 I didn't have any corrections so we can otherwise if we want to go to make a motion to cast as amended and then next up reports and information starting with Nancy's report okay well some of my report will be contained in the other bullets here that we have but let's see we have this is really going to feed into the feasibility study update so I'll just make a couple of comments that are outside of that I along with Jason who is our head of technical services Claire from children's and teens Josie who's one of our programming librarians and Theresa Myers who is our PR and marketing person are all going to be out of town Wednesday through Friday at the PLA which is the public library association conference in Nashville and this library hasn't had a great history the last few years of sending people that any professional development conferences and so I made some amendments in the budget this year to be able to get people some of the education that I feel like we all need and outside of a lot of sessions that will attend also will be looking at the disorders the automated materials handlers and looking at those up close and personal before we issue an RFP to purchase a sorter that we we do have the funds with one of our donations funds to do that and it's really helpful to be able to see them and listen to them in person they can tell me how many decibels something is but until I stand next to it I can't tell you if that's loud or not so we'll be talking to some vendors and just to give you an idea some of the sessions that I'll attend are are the changing role of the MLS or the master's in library of science and how that's changed in libraries than the need for it or not I'm going to attend a session called who needs consultants a practical guide to strategic planning this is one of the participants in that is with Denver Public that it had several feasibility type studies as as we just have had here and decided they have enough fodder to do their own strategic planning instead of hiring you know paying another forty fifty thousand dollars for a consultant and I'm going to look at transforming service through spaces so what you can do with your space planning and I was really interested in this one called storming the forts and leveling silos radical reorganization and rapid change so we're going through a lot of changes right now I don't know if I'm going to storm any forts but see what we learned from them so of course we what we purposefully have someone with representing adult programming children technology and pure marketing so we purposely have kind of somebody in each area right now because we feel like with our study going on et cetera it's kind of a pivotal time for the library right now so we want to make sure that they have so many good sessions public library association conference I feel is the best it's even better than the American Library Association conference it's only two years and it's just focused entirely on public libraries and the issues that public libraries face so can't wait to go haven't been to this one in several years so I think it'll be really exciting to save money and allow that many of us to go we are taking a flight at five in the morning on Wednesday so we'll be up driving there three and we're coming back Friday about midnight so we were able to let more people go by cutting off a day basically so we might be in need of caffeine but it'll be good and I did refer our smashed little free libraries to Wayne Tomak from neighborhoods in the city I don't have an answer back yet but I did ask him for some ideas of you know if worse came to worse where we might relocate them both of them have been smashed even more than they were smashed before so I'm not at all sure why they weren't used the way they're supposed to be used for several years and then all of a sudden every time we get them repaired they're smashed so the plastic glasses smashed the little free libraries yeah no which Wayne Tomak WA Y N E T O M A C thank you so no he's in resources city council meetings will be at the library until the end of May at the earliest we've been asked to extend that calendar through June I think as is typical with any project like this I think they found a couple things that needed more attention than originally thought so we will have a couple of grants on the consent agenda at the city council meeting this week we'll have just the typical library state grant that we apply for and receive every year this year it's just a little over $26,000 and also a grant that we did in partnership with LPC that's for a car charging station to be located in the library's parking garage so we're pretty excited about that because we have multiple staff members who have electric vehicles who would drive here if drives in here if they had a way to charge them looking at apparently it's fairly hard to access some of the charging stations if we have a lot folks with electric vehicles so so I thought that was cool and if you've noticed our concrete project at the East entrance has suffered some delays it kind of ground to a halt because like I was just saying about other projects apparently when they were in the process of removing all the concrete they found some issues and I don't know exactly what those issues are I know we need some engineering before it moves forward again so that has been closed that entrance has been closed a lot longer than we had expected but you know I don't know any of the details but I will tell you that that part of the concrete where they stopped was the part that is kind of in that front apron that leads for the elevator the outdoor elevator and then outdoor elevator and that part we're from the building prior to this so you know it may be said that's like a 1973 so so it's the concrete that's that's usually in that area so I think there are some things with the rebar and the concrete that they have to check out so so it's been slow our patrons have been great I look like the friends book sales still had a large attendance despite the fact that people can't get in the door is there a updated timeline well they said the 28th which is Friday but there's there's been no one out there the last few days because I think there's engineering work so so I'm not sure about that and we have a new supervisor on staff why now Webster and I can give you this she started as a new page in Shelbur supervisor she replaces Julia who's been doing two jobs for a long time after she replaced Jennifer Marks as the head of circulation so we are really happy to have her she comes to us from Grand Junction where she's been managing I think seven small branches so she's familiar with our system and her family lives up in this area Fort Collins and this immediate area now