
<v Ron Chew>911 was called and all sorts of stuff was
happening.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/139-1
00:16:01.189 --> 00:16:03.904
<v Ron Chew>She did end up getting her cell phone
back.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/139-2
00:16:03.904 --> 00:16:06.989
<v Ron Chew>It was largely because security guards,
you know,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/139-3
00:16:06.989 --> 00:16:11.802
<v Ron Chew>searched around the garage and outside to
find it. So she got her phone back.</v>

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00:16:11.802 --> 00:16:15.998
<v Ron Chew>But she was going to write a letter,
I think, and Rob, I think your</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/141-0
00:16:17.198 --> 00:16:21.939
<v Ron Chew>here as a participant.
But she was going to write a letter to</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/141-1
00:16:21.939 --> 00:16:27.292
<v Ron Chew>you and the security team,
just thanking them for the quick response,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/141-2
00:16:27.292 --> 00:16:31.650
<v Ron Chew>the professionalism,
and just the care that they took to</v>

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00:16:31.650 --> 00:16:36.238
<v Ron Chew>ensure that she was safe.
And so she was very impressed and</v>

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00:16:36.798 --> 00:16:40.938
<v Ron Chew>Again,
want to pass that on and I pass that on</v>

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00:16:40.938 --> 00:16:48.072
<v Ron Chew>just because I think we often take for
granted the professionalism that a lot of</v>

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00:16:48.072 --> 00:16:54.942
<v Ron Chew>the security staff who've been around for
some time exhibit when these things</v>

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00:16:54.942 --> 00:16:55.558
<v Ron Chew>happen.</v>

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00:16:56.558 --> 00:17:00.518
<v Ron Chew>So, Rob,
I don't know if you got the e-mail yet</v>

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00:17:00.518 --> 00:17:01.838
<v Ron Chew>from this woman.</v>

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00:17:03.598 --> 00:17:08.206
<v Yazmin Mehdi>We're going to have Rob,
I think is going to be presenting later</v>

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00:17:07.838 --> 00:17:08.958
<v Ron Chew>Okay, great, great.</v>

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00:17:08.206 --> 00:17:12.318
<v Yazmin Mehdi>in the agenda,
so we'll get a chance to have him respond.</v>

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00:17:12.318 --> 00:17:16.217
<v Yazmin Mehdi>But wow, Ron,
I'm really sorry to hear that and not at</v>

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00:17:16.217 --> 00:17:21.959
<v Yazmin Mehdi>all surprised to hear that library staff
reacted appropriately and were helpful.</v>

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00:17:21.959 --> 00:17:23.518
<v Yazmin Mehdi>That's amazing though.</v>

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00:17:24.238 --> 00:17:27.211
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Geez,
the number of times that I've driven into</v>

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00:17:25.598 --> 00:17:25.998
<v Ron Chew>Yeah.</v>

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00:17:27.211 --> 00:17:30.494
<v Yazmin Mehdi>that garage.
So you're talking about the SEN garage,</v>

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00:17:30.494 --> 00:17:31.918
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the garage essentially.</v>

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00:17:30.798 --> 00:17:31.558
<v Ron Chew>Yeah, yeah.</v>

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00:17:32.838 --> 00:17:33.198
<v Ron Chew>Yeah.</v>

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00:17:33.118 --> 00:17:35.998
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay. Bummer. Sorry to hear that.</v>

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00:17:36.638 --> 00:17:37.118
<v Ron Chew>Yeah.</v>

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00:17:37.998 --> 00:17:40.558
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Anything from Carmen or Tally?</v>

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00:17:42.398 --> 00:17:47.788
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay. Great.
Then we can return to our originally</v>

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00:17:47.788 --> 00:17:55.225
<v Yazmin Mehdi>scheduled program and turn it over to Kay,
who is here in Tom Stead.</v>

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00:17:55.225 --> 00:18:00.398
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And I want to point that out because that
means</v>

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00:18:00.478 --> 00:18:07.022
<v Yazmin Mehdi>that Tom is taking vacation,
which is one of the things that we asked</v>

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00:18:07.022 --> 00:18:09.358
<v Yazmin Mehdi>him to please prioritize.</v>

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00:18:11.198 --> 00:18:14.636
<v Yazmin Mehdi>as part of his review.
He has worked really,</v>

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00:18:14.636 --> 00:18:19.372
<v Yazmin Mehdi>really hard and I am just,
I'm thrilled that he has taken his</v>

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00:18:19.372 --> 00:18:23.192
<v Yazmin Mehdi>vacation,
that he's turned it over to Kay to lead</v>

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00:18:23.192 --> 00:18:27.775
<v Yazmin Mehdi>this board meeting.
And I'd like to thank Kay for her work.</v>

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00:18:27.775 --> 00:18:31.518
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And Kay,
you've obviously presented in the past.</v>

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00:18:31.998 --> 00:18:35.591
<v Yazmin Mehdi>to the board,
but I would love if you would just take a</v>

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00:18:35.591 --> 00:18:38.798
<v Yazmin Mehdi>few minutes to introduce yourself for the
record.</v>

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00:18:40.078 --> 00:18:44.272
<v Kai Tang>Thank you, Yazmin.
And we are so happy that Tom is taking</v>

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00:18:44.272 --> 00:18:48.394
<v Kai Tang>some time off.
And we told him yesterday to enjoy and to</v>

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00:18:48.394 --> 00:18:53.745
<v Kai Tang>hopefully not think about work while he
is off. But my name is Kate Tang.</v>

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00:18:53.745 --> 00:18:58.878
<v Kai Tang>I am the Director of Library Event,
Library Experience and Engagement.</v>

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00:18:59.438 --> 00:19:05.462
<v Kai Tang>I get to work with such a fabulous team
that oversees our public services.</v>

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00:19:05.462 --> 00:19:09.960
<v Kai Tang>That is the Central Library in all 26 of
our locations.</v>

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00:19:09.960 --> 00:19:13.815
<v Kai Tang>It also includes our fabulous collections
team,</v>

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00:19:13.815 --> 00:19:19.598
<v Kai Tang>our collections and technical services,
as well as special collections.</v>

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00:19:20.318 --> 00:19:27.066
<v Kai Tang>and our folks that oversee system-wide
programming in our seed and YFL work</v>

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00:19:27.066 --> 00:19:27.598
<v Kai Tang>units.</v>

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00:19:30.078 --> 00:19:35.813
<v Kai Tang>I'm trying, I hope I didn't miss anybody.
I don't think I did. And yes,</v>

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00:19:35.813 --> 00:19:41.787
<v Kai Tang>Tom has graciously allowed me to step
into his role today to help with the</v>

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00:19:41.787 --> 00:19:46.089
<v Kai Tang>board meeting. So,
but does anyone have any questions</v>

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00:19:46.089 --> 00:19:48.478
<v Kai Tang>specifically for me right now?</v>

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00:19:49.998 --> 00:19:56.148
<v Yazmin Mehdi>It doesn't look like it.
I will just say really briefly that the</v>

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00:19:56.148 --> 00:20:01.163
<v Yazmin Mehdi>leadership team that Tom has working with
him, many,</v>

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00:20:01.163 --> 00:20:06.367
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I think most or many of whom he's hired
is remarkable.</v>

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00:20:06.367 --> 00:20:09.678
<v Yazmin Mehdi>It's A remarkable group of leaders.</v>

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00:20:10.958 --> 00:20:17.495
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And Kay is just one of them. But we are,
we're thrilled that you're here today.</v>

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00:20:17.495 --> 00:20:22.478
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So I think you can go right into the
Chief Librarian report.</v>

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00:20:19.198 --> 00:20:20.318
<v Kai Tang>Thank you so much.</v>

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00:20:23.358 --> 00:20:28.691
<v Kai Tang>Okay, great. Well, Tom has been, as usual,
busy this last month.</v>

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00:20:28.691 --> 00:20:34.270
<v Kai Tang>And so on September 9th,
we did want to share that Kiersten Nelson,</v>

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00:20:34.270 --> 00:20:40.423
<v Kai Tang>who's our Community Partnerships and
Government Relations Program Manager,</v>

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00:20:40.423 --> 00:20:45.838
<v Kai Tang>as well as our Literature and Humanities
Program Manager, Stesha,</v>

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00:20:46.238 --> 00:20:50.001
<v Kai Tang>And Tom gave a presentation to city
council,</v>

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00:20:50.001 --> 00:20:55.686
<v Kai Tang>part of our library education and
neighborhoods committee about the</v>

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00:20:55.686 --> 00:21:01.205
<v Kai Tang>successful levy vote and about this
year's Seattle Reads program,</v>

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00:21:01.205 --> 00:21:07.894
<v Kai Tang>which features author Sarah Novick and
the book True Biz. It's really exciting.</v>

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00:21:07.894 --> 00:21:10.318
<v Kai Tang>This does kick off this week.</v>

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00:21:11.198 --> 00:21:16.837
<v Kai Tang>And so we had congratulations on the
passage of the millage, or I'm sorry,</v>

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00:21:16.837 --> 00:21:20.671
<v Kai Tang>of the levy,
and I'm in a different library system</v>

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00:21:20.671 --> 00:21:21.798
<v Kai Tang>with a millage.</v>

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00:21:23.118 --> 00:21:25.198
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah, you're showing your roots there.</v>

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00:21:25.278 --> 00:21:26.078
<v Kai Tang>I know.</v>

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00:21:29.038 --> 00:21:33.676
<v Kai Tang>We also had opportunities to connect with
Uzbekistan.</v>

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00:21:33.676 --> 00:21:37.627
<v Kai Tang>And so the consulate general from
Uzbekistan,</v>

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00:21:37.627 --> 00:21:43.983
<v Kai Tang>as well as Rick Sheridan and Kiersten
Nelson and Tom, were able to visit.</v>

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00:21:43.983 --> 00:21:48.878
<v Kai Tang>We had communications from them as they
were interested.</v>

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00:21:49.198 --> 00:21:54.612
<v Kai Tang>in providing us with a selection of books
about literature,</v>

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00:21:54.612 --> 00:22:01.739
<v Kai Tang>history and culture from their country
and looking at possible collaborations.</v>

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00:22:01.739 --> 00:22:06.250
<v Kai Tang>So that was a really wonderful reach that
we got.</v>

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00:22:06.250 --> 00:22:13.016
<v Kai Tang>Tom also attended the Washington State
Public Libraries directors meeting.</v>

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00:22:13.016 --> 00:22:13.918
<v Kai Tang>He is very</v>

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00:22:14.238 --> 00:22:19.296
<v Kai Tang>with the state directors.
This was at Mount Vernon Library Commons.</v>

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00:22:19.296 --> 00:22:22.717
<v Kai Tang>It is the semi-annual meeting that they
have,</v>

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00:22:22.717 --> 00:22:28.146
<v Kai Tang>and they really focus on opportunities
for collaboration and engagement.</v>

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00:22:28.146 --> 00:22:33.277
<v Kai Tang>These folks are very dedicated to
advocating for us at the state and</v>

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00:22:33.277 --> 00:22:34.318
<v Kai Tang>federal level.</v>

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00:22:35.318 --> 00:22:35.518
<v Kai Tang>Um...</v>

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00:22:37.438 --> 00:22:41.424
<v Kai Tang>He does mention in his report,
I will be taking it,</v>

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00:22:41.424 --> 00:22:46.328
<v Kai Tang>I will be filling in for him.
And then last week, last weekend,</v>

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00:22:46.328 --> 00:22:52.306
<v Kai Tang>I had a wonderful opportunity to be able
to go to Douglas Truth for the Alpha</v>

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00:22:52.306 --> 00:22:55.678
<v Kai Tang>Kappa Alpha annual tea.
This was their 62nd</v>

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00:22:55.918 --> 00:23:01.973
<v Kai Tang>tea that they've had at the location.
And it was just a fabulous time to be</v>

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00:23:01.973 --> 00:23:06.116
<v Kai Tang>able to spend with a group of women that
has grown,</v>

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00:23:06.116 --> 00:23:10.975
<v Kai Tang>helped grown the collection from 300 to
over 10,000 volumes.</v>

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00:23:10.975 --> 00:23:15.038
<v Kai Tang>And they had a wonderful fireside chat
with author</v>

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00:23:15.358 --> 00:23:19.475
<v Kai Tang>entrepreneur and amazing person,
Wanda Herndon.</v>

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00:23:19.475 --> 00:23:25.736
<v Kai Tang>And that was just a fabulous time.
This week has been very busy for Tom,</v>

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00:23:25.736 --> 00:23:32.940
<v Kai Tang>so it's good that he's taking a vacation,
but we did have our really fun tribute to</v>

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00:23:32.940 --> 00:23:35.598
<v Kai Tang>Dolly Parton at our Queen Anne.</v>

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00:23:35.838 --> 00:23:42.686
<v Kai Tang>branch and in honor of all the work that
she has done specifically for literacy,</v>

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00:23:42.686 --> 00:23:49.956
<v Kai Tang>children and reading. And on the same day,
we hosted the mayor for the budget speech.</v>

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00:23:49.956 --> 00:23:54.014
<v Kai Tang>And so we have a list of his standing
meetings,</v>

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00:23:54.014 --> 00:24:00.438
<v Kai Tang>but I would love to ask if you have any
questions in regards to his report.</v>

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00:24:00.518 --> 00:24:01.438
<v Kai Tang>or as written.</v>

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00:24:02.318 --> 00:24:07.598
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So, Ron, Carmen, or Tally,
do you guys have questions?</v>

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00:24:08.798 --> 00:24:12.281
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Kelly, you're on a different page for me,
so if you want to say anything,</v>

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00:24:12.281 --> 00:24:13.598
<v Yazmin Mehdi>will you just come off mute?</v>

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00:24:15.678 --> 00:24:16.158
<v Tali Hairston>I will.</v>

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00:24:17.198 --> 00:24:17.678
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay.</v>

