- I'd like to call to order the Monroe County Public Library Board of Trustees meeting for May 20th, 2026.
- If we could go around and introduce ourselves, and if you'd like to, you can share something that you're
- reading. I'm Nancy Van Allen, and just late last night, I started listening to Dan Chong, C-H-A-O-N,
- highly recommend him. He has short stories, and so, I guess, and I started Ill Will, which is a novel.
- just this morning on my way to work. So we'll see. Hi, everyone. My name is Jennifer Whitley. If anyone
- understands the reference, who is John Galt? I just finished Atlas Shrugged. It took me a little longer
- to finish near the end of the academic school year, but I finally finished it. I'm Whitney Eads, and
- I am just starting. I have a summer read for school.
- for middle school, and it's called An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth. So I'm going to start that.
- I'm Jamie Burkhart, and I just picked up Bruiser. I feel like I read it maybe 10 years ago, but it's
- been a doozy of a couple weeks, and it was making me think of this book, and so I decided to pick it
- back up. I'm Greer Carson. I'm reading Jonathan Height's book
- the anxious generation, and my family is replaying Fallout New Vegas, and I really don't know why, but
- it's perfect right now. I'm Amy O'Shaughnessy. I'm listening to Kin by Tayari Jones. And I'm Chris Hull,
- and I thought it was on here, the one I just finished. Oh, in her defense. And now I'm listening to
- Violent Thistleweight is not a villain anymore.
- Do we have anybody available for public comment?
- in any sense
- Oh, OK. OK. Got you.
- All in favor of approval of last consent agenda say aye. Those opposed say nay. Ayes have it.
- We'll do a quick check in with our online guest. You have a chat. Okay. We can. We'll check in after
- the director's report. So now we will hear from Greer.
- Okay, a few highlights as always. Once again, our overall collection use was very strong last month.
- It continued the trend we've seen since October of last year. And once again, digital collection use
- is significantly higher this year than it's been over the past four years.
- We've completed our Ellisville staff space improvements, including relocating the public service desks,
- moving the patron hold shelves, creating a new and more private staff workspace and program prep area,
- installing new carpet and fixing a host of plumbing and electrical issues. We'll be making improvements
- to our vital and outreach services workspaces next and expect to complete these before the end of the year.
- We've had very positive initial staff engagement with the Hoosier START program and held four informational
- sessions on site in late April. The reps have been great to work with and staff participation in the
- supplemental retirement program has been much higher than with our previous plan. So thank you all for
- approving this improved benefit for our staff. Our strategic planning team has begun meeting and will
- soon draft plans for gathering community input on what our next strategic goals should be.
- Community surveys, partner agency meetings, staff surveys, and focus group meetings will all be part
- of this feedback process. We'll share a draft of the new plan in November with you all and then look
- to formally adopt the final draft at our December meeting. And thank you to Whitney Eads for serving
- on this committee as our board representative. And finally, the Friends of the Library's spring book
- sale was a resounding success. It occurred in here last month over the course of about four days.
- and it saw record sales totaling over twelve thousand dollars so congratulations to the friends and
- uh... we're very excited to see that happy to answer any questions about the directors report one more check-in
- it's just real life right
- At this time, can I get a motion to hear about the annual budget process and our updated board calendar
- from Gary?
- The approval process for the 2027 budget will change this year for Indiana libraries. In the past, library
- budgets were approved by the Library Board of Trustees. Indiana House Bill 1406 adds another layer of
- approval to the library budget process. If a library wants to receive the same increase in their budget,
- as other local government units receive, then libraries have to go through a binding review process,
- which involves county council approval. The binding review can be avoided if the library accepts less
- than half the normal growth quotient increase. So what does this mean for library board's involvement
- in the budget process? In the past,
- The library started the budget review process at the July board meeting. This will continue. We'll present
- the budget detail to the board in July as we have done in the past. This will be the time to identify
- any questions or concerns. Changes can be made if necessary. The following board meeting in August is
- typically when we present
- the public advertisement for the library board approval. So we will still review the public advertisement
- in August, but the public notice for the library's budget will be included with the county's 2027 budget
- notice to the public. Yes. I have a quick question about that before you go on.
