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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Thank you, Amy.
It is now 11 in the morning and we have a</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/18-1
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>quorum.
I'd like to call this regular meeting of</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/18-2
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>the Seattle Public Library Board of
Trustees to order.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/22-0
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>And now can we approve the agenda?
Assuming there are no changes,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/22-1
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>may I hear a motion to approve the agenda
as published?</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Motion to approve.</v>

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<v Bendixen, Carmen>Second.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>All in favor, please say aye.</v>

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<v Bendixen, Carmen>Kai.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Kai.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>I.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>That motion passes.
Let's move on to public comment.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/29-1
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>As noted at the top of the agenda,
the library board is accepting public</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/29-2
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>comment that is directed to matters on
the agenda by email,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/29-3
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>in person at the Central Library and in
this remote meeting.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/29-4
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Is there any public comment, Amy?</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/35-0
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<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>No one is present at the Central Library
and no one sent public comment by email.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Chief.</v>

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<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>No one has signed up in Q&amp;A,
but I'm not sure actually that I opened</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/35-2
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<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>it.
So if you would permit me to open it and</v>

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<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>then see if anyone signs up in the next
couple of minutes, if they don't,</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Ohh.</v>

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<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>we can close it.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/36-0
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yep, let's do that.</v>

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<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>Okay, thank you.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Mhm.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay, I think while we wait,
we can move on to the consent agenda.</v>

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<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>Yep.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/41-1
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>So we have a consent agenda that includes
minutes from our March meeting,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/41-2
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>the March financial report,
and the unusual thing is an updated</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>version of the fourth quarter or annual
2025 levy report with</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>corrections as noted in the attached memo.
If no one has changes to these documents,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>may I hear a motion to approve the
consent agenda as published?</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Motion to approve as adopted.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Edited.</v>

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<v Bendixen, Carmen>Second.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>All in favor, please say aye.</v>

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<v Ron Chew>Kai.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Ave.</v>

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<v Bendixen, Carmen>Bye.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Kai.</v>

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<v Faith Pettis>Hi.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Oh, great. Ron's here. Good to see you,
Ron.</v>

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<v Faith Pettis>And Faith as well. Sorry,
we've been in we've been in the public</v>

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<v Ron Chew>Yeah, I've been here.</v>

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<v Faith Pettis>area for a while.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Oh, I'm sorry. So did you vote yes, Fay?</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Oh.</v>

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<v Faith Pettis>I voted yes and I was present for the
other prior vote too.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay.</v>

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<v Faith Pettis>Yes, on that, yeah.</v>

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<v Ron Chew>Me as well.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>And would you both have voted yes on the
approval of the agenda?</v>

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<v Faith Pettis>Yes.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Yeah.</v>

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<v Faith Pettis>Correct.</v>

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<v Ron Chew>Yeah.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Very good. Okay, so for the record,
we have unanimous votes on approval of</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/71-1
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>the agenda and approval of the consent
agenda. Great. Thank you all.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Did either of you, Ron or Faith,
have any comments regarding any of those</v>

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<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>Yeah.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Yeah.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>votes?</v>

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<v Ron Chew>Oh.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>OK.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>In that case,
let's move on to the Chief Librarian</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>report. Over to you, Tom.</v>

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<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>real quick. Sorry, Yazmin.
I did open the Q and A.</v>

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<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>Nobody has signed up for public comment,
so I think we can close that section out.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay,
so moving on from public comment and into</v>

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<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>Acq.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>the Chief Librarian report.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>And for the sake of time,
we are not having a Chief Librarian</v>

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<v Tom Fay>report today,
although I will draw your attention to</v>

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<v Tom Fay>the two reports filed from Capital
Improvement and Building Maintenance.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>And we also had a, sorry,
my notes keep slipping here.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>I also had another one from our
collections and access services team,</v>

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<v Tom Fay>which was a really good explanation about
how they're managing the various accounts,</v>

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<v Tom Fay>the account cleanups that we're going
through,</v>

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<v Tom Fay>how that really helps patrons get back
into the good graces.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>But it's also very important work that's
not</v>

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<v Tom Fay>mentioned here that we are cleaning get
this all up so that when we have the ILS</v>

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<v Tom Fay>migration, things will,
we're not carrying bad data over.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>So in that case,
many good pieces of data points in that</v>

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<v Tom Fay>one as well.
And I think you can see from our CIP and</v>

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<v Tom Fay>building maintenance,
the amount of work that those teams do</v>

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<v Tom Fay>every single day.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Maintaining our spaces.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yes, absolutely.
And I want to give just a moment to see</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>if any of my colleagues want to reflect
or remark on either one of those system</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>reports.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>In which case I will. Tom,
you're absolutely right that the CIP</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>report is very important because of the
incredible amount of work that's going on</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>in that team that that team is conducting.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>One of the things I wanted to reflect on
is just how quickly university is coming</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>back online after having been out for the
seismic and HVAC work.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>I don't know how you guys do it,
but I think what it proves is that</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>there's a tremendous amount of really
good planning that goes</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>goes into actually starting that work.
But to have that come online so quickly,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>I think it's what,
just over a year of it being out,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>like that's just remarkable for a
Carnegie building and what was</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>unreinforced masonry and reinforcing it.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>So I just want to note that for anyone
who might be listening.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>The other thing I noted, Tom,
your teams do a great job of pointing out</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>how their work fits into strategic plan
goals,</v>

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<v Tom Fay>What?</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>but I did notice the CIP one didn't.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>did not have at the top what strategic
plan goals are being addressed,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>and I have no doubt that they are
addressing them.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>So just for future to include that,
because I think it's really,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>it's a great way for us to track the
strategic plan implementation.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>The other thing I had a question about is</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>the CIP report mentioned a level 2
remodel,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>and I'd love to hear more about what is
going into that, not necessarily today,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>but at some future moment.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>You all, colleagues,
will remember that the automated</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>materials handling system used to be on
the 2nd floor and now we have this new</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/96-2
00:06:44.854 --> 00:06:49.782
<v Yazmin Mehdi>facility which Faith just went to visit
and was impressed by.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/96-3
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>So we have this second floor that</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/97-0
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>has some space that I know Tom and his
team have good plans for,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/97-1
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>but I love to hear about it.
And the last thing I wanted to note from</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/97-2
00:07:04.789 --> 00:07:10.981
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the collection system report is that
thanks to clearing of or unsuspending</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/97-3
00:07:10.981 --> 00:07:11.724
<v Yazmin Mehdi>accounts,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/98-0
00:07:12.764 --> 00:07:18.220
<v Yazmin Mehdi>We now have 95% of patrons with full
access to the library.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/98-1
00:07:18.220 --> 00:07:22.493
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And I wanted to note that because the
library,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/98-2
00:07:22.493 --> 00:07:29.313
<v Yazmin Mehdi>under Tom's leadership and also MTs,
has made a concerted effort to ensure</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/98-3
00:07:29.313 --> 00:07:31.404
<v Yazmin Mehdi>that people have access</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/100-0
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>even if they can't pay late fines,
for example. And why is that important?</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/100-1
00:07:37.587 --> 00:07:42.307
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Well, in a down economy,
people have to be able to access</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/99-0
00:07:41.884 --> 00:07:42.044
<v Ron Chew>Group.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/100-2
00:07:42.307 --> 00:07:48.573
<v Yazmin Mehdi>resources in order to get jobs or make a
pivot in their career or, you know,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/100-3
00:07:48.573 --> 00:07:50.444
<v Yazmin Mehdi>find housing. And if we</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/103-0
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>keep people from those free resources
because of fines they can't pay, then,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/103-1
00:07:56.471 --> 00:08:00.325
<v Yazmin Mehdi>you know,
we're sort of undermining the goal of the</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/103-2
00:08:00.325 --> 00:08:04.995
<v Yazmin Mehdi>public library system.
So I think sometimes people forget that</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/103-3
00:08:04.995 --> 00:08:10.924
<v Yazmin Mehdi>not everyone has an Amazon account or can
pay for the resources that they need.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/101-0
00:08:08.204 --> 00:08:08.324
<v Ron Chew>Yeah.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/104-0
00:08:11.004 --> 00:08:16.764
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and the library fills a really important
need in that way. So, kudos.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/105-0
00:08:16.204 --> 00:08:21.910
<v Tom Fay>I would also to that note, Yazmin,
I'd like to point out that Bo Kinney,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/105-1
00:08:21.910 --> 00:08:27.069
<v Tom Fay>who is the Circulation Services Manager
who submitted the report,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/105-2
00:08:27.069 --> 00:08:33.244
<v Tom Fay>also leads up what we call the Lending
Committee, TLC for short, and they have</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/106-0
00:08:33.604 --> 00:08:39.423
<v Tom Fay>And my whole time here of over 11 years
have been very focused on how they</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/106-1
00:08:39.423 --> 00:08:44.310
<v Tom Fay>continue to reduce barriers to everyone.
Every time they meet,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/106-2
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<v Tom Fay>they're looking at how the processes can
be simplified,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/106-3
00:08:48.655 --> 00:08:52.844
<v Tom Fay>barriers are removed so people can sign
up for cards.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/108-0
00:08:53.404 --> 00:08:57.699
<v Tom Fay>They do amazing work,
often without a lot of comment about or</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/108-1
00:08:57.699 --> 00:09:02.341
<v Tom Fay>noted about the work they do,
but they've done great work over the</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/108-2
00:09:02.341 --> 00:09:05.804
<v Tom Fay>years.
And they are the reason we have Fine Free.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/107-0
00:09:04.204 --> 00:09:04.404
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/109-0
00:09:06.924 --> 00:09:09.244
<v Yazmin Mehdi>That's awesome. Tally, I see your hand.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/110-0
00:09:09.804 --> 00:09:14.531
<v Tali Hairston>Yeah, a question for Tom. Tom,
how far will Columbia's,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/110-1
00:09:14.531 --> 00:09:19.004
<v Tali Hairston>it says architectural design continues
for Columbia.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/112-0
00:09:20.164 --> 00:09:25.195
<v Tali Hairston>How far will that,
how far will the work in Columbia go</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/112-1
00:09:25.195 --> 00:09:30.764
<v Tali Hairston>before we pause for the new levy to kick
in if it's approved?</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/113-0
00:09:31.804 --> 00:09:35.895
<v Tom Fay>We'll probably get as much of the
planning done as possible,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/113-1
00:09:35.895 --> 00:09:40.924
<v Tom Fay>just so that when the levy is approved,
we can move forward without delay.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/114-0
00:09:42.084 --> 00:09:45.564
<v Tom Fay>We don't want to have any delays in this
one getting completed.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/115-0
00:09:48.124 --> 00:09:48.684
<v Tali Hairston>Thank you.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/116-0
00:09:49.044 --> 00:09:49.564
<v Tom Fay>Mhm.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/117-0
00:09:49.484 --> 00:09:55.008
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Good question, Tally. Thank you.
The last thing I want to say before we</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/117-1
00:09:55.008 --> 00:09:58.614
<v Yazmin Mehdi>move on,
we don't always get to talk about the</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/117-2
00:09:58.614 --> 00:10:01.990
<v Yazmin Mehdi>press links at the end of the board
packet,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/117-3
00:10:01.990 --> 00:10:08.204
<v Yazmin Mehdi>but there was one that I just wanted to
note, which talked about a resource list</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/118-0
00:10:08.284 --> 00:10:14.939
<v Yazmin Mehdi>that librarians put together to support
the work being presented at Seattle</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/118-1
00:10:14.939 --> 00:10:21.595
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Repertory Theater called Appropriate.
And this way of tying in to the local</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/118-2
00:10:21.595 --> 00:10:27.724
<v Yazmin Mehdi>arts community is something that staff
does on a regular basis and it</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/122-0
00:10:29.084 --> 00:10:34.835
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I just think it's so beautiful to see
this connection that library staff make</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/122-1
00:10:34.835 --> 00:10:39.258
<v Yazmin Mehdi>to supporting the local, you know,
arts and culture sector.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/122-2
00:10:39.258 --> 00:10:44.051
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And that's just one example,
and not just obviously the arts and</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/120-0
00:10:40.924 --> 00:10:41.084
<v Tom Fay>No.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/122-3
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>culture sector.
But I just think that's remarkable.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/121-0
00:10:47.284 --> 00:10:47.404
<v Tom Fay>Yeah.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/123-0
00:10:48.444 --> 00:10:52.684
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and really great thinking on the part of
the staff that put that together.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/125-0
00:10:55.164 --> 00:11:00.706
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I'll pause for a second.
I'm not seeing Ron's face. Ron,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/125-1
00:11:00.706 --> 00:11:02.844
<v Yazmin Mehdi>is your camera not on?</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/124-0
00:11:03.164 --> 00:11:03.724
<v Tom Fay>Is on.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/126-0
00:11:04.684 --> 00:11:07.069
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Oh,
maybe it's just for some reason you're on</v>

