 So, at this time, I would like to go ahead and call our meeting to order and share that we do have a quorum as I'm counting all of your heads on the screen here. And at this time, I would like for all of you to please rise and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic from which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And looking out in the beautiful Common Council chambers, I do see that our Mayor Vandestine has joined us, and we are actually at the point of our agenda of public comments, and I don't know if he had some comments that he wanted to share at this time. Not this time. All right. So, now we are moving on then to 1.4 of approval of the minutes. At this time, would someone like to make a motion to approve the minutes? You can raise your hand and unmute yourself if you'd like. Is there someone who would like to second? I'll second. All right. So, we have Kyle that has made the motion, and Meg that has made the second. Are there any discussion points under our minutes? Does not look like anyone has any discussion points. All those in favor, please say aye. Any opposed? Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you very much. Moving on now to 1.5 correspondence announcements and Common Council reports. I am just looking over to our library director, Garrett Erickson. He does not have any at this point, but I actually have two. One is that I'd like to share some wonderful news that I just found out today that Debbie DeAmico was just elected as the co-director, Municipal Treasure Association of Wisconsin District 6. So, I think we should just give her a nice round of applause of congratulations for that honor. So, Debbie, we'd actually try maybe even give you a handshake or a hug or a high five if we were in person, but maybe you'll see that in 2022 or hopefully 2021. So, congratulations, Debbie, it just underscores your leadership and your tenacity in wanting to know everything about every single penny, and you are going to really be a wonderful role model for everyone in District 6, so thank you. At this time, the other announcement that I just wanted to share mainly because I think I forgot to share last month, you know how excited I get when the library continues to be so innovative, I just wanted to share that in case you didn't notice, there's still a wonderful Mead Public Library merchandise, and now it is a Canvas bag, so for those of you that just need yet another bag to tote things around, just think about Mead Public Library. All right, now moving on to 2.1 committee reports, and I'm just looking to see if Nancy has been able to join us yet, and not looking for her at this point. I think we're going to, someone's coming up the stairs, but no, it's not Nancy. I think we are just going to come back to this topic to see if she's able to come in. I haven't received a text or an email, so I'm hoping she is joining us momentarily. So with that, I think, oh, yes. This is Sydney. Oh, okay, yes, Sydney. Nancy did let me know that, sorry, there's an overlap. Nancy did let me know that she got stuck in Madison today and was going to try and phone in at some point, but wasn't sure when, just so you know. All right, well, thank you for that update. We will hopefully have her join us later on in the meeting. So moving on then to item 3.1, 2021 operating budget. And I think at this point, I'm going to try to make sure I have Garrett turned on. Thank you, Maeve. Just a small update here. So last time we met as a board, the library board did pass an operating budget. And so that's sort of like the first phase of approval that we have in the process. And from there, normally it goes to city administration and then on to the council, their finance committee, and then finally to the full council. At this point, we have met with the admin team that was Todd, the city administrator as well as Marty and Tara from finance, Kerry, Aaron's, and then Debbie and myself. And so we met on the 14th. We have some small adjustments that we've made to the budget, but overall it's pretty much intact at this point. We're still waiting for city administration to compile all the requests from each of the departments and then they figure out where their revenue is and sort of then come back to us with any adjustments that need to be made. So at this point, we don't have any major adjustments to be discussed. And Debbie did send out a couple of tweaks earlier, I believe it was earlier today. And so if you have any questions about those tweaks, I guess now would be the time to ask it, but I don't have any major announcements on that yet. So if you do have a question, if you just want to raise your hand, I can call on you. The document was, I think, pretty well laid out for us. And I think the explanation of change column has been very helpful with this particular budget. All right. Then I guess we will move on, since there are no questions, moving on to capital improvement projects that would be under 3.2. Okay. And for this one, we did, there is an attachment in board docs that shows four projects that we're looking for support for funding. We were going, we are using the 850 fund for these. So these are donated funds, but I will go through them fairly quickly here and leave if you have any questions, let me know at the end. It says number nine project. Just know that we had these sequential. We just pull these out because they haven't been done