- when you're saying that will be included with the county council notice, we were advertising the same
- next to them within them at their meeting. So when we do the input into the gateway budget system, one
- of the first things that they asked for is, are you doing a binding review or non binding? And then
- they asked for the
- public hearing date and the adoption date. So we will provide that. And then the gateway budget system
- is also the public notice system. And so I'm not exactly
- sure how it will look. But that's in August. By then I should be able to do a PDF of the whole county
- notice that includes the library. And we can review that at that time. But that's the way I think it
- will work. So the public notice for the 2027 budget will be available on the Gateway website.
- which has all the local government budget reports. The MCPL budget will be included with county budget
- information for 2027. A big change this year is that MCPL will have to submit the 2027 budget in Gateway
- before September 1st. In the past, we submitted the budget in Gateway
- after the October meeting when the budget was adopted. Now looking forward at the September MCPL board
- meeting, the current board calendar says there will be a public hearing meeting on September 16th along
- with a regular board meeting. So we're asking the board to approve a revised board calendar today.
- The new calendar will not include a separate September meeting for a public hearing on the budget. During
- the regular meeting for September, we'll have an agenda item for a budget update and review of the county
- council public hearing. Greer and I will be attending the county public hearing on the budget. If the
- county council follows the same pattern this year for their public hearing on the budget,
- then it would be on Tuesday September 29th. We'll show that date on the August public advertisement
- along with the location which will probably be the courthouse. It looks like the adoption meeting for
- the county council will occur on October 13th based on last year. I've reached out to the county to
- confirm when
- They plan to have their public hearing and adoption meetings waiting to hear back on that. The MCPL
- board meeting will be on October 21st. The MCPL board calendar will be updated to show that there will
- be a review of the county council budget adoption at the October MCPL board meeting instead of the actual
- budget adoption like we've done in the past.
- This is a big change. I've started communication with our DLGF rep, and we've started talking with the
- county auditor to confirm dates for the public hearing and adoption. There are dire consequences if
- the library budget does not make it through the approval process. Failure would mean a 50% cut in the
- tax levy for 2028.
- We plan to prevent budget approval problems by using lots of communication with the DLGF and the county
- budget administrators. To summarize, the Library Board gets the first look at the budget in July to
- see if there are questions or concerns or changes to be made.
- The public advertisement is done along with county budget in August. The public hearing and adoption
- of the budget will be done at the county level. This may be a problem in some counties where there may
- be a lack of support for library operations in the community. We've experienced a high level of support
- from the county council and the community in the past when we have gone to them for approval to issue
- bonds. And we are optimistic about their support for the 2027 library budget. Any questions? In July,
- the public advertisement is in August and the adoption is in August as well. The adoption would be in October.
- And then in September is the public hearing. Are there things that we as a board can help support through
- this process? I imagine just knowing that we will be present for staff, you know, for board meetings
- and here to approve on the schedule that you have affirmed. Are there other things that the board can
- do to be supportive of the library during this change?
- that and I will certainly keep that in mind I know Greer will too if we if we can think of anything
- this is kind of a learn as we go for all of us I think including our DLGF rep. Absolutely everybody
- county counselors DLGF reps ourselves we're all like how are we doing this what does the law require
- so I think as we work through all of that we'll think about ways that you all can can play a role as
- well so thank you Amy that's a very good question.
- we are not approving a budget right we are giving input well I like to think of it as you are approving
- the budget we just have to go through another layer of approval because if they make changes and it
- comes back to us in October we do not didn't get a
- additional input that there's the rub the county council unfortunately can do a lot to the budget and
- and so meeting is really here's how we landed in September which typically as Gary said we would conduct
- in advance of our regular meeting is what changes and then the binding review and official adoption
- of the budget
- is what changes in October. So we can do all the work leading up to it, but those steps in September
- and October that we traditionally take will be taken with county council. So the public hearing that
- is scheduled then for September, how would that possibly look different? That would probably be at the
- courthouse. And the library would be on probably a long list of departments that, you know,
- like the water utility, well, not the utility, anyway. So if the public did want to give input, they
- would need to make sure to go to that location. Yes. Thank you. Time to consider any changes or additions
- or anything based on that hearing that might need to happen in order
- or the budget to be adopted a month later, or how does that work? Well, I guess the way I kind of look
- at this budget is that it's going to be very similar to budgets in the past. Really, about the main
- difference is the growth quotient increase that we're asking for.