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00:11:06.844 --> 00:11:09.244
<v Bendixen, Carmen>You might have to go to page, page two,
yeah.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/126-1
00:11:07.069 --> 00:11:07.484
<v Yazmin Mehdi>my side.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/128-0
00:11:09.644 --> 00:11:12.902
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I see him. Okay, Ron,
so I can't actually see you.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/128-1
00:11:12.902 --> 00:11:17.310
<v Yazmin Mehdi>You're not showing up on my first page.
So if you have any comments,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/128-2
00:11:17.310 --> 00:11:18.524
<v Yazmin Mehdi>just like speak up.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/130-0
00:11:19.084 --> 00:11:22.284
<v Ron Chew>OK, will do. I trust me, I'm here.
I think I'm here.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/131-0
00:11:22.764 --> 00:11:26.375
<v Yazmin Mehdi>You're here. Oh, yay.
Now you showed up on my first page</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/129-0
00:11:22.844 --> 00:11:23.244
<v Tom Fay>Digby.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/131-1
00:11:26.375 --> 00:11:30.683
<v Yazmin Mehdi>because you spoke probably. Okay, cool.
All right. Thanks all. Tom,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/131-2
00:11:30.683 --> 00:11:34.484
<v Yazmin Mehdi>now we can move on to the integrated
library system update.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/132-0
00:11:35.044 --> 00:11:39.893
<v Tom Fay>Yes, and I believe for this,
we're bringing Charles Wesley,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/132-1
00:11:39.893 --> 00:11:44.095
<v Tom Fay>our library technology officer,
and Khamis forward.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/132-2
00:11:44.095 --> 00:11:48.459
<v Tom Fay>Khamis is our project manager on this
massive effort,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/132-3
00:11:48.459 --> 00:11:55.004
<v Tom Fay>and they'll give us an update as to where
they're at in this process, because we</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/134-0
00:11:55.164 --> 00:11:59.884
<v Tom Fay>Still have the goal of making this
transition by the fall,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/134-1
00:11:59.884 --> 00:12:03.404
<v Tom Fay>so I'll turn it over to Charles and
Khamis.</v>

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00:12:04.364 --> 00:12:08.823
<v Charles Wesley>Hey, thank you, Tom. Good afternoon,
everybody, or good morning, I guess so.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/135-1
00:12:08.823 --> 00:12:13.339
<v Charles Wesley>We're happy to be here to give you an
update on the integrated library system</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/135-2
00:12:13.339 --> 00:12:16.234
<v Charles Wesley>project.
It's been a minute since we brought this</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/135-3
00:12:16.234 --> 00:12:20.750
<v Charles Wesley>forward to you. A lot has happened.
A lot more is going to happen between now</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/135-4
00:12:20.750 --> 00:12:23.935
<v Charles Wesley>and go live.
So we wanted to bring this back to you so</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/135-5
00:12:23.935 --> 00:12:25.324
<v Charles Wesley>that you kind of can get</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/136-0
00:12:26.204 --> 00:12:29.730
<v Charles Wesley>your bearings a little bit on how we got
to where we are,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/136-1
00:12:29.730 --> 00:12:33.986
<v Charles Wesley>and then we will come back more
frequently between now and go live to</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/136-2
00:12:33.986 --> 00:12:38.789
<v Charles Wesley>provide you with additional updates and
information about the progress on this</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/136-3
00:12:38.789 --> 00:12:41.707
<v Charles Wesley>project.
This is a levy funded project from the</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/136-4
00:12:41.707 --> 00:12:44.564
<v Charles Wesley>prior levy,
so we are finishing up some of the</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/138-0
00:12:45.164 --> 00:12:49.927
<v Charles Wesley>work that we had committed to in the
previous levy as we move into the next</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/138-1
00:12:49.927 --> 00:12:52.684
<v Charles Wesley>levy.
Khamis is going to provide you a high</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/138-2
00:12:52.684 --> 00:12:56.570
<v Charles Wesley>level update on this.
He recently joined the organization and</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/138-3
00:12:56.570 --> 00:13:00.330
<v Charles Wesley>is doing a great job at helping to
facilitate this project.</v>

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00:13:00.330 --> 00:13:04.716
<v Charles Wesley>And so without further ado,
I'll hand it over to Khamis to share some</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/138-5
00:13:04.716 --> 00:13:05.844
<v Charles Wesley>more info on this.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/139-0
00:13:07.084 --> 00:13:11.721
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>Good morning, everyone.
I'm excited to be here and provide you</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/139-1
00:13:11.721 --> 00:13:16.432
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>all with an update on what the team has
been hard at work with.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/139-2
00:13:16.432 --> 00:13:22.173
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>So I'm going to pull up actually some
visuals because I'd like to use them to</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/139-3
00:13:22.173 --> 00:13:26.884
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>just give you an overview of what our
timeline is looking like.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/140-0
00:13:27.884 --> 00:13:30.204
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>and guide our conversation.
It's going to be a quick update though.</v>

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00:13:43.164 --> 00:13:47.340
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>Wonder if the update will be quicker than
it takes for PowerPoint to load.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/144-1
00:13:47.340 --> 00:13:48.564
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>Just give it a second.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/143-0
00:13:48.244 --> 00:13:49.324
<v Charles Wesley>Dramatic pause.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/145-0
00:13:49.564 --> 00:13:50.124
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>He.</v>

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00:13:54.524 --> 00:13:57.634
<v Tom Fay>I can see it on my end, honey,
so I don't know if it's showing for</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/147-1
00:13:57.634 --> 00:13:58.284
<v Tom Fay>everyone else.</v>

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00:13:58.524 --> 00:14:00.364
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah, we can, or I can see it.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/149-0
00:14:00.844 --> 00:14:01.324
<v Tom Fay>Yep.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/150-0
00:14:00.884 --> 00:14:03.811
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>There we go.
I think it's just fine being a little</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/150-1
00:14:03.811 --> 00:14:07.369
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>slow, but I got it to come through. Okay,
so as Charles said,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/150-2
00:14:07.369 --> 00:14:10.295
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>I'm the program manager in IT that's
leading this,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/150-3
00:14:10.295 --> 00:14:14.312
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>but a lot of the work has been done
across the groups at the library.</v>