yet. So the first one is staff lounge. We have most of the furniture is very, very old, decades old. We're looking at some new furniture as well as some appliances in there. For instance, the oven doesn't work and so on. Right now, we do have money from the CIP process at the city that we can complete that floor. And the last part of that floor that hasn't been done is the lounge. And so there is some money available there along with carpeting and the vinyl that we ordered for the rest of that basement level. So we'd like to finish up that project and a total cost of it is $41,348. Next project that we have is automatic entrances in the front lobby area. And so when COVID first hit, we had discussions about trying to make all of our areas that are high touch into no touch, such as in the restrooms having the paper towel dispensers, things like that as being no touch. We also talked about the front lobby area having doors more like if you walked into Walmart or a grocery store where they open up automatically for you. The cost on that's about $9,400. Now, I guess the question for the board as we go through this, this will be the one that I'm not as strong on any more knowing that what science is telling us now is COVID is mostly spread through the air and not as much through touch. I think that this one we could talk about again, but we did get a quote on it. And then moving on to the last two that we have here. We have steel gate and fence in the very front areas. You're walking by the generator when you come into the library. There's an area that's concrete. It's sort of a little bit hidden in there. But what we have is we have some issues with people going in there, especially at night, leaving stuff there and so on. And it's just, we would actually like to put a gate there as we have in the other areas just to keep people out of there. And then also we're talking about a fence that would start and cover up the generator and go all the way around that area. And then also in the back along the grates where the HVAC exhaust system is working, you often see people standing on that in the winter time because it is warm air releasing from the building. However, since we last met, we had another fire where someone dropped cigarette butts into that area. And there's also paper down there from people dropping it. And they started a fire. We actually had to have the fire department come again. And so we're very interested in putting a fence around that area to stop that sort of thing from happening anymore. And I did give Maeve a tour of that area. So she saw all the stuff that gets dropped down in that area. We would just like to put a fence around that already to kind of contain that. And then lastly, the number 21, the last project listed is actually just continuing to update the office furniture for the library. We have a variety of from 60s, 70s, 80s. We've got every decade of furniture throughout the library. And obviously there's issues with that with ergonomics. We worry about people having issues with their wrist. The newer furniture that we're ordering is the kind that you can stand up on. So that helps out a little bit with movement. This new furniture also is going to be higher profile. We'll order some glass piece partitions in it so that, you know, the thought is there is that for sneezing and for so on with COVID that if there are a little bit higher walls, we'll try to contain any sort of germs that would come fly between people, so to speak. Right now they're very low profile, so there's really no protection. And we have quite a few staff that are working together in the same area. And so that's why we really we had planned on doing that project next year, but instead we'll move that up to this year to get to try and protect the staff a little bit. So again, these funds were all donated in the past to the library. This was before we had a foundation. We call it the 850 fund, but we'd just like to get some support and some feedback on these projects and approval if you guys like the ideas. So if anyone has any question, they can raise your hand. I can share with you that I had a lovely tour by Garrett. He took me over by the grate and I looked down and I think there must have been at least 200,000 cigarette butts in the underneath, along with I counted at least four cigarette lighters and a variety of other paper products. So when when there is sort of a fire, all of that lovely scent actually ends up impacting the air quality inside our building. So I really think it is a necessary addition to keeping our building healthy and safe for everyone inside. But any questions or comments on any of the expenditures for these projects? It looks like nobody is waving their hands. So would someone like to make a motion to approve these capital improvement projects? This is Kyle. I so move. OK, Mary Lynn, seconds. Any further discussion? Kathy, if you want to unmute yourself, go right ahead. Thank you. I didn't know I was muted. So we're talking about it coming from the 850 funds. Is this prior to the transfer? Were the foundation were requested of the foundation? Or is it still as we control the funds? So, Kathy, if I could, Maeve and I were speaking about the process on this moving forward so that the the trustees have some availability to have input in the process. What we think should happen moving forward is that I would still go to the board, the board of trustees