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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMin - LB - 2021.09.211 Burlingame Library Approved Board of Trustees Minutes September 21, 2021 I. Roll Call Trustees Present: Kristin Capkin, Kris Cannon, Danielle Garcia, Mike Nagler, Elisabeth Ostrow Staff Present: Brad McCulley, City Librarian Sidney Poland, Recorder II. Library Board of Trustees Minutes The Trustees unanimously approved the minutes of the August 17, 2021 Trustee Meeting. M/S/C (Cannon/Ostrow) III. Correspondence and Information A. Statistics • Adult Services will be offering the following 6 new databases to patrons in the near future: Coursera, GetSetUp, Learning Express, Linkedin Learning, Northstar and Skillshare. The State of California will fund the databases for one year. • The mother of a deaf child asked Kathy Von Mayrhauser, Manager of the Children's Depart if it would be possible to have a sign language interpreter sign for story time. Kathy has hired the teacher from the American Signage School to sign at the October 8th story time. • Peninsula High School has been relocated to 860 Hinckley Rd., Burlingame, CA 94010. The school was formerly located in San Bruno. The purpose of the school is to provide special education for students 9 through 12 who cannot adjust to a regular high school curriculum. The students may return to their own high school at any time. IV. Reports A. Equity Committee The Trustees reviewed the goals of the Equity Committee for the time period of August 2021to March 2022 which were presented by Brad in Megan Wong's absence. • Updating the Racial Equity Plan timeline, educating staff and prioritizing actions items will be an on-going process throughout 2021 and 2022. • The Trustees acknowledged the amount of hard work the committee has put into addressing the issue of racial equality. • The Trustees inquired as to how they can show their support and be actively involved with the Racial Equity committee. 2 B. City Librarian's Report - Highlights • Professional Development Day for staff will be October 11th. Trustees should let Brad know if they would like to join the staff for lunch. • The Café opened September 20th. Patrons may have drinks in the library but food has to be taken outside. • Due to budget cuts in our hourly staff, Division Managers are not sure that returning to Sunday and evening hours is a possibility at this time. C. Foundation Report • On October 13th, the Foundation will meet in the Lane Community Room to update their Strategic Plan which was originally written in 2012. • Book sale for Children's books only will be held October 21, 22, 23, 24 in the Lane Community Room. • Randi Murray and Christina Funk are starting to work on plans for the Speaker's Series in the Fall of 2022. V. From The Floor No one from the public attended. VI. Old Business A. Rotation of Officers From October 2021 to October 2022 Trustee Capkin advised the Trustees that she would not be able to serve as an officer of the Board of Trustees as she and her family will be moving to Tanzania and this will be her last board meeting. Danielle Garcia will serve as President of the Library Board of Trustees and Kris Cannon will serve as Vice President from October 2021 to October 2022. B. Staff Appreciation Event Due to time constraints the Staff Appreciation Event was tabled until the next meeting. VII. New Business A. AB 361 • Increase of the variant caused the legislature through AB361 to extend the COVID-19 exceptions to the Brown Act's teleconferencing requirements by allowing meetings to be held virtually. • Two safe guards of AB 361 require that that one of two conditions exist: 1) after 30 days it is still not safe to hold a Brown Act Meeting in person and 2) social distancing requirements are still in effect. • Therefore, every 30 days an item has to be placed on any Brown Act meeting agenda by a local official stating that it is not safe to hold the meeting in person or social distancing remains in effect. 3 B. Goals Updated 2021/2022 Updated library goals were reviewed by the Trustees in the following categories: Awareness, Safety, Equity, Staff, and Experiences. Some of these goals will be incorporated in the agenda for Professional Development Day on October 11th. C. Children's Table Replacement/Special Donations 1. Book Donation - A Hillsborough resident donated 40/50 graphic novels in pristine condition that belonged to her son who passed away to the Children's Department. Book plates placed in each graphic novel will acknowledge the family's donation in memory of their son. 2. Donation Their is a possibility that a donation in the amount of $5,000 may be made to the Library Foundation for the Children's Department. This donation would be used to purchase 2 maybe 3 small round tables and modify one of the larger tables into two smaller tables. • Brad will contact Ross McDonald to obtain a quote for the modification of the large table. • The Trustees discussed the possibility of covering any additional cost and concluded that the purchase or modification of furniture was not a good use of Trustee Funds. The Foundation is able to cover projects of this type through their donations. D. Live Play Burlingame Magazine - Tabled until the October meeting. E. Personal Photography and Filming Policy in Burlingame Libraries. The Trustees unanimously passed the motion to approve the Personal Photography and Filming Policy in the Burlingame Libraries. M/S/C (Cannon/Nagler) VIII. Announcement The Trustees requested that the monthly topic for May which is "Library Budget" be interchanged with the March monthly topic "Children's Services Update". XI. Adjournment The meeting was adjourned at 7:15PM M/S/C (Nagler/Ostrow). The next Zoom meeting of the Library Board of Trustees will be October 19, 2021 at 5:30PM. Respectfully Submitted /S/ Brad McCulley City Librarian Burlingame Public Library