that she's an empty nester it's good to be your family I think she'll just hit the ground running because she knows Sierra really well our system and and she has a lot of experience and that's that's just a really pivotal position for us because we have our pages in Shelbur's are our most interesting and interesting group as far as age ranges and backgrounds and we just really looked for a special person to be in that position so we are very excited that she started so that's all I had because my other stuff goes under the other topics and see how to be security position working out oh he's great so take is wonderful he is we are now hiring just about to hire a security person a campus attendant which is like the assistant security person that'll be stationed over at Roosevelt Park and he will be supervising that position as well so he's really he really got up and running in a hurry and it's familiarized himself with our patrons and we do have a new system that we're going to be starting in the next few weeks we're out of an everything basically that is an online incident report system right now we just we know have kind of a word doc that's been used for years and it's not very searchable when we have incidents so this this is a system that is created for specifically for library use and we'll let you search under things like red-clad code so when you have someone that comes in you say I know they were here I know there was an incident two years ago you're looking through every single document so we're hoping that this will be a lot better a lot more efficient looking forward to that that's specific to the library or this is just a library the library cannot in some cities and counties there you know our systems that are middleware system that share information but because of our patron privacy rules we do not share that with other departments just here any other questions for Nancy they have not met yet this month they will meet Wednesday so you get to take the friends report time so you're all the things you I've done I know what you've been dying to learn about what the council so I think I mentioned last meeting we had a retreat coming up I say for morning part and here's what might be of interest based on that we've talked about the the steam project from time to time building steam which which now will transition to full steam ahead as the planning department actually turns a vision document in kind of general recommendations into planning documents and to the degree that there are zoning issues that have to be addressed or incentives that we need to consider that would come back to the council to hopefully inspire or motivate folks who are capable of making investments with ideas to bring those ideas forward among the ideas that we have that we envisioned is a bigger presence a real presence of post secondary institutions in that area in partnership with front-range and the good news is that those the conversations between front-range and front-range in the University of Colorado continue to to move along and I'll be surprised right away if at some point in the relative in your future we don't have to think something relative relatively meaningful or tangible to have on the table in that area it's an opportunity zone I don't know the degree to which see you is working with or might work with private sector partners who would be interested in making investments but that's a keen interest as well as the follow-on to the whatever the second phase whatever we learned from the second phase of the feasibility study for the Performing Arts and Conference they we got we saw the first phase in our February 4th study session I was impressed with with what they brought what they learned and what they brought to the community and to the Council and and very excited about seeing the second phase which is really about business models you know what is what's it going to take if you would have built something for it to be sustained financially over the long run that maybe that one disappointing part of what they've learned is the long life just doesn't have the population I guess here and within a relatively short radius to warrant the recruitment of a full service hotel so we had some conversation about what that might take to attract a first full service hotel especially if we were to have a stronger presence of higher education and the program in an institution with a hospitality program or an H&R program a hotel restaurant management program so my full service hotel you're talking center yeah well the conference that are not necessarily in the hotel but a conference that are unlikely to be successful without a full service hotel and the kind of ecosystem is the right way to think about it but at least the dynamics the relationship between a conference center performing arts hotel in most places if you're gonna it's gonna work you've got some so so I don't know where that'll end up but it's it's current and it's relevant and it's pretty exciting about you know we spent some time taking a look at the goal setting we did a couple years ago and the building team project was part of that along with the progress has been made on our early childhood education goal there are I suppose suppose there might be folks who wonder what a city council or a city and a city council why early childhood education in child care would become a goal of a city council or a city until you look at the relationship between housing in child care and economic development and talent recruitment and long-term health prosperity and vibrancy in addition to what it means to young children and families and their long-term growth and success both in school and in life so right what's happening in real time is a pretty remarkable coalition that's building of a pretty diverse interest you know you might expect to see advocates providers of early childhood education parents and young children you know kind of leading the charge but today we have the American Association of University Women who are involved in this coalition because of their interest in a living wage and understanding that whatever number you put up on a board as a living wage or whatever calculator you're using is meaningless if you don't have housing stock for families you'd like to recruit in child care we have the kind of the typical suspects that show up right providers and activists but we've got policymakers the Boulder County Early Childhood Council statewide coalitions epic which is a statewide business coalition and in the context of all that the governor has taken a keen interest in what's going on here so on March 27th the governor is going to come share with our business community in a program that is now granted as the business the business