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00:14:14.312 --> 00:14:18.730
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>So we're going to cover three things,
just kind of some recent wins and what</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/150-5
00:14:18.730 --> 00:14:22.231
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>our current focus is,
and then we'll dive into just what our</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/150-6
00:14:22.231 --> 00:14:25.444
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>implementation timeline is looking like
and talk about.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/151-0
00:14:25.444 --> 00:14:29.269
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>About our training plan,
which has just been pinned down,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/151-1
00:14:29.269 --> 00:14:34.873
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>which will give you some time to ask some
questions if you have any towards the end.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/151-2
00:14:34.873 --> 00:14:39.951
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>So, recent wins and current focus. So,
we kicked off kind of the RFP process</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/151-3
00:14:39.951 --> 00:14:44.764
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>last summer in July and went out and we
got a couple of submissions and.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/153-0
00:14:44.964 --> 00:14:50.290
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>teams across circulation, collection,
which includes all of the folks in</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/153-1
00:14:50.290 --> 00:14:53.501
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>processing and acquisitions and
cataloging,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/153-2
00:14:53.501 --> 00:14:58.170
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>went through and evaluated the vendors
who submitted proposals,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/153-3
00:14:58.170 --> 00:15:01.673
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>and we had a matrix that we used to score
them,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/153-4
00:15:01.673 --> 00:15:05.175
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>and Polaris was chosen as our preferred
vendor,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/153-5
00:15:05.175 --> 00:15:09.844
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>and we went in and negotiated the
contract and got that signed.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/156-0
00:15:10.124 --> 00:15:15.260
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>And executed beginning in January is when
we actually started our execution of the</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/156-1
00:15:15.260 --> 00:15:18.044
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>project. Since then,
we've been really busy.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/156-2
00:15:18.044 --> 00:15:22.808
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>We've started to document our workflows
that are our current state workflows</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/156-3
00:15:22.808 --> 00:15:27.634
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>across circulations and collections.
We've had a business analyst come in and</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/156-4
00:15:27.634 --> 00:15:31.284
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>support us and actually sit down with
staff to understand.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/157-0
00:15:31.564 --> 00:15:35.347
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>how they use the existing ILS,
which is the nerve center of our</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/157-1
00:15:35.347 --> 00:15:39.484
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>collection and pain from data,
and really get to know what their pain</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/157-2
00:15:39.484 --> 00:15:43.857
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>points are with the existing ILS.
And then we've just gotten access to an</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/157-3
00:15:43.857 --> 00:15:48.112
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>early Polaris demo environment,
and Polaris is the new ILS product that</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/157-4
00:15:48.112 --> 00:15:51.244
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>we're going with. It's cloud-based,
so instead of...</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/158-0
00:15:52.284 --> 00:15:55.342
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>you know,
circulation staff using an application</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/158-1
00:15:55.342 --> 00:15:58.275
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>that looks like it was born out of
Windows 95.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/158-2
00:15:58.275 --> 00:16:03.268
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>They will be using a browser to interact
with patron and collection information</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/158-3
00:16:03.268 --> 00:16:07.886
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>and with the public in front of them.
They'll actually be able to open up</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/158-4
00:16:07.886 --> 00:16:10.444
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>multiple tabs. So our current focus is...</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/159-0
00:16:10.484 --> 00:16:15.898
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>Right now, we're working on data mapping.
Tom mentioned a little bit of the report</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/159-1
00:16:15.898 --> 00:16:19.486
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>that came out from the TCS team,
the collections team,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/159-2
00:16:19.486 --> 00:16:24.378
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>on some of the inventory work we did.
We're really looking at what kind of</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/159-3
00:16:24.378 --> 00:16:27.966
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>cleanup can we do as part of this
migration. A lot of,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/159-4
00:16:27.966 --> 00:16:30.444
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>we see kind of an opportunity here on.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/160-0
00:16:30.764 --> 00:16:34.296
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>some of our data cleanup,
and we're working on our integration</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/160-1
00:16:34.296 --> 00:16:37.099
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>plans.
How do we make sure that nothing goes off,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/160-2
00:16:37.099 --> 00:16:39.903
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>you know,
nothing weird happens when we integrate</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/160-3
00:16:39.903 --> 00:16:43.210
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>with the sorter,
when we integrate with all of the various</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/160-4
00:16:43.210 --> 00:16:47.639
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>services that our patrons are used to
using, and we're designing our training.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/160-5
00:16:47.639 --> 00:16:52.124
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>So we have an understanding of what our
training content is going to look like.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/161-0
00:16:52.444 --> 00:16:57.107
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>but how we actually fan that out and the
materials that staff uses to train other</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/161-1
00:16:57.107 --> 00:17:00.405
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>staff in branches,
we're starting the design of that now.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/161-2
00:17:00.405 --> 00:17:04.442
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>So that's kind of our current focus.
Halfway through the presentation,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/161-3
00:17:04.442 --> 00:17:08.025
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>this is our timeline.
So I just wanted to give you an overview</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/161-4
00:17:08.025 --> 00:17:11.038
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>of where we are.
We are exiting the discovery phase.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/161-5
00:17:11.038 --> 00:17:15.019
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>We are starting that data mapping and
looking at our first data load.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/161-6
00:17:15.019 --> 00:17:15.644
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>We actually</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/162-0
00:17:15.964 --> 00:17:20.674
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>pulled out the data from our current ILS
and successfully got it in the Polaris</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/162-1
00:17:20.674 --> 00:17:23.795
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>data format.
But now we have to do that data mapping</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/162-2
00:17:23.795 --> 00:17:28.800
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>of like, oh, we have 400 collection codes.
We want to narrow those down to over 100.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/162-3
00:17:28.800 --> 00:17:33.804
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>How do we do that? Which ones map to what?
So that's the process we're in right now.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/163-0
00:17:34.724 --> 00:17:37.799
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>and we're entering that development phase,
which in May,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/163-1
00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:41.414
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>we're going to be having our vendor come
on site and tell us, hey,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/163-2
00:17:41.414 --> 00:17:45.191
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>you used to do it this way,
here's a better way to do it with our new</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/163-3
00:17:45.191 --> 00:17:48.482
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>ILS, or here's a streamlined way,
or you have three options,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/163-4
00:17:48.482 --> 00:17:52.474
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>which one do you want to go with?
That's where we'll be configuring those</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/163-5
00:17:52.474 --> 00:17:54.524
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>workflows. And then later this summer,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/165-0
00:17:54.804 --> 00:17:58.581
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>we will begin our testing.
So once we actually have all that data</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/165-1
00:17:58.581 --> 00:18:02.414
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>mapped and it starts to show up in an
early version of our system,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/165-2
00:18:02.414 --> 00:18:07.163
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>library staff will be going in there and
looking at, did everything map correctly?</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/165-3
00:18:07.163 --> 00:18:11.626
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>What kind of changes do we want to do
before we do our cut over in September,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/165-4
00:18:11.626 --> 00:18:12.484
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>starting the...</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/166-0
00:18:14.004 --> 00:18:17.391
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>week of Labor Day.
The Labor Day weekend is when we'll begin</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/166-1
00:18:17.391 --> 00:18:20.001
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>our cutover,
which will take down our old ILS,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/166-2
00:18:20.001 --> 00:18:22.943
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>pull out the data from it,
get it in the new format,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/166-3
00:18:22.943 --> 00:18:26.164
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>and put it into the new ILS,
and there will be, you know,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/166-4
00:18:26.164 --> 00:18:28.718
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>some disruptions to patrons during that
time,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/166-5
00:18:28.718 --> 00:18:32.604
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>but we're working on a matrix of like
what the patron impact will be.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/167-0
00:18:32.924 --> 00:18:36.147
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>so that we communicate that out ahead of
time.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/167-1
00:18:36.147 --> 00:18:41.359
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>And that'll be limited in duration to
that month of September. So training,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/167-2
00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:46.227
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>that's really what our focus is now,
is how do we design our training?</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/167-3
00:18:46.227 --> 00:18:50.959
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>There's A multi-prong approach here.
It's really being designed now,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/167-4
00:18:50.959 --> 00:18:54.936
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>and it's going to emphasize kind of
practical confidence,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/167-5
00:18:54.936 --> 00:18:57.404
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>not like memorization of the UI. So.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/168-0
00:18:57.964 --> 00:19:02.782
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>It's going to be role-based,
so folks that are actually in the ILS for</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/168-1
00:19:02.782 --> 00:19:05.768
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>the majority of their job,
like catalogers,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/168-2
00:19:05.768 --> 00:19:10.653
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>will get hands-on training from our
vendor to see how the system works.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/168-3
00:19:10.653 --> 00:19:14.996
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>Folks that are less in, you know,
in the ILS 100% of their job,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/168-4
00:19:14.996 --> 00:19:18.524
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>like our circulation staff,
they're in there a lot.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/169-0
00:19:18.804 --> 00:19:24.302
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>but they're also dealing with patrons and
walking around kind of the floor and</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/169-1
00:19:24.302 --> 00:19:28.617
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>moving materials around.
They will be trained by Polaris Peer</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/169-2
00:19:28.617 --> 00:19:32.097
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>Champions,
which is a set of folks that are being</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/169-3
00:19:32.097 --> 00:19:36.064
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>nominated by managers across all 27
branches in Central,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/169-4
00:19:36.064 --> 00:19:37.804
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>various teams in Central.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/170-0
00:19:38.204 --> 00:19:43.168
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>Those peer champions will come into
Central for a full day of training,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/170-1
00:19:43.168 --> 00:19:48.614
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>and then they will take material that
will create together as a group into the</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/170-2
00:19:48.614 --> 00:19:53.232
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>branches in the August time frame,
the July and August time frame,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/170-3
00:19:53.232 --> 00:19:57.644
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>to train staff ahead of go live so people
can have some access.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/171-0
00:19:57.884 --> 00:20:00.892
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>to training materials before we go live.
And then of course,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/171-1
00:20:00.892 --> 00:20:04.640
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>we're going to have ongoing support
because as much as we can do to prepare</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/171-2
00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:06.957
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>people,
people are going to jump in that first</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/171-3
00:20:06.957 --> 00:20:09.176
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>day and be like, oh, wait,
how do I do this?</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/171-4
00:20:09.176 --> 00:20:13.170
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>And there'll be quick little videos that
are like 90 seconds that they can watch</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/171-5
00:20:13.170 --> 00:20:17.164
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>for how to look up a patron record that
they can consume just in time when that.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/172-0
00:20:17.244 --> 00:20:20.820
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>kind of stuff happens,
but we'll also have office hours for more</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/172-1
00:20:20.820 --> 00:20:24.286
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>complex issues that are happening that we
see once we go live.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/172-2
00:20:24.286 --> 00:20:27.092
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>So that's kind of our training plan in a
nutshell.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/172-3
00:20:27.092 --> 00:20:31.163
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>There are some additional resources that
I'm happy to share out with you.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/172-4
