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The Benicia Board of Library Trustees held a regular meeting on August 13, 2026, at 6:00 p.m., adjourning at 6:48 p.m. The meeting included a technical services report, discussion of library impact fees in light of anticipated city growth, a city librarian's report on operations and finances, and updates from board liaisons.
Technical Services Report: Allie presented a detailed overview of the technical services department, explaining its behind-the-scenes role in cataloging, labeling, and processing materials. Key highlights included:
Library Impact Fees: Trustee Todd Hickey raised concerns that the library impact fee charged per new housing unit is low and has not been updated in many years. City Librarian Jennifer noted that a comparison with other communities showed their fees are much higher. With major developments like Rose Estates anticipated (projected 17%+ increase in library usage), Jennifer emphasized that existing programming space is already beyond capacity. The process for updating fees is unclear; the municipal code assigns authority to the Public Works Director, but no response has been received from city inquiries. The board agreed this merits continued attention.
City Librarian Report (Jennifer):
Board Liaison Reports:
I will call this August 3rd, 2026 meeting of the Benisha Board of Library Trustees to order. It is 6 p.m. Carolyn may have the roll call, please. Carolyn Cadloni, present. Lois Kazakov is absent. Linda Ordonio Dixon. Present. Ruth Workman. Present. President Todd Hickey. Present. Reference to the fundamental rights of the public, the fundamental rights of each member of the public can be found in the municipal code posted on the city's website and on a plaque that is posted at the entrance to this meeting per section 4.04. And I see that I skipped the Pledge of Allegiance, so we'll have to do that. I was out of order. Anyone online? There's not. Okay, thank you. Information and I don't have my regular, I don't have my reading glasses on, so this is a this is a problem. Yeah. Okay. But you want to get out of here. No, no, no. It's I have the wrong pair of specs. Adoption of agenda. Um may I have a motion to adopt the agenda. I'll move that we adopt the agenda. I'll second it. Take the roll, uh, Carolyn. Trustee Cadlone, aye. Linda Ordonio Dixon, aye. Ruth Workman. Aye. President Todd Hickey. Aye. Um, finally now, uh yes, uh, information and presentations. Uh we have a technical services report from Allie. Um take it away. All right. Good evening, everybody, and to everybody at home. Hello. Um in my head, there's a crowd. It's very exciting. Um, so I started this report in a way that I hadn't started other reports, which was with a very basic what is tech services. And I didn't know whether that would be useful, but then last week Amber read this over after I had sent it.