first when I'm putting together sort of wish list items. And then I would go to the foundation and ask them as well. And then that's how the process would work. So I'm going to we're starting right now with this project, these projects asking first through you guys if these are appropriate projects. I guess is the way I'm looking at it. OK, and we did talk to John on this. And John, I showed him these four projects. He said, if the board of trustees did approve that, then they would be approved. So, OK, so just for the other people on the call, John Peroni runs the finance committee for the foundation now that they're going to be taking this over. We're going to have to just do this process where it's really library money. But we're asking the foundation for it because they're managing it and holding it. And to clarify, when we get down to the director's report, we're going to share a little bit about well, actually, when we get down to the library foundation report, we want to share the good news about the the agreement in regards to the Mead fund, which was previously known as the 850 fund that Kathy is referencing. Any further discussions on these capital improvement projects? OK, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye, aye, aye. Aye, aye. Any opposed? OK, motion carries. Thank you very much. And I think just the expenditure on the new equipment for our staff will really improve just their their wellness and their health, just knowing that they're safe in the working environment with the additions of the new type of furniture, as well as the protective plexiglass glass, glass shields. So I'm really pleased that we're bringing this forward and deciding on this this year versus next year. So thank you. All right, then moving on to 3.3 digital media policy as I'm trying to navigate like three different screens up here. I think it's high time we have a digital media policy. So on this one, I had brought this to the board either at the last meeting or maybe two meetings ago, and the directive was to go back and make sure Attorney Chuck Adams of the city had a chance to look at it, which I have since did. And he did actually have some really good feedback, which we've incorporated into the policy. And so the policy is nearly the same, except a couple of things that I'll point out. So in a number four, the second paragraph of number four, it says comments and posts that paragraph at the very end of that, he asked us to add a statement that would say if we are going to delete or hide someone's comments, someone who's commented on our social media, that we should contact them and let them know that their post was taken down and then ask or tell them the reason why it was taken down. And so we can still use those bullet point choices that we've got just below that that talk about like obscenity and some other things down there, slanderous liability or libelous threatening comments, those types of things. So if Josh were to take one of those statements down or hide it, then he would need to contact that person and acknowledge why the comment was taken down. And then also on the very back page, this page two, it starts off, there's a paragraph that says egregious. And then the rest of that was all added. And Attorney Adam stated that if we are to pull down comments that we need to have a process that a person can formally appeal that appeal having their their information taken down. And so the way I looked at that was it's very similar to a ban book or someone getting kicked out of the library, so to speak. We would have a process where the staff would first make the call and then it would come to me as the director. And then thirdly, it would go to a board that may would pick a couple of people from the library board and they would have a chance to state their case. Now, obviously, just making a comment on social media, I hope that it doesn't make it to you guys in the sense that it's that big of a deal. But it could. And so Chuck wanted to make sure that we had a process in place for appeals. And so that last part of the policy is actually that appeals process. OK, does anybody have any questions or comments about this new digital media policy? Looks like Chris has Chris go right ahead. It's that paragraph. Can you hear me? Yes. OK, it's the paragraph that Garrett was just talking about. It said within any of the following categories will be deleted or hidden by the library staff. The word hidden just doesn't sound right compared to the deleted. Could it just be put removed by the library staff? That's actually a technical term, Chris. There's actually hiding posts or things like that. That's actually the terminology from Facebook. So I think that's where that came from. How much English wise it would be better for a angry person instead of hidden. And also just know that there is some legal reasons that Chuck explained that that we don't want to be deleting anything. In fact, part of the follow up on this policy is that I need to make sure that the library's social media sites are archived. And right now the city is doing that we have not we are still working through our IT department through the city to make sure that the library library social media sites are included in on their archiving service. But for reason because of that, we need to make sure they're hidden and not deleted, I believe, was if I remember the correct discussion with Chuck. So