00:20:31.163 --> 00:20:35.509
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>We just had a staff update that went in a
little bit more detail onto how that</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/172-5
00:20:35.509 --> 00:20:36.444
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>training plan is.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/174-0
00:20:36.884 --> 00:20:41.351
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>panning out and more detail on the
timeline for if you're curious about what</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/174-1
00:20:41.351 --> 00:20:45.876
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>some of those boxes were that we talked
about and then the project SharePoint</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/174-2
00:20:45.876 --> 00:20:50.284
<v Khamis Hammoudeh>site. So thank you for having me.
Happy to take any questions you may have.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/175-0
00:20:53.724 --> 00:20:56.524
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Thank you, Khamis. Charles, back to you.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/176-0
00:20:58.044 --> 00:21:01.442
<v Charles Wesley>Yeah, thank you,
Khamis for sharing and just for everybody</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/176-1
00:21:01.442 --> 00:21:04.667
<v Charles Wesley>who's listening,
there is an awful lot of work that has</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/176-2
00:21:04.667 --> 00:21:08.929
<v Charles Wesley>gone into getting us to this point that
has been across the organization.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/176-3
00:21:08.929 --> 00:21:13.593
<v Charles Wesley>And so I just want to recognize and thank
everybody who has put so much time and</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/176-4
00:21:13.593 --> 00:21:15.724
<v Charles Wesley>effort into getting us to this point.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/178-0
00:21:17.004 --> 00:21:20.931
<v Charles Wesley>Other folks that haven't been as involved
in this process are going to be more</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/178-1
00:21:20.931 --> 00:21:24.957
<v Charles Wesley>involved and we'll see more of this as
the training comes forward and I'm really</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/178-2
00:21:24.957 --> 00:21:28.933
<v Charles Wesley>looking forward to having more people be
able to put their hands on and work on</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/178-3
00:21:28.933 --> 00:21:31.368
<v Charles Wesley>this.
So there will be more updates for you all,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/178-4
00:21:31.368 --> 00:21:35.444
<v Charles Wesley>but I just want you all to hear that we
appreciate all the work that has been put</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/178-5
00:21:35.444 --> 00:21:37.084
<v Charles Wesley>into getting us to this point and</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/179-0
00:21:37.884 --> 00:21:40.788
<v Charles Wesley>I'm open to any questions or feedback you
all have,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/179-1
00:21:40.788 --> 00:21:43.525
<v Charles Wesley>either in regards to where we've gotten
to date,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/179-2
00:21:43.525 --> 00:21:46.428
<v Charles Wesley>but also as we come back to you for
future updates,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/179-3
00:21:46.428 --> 00:21:50.728
<v Charles Wesley>if there are specific things that you
would like us to be sure to include in</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/179-4
00:21:50.728 --> 00:21:54.302
<v Charles Wesley>our update to you all,
we're happy to incorporate that into our</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/179-5
00:21:54.302 --> 00:21:55.084
<v Charles Wesley>presentations.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/180-0
00:21:56.284 --> 00:21:58.684
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Thanks, Charles. I see Ron has a question.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/181-0
00:21:59.724 --> 00:22:04.348
<v Ron Chew>Yeah, I'm curious,
when this new system has been implemented</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/181-1
00:22:04.348 --> 00:22:10.108
<v Ron Chew>at other public libraries, what's been,
I mean, are there any implications,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/181-2
00:22:10.108 --> 00:22:14.959
<v Ron Chew>apart from the training,
are there any implications in terms of</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/181-3
00:22:14.959 --> 00:22:20.644
<v Ron Chew>actually needing to hire new staff,
people with specific skills to kind of</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/182-0
00:22:20.924 --> 00:22:22.924
<v Ron Chew>Be at the administrative level.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/183-0
00:22:24.044 --> 00:22:28.562
<v Charles Wesley>So it is an established system that a lot
of libraries have used,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/183-1
00:22:28.562 --> 00:22:33.490
<v Charles Wesley>and while our old system is old,
the new system is not like light years</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/183-2
00:22:33.490 --> 00:22:36.639
<v Charles Wesley>different.
I think that there are going to be</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/183-3
00:22:36.639 --> 00:22:41.499
<v Charles Wesley>different ways in which we work,
and so that will definitely, I think,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/183-4
00:22:41.499 --> 00:22:43.484
<v Charles Wesley>impact some of our workflows.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/184-0
00:22:44.204 --> 00:22:47.841
<v Charles Wesley>On the technology side,
it's going to change how some of our</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/184-1
00:22:47.841 --> 00:22:50.762
<v Charles Wesley>things move.
And so we are looking at how we can</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/184-2
00:22:50.762 --> 00:22:55.531
<v Charles Wesley>implement newer technologies or different
approaches to accomplish a lot of the</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/184-3
00:22:55.531 --> 00:22:58.453
<v Charles Wesley>same work.
And so we will look for some of those</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/184-4
00:22:58.453 --> 00:23:01.076
<v Charles Wesley>types of skills and abilities in new
hires.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/184-5
00:23:01.076 --> 00:23:05.130
<v Charles Wesley>But in terms of needing dedicated new
positions or reclassifying or</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/184-6
00:23:05.130 --> 00:23:05.964
<v Charles Wesley>restructuring,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/186-0
00:23:06.364 --> 00:23:10.664
<v Charles Wesley>A large number of people,
I don't see that as being likely.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/186-1
00:23:10.664 --> 00:23:16.038
<v Charles Wesley>I think what we're going to see more
longer term is that because the newer</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/186-2
00:23:16.038 --> 00:23:21.197
<v Charles Wesley>system can, being more modern,
can integrate with our existing tools in</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/185-0
00:23:19.644 --> 00:23:19.684
<v Tom Fay>I.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/186-3
00:23:21.197 --> 00:23:25.496
<v Charles Wesley>new and different ways,
or there may be technology or other</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/186-4
00:23:25.496 --> 00:23:26.284
<v Charles Wesley>things that</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/187-0
00:23:27.324 --> 00:23:31.319
<v Charles Wesley>we have not been able to take advantage
of because the newer stuff is</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/187-1
00:23:31.319 --> 00:23:35.486
<v Charles Wesley>incompatible with our old system.
Those new things now become options to</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/187-2
00:23:35.486 --> 00:23:37.997
<v Charles Wesley>discuss.
And so it will be a big change for</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/187-3
00:23:37.997 --> 00:23:40.908
<v Charles Wesley>everybody,
especially for folks who have only ever</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/187-4
00:23:40.908 --> 00:23:44.332
<v Charles Wesley>worked in Horizon.
So I don't want to minimize that will be</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/187-5
00:23:44.332 --> 00:23:46.044
<v Charles Wesley>a big change. But as far as...</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/188-0
00:23:46.484 --> 00:23:50.630
<v Charles Wesley>you know,
how this system compares to other systems.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/188-1
00:23:50.630 --> 00:23:56.496
<v Charles Wesley>I think it will be a gradual change in
many ways and will really, I think,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/188-2
00:23:56.496 --> 00:24:01.972
<v Charles Wesley>inform longer term discussions and
decisions that have yet to happen.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/188-3
00:24:01.972 --> 00:24:05.804
<v Charles Wesley>This is a first of several steps,
realistically.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/189-0
00:24:07.044 --> 00:24:08.444
<v Ron Chew>Alright, thank you, Charles.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/190-0
00:24:08.844 --> 00:24:09.324
<v Charles Wesley>Mhm.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/191-0
00:24:09.404 --> 00:24:10.364
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Of Faith.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/192-0
00:24:11.804 --> 00:24:14.233
<v Faith Pettis>Yeah,
so having been part of organizations,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/192-1
00:24:14.233 --> 00:24:18.538
<v Faith Pettis>we've all gone through systems changes,
right, and know how painful they are.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/192-2
00:24:18.538 --> 00:24:22.070
<v Faith Pettis>Are you planning on running,
I saw the cutover date, are there,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/192-3
00:24:22.070 --> 00:24:26.706
<v Faith Pettis>is there a period of time you're going to
run both systems in parallel to make sure</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/192-4
00:24:26.706 --> 00:24:30.404
<v Faith Pettis>that the new one is behind the scenes and
working well before you?</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/193-0
00:24:30.524 --> 00:24:31.324
<v Faith Pettis>Do the cutover.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/194-0
00:24:31.884 --> 00:24:35.385
<v Charles Wesley>Yeah,
and I've been with many organizations who</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/194-1
00:24:35.385 --> 00:24:41.001
<v Charles Wesley>have done these types of migrations,
and they all kind of have some of their</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/194-2
00:24:41.001 --> 00:24:46.398
<v Charles Wesley>pain points and opportunities.
We won't be able to run these in parallel.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/194-3
00:24:46.398 --> 00:24:50.044
<v Charles Wesley>It would be ideal if we were able to,
but just...</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/195-0
00:24:50.164 --> 00:24:55.368
<v Charles Wesley>With the nature of how these integrate,
like with our sorting machine and things</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/195-1
00:24:55.368 --> 00:24:58.516
<v Charles Wesley>like that,
like there's not really like parallel</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/195-2
00:24:58.516 --> 00:25:03.205
<v Charles Wesley>systems, and so we're going to,
in the in the detailed transition phase,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/195-3
00:25:03.205 --> 00:25:06.096
<v Charles Wesley>we're going to work through the the
minutia,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/195-4
00:25:06.096 --> 00:25:09.244
<v Charles Wesley>but we're going to really have a
transition for.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/197-0
00:25:09.604 --> 00:25:13.132
<v Charles Wesley>day one on this and then day X on the new
system. However,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/197-1
00:25:13.132 --> 00:25:17.557
<v Charles Wesley>in the training and the QA phase,
we're going to be looking at validating</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/197-2
00:25:17.557 --> 00:25:21.922
<v Charles Wesley>as much as we can ahead of time.
That's why some of the data mapping and</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/197-3
00:25:21.922 --> 00:25:25.271
<v Charles Wesley>the data work that we're doing now is
really important.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/197-4
00:25:25.271 --> 00:25:29.517
<v Charles Wesley>We're really looking at how can we
measure data quality and one of the</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/197-5
00:25:29.517 --> 00:25:33.164
<v Charles Wesley>things that I'm really personally going
to be interested in.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/196-0
00:25:29.724 --> 00:25:29.804
<v Tom Fay>The.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/199-0
00:25:33.404 --> 00:25:37.594
<v Charles Wesley>digging into with the team is what our
test plans look like and how we can</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/199-1
00:25:37.594 --> 00:25:42.006
<v Charles Wesley>validate the outcomes of our tests and to
be able to remediate or identify any</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/199-2
00:25:42.006 --> 00:25:45.637
<v Charles Wesley>defects ahead of time.
So there's going to be a lot of work that</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/199-3
00:25:45.637 --> 00:25:48.933
<v Charles Wesley>we're going to do to try to mitigate some
of these things,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/199-4
00:25:48.933 --> 00:25:52.284
<v Charles Wesley>but unfortunately we won't be able to run
them in parallel.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/198-0
00:25:51.884 --> 00:25:52.364
<v Faith Pettis>K.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/200-0
00:25:52.604 --> 00:25:54.924
<v Charles Wesley>be a hard switch from one to the other.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/202-0
00:25:55.884 --> 00:25:59.282
<v Faith Pettis>So have you given any thought to doing,
thank you for that,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/202-1
00:25:59.282 --> 00:26:03.983
<v Faith Pettis>have you given any thought to doing like
a down day and taking everything down for</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/202-2
00:26:03.983 --> 00:26:07.324
<v Faith Pettis>a day or two to make sure it works before
it goes back up?</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/204-0
00:26:08.124 --> 00:26:11.900
<v Charles Wesley>Yes, so future updates,
we can definitely talk more about this,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/203-0
00:26:08.444 --> 00:26:08.604
<v Faith Pettis>Oh.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/204-1
00:26:11.900 --> 00:26:16.266
<v Charles Wesley>but there will be patron impacts that
will include a period of time where</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/204-2
00:26:16.266 --> 00:26:19.274
<v Charles Wesley>circulation will be in,
for lack of a better word,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/204-3
00:26:19.274 --> 00:26:22.637
<v Charles Wesley>an offline state.
So there will be some transition time.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/204-4
00:26:22.637 --> 00:26:26.708
<v Charles Wesley>So it won't be like, you know,
we close one day and we're on the old</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/204-5
00:26:26.708 --> 00:26:30.483
<v Charles Wesley>system and then I'd open the next day,
we're on the new system.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/204-6
00:26:30.483 --> 00:26:31.604
<v Charles Wesley>There's going to be</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/207-0
00:26:31.724 --> 00:26:36.308
<v Charles Wesley>a period, unfortunately,
where our operations will need to be</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/207-1
00:26:36.308 --> 00:26:41.558
<v Charles Wesley>modified to accommodate this.
And that in line with what other systems</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/205-0
00:26:38.444 --> 00:26:39.204
<v Faith Pettis>Right, OK.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/207-2
00:26:41.558 --> 00:26:45.550
<v Charles Wesley>that have migrated from Horizon to
Polaris have seen,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/207-3
00:26:45.550 --> 00:26:51.243
<v Charles Wesley>and we've been speaking with those
systems to learn from them about how they</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/206-0
00:26:48.444 --> 00:26:48.684
<v Faith Pettis>Good.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/207-4
00:26:51.243 --> 00:26:52.204
<v Charles Wesley>handled that.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/209-0
00:26:53.084 --> 00:26:57.650
<v Faith Pettis>That was going to be my next question.
Thank you for anticipating that.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/208-0
00:26:56.124 --> 00:26:56.524
<v Charles Wesley>Yeah.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/209-1
00:26:57.650 --> 00:26:58.284
<v Faith Pettis>Thank you.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/210-0
00:26:57.724 --> 00:27:00.288
<v Charles Wesley>Yep,
the benefit of having an older system is</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/210-1
00:27:00.288 --> 00:27:04.692
<v Charles Wesley>that many people have made this journey
ahead of us and so we're not blazing a</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/210-2
00:27:04.692 --> 00:27:06.364
<v Charles Wesley>trail, we're following a path.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/211-0
00:27:08.204 --> 00:27:13.078
<v Tom Fay>I think the important part to note here
with the data mapping and all of this and</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/211-1
00:27:13.078 --> 00:27:17.476
<v Tom Fay>the quality assurance components that
Charles mentions is that there is a</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/211-2
00:27:17.476 --> 00:27:21.042
<v Tom Fay>sandbox in which this is all being
developed and tested on,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/211-3
00:27:21.042 --> 00:27:24.964
<v Tom Fay>which means that as they pull that data,
it's going to, you know,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/211-4
00:27:24.964 --> 00:27:29.124
<v Tom Fay>it's going to be our real data,
so it gives them a chance to actually</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/212-0
00:27:29.244 --> 00:27:32.684
<v Tom Fay>really test it before they start moving
it into production.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/213-0
00:27:36.084 --> 00:27:38.844
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Any other questions, Carmen or Tally?</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/215-0
00:27:40.684 --> 00:27:47.331
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Charles, I think, Faith,
thanks for the great questions and Ron.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/215-1
00:27:47.331 --> 00:27:51.932
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Charles,
I think my questions are around the</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/215-2
00:27:51.932 --> 00:27:56.124
<v Yazmin Mehdi>training for staff and the peer training.</v>