- I don't foresee budget issues like certain line items, you know, saying there's too much here. I think
- that the big question is, are they okay with the same increase for the library as all the other units
- get? If they're not, then I don't know, we'll have to come up with something. The main risk maybe then just
- the deadline, hitting the deadline, like you said, the 50% reduction could happen if people don't hit
- that. If we didn't submit the budget by September 1st, that would be a problem. So not necessarily something
- in the budget that would be a big problem. It's just have to hit that deadline. The mechanics, if the
- advertisement is wrong, you're dead.
- So yeah. We've been following this pretty closely from the beginning, so we know what to expect. All
- in favor of the annual budget process with the updated board calendar with the timeline that Gary described,
- say aye. Aye. Those opposed say nay. All in favor? It is passed. Ayes have it.
- Jerry, I'm going to ask you to come back up with Brian. I don't know who's taking this one. Okay. Just
- to hear about the elevator upgrades and the public bid. As one of my favorite authors, Douglas Adams
- is quoted as saying, we are stuck with technology when what we really want is stuff that works. Over
- the past few years, past three or four years, we've
- we've been experiencing some increased issues with three out of the four elevators here at our downtown
- location. Some of the challenges that we face with these elevators include first the age of the equipment.
- Most of the elevator equipment here in the building is about 30 years old, dating from whenever we did
- the expansion from what was the original 1970s envelope of the library that we're in now, whenever we expanded.
- In 1995 and 1996, elevators were added. Most of the equipment dates back to then.
- And as we know, technology advances pretty rapidly. And so some of our equipment is just simply outdated
- at this point in time. Over the years, we've done some mechanical upgrades, some door hardware, things
- that open that control the doors opening and closing, the elevator leveling on each floor, things like
- that, things that really don't change too much. We've upgraded some of that.
- over the years. But now kind of what we're left with some of the components that haven't been replaced
- include the control system. So these are basically like the brains of the elevators. This is the housing
- where all the circuitry is. And so that's part of the major components that haven't been upgraded yet.
- Secondly, Schindler, who is our elevator contractor, they use proprietary equipment, meaning that it's
- just their parts and it's just their equipment, meaning that we can only call them for repairs. We know
- from having conversations with our technician that services us on kind of a regular basis, he covers
- a pretty wide area.
- He's based out of Indianapolis. We know he travels all the way to Illinois. We know he travels all the
- way to Evansville. So he has kind of a large service area that he covers. And while they are pretty
- responsive to us, they will normally get to us within a 24 to 48 hour window of whenever we call them,
- we speculate that we might get faster service if we didn't have proprietary equipment. That is, if any
- elevator technician could come and work
- on any given issue that we have. So when we factor in the age of the equipment and the fact that it
- is also proprietary, we run into a third obstacle, which is finding replacement parts, okay? So we've
- got old equipment, we've got proprietary equipment, and so when something major goes out, finding that
- older equipment, you know, we've heard anecdotal stories. Well, we had to call a guy that he hasn't,
- he's been retired a couple years, but he,
- but he just happened to have a part in his garage that we needed. So again, finding parts is challenging.
- And then I would also speculate that we're probably also seeing an increase in cost based on the challenge
- of finding some of those parts.
- We are committed though to a long-term solution. This long-term solution may result in a larger project,
- both in scope of work and financial obligation. If that's the case, then a project like this might require
- a public bid process. All right, okay. So basically we're gonna have to fix the elevators downtown once
- and for all. It's gonna be a big project. If it's big enough, it will require a public bid.