how do you say deleted well? OK, Mary Lynn, I think you had your hand up. You need to you're muted at this time. If you want to unmute yourself, that's OK. This is I would just just for ease of reference when you have some paragraphs like that. If you could just have for a for B. So Garrett doesn't have to say the paragraph that begins. I think just throw a few little markers in there to to allow people to discuss it. That may be a tiny thing, but I just thought I would suggest it. That makes sense, Marilyn. I appreciate it. Good point. Any other question or Kyle Welton? You're just kudos and to the staff on the policy. I think it looks great. Thank you for letting it by Chuck and bringing it back to us. I mean, it's thoughtful and comprehensive, and I'm glad we've got something in place. Thank you, Kyle. I know Chuck said the city is going to be doing an update to theirs as well very soon. Well, then ours is the perfect template to start. Any other question or comment regarding the digital media policy? All right. Would someone like to make a motion? File for a second. Can be been moved in second. Any further discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you very much. Moving on now to director's report. 4.1 update on services and programming. And so we'll start off by delegating 4.1 to Melissa Prentice. We need some updates on programs. So we're continuing with the low revs, virtual ukulele classes. Those continue to draw pretty big numbers. And so we'll be continuing those classes into the fall month. Great decisions is back as of last week. It's airing on WSBS on Thursday evenings at 8pm through October 22nd. The talks can also be viewed at any time after they air from these YouTube channels. We're working with our program partners, long time program partners in the Makerspace Gearbox Labs, and they are providing a series of live virtual workshops on Tinkercad, which is a free online software collection focused on CAD and engineering design and coding. The workshops are being offered both in English and Spanish on Saturdays through October. This Saturday, we are offering 100,000 poets for change again. That's actually the 10 year anniversary of that program. And that will be virtual poetry readings that will be live streamed from our Facebook page. And that's the Saturday at 1pm. And then looking ahead at our program planning a bit, I know I've mentioned this in past meetings, but we are making good progress at developing an ongoing and regular content for WSHS radio, which is out of North High School. We have a staff member on public services, John Tully, who has extensive experience in community radio, and he's been working with the staff at North High School, as well as some of our staff in the library and some of our community partners to develop some content for radio programming. We're really excited about that, the potential of that, obviously due to COVID, but also beyond that, I think it's a really exciting and cool opportunity for us. So that's all the programming stuff. I did want to give you all an update on how things are going with the mask issue in the library. So the last few weeks have been a bit trying. So I just wanted to kind of share that with all of you. So we're two months into the mask requirement, the statewide requirement. And what we're starting to see is staff beginning to experience really a high level of stress and emotional fatigue and burnout when it comes to enforcing the mask requirement. So those enforcement interactions have increased significantly in the last couple of weeks. We kind of expected maybe the opposite would happen as time went on. People would get maybe a little more used to it. And the opposite has seemed to be true. And while many of those interactions go fine, the ones that go poorly tend to go very poorly and are becoming increasingly taxing for our staff. So we did start tracking some of these interactions. So, and this is data for the last four weeks, we've had 482 enforcement interactions, and that's simply where we've asked a person to wear their mask and wear it correctly. Of those 48 have resulted in some kind of belligerence or hospital reaction or harassment, name-calling of staff, and of those 18 have resulted in a patron being excluded from the library for at least, excuse me, at least a day or up to a week. So the management team really is working on solutions to help mitigate some of these issues for staff. And we're still kind of figuring that out. It likely will be a combination of some additional managers support on the floors, more staff time away from desk shifts or having your desk shifts on different floors, and then possibly bringing in some support from Mental Health America or EAP during hours when we're not open to the public to help staff deal with some of the stress and burnout they're experiencing. But I think, you know, some of this has to do with the fact that we are kind of in that no end in sight point. And I think it's really wearing on the staff. And I think as a public to some extent as well. So that's all the updates I have. Any questions? Well, I just wanted to say, Meredith, thank you so much for Melissa. Oh, my goodness, it's one of those days. So thank you so much, Melissa, for just being so candid and honest in your update to all of us on on how a policy that is trying to keep everyone healthy and safe, how that is how that's faring these last couple of