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00:27:58.524 --> 00:28:04.174
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I suspect the library has done,
has utilized this model before.</v>

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00:28:04.174 --> 00:28:06.204
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Do you have an example?</v>

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00:28:08.844 --> 00:28:13.447
<v Charles Wesley>That's a really good question.
So I've been here for roughly 4 1/2 years,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/217-1
00:28:13.447 --> 00:28:16.308
<v Charles Wesley>and while we have had some major
transitions,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/217-2
00:28:16.308 --> 00:28:21.160
<v Charles Wesley>we have not had a major system transition
like this that has had this type of</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/217-3
00:28:21.160 --> 00:28:25.887
<v Charles Wesley>impact other than perhaps when the
automated materials handling system came</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/217-4
00:28:25.887 --> 00:28:28.748
<v Charles Wesley>on board,
which was just as I was joining the</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/217-5
00:28:28.748 --> 00:28:32.231
<v Charles Wesley>organization.
So I wasn't here for the creation of that</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/217-6
00:28:32.231 --> 00:28:33.164
<v Charles Wesley>training, but I</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/218-0
00:28:33.244 --> 00:28:37.830
<v Charles Wesley>I do recall that there was a lot of
training and materials that went around</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/218-1
00:28:37.830 --> 00:28:42.596
<v Charles Wesley>adjusting to going from the IA bins,
which was one way that material was moved</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/218-2
00:28:42.596 --> 00:28:45.552
<v Charles Wesley>to the totes.
So I think that is the most recent</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/218-3
00:28:45.552 --> 00:28:49.051
<v Charles Wesley>example that comes to mind for me,
but I don't know, Tom,</v>

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00:28:49.051 --> 00:28:51.404
<v Charles Wesley>if you can speak to any other examples.</v>

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00:28:51.884 --> 00:28:56.204
<v Tom Fay>I would say that's the largest scale one
that we've had recently.</v>

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00:28:58.364 --> 00:29:01.891
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay,
I can imagine that library staff</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/220-0
00:29:00.284 --> 00:29:00.604
<v Tom Fay>And...</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/221-1
00:29:01.891 --> 00:29:09.216
<v Yazmin Mehdi>appreciate whatever training can be given
to them in advance. So that's my only,</v>

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00:29:09.216 --> 00:29:12.924
<v Yazmin Mehdi>that's my only sorry, query, I guess, or.</v>

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00:29:14.324 --> 00:29:17.519
<v Tom Fay>Yeah, and we will definitely have,
you know,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/222-0
00:29:14.604 --> 00:29:15.164
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Is.</v>

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00:29:17.519 --> 00:29:21.283
<v Tom Fay>we'll have that training available post
cut as well.</v>

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00:29:21.283 --> 00:29:26.253
<v Tom Fay>There's going to need to be refreshers.
In my 15 years of library IT,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/224-3
00:29:26.253 --> 00:29:29.590
<v Tom Fay>I migrated pretty much every vendor out
there,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/224-4
00:29:29.590 --> 00:29:34.844
<v Tom Fay>and guaranteed everybody's going to need
a refresher once they get there.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/223-0
00:29:30.524 --> 00:29:30.684
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Mm.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/225-0
00:29:35.804 --> 00:29:39.049
<v Tom Fay>Because you know something that's two or
three weeks out or a month out,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/225-1
00:29:39.049 --> 00:29:41.404
<v Tom Fay>when it gets down to those details,
it'll be tricky.</v>

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00:29:42.204 --> 00:29:47.679
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And especially for professionals whose
job is to know stuff or know how to do</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/227-1
00:29:47.679 --> 00:29:52.873
<v Yazmin Mehdi>stuff or how to get information,
I'm sure it'll be somewhat disconcerting</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/226-0
00:29:49.164 --> 00:29:49.364
<v Tom Fay>What?</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/227-2
00:29:52.873 --> 00:29:56.734
<v Yazmin Mehdi>to be in this cutover phase. So,
but having said that,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/227-3
00:29:56.734 --> 00:30:00.524
<v Yazmin Mehdi>it does sound like there's a significant
track record</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/228-0
00:30:01.164 --> 00:30:06.651
<v Yazmin Mehdi>among other systems and that you guys are
doing a great job of understanding and</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/228-1
00:30:06.651 --> 00:30:10.783
<v Yazmin Mehdi>learning from, you know,
their experiences. So that's great.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/228-2
00:30:10.783 --> 00:30:15.457
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And also this is the team that got us
through the ransomware attack.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/228-3
00:30:15.457 --> 00:30:19.724
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So I have high confidence this will this
will go well. My last</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/229-0
00:30:19.764 --> 00:30:25.602
<v Yazmin Mehdi>question is about, are we doing,
I think Helen's on this call, like,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/229-1
00:30:25.602 --> 00:30:32.539
<v Yazmin Mehdi>what are we doing around, well, actually,
this is probably for a future briefing,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/229-2
00:30:32.539 --> 00:30:36.685
<v Yazmin Mehdi>but like,
I'm sure there are plans around how to</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/229-3
00:30:36.685 --> 00:30:41.084
<v Yazmin Mehdi>bring the public up to speed on this
transition and</v>

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00:30:42.764 --> 00:30:46.591
<v Yazmin Mehdi>sending out information well before it
happens. So anyway, yeah,</v>

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00:30:46.591 --> 00:30:50.124
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I see heads nodding.
We don't need to talk about that more.</v>

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00:30:47.524 --> 00:30:47.804
<v Charles Wesley>Yep.</v>

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00:30:49.044 --> 00:30:53.890
<v Charles Wesley>Definitely. Lots of plans. Helen's team,
as well as our internal comms and</v>

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00:30:53.890 --> 00:30:57.185
<v Charles Wesley>stakeholders,
are all anticipating a pretty robust</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/233-2
00:30:57.185 --> 00:31:01.190
<v Charles Wesley>communications plan.
And I think what we presented today kind</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/233-3
00:31:01.190 --> 00:31:05.713
<v Charles Wesley>of gives the rough outline and a lot of
the details around, you know,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/233-4
00:31:05.713 --> 00:31:09.524
<v Charles Wesley>how it's going to impact patrons and when
it's going to be</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/234-0
00:31:09.604 --> 00:31:13.045
<v Charles Wesley>what's sussed out in, you know,
the coming weeks and months.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/234-1
00:31:13.045 --> 00:31:16.204
<v Charles Wesley>So we look forward to sharing that with
folks for sure.</v>

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00:31:16.684 --> 00:31:20.336
<v Tom Fay>And Khamis puts out,
Khamis puts out an internal kind of</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/235-0
00:31:16.844 --> 00:31:17.644
<v Yazmin Mehdi>That sounds great.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/238-1
00:31:20.336 --> 00:31:24.052
<v Tom Fay>update on it that is just,
it's really a beautiful piece,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/236-0
00:31:21.084 --> 00:31:21.244
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Mm.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/238-2
00:31:24.052 --> 00:31:27.447
<v Tom Fay>both succinct but very informative at the
same time.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/238-3
00:31:27.447 --> 00:31:32.764
<v Tom Fay>And I think that's really helping folks
out. I know I appreciate it when I see it.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/237-0
00:31:33.644 --> 00:31:35.244
<v Faith Pettis>Much like his presentation.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/239-0
00:31:36.684 --> 00:31:37.244
<v Faith Pettis>Thanks.</v>

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00:31:36.764 --> 00:31:37.244
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah.</v>

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00:31:39.244 --> 00:31:44.469
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Anyway, thanks Charles and Khamis.
Look forward to hearing more.</v>

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00:31:44.469 --> 00:31:51.060
<v Yazmin Mehdi>It sounds like it's clicking along well.
It's disconcerting to me that it's going</v>

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00:31:50.764 --> 00:31:50.964
<v Tom Fay>Yeah.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/243-2
00:31:51.060 --> 00:31:56.284
<v Yazmin Mehdi>to be ready by Labor Day. That's amazing.
Looking forward to it.</v>

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00:31:57.564 --> 00:32:02.012
<v Charles Wesley>It's a big, it's been a long,
it's been a long time coming and so I</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/244-1
00:32:02.012 --> 00:32:07.049
<v Charles Wesley>think everybody's happy that we're
finally in the doing and not the thinking</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/244-2
00:32:07.049 --> 00:32:08.684
<v Charles Wesley>about face. So it's real.</v>

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00:32:09.484 --> 00:32:11.564
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Exciting. Thanks, Charles. Thanks, Khamis.</v>

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00:32:11.164 --> 00:32:12.684
<v Charles Wesley>Thank you all. Thank you, Miss.</v>

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00:32:14.284 --> 00:32:18.245
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay,
we are going into old business and</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/247-0
00:32:15.964 --> 00:32:16.204
<v Tom Fay>Play.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/248-1
00:32:18.245 --> 00:32:19.404
<v Yazmin Mehdi>immediately.</v>

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00:32:21.804 --> 00:32:24.524
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I think we'd like to bring Brian for this.</v>

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00:32:33.644 --> 00:32:34.684
<v Tom Fay>Hey, Brian, are you there?</v>

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00:32:36.044 --> 00:32:37.924
<v Brian Sharkey>Yes, I'm here. Good morning.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/253-0
00:32:37.364 --> 00:32:38.284
<v Yazmin Mehdi>There he is.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/254-0
00:32:40.044 --> 00:32:40.844
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So.</v>

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00:32:42.004 --> 00:32:46.274
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Tom, do you,
I don't think I should preamble this as</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/255-1
00:32:46.274 --> 00:32:51.350
<v Yazmin Mehdi>opposed to you, Tom.
So this is a discussion of an edit to the</v>

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00:32:51.350 --> 00:32:57.957
<v Yazmin Mehdi>merit and executive leave policy for Tom.
He's the only employee affected by this</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/255-3
00:32:57.957 --> 00:33:03.839
<v Yazmin Mehdi>change because this policy only impacts
the Executive Director and Chief</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/255-4
00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:04.644
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Librarian.</v>

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00:33:05.804 --> 00:33:09.360
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So, Brian,
would you mind giving us sort of the</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/256-1
00:33:09.360 --> 00:33:11.804
<v Yazmin Mehdi>lowdown on what this change does?</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/257-0
00:33:12.844 --> 00:33:15.615
<v Brian Sharkey>Sure, yeah.
So the proposed change eliminates a</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/257-1
00:33:15.615 --> 00:33:18.271
<v Brian Sharkey>single line of text from the existing
policy,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/257-2
00:33:18.271 --> 00:33:23.062
<v Brian Sharkey>and essentially that line creates a joint
cap of PTO between three different kinds</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/257-3
00:33:23.062 --> 00:33:26.987
<v Brian Sharkey>of leave. And so that's executive leave,
merit leave, and vacation.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/257-4
00:33:26.987 --> 00:33:30.740
<v Brian Sharkey>And to Yazmin's point,
this is only speaking with respect to Tom</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/257-5
00:33:30.740 --> 00:33:33.164
<v Brian Sharkey>as the Executive Director Chief Librarian.</v>