- So we're going to bring all of that to you all in June with a roadmap and hopefully some solid estimates
- and possibly the support of an elevator consulting company if we feel it's warranted. And then we'll
- have a plan for fixing these elevators. In the meantime, one of them is down. That's the staff elevator.
- The other two are working at the moment. Brian and his team are on it as quickly as they can whenever
- they go down. But you all have probably seen they're down a lot of the time. So we need to do this.
- process not only for equipment but looking at service contracting and locality of servicers.
- Yeah, so what we would look at would be probably a much shorter service agreement. So initially with
- any kind of major construction like this, there would be normally a one year agreement to make sure
- that the equipment works. In the bidding process, we can write in that we want a one or a two year agreement
- of that nature. And then afterwards, then we would review with that contractor if we would want
- continue with an agreement for service. And at that point, we would look at probably a short service
- agreement, you know, something like three years, you know, rather than something like what we have now,
- which is a lot longer. Yeah. I was just thinking about your list and part of the evaluation process then for
- getting those bids if you were cross-referencing, you know, of course, for proprietary parts and servicing
- and et cetera. That'll be all part of that process. Right, yeah. So the scope of work would include
- whenever people would bid on the project that it would be all open source material, that it would be,
- you know, it wouldn't be anything proprietary. And so there are a handful of companies here in the Midwest
- that do that kind of stuff.
- So I think the odds of us getting somebody local and close is good. Thank you. Any other questions about
- that before we move on? Can I get a motion to hear from Martin about the CAT streaming app and policy?
- Hi there. This is an exciting day, actually. So this is the introduction of a new Apple TV app and Roku
- app for cats. Basically, for a very long time, we have been wanting another way that we could make our
- services available to
- people in the community. Decades ago, I had a wonderful idea to create an app, and it just wasn't possible,
- and people laughed at me. And, you know, that was set aside. And then, very recently, Cody, the coder
- extraordinaire, I like to call him, he came up with an idea all by himself that said that,
- you know what, while he's sitting around watching TV or whatever, on his own time, decided, I'm going
- to make an app for cats.
- and we're going to put it on there. And he did. So he's come up with this app for Apple TV and Roku,
- and we're very excited. And we are currently available just on cable, and we do have a YouTube channel,
- which is great. But the problem with the YouTube channel is it only has a very limited amount of our
- archived videos on there. The great thing about this new app is
- will be connected to our archives. So you should be able to go on in there and look up any video within
- our archive right from the comfort of your home and your Apple TV on your Roku device. And you can watch
- live. Unexpected gift. This is awesome. You can watch live cats television on there. And so this is
- great. So it really has helped democratizing cats and
- local access, local government, local programming and activities in the community. And so we at CATS
- are very excited about it and really thankful to Cody and also a lot of help from Tori's team up in
- marketing who helped with some of the design of this too. And without further ado, I'm gonna hand it
- over to Cody and he's gonna run you through the mechanics of this thing.
- This here is the Apple TV app. But the Roku app looks identical. And this is the logo. And once you
- launch into it, it normally would start up here at the top. But we were testing it earlier. And these
- at the top are the live feeds. So you can watch the city channel live. And I thought maybe,
- We could see us on the library channel, but I guess we're not live on there. I was interested to know
- what would happen. But then it also has most recent videos for city meetings, county meetings, and community
- videos, and Cats Week. And they all have closed captioning on the recent videos.
- I agree. This is very impressive. I started working on this probably around August last year, but it
- was just in between when I was in between projects, kind of filling the time. Thank you.
- Yeah, we were really excited and really impressed when Cody brought that to us. My name is Ned Baugh.
- I'm the IT director. Martin covered why this came about, and Cody just covered how it works. The only
- things I'm going to cover are the launch plan. Basically, our plan for launching this is a soft launch.
- We want to get it approved in the App Store first so we can provide it to our staff and have them test
- it out. So we're still at the early phases of getting this released. But part of the approval process
- to the App Store means getting the privacy policy associated with the app approved. And that's what
- we need you guys to do for us. So the privacy policy sort of reflects what the library philosophy is,
- is that we try to avoid recording
- saving any patron information that we don't need. And for the CATS app, we don't need anything.