months. And it's and I, you know, as a board, we never want to put together and put forth a policy that creates stress for staff. And unfortunately, it seems as though our policy has done this. But it's not the intent of the policy. It's how our citizens are reacting to this policy. And the only reason our library is open is we felt that if we have this policy, we could open safely. So I'm I'm I just I just feel heart sick for our employees that are having to deal with these interactions from citizens who really don't understand perhaps the intent, which is to keep them safe, as well as keep all of our staff members safe. So I think your suggestions and thoughts of how to improve things for our staff and with with the ideas that you put forth makes sense to me. And now I will just open it up to the other trustees to see if there is any other ideas, because, you know, if we find that citizens will not follow the policy, then at some point, we may have to take the decision that we cannot have our library open, because we are not able to do so in a safe manner. So at this point, I will just open this up to any other trustee who would like to share. Kathy Norman. Yeah, I'm curious if it's awful to put this on our staff. We now have this new resource officer. Can the staff people if they get any pushback turned over to that person? Yes, and they and they definitely have been. But these some of these interactions don't happen when Santino is right there present. The staff are still the front line dealing with that. And that added support has helped a lot. But we've also seen an increase in that kind of non-compliance, but also the sort of aggressive pushback has gotten worse. So. And one of our challenges with our library is that we are the one city building that has more citizens coming in every hour. So we are the one city building that's probably encountering this more than others. I think Kyle Welton, did you have your hand up? Yeah, I had two questions. The first is, do we have, I guess my concern is that is there a recidivism issue here where folks are just continuously coming back in and then to my staff and the exploits? Is there a, do we have the ability to implement a fine structure? I don't know for a lot of that, but I'm just trying to think if there's anything we can do to protect our staff or put the directive in, and could we station the resource officer in the vestibule to prevent people from entering the building if they're not getting through the counter, if they're not wearing a mask, wearing it properly to catch it upstream before staff have to interact with it. For your first question, we do, there are a few people who are kind of repeat issues, but a lot of the folks that we have those more intense interactions with, we never see again. I've honestly wondered if it's sort of intentional, if they're trying to pick a fight, and it's just sort of getting the point across and then they're gone. Some of the repeat issues we've seen are definitely with our more vulnerable patrons. And so there's that push and pull with staff wanting to be more accommodating and understanding, but also seeing this kind of repeated problem with some folks. And we definitely have talked about having a staff member, whether that's the safety specialist or the managers or some combination at the entrance of the library, but that's not always practical to do for the entire time period that we're open. If I could add into that, Melissa, you guys have done a good job of part of their script, so to speak, is when they have these interactions, we offer curbside for those folks that want to pick up their stuff outside and they don't have to worry about a mask that way. That is one of the first things that the staff offers, that option of getting service a different way where they don't have to worry about a mask. Any other... Chris? I was wondering if the mayor is still sitting there and if he has any ideas of what to do in case other buildings have slightly the same situation? Well, he is walking to the podium now, which means, Chris, I need to know which button to push. I think it's... He got it. Oh, there you go. Thank you very much, Madam Chair. No, we really don't have a lot of those things occurring in other city buildings. City Hall has, in the past, had people coming in that are over at the transfer station to use the restrooms here, and that's really been about it, but they come and go, and there's maybe a little bit more cleanup needed, but we really haven't had those kind of things to deal with in other city buildings. Like you mentioned, you get a huge amount of traffic in people that other city buildings don't see, and unfortunately, they're not all treating the building and that opportunity to use the library like we'd like them to. All right. Thank you for sharing that. You know, just one thought that I have. I've always have been so impressed with the signage that has been created and put up all around the library. I'm wondering if it would be a new tack or a new suggestion that maybe a big sign right at the entrance is basically thanking everyone. Do the reward the good behavior? And sort of like, thank you for wearing a mask. You are keeping our library staff healthy and safe. And just, you know, make it really big so that, you know, and you could also add other library patrons and just reminding people why we are doing this and make that sort of the first thing