of early childhood the business of early childhood is our business as I recall one of our one of our objectives is to help the business community understand that what we are doing we're not doing in early childhood is as important to them as their balance sheet in our HR department and at the end of the day national security right is is either stronger or not based on how well we're doing with our youngest residents so the governor is going to be here we're going to have a breakfast event at the museum from 7 30 to 8 30 or so it'll be a business group that's invited together to meet not with the governor just for breakfast and to get kind of a pitch on what we're doing with this coalition then the group will move into the auditorium there'll be a wider audience invited to that if you'd like an invitation to that let me know make certain we get one to you for that for the you know we're like we'd like a broader group than just business folks together in the auditorium to watch the film no small matter if you've not seen it it's a must see it is I've been doing this I've been in the in and around early education and early childhood education stuff right program development R&D program delivery program evaluation for decades and it is the most powerful case made for why this is so important that I've ever seen it's a powerful film and then the governor will show up at nine o'clock or so talk about his agenda take questions from especially the business types in the room usually I think we want to encourage their investment so anyway it's a it's a it's a big deal and it's a I think it's a it's going to be kind of a benchmark for the progress we're making you know on this goal we also talked about adding to the goals of the council in the city and I'm not certain how to be branded or what the wording will be but it'll be an aging well goal there was everybody's keenly aware of the silver tsunami that's you know about this and every community in the country is us baby boomers overwhelmed again all kinds of activities in in society in this case we're gonna overwhelm all your resources to take care of us you know right or elder years I say that laughing I apologize but that's gonna but but but there you can anticipate or assume imagine that the challenges go along with that in terms of a large segment of art the largest segment of our population eventually for a while is the most housing burden as the most vulnerable in terms of homelessness and without the support systems that many need is as you as aging overwhelms cognition or other functions so getting our act together so that we are as attentive to that segment of the population as we are our youngest will be will become a high priority for the city the debate on special districts and special taxing districts and how you finance working attainable workforce housing goes on tomorrow night that's on the council in the form of the first reading of an amendment or an ordinance there's a bunch of amendments that are attached to this so I don't know generally we don't go to a first reading it with 25 amendments already you know ready so I don't know how it plays out as a actual first reading tomorrow night but we'll see but that debate goes on I just I will say to you and say to whoever watches this video regardless of how that that boat turns out if the city the majority of the council decides for whatever reasons are articulated that we should not allow the use of special taxing districts for residential development I hope somebody has the answer to the question then how are we going to how are we going to support the financing of the cost of land and infrastructure for housing priced for working families because that at the end of the day I don't care as much about districts as I do about a huge segment of our population that we're not doing enough for we just saw housing we just saw a study the end of the first year of our inclusionary zoning ordinance gonna land out data on where we are with housing stock for rentals or our most economically challenged residents to what you think of as attainable housing for people making more money making enough money that they don't qualify for subsidized right which is most of the residents of the county and the number of county Boulder County residents the number of the number referred from Boulder County housing is 54,000 residents in Boulder County I don't know a percentage of total residents homeowners of over county but that's a huge percent are paying more than 50 percent of their of their income or their mortgage payment or their rental I suspect some percentage of those folks bit off more than they should have tried to chew right that they've just bought more house than they needed but there's a huge number of huge percentage of that 54,000 I have no doubt that our housing burden if you're paying more than 33% of your income you are housing burden because they couldn't qualify for something else and there was nothing else for them to buy and so to avoid that number growing we need different kind of housing stock and that's what that debate is all about right so I'm gonna argue that we ought to allow them I know a lot of folks don't think that's that's there's too much risk associated with that at the end of the day what I really care about is what do we do for that segment of the population and how do we help get housing for them and lastly well last in terms of counsel than I have one question for you the the city is about to announce the results of a couple of big economic development efforts and with the staff has been working I have no doubt that will spark joy in the hearts of some and fear in the hearts of others right so the kind of economic develop successes that I think will be announced here shortly some folks will view as adding to the burden of traffic and congestion and activity what I want you to know is that if we were unsuccessful with these efforts neighboring communities would have been successful in the sucking sound you would be hearing in the month and years to come would be your tax dollars going to some else's care right so regardless of what you hear whatever your whatever your disagree accents are when I don't know how you'll view these things just understand the stakes are huge for this community to win on these couple of deals that you'll hear the one question for you so I'll take questions if you have them but I do have a question for you and that is I'd like you to think about when we get the feasibility study in the library to join me in a backstory podcast there's also now a video produced by the law month public media team okay and I just think there's a there's a really important backstory for this community here yeah it's one thing what they'll read one story