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00:33:33.564 --> 00:33:37.454
<v Brian Sharkey>He's the only one that falls under the
jurisdiction of this policy.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/259-1
00:33:37.454 --> 00:33:42.031
<v Brian Sharkey>So what we had relayed to the board and
to Yazmin is that each of these buckets</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/259-2
00:33:42.031 --> 00:33:46.608
<v Brian Sharkey>actually has a separate cap or threshold.
So they all have independent caps and</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/259-3
00:33:46.608 --> 00:33:49.354
<v Brian Sharkey>thresholds.
Executive leave is 4 days per year.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/259-4
00:33:49.354 --> 00:33:53.644
<v Brian Sharkey>That's automatically granted as being an
FLSA exempt or salaried employee.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/260-0
00:33:54.124 --> 00:33:58.298
<v Brian Sharkey>Merit leave, of course,
is granted by the board and has a maximum</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/260-1
00:33:58.298 --> 00:34:03.547
<v Brian Sharkey>of six days per year that can be granted.
So those two combined can have a maximum</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/260-2
00:34:03.547 --> 00:34:06.583
<v Brian Sharkey>of 10.
And then vacation RA does have a maximum</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/260-3
00:34:06.583 --> 00:34:11.010
<v Brian Sharkey>balance spelled out in the policy.
And so that's every year the Chief</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/260-4
00:34:11.010 --> 00:34:12.844
<v Brian Sharkey>Librarian is granted 30 days.</v>

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00:34:13.084 --> 00:34:17.439
<v Brian Sharkey>and then they can carry over up to an
additional 15 days of leave,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/261-1
00:34:17.439 --> 00:34:22.574
<v Brian Sharkey>and there's a maximum total cap of 45
days that the Chief Librarian can carry.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/261-2
00:34:22.574 --> 00:34:26.864
<v Brian Sharkey>And so each of those individual types of
leave has their own cap.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/261-3
00:34:26.864 --> 00:34:31.804
<v Brian Sharkey>This line that has been proposed to be
eliminated takes all three of those.</v>

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00:34:32.204 --> 00:34:36.180
<v Brian Sharkey>creates an additional cap that sort of
lowers the ceiling on how much balance</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/262-1
00:34:36.180 --> 00:34:39.238
<v Brian Sharkey>somebody can have.
So what it means in practice is that for</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/262-2
00:34:39.238 --> 00:34:42.245
<v Brian Sharkey>somebody like Tom,
who doesn't take a lot of vacation each</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/262-3
00:34:42.245 --> 00:34:44.488
<v Brian Sharkey>year,
when he comes to the end of the year,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/262-4
00:34:44.488 --> 00:34:48.667
<v Brian Sharkey>when he looks at that carryover amount,
he's actually not able to carry over what</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/262-5
00:34:48.667 --> 00:34:50.604
<v Brian Sharkey>the policy allows up to those 15 days.</v>

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00:34:50.724 --> 00:34:55.465
<v Brian Sharkey>because of the merit and executive leave
award and because of this combined cap.</v>

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00:34:55.465 --> 00:34:58.860
<v Brian Sharkey>So putting it simply,
eliminating the combined cap allows</v>

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00:34:58.860 --> 00:35:03.367
<v Brian Sharkey>things to fall back to the existing
individual caps and that would allow for</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/263-3
00:35:03.367 --> 00:35:07.698
<v Brian Sharkey>a slightly larger carry forward or
allowing Tom to actually carry forward</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/263-4
00:35:07.698 --> 00:35:11.444
<v Brian Sharkey>the amount that is already allowable
under the existing policy.</v>

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00:35:11.564 --> 00:35:13.924
<v Brian Sharkey>So hopefully that's not too confusing.
Yazmin,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/264-1
00:35:13.924 --> 00:35:16.284
<v Brian Sharkey>let me know if I can clarify any pieces
there.</v>

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00:35:17.804 --> 00:35:22.108
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Nope,
I think the thing that's worth stating</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/266-1
00:35:22.108 --> 00:35:29.376
<v Yazmin Mehdi>here is that by making this change,
the library board can kind of correct a</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/266-2
00:35:29.376 --> 00:35:36.644
<v Yazmin Mehdi>mistake we made in not granting merit
leave to Tom in 2025. And it doesn't.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/267-0
00:35:36.764 --> 00:35:44.418
<v Yazmin Mehdi>change anything but this combined cap
that was sort of, in my view, artificial.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/267-1
00:35:44.418 --> 00:35:50.924
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So does anyone have questions about this
edit to the policy? Faith?</v>

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00:35:51.244 --> 00:35:55.382
<v Faith Pettis>Can I just make a comment?
Is that I think it's an elegant solution</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/268-1
00:35:55.382 --> 00:36:00.129
<v Faith Pettis>to rectify the mistake that we had made,
but it only works because Tom is not</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/268-2
00:36:00.129 --> 00:36:03.233
<v Faith Pettis>taking enough vacation.
And I would just say, Tom,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/268-3
00:36:03.233 --> 00:36:05.484
<v Faith Pettis>I encourage you to use your vacation.</v>

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00:36:05.924 --> 00:36:09.804
<v Tom Fay>Yes, I definitely would like to use it,
so that's not a problem.</v>

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00:36:10.604 --> 00:36:11.164
<v Faith Pettis>Okay.</v>

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00:36:13.164 --> 00:36:19.115
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Great. Faith makes a good point.
So unless there are any questions,</v>

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00:36:19.115 --> 00:36:24.453
<v Yazmin Mehdi>what I would like to do is entertain a
motion to, let's see,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/271-2
00:36:24.453 --> 00:36:30.579
<v Yazmin Mehdi>what do we have to do here?
I think we just need to approve this edit</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/271-3
00:36:30.579 --> 00:36:31.804
<v Yazmin Mehdi>to the policy.</v>

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00:36:32.084 --> 00:36:38.233
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So I would take a motion to approve the
policy changes as indicated in the board</v>

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00:36:38.233 --> 00:36:38.764
<v Yazmin Mehdi>packet.</v>

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00:36:42.044 --> 00:36:42.924
<v Faith Pettis>I'll make that motion.</v>

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00:36:43.484 --> 00:36:44.204
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Thank you, Faith.</v>

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00:36:45.084 --> 00:36:45.604
<v Tali Hairston>Second.</v>

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00:36:45.564 --> 00:36:45.884
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Of.</v>

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00:36:46.884 --> 00:36:51.804
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay, and second from Tally.
All those in favor, please say aye. Aye.</v>

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00:36:51.844 --> 00:36:52.364
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Bye.</v>

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00:36:52.244 --> 00:36:52.684
<v Tali Hairston>Kai.</v>

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00:36:52.924 --> 00:36:53.164
<v Ron Chew>Bui.</v>

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00:36:54.174 --> 00:37:00.788
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And so that motion passes unanimously and
that edit is made to the policy. Great,</v>

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00:37:00.788 --> 00:37:06.675
<v Yazmin Mehdi>thank you all. Brian, thank you very much.
We'll probably see you later.</v>

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00:37:06.044 --> 00:37:06.524
<v Brian Sharkey>Thank you.</v>

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00:37:06.675 --> 00:37:10.224
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Now on to new business. Tom,
I guess Jesse,</v>

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00:37:10.224 --> 00:37:13.934
<v Yazmin Mehdi>we could bring Jesse in for the union
report.</v>

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00:37:14.124 --> 00:37:19.004
<v Tom Fay>Yep, absolutely.
I think I saw Jesse on page 2 there, yes.</v>

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00:37:20.044 --> 00:37:23.884
<v Jessica Lucas>Hi, yes. Thank you for.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/284-0
00:37:21.244 --> 00:37:21.404
<v Tom Fay>It.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/286-0
00:37:26.284 --> 00:37:27.084
<v Jessica Lucas>Having me.</v>

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00:37:28.604 --> 00:37:31.459
<v Jessica Lucas>Sorry,
I just wanted to say that we're just</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/288-1
00:37:31.459 --> 00:37:36.455
<v Jessica Lucas>starting the collective, well, sorry,
the interest-based bargaining process,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/288-2
00:37:36.455 --> 00:37:41.450
<v Jessica Lucas>which is different from traditional
bargaining in that we go from a place of</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/288-3
00:37:41.450 --> 00:37:46.575
<v Jessica Lucas>mutual interest and try to find ways to
get there that are mutually acceptable</v>

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00:37:46.575 --> 00:37:49.884
<v Jessica Lucas>and to the benefit of our members and the
library.</v>

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00:37:50.844 --> 00:37:55.260
<v Jessica Lucas>So we just had a training on that last,
or earlier this week,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/289-1
00:37:55.260 --> 00:37:58.679
<v Jessica Lucas>and we were fairly successful in that
training,</v>

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00:37:58.679 --> 00:38:04.164
<v Jessica Lucas>and then we'll continue that in May.
So we're hopeful that working together,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/289-3
00:38:04.164 --> 00:38:07.084
<v Jessica Lucas>we'll be able to get to a very strong and</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/290-0
00:38:11.004 --> 00:38:13.804
<v Jessica Lucas>Equitable contract that makes us all.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/291-0
00:38:14.844 --> 00:38:18.415
<v Jessica Lucas>have a better starting point and I look
forward to that.</v>

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00:38:18.415 --> 00:38:23.365
<v Jessica Lucas>I also wanted to say I do appreciate all
the communication and I've heard this</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/291-2
00:38:23.365 --> 00:38:25.244
<v Jessica Lucas>from others too about the ILS.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/292-0
00:38:28.684 --> 00:38:34.652
<v Jessica Lucas>migration, sorry.
So thank you for all of that and Charles</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/292-1
00:38:34.652 --> 00:38:42.743
<v Jessica Lucas>and Tom and everyone involved in that.
And otherwise, just keep moving forward,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/292-2
00:38:42.743 --> 00:38:48.204
<v Jessica Lucas>keep building that momentum and the
positive changes.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/293-0
00:38:48.284 --> 00:38:50.244
<v Jessica Lucas>So, thank you very much.</v>

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00:38:51.084 --> 00:38:55.622
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Thanks, Jesse.
I wanted to thank you for noting the</v>

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00:38:51.404 --> 00:38:51.804
<v Jessica Lucas>Any.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/295-0
00:38:52.884 --> 00:38:53.004
<v Jessica Lucas>And.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/298-1
00:38:55.622 --> 00:39:02.864
<v Yazmin Mehdi>importance of the levy and the work that
happened at the mayor's level and then in</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/296-0
00:38:59.644 --> 00:39:00.204
<v Jessica Lucas>Mhm.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/298-2
00:39:02.864 --> 00:39:07.838
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the city council.
Having the union support that work is,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/298-3
00:39:07.838 --> 00:39:10.804
<v Yazmin Mehdi>of course, what do I say, crucial.</v>

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00:39:11.404 --> 00:39:12.204
<v Jessica Lucas>Yes.</v>