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00:24:18.798 --> 00:24:24.914
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So I'll take that as a no. I will,
I just wanted to say, number one,</v>

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00:24:24.914 --> 00:24:31.916
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I think it's amazing timing that the
Uzbek Counsil General came to me with the</v>

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00:24:31.916 --> 00:24:38.918
<v Yazmin Mehdi>library. They just opened their consulate,
I think, on September 18th. So just</v>

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00:24:39.038 --> 00:24:44.315
<v Yazmin Mehdi>just over a week ago,
which is a big deal because like we've</v>

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00:24:41.038 --> 00:24:41.518
<v Kai Tang>Wow.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/190-1
00:24:44.315 --> 00:24:49.505
<v Yazmin Mehdi>never had an Uzbek consul,
a consulate in Seattle, I think.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/190-2
00:24:49.505 --> 00:24:53.397
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And I am going to Uzbekistan in a few
weeks.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/190-3
00:24:53.397 --> 00:24:59.798
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So I'm like super excited about the fact
that there's this connection and</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/191-0
00:25:00.318 --> 00:25:05.049
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I have a feeling, however,
that the books that they brought are</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/191-1
00:25:05.049 --> 00:25:10.297
<v Yazmin Mehdi>probably in Uzbek or maybe Russian,
and so I probably can't use those.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/191-2
00:25:10.297 --> 00:25:15.028
<v Yazmin Mehdi>But having said that,
you would not be surprised to know that I</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/191-3
00:25:15.028 --> 00:25:19.758
<v Yazmin Mehdi>have gotten library books about
Uzbekistan, including this one.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/192-0
00:25:20.478 --> 00:25:25.617
<v Yazmin Mehdi>There are lots and I will,
nobody needs to hear about my travels,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/192-1
00:25:25.617 --> 00:25:30.133
<v Yazmin Mehdi>but I will say that Uzbekistan was part
of the Silk Road,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/192-2
00:25:30.133 --> 00:25:34.805
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and so it's a really fascinating culture.
So I'm like, wow,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/192-3
00:25:34.805 --> 00:25:40.255
<v Yazmin Mehdi>this timing is so interesting.
The other thing I wanted to just under</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/192-4
00:25:40.255 --> 00:25:40.878
<v Yazmin Mehdi>score is</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/193-0
00:25:41.678 --> 00:25:46.043
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Seattle Reads,
always a big event or series of events.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/193-1
00:25:46.043 --> 00:25:50.725
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And I have the book.
I think the rest of the board members</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/193-2
00:25:50.725 --> 00:25:55.646
<v Yazmin Mehdi>also have their copies.
And I need to start reading very fast</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/193-3
00:25:55.646 --> 00:26:01.518
<v Yazmin Mehdi>because the programs are this weekend.
And Central's program is at 3 P.m.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/194-0
00:26:01.678 --> 00:26:08.333
<v Yazmin Mehdi>on Saturday. I am hoping to attend.
And then the other thing is that's this</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/194-1
00:26:08.333 --> 00:26:12.710
<v Yazmin Mehdi>weekend.
I think you're going to talk about this,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/194-2
00:26:12.710 --> 00:26:16.825
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Kay,
is the 20th anniversary of the South Park</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/194-3
00:26:16.825 --> 00:26:17.438
<v Yazmin Mehdi>branch.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/196-0
00:26:18.078 --> 00:26:20.558
<v Kai Tang>Yes, yes, we are very.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/195-0
00:26:19.598 --> 00:26:20.558
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Where are you gonna?</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/197-0
00:26:21.558 --> 00:26:22.078
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Go ahead.</v>

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00:26:23.038 --> 00:26:26.931
<v Kai Tang>That is not in Tom's report,
but we are very excited.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/198-1
00:26:26.931 --> 00:26:32.192
<v Kai Tang>On Saturday is the 20th anniversary
celebration for our youngest branch,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/198-2
00:26:32.192 --> 00:26:37.382
<v Kai Tang>South Park. It might be the youngest,
but it is a mighty branch and has</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/198-3
00:26:37.382 --> 00:26:43.148
<v Kai Tang>wonderful staff members, their leader,
Lupine, and fabulous community partners.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/198-4
00:26:43.148 --> 00:26:44.878
<v Kai Tang>Events kick off at noon.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/199-0
00:26:45.118 --> 00:26:49.820
<v Kai Tang>and we will have Lou Pine,
Brian Lawrence from our foundation as</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/199-1
00:26:49.820 --> 00:26:53.293
<v Kai Tang>well.
I will be there to represent the library.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/199-2
00:26:53.293 --> 00:26:58.718
<v Kai Tang>They will kick off everything at noon and
it is a full day of festivities.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/200-0
00:26:59.678 --> 00:27:05.203
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah, it sounds amazing. South Park,
many of you already know,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/200-1
00:27:05.203 --> 00:27:09.850
<v Yazmin Mehdi>was one of the new branches that was
built or, yeah,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/200-2
00:27:09.850 --> 00:27:16.163
<v Yazmin Mehdi>created as part of Libraries for All,
the 1998 bond levy. So, you know,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/200-3
00:27:16.163 --> 00:27:19.758
<v Yazmin Mehdi>this is a community that now has 20 years</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/202-0
00:27:20.078 --> 00:27:25.542
<v Yazmin Mehdi>of library service.
That's like remarkable to see that on the</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/202-1
00:27:25.542 --> 00:27:31.974
<v Yazmin Mehdi>other side. So anyway, that's,
I love these milestones of these branches</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/202-2
00:27:31.974 --> 00:27:37.261
<v Yazmin Mehdi>that are, you know,
celebrating years now of service to the</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/202-3
00:27:37.261 --> 00:27:38.318
<v Yazmin Mehdi>communities.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/201-0
00:27:38.798 --> 00:27:39.118
<v Kai Tang>Yeah.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/203-0
00:27:41.518 --> 00:27:44.924
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Let's see, sorry,
I've lost track of where we are on the</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/204-0
00:27:44.238 --> 00:27:47.770
<v Ron Chew>Can I? I'm sorry,
I was just going to ask Kay,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/203-1
00:27:44.924 --> 00:27:46.238
<v Yazmin Mehdi>agenda. Go ahead, Ron.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/204-1
00:27:47.770 --> 00:27:52.129
<v Ron Chew>I had it on my calendar to attend.
Is there an agenda of,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/204-2
00:27:52.129 --> 00:27:54.158
<v Ron Chew>you said it starts at noon?</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/205-0
00:27:54.878 --> 00:28:00.074
<v Kai Tang>There is, yes, we can get you that.
It is a full day of festivities.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/205-1
00:28:00.074 --> 00:28:04.064
<v Kai Tang>We'll also be,
they have cupcakes for celebration as</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/205-2
00:28:04.064 --> 00:28:07.302
<v Kai Tang>well.
But I know that we have like Lotoria</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/205-3
00:28:07.302 --> 00:28:10.916
<v Kai Tang>coming up during the day,
different activities,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/205-4
00:28:10.916 --> 00:28:14.078
<v Kai Tang>but we can share that agenda with you all.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/207-0
00:28:14.358 --> 00:28:18.837
<v Ron Chew>Great. I appreciate it.
I've heard of many of the wonderful</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/207-1
00:28:18.837 --> 00:28:23.838
<v Ron Chew>partnerships that library has been part
of, so I want to be there.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/206-0
00:28:25.198 --> 00:28:25.878
<v Kai Tang>Excellent.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/208-0
00:28:26.078 --> 00:28:29.588
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I just wanted to note a few other things.
Yes,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/208-1
00:28:29.588 --> 00:28:34.964
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I would love to see that agenda 2K if you
have time to do that. In our,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/208-2
00:28:34.964 --> 00:28:39.966
<v Yazmin Mehdi>in the reports in the packet,
I just wanted to call attention to a</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/208-3
00:28:39.966 --> 00:28:43.998
<v Yazmin Mehdi>couple things. First, the marketing,
oh God, what is,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/210-0
00:28:44.398 --> 00:28:49.487
<v Yazmin Mehdi>MOS stand for marketing and I'm
forgetting. Thank you.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/209-0
00:28:46.918 --> 00:28:48.638
<v Kai Tang>Online Services.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/210-1
00:28:49.487 --> 00:28:56.889
<v Yazmin Mehdi>The common ground theme that Helen and
her team have used for this year is very</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/210-2
00:28:56.889 --> 00:29:03.180
<v Yazmin Mehdi>interesting. I love that theme.
It just makes so much sense in this</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/210-3
00:29:03.180 --> 00:29:05.678
<v Yazmin Mehdi>moment to be thinking about</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/211-0
00:29:06.238 --> 00:29:11.916
<v Yazmin Mehdi>how, you know,
how we are the same as humans instead of,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/211-1
00:29:11.916 --> 00:29:17.495
<v Yazmin Mehdi>you know, being divided.
We talked about Seattle Reads,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/211-2
00:29:17.495 --> 00:29:22.874
<v Yazmin Mehdi>but the Moss team also worked on One Book,
One Coast.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/211-3
00:29:22.874 --> 00:29:26.958
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And the pictures of the new library cards</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/213-0
00:29:27.078 --> 00:29:31.068
<v Yazmin Mehdi>are like,
it makes me want to go get a new library</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/213-1
00:29:31.068 --> 00:29:34.510
<v Yazmin Mehdi>card,
but I still have my quest card that's</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/213-2
00:29:34.510 --> 00:29:39.361
<v Yazmin Mehdi>bright red. That is,
it's a little bent and broken, but like,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/213-3
00:29:39.361 --> 00:29:45.385
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I love that I still have it after,
but I'd rather not even say how long it's</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/213-4
00:29:45.385 --> 00:29:46.558
<v Yazmin Mehdi>been. And then.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/214-0
00:29:46.678 --> 00:29:53.740
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Finally, you all know, the public knows,
I think Jesse writes about this in her</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/214-1
00:29:53.740 --> 00:30:01.066
<v Yazmin Mehdi>union report, the ILS upgrade is underway.
And people are noticing that things are</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/214-2
00:30:01.066 --> 00:30:07.598
<v Yazmin Mehdi>not available in the ways that they're
used to, but they're also at least</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/215-0
00:30:07.918 --> 00:30:13.343
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the people who have talked to me are
enjoying the fact that they now need to</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/215-1
00:30:13.343 --> 00:30:18.910
<v Yazmin Mehdi>go into the branches to do some of the
things they're used to doing from home.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/215-2
00:30:18.910 --> 00:30:24.053
<v Yazmin Mehdi>But it's been kind of fun and refreshing
for some, at least some people.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/215-3
00:30:24.053 --> 00:30:27.998
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Any other comments regarding the reports
in our packet?</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/216-0
00:30:29.518 --> 00:30:30.638
<v Yazmin Mehdi>From my colleagues.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/217-0
00:30:32.398 --> 00:30:37.198
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And if not, then Kate,
back to you for the system report.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/218-0
00:30:38.158 --> 00:30:41.704
<v Kai Tang>Thank you so much. Yes,
for the system report,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/218-1
00:30:41.704 --> 00:30:48.042
<v Kai Tang>we do want to give a big shout out to our
marketing online services team for all of</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/218-2
00:30:48.042 --> 00:30:52.493
<v Kai Tang>their work with the Meet Me at the
Library. Like you said,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/218-3
00:30:52.493 --> 00:30:56.718
<v Kai Tang>they jumped right in with One Book,
One Coast. That was</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/219-0
00:30:57.758 --> 00:31:03.306
<v Kai Tang>As you all might remember,
a program that united over 30 different</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/219-1
00:31:03.306 --> 00:31:07.529
<v Kai Tang>systems.
I think we had over 81 separate libraries</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/219-2
00:31:07.529 --> 00:31:14.401
<v Kai Tang>that joined this all along the West Coast.
And they hopped right in and are also a</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/219-3
00:31:14.401 --> 00:31:19.038
<v Kai Tang>huge part of our Books Unban as our
executive sponsors.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/220-0
00:31:19.598 --> 00:31:24.674
<v Kai Tang>They are also one of the biggest
supporters that we have for rebranding</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/220-1
00:31:24.674 --> 00:31:29.397
<v Kai Tang>and updating our summer program to be a
new program, Summer Quest,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/220-2
00:31:29.397 --> 00:31:34.966
<v Kai Tang>which you'll hear a little more about in
the system with the presentation from</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/220-3
00:31:34.966 --> 00:31:38.139
<v Kai Tang>Erika and work fabulously with our
partners,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/220-4
00:31:38.139 --> 00:31:40.958
<v Kai Tang>both at KCLS and SAL for our book bingo.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/221-0
00:31:41.758 --> 00:31:46.459
<v Kai Tang>So we just, again,
want to give them another big shout out.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/221-1
00:31:46.459 --> 00:31:49.906
<v Kai Tang>And then with our going on to our
branches,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/221-2
00:31:49.906 --> 00:31:56.409
<v Kai Tang>we're really highlighting this month our
Mid-City East and Mid-City West branches.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/221-3
00:31:56.409 --> 00:32:00.718
<v Kai Tang>And so if you did not know,
Mid-City East does include</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/222-0
00:32:00.998 --> 00:32:07.851
<v Kai Tang>our Capitol Hill, Douglas Truth,
Magnolia and Sally Goodmark locations.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/222-1
00:32:07.851 --> 00:32:14.418
<v Kai Tang>And our Mid-City West is Fremont,
Queen Anne, Magnolia, and Ballard.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/222-2
00:32:14.418 --> 00:32:20.318
<v Kai Tang>So we have a lot of things that are going
on throughout that.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/224-0
00:32:20.878 --> 00:32:26.108
<v Kai Tang>that mid-city region,
a focus on our Ballard Marine Time music</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/224-1
00:32:26.108 --> 00:32:30.009
<v Kai Tang>and our end of summer programming that we
had.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/224-2
00:32:30.009 --> 00:32:33.827
<v Kai Tang>There were a bunch of different
celebrations.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/224-3
00:32:33.827 --> 00:32:40.135
<v Kai Tang>We also had Montlake celebrating 20 years.
Micah and team at Montlake did a</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/224-4
00:32:40.135 --> 00:32:45.198
<v Kai Tang>wonderful job. It was really,
I got to stop by and celebrate</v>