in the paper here when one discussion in front of the council there's a lot more that people should have a chance to learn about and I'd like to get that so you let me know when that's what to find that may seem yeah you know when that's gonna hit me and I'm certain we can we can get on this on the schedule okay so there's your council liaison report questions concerns complaints problems to solve it does seem like it's going okay at the library yeah it's very it's it's limited yeah it the setup the steps as good as it can be it's tough that's the space we have I don't think I felt the last the last meeting yeah I think the camera setup was differently well whatever the difference and I don't I don't go back and go home and watch all those videos I do at times if I want to go back and capture what was said or did I remember correctly but on this last meeting at least there was a camera that got whoever was speaking as opposed to all of it being from you know from a 90 it's just it's tough to get this to get it set up or to accomplish all you want to and have a public to be there and participate in we can't make more space I'm told that by the end of April I inquired just the other day yesterday what I what I'm relatively certain is the timing both for we're expecting the library the thought on both of them was to the degree that there are budget implications and or ballot implications that that that's kind of the window you need to hit if to get something in front of the council in turn in time if they're to do whatever outreach that there's going to be outreach to Clara to be clear if there's going to be a ballot question what that would be because that has to be the decision has to be made early August and their questions and let's be one of the old business little free libraries the person responsible for March is Catherine think Johnson and I just wanted to update everybody on the state of the little library the f-holter park one is has has the door frames on but there's no pain on one side and maybe two-thirds gone on the other side so any books toward the front of the little shelf area will get wet and I had that happen to me so the one at Rothrock Dell the one one door is kind of non-existent there's like part of the frame there the other side has no door at all yeah I wouldn't even yeah again just needs to be kept to the back it for those who will be filling over the months and unless we make a decision we may really hate them yeah but just that's that's all I had a bunch of books get wet and we're having to toss it we had them repair you know they were smashed we had it repaired they were smashed we had it repaired you know I don't know how many times in a row in a few months I want to spend money to repair them if they're just going to smash them I wouldn't was it July I think July maybe was yeah I think that's when it was yeah is that the first time I think yeah yeah I think that was it was the first time they've been smashed three times so we'll see what Wayne says if he has any ideas but it's very disappointing it's free but for several years and and they were you know often emptied of the books so it is lots of kids books so you have not talked to me no I said I said in any mouth I don't know it would be helpful to know if I'll give them a call if there's an NGO leader in GLA leader for those yeah yeah somebody in a jail I don't know what they can do though unless they're gonna camp you know it's if you see something say something that I do or at least a conversation with the neighborhood yeah I mean they're there largely they're certain they are they are yes that's what's too bad yeah I'll try to and so I've been out for we had the consultant and I had jury duty this week I was out all week do you think I should stop them this month or we try and why don't you wait and I'll talk to you okay do we want to leave what books are there's books you can leave them you can leave them in there but why don't you wait and I'll talk to me yeah okay all right it was in my schedule to touch base with them last week and like I said I think for a jury so that's why I spent my weekends and we have typically finished the survey I think they left it up until we're we've sent we're sending them the we've collected the paper surveys we have about 50 paper surveys that we're gonna send off to have them enter they said normally they're they're clients entering them themselves but I felt a little funny about entering them ourselves so I don't want any I'm just gonna put them in books and send them over for them to enter so adding though those to the ones we have online we have over 1500 surveys which they said is far more than they usually get we had pretty low attendance at our community meetings but two of the nights were blizzards so so our our other two meetings did fine with you know not a huge attendance but great survey response and a lot of I'd say the majority of people who responded wrote a lot you know wrote a lot of comments it wasn't just that they checked out boxes and and the the consultants when they were out here told us like our completion rate was huge because they said you know they do these surveys in a lot of places and a lot of times people do the first couple pages and then they get tired they don't fell at the rest they said oh no everyone went to the end so and I've had fun reading the comments I will share them all when when everything has been compiled and you know I had some of them that I there was there's still a lot of people that want as one person put in quotes a quiet retreat from a noisy world so we had a lot of people that wanted an expanded quiet reading room for example and most Lions the new little library just put one in and that's just Park just just remodeled and put in a quiet reading room so there's there's a resurgence and interest in that people wanted updated spaces like people said a little rough around the edges little dirty grungy etc and overwhelmingly people wanted more book drops in more locations and me too especially since our only outdoor book drops are closed off for construction it's not been easy on people but you know that's my my last city in Washington had about 10,000 fewer people than we do and we had nine places where people could drop off materials and you know next to grocery stores at the community college etc and you know that it does involve having a driver in a van to go pick those things up but as this community expands even before you get to branches that's a relatively inexpensive thing to do is to let people have a little easier time so they don't have to drive across town just to return some things a lot of people we we have put the survey a lot of different options for things people may or may not be interested