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00:39:12.444 --> 00:39:16.284
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Can't do it without the union,
so really appreciate you noting that.</v>

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00:39:16.684 --> 00:39:20.821
<v Jessica Lucas>Thank you. Yes,
we see a lot of good in this in this levy</v>

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00:39:20.804 --> 00:39:21.044
<v Tom Fay>Team.</v>

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00:39:20.821 --> 00:39:25.884
<v Jessica Lucas>and we will be encouraging folks to get
out there and spread the word.</v>

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00:39:27.404 --> 00:39:31.884
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Thank you, Jesse. Appreciate you.
Any questions for my colleagues for Jesse?</v>

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00:39:28.524 --> 00:39:29.964
<v Jessica Lucas>Thank you. Yep.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/305-0
00:39:36.444 --> 00:39:41.412
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Good to see you back.
It was fun to have Anne as a temporary</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/305-1
00:39:41.412 --> 00:39:45.484
<v Yazmin Mehdi>union rep, but it's good to have you back,
Jesse.</v>

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00:39:43.564 --> 00:39:43.964
<v Jessica Lucas>Yeah.</v>

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00:39:45.804 --> 00:39:49.484
<v Jessica Lucas>Great, thank you so much. Yep,
it's good to see you. Bye.</v>

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00:39:48.044 --> 00:39:48.604
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Kai.</v>

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00:39:51.484 --> 00:39:54.687
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay,
and now on to Library Foundation and</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/308-1
00:39:54.687 --> 00:40:00.124
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Friends of the Library update. So, Ron,
any updates from the Foundation?</v>

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00:40:02.284 --> 00:40:05.564
<v Ron Chew>Nope. I don't think we had a meeting,
did we?</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/310-0
00:40:06.684 --> 00:40:07.324
<v Yazmin Mehdi>No meeting.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/311-0
00:40:07.964 --> 00:40:08.204
<v Ron Chew>Yeah.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/312-0
00:40:08.844 --> 00:40:13.310
<v Yazmin Mehdi>But I know the foundation was out there
doing really important good work.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/312-1
00:40:13.310 --> 00:40:15.724
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So thank you to the foundation for that.</v>

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00:40:16.364 --> 00:40:20.642
<v Ron Chew>Well, and I might just mention,
if I might, you know,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/313-0
00:40:19.564 --> 00:40:20.044
<v Yazmin Mehdi>It's great.</v>

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00:40:20.642 --> 00:40:26.266
<v Ron Chew>in terms of the city council and moving
the levy bond measure forward,</v>

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00:40:26.266 --> 00:40:32.444
<v Ron Chew>I saw a lot of foundation faces and
voices, and so that was much appreciated.</v>

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00:40:50.124 --> 00:40:50.604
<v Faith Pettis>Yes.</v>

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00:40:51.804 --> 00:40:55.788
<v Faith Pettis>The friends have been busy,
so they were also very active at the city</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/318-1
00:40:55.788 --> 00:40:58.917
<v Faith Pettis>council meetings,
and it was fun to see them and their</v>

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00:40:58.917 --> 00:41:03.071
<v Faith Pettis>amazing signs at those meetings.
So the friends had a meeting in person,</v>

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00:41:03.071 --> 00:41:06.030
<v Faith Pettis>actually,
the first in-person meeting in quite some</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/318-4
00:41:06.030 --> 00:41:10.469
<v Faith Pettis>time at their new Georgetown facility,
which is where they do their teachers,</v>

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00:41:07.324 --> 00:41:07.484
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah.</v>

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00:41:10.469 --> 00:41:10.924
<v Faith Pettis>their...</v>

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00:41:11.084 --> 00:41:15.589
<v Faith Pettis>Books for Teachers program and that was
really fun to be in their venue.</v>

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00:41:15.589 --> 00:41:20.587
<v Faith Pettis>They had a little social hour that Tom
and I joined and then went into a meeting</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/320-2
00:41:20.587 --> 00:41:25.709
<v Faith Pettis>and it was great to actually meet many of
the folks that had been on calls with in</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/320-3
00:41:25.709 --> 00:41:29.596
<v Faith Pettis>person. So that was terrific.
A lot of their meeting was spent</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/320-4
00:41:29.596 --> 00:41:31.324
<v Faith Pettis>recapping the levy campaign.</v>

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00:41:31.564 --> 00:41:34.972
<v Faith Pettis>And then also,
they talked about their financial report</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/321-1
00:41:34.972 --> 00:41:39.172
<v Faith Pettis>for 2025, closing that out,
and then some of their other needs going</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/321-2
00:41:39.172 --> 00:41:43.249
<v Faith Pettis>forward. And then as usual,
they always talk about their volunteer</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/321-3
00:41:43.249 --> 00:41:46.231
<v Faith Pettis>activities and everything they're
involved with,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/321-4
00:41:46.231 --> 00:41:50.917
<v Faith Pettis>which is so impressive to hear how much
they're doing to win friends for the</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/321-5
00:41:50.917 --> 00:41:51.404
<v Faith Pettis>library.</v>

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00:41:51.884 --> 00:41:55.332
<v Faith Pettis>Much appreciated.
The other thing that they did was they</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/322-1
00:41:55.332 --> 00:41:59.264
<v Faith Pettis>hosted a tour of the MOC, which Yazmin,
you referred to earlier,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/322-2
00:41:59.264 --> 00:42:04.042
<v Faith Pettis>their maintenance and operations center.
And I would encourage any other board</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/322-3
00:42:04.042 --> 00:42:08.700
<v Faith Pettis>members who are interested to reach out
to their friends to organize a tour.</v>

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00:42:08.700 --> 00:42:11.724
<v Faith Pettis>It was fantastic.
It was to view their new audit.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/323-0
00:42:11.884 --> 00:42:18.126
<v Faith Pettis>sort of new automated materials handling
system and to learn how the books move</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/323-1
00:42:18.126 --> 00:42:24.290
<v Faith Pettis>from library branch to library branch.
And we had a great tour led by the mock</v>

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00:42:24.290 --> 00:42:29.128
<v Faith Pettis>lead, Stafford, Jason,
and I think his name last name is Lori</v>

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00:42:29.128 --> 00:42:30.844
<v Faith Pettis>Chella, is that right?</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/324-0
00:42:30.964 --> 00:42:31.724
<v Faith Pettis>Lunchella.</v>

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00:42:32.924 --> 00:42:37.872
<v Faith Pettis>Jason was his first name,
but he was just a just a delight,</v>

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00:42:34.484 --> 00:42:35.004
<v Tom Fay>Jason.</v>

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00:42:37.872 --> 00:42:44.056
<v Faith Pettis>just a bright, happy, engaging person.
And you can see how how a team will</v>

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00:42:44.056 --> 00:42:50.817
<v Faith Pettis>thrive under him in that in that space.
But he took us on a tour and actually put</v>

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00:42:50.817 --> 00:42:51.724
<v Faith Pettis>us to work.</v>

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00:42:53.164 --> 00:42:57.828
<v Faith Pettis>getting materials out of the bins.
There's a bin de-stacker that puts things</v>

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00:42:57.828 --> 00:43:02.855
<v Faith Pettis>on this maze of conveyor belts that goes
into this big room with all the different</v>

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00:43:02.855 --> 00:43:07.216
<v Faith Pettis>branches labeled and different parts of
the branches and the books get,</v>

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00:43:07.216 --> 00:43:12.364
<v Faith Pettis>the ARFID chips get read and they zip off
all over the place and drop into the bins.</v>

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00:43:13.004 --> 00:43:18.683
<v Faith Pettis>It's like a big Tetris puzzle that you've
got to have people at the right spots,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/329-1
00:43:18.683 --> 00:43:23.731
<v Faith Pettis>pushing the right buttons and moving
books, leveling books in the bins.</v>

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00:43:23.731 --> 00:43:25.484
<v Faith Pettis>It was really impressive.</v>

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00:43:26.684 --> 00:43:32.029
<v Faith Pettis>And then he took us on a tour of the rest
of the facility and showed us the storage</v>

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00:43:32.029 --> 00:43:36.737
<v Faith Pettis>areas and the operations places.
And then as we also saw the new fleet of</v>

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00:43:36.737 --> 00:43:41.254
<v Faith Pettis>electric vehicles and the bookmobiles as
well. So highly recommend it.</v>

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00:43:41.254 --> 00:43:45.644
<v Faith Pettis>It was a fantastic tour and thanks,
big thanks to their friends for.</v>

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00:43:45.724 --> 00:43:46.684
<v Faith Pettis>organizing that.</v>

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00:43:48.444 --> 00:43:54.244
<v Tom Fay>The manager there is Jason Hayes and Tony.
Tony Loricella is the leader.</v>

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00:43:51.244 --> 00:43:51.884
<v Faith Pettis>Jason.</v>

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00:43:53.644 --> 00:43:56.524
<v Faith Pettis>There we go. There we go.
I mixed the needs up. Thank you.</v>

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00:43:58.764 --> 00:44:04.789
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Fay, thanks for that report and again,
thanks to the friends.</v>

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00:44:04.789 --> 00:44:10.522
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I think I should note that due to,
you know, ethics rules,</v>

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00:44:05.684 --> 00:44:05.804
<v Faith Pettis>Yeah.</v>

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00:44:10.522 --> 00:44:17.324
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the library board from here on out cannot
really talk about the levy.</v>

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00:44:16.924 --> 00:44:17.084
<v Tom Fay>But...</v>

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00:44:17.884 --> 00:44:23.213
<v Yazmin Mehdi>now that it will go in front of the
voters. But the work that we did,</v>

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00:44:23.213 --> 00:44:29.456
<v Yazmin Mehdi>along with the friends and the foundation,
was absolutely key and was part of our</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/339-2
00:44:29.456 --> 00:44:34.176
<v Yazmin Mehdi>role to get it through the mayor's office,
a brand new mayor,</v>

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00:44:34.176 --> 00:44:36.764
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and then through the city council.</v>

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00:44:36.844 --> 00:44:42.874
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And again, we didn't do it alone.
We had the friends, we had the foundation,</v>

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00:44:42.874 --> 00:44:49.061
<v Yazmin Mehdi>we had Tom's remarkable leadership team.
So I'd like to just take a moment and</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/340-2
00:44:49.061 --> 00:44:55.404
<v Yazmin Mehdi>celebrate that that has now gone on and
we can work on that levy in our personal</v>

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00:44:55.884 --> 00:45:00.063
<v Yazmin Mehdi>capacities.
So we won't really be able to talk about</v>

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00:45:00.063 --> 00:45:06.608
<v Yazmin Mehdi>it very much here in the board meetings,
but let's just take a moment and say yay,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/342-2
00:45:06.608 --> 00:45:12.837
<v Yazmin Mehdi>because so much of what we just talked
about today in this short 45 minutes is</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/342-3
00:45:12.837 --> 00:45:15.044
<v Yazmin Mehdi>work that has been funded by</v>

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00:45:15.164 --> 00:45:20.303
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the current 2019 levy by the 2012 levy.
And you know,</v>

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00:45:20.303 --> 00:45:27.439
<v Yazmin Mehdi>we are kind of counting on some of what
we would get from the 2026 levy to</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/343-2
00:45:27.439 --> 00:45:31.626
<v Yazmin Mehdi>continue the work that is already
underway,</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/343-3
00:45:31.626 --> 00:45:36.764
<v Yazmin Mehdi>including reinforcing unreinforced
masonry buildings,</v>