that they see. Just a thought. Any other thoughts for Melissa? Other than if you, Melissa, if you could just share and I think I'll probably take a moment to even write a note on behalf of the board just, you know, thanking our wonderful library employees for doing their best during this very challenging time to keep not only themselves safe, but every single citizen who comes into our building. They are really doing an incredible job having to focus on that, which was never the original intention of library services. And it looks like Kyle had another thought. Yeah, I was wondering, Melissa, to your point, wondering if maybe there are folks who are looking to start a fight or kind of make an issue out of this. Do we know, do we have any suspicion if there is a concert effort? I know that there was, there's been a group that's been very active and vocal around and the county board had a proposed ordinance and there was a lot that, a lot of follow-up that comes from that. We dealt with some issues with the chamber. With some of those people that I'm just curious if maybe this is branching out to other parts of the community and we need to be aware of it. Not that I'm aware of. And I, we certainly haven't seen people in group coming in unmasked and making a statement in that way. It really has just been individual. So it's hard to say. I do know. Thank you all. I do know that in coming into the library, there are still people who are very happy that you're offering free masks and they're standing there deciding which colorful masks they would like to have. So, the mere fact that if people don't have one, we are providing that either the disposable kind or the cloth kind. That is still something that we are providing to make sure that that is not a hindrance for someone coming into our building. Any other questions or thoughts? I would just like to shout out to the Sheboygan mask making group. They've been providing us with a lot of masks and they do a great job for us. Wonderful. Thank you. Then moving on then 4.2 update from support services. And so this will be Cheryl Nessman. We have a couple of things. Just letting everyone know that the material return room that was built is completely up and running. We're able to cook up to 24 carts full of items per day and get the temperature high enough to kill all stages of the pests that we're after. So including eggs, which I think is really going to be helpful in stopping the spread. We view this as a great service to our Monarch system libraries as well. And Garrett has been in talks with them to see if the directors will vote to have us treat their items as well. And the only other thing I was going to mention was that we have partnered all of our pages with collection development staff to help them with collection projects as we test our page liaison program. We're, I've been working with Melissa on that. And we've been, before I even started, Melissa had been talking to my predecessor about doing some cross-training with the pages to give them a little bit more diversity in what they're doing, a little bit more interest and just to better our services to our patrons with our current liaison program. I would say that one of the goals I have is to get more ownership of the different areas within the library, the different collections so that when patrons are going out there looking for items, hopefully they are in better order. And we're also offering a little bit more help to Melissa's selectors who with everything else they're dealing with right now need that little bit of extra help in their selection and leading processes. Okay, thank you. Does anyone have any questions or comments for Cheryl Nessman? Kathy Norman. Yeah, so we still are holding onto materials for many days and I know that's the protocol that state or DPI or whatever has given us but is there any talk of changing that now that we think it's more airborne than it is about touch? It almost seems like the February's have passed us by but we're still operating by the original guidelines. Right, so yeah, there is talk. We're getting kind of mixed messages, I would say. We are definitely watching the news and Garrett just shared a video actually, a PBS News Hour video talking about the fact that it's predominantly airborne but then we are still having testing being done for library materials and museum type materials that show that the virus is still viable on items. So we're trying to, we would love to get further guidance from DPI on all of it. I don't think they came out with any further guidance after round three of testing and now we are seeing round four testing data. So Melissa and I have definitely been talking about this as well as with Garrett. Right now personally, I am airing on the side of caution. I would love to just, I would be comfortable shortening our quarantine period down to three days, the 72 hour period but that doesn't gain us a whole lot and I'd hate to do that and then have to bump it back up. So at least this week, I'm airing on the side of caution, talk to me next week and more data might come out and yeah, we'd love to shorten that period, we would. Because it's not just about the materials not being available or people showing late, late materials when they've really returned them, it's also more work for you guys, storing all the stuff for days and then having it pile up. Right and you know, I don't know that we would