This conference will now be recorded.

Tim, do you have anything before we start?

Okay.

Okay.

Why don't we do introductions?

Uh all the grip will be here and you just call me.

He went to the wrong place.

He's going to do the right place.

I almost did the same thing.

So I don't know.

This maybe we'll start with you and go all the way around the room.

Hi, I'm Casey Shipley.

I'm the office and facilities manager at the library.

And recording the meeting.

Jay Mercaller, Alden Willem.

I'm Hudley Bell or PC below.

John Well, F Port Portal.

Jason Gordon Mayor.

I'm Tommy, friends of the library trustees.

Juilbinders.

Or how the way that we would are.

Oh, I guess you can name off the board of trustees.

Yeah.

Uh starting next month for the states for the library.

And uh city administrator with city major.

You want to are you doing this like a more assistant?

Well, I wanted to say thank you to all of the members of the council and the mayor certainly not.

I know this is one more meeting, and she can ask to you so then there I it's about so do appreciate you coming.

Unfortunately, the library director was on a scout trip with his children and caught a sickness and did not want to spread his churches here today after everyone is happy about not getting sick.

So with that, he had a slight presentation.

I just kind of wanted to emphasize the library board and administration.

We kind of serve in way kind of as a buffer for the council, and that were doing certain things, and some ways, for example, there have been occasion controversies about say an event happened, and they've kind of sort of done us, so we kind of filter that before it would come to the council, which is kind of how I think most of the boards and commissions kind of work.

One of the things we do do is we work very hard to maintain accreditation.

I think there should be in front of you.

Some of them some of them state by but they all have a certain requirements.

So we have a system in place where every month we will have a certain policy will come to us for review.

We'll talk about it in the following month.

Sometimes there are not, but sometimes there are so yeah, that's uh you know, that is really the main extent what from my perspective presentation we can make.

Like I say, Jeff had a little bit more, and but I would be interested to hear from the council mayor, your perspective.

Sure, what things you would like from us, yeah.

Well, and uh we do have to do for my six months today.

perspective presentation we can make like I say Jeff a little bit more and but I would be interested to hear you know from the council mayor your perspective sure what things you would like from us yeah well and uh we do have two as I do for six months today new wish I guess so uh you know one of those onboarding um things that happens really then probably is just knowing uh what each one of the commissions and the boards that we have do and what their purview is and what the role responsibility is so um I I don't know if my colleagues have your questions I mean we're very proud of our libraries so got uh life who's a ferocious feeder and she's got a couple of great she's just always at the library the story hour the downtown library the screen so we're big fans to yourself generally oh just log in very you um it's gonna the library director it's sick unfortunately um yeah I'll maybe to my colleagues see if they've got any questions or comments I'm sorry I will say that even though I'm this is my second term I've never met the library board before so this is this is great um I can throw out Grim but um we utilized the library tremendously until you were I'm sorry didn't our city layers on to the having work I do see the utilization and I love that you know I assign that for library card again but so long uh it's grew a little bit learning out of mom um but in I mean the programs that we offer are fantastic and I love seeing all of that and everything that we offer on social media it it is a daily almost daily that I see something like so that's easy um one of the things to do and management from C2 work very hard with what used to be called the friends of the library they're now called library foundation um they raise money and they frequently will will fund a lot of those programs uh there are certain programs that they they fund they have been funding for years they've added others so yes and then we also look we have added the library of thing you can like this the space room shovel various kinds of things like that so we found through our contacts with other library systems and other places have done that so we've explored that and like for example in that case we went forward I think the friends gave us the money and then we acquired the various items that are in our library of things which is just I just think is another useful tool you know that you know people could come and use you know maybe they don't always need a shovel or maybe you're always the light certain things and so hopefully we have some enough those kinds of things that people can use those that is just another way they can feel like they belong to the can if I'm in um the beauty of this is we have these kinds of aspects as we said for that matter uh but somewhere if you want to go into vacation it'd be how a co-book GoPro can you know what I mean the extension the extension of items is so extensive that you can apply it to all kinds of situations and events you know and it's free it's free for you to check out and that's what we'd be building as a foundation process and as we're talking about the foundation I'm maybe feeling away from the topic but I do want to share that we do have a one razor on September 26th which is every foundation so please do talk you're really thank you.

So please do talk you're really good.

Thank you.

It's going to be uh going to be like it was last year.

Yes, with a new store.

Yeah, new store.

Which is very interesting to us.

The way to play that sort of played out the super industry.

Yeah, mystery.

And it kind of played out.

So I did have a couple of things.

I love the library.

Study.

Yeah, yeah.

Took that tour, check it on or so.

I talked to people, how much they care about.

Yeah, it's probably when I was campaigning.