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<v Kai Tang>With them, they had a really fun.</v>

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00:32:50.318 --> 00:32:56.885
<v Kai Tang>What would you like to see in the next 20
years at Magnolia? Is it a second?</v>

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00:32:56.885 --> 00:33:01.917
<v Kai Tang>How would you describe a second story on
top of Mott Lake?</v>

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<v Kai Tang>It was so fun to see everyone engaged
with that. And in Mid-City East, they,</v>

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<v Kai Tang>as always, are</v>

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<v Kai Tang>connecting with the community and hosting
different programs with them.</v>

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00:33:16.158 --> 00:33:21.438
<v Kai Tang>Is there any questions in regards to
what's going on with our mid-city regions?</v>

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00:33:22.878 --> 00:33:28.355
<v Yazmin Mehdi>The one thing I did want to note from
that report was the coffee and</v>

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00:33:28.355 --> 00:33:32.878
<v Yazmin Mehdi>conversations programs at both Ballard
and Capitol Hill.</v>

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00:33:35.518 --> 00:33:42.324
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I did not realize that Ballard had been
doing Coffee and Conversations for four</v>

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00:33:42.324 --> 00:33:46.152
<v Yazmin Mehdi>years.
I feel like I really tuned into those</v>

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00:33:46.152 --> 00:33:51.936
<v Yazmin Mehdi>programs recently. But I am,
I'm really impressed by, first of all,</v>

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00:33:51.936 --> 00:33:54.318
<v Yazmin Mehdi>coming up with that idea and</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>making it a way for some of our patrons
to come together and actively get</v>

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00:34:01.779 --> 00:34:07.747
<v Yazmin Mehdi>resources they need in a really warm and
welcoming environment.</v>

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00:34:07.747 --> 00:34:09.518
<v Yazmin Mehdi>It's a service that</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>I think not only benefits the people who
are participating in that program,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>but also the other patrons who are in
those branches at the same time.</v>

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00:34:22.887 --> 00:34:26.613
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So I just,
I wanted to note that in my mind,</v>

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00:34:26.613 --> 00:34:29.758
<v Yazmin Mehdi>there's a benefit to everyone who's in</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>in Ballard or Capitol Hill,
whether they're participating in the</v>

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00:34:35.237 --> 00:34:39.638
<v Yazmin Mehdi>program or they're not participating in
the program,</v>

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00:34:39.638 --> 00:34:44.954
<v Yazmin Mehdi>but those patrons are getting service at
the same time. I just,</v>

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00:34:44.954 --> 00:34:49.438
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I'm really proud of the library's work
with that. And</v>

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00:34:49.718 --> 00:34:53.719
<v Yazmin Mehdi>The only other thing, Kate,
that I would have told Tom and maybe you</v>

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00:34:53.719 --> 00:34:54.878
<v Yazmin Mehdi>can pass this along.</v>

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00:34:57.198 --> 00:35:00.958
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Did you say that South Park is the
youngest branch,</v>

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00:35:00.958 --> 00:35:04.718
<v Yazmin Mehdi>so it's probably the last one celebrating
20 years?</v>

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00:35:07.358 --> 00:35:11.919
<v Kai Tang>I believe it's the last one celebrating
20 years. It is our youngest location.</v>

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00:35:11.919 --> 00:35:14.633
<v Kai Tang>It is the last branch to have been built.
Now,</v>

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00:35:14.633 --> 00:35:19.194
<v Kai Tang>there were several branches that might
have been updated or renovated with the</v>

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00:35:19.194 --> 00:35:22.831
<v Kai Tang>libraries for all bond,
but this is the last new building that</v>

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00:35:22.831 --> 00:35:25.198
<v Kai Tang>SPL was able to build with that campaign.</v>

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00:35:25.678 --> 00:35:27.758
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay, okay,
that's what I thought you said.</v>

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00:35:29.518 --> 00:35:36.251
<v Yazmin Mehdi>One thing that we might want to consider
at some point is when we have these</v>

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00:35:36.251 --> 00:35:42.284
<v Yazmin Mehdi>anniversary milestones is to invite some
of the original architects,</v>

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00:35:42.284 --> 00:35:48.055
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the LFA project managers to come back and
celebrate with us. One,</v>

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00:35:48.055 --> 00:35:50.678
<v Yazmin Mehdi>because it's just a way to tap</v>

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00:35:50.758 --> 00:35:57.386
<v Yazmin Mehdi>back to the people who actually had the
vision around these buildings or these</v>

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00:35:57.386 --> 00:36:02.587
<v Yazmin Mehdi>renovations and to keep them connected to
the library system.</v>

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00:36:02.587 --> 00:36:09.382
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Also as a just kind of a thank you for
their work and for them to get to see how</v>

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00:36:09.382 --> 00:36:12.318
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the work they did 20 some years ago</v>

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00:36:12.518 --> 00:36:17.877
<v Yazmin Mehdi>has lasted and, you know,
served the test of time. Anyway,</v>

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00:36:17.877 --> 00:36:23.598
<v Yazmin Mehdi>for what that's worth,
that's just a little suggestion for me.</v>

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00:36:24.478 --> 00:36:28.716
<v Kai Tang>Thank you. I've noted that.
I think that's a wonderful idea.</v>

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00:36:28.716 --> 00:36:32.120
<v Kai Tang>Thank you.
And now I would love to tell you more</v>

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<v Kai Tang>about Summer Quest.
And in order to do that,</v>

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<v Kai Tang>I would love to invite Erika Miller to
join because she has our presentation on</v>

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00:36:40.803 --> 00:36:43.998
<v Kai Tang>a little overview of our first annual
summer.</v>

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00:36:44.038 --> 00:36:44.558
<v Kai Tang>West.</v>

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<v Kai Tang>Now, Amy,
are you able to add Erika into the</v>

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00:36:59.722 --> 00:37:01.198
<v Kai Tang>meeting? Okay, great.</v>

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<v Erika Miller>Hey! Hi there! My name is Erika Miller.
I am the Temporary Youth and Family</v>

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00:37:12.278 --> 00:37:13.198
<v Yazmin Mehdi>There she is.</v>

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00:37:13.238 --> 00:37:13.398
<v Kai Tang>Yeah.</v>

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00:37:17.342 --> 00:37:21.733
<v Erika Miller>Learning Services Manager.
I use she/her pronouns,</v>

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00:37:21.733 --> 00:37:28.535
<v Erika Miller>and my regular position is Supervising
Librarian at the International District</v>

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00:37:28.535 --> 00:37:29.998
<v Erika Miller>Chinatown Branch.</v>

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00:37:30.798 --> 00:37:34.113
<v Erika Miller>This year,
I started in this position in March.</v>

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00:37:34.113 --> 00:37:37.773
<v Erika Miller>I'm here until December,
but I will be at SPL still.</v>

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00:37:37.773 --> 00:37:42.538
<v Erika Miller>I will be at International District if
you ever want to come say hi.</v>

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00:37:42.538 --> 00:37:45.438
<v Erika Miller>I'm going to go ahead and share my screen.</v>

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<v Erika Miller>All right, so Summer Quest.
Summer Quest started on June 15th and we</v>

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00:37:56.063 --> 00:37:59.998
<v Erika Miller>just finished this month on September 4th.</v>

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00:38:02.078 --> 00:38:05.032
<v Erika Miller>In 2026,
we retired Summer of Learning and</v>

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00:38:05.032 --> 00:38:08.124
<v Erika Miller>launched a new summer program,
Summer Quest,</v>

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00:38:08.124 --> 00:38:13.688
<v Erika Miller>an all ages program meant to inspire our
community to explore reading, learning,</v>

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00:38:13.688 --> 00:38:18.154
<v Erika Miller>creativity, connection,
and discovery through prompts, Read, Do,</v>

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00:38:18.154 --> 00:38:20.558
<v Erika Miller>Go, along with programs and events.</v>

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00:38:20.638 --> 00:38:21.518
<v Erika Miller>all summer.</v>

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<v Erika Miller>Our areas of impact are literacy,
empowerment, and enrichment.</v>

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00:38:29.853 --> 00:38:35.715
<v Erika Miller>To increase literacy activities for
children and youth to help the prevention</v>

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<v Erika Miller>of Summer Slide.
Another goal was to celebrate diversity</v>

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00:38:39.998 --> 00:38:44.958
<v Erika Miller>and prioritize inclusivity through
reading programs and outreach.</v>

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00:38:44.998 --> 00:38:49.318
<v Erika Miller>key components to empowerment for all,
and most importantly,</v>

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00:38:49.318 --> 00:38:52.434
<v Erika Miller>to provide collections, programs,
services,</v>

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00:38:52.434 --> 00:38:56.966
<v Erika Miller>and spaces that bring joy and connection
to people of all ages,</v>

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00:38:56.966 --> 00:39:02.490
<v Erika Miller>because everyone deserves the opportunity
to have fun and feel welcome in our</v>

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00:39:02.490 --> 00:39:03.198
<v Erika Miller>libraries.</v>

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00:39:06.598 --> 00:39:11.222
<v Erika Miller>Literacy, it's not just about reading.
As a children's Librarian,</v>

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00:39:11.222 --> 00:39:16.757
<v Erika Miller>we say all the time, sing, talk, read,
write and play every day because all of</v>

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00:39:16.757 --> 00:39:21.941
<v Erika Miller>that helps us to learn how to read.
Singing helps kids learn to sound out</v>

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00:39:21.941 --> 00:39:24.393
<v Erika Miller>words.
Talking helps kids practice</v>

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00:39:24.393 --> 00:39:28.877
<v Erika Miller>conversational skills.
Writing helps with fine motor skills and</v>

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00:39:28.877 --> 00:39:31.118
<v Erika Miller>playing helps brain development.</v>

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00:39:31.398 --> 00:39:35.657
<v Erika Miller>social emotional learning,
and executive functioning skills,</v>

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00:39:35.657 --> 00:39:39.497
<v Erika Miller>which are problem solving,
and managing your emotions,</v>

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00:39:39.497 --> 00:39:44.524
<v Erika Miller>all of which are super important.
And every time a kid did any of those</v>

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00:39:44.524 --> 00:39:48.294
<v Erika Miller>activities,
they could move a space on their activity</v>

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00:39:48.294 --> 00:39:52.553
<v Erika Miller>board. So this year,
this year we had 438 finishers who were</v>

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00:39:52.553 --> 00:39:54.158
<v Erika Miller>zero to five years old.</v>

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00:39:54.638 --> 00:40:02.958
<v Erika Miller>811 finishers were 6 to 11 years old,
and 86 finishers were 12 to 17 years old.</v>

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00:40:02.958 --> 00:40:09.198
<v Erika Miller>In comparison, in 2024,
222 youth ages 1 to 13 turned in an</v>

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00:40:09.198 --> 00:40:14.398
<v Erika Miller>activity booklet.
So what is different this year?</v>

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00:40:14.838 --> 00:40:18.001
<v Erika Miller>This year,
we tracked data of participants who</v>

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<v Erika Miller>completed the quest. This included ages,
schools, grades, and zip codes.</v>

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00:40:22.914 --> 00:40:28.298
<v Erika Miller>We want to know who we are reaching and
where we need to go to serve all people</v>

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00:40:28.298 --> 00:40:29.038
<v Erika Miller>of Seattle.</v>

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00:40:31.118 --> 00:40:38.004
<v Erika Miller>Literacy, it's not just for all ages,
or it is for all ages, not just for kids.</v>

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00:40:38.004 --> 00:40:45.320
<v Erika Miller>So we had 165 finishers who were 18 to 49
years old, 16 finishers were 50 and above,</v>

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00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:50.398
<v Erika Miller>and 10 finishers were adults without an
identified age. So</v>

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00:40:50.438 --> 00:40:58.138
<v Erika Miller>Altogether, this year, we had 1,
566 participants complete our Summer</v>

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00:40:58.138 --> 00:40:59.678
<v Erika Miller>Quest program.</v>

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<v Erika Miller>One thing we invited our teens and adults
to do was to level up their reading.</v>

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<v Erika Miller>This was inspired by Jean Nguyen Yang's
Reading Without Walls Challenge from 2016.</v>

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<v Erika Miller>We challenged teens and adults to read
about someone who doesn't look or live</v>

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00:41:19.542 --> 00:41:22.886
<v Erika Miller>like them,
read in a format they don't normally read</v>

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<v Erika Miller>for fun,
and to read about a topic they don't know</v>

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00:41:26.104 --> 00:41:26.798
<v Erika Miller>much about.</v>

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00:41:27.118 --> 00:41:32.015
<v Erika Miller>Why are we leveling up our reading?
It's because reading isn't just about</v>

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00:41:32.015 --> 00:41:35.521
<v Erika Miller>having fun and being educational.
It is all of that.</v>

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00:41:35.521 --> 00:41:40.351
<v Erika Miller>But reading is also a great way for
people of all ages to learn empathy,</v>

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00:41:40.351 --> 00:41:44.718
<v Erika Miller>especially when you read about someone
who is different than you.</v>

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00:41:47.358 --> 00:41:50.727
<v Erika Miller>We also invited people to read, do,
and go this summer.</v>

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00:41:50.727 --> 00:41:55.419
<v Erika Miller>Summer Quest isn't just about reading,
it's about engaging in a fun activity,</v>

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00:41:55.419 --> 00:41:58.187
<v Erika Miller>visiting the library,
and exploring the city.</v>

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00:41:58.187 --> 00:42:02.638
<v Erika Miller>Each activity counted towards the
completion of the Summer Quest program.</v>