ever completely get rid of the quarantine so that work is going to be there regardless. So then it really does fall more on the side of, you know, dealing with patrons who want to get that stuff off of their account. Yeah. Any other questions or comments? I just wanted to share that I did get a phone call from a library patron who is thrilled that she can now check out the puzzles. So there's been, the puzzles have been like in hostage situation since March and so the mere fact that you're allowing puzzles to be exchanged and you've got a whole plan to quarantine them when they come back but I've never gotten a phone call about puzzles before. So thank you on behalf of that one patron, may not be the only one who's thrilled with that new service being reinstated. All right, since there's no other questions or comments for Cheryl, thank you again for a detailed report and I really appreciate your building projects report because it just keeps demonstrating how it's never a slow time at Meade Public Library, all of the list of things that you were keeping track of and putting on hold and gathering more information on. So thank you very much, Cheryl. Moving on then to monthly statistics, 4.4. If I can, maybe I'll jump back for one thing on 4.3 that wasn't included in on this. So we've been working with the DPW, the Department of Public Works, as well as the clerk's department. And when you're on the west side of the library, now you'll see a little bit of construction in the driveway. And when we had a couple of weeks ago, the post office was talking about not being able to keep up with absentee ballots, several municipalities, including the city of Sheboygan, clerk's department decided that they would put more boxes out in the community so that way people could just drop off those items and then their staff would go pick those up periodically. And they do have some drop box here at the city hall. They're also putting one right now in the library drive. So as you drive through to drop off your materials, you'll notice right by the staff door, there's a large box that says very clearly Sheboygan absentee ballot drop box. And right now that's anchored there to kind of keep it out of the way, but people can still access it and have been. But the plan is, is they are building more of a permanent structure towards the end of that driveway just before you pull out onto New York Avenue. And they so far have put up the posts and there'll be a curb there and so on. So it'll be just like kind of like the mailbox area when you leave the post office parking lot. There'll be a little small island where you can just drive up in your car, rolled on your window and drop those off. So that's kind of what that little project is if you're driving through wondering what that is. It's the clerk working with the DPW to get that project done. So that's great. Wonderful. Thank you. All right. Now we're ready to move on to 4.4 monthly statistics. Yeah. And I guess on the statistics, we're still running about roughly 50% on everything. Um, we are waiting. We obviously the new mask was the mask rules extended, but hopefully we don't go back into a shutdown mode for the state. But right now we're sort of running at about 50% for our statistics compared to previous years. And so, um, e-content is doing well, but sort of that's the physical checkout as well as the gay counts. So, um, I guess any questions on any of that? Nope. Okay. Any questions, comments on the monthly statistics? All right. I think then we will, um, I'm still looking at the my phone and my email to see if Nancy will join in to talk about the committee reports. But I think we'll just do the liaison reports and that at the conclusion of that, if she does not appear, I will give the update from the committee report from the ad hoc art committee. So at this point with liaison reports, 5.1, the monarch library system, we will put that on hold until next month when Nancy is here to update us. Moving on then to 5.2, Mead Library Foundation. I just wanted to share that the foundation did meet yesterday. It was quite the combination of Zoom plus in-person meeting in the Roca Room. And I am really happy to report that the foundation unanimously agreed to the agreement of transferring the ownership of the Mead Fund to the Mead Public Library Foundation. And it is with great thanks to Kathy Norman who helped with the agreement in addition to City Attorney Chuck Adams as well as Attorney John Holly to ensure that our agreement reflected the intent of Mead Public Library and Mead Public Library Foundation. So as all of you are aware, since 2000, I believe, 14, the foundation has been in charge of the investments of this fund. And when these funds were bequeathed to the library back in the, I want to say 70s, 60s. Early 1969 was the first big donation. Right. We did not have a foundation in place. And so this is really a perfect place for these funds. And I think we will continue to work well with the foundation for the betterment of Mead Public Library. As you're all aware, at our last library board meeting, this board authorized me to put together this agreement and authorized me to sign it with the foundation board president, Bernie Markovitz. So I just wanted to let you know that that was accomplished. And it was, again, just like it was with this board, unanimously passed at the meeting yesterday. The other thing I wanted to share is