I'm actually just called that when I was campaigning, that's all I acquired a list on the flash drive, down the order's office.

And I have no idea how people who spread sheets.

So I reached out and someone told me the library had a library, a librarian for an hour or so.

Right, so I did that.

Yeah.

And it was very helpful for us this day.

We got it all together for and it helped.

And I didn't realize that was there.

So I ought to tell people about things like that.

Yeah.

We all sound sound today when I saw.

The beauty of it is we are local in the part that we are, but we have also the patterns library, USPDO United States.

And that's a huge thing when it comes to small businesses, big businesses who get away over those items again.

And I'm again missing out the exact name to the service, but it is a small business service, actually.

So like or something like that, or a small business.

You get those tools right there without you know, I mean, without returning.

And I and I'm sorry, I'm stressing it all the more because sometimes people do ask a question, like with all three and work with uh who is the lady as well.

We currently have the use of your third core tired well topic stuff if you want it to serve that she was very diligent, and she would come to the quadrant meetings another meeting it's objective on the someone else who would like it, sir.

Yeah, I think forward job, actually.

Not the power thing my time here, so first kind of became aware of the speech and all to successful, but also being aware of the little resource curlow species were use the download libraries and expand search um actually bother all go to library things three engaging activities for them really helped out a lot, and also in one of the job, and you all do a lot of public jobs and hardly so you find where we see public people find and so you guys have this one of these also to be from Houston, Texas, and they spend most of your time in the library that they enjoy so much, and so it is not just possible.

So system so thank you.

We uh we just recently finished the children's uh I'm sure you've probably seen those control decorations in the children's sections.

Um I think we are the only libraries around that has those that they're very much here to be interesting for children to play with make it make it engaging for them to come here.

When speaking of St.

Ambrose, you're sitting right next to uh find it, yeah.

I mean uh just one we on the board would be as useful to both you on the council mayor as we are to the citizens at large to make sure that we're providing whatever kinds of services we can there's some things we can't do, but there's obviously we need to explore when we see for example library and some other people providing a certain service.

I know we have just recently had the issue we had with uh um people providing uh uh notary public service staff at the library providing public service, which is uh uh is it is a benefit to the public.

Um you know there are some people in the business community provide that service, but oftentimes if you were just uh just a member of the public who don't have necessarily a business connection, you wouldn't necessarily know where to go to to get that service, and uh we have been providing service for fun years.

What I would say is a lot of these services like the rent a tool or to go crowd, I had no idea until you mentioned that here, no clue.

So push that information out push it out so people know push it out on your social media, push it out in your day not the notary.

I mean, I have constantly have people asking, do you know what I have no idea?

Yeah, we only see word company um expanding our um communication and in the community on services, well everything I would say when when you're when you do something and you know what's going on and it's an everyday thing for you, it's just common knowledge, and you can be blinders onto what you are until you have a group of people that bring that to your attention.

So I would highly recommend starting advertising things that you mean the rent a tool or the GoPro or again, those are amazing.

There are people that can't just go to Monards and buy a shuttle.

So I mean social media ways just done through it.

So yeah, that's it.

And I think thank you for sharing that, and I think more what the marvelous amount of staff does is when they they do a ton of house page events.

I mean, going out in the community, all the sort of shoppers or to see their living facilities, etc.

etc.

They try and see to it letting it do what you said, you know.

I wouldn't say advertise, but kind of showcase, let's put it that way, showcase what we have, and that is done to those appropriate components, like you know, for example, they are on the top with all the schools uh you know going out there.

So what I mean is uh they we have guides like it's a library of things, so you know they would suggest something like that.

I mean, so but good if we do say what you say.

I mean, you guys are going to be out at all the party and make a board, yeah.

Do you need room?

You need a hammer or you don't need to just list some random things that we're gonna have the public, but I mean all these events that happen during the summer that the bookmobile or whatever tend is going to be there, advertise advertise all the good things that we do, but not only the things that people can check out, but the cover frames like my kids' favorite was when they can drive take back, put on their PJs and we came for story time right before it was my favorite too.

Those those are I mean, you guys did uh I uh Christmas movies one year, yeah.

And that was fantastic.

So I think I think you're right.

Most of us have sort of being on the end side for a while.

It becomes kind of second nature to it, too.

My community it happens.

I mean you're in uh in a situation or a job, uh that just becomes routine, and so these are all the things you know that happen, but in conversation, they're here, but they don't come out here.

And if I might jump in to share, this was a while ago.

Uh and and please, this is just a clock and sharing uh my area algorithm is just a job and jump in, and uh as you guys and as you have school community, uh seeking his permission, I had invited Jim had me.

Yeah, so Jeff introduced a lot of these things uh in our people who as you could please say I go back, you know, so you know, just as like he spoke for 10 minutes and people go by shocked to do like I'm in awe that we have these things.