in but we probably should have made it a little clearer that we weren't getting rid of books any books because some people said are you gonna put all these things in and get rid of all your books and that's not our plan so so that's that's not there but you know people just really want space to be it's based to work and space to read and then you know some people want everything in the world and some people don't so so it'll be interesting once once they compile these these 1500 surveys to see what the trends are I can't see that I saw a lot of surprises but you know there were quite a few people that just said I love the library keep it the way it is and then some people said I want this and this and this and this and this and this but I don't want to pay any money so so that's good if you can get it but we are looking at the timeline basically we've been doing the data gathering the consultants right now are are really working on data analysis as they have you know the results from the survey etc and they've also been crunching a lot of data that they have amassed and that we had given them also on peer libraries in this area and across across the western states and across the country and just seeing how we compare to those now we've so we've done some stakeholder sections and they're also working with another consultant that is doing the initial financial modeling right now so we should have an initial findings book delivered to us around the second week in March so that'll be the first kind of analysis that we'll get a chance to look at and they're still talking about it at the beginning of April having a meeting of some of the kind of the prime stakeholders to really look at the data and you know help them to analyze the data they are not as they said when they were here they're not going to come out with all this data crunching and say here's what you should do they're going to say here is what we see here is what people have said that they want here's how you compare to these peer libraries here are some options moving forward and here's what they would cost so and then it's up to you the covers it be to make those decisions absolutely absolutely so so a lot of it is behind the scenes right now the staff did a great job of pushing the survey we have quite a few in Spanish we have we have them from kids under 12 we have it a really good cross-section we have seniors we have everything in between so I feel like it's a good sample of what the community wants so we tried really hard not to look at it five times a day but there's a lot of good data did they feel like the meetings was a good sample or you know they're they're really engaged with the people in the meetings they were very small but they said they've had some communities where they have meetings and they you know and if you have the meetings together they have hundreds of people and somewhere they have nine so so it's a lot of its weather dependent and you said you know right now having these meetings you know there's not really a conclusion or a sense of urgency about it because we don't know what we're asking you know right now we were just kind of open-ended Lee saying what would you like and you know if it were if it were me about a different topic and someone said well you can go out in the snowy night to this meeting or you can fill out the song in survey I do the survey and I think that's mostly what happened here but I think you know talking to people after there are some preliminary conclusions people might have a lot more vested interest in why you know when once they find out my experience has been you know once they say oh well here's here are possible directions that the library may go in then people really do want to express their opinion but this is just kind of an open-ended discussion right so do they have the dates in early April and I think we're looking at April 8th but I'm still going back and forth with that because you know they come and do this thing and then they will be back again to present the council so they see see what they what the time frame is in between those things so it kind of has to be it's you know it's getting longer and I don't know what we're looking at when it's done so we'll have to see what they say yeah so mostly you know we get we have a lot of patrons complain about the west side which has nothing to do with us a lot of complaints on the survey saying can't you clean up that construction on the west side you're building and no we can't that's not ours we really can't clean up the stuff on the east side either because you know that's not library generated construction but you know the one the one over here we were just patrons have been great and we were just glad to have it done because the country wasn't going to get any better on that side you know some people say well why did you have to do it now well we're open all year and we're open you know mostly your seven days a week so at some point you would be an imposition one thing I had hoped for I had hoped I tried to put in a pitch to have them lower the book drop at the same time that they were taken out of the country because that's our number one complaint is that book drop is too tall so I said okay if you guys are gonna come do it can you move with the book drop and you know smooth it out just drop it to the street level and I was told no that would be a whole separate project so I watched them wrap up carefully the book drop and then I watched them carefully cut around it so it's on this little island it would take it less time just to move it and smooth it out but so the book drops still tall you don't have much but our next meeting is March 23rd which I believe is spring break I was going to say oh she's not gonna be here either all right we might want to move it yeah that's definitely spring break I don't think we should do this right okay so this this 30th is I don't know if we normally move back or forward that would be the 16th the week before Monday or the 30th I would do it later with the feasibility stuff I would think so too because we'll have more information the way we go does anybody back the 30th though we get back to 29 I will still be gone yeah do you want to ask mark to you I don't know what yeah we'll have to probably email about that one so technically technically the 30th now is that something you can email yeah yeah I can as well yeah and then if we do I'm guessing that you would know yeah yeah perfect I can send you out the info and you can answer be back just don't reply I'll get it yeah okay send me into a list now yep about the 30th we have no public any library board comments great that is it the shortest meeting we've had and Mark's not here yeah I'm gonna email them to all of us