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00:42:05.198 --> 00:42:10.579
<v Erika Miller>So you get to see our lovely tracker here.
Thank you to Moss for all of the hard</v>

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00:42:10.579 --> 00:42:13.767
<v Erika Miller>work.
Our instructions and incentives for kids.</v>

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00:42:13.767 --> 00:42:18.949
<v Erika Miller>Kids, if you did 15 days of activities,
you would get to put your name on the</v>

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00:42:18.949 --> 00:42:23.598
<v Erika Miller>wall of fame. For 30 days of activities,
they could get a prize book.</v>

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00:42:23.918 --> 00:42:29.149
<v Erika Miller>and they could enter a raffle for a free
pizza party at Playdate Seattle,</v>

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00:42:29.149 --> 00:42:33.886
<v Erika Miller>which is an indoor play area.
And then everybody who got a tracker</v>

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00:42:33.886 --> 00:42:38.127
<v Erika Miller>could go to Playdate just for free,
just for participating.</v>

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00:42:38.127 --> 00:42:43.358
<v Erika Miller>They could bring their tracker over to
Playdate to be able to spend a day</v>

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00:42:43.998 --> 00:42:46.816
<v Erika Miller>I actually did that with my daughter.
They have,</v>

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00:42:46.816 --> 00:42:51.531
<v Erika Miller>she's one and they have this little early
learning section for zero to three-year</v>

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00:42:51.531 --> 00:42:53.198
<v Erika Miller>olds and it was a lot of fun.</v>

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00:42:56.798 --> 00:43:00.706
<v Erika Miller>This is the teen tracker.
After 30 days of activities,</v>

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00:43:00.706 --> 00:43:05.892
<v Erika Miller>they can show their tracker and they
would get 5 free wings at Wingstop.</v>

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00:43:05.892 --> 00:43:11.008
<v Erika Miller>And they can also enter a raffle for a
$30 gift card to the Friendshop.</v>

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00:43:11.008 --> 00:43:16.478
<v Erika Miller>And there will be one raffle for each
location and will ship what they want.</v>

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00:43:16.878 --> 00:43:18.078
<v Erika Miller>At no cost.</v>

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00:43:19.998 --> 00:43:25.718
<v Erika Miller>Adults. After 30 days of activities,
adults can show their completed tracker</v>

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00:43:25.718 --> 00:43:31.587
<v Erika Miller>and they would be entered into a raffle
for a $30 Friendshop gift card at each</v>

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00:43:31.587 --> 00:43:35.153
<v Erika Miller>location.
And we'll do a system-wide raffle for</v>

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00:43:35.153 --> 00:43:36.638
<v Erika Miller>five Kobo e-readers.</v>

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00:43:38.958 --> 00:43:44.181
<v Erika Miller>Enrichment was a huge part of Summer
Quest and Play Date, our partnership,</v>

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00:43:44.181 --> 00:43:48.917
<v Erika Miller>was brand new to this year.
We had extremely positive feedback. Ty,</v>

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00:43:48.917 --> 00:43:53.652
<v Erika Miller>our partner at Play Date,
said that there were first-time visitors.</v>

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00:43:53.652 --> 00:43:58.318
<v Erika Miller>They'd been meaning to make it,
but they just hadn't been able to.</v>

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00:43:58.638 --> 00:44:03.993
<v Erika Miller>And he said we had 335 Summer Quest
participants visit by the end of Summer</v>

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00:44:03.993 --> 00:44:07.304
<v Erika Miller>Quest.
Several parents commented that the free</v>

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00:44:07.304 --> 00:44:11.954
<v Erika Miller>play was a great incentive to get their
kids reading this summer.</v>

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00:44:11.954 --> 00:44:16.040
<v Erika Miller>We're just super grateful for this
partnership. Playdate,</v>

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00:44:16.040 --> 00:44:20.478
<v Erika Miller>they care very much about literacy and
kids and having fun. So</v>

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00:44:20.958 --> 00:44:25.864
<v Erika Miller>I'm super grateful that they came to us
and offered our kids this wonderful</v>

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00:44:25.864 --> 00:44:26.638
<v Erika Miller>opportunity.</v>

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00:44:28.558 --> 00:44:32.078
<v Erika Miller>Enrichment is also about bringing people
together.</v>

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00:44:32.078 --> 00:44:36.494
<v Erika Miller>One of our most popular programs for all
ages was pet painting.</v>

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00:44:36.494 --> 00:44:42.291
<v Erika Miller>Paws with Cause went to 13 library events
system-wide. In the pet painting program,</v>

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00:44:42.291 --> 00:44:45.465
<v Erika Miller>patrons painted portraits of shelter
animals.</v>

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00:44:45.465 --> 00:44:50.710
<v Erika Miller>The goal of the program is to help our
community see the animals outside of</v>

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00:44:50.710 --> 00:44:52.918
<v Erika Miller>their cages and to help them get</v>

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00:44:52.998 --> 00:44:57.903
<v Erika Miller>adopted. And according to Warren Chin,
who is the Children's Services Librarian</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/280-1
00:44:57.903 --> 00:45:01.520
<v Erika Miller>from the International District and also
New Holly Branch,</v>

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00:45:01.520 --> 00:45:06.179
<v Erika Miller>many of our older patrons had never
painted before and they enjoyed getting</v>

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00:45:06.179 --> 00:45:10.777
<v Erika Miller>together to paint for the first time.
So not only were our patrons helping</v>

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00:45:10.777 --> 00:45:11.758
<v Erika Miller>animals in need,</v>

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00:45:12.118 --> 00:45:16.386
<v Erika Miller>They were also finding joy in each
other's company, being creative,</v>

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00:45:16.386 --> 00:45:18.958
<v Erika Miller>and learning something new along the way.</v>

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00:45:24.798 --> 00:45:28.078
<v Erika Miller>Enrichment, again,
we had the secrets of magic.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/282-1
00:45:28.078 --> 00:45:33.067
<v Erika Miller>Maritza went to multiple of our branches.
This is from Wallingford here.</v>

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00:45:33.067 --> 00:45:38.328
<v Erika Miller>Daniel said that Maritza captivated the
audience with sleight of hand magic,</v>

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00:45:38.328 --> 00:45:42.155
<v Erika Miller>baffling mind reading,
and other interactive surprises.</v>

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00:45:42.155 --> 00:45:46.938
<v Erika Miller>He was very excited to bring a highly
accomplished local performer to</v>

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00:45:46.938 --> 00:45:47.758
<v Erika Miller>Wallingford.</v>

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00:45:48.478 --> 00:45:52.597
<v Erika Miller>He was able to highlight talent from
within the community,</v>

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00:45:52.597 --> 00:45:58.460
<v Erika Miller>and Maritza did just a great job with all
ages, making it interactive for everyone.</v>

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00:45:58.460 --> 00:46:04.183
<v Erika Miller>Our small but mighty Wallingford branch
had 40 patrons come to enjoy her program,</v>

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00:46:04.183 --> 00:46:09.558
<v Erika Miller>and a parent later let staff know that
she and her two children attended the</v>

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00:46:09.558 --> 00:46:12.838
<v Erika Miller>magic show,
and they really enjoyed the event.</v>

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00:46:13.438 --> 00:46:18.644
<v Erika Miller>She was especially appreciative that the
event was designed to be for all ages and</v>

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00:46:18.644 --> 00:46:23.598
<v Erika Miller>she and her children had a great time
seeing the new magic tricks and learning</v>

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00:46:23.598 --> 00:46:25.918
<v Erika Miller>some of the secrets behind the magic.</v>

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00:46:27.678 --> 00:46:32.047
<v Erika Miller>We also had a great program called How to
Eat the Rainbow,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/287-1
00:46:32.047 --> 00:46:37.156
<v Erika Miller>which is not about eating Skittles,
but it is about eating well. Dr.</v>

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00:46:35.278 --> 00:46:35.518
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yes.</v>

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00:46:37.156 --> 00:46:42.191
<v Erika Miller>Margaret Towalawi read from her book,
and then she led a variety of</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/287-3
00:46:42.191 --> 00:46:47.448
<v Erika Miller>nutrition-related activities.
She's a double board certified physician</v>

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00:46:47.448 --> 00:46:50.558
<v Erika Miller>with over 15 years of clinical experience.</v>

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00:46:50.998 --> 00:46:56.377
<v Erika Miller>She's A published author and speaker.
She led workshops and webinars for people</v>

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00:46:56.377 --> 00:46:59.672
<v Erika Miller>of all ages.
We have some great quotes here from</v>

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00:46:59.672 --> 00:47:03.168
<v Erika Miller>Magnolia.
My daughter and son were both engaged the</v>

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00:47:03.168 --> 00:47:06.529
<v Erika Miller>entire time. My daughter,
who has food allergies,</v>

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00:47:06.529 --> 00:47:11.370
<v Erika Miller>it was really cool to see what other
nutritional foods we could eat and</v>

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00:47:11.370 --> 00:47:13.118
<v Erika Miller>incorporate into her diet.</v>

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00:47:13.558 --> 00:47:17.470
<v Erika Miller>Another patron said,
it's really lovely to see a physician</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/289-1
00:47:17.470 --> 00:47:22.641
<v Erika Miller>finding the intersectionality between
nutrition and health. We celebrate you.</v>

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00:47:22.641 --> 00:47:26.088
<v Erika Miller>We thank you.
We're excited to really feed the good</v>

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00:47:26.088 --> 00:47:29.403
<v Erika Miller>microbiomes in our bodies.
Beautiful information.</v>

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00:47:29.403 --> 00:47:33.381
<v Erika Miller>And a third patron said,
the program was so informative and</v>

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00:47:33.381 --> 00:47:35.038
<v Erika Miller>educational for any adult</v>

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00:47:35.078 --> 00:47:38.878
<v Erika Miller>It's a good reminder for what to be
eating and taking care of yourself.</v>

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00:47:41.438 --> 00:47:45.598
<v Erika Miller>Empowerment, again,
reflected in our programs and services.</v>

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00:47:46.798 --> 00:47:50.825
<v Erika Miller>This quote is from Nancy Garrett at the
Lake City Branch. At Pixel Art,</v>

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00:47:50.825 --> 00:47:53.790
<v Erika Miller>a majority of older teens showed up for
the program,</v>

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00:47:53.790 --> 00:47:56.978
<v Erika Miller>which was great and pretty unusual for a
summer program.</v>

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00:47:56.978 --> 00:48:01.117
<v Erika Miller>They made some very creative and
elaborate pieces, all completely unique.</v>

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00:48:01.117 --> 00:48:04.361
<v Erika Miller>A couple of young men were checking out
the meeting room,</v>

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00:48:04.361 --> 00:48:06.318
<v Erika Miller>but didn't stay for the program, so</v>

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00:48:06.678 --> 00:48:11.193
<v Erika Miller>I asked Rick, the instructor,
if he would be willing to walk over with</v>

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00:48:11.193 --> 00:48:15.263
<v Erika Miller>me to the teen area.
And it was really nice that our presenter,</v>

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00:48:15.263 --> 00:48:20.605
<v Erika Miller>who is an artist and man of color himself,
engaged so well with our library patrons</v>

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00:48:20.605 --> 00:48:25.375
<v Erika Miller>who are also young men of color.
It was a really positive interaction with</v>

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00:48:25.375 --> 00:48:27.918
<v Erika Miller>two of our regular branch youth patrons.</v>

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00:48:28.398 --> 00:48:33.558
<v Erika Miller>And then Kathleen went to the Seattle
Children's Hospital with Amaranta Sandis.</v>

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00:48:33.558 --> 00:48:38.719
<v Erika Miller>Amaranta is a great artist to work with.
She brought lots of supplies and plans</v>

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00:48:38.719 --> 00:48:43.040
<v Erika Miller>for all ages and abilities,
which is especially important for this</v>

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00:48:43.040 --> 00:48:45.878
<v Erika Miller>environment. She had a nice,
relaxed style,</v>

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00:48:45.878 --> 00:48:51.038
<v Erika Miller>and I really appreciated her philosophy.
Amaranta said that in order to create,</v>

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00:48:51.318 --> 00:48:56.310
<v Erika Miller>We need the materials, time, space,
and probably someone to guide you.</v>

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00:48:56.310 --> 00:49:00.107
<v Erika Miller>She brought all of these things together
beautifully.</v>

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00:49:00.107 --> 00:49:05.873
<v Erika Miller>And then we had Style come to our Rainier
Beach branch and Cedar Crossing for the</v>

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00:49:05.873 --> 00:49:10.513
<v Erika Miller>university branch patrons.
And they taught our teen patrons about</v>

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00:49:08.518 --> 00:49:08.638
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And.</v>

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<v Erika Miller>songwriting and the production process.
The presenter, Jeff Lawson, even let them</v>

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<v Erika Miller>their own music inside their mobile
recording studio.</v>

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<v Erika Miller>I do have some recordings here.
I'm not gonna play them today,</v>

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<v Erika Miller>but just know I did tear up a little bit
listening to some of the songs,</v>

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<v Erika Miller>especially the one written for their mom.
This is not all of our programs.</v>

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00:49:35.064 --> 00:49:37.518
<v Erika Miller>Obviously, we had so many programs.</v>

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<v Erika Miller>throughout our library system this summer.
This is just a small sample of everything</v>

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<v Erika Miller>we did this year.</v>

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<v Erika Miller>So some feedback from staff and patrons.
Librarian staff would like to be more</v>

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<v Erika Miller>involved in planning for 2027.
Patrons were extremely excited about</v>

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<v Erika Miller>having prize books back in the library.
Staff and patrons want to know if all</v>

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<v Erika Miller>ages can get prize books next year.</v>

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<v Erika Miller>Teams loved the Wingstop certificates
because they love food,</v>

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<v Erika Miller>but they would like to have more
inclusive food choices in the future.</v>

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<v Erika Miller>Playdate C was a great incentive for the
kids. Overall,</v>

