 Great. So the meeting is being recorded so that everybody knows. It looks like we have a quorum and I'm going to make sure that people can see and hear and be heard. Sorry, I'm running a little rag this morning. You can announce your presence. I want to call on you. That'd be great. George. Yeah. Farah. Yeah. And Alex Lefebvre, I am also present. So calling the meeting to order at 902 pursuant to chapter 20 of the acts of 2021, this meeting will be conducted via remote means members of the public who wish to access the meeting can do so by clicking on the live link to this zoom meeting that can be found on the public meetings calendar on the town of Amherst website or by dialing in my phone. The public is able to comment during the public comment segment of the posted agenda by raising their virtual hand. The meeting is being recorded and will be posted to the Jones library website. So I see we have three attendees in the audience. The first order of business that we have is a motion to approve the minutes of July 28, 2022. So I will go ahead. Have a motion to that effect. Yes. I moved to approve the minutes. Okay. You guys are great. Thanks. Any questions, comments. Kibitzing editing. Nope. Nope. Okay. So if we're ready to vote, George. Yes. And far. Yes. And Alex Lefebvre votes yes. Next section is public comment. I see, as I said, three attendees, you can join us in the meeting room and make a public comment. We would welcome you. You can signal by raising your virtual hand and we will bring you in. Okay. Seeing none. We'll move on to the next item. So in that packet that you received. Not very long ago. Is the revised CPA agreement. I'm going to go ahead and make a motion and then if someone will second it, we can go through. So my motion and sharing you correctly if I'm making this wrong, but is to recommend that the board approve the attached community preservation act grant agreement for the sum of $1 million to be used to rehabilitate part of the building in order to make it functional for its intended use of preserving the holdings of the library special collections. Archives. I'll second it. Thank you. So at our last meeting, Nate Boy was with us and he presented the agreement and we talked about how it was sort of a standard off the shelf agreement. And so in working with the town. The agreement has been revised and I don't know if we want to put up the document and quickly go over it. And then if anyone has any questions, because I'm guessing you guys did not have a chance to look at it yet. Can you guys do that? Okay. Do you need Sharon to make it a little bigger? Yeah. Okay. So essentially what was changed. So in section, I think it's the conditions section. Yeah. So the first change is conditions to a. So we just changed the commencement date. That's the date on which the project is supposed to start. And it was moved back to January one of 2024. And that is in recognition of the delays that we've had. But it's also in recognition that. The actual funds for this project are not likely to be expended until that time. And that's based on. Sean manganos. So this was Sean, Sean came up with a number, not us. And it was, it was what I was thinking in my head as well. And then we would have three years from January one to use the funds, which seems reasonable because that gets us to 2027. So that was that change. Does anybody. Have any questions on that one? No. Okay. The next change is to E. And so it basically said that we needed to put a historic preservation restriction in place. And it's just changed to acknowledge the fact that we already have one. So. The next section is indemnification. So this is, we took the language that's in the HPR. Because obviously our insurance is purchased by town and work town employees. And so this is the language that everybody agreed to under the HPR. So it just matches that language. Okay. Okay. Okay. So this is the indemnification section, Sharon. Oh wait, what's that one? I miss one. Sorry. We're up to payments now. We just did indemnification. Good. Sorry. Thank you. So it's teeny tiny. So the payment section. So basically what we did was we removed the language that says that the entire cost of the project in excess of the grant would be paid by the grantee. Hey, Nate, how are you? I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm in a motion. It's amazing. Do you want, do you want to go forward or do you want me to just keep going? So I can keep going. I had an update or something that took quite a long time to. To install. So I didn't, I apologize. I was waiting for a few minutes. I was almost going to join on my phone just because it was taking so long. No, that's okay. Thanks. We're, we're, we're almost, almost through, but. So this section, we just took out that language because. We're just trying to make sure that we're making sure that because town funds will be expended on this project, trying to make sure that town funds don't get paid toward the special collections so that we're only paying those costs just. Seemed onerous. And so we removed that language to take that sort of onerous piece away. And then the next section. Return of funds. So the next two sections