- In a nutshell, we say CATS TV, in general, does not collect, store, transmit, or share any personal
- information. And that's the way this app works, too. We deal with strict anonymity. The app requires
- no user accounts or logins or a profile to be created. It operates purely as a gateway to the streaming service.
- infrastructure. So it's the same information you're seeing if you're watching it on your cable TV or
- if you're watching it on the website. It doesn't require you to log in. We don't track viewing history.
- We don't have device identifiers. We don't track locations or crash data. There's no third party tracking
- scripts or advertising networks baked into the application. And part of why we've made the policy refer to just
- streaming in general as opposed to like the Apple TV or Roku app, is that makes it something that we
- can use in the future if we go to other devices like iOS or Android. We want to have a policy that just
- says for the CATS TV streaming app services, we don't record anything or we don't track anything. The
- only wrinkle that I guess we might want to mention is that while we are not tracking any of these things,
- when you go to say the app store for Apple
- You have to log in with your Apple account. Apple may be recording how many downloads there were, that
- sort of thing. But we as an organization do not do any of that. So we're not tracking any of that. I
- think that covers everything I wanted to make sure you guys were aware of. If you have any other questions,
- though, or do you need any more information before you decide about the policy, please let me know.
- And it's really exciting. I think it's a really positive development. The logo for Cats is amazing.
- I had never seen it before. It's great. And yeah, I think it will be. Will people be able to watch live
- content through the app? Like you said, you thought the library meeting being streamed right now could
- maybe be on there, but it seems like it's like a live feed of the library channel. Yeah.
- sections that you see up here match what's on the website and match the cable channels that are currently
- streaming. So when you go to the city channel, that's the same, that's what you'd see on the city channel
- right now if you're on cable. These down here are pulling up the five most recent meetings. Not to promise
- features before we've got them.
- forward-looking, we'd like to have search built into it so that you could go farther back than just
- what we're presenting here. And we would also, as we digitize more things in CATS, like to have more
- of the community videos available for you now, too, because a lot of that stuff, frankly, is not really
- easily accessible. You can go to the website and do a search, but I know that's not as easy for everyone.
- Hopefully that answers your question.
- In the future, will there be, for instance, if someone were to want to watch the Rotary meeting live
- or this meeting live, will the functionality be there or they would need to be on Zoom because the intention
- for that is for someone to be able to, I guess the intention for Zoom here is for the public comment,
- to watch. That's probably a different story. Because up until recently, the Library Channel did have
- this meeting live.
- Cody and I were talking about that recently. We thought it would be on tonight. I don't know how much
- detail we want to go into, but when we changed the back end of CATS, and Martin could explain this better
- than I, so that it's more digitized, it changed the way we could take the signal from this room to present
- it, so we're not doing it live right now. Did I capture that?
- Yeah, it's all right. No, it's other things too. Like in just about seven minutes, the city council
- is supposed to start. So the city council, no offense to y'all, but the city council or the whatever
- county meeting was going on would take precedent over this one. So we wouldn't sort of, part of our
- policy is we don't cut into a meeting in progress. So we'd never want to get into a situation where
- we would start a meeting and say, oh no, we're gonna cut away from that one into this one. No, it's just not.
- council meeting later this evening live on the Cats channel. Yeah, they can do that. But there's other
- plans apart from this app, although, sorry, Cody, I'm going to give you work here. You know, there's
- other things that we are sort of hoping we can do in the future. You know, we only have one city channel
- and one county channel for our government stuff.
- What we're hoping to do in the future is everywhere we go with the right equipment, we should be able
- to, there's no reason why we can't literally stream every meeting we do. So if we can stream it, we
- can stream it to our website, then maybe we can have links on this app that so, is there's a feasible,
- a reasonable way that someone could go on here and if it's streaming live, if it's a meeting that we're
- actually actively recording, then you could stream it and watch it on there.