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<v Erika Miller>patrons loved our presenters and programs,
and staff said that they were the</v>

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00:50:22.636 --> 00:50:24.078
<v Erika Miller>highlight of the year.</v>

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00:50:24.398 --> 00:50:28.031
<v Erika Miller>Again,
this is just a small snapshot of all of</v>

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<v Erika Miller>the wonderful things our staff did this
year.</v>

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<v Erika Miller>They went so many places outside of our
branches to serve our community and that</v>

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00:50:37.845 --> 00:50:42.714
<v Erika Miller>is not reflected here.
They did such a great job with our kids</v>

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00:50:42.714 --> 00:50:43.718
<v Erika Miller>and teens and</v>

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00:50:43.758 --> 00:50:49.272
<v Erika Miller>Adults in our branches in the walls of
our library and outside of the walls of</v>

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00:50:49.272 --> 00:50:52.762
<v Erika Miller>our library.
This program was not just one person</v>

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00:50:52.762 --> 00:50:56.949
<v Erika Miller>doing it. We had, of course,
our library staff system-wide.</v>

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00:50:56.949 --> 00:51:02.742
<v Erika Miller>We had our awesome marketing team work on
all of the trackers and came up with the</v>

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00:51:02.742 --> 00:51:03.998
<v Erika Miller>name Summer Quest.</v>

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00:51:04.078 --> 00:51:08.301
<v Erika Miller>who led the program.
We had finance who helped so much with</v>

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00:51:08.301 --> 00:51:11.398
<v Erika Miller>the contract work and just everyone
really.</v>

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00:51:11.398 --> 00:51:14.636
<v Erika Miller>I don't know if I might be forgetting
people,</v>

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00:51:14.636 --> 00:51:20.337
<v Erika Miller>but it's just been such an honor being
able to work in this position and be able</v>

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00:51:20.337 --> 00:51:24.278
<v Erika Miller>to be a part of this program with
everyone system-wide.</v>

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00:51:24.918 --> 00:51:28.518
<v Erika Miller>Thank you, Kate, for letting me be here.
Thank you, everyone,</v>

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00:51:28.518 --> 00:51:32.118
<v Erika Miller>for letting me share a little bit of what
we did this summer.</v>

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00:51:33.358 --> 00:51:37.910
<v Kai Tang>Thank you so much, Erika. And again,
I want to say a huge thank you to you</v>

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00:51:37.910 --> 00:51:42.704
<v Kai Tang>because it is a very big lift to step
into the service manager role as well as</v>

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00:51:42.704 --> 00:51:47.559
<v Kai Tang>to support a brand new program that came
out and you were able to handle it and</v>

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00:51:47.559 --> 00:51:50.654
<v Kai Tang>organize it.
And we have received so much positive</v>

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00:51:50.654 --> 00:51:54.902
<v Kai Tang>feedback on your work with it.
So thank you so much and thank you for</v>

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00:51:54.902 --> 00:51:56.358
<v Kai Tang>doing that presentation.</v>

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00:51:56.838 --> 00:51:58.198
<v Kai Tang>But Yazmin.</v>

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00:51:58.758 --> 00:51:59.638
<v Erika Miller>Thank you, Kai.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah, let me, Erika,
stick around for a second.</v>

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00:52:02.517 --> 00:52:06.118
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Any questions or comments from my
colleagues?</v>

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00:52:08.678 --> 00:52:14.386
<v Kai Tang>There was one thing or a few things that
I did want to highlight and really</v>

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00:52:14.386 --> 00:52:19.268
<v Kai Tang>highlight about the refresh in the new
program. Like Erika said,</v>

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00:52:19.268 --> 00:52:23.924
<v Kai Tang>this moved from a 15 day summer learning
program to a 30 day.</v>

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00:52:23.924 --> 00:52:27.078
<v Kai Tang>As we're looking to iterate in the future,</v>

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<v Kai Tang>We are going to do an additional 15 days
to read forward in this coming year.</v>

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00:52:33.082 --> 00:52:37.778
<v Kai Tang>And so the point of that is really to
help combat summer slide.</v>

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00:52:37.778 --> 00:52:43.722
<v Kai Tang>That's really the initial push for all of
our public libraries to do some summer</v>

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00:52:43.722 --> 00:52:48.198
<v Kai Tang>program for our youth.
And so in order to do that, we really</v>

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00:52:48.318 --> 00:52:53.909
<v Kai Tang>wanted to increase the length of the
program so that there was more incentive</v>

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00:52:53.909 --> 00:52:59.285
<v Kai Tang>to continue that reading because it is
such a large break over the summer.</v>

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<v Kai Tang>So that is just one of the things that we
have looked at for the refresh and the</v>

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00:53:05.091 --> 00:53:08.388
<v Kai Tang>new program,
as well as really focusing in on</v>

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00:53:08.388 --> 00:53:11.398
<v Kai Tang>gathering goals, metrics, and evaluations.</v>

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00:53:11.758 --> 00:53:16.178
<v Kai Tang>So again, like Erika said,
I want to thank everyone who has been</v>

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<v Kai Tang>such a big part in creating this program.
And we did just schedule a meeting in</v>

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00:53:21.618 --> 00:53:25.562
<v Kai Tang>October so that we are able to create new
metrics, goals,</v>

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00:53:25.562 --> 00:53:31.206
<v Kai Tang>and see how we want to evaluate for this
coming year and what consistencies we can</v>

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00:53:31.206 --> 00:53:34.198
<v Kai Tang>see throughout for evergreen data
tracking.</v>

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00:53:34.678 --> 00:53:39.110
<v Kai Tang>And as we're looking to increase
participation in the program,</v>

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00:53:39.110 --> 00:53:43.892
<v Kai Tang>we had our first service design session
for the back end logistics.</v>

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00:53:43.892 --> 00:53:47.550
<v Kai Tang>A few weeks ago,
I was able to meet with all of our</v>

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00:53:47.550 --> 00:53:52.966
<v Kai Tang>internal community or our internal
partners that are focused on the back end</v>

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00:53:52.966 --> 00:53:55.638
<v Kai Tang>logistics of the program to create our</v>

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00:53:56.038 --> 00:54:00.676
<v Kai Tang>idealized timeline or Gantt chart that we
can move forward with.</v>

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00:54:00.676 --> 00:54:06.383
<v Kai Tang>And I'm working with our public service
scheduling team to get more sessions on</v>

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00:54:06.383 --> 00:54:12.447
<v Kai Tang>the books so that our Librarian staff can
interact, be part of the feedback process,</v>

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00:54:12.447 --> 00:54:15.158
<v Kai Tang>as well as see the back end logistics.</v>

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00:54:15.398 --> 00:54:18.438
<v Kai Tang>and how all of the different pieces fit
together.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Great. Again,
any comments or questions from Carmen,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Ron? Ron, go ahead and then Carmen.</v>

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<v Ron Chew>Yeah, I was just going to say,
I think your enthusiasm is infectious.</v>

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<v Ron Chew>So it sounds like a wonderful iteration.
So I'll see you back at CID branch one</v>

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00:54:44.060 --> 00:54:44.438
<v Ron Chew>day.</v>

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<v Erika Miller>Awesome, I'll look forward to it.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Thanks, Ron. Carmen?</v>

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<v Bendixen, Carmen>Yeah, I will.
My comment was along the same lines.</v>

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<v Bendixen, Carmen>Thank you, Erika.
You kind of brought this all to life and</v>

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00:55:01.158 --> 00:55:03.470
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Yeah,
just looking forward to seeing what you</v>

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00:55:03.470 --> 00:55:05.078
<v Bendixen, Carmen>guys come up with for next year.</v>

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<v Bendixen, Carmen>So, thank you.</v>

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<v Erika Miller>Thank you. Thank you both,
Naran and Carmen. Thank you.</v>

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00:55:12.798 --> 00:55:17.238
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Tally, you're not coming off mute,
so I'm assuming you don't have any... Oh.</v>

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00:55:16.918 --> 00:55:19.558
<v Tali Hairston>Well, no, I was just gonna...</v>

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00:55:20.878 --> 00:55:24.278
<v Tali Hairston>Kind of pin the comment about Summer
Slide and.</v>

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00:55:26.038 --> 00:55:28.900
<v Tali Hairston>You know,
someone who's deeply involved with and</v>

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00:55:28.900 --> 00:55:33.455
<v Tali Hairston>concerned about education of kids of
color, the summer slide is a real thing.</v>

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00:55:33.455 --> 00:55:38.010
<v Tali Hairston>Data suggested is ubiquitous throughout
education systems around the country.</v>

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00:55:38.010 --> 00:55:40.989
<v Tali Hairston>The more we can continue to pay attention
to that,</v>

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00:55:40.989 --> 00:55:46.011
<v Tali Hairston>service that and put resources towards it,
we end up saving ourselves a lot of money,</v>

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00:55:46.011 --> 00:55:49.106
<v Tali Hairston>time, effort,
energy around social services down the</v>

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00:55:49.106 --> 00:55:49.398
<v Tali Hairston>line.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>And so I am hugely supportive of what of
this program and these programs that</v>

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00:55:55.960 --> 00:55:58.998
<v Tali Hairston>function in the summer in this way.
Thank you.</v>

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00:56:00.278 --> 00:56:01.078
<v Kai Tang>Thank you.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Thanks, Kelly. Yeah,
I wanted to just note one thing,</v>

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00:56:05.372 --> 00:56:10.499
<v Yazmin Mehdi>which is that when I think about programs
at the library,</v>

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00:56:10.499 --> 00:56:17.925
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I think about them as like a highlighter
pen in a book or something you're reading.</v>

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00:56:17.925 --> 00:56:19.958
<v Yazmin Mehdi>It's a way to highlight</v>

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00:56:20.278 --> 00:56:25.587
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the services and the things that the
library does every single day.</v>

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00:56:25.587 --> 00:56:31.442
<v Yazmin Mehdi>With the irrespective of having programs,
those resources and services are</v>

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00:56:31.442 --> 00:56:37.219
<v Yazmin Mehdi>available. So they're a highlight,
but then they actually go beyond that,</v>

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00:56:37.219 --> 00:56:41.357
<v Yazmin Mehdi>obviously.
And this is a perfect example of the ways</v>

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00:56:41.357 --> 00:56:42.918
<v Yazmin Mehdi>that it goes beyond.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>because it's addressing an actual
societal need that isn't addressed by</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>other agencies or it's partially
addressed or the library in its ability</v>

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00:56:57.064 --> 00:57:02.278
<v Yazmin Mehdi>to participate in trying to address that
societal ill.</v>

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00:57:03.318 --> 00:57:11.718
<v Yazmin Mehdi>is enhancing the ability of a lot of
other partners to contribute to that.</v>

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00:57:13.158 --> 00:57:19.067
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I think sometimes people don't get why
programs are so important.</v>

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00:57:19.067 --> 00:57:23.185
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So these kinds of reports are really
helpful.</v>

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00:57:23.185 --> 00:57:30.257
<v Yazmin Mehdi>They show the different layers of impact
that the library has as it does these</v>

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00:57:30.257 --> 00:57:31.958
<v Yazmin Mehdi>programs. I want to</v>

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00:57:32.038 --> 00:57:39.799
<v Yazmin Mehdi>shout out the foundation here for
underwriting a significant proportion of</v>

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00:57:39.799 --> 00:57:47.043
<v Yazmin Mehdi>our programs. So and then lastly,
the thing I wanted to say about the</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Summer Quest program is that to go from</v>

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00:57:51.118 --> 00:57:55.351
<v Yazmin Mehdi>one way of serving the community and then,
you know,</v>

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00:57:55.351 --> 00:58:01.340
<v Yazmin Mehdi>basically doing a complete refresh.
That's a big deal. And it's wonderful,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Kay,
that you guys have integrated it into the</v>

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00:58:05.093 --> 00:58:09.245
<v Yazmin Mehdi>work and evaluative piece so that as we
go forward,</v>

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00:58:09.245 --> 00:58:13.078
<v Yazmin Mehdi>we're learning and iterating in a
positive way.</v>

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00:58:13.878 --> 00:58:19.891
<v Yazmin Mehdi>to continuously, you know,
meet the needs of a broader range of our</v>

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00:58:19.891 --> 00:58:24.224
<v Yazmin Mehdi>patrons.
I love the whole adult piece of this as</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>an ad,
and I'm really curious to hear more about</v>

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00:58:28.556 --> 00:58:32.358
<v Yazmin Mehdi>who were those adults who participated
and</v>

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00:58:33.158 --> 00:58:38.026
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Like what motivated them?
Because that's pretty cool that we had</v>

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00:58:38.026 --> 00:58:42.445
<v Yazmin Mehdi>that many. It was,
it looked like it was almost 200 adults</v>

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00:58:42.445 --> 00:58:43.718
<v Yazmin Mehdi>who participated.</v>

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00:58:45.398 --> 00:58:46.038
<v Kai Tang>Yes.</v>

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<v Kai Tang>Thank you.
And I will say we have amazing staff</v>

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00:58:51.711 --> 00:58:56.536
<v Kai Tang>members that see all of our patrons as
full human beings.</v>

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00:58:56.536 --> 00:59:01.028
<v Kai Tang>And I think that this was successful
because of them.</v>

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00:59:01.028 --> 00:59:08.015
<v Kai Tang>Including the all ages was really a great
opportunity because we had so many missed</v>

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00:59:08.015 --> 00:59:11.758
<v Kai Tang>markets during the summer.
And so to be able</v>

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00:59:11.838 --> 00:59:16.168
<v Kai Tang>to really look at the accessibility of
our library,</v>

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00:59:16.168 --> 00:59:21.913
<v Kai Tang>incorporating all ages or including all
ages was really key in this.</v>

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00:59:21.913 --> 00:59:28.824
<v Kai Tang>I also have been doing a lot of work with
our community library partners, so KCLS,</v>