with great disappointment that due to COVID, the foundation is not able to offer its wonderful Wisconsin Academy programming and they are hoping that maybe in the spring they might be able to do a virtual program. Along with that, due to COVID, they will not be doing their annual Yuletide celebration. And the foundation is considering what are some other ways where they can virtually connect with our incredible supporters of Mead Public Library. And I don't know if there's anything else I've forgotten, but I'm going to just look at Kathy Norman since she and I are the two representatives on that board. So it looks like I, oh, Kathy Norman. Yep. I'll just say, you know, the foundation has been really blessed with many big gaps that have grown over the years. And so it sounds like this year, we're just, we're not going to go out and try to actively solicit funds the way we normally do because there's other things in the community that needed a lot more. And we can't really have these fundraising events like the mini-golf that Leah talked about. So I think it's a good year for us to hunker down and just try to be responsible and offer whatever services we can to the library to be responsible. But the foundation is to do it in an active fundraising mode this year. All right. Thank you. And Mary Lynn. Just real briefly, I just have a clear sense of how hard May's and Kathy and trustee members and board members and, you know, fooling around with lawyers. It was, you know, it was just fabulous work. And I think this is really, it's such a smart thing for the library and the foundation to be doing. And so I just wanted to say job well done. Okay. Thank you. And with that, I think I will turn this out to the 5.3 friends of me, Sydney, if you have any update from the friends. Not a ton of stuff. They did not meet in September at all. They did however meet in August. Lots of things have been canceled with the friends. Their October book sale is going to be canceled. They want to postpone it until spring. But we'll see, I guess. I do want to just point out, though, that they've really strongly compensated their bookstore sales in favor of online sales. They've also been very responsive to embracing the digital world. And so July bookstore sold $386 worth of items. eBay sold $595 worth of items. And that's better world books who they work with. Sold $536 worth of stuff. So I think it really speaks to the amount of online sales that they can do. And then the only other thing that I have for the friends was that we found out sort of randomly that an item that we had applied for forever ago from Kohler for the mini golf event. They had asked for a donation of some kind to raffle. And we did receive that now. Kohler has given us a round of golf with a cart at either Black Wolf Run or Whistling Strait. And also included an assortment of branded accessories from the Kohler Pro Shop, the retail value of which is $510. And so that'll be a nice raffle item that we can have once the mini golf event happens. That is it. Great. Thank you, Sydney. And if you could just share with them that I really think we have the best friends of any public library in United States. I am so tickled that they are doing things on eBay. So it's just fantastic. All right. I think now I'm just going to do a quick report from 2.1, the ad hoc art committee. I'm sorry that Nancy's not able to join us. I just wanted to update all of you on what this committee is doing. The last time this committee actually met was in 2016. So it's been a little while. But this committee has convened over a concern that one of the panels in our quiet study does not really represent our vision of a vibrant, informed and cohesive community. And the scene in one of the panels depicts the first contact of Shawigan Native Americans and settlers. And then having this discussion, we realize that we really do not have a policy in place at the library to really determine what works of art do we receive and which ones do we decide to display. And in that conversation, we recognize that this committee really need to put together a policy to provide guidance with these types of concerns. And so at this time, our library director, Garrett Erickson, is putting together a policy for this committee to review. And this committee will then bring it to the full board. This policy will then provide some really great guidance on how we want to address the concerns expressed about one of the panels in our quiet study room. So we're at the information gathering stage and I'm hoping to have Nancy give an updated report of where we are at our October meeting. Are there any questions or comments at this time? All right, thank you. And then looking at our agenda at the end, our next meeting will be October 22nd at 3 p.m., most likely in the same place. Although all of you might change different rooms, I don't know, but kind of like some of the interesting backgrounds I'm seeing right now, you look all very comfortable, but I think my chair is probably the best one because I think I'm sitting in the mayor's chair and it's very comfortable. And at this time, would someone like to make a motion to adjourn? I'll move to adjourn. Is there a second? All right, been moved and seconded. Any further discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you all for taking time this afternoon to join us and I hope you have a wonderful rest of the week. Thank you.