- I didn't know there was a city channel and a county channel, and I work at a television station, so
- I'm excited that this exists, and I think it's a great benefit to the community. Yeah, there's actually
- five channels. Yeah, great. Thank you. So this isn't a question about this, so I don't feel like you
- need to stay, but I would like to address Greer. I think the policy is fantastic.
- we will take our vote tonight. What I'd like to put in the notes for consideration is, because I think
- this works very well for the Apple Store app policy, but how does this affect any policies we currently
- have for the library for representation of people when they choose to be excluded? Like how would we
- need to modify any policies we have if we are, because we have talked about, you know, not wanting your
- photograph taken, not having some, we've opened up maybe perhaps a new door.
- that I think we should consider. Absolutely. Or that they had to come to us to tell them. So our media
- relations policy addresses the question of what does a patron do if they happen to be in a photograph
- that we take for our own purposes and they would request not to. But I think you're right. We do need
- to look at that and figure out how that broader than that. So I think that we just need to think about
- how we want to provide protections to people. So that could take the form of
- a very brief addendum to this particular terms of service policy, basically. Well, I don't know if it
- affects the Apple Store policy as much as our library policy. And that's, I guess. Take a quick look
- at the sections in the draft policy to see if there's a place where it makes sense to reference. Because
- I think as far as the Apple Store goes, this is what they need. We've done our due diligence here.
- So yeah, it could be the actual media relations policy that we want to look at and change language to.
- What was your question again? Basically, like with our media relations policy, it says, if you're at
- the library, you might be photographed or filmed for library purposes. Here's what you do if you don't
- want to be photographed or you want to be redacted from the footage or whatever it is. And if I understand
- your question, Jamie, you're saying, well, that consideration of patron privacy has just gotten broader.
- because now we're gonna have this policy that says we're not recording your data, we have this new app,
- how do those two policies connect to each other, and do we need to make any updates to the media relations
- policy in particular? I don't necessarily know that this is the place for that, but I think
- it's a conversation that we may need to revisit in another way. Yeah, I mean, I would see this as, well,
- at least to me, this is almost an extension of the CATS policy that we have sort of now that is a sort
- of blanket
- policy that we have. I mean, we don't, CATS doesn't really do any recordings in the library or anything
- like that where we would take anybody's image without their permission or anything like that. A lot
- of these are, everything you're seeing up here are meetings, you know, type of meeting things. Now,
- there was something that you clicked on earlier that looked like a choir or like, you know, and the
- first thing that came to my head was like, well, what
- What are those privacy things, you know, because I'm thinking in terms of, you know, I heard the musicians
- when we were coming in and, you know, the younger people and that might be on that. But that was going
- to be my next question was how many, where do you, where does cats go that would maybe have or be recording
- or doing this with those types of situations?
- I don't want you to think at all that this is not that I'm taking that direction. I'm just thinking
- about how do we protect our patrons? How do we protect? Yeah, no, these are all legitimate and really
- good questions. What we do in those situations where we're recording a choir or whatever, someone has
- requested it, we usually like it. First of all, we make sure it's the organizers of the event that are
- doing the request and not particularly if it's kids doing an event. It's not just a parent. It has to
- be an organizational thing.
- But in that point, they usually have to fill out a program request, but there's a section on there that
- says, have you obtained permission that allows us to record it, and they have to sign off on that. But,
- you know, we used to try in the day, we'd send out permission forms that they'd have to go through every single
- person and that was just too unwieldy and some person at the last minute would drop out and all of a
- sudden there was chaos. So what we advise people to do now is particularly if you've got an audience
- and someone in the audience doesn't want to be recorded, you can put a sign up on the door and here
- will be the entrance to the auditorium as people go in or if they're selling tickets for whatever reason
- or roughly put it on the ticket that says if you enter here you are giving permission that you may be recorded.