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00:59:28.824 --> 00:59:31.238
<v Kai Tang>Pierce, Sno-Isle, Tacoma, and</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>And.</v>

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00:59:31.478 --> 00:59:36.415
<v Kai Tang>there is, you know,
a lack of support for adult literacy as</v>

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00:59:36.415 --> 00:59:40.364
<v Kai Tang>well.
And so this was not meant to replace book</v>

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00:59:38.558 --> 00:59:38.998
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Mm.</v>

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00:59:40.364 --> 00:59:44.067
<v Kai Tang>bingo.
This is meant to support and enhance,</v>

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00:59:44.067 --> 00:59:50.237
<v Kai Tang>but there are often times where it's not
possible to read that many books,</v>

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00:59:50.237 --> 00:59:51.718
<v Kai Tang>you know, in your,</v>

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00:59:52.118 --> 00:59:57.898
<v Kai Tang>in your time over the summer.
So this provides a different access point</v>

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00:59:57.898 --> 01:00:03.036
<v Kai Tang>for our community members to be able to
participate. And again,</v>

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01:00:03.036 --> 01:00:08.656
<v Kai Tang>moving away from only reading to being
able to read, do, go, explore,</v>

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01:00:08.656 --> 01:00:12.268
<v Kai Tang>participate in programs and have that
count,</v>

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01:00:12.268 --> 01:00:15.158
<v Kai Tang>I think is a huge bonus and benefit.</v>

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01:00:16.278 --> 01:00:19.158
<v Kai Tang>for accessibility to all of our services.</v>

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01:00:19.958 --> 01:00:24.217
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yes, absolutely.
And I did watch that teen recording of</v>

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01:00:24.217 --> 01:00:27.638
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the mom song. That was so cool.
I love that.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Thank you for the extra,
the connection between sort of book bingo</v>

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01:00:35.249 --> 01:00:38.426
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and Summer Quest in terms of serving
adults.</v>

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01:00:38.426 --> 01:00:42.238
<v Yazmin Mehdi>That was helpful for you to share that.
Thanks, Kate.</v>

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01:00:42.718 --> 01:00:44.038
<v Kai Tang>Definitely, thank you.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay, thank you, Erika.
That was a great presentation.</v>

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01:00:53.678 --> 01:00:54.278
<v Erika Miller>Thank you.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay, so with that, we can go on,
go back to new business now and our 2027</v>

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01:01:04.389 --> 01:01:06.838
<v Yazmin Mehdi>library budget update.</v>

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01:01:13.558 --> 01:01:14.438
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Hello, Rob.</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>Good afternoon, members of the board.
Thank you for allowing me to come and</v>

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01:01:19.526 --> 01:01:23.227
<v Rob Gannon>give this presentation. But before I do,
I see that, well,</v>

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01:01:23.227 --> 01:01:27.367
<v Rob Gannon>I wanted to respond to Ron's comment from
earlier in the meeting.</v>

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01:01:27.367 --> 01:01:31.318
<v Rob Gannon>I don't see Ron still in the meeting,
but I want to make sure.</v>

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01:01:30.438 --> 01:01:34.224
<v Yazmin Mehdi>He had to, yeah,
unfortunately he had to drop off at noon.</v>

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01:01:34.224 --> 01:01:38.779
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I'm sorry, we just missed him.
But if you'd like to give your response</v>

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01:01:38.779 --> 01:01:41.859
<v Yazmin Mehdi>here,
it'll go in the meeting minutes and he'll</v>

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01:01:41.859 --> 01:01:43.078
<v Yazmin Mehdi>be able to read it.</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>I will do that.
So I just want to thank him for</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>recognizing our outstanding security team,
22 officers that provide services across</v>

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01:01:53.011 --> 01:01:57.840
<v Rob Gannon>all locations, all hours of the day,
before we open, after we open,</v>

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01:01:57.840 --> 01:02:01.958
<v Rob Gannon>and they're really just an outstanding,
hardworking team.</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>I wanted to note that I am not aware yet
that that affected patron, Ron's</v>

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01:02:12.838 --> 01:02:17.217
<v Rob Gannon>The person that Ron identified,
I don't know that they have sent in their</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>description of the situation and their
appreciation of the security officer.</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>I would encourage them to do that.
We're always welcome to,</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>or happy to receive that and pass along
the praise to our team. I will say,</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>however,
that I did receive a different e-mail</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>from another patron who'd experienced a
very similar circumstance at Central</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>in our garage,
dealing with an altercation and a cell</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>phone.
And I'm pointing this out because these</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>situations do happen in our library
system all too frequently.</v>

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01:02:49.192 --> 01:02:53.623
<v Rob Gannon>And our security team,
as well as our public services staff,</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>are always present and available,
supporting patrons in their experience.</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>And so what Ron identified as an
individual set of circumstances is really</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>something that our security team is doing
all the time in service to our library</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>community and the individuals that are
affected by some of what goes on in our</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>society. So I just,
I want to recognize our security team.</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>They are outstanding.</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>I think they are fully appreciated,
but we can always give them more</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>appreciation. And so I just,
I'm grateful to Ron for bringing that</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>forward.
And none of our security team</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>participates directly in these meetings,
so they're not able to hear it,</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>but we'll certainly pass along all that
praise. So thank you, Ron.</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>Thank you to the board for recognizing
the important role they play in our</v>

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01:03:41.637 --> 01:03:41.958
<v Rob Gannon>system.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah, Rob,
please do pass that along because</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>especially given that SPD was called and
did not respond,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>and I won't pass judgment as to why that
was the case,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>but given that they were absent,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>It obviously was a huge boon to that poor
patron to have our security officers</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>available and to help and to recover the
cell phone, etc. So thank you.</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>Thank you.
We will certainly pass that along.</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>And just to point it out again,
that is also the brand of our library</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>security staff is they are not only
present and providing a safe and secure</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>environment,
but they are caring and concerned about</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>our patrons.
They engage with them directly.</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>and they contribute so much to the
experience of our library.</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>So not passing judgment on SPD,
but that is also just a key indicator or</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>key illustration of why we have library
security officers helping support our</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>precious environment.</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>All right,
now I'm going to switch gears and thank</v>

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<v Rob Gannon>you to Erika Miller.
I'm going to rebrand our budgeting</v>

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01:04:58.753 --> 01:05:02.598
<v Rob Gannon>process as Budget Quest,
and we're going to start down that path.</v>

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01:05:02.998 --> 01:05:03.638
<v Yazmin Mehdi>This is.</v>

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01:05:04.358 --> 01:05:11.569
<v Rob Gannon>So look to Erika to join me and Nick and
many others in rebranding our efforts to</v>

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01:05:11.569 --> 01:05:17.988
<v Rob Gannon>energize and excite our outstanding
budget process as it already exists.</v>

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01:05:17.988 --> 01:05:23.176
<v Rob Gannon>So all joking aside,
I wanted to be sure that we gave this</v>

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01:05:23.176 --> 01:05:24.758
<v Rob Gannon>preliminary budget</v>

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01:05:24.838 --> 01:05:30.395
<v Rob Gannon>process update to the board so you
understand where we are situated as we</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/381-1
01:05:30.395 --> 01:05:34.976
<v Rob Gannon>enter into the next phase of our budget
development process.</v>

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01:05:34.976 --> 01:05:41.359
<v Rob Gannon>So it starts officially and formally when
the mayor makes their budget announcement,</v>

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01:05:41.359 --> 01:05:44.438
<v Rob Gannon>which occurred earlier this week. So I'll</v>

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01:05:44.678 --> 01:05:49.209
<v Rob Gannon>comment about that in just a moment.
But there is much work that goes on</v>

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01:05:49.209 --> 01:05:53.119
<v Rob Gannon>behind the scenes at the library that
leads up to this moment.</v>

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01:05:53.119 --> 01:05:57.774
<v Rob Gannon>So between the time we were doing the
levy development work to the time it</v>

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01:05:57.774 --> 01:06:00.815
<v Rob Gannon>passed,
we were also building the outline of our</v>

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01:06:00.815 --> 01:06:03.794
<v Rob Gannon>budget,
developing internal proposals about how</v>

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01:06:03.794 --> 01:06:03.918
<v Rob Gannon>we</v>

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01:06:03.998 --> 01:06:10.063
<v Rob Gannon>could put to the best possible use all of
the funds that do accrue in the library.</v>

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01:06:10.063 --> 01:06:15.835
<v Rob Gannon>Our team, led by Nick and his group,
have done outstanding work to get us this</v>

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01:06:15.835 --> 01:06:20.438
<v Rob Gannon>far. But people throughout the library,
leaders on Kay's team,</v>

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01:06:20.438 --> 01:06:22.118
<v Rob Gannon>leaders on Rick's team,</v>

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01:06:23.318 --> 01:06:27.013
<v Rob Gannon>throughout the environment have been
gathering information,</v>

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01:06:27.013 --> 01:06:30.893
<v Rob Gannon>both in response to the new levy
resources that are coming in,</v>

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01:06:30.893 --> 01:06:33.602
<v Rob Gannon>but also the baseline funding that we
have.</v>

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01:06:33.602 --> 01:06:38.714
<v Rob Gannon>How do we optimize that and make it most
effective as we head into the next budget</v>

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01:06:38.714 --> 01:06:41.238
<v Rob Gannon>biennium? So that behind the scenes work,</v>

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01:06:42.598 --> 01:06:45.955
<v Rob Gannon>has occurred.
We're now into this more open process and</v>

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01:06:45.955 --> 01:06:50.031
<v Rob Gannon>this process where we're bringing
information forward to the board.</v>

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01:06:50.031 --> 01:06:54.826
<v Rob Gannon>The memo lays out the calendar of the
expectations for the next several months,</v>

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01:06:54.826 --> 01:06:59.561
<v Rob Gannon>and I'll hit a couple highlights. First,
I wanted to center on the city budget</v>

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01:06:59.561 --> 01:07:02.318
<v Rob Gannon>update.
So Mayor Wilson presented her budget.</v>

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01:07:03.238 --> 01:07:09.076
<v Rob Gannon>in a speech on Tuesday of this week.
That's now transmitted to the city</v>

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01:07:09.076 --> 01:07:12.724
<v Rob Gannon>council.
And without summarizing her speech,</v>

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01:07:12.724 --> 01:07:19.373
<v Rob Gannon>what I did want to highlight is that the
library is in very strong position going</v>

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01:07:19.373 --> 01:07:21.318
<v Rob Gannon>into this budget period.</v>

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01:07:22.118 --> 01:07:28.397
<v Rob Gannon>In addition to having the new resources
coming from the 2026 library levy,</v>

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01:07:28.397 --> 01:07:34.927
<v Rob Gannon>we also have an anticipation in the
mayor's proposed budget of stable general</v>

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01:07:34.927 --> 01:07:39.029
<v Rob Gannon>fund resource.
So as we talked about many times,</v>

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01:07:39.029 --> 01:07:41.038
<v Rob Gannon>that is the foundational</v>

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01:07:41.398 --> 01:07:46.002
<v Rob Gannon>resource available to the library to
conduct its operations.</v>

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01:07:46.002 --> 01:07:51.285
<v Rob Gannon>We have in the past experienced
reductions that have built over time,</v>

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01:07:51.285 --> 01:07:57.171
<v Rob Gannon>but through a lot of very hard work and
good leadership from Tom as the Chief</v>

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01:07:57.171 --> 01:08:03.209
<v Rob Gannon>Librarian and members of this very board,
we were able to stabilize our general</v>

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01:08:03.209 --> 01:08:04.718
<v Rob Gannon>fund going into this</v>

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01:08:04.838 --> 01:08:08.483
<v Rob Gannon>biennial budget period.
That wasn't called out specifically in</v>

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01:08:08.483 --> 01:08:11.896
<v Rob Gannon>the mayor's speech,
but it is really important to us as we</v>

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01:08:11.896 --> 01:08:15.945
<v Rob Gannon>start this budget development for this
public component of our budget</v>

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01:08:15.945 --> 01:08:19.416
<v Rob Gannon>development process.
So I wanted to highlight that and give</v>

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01:08:19.416 --> 01:08:22.598
<v Rob Gannon>everybody on the board,
as well as those listening and</v>

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01:08:22.598 --> 01:08:26.358
<v Rob Gannon>participating in this meeting,
that first level of assurance. We</v>

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01:08:26.478 --> 01:08:30.381
<v Rob Gannon>While other city departments are
experiencing some of that general fund</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/391-1
01:08:30.381 --> 01:08:34.988
<v Rob Gannon>turbulence, Seattle Public Library is not,
and that is a very favorable position for</v>

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01:08:34.988 --> 01:08:35.638
<v Rob Gannon>us to be in.</v>

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01:08:36.838 --> 01:08:41.755
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah, Rob,
I'll just interrupt you for a second to</v>

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01:08:41.755 --> 01:08:49.854
<v Yazmin Mehdi>say that it was great news to me that the
mayor recognized that in a year where 75.</v>

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01:08:49.854 --> 01:08:55.638
<v Yazmin Mehdi>04% of the voters approved the library
levy that, you know,</v>

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01:08:56.118 --> 01:09:02.639
<v Yazmin Mehdi>allowing the library to not have to take
a cut in a stressful year,</v>

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01:09:02.639 --> 01:09:09.735
<v Yazmin Mehdi>future year was a very good decision.
I'm very pleased that she made that</v>

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01:09:09.735 --> 01:09:10.598
<v Yazmin Mehdi>decision.</v>

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01:09:12.838 --> 01:09:16.583
<v Rob Gannon>So as we enter into the budget
development and the operations plan</v>

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01:09:16.583 --> 01:09:20.105
<v Rob Gannon>development that will carry forward into
October and November,</v>

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01:09:20.105 --> 01:09:24.186
<v Rob Gannon>you'll see that represented in our budget
as proposed to you. Of course,</v>

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01:09:24.186 --> 01:09:27.539
<v Rob Gannon>the proposal will also go through the
city council process,</v>