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00:45:37.084 --> 00:45:42.932
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and implementing big systems changes.
And we didn't even talk about really</v>

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00:45:42.932 --> 00:45:47.922
<v Yazmin Mehdi>collections or programs today,
but those are also key elements.</v>

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00:45:47.922 --> 00:45:51.821
<v Yazmin Mehdi>With that,
do any of my colleagues have any other</v>

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00:45:51.821 --> 00:45:52.444
<v Yazmin Mehdi>updates?</v>

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00:45:56.284 --> 00:46:00.016
<v Yazmin Mehdi>In which case, it's now 1146,
and at this time,</v>

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00:46:00.016 --> 00:46:05.770
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the Board of Trustees is going to hold an
executive session to review the</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/347-2
00:46:05.770 --> 00:46:12.068
<v Yazmin Mehdi>performance of a public employee, Tom Fay.
No decisions will be made during this</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/347-3
00:46:12.068 --> 00:46:16.422
<v Yazmin Mehdi>closed session,
and I expect this session will conclude</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/347-4
00:46:16.422 --> 00:46:17.044
<v Yazmin Mehdi>at about</v>

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00:46:17.324 --> 00:46:20.688
<v Yazmin Mehdi>ideally 1215,
but might be a little bit later.</v>

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00:46:20.688 --> 00:46:25.270
<v Yazmin Mehdi>The board will now be moved into a
private online meeting room.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/349-2
00:46:25.270 --> 00:46:31.282
<v Yazmin Mehdi>The public meeting will remain connected,
but meeting attendees will not be able to</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/349-3
00:46:31.282 --> 00:46:37.152
<v Yazmin Mehdi>view or hear members in executive session.
The public portion of the meeting will</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/349-4
00:46:37.152 --> 00:46:39.084
<v Yazmin Mehdi>recommence in approximately</v>

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00:46:39.404 --> 00:46:43.395
<v Yazmin Mehdi>30 to 45 minutes.
I hope that's good enough.</v>

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00:46:43.395 --> 00:46:46.764
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So we'll see you all in a short while.</v>

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00:46:50.204 --> 00:46:51.284
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Ohh, yeah.</v>

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00:46:53.404 --> 00:46:56.764
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I think Amy is going to take care of that
for us.</v>

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00:47:07.964 --> 00:47:09.004
<v Tom Fay>Can you still hear me?</v>

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00:47:09.724 --> 00:47:10.284
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yes.</v>

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00:47:10.764 --> 00:47:13.954
<v Tom Fay>Okay,
so I'm trying to figure out why I'm not</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/361-1
00:47:13.954 --> 00:47:14.924
<v Tom Fay>out yet, so...</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/362-0
00:47:17.404 --> 00:47:19.004
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Oh, it's people are going.</v>

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00:47:20.124 --> 00:47:20.604
<v Tom Fay>Okay.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/366-0
00:47:20.444 --> 00:47:24.364
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Or maybe people are dropping on their own.
Maybe that's what that's happening.</v>

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00:47:29.244 --> 00:47:30.124
<v Tom Fay>Yes, K.</v>

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00:47:31.004 --> 00:47:32.284
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>Sorry, I'm working on it.</v>

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00:47:32.684 --> 00:47:33.244
<v Tom Fay>Eric.</v>

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00:47:33.844 --> 00:47:34.604
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Thanks, Amy.</v>

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00:47:57.164 --> 00:48:00.444
<v Tom Fay>Okay, now the board can't hear me.</v>

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00:48:02.324 --> 00:48:02.764
<v Tom Fay>All right.</v>

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00:48:02.364 --> 00:48:05.004
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>Kate Bron is still there.
I'm still trying to change Ron.</v>

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00:48:05.404 --> 00:48:05.964
<v Tom Fay>Okay.</v>

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00:48:38.364 --> 00:48:41.122
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>Hey, Ron, hold tight.
We're having a technical difficulty</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/396-1
00:48:41.122 --> 00:48:42.644
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>getting you moved into the room.</v>

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00:51:59.004 --> 00:52:01.497
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>Okay,
I think it worked when we had Ron sign</v>

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00:52:01.497 --> 00:52:04.764
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>out and sign back in.
He should be moving to the room now.</v>

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00:52:07.644 --> 00:52:08.924
<v Tom Fay>Okay, great. Thank you.</v>

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01:21:19.124 --> 01:21:20.284
<v Tom Fay>Hopefully that helps.</v>

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01:48:09.724 --> 01:48:12.985
<v Tom Fay>And one second,
let me make sure Amy knows. Amy,</v>

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01:48:12.985 --> 01:48:16.844
<v Tom Fay>I think we've got everybody back that was
in the session.</v>

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01:48:18.684 --> 01:48:22.524
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>If everybody can see and hear each other,
then they should be back.</v>

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01:48:23.084 --> 01:48:23.724
<v Tom Fay>Missing.</v>

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01:48:23.164 --> 01:48:24.684
<v Faith Pettis>I don't see Tali.</v>

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01:48:25.164 --> 01:48:28.308
<v Tom Fay>Tell me,
we need to have him leave the room,</v>

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01:48:28.308 --> 01:48:30.124
<v Tom Fay>or can you bring him back?</v>

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01:48:29.564 --> 01:48:33.084
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>I, so everybody should be coming back yet.</v>

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01:48:37.844 --> 01:48:39.884
<v Tom Fay>Let me just go check real quick.</v>

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01:48:42.204 --> 01:48:44.084
<v Tom Fay>Oh, you did close it? Yeah, it's closed.</v>

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01:48:44.524 --> 01:48:45.004
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>Mhm.</v>

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01:48:45.724 --> 01:48:47.644
<v Tom Fay>We may have just lost him temporarily.</v>

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01:48:46.404 --> 01:48:46.804
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>Did you?</v>

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01:48:54.004 --> 01:48:56.284
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>Yeah,
it seems to have bounced out somehow.</v>

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01:48:57.804 --> 01:48:59.004
<v Tom Fay>Okay, hopefully he comes.</v>

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01:48:59.724 --> 01:49:00.444
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>Rejoin.</v>

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01:49:02.444 --> 01:49:07.052
<v Tom Fay>See, I'll try.
I'll go ahead and try to text him real</v>

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01:49:03.084 --> 01:49:03.244
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>Okay.</v>

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01:49:07.052 --> 01:49:07.564
<v Tom Fay>quick.</v>

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01:49:24.764 --> 01:49:25.244
<v Tom Fay>Right.</v>

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01:49:32.924 --> 01:49:37.084
<v Tom Fay>I haven't heard from him yet,
but hopefully he will just re-log.</v>

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01:49:39.084 --> 01:49:39.804
<v Tom Fay>Or rejoin.</v>

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01:50:07.324 --> 01:50:09.084
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Have we heard anything from him?</v>

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01:50:09.484 --> 01:50:12.849
<v Tom Fay>No, I'm texting him now.
I'm gonna give him a call,</v>

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01:50:12.849 --> 01:50:13.884
<v Tom Fay>so bear with me.</v>

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01:50:14.204 --> 01:50:14.684
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay.</v>

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01:50:17.804 --> 01:50:21.070
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Well,
one thing to note for next time is that</v>

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01:50:20.844 --> 01:50:20.884
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>Oh.</v>

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01:50:21.070 --> 01:50:26.394
<v Yazmin Mehdi>we need, oh, there he is. Yay, Tally.
We do need a little bit more time in</v>

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01:50:24.444 --> 01:50:24.564
<v Tali Hairston>Okay.</v>

fbf53858-e94c-4fb4-a621-e28cc0860a65/959-2
01:50:26.394 --> 01:50:30.511
<v Yazmin Mehdi>executive session to conduct a
performance review of Tom.</v>

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01:50:30.511 --> 01:50:36.262
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So for future reference, I'll note that.
So right now it is 1250 and I'm calling</v>

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01:50:36.262 --> 01:50:38.604
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the public meeting back to order.</v>

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01:50:40.364 --> 01:50:45.919
<v Yazmin Mehdi>During the executive session,
the board conducted Tom's performance</v>

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01:50:45.919 --> 01:50:51.637
<v Yazmin Mehdi>review and discussed compensation,
but we made no decisions. However,</v>

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01:50:51.637 --> 01:50:58.417
<v Yazmin Mehdi>now that we're back in the public meeting,
I would like to entertain a motion from</v>

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01:50:58.417 --> 01:50:59.724
<v Yazmin Mehdi>my colleagues to</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>thank Tom for his remarkable and
successful work in his short tenure with</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>the Seattle Public Library.
And in recognition of the work that he</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>has done and his many successes,
the board</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>would like to increase his compensation.
In order to come to a figure,</v>

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01:51:26.973 --> 01:51:32.837
<v Yazmin Mehdi>we did a market analysis of comparable
public library systems,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>as well as looked at the compensation of
other city department heads, and</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Finally,
the other piece that we took into account</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>is that Seattle Public Library employees
annually receive wage increases.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>And we would like to recognize that as a
Seattle Public Library employee,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Tom 2 should receive those annual wage
increases.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>So we would like to,
the motion is to award him annual wage</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>increases over the term of his tenure,
going back to when he first became Chief</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Librarian. And additionally,
in recognition of his many successes,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>we would like to award him a 9.
9% pay increase.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>So that is the motion on the table.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>I guess I need somebody else to actually
move that motion and then someone to 2nd.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>I move that we.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>vote on this motion, but let me qualify,
Yazmin,</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>what you said is that this is prospective
in terms of going back.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>It's not retrospective, right?
So we're not going back and awarding the</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>increases as if, rather,
we're adding that to our current.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Matrix for his.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Salary.</v>

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<v Faith Pettis>Right.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Correct.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Yeah.</v>

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<v Faith Pettis>I'll second that motion.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>It will be.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>So, OK, thank you.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay, all in favor, please say aye.</v>

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<v Faith Pettis>Aye.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Yeah.</v>

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<v Bendixen, Carmen>Kai.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>And Ron is unfortunately had to leave
before we were able to come back to the</v>

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01:53:25.788 --> 01:53:30.263
<v Yazmin Mehdi>public meeting,
but he expressed his support for this</v>

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01:53:30.263 --> 01:53:34.407
<v Yazmin Mehdi>motion.
So that motion passes unanimously and we,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>I will now entertain a motion to adjourn.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Motion to adjourn.</v>

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<v Faith Pettis>I'll make that question.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>And a second. Okay, all in favor say aye.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Thank you.</v>

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01:53:44.804 --> 01:53:45.084
<v Faith Pettis>Kai.</v>

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01:53:45.004 --> 01:53:45.324
<v Tali Hairston>Kai.</v>

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<v Bendixen, Carmen>Kai.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>And I will be in Peru in May,
so Tally as VP will run the May meeting,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>and I will see everyone back in June.
Thank you, everybody.</v>

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<v Faith Pettis>Thank you for all your work, Yazmin.</v>

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<v Bendixen, Carmen>Yeah, thank you. Have a good one.</v>

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<v Tali Hairston>Thank you, everyone.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Kai.</v>