- Or if you don't want to be recorded, please sit to the back of the hall where, you know, our people
- have been instructed, do not point cameras towards the back of the hall, that kind of thing. So that's
- where we do that. I don't remember or said every once in a while in the library if we did some, we may
- have done some promotional events, recording for cats in the library. But in those situations, we try
- very hard to make sure if we're coming through that we're not picking up any faces or
- If we do, we try later on to obscure those images and stuff like that. We really go out of our way to
- make sure we're not doing that. Wonderful. Thank you. Great question. Thank you for working with that.
- OK. All in favor of the cat streaming app policy for the Apple Store, say aye. Aye. Those opposed,
- say nay. Ayes have it. Thank you, everyone. Nice job, Cody.
- I can't wait to stream it online at home. Okay, next up we have Brian back up talking about building
- services and security. All right, so I'm going to give you a quick overview of the building services
- and security department. I am Brian and I am the building services and security director.
- And when we think about building services and security, what we're talking about mainly are maintenance,
- custodial, and then of course the security departments at our three buildings. The maintenance department
- focuses mainly on large systems such as heating and cooling systems, plumbing, lighting, electrical,
- carpentry and painting.
- and then helping to maintain the six library vehicles, the grounds and landscaping around the three
- buildings, snow removal in the wintertime at this location, completing daily facility requests, and
- then as well as repairs to the building envelope and the contents therein of those buildings. The custodians,
- their responsibilities include
- Cleaning the interior of the building, emptying the trash, processing the recycling, completing daily
- facility requests, grounds cleanup, including items that are left behind on our sidewalks and grounds,
- like after, you know, if you were to win a Big Ten championship and then maybe, you know, a national
- title or something like that, or after a little five or something like that, some of those kind of things.
- Custodians are also the ones who run the daily route of circulated library materials between the buildings,
- although this task is sometimes shared by the maintenance staff. The daily route that's transported
- between the building usually includes about 10 to 20 crates of books, movies, and CDs per building,
- interdepartmental mails, office supplies, things of that nature.
- The security officers their security job duties include enforcing the behavior policy here for the library
- oversight of our camera and door security systems opening and closing the building to the public each
- day assisting with unloading patron donations assisting with multiple deliveries each day and ensuring
- they are brought to the appropriate departments. Not including myself there are six different
- job descriptions here within building services these include
- One building services assistant manager and that person assists in the big picture coordination and
- day-to-day oversight of these different departments. One maintenance expert who maintains the physical
- integrity and safety of the library's facilities and equipment. One maintenance technician who performs
- routine maintenance and groundswork. Eight security technicians who again are mainly tasked with the
- physical security and enforcing the library's behavior rules.
- one security lead who is tasked with coaching and training security officers, and 10 custodians who
- are responsible for providing clean and welcoming grounds and facilities for staff and patrons. This
- past year, this past strategic, part of the strategic goals for the library building services has been
- integral to strategic goal number three. And one of the,
- One of the points there that we were very involved with this past year is I got to chair a group of
- library employees that represented a cross section from our library system. And together we selected
- a new incident report writing system. And the staff are currently undergoing training this month so
- that we can launch that software on June the 1st. So we've been doing pretty extensive training at all
- three of our buildings then for that new software.
- Any questions? We appreciate you all. Quick plug for Brian and his team. Not all libraries are privileged
- enough to be able to do security and custodial work and maintenance work in-house and often contract
- out. But we not only have a robust team that does that in-house, they're part of library culture. And
- that can be a challenge too.
- through Brian's leadership and with some really great staff we have in that department, they're very
- much a part of the library. So not only do they get things done and anticipate things that need done,
- they're a big part of the entire library team and we're incredibly fortunate. So sorry to embarrass
- you, Brian, but I couldn't resist. Well, I appreciate that there's somebody who's doing a training.
- That's pretty cool. And again, I always do this in my mind, but I have to say it reminds me of a school.
- It reminds me of
- You know, everybody, and they always seem to be, you know, beyond just administrators and teachers,
- but the custodial staff and the maintenance, it's all a big team and a family that get to know each
- other very well. So yeah, I appreciate that. It takes a village, as they say. Yeah. Thank you.
- Thank you. We're still good over there? Just one last check? OK. All in favor of adjournment, say aye.
- We are adjourned.