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01:09:27.539 --> 01:09:30.278
<v Rob Gannon>so it will not be final until later in
November.</v>

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01:09:31.478 --> 01:09:36.063
<v Rob Gannon>but we have good reason to believe that
the stability of the library's budget</v>

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01:09:36.063 --> 01:09:40.883
<v Rob Gannon>will persist throughout that process and
we'll continue to keep council staff and</v>

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01:09:40.883 --> 01:09:45.410
<v Rob Gannon>the mayor's office well informed about
what is in our budget and why it's so</v>

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01:09:45.410 --> 01:09:47.878
<v Rob Gannon>important to the services that we provide.</v>

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01:09:49.878 --> 01:09:54.002
<v Rob Gannon>I wanted to just give brief mention to,
as in each year,</v>

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01:09:54.002 --> 01:09:59.282
<v Rob Gannon>our budget will also contain an
allocation provided to us by the Seattle</v>

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01:09:59.282 --> 01:10:05.069
<v Rob Gannon>Public Library Foundation. This year,
we have been working to put into motion a</v>

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01:10:05.069 --> 01:10:08.758
<v Rob Gannon>grant anticipated to be $6.1 million.
So this is a</v>

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01:10:09.318 --> 01:10:14.301
<v Rob Gannon>notable increase over last year's budget
from the foundation or the budget</v>

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01:10:14.301 --> 01:10:19.683
<v Rob Gannon>allocation, which is about $5.6 million.
So it is that generous support from the</v>

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01:10:19.683 --> 01:10:24.733
<v Rob Gannon>foundation enables us to do so much.
It puts us over the top in many areas,</v>

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01:10:24.733 --> 01:10:28.918
<v Rob Gannon>including programming,
as Kay and Erika just described, right?</v>

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01:10:29.318 --> 01:10:34.192
<v Rob Gannon>Foundation budget is a critical component
of our ability to provide essential</v>

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01:10:34.192 --> 01:10:38.816
<v Rob Gannon>public services and innovative services
that meet the needs of community.</v>

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01:10:38.816 --> 01:10:43.627
<v Rob Gannon>So we will be bringing that forward as a
part of our budget process as well.</v>

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01:10:43.627 --> 01:10:48.438
<v Rob Gannon>I want to just highlight a couple of the
key operational or the key process.</v>

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01:10:48.598 --> 01:10:53.717
<v Rob Gannon>dates that are listed in the memo.
So it is at the board's October meeting</v>

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01:10:53.717 --> 01:10:58.427
<v Rob Gannon>that we will bring forward the draft
outline of our operations plan,</v>

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01:10:58.427 --> 01:11:02.999
<v Rob Gannon>which incorporates all of our funding
resources, the general fund,</v>

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01:11:02.999 --> 01:11:06.412
<v Rob Gannon>the levy resources,
as well as the private funds,</v>

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01:11:06.412 --> 01:11:08.118
<v Rob Gannon>including the foundation.</v>

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01:11:08.558 --> 01:11:14.186
<v Rob Gannon>And we will show how we're beginning to
align those three different funding types</v>

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01:11:14.186 --> 01:11:19.197
<v Rob Gannon>with our strategic plan and with the
specific promises made in the levy.</v>

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01:11:19.197 --> 01:11:24.550
<v Rob Gannon>So that is our opportunity to show you
how we are preparing to do the work in</v>

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01:11:24.550 --> 01:11:27.638
<v Rob Gannon>the biennium and keep those efforts
aligned.</v>

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01:11:27.718 --> 01:11:31.709
<v Rob Gannon>Meeting operational imperatives,
pursuing the strategic plan,</v>

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01:11:31.709 --> 01:11:33.318
<v Rob Gannon>honoring levy categories.</v>

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01:11:34.278 --> 01:11:39.038
<v Rob Gannon>It is in later in the November meeting
that we will put much of the substantial</v>

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01:11:39.038 --> 01:11:42.310
<v Rob Gannon>detail into that document.
The board will see a draft,</v>

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01:11:42.310 --> 01:11:46.771
<v Rob Gannon>effectively a proposed budget for the
library that incorporates all of the</v>

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01:11:46.771 --> 01:11:50.519
<v Rob Gannon>learnings to that point,
as well as any adjustments that might</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/404-4
01:11:50.519 --> 01:11:54.624
<v Rob Gannon>come in the city council process.
The city council adopts the budget</v>

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01:11:54.624 --> 01:11:55.278
<v Rob Gannon>officially.</v>

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01:11:56.278 --> 01:12:00.950
<v Rob Gannon>the citywide budget on November 20th,
and then we come back to the board on</v>

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01:12:00.950 --> 01:12:04.822
<v Rob Gannon>Thursday, December 10th,
with the final view of the operations</v>

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01:12:04.822 --> 01:12:08.080
<v Rob Gannon>plan subject then to your final review
and approval.</v>

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01:12:08.080 --> 01:12:13.120
<v Rob Gannon>So that is a forecast of what is coming.
But I just want to reiterate that we are</v>

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01:12:13.120 --> 01:12:17.238
<v Rob Gannon>in a very favorable position heading into
this budget development.</v>

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01:12:17.318 --> 01:12:22.881
<v Rob Gannon>period because of the staple funds
provided through the city and the general</v>

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01:12:22.881 --> 01:12:28.949
<v Rob Gannon>fund because of the outstanding resources
provided by the renewed 2026 library levy</v>

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01:12:28.949 --> 01:12:34.511
<v Rob Gannon>and our thanks to the voters and then the
important piece of the foundation.</v>

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01:12:34.511 --> 01:12:36.678
<v Rob Gannon>So all of that will be weaved.</v>

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01:12:36.838 --> 01:12:42.640
<v Rob Gannon>together and we will have hopefully an
outstanding budget to carry us into the</v>

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01:12:42.640 --> 01:12:46.678
<v Rob Gannon>first period of the levy cycle and the
27-28 biennium.</v>

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01:12:48.518 --> 01:12:52.359
<v Rob Gannon>So I'm happy to pause there and answer
any questions or provide any additional</v>

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01:12:52.359 --> 01:12:54.838
<v Rob Gannon>information that the board may need at
this point.</v>

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01:12:55.958 --> 01:12:56.838
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Go ahead, Carmen.</v>

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01:12:57.238 --> 01:13:00.479
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Yeah,
I just wanted to say thanks for that page</v>

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01:13:00.479 --> 01:13:03.787
<v Bendixen, Carmen>two of the memo with the dates kind of
lined up.</v>

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01:13:03.787 --> 01:13:06.758
<v Bendixen, Carmen>I don't remember if you did that last
year,</v>

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01:13:06.758 --> 01:13:11.754
<v Bendixen, Carmen>but it is a nice tool to kind of have
next to my calendar and know what's</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/410-4
01:13:11.754 --> 01:13:15.872
<v Bendixen, Carmen>coming up. And I mean,
things happen kind of around the same</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/410-5
01:13:15.872 --> 01:13:19.856
<v Bendixen, Carmen>time every year,
but to have actual dates to put to things</v>

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01:13:19.856 --> 01:13:20.598
<v Bendixen, Carmen>is helpful.</v>

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01:13:21.878 --> 01:13:28.005
<v Bendixen, Carmen>On, this is a little bit of a tangent,
but just wanted to check on,</v>

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01:13:28.005 --> 01:13:34.222
<v Bendixen, Carmen>I'm assuming for the new levy,
the library will continue to be doing</v>

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01:13:34.222 --> 01:13:39.718
<v Bendixen, Carmen>quarterly reports that will be submitted
to city council and</v>

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01:13:39.878 --> 01:13:44.358
<v Bendixen, Carmen>and we will review those as we have for
the last levy.</v>

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01:13:46.518 --> 01:13:52.919
<v Rob Gannon>So, Carmen, yes, in some respects,
we will continue our diligent reporting</v>

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01:13:52.919 --> 01:13:57.101
<v Rob Gannon>on the efforts of the now the 2026
library levy.</v>

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01:13:57.101 --> 01:14:04.099
<v Rob Gannon>One thing that we are working internally
to consider is what is the best cycle of</v>

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01:14:04.099 --> 01:14:06.318
<v Rob Gannon>reporting to bring forward</v>

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01:14:06.438 --> 01:14:11.087
<v Rob Gannon>to the board so that you stay fully
informed about all our efforts.</v>

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01:14:07.638 --> 01:14:08.118
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Mhm.</v>

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01:14:11.087 --> 01:14:14.438
<v Rob Gannon>We owe to the city an annual report on
the levy,</v>

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01:14:14.438 --> 01:14:17.651
<v Rob Gannon>and so we'll continue to make that
commitment.</v>

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01:14:15.558 --> 01:14:16.158
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Mm-hmm.</v>

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01:14:17.651 --> 01:14:22.915
<v Rob Gannon>But what we're looking at and developing
ideas around right now is how do we</v>

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01:14:22.915 --> 01:14:25.718
<v Rob Gannon>better integrate strategic plan reporting</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/417-0
01:14:25.758 --> 01:14:29.798
<v Rob Gannon>with levy reporting with overall
operational updates.</v>

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01:14:29.798 --> 01:14:36.008
<v Rob Gannon>So we want to be sure that we're having a
continuous cycle to give the information</v>

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01:14:36.008 --> 01:14:40.946
<v Rob Gannon>to the board that helps inform your
understanding of the library.</v>

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01:14:40.946 --> 01:14:45.958
<v Rob Gannon>We may switch off of a strict quarterly
structure on levy reports.</v>

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01:14:46.198 --> 01:14:50.984
<v Rob Gannon>in favor of a more integrated approach to
keeping the board fully informed about</v>

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01:14:50.984 --> 01:14:54.233
<v Rob Gannon>all of our fun times.
So I don't think you'll see less</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/419-2
01:14:54.233 --> 01:14:57.246
<v Rob Gannon>reporting,
but it may not be a dedicated quarterly</v>

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01:14:54.998 --> 01:14:55.478
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Mhm.</v>

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01:14:57.246 --> 01:15:00.022
<v Rob Gannon>levy report.
But this is work that we're still</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/419-4
01:15:00.022 --> 01:15:04.335
<v Rob Gannon>internally trying to bring together so
that we can come forward and say,</v>

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01:15:04.335 --> 01:15:05.398
<v Rob Gannon>what is the future</v>

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01:15:05.798 --> 01:15:09.638
<v Rob Gannon>reporting and accountability cycle on the
levy and the strategic plan.</v>

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01:15:11.158 --> 01:15:11.558
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Okay.</v>

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01:15:12.678 --> 01:15:13.958
<v Bendixen, Carmen>That makes sense. Thank you.</v>

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01:15:14.358 --> 01:15:17.366
<v Rob Gannon>Yeah, that was a long answer. Yes,
we're going to continue reporting.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/423-1
01:15:17.366 --> 01:15:20.115
<v Rob Gannon>It may not be quarterly,
but we are trying to bring all of this</v>

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01:15:20.115 --> 01:15:22.478
<v Rob Gannon>information together in a way that not
only the board,</v>

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01:15:22.478 --> 01:15:25.958
<v Rob Gannon>but our public can see what we're doing
and why it's so important and impactful.</v>

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01:15:27.478 --> 01:15:28.678
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Rob, I...</v>

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01:15:29.998 --> 01:15:37.933
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah, it feels unnecessary to say this,
but I do want to say it. We,</v>

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01:15:37.933 --> 01:15:45.638
<v Yazmin Mehdi>during the levy efforts,
we frequently cited the quarterly reports</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/426-2
01:15:45.638 --> 01:15:49.318
<v Yazmin Mehdi>as a means of showing how we are</v>

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01:15:49.798 --> 01:15:55.231
<v Yazmin Mehdi>responsive to the community.
So I just want to make sure that whatever,</v>

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01:15:55.231 --> 01:16:00.889
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and I get what you're suggesting,
it makes perfect sense to be integrating</v>

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01:16:00.889 --> 01:16:06.849
<v Yazmin Mehdi>all the funding resources and reporting
on how we're using those as a whole as</v>

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01:16:06.849 --> 01:16:08.358
<v Yazmin Mehdi>opposed to trying to</v>

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01:16:08.758 --> 01:16:14.042
<v Yazmin Mehdi>separate those out,
but let's just make sure that it's really</v>

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01:16:14.042 --> 01:16:16.598
<v Yazmin Mehdi>clear to the public how we are</v>

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01:16:18.038 --> 01:16:21.958
<v Yazmin Mehdi>maintaining our commitments to what we
said we would fund in the levy.</v>

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01:16:22.758 --> 01:16:23.878
<v Rob Gannon>Absolutely, yes.</v>

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01:16:24.598 --> 01:16:24.918
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Right.</v>

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01:16:27.318 --> 01:16:30.598
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Does anybody have any other questions for
Rob?</v>

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01:16:33.158 --> 01:16:39.767
<v Yazmin Mehdi>The last thing I would say is that I
thought it was symbolic in a very</v>

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01:16:39.767 --> 01:16:44.235
<v Yazmin Mehdi>wonderful,
positive way that the mayor gave her</v>

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01:16:44.235 --> 01:16:49.075
<v Yazmin Mehdi>budget speech at Central Library.
That was amazing.</v>

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01:16:49.075 --> 01:16:52.518
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I'm sure that other mayors have given</v>

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01:16:52.758 --> 01:16:57.206
<v Yazmin Mehdi>have like made their budget speeches
outside of City Hall,</v>

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01:16:57.206 --> 01:17:03.085
<v Yazmin Mehdi>but this was the first one I knew about.
And so for her to choose the Central</v>

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01:17:03.085 --> 01:17:05.798
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Library was great. It was wonderful.</v>

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01:17:07.358 --> 01:17:11.392
<v Rob Gannon>It certainly was,
and it was more than just a budget speech.</v>

