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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.
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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.
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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