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City of Burlingame
Meeting Agenda - Final
Library Board of Trustees
BURLINGAME CITY HALL
501 PRIMROSE ROAD
BURLINGAME, CA 94010
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 5:30 PM Library Conference Room
1. CALL TO ORDER
2. ROLL CALL
3. PUBLIC COMMENT
4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
a. Minutes - FebruarV 20, 2024
Attachments: Minutes - February 20, 2024
5. CORRESPONDENCE AND INFORMATION
a. Program Statistics - February 2024
Attachments: Program Statistics - February 2024
6. REPORTS
a. Monthly Report - Equity Team
b. City Librarian's Report - March 2024
Attachments: City Librarian's Report - March 2024
C. Foundation Report
7. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
a. AMH Update
b. Lane Room Upgrade
C. Library Quote Plaques
d. Meet and Greet - New Date
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Library Board of Trustees Meeting Agenda - Final March 19, 2024
8. NEW BUSINESS
9. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS
10. ANNOUNCEMENTS
11. ADJOURNMENT
Any writings or documents provided to a majority of the Traffic, Safety and Parking
Commission regarding any item on this agenda will be made available for public inspection at
the Engineering Counter at City Hall located at 501 Primrose Road during normal business
hours.
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Burlingame Library
Board of Trustee Minutes
February 20, 2024
I. Roll Call
Trustees: Jill Goldsmith, Mark Lucchesi, Elisabeth Ostrow
Trustees Absent: Kris Cannon, Danielle Garcia
Staff Present: Brad McCulley, City Librarian
Sidney Poland, Recorder
II. Agenda Items Approved by Trustees
A. Approval of January 16, 2024 Minutes
B. Approval to fund second payment of AMH
III. Library Board of Trustee Minutes
The Trustees approved the January 16, 2024 Minutes.
M/S/C (Ostrow/Goldsmith)
IV. Public Comment
No one from the public attended the meeting.
V. Correspondence and Information
The Trustees reviewed the February statistics and noted that of the 3
sustainability programs, provided by the LSTA Grant, The Repair Caf6
was the most popular with 60 patrons.
VI. Reports
A. City Librarian's Report
• Recruitment in Technical Services for a book mending position
is underway and the Circulation Department will soon be
recruiting Library Aides and Library Assistants.
• Zero Waste has agreed to remove the old AMH machine after
the demolition has been completed.
B. Silicon Valley Community Foundation Report
The City Librarian, Brad McCulley, reviewed the financial
statements of the Roger and Jean Hunt Memorial Fund and
the Julie M. O'Farrell Memorial Fund with the Trustees.
C. Foundation Report
• The Foundation members are forming a committee to work on
the Lane Room upgrade,
• The Foundation is planning to have a Trivia event as a fund
raiser in April.
VII. Old Business
A. AMH
March 20th is the date scheduled for demolition of the old AMH.
The goal is to have the new AMH up and running by the end of
April.
The Trustees unanimously approved the motion, at the request of
the City Librarian, Brad McCulley, to allocate 100,000.00 from
the Roger and Jean Hunt Memorial Fund to fund the second
payment for the new AMH. M/S/C (Ostrow/Goldsmith).
B. Lane Room Upgrade
There is not any current information on the upgrade except that
the Foundation is forming a committee to work on the project.
C. Library Quote Plaques
• The original idea of having quote plaques on the front of the
building has changed.
• The result of investigating the possibility of quote plaques on the
sidewalk in front of the library was determined to be too
expensive.
• The New idea is too have quotes on rocks in the area where the
sculpture by Ray Lorenzato, Offering Site, is located.
VIII. Monthly Focus Topics for Board of Trustees
The City Librarian, Brad McCulley, reviewed the schedule for the
monthly topics that will be presented by staff members to the
Trustees. The March topic will be entitled Equity Diversity
Inclusion.
IX. Future Agenda Items
There were not any future agenda items suggested for the March
meeting.
X. Announcements
There were not any announcements.
XI. Adjournment
The meeting closed at 6:30PM. The next meeting of the Library
Trustees will be held March 19th at 5:30PM in the Library Conference
Room.
Burlingame Public Library Programs
February 2024
Adult
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345
Programs
programs
patrons
2023-2024
July
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
I total
Programs
1 21
30
35
29
31
16
36
36
Attendance
1 270
153
405
149
343
100
251
345
2022-2023 (Previous Year)
July
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
total
Programs
1 21
19
16
17
29
16
27
33
28
23
31
29
289
Attendance
1 216
133
217
211
277
78
116
1 184
100
336
219
1 132
2,219
Children's, Teen,
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2,112
and Easton Programs
programs
patrons
2023-2024
July
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
total
Programs
27
27
65
1 76
55
33
47
54
Attendance
2,101
3,324
2,029
1 3,611
1,845
1 2,054
1,325
1 2,112
2022-2023 (Previous Year)
July
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
total
Programs
33
17
46
71
49
25
40
54
51
67
128
82
663
Attendance
2,270
753
1,198
1 2,997
1,114
1,262
1,484
1 1,849
1,448
3,097
3,732
4,059
25,263
February Program Highlights
Winter Blood Drive
From Stanford: "Most recently, your blood drives collected 41 units, impacting potentially 123 patients.
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Your efforts offer help and hope to patients counting on us."
patrons
Community Poetry Open Mic with featured reader, Peter N. Carroll
36
Patrons
"Burlingame Then & Now" presented by the Burlingame Historical Society
72
patrons
Lunar New Year Storytime
58
patrons
Black History Month Storytime with Mychal Threets
117
patrons
Circulation of Main Library items
22,783
Circulation of Easton Branch items
2,938
E-media checkouts (Overdrive, Hoopla, Kanopy)
9,512
Total Circulation
35,233
City Librarian Report to Board of Trustees
19 March 2024
BURL i NGAMI
Personnel Updates:
o Childrens Dept has hired a Teen Librarian. Alexandra Pantazes, formerly of Mountain
View. Public. She will most likely start in April.
o Technical Svcs has hired Nick Mullin for the position in Book Mending.
General Updates:
o Committees: DEI Committee report by Sarah Tinkham — on -call Childrens Librarian
o Policies: Electronic Usage Communication Policy — commission related updates:
"Electronic Communication by a Quorum of the City Council / Planning Commission, or
Advisory Commission or Committee (or Board of Trustees). The Brown Act prohibits a
majority of the members of a legislative body, such as the City Council, Planning
Commission, or Advisory Commission or Committee, from engaging in discussions
within the purview of that body via email or on the Internet including chat rooms,
news groups, on-line forums, blogs, social media sites, or list serves (collectively
referred to as "Internet Forums"). All members of the City Council, Planning
Commission, and Advisory Commissions and Committees must adhere to the Brown
Act. As such, no member may send messages, "reply -all", or otherwise communicate
electronically with a majority of the Council/Commission/Committee on which they are
a member. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, when responding on behalf of the
City Council, the Mayor may "reply all" and include the rest of the City Council on the
distribution; all other Councilmembers should not "reply -all" to the communication
Facilities update:
o Admin is working with the overnight custodial staff to schedule a carpet cleaning for
the whole building over the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
PLS/PLP (Peninsula Library System / Pacific Library Partnership)
o PLS/PLAN is currently looking for an IT Director please forward if you happen to
know of anyone qualified.
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o Upcoming Library EVENTS
o State Library News Desk- third story in the list mentions PLS and Burlingame Public.