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01:17:11.392 --> 01:17:16.153
<v Rob Gannon>It was a large engagement with many
people participating in the speech.</v>

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01:17:16.153 --> 01:17:21.575
<v Rob Gannon>And I won't say it was a celebration of
the library, but it was an indication of,</v>

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01:17:21.575 --> 01:17:24.682
<v Rob Gannon>as you said,
how important the library is as a</v>

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01:17:24.682 --> 01:17:26.798
<v Rob Gannon>representative of city services.</v>

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01:17:28.038 --> 01:17:33.141
<v Rob Gannon>I also just want to take a moment and
plug the many people that helped pull off</v>

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01:17:33.141 --> 01:17:38.436
<v Rob Gannon>the mayor's speech at the Seattle Public
Library. Our Event Services staff, again,</v>

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01:17:38.436 --> 01:17:41.242
<v Rob Gannon>our security team,
our communications team.</v>

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01:17:41.242 --> 01:17:45.835
<v Rob Gannon>It was a great event and again,
honoring what the mayor proposed in her</v>

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01:17:45.835 --> 01:17:47.238
<v Rob Gannon>budget and the speech.</v>

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01:17:47.558 --> 01:17:50.895
<v Rob Gannon>depicting the importance of all her her
endeavors,</v>

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01:17:50.895 --> 01:17:55.998
<v Rob Gannon>but it was a lot of work and thanks are
due to many people at the library for</v>

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01:17:55.998 --> 01:17:59.531
<v Rob Gannon>having it be such a successful event
itself. So, yes,</v>

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01:17:59.531 --> 01:18:04.438
<v Rob Gannon>it was a great day and we're all proud of
it. Pleased it went off so well.</v>

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01:18:05.478 --> 01:18:10.289
<v Yazmin Mehdi>That's wonderful. Yes, and again,
in the midst of the ILS upgrade,</v>

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01:18:10.289 --> 01:18:15.745
<v Yazmin Mehdi>it's not like the library staff don't
have other things they're working on.</v>

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01:18:15.745 --> 01:18:19.478
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So thank you to the staff for making it
successful.</v>

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01:18:20.918 --> 01:18:22.518
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Great. Thank you, Rob.</v>

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01:18:22.038 --> 01:18:25.410
<v Rob Gannon>Thank you all.
We will be back in October with the next</v>

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01:18:25.410 --> 01:18:27.878
<v Rob Gannon>iteration of our budget development work.</v>

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01:18:32.678 --> 01:18:35.873
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Hey,
I believe the next thing is our union</v>

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01:18:35.873 --> 01:18:38.918
<v Yazmin Mehdi>report. So if we can bring Jesse forward.</v>

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01:18:41.569 --> 01:18:42.129
<v Jessica Lucas>Thanks, Jasmine.</v>

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01:18:43.969 --> 01:18:49.907
<v Jessica Lucas>I just wanted to add to my written report.
There's a space there where it says</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/489-1
01:18:49.907 --> 01:18:55.920
<v Jessica Lucas>something about everyone who contributed.
And I meant to put something in right</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/489-2
01:18:55.920 --> 01:19:00.429
<v Jessica Lucas>after that about IT.
And somehow I just went right past it.</v>

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01:19:00.429 --> 01:19:02.609
<v Jessica Lucas>I went into everyone else. So</v>

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01:19:03.089 --> 01:19:06.057
<v Jessica Lucas>To update that,
this might be a little long,</v>

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01:19:06.057 --> 01:19:11.069
<v Jessica Lucas>I'll cut it shorter if I need to.
But the IT department did amazing work on</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/531-2
01:19:11.069 --> 01:19:15.884
<v Jessica Lucas>this project from the beginning of
ideation to offline mode to relaunch,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/531-3
01:19:15.884 --> 01:19:20.171
<v Jessica Lucas>and then where we are now,
starting to sort ourselves out of the</v>

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01:19:20.171 --> 01:19:22.809
<v Jessica Lucas>weeds and into the new world of Polaris.</v>

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01:19:23.489 --> 01:19:27.191
<v Jessica Lucas>Each step of the way,
there was support and encouragement to</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/551-1
01:19:27.191 --> 01:19:31.136
<v Jessica Lucas>report problems that arose,
and those problems were explained or</v>

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01:19:31.136 --> 01:19:32.289
<v Jessica Lucas>fixed very quickly.</v>

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01:19:33.569 --> 01:19:38.506
<v Jessica Lucas>We are unsurprised by the high quality of
the work both represented and</v>

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01:19:38.506 --> 01:19:42.415
<v Jessica Lucas>non-representative staff did.
When we all work together,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/583-2
01:19:42.415 --> 01:19:46.392
<v Jessica Lucas>we do great things,
and we come to rely on the excellence</v>

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01:19:46.392 --> 01:19:47.969
<v Jessica Lucas>from our IT department.</v>

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01:19:49.249 --> 01:19:54.102
<v Jessica Lucas>I'm going to say that specifically
Caitlin Goats did a huge amount of work</v>

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01:19:54.102 --> 01:19:59.020
<v Jessica Lucas>on this project and has added many
finishing touches to make the experience</v>

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01:19:59.020 --> 01:20:03.809
<v Jessica Lucas>seamless for our frontline staff.
Big kudos to Caitlin for shepherding us</v>

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01:20:03.809 --> 01:20:07.303
<v Jessica Lucas>through this process.
Thank you to Jordan Calhoun for</v>

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01:20:07.303 --> 01:20:08.209
<v Jessica Lucas>developing the</v>

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01:20:08.609 --> 01:20:14.032
<v Jessica Lucas>the offline kiosks that we used that
allowed us to check out the patrons</v>

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01:20:14.032 --> 01:20:18.935
<v Jessica Lucas>during that offline mode.
What a lifesaver that was to be able to</v>

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01:20:18.935 --> 01:20:25.026
<v Jessica Lucas>upload all of that data to our new system
and not have to rely on our old standby</v>

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01:20:25.026 --> 01:20:27.329
<v Jessica Lucas>Excel. Thank you to Sarah Wong.</v>

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01:20:27.729 --> 01:20:34.104
<v Jessica Lucas>Sean Timm, Albert Amman, Sean Delaney,
and Richard Visick for everything they've</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/703-1
01:20:34.104 --> 01:20:40.007
<v Jessica Lucas>done to and continue to do to make this
process a smooth one for staff and</v>

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01:20:40.007 --> 01:20:44.021
<v Jessica Lucas>patrons.
Stephen Smith is continuing to do amazing</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/703-3
01:20:44.021 --> 01:20:47.169
<v Jessica Lucas>work building some of our processes that</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/744-0
01:20:47.249 --> 01:20:52.449
<v Jessica Lucas>get patrons holds moving and creating
other system reports that help us in our</v>

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01:20:52.449 --> 01:20:55.938
<v Jessica Lucas>daily work.
And also thank you to Charles Wesley for</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/744-2
01:20:55.938 --> 01:21:00.875
<v Jessica Lucas>his leadership in this project and to
Kevin Tracey for supporting everyone</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/744-3
01:21:00.875 --> 01:21:03.969
<v Jessica Lucas>along the way,
filling in where he was needed.</v>

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01:21:05.009 --> 01:21:08.639
<v Jessica Lucas>As we get used to our new Polaris
workspace,</v>

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01:21:08.639 --> 01:21:14.771
<v Jessica Lucas>it's good to remember who made the
transfer mostly painless and have set us</v>

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01:21:14.771 --> 01:21:18.643
<v Jessica Lucas>up for success.
So cheers to our IT colleagues.</v>

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01:21:18.643 --> 01:21:24.049
<v Jessica Lucas>And then I have one more shout out just
to our colleagues at Mock.</v>

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01:21:24.529 --> 01:21:29.525
<v Jessica Lucas>who gathered, stored,
and then processed all the items returned</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/823-1
01:21:29.525 --> 01:21:34.209
<v Jessica Lucas>during the outage,
and now are returning those out into the</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/823-2
01:21:34.209 --> 01:21:38.034
<v Jessica Lucas>field.
I guess they have actually finished their</v>

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01:21:38.034 --> 01:21:41.547
<v Jessica Lucas>backlog.
So big kudos to our AMH colleagues.</v>

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01:21:41.547 --> 01:21:43.889
<v Jessica Lucas>So that's all I have for that.</v>

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01:21:44.049 --> 01:21:46.049
<v Jessica Lucas>If you have any questions,
please let me know.</v>

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01:21:47.489 --> 01:21:51.082
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Jesse,
it's wonderful to hear how well things</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/865-1
01:21:51.082 --> 01:21:56.627
<v Yazmin Mehdi>have gone from your perspective.
I really appreciate you sharing that,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/865-2
01:21:56.627 --> 01:22:02.719
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and I'm sure all the people that you
shouted out, and I know Charles is here,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/865-3
01:22:02.719 --> 01:22:07.249
<v Yazmin Mehdi>will be happy to hear your praise.
So thank you for that.</v>

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01:22:09.089 --> 01:22:10.369
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah, did you want to respond?</v>

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01:22:10.929 --> 01:22:15.157
<v Jessica Lucas>I just wanted to say thank you and that
it's just so important to make sure that</v>

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01:22:15.157 --> 01:22:18.914
<v Jessica Lucas>people feel seen in these times.
It can be easy to be in the background</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/916-2
01:22:18.914 --> 01:22:22.359
<v Jessica Lucas>like our IT department is,
and just not feel like they're getting</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/916-3
01:22:22.359 --> 01:22:25.282
<v Jessica Lucas>that shout out.
Although I will say that Tom did a very</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/916-4
01:22:25.282 --> 01:22:29.249
<v Jessica Lucas>nice job of that just a couple days ago,
or maybe it was yesterday as well.</v>

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01:22:29.809 --> 01:22:31.569
<v Jessica Lucas>So I appreciate all that work.</v>

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01:22:32.329 --> 01:22:37.293
<v Yazmin Mehdi>That's great.
And I'd like to just quickly note that</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/953-1
01:22:37.293 --> 01:22:44.223
<v Yazmin Mehdi>when you think about the work that our
library staff have done in recent,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/953-2
01:22:44.223 --> 01:22:50.030
<v Yazmin Mehdi>in the recent couple years, maybe,
maybe a little bit longer,</v>

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01:22:50.030 --> 01:22:51.529
<v Yazmin Mehdi>it's remarkable.</v>

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01:22:52.049 --> 01:22:56.645
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I mean,
the ILS is just the most recent major</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/998-1
01:22:56.645 --> 01:23:01.441
<v Yazmin Mehdi>system upgrade that the library has
undertaken.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/998-2
01:23:01.441 --> 01:23:08.834
<v Yazmin Mehdi>The creation of the mock and the new
automated materials handling system,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/998-3
01:23:08.834 --> 01:23:14.429
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the library app,
and there's a whole list more of those</v>

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01:23:10.529 --> 01:23:11.009
<v Jessica Lucas>Mhm.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/998-4
01:23:14.429 --> 01:23:15.129
<v Yazmin Mehdi>things.</v>

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01:23:15.649 --> 01:23:16.129
<v Jessica Lucas>Mhm.</v>

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01:23:16.849 --> 01:23:19.987
<v Yazmin Mehdi>It's really impressive.
It's so impressive.</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/1044-1
01:23:19.987 --> 01:23:25.621
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And like now that we've got these things,
I know the ILS isn't completely done</v>

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01:23:25.621 --> 01:23:29.044
<v Yazmin Mehdi>right,
but as we get all these things lined up,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/1044-3
01:23:29.044 --> 01:23:32.895
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I'm just like so excited to see what
staff decide to,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/1044-4
01:23:32.895 --> 01:23:35.249
<v Yazmin Mehdi>how they decide to innovate next.</v>

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01:23:35.729 --> 01:23:36.209
<v Jessica Lucas>Mmh.</v>

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01:23:35.889 --> 01:23:40.366
<v Yazmin Mehdi>because so much has been accomplished.
And also, remember,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/1086-1
01:23:40.366 --> 01:23:46.589
<v Yazmin Mehdi>all of that was accomplished on the heels
of a ransomware attack where, you know,</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/1086-2
01:23:46.589 --> 01:23:52.585
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the library had to figure out how to
maintain regular service without a lot of</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/1086-3
01:23:52.585 --> 01:23:55.089
<v Yazmin Mehdi>these systems. So really, it's...</v>

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01:23:54.129 --> 01:23:55.049
<v Jessica Lucas>Yeah, and.</v>

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01:23:55.249 --> 01:23:56.209
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Impressive time.</v>

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01:23:56.929 --> 01:24:00.604
<v Jessica Lucas>Yeah,
and those were both supported also</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/1124-1
01:24:00.604 --> 01:24:07.149
<v Jessica Lucas>largely by our IT department and by our
mock materials handling workers.</v>

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01:24:07.149 --> 01:24:14.769
<v Jessica Lucas>So really appreciate all that they do for
us to keep us able to support our patrons.</v>

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01:24:15.449 --> 01:24:18.129
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yep. Thank you, Jesse.
Appreciate your report.</v>

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01:24:23.409 --> 01:24:27.139
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay,
unless there's anything for the good of</v>

f1cae4b7-5291-4ebe-ac2e-c686ec60e7a7/1137-1
01:24:27.139 --> 01:24:29.329
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the order, Carmen or Tally.</v>

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01:24:31.649 --> 01:24:36.527
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Then it is 1224 and this meeting is
adjourned. Kate,</v>

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01:24:36.527 --> 01:24:42.049
<v Yazmin Mehdi>you were terrific in Tom's place.
Thank you for being here.</v>

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01:24:42.929 --> 01:24:44.289
<v Kai Tang>Thank you so much.</v>

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01:24:45.449 --> 01:24:46.849
<v Yazmin Mehdi>We'll see you guys in October.</v>

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01:24:46.929 --> 01:24:49.009
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Okay, bye, thank you.</v>

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01:24:49.249 --> 01:24:49.809
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Kai.</v>