The Carson City Library Board of Trustees met on May 14, 2026, with Vice Chair Lucas, Trustees Lenares, Markle, and Spansill present, achieving a quorum. The meeting covered approval of minutes, the library director's administrative report on staffing, programming, and partnerships, a discussion on turnover perceptions, and announcements including Vice Chair Lucas's departure.
Present. Vice Chair Lucas. Present. Trusty Lenares. Present. Trusty Markle. Present. And Trustee Spansill. We have a quorum. Thank you so much. All right, on to public comments. The public is invited at this time to provide comments on any topic that relates to a matter over which this public body has supervision control jurisdiction or advisory power. I don't see anybody here. So I think we're going to move on. Okay. Item number four. Approval of the minutes. Has everybody had a chance and opportunity to read the minutes. This is Trustee Marco. I move to approve the meeting minutes for April 9th, 2026. Thank you. Do I have a second? This is Trustee Linairs. I second that. All in favor. Aye. All opposed. Motion passes. Thank you. Item number five. Let's go on to the library director's administrative reports. Well, hello. Hello. Joy Holt, Library Director for the Record. Does anyone have any questions about the financials? I wonder if you could tell us more about the augmentations that you mentioned later in the uh in your director's report. Just since we're looking at the financial. Sure. Um, I actually didn't end up doing any um at the last minute. I I thought, do I really need to do augmentations because it's a change in an augmentation is um typically when we've got say a ten thousand dollar budget in a line item, um, but I want to uh, or excuse me, we have zero budget in a line item, and I want to add money to that line item. Um, otherwise it's a general entry, and I can do that myself. Um, or when I want to pull money forward, like I've done with the gift fund, the gift fund money we pulled forward um in our last augmentations in November. The grant money was the one that I thought I was gonna have to be doing. Oh, I was actively working on, and then stopped myself and thought because we did a drawdown, we did our final um drawdown or our last drawdown um for the go-ed grant or interlocal agreement. And I started thinking about it though, I don't think I actually need to do an augmentation because the money is just um they're going to apply it towards either the salary or the services and supplies because those are really the two only two line items that we have that we pay in our grants, and so the finance department will just automatically um disperse that money correctly. I don't need to communicate that to them. So it would be kind of me kind of muddying the water a little bit by having to tell them to do something that they're already gonna do. So I called them and just said, this is what I'm thinking, and they were like, Oh, that's that's okay. So I didn't have any augmentations this time, and sometimes I don't. I always have them in the first round because of pulling the gift fund money forward from uh mostly due to the friends donation.