actually. We're edited essentially to. The next section. So if for some reason the contract is terminated, any funds that have been expended will be expended. Any funds that haven't been expended would be returned. And so. Yeah. So that's it. So those are the changes. I don't know if anyone has any questions, comments, thoughts of me or of Nate, which I'm very appreciative of. Nate and Sean and taking time. To meet with me to go over these and get it turned around so quickly. So that we could look at it today. Okay. So if people don't have any questions. Oh, yes, please. Just one quick question. Just based on our meeting yesterday, the trustees meeting, if there is a pause or. Any changes in any of the plans, how, how does that affect this grant? I mean, the grant as it is, is, and you can speak to this, the grant is subject to us moving forward with the project. So if we didn't move forward with the project, the grant goes away. This, this would, this would, wouldn't matter anymore. And if we put a pause on it, I don't know what the ramifications of that are going to be, but in theory, even if it were a two month cause, I don't, I feel like the January one date we built in was a pretty safe date. I think we tried to allow some, cause you could start before it was a, yeah. So I mean, Nate, you have any. Yeah. I mean, I think as long as there's communication and, you know, I think a few month delay is not going to affect this, you know, if it were a few years then maybe, but a few months to me is not a big deal. So, you know, and I think we say it can be extended. Right. So we have that January 20, January 1st, 2024, unless extended by the town. So, you know, oftentimes. Grantees that receive CPA funds, you know, things may not happen right away after trying to get matching funds for grants or other programs. So, you know, I think that's fine. Thank you. Just, just wanting to make sure. Oh no, that's, you know, it's a good question. Thanks. Any other questions, comments? Okay. So then with respect to the motion to recommend that we approve this and send it up to the board, George. Yes. Yes. And Alex is a yes. So thank you again. Nate really, really appreciate everything that you did and working with us yet again. So thank you so much. Thanks everyone. Yeah. And the next item on our agenda is the North Amherst library project update. You know, and I'm going to let George take this because this has really been his, his project from the get go and he's done amazing things along with Petra. So you are George. Yay. So we do have a tentative opening date, which will be the 29th, which is Monday. I don't think we're going to be barring any unforeseen circumstances, but I don't think there will be. The signage is up. So everybody now knows that it is the library. We removed. Three van polls of books that we did not have space for. So we are going to be processing them here at the Jones. We're using the Goodwin room right now because we're meeting virtually. It's literally the only space we had that. That we could do it, but rather than taking the time to try to process them there, we're doing it offsite, which now you can actually see how much space there is over there. And it's wonderful. The book drop is supposed to get installed today. And I'm going around and getting spare keys made for certain things, but it's all looking really good. The staff over there are very excited to open up and finally get to greet the public and let them see that space. And I was there this morning and it does, it looks really wonderful to see it without boxes and boxes and boxes of books. So looking forward to it. Great. Well, immense gratitude to you and to the staff. I'm so excited to see that this has been a monumental job. And without. With many hurdles along the way. I don't want to see any more boxes. Yeah, I need to get it. I saw it in box space. So I'll have to go over next week and see. So thanks again. Okay. Well, I think that's, that's about all we have on our agenda. We have on the agenda that our next meeting is scheduled for, I think it was September 20th at nine a.m. And that time does not work for me. So I don't know if everybody else can. Find a time after say. Four o'clock. That would work. That would be great either the same day. Oh, no, we can't because we've got. We've got a lot of time. We've got a lot of time. We've got a lot of time. Day LBC meetings, right? Yeah. We can't do them on. Do you want to switch them over to Thursdays at four p.m. I'm going to let Farah take the lead on what works best for her. That should work. For the next few months. Yeah. And it may, it may only be for a month or two. I don't know what it is, but at least for the next two months. So we're saying Thursday, the 22nd. Is that the 22nd? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I can make that work too. Thank you, George. And then you want to plug in October 27th. And then we'll see after that. What, and then we might be, if it. I don't know if we're going to hold this Tuesday, nine o'clock time after that, because if, if depends on. If the schedule shifts, I'm happy to go back to these nine o'clock meetings. Are you going to be in person, Alex? For a while. You think. I don't know. We'll talk. We'll talk offline. As far as I know. Great. So, um, any topics? I think George, you don't have anything to share about HVAC systems or. Roof. Issues. Well, we just, we've been dealing with controls issues. Pretty much steadily. It's, it's a situation where we've had to reset the system every morning when we come in, because it's not coming on on its own. But we've got it down to a science and it only takes us a few minutes and we are. Having a part shipped in to replace the part that is malfunctioning. But it takes time because nobody stocks. The part we are looking for. So we're making it work for now. And I'll be glad when change over happens and we go back to heating because heating just seems to be so much less problematic. Yeah. So could I ask Sharon, we used to have on our regular agendas, sort of an update on building and grounds. And that seems to have fallen off the agendas and I. Yeah. Apparently we need to bring it back. Yeah. Yeah. I would, I would appreciate us moving back toward that just so. You know, we can keep the board informed of. The building and where we are and what's limping along and. You know, George, you know, along those same lines, George. If you could only choose one thing to fix regardless of price. What would it be? Regardless of price. Yeah. Yeah. The entire HVAC system controls and equipment. Yeah. Okay. That's number one. There's so many others that are almost equally as important, but that's, that's the big one because that is the thing that has kept us from opening and kept us from. Protecting the collection. Okay. Yeah. I mean, we'll see how things go in the next. A couple of weeks, week, two weeks, but. I just, just know in the back of your mind that I'm very much thinking about the status of the building. And I think. You know, the document we put together, you put. We ha, you. George put together for western and builders with sort of like the big ticket items. I don't know what our new things have been added to that or, or where we are, but it just. I just want to be prepared. For. Having to quickly. Put a request into JCPC or something. If this doesn't move forward, I really want to. Honestly, it's not a bad idea actually. Because if we don't hit the deadline, we're going to have to wait a year. Early winter. It could be in December. We're going to have to wait a whole another year to get JCPC money and. Yeah. What I, what I will say is, you know, the list itself. May not have any changes, but. The costs definitely need to be revisited because. As we've seen costs on everything is escalated and that. Isn't limited to new construction. That's. Everything. So the, the costs on that western builders quote. Have to be. Adjusted. You know, but it makes me sick to think that we might have to spend another $9,000 to get that cost estimate updated. I know. So, um. So I guess, um, I think. I think the first time you put that list together, I don't know whether you prioritize. I can't remember off the top of my head, but I guess I would just check the list again. Make sure the prior, the list of prioritization. Is what it is. And I mean, we can certainly. Use, you know. I mean, the biggest thing that people have to understand is that. The western builders broke out. For you far because you weren't here. So Western builders broke out. Different parts, but it wasn't really broken out. It was the assumption that all the work would be done at once. And then here's what each element costs. But if we were to actually separate it out, you had to add back sort of these key costs that. You know, you had to add back to the project. So. Which I'm assuming is what Cune riddle did when Cune riddle actually broke it apart, but we can't exactly just take Western builders numbers. And it's a little more complicated than that. The OPM did something similar for last night's. Presentation, but it wasn't. You know, it was just adding on a percentage to what was put into the project. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm thinking also too, I mean, our, our number one priority, you know, as I hear it from George is the HVAC system. But again, there's. My recollection is that once you've got the HVAC system opened up, doing other elements are much more cost efficient. To if we're not doing those, you know, that adds on additional cost. To do them later on. And so I just. I don't think it's going to be that long. I don't think it's going to be that long. Right. Because we can't wait another. Year, two years, three years. The systems won't make it that long. So we've just got to be. Prepared for the worst. Hope for the best. No. Okay. I know you have nothing else to do, George. So thank you. Well, now that the North Amherst library is set. Yeah. Now's a good time to go on vacation. No. You should have done it when I had the chance. All right. Okay. So if nothing else, we'll add back the building maintenance reports. To our list of agenda items, and then we'll start working on some numbers to present to JCPC. As a backstop in the event. Great. All right. Thank you very much, everyone. Have a good afternoon, and I will see the two of you this evening. Bye.