Well that's a great benefit to our citizens.

Thank you.

Yeah, Ryan uh Craigler's having great job keeping me in the blue block when we have opening on missions of wars like your full steps, you need one in addition to Mary.

Okay, like the great story chat July 1.

And like I said, our terms we can serve two six-year terms, and then we have to return and sound uh and um change those term limited off.

So yes, actually I don't remember people I just had a conversation with Joe.

Uh about two weeks ago where we had someone lined up and they got the job states, I think like association of it absolutely nice.

Tom, I might Joe, I might am I predicting assuming that we want a representation on all sides of time for like or two when you're going to be anyway, we want to see uh the presentation.

That's what you can work people, you know.

They won't well stop up and serve, but six year terms, yeah.

Just means you have yeah, so that's the nice list.

But there is a place on our website to submit your interest in certain order recognition.

You can you can I think I think you require you, I don't know if you can select that, or if you have to just pick one, but I've been trying to have some of this that they look for the preference will do when it's hot years, or if they're really locked in on civil service housing and shouldn't see these and maybe have uh library has agronized it upon on a social media.

Okay, that's valid.

Just so much.

And then just one of the things I had mentioned.

It's past legislative session, and I so I uh the outdoors are what we call the metro coalitions and the electrical issues.

We're all members of the Iowa League of City that are in largest cities in the um and they they formed probably about 10 to 15 years ago, maybe a little longer than that as a way of still recognizing the importance of being a member of the Iowa League of Cities, but understanding that those larger specs are have different challenges than Chester or Oscalo or DO.

Um, and so we kind of carved out what we call coalition in our lobbyists, and David L since they remember the name of this firm off the top of my head.

Um but there were some pieces of legislation this past session and given politics and uh one of which was in which some bill was introduced that would uh transfer or Google sub the way that library commissions have onto the city council.

Yeah, and I think Scott had a conversation with Jeff Scott, you know, Scott and Scott had a leads are going to staffs for the city with the legislature success.

Um that did come up.

Scott, I think took that message from Jeff and brought that up on calls and that I think maybe as soon as Gene every mayor maybe with different political stripes that are uh part of the metro law issue is like we're not interested.

I when I first heard about it, my first reaction yeah, having served the councils again, kind of know what people think, and I said entity council are not jumping and up and down for joy to take over the library, you know.

I think just as well like to have somebody else do that and kind of sort through it, and then if there is a danger issue, maybe that comes up pull the chart, but you know you're not interested in the everyday things, which I think I think that's a very good position, yeah.

Yeah, so there was a little bit of collaboration coordination, and I don't think it was gonna go anywhere anyway.

You're already gonna go out this property tax, right?

You can stop there.

Um we appreciate we appreciate the council support for all the library in case of legislation that is not particularly favorable to libraries or terms of funding that seems like we can see it's the same sources.

We appreciate that long-term commitment library council too.

I'd be curious to ask you in light of some of the things that come out.

So conversation legislation that's elected, you can see that you're probably more likely to hear constituents than we are.

What are you hearing from constituents about in Australia?

Well, I'll be honest, I have uh sometimes I assume that to be a good thing just because like my interest they're gonna give us good news.

You know, do we title this limit uh or phone calls that were um so I think you know I haven't heard much um you know when I do run into people like if it's five at the library from Japan's side generally speaking, I don't think to all the competitions in my output.

Yeah, and what I would say about the library is it's pretty quiet, and where I don't receive a lot of calls in the library or emails, uh but what we do see is that our two-year survey that uh citizen surveys and the library typically scores in the top three of scale city, but I think that's a good thing.

So people a good opinion of uh the library, my opinion is the set of what we have is been effective, and we should keep it to not make libraries more as you guys do your job, and people would have with the services.

We really try you know board make we make we make conscious decision to we act as board, and then we did you know the administration, for example, acquiring material sent things like that, and they're the professionals that are plugged into the various uh sources that will tell you okay.

We may already have one copy of this, we don't need another one, we can eat three copies of something, and you know those kinds of things, the professionals ones who have access to that and have their fingers sort of pulse, so they are we we we delegate that to them or we do the policies and also the one thing we do do is we evaluate the rector and um approve his increases in pay whenever that occurs.

So I do have a question.

So like kind of the questions we ask in our citizen survey very high level thank you.

You know, one through five, that that type of thing.

Um to you guys go a little bit deeper as library customers customer surveys there kind of digging into the minutiae of are you happy with the level of service and uh the the historic uh reference area happy with the the reading material that we have for for uh teenagers, etc.

So that you can kind of get because that's not what our surveys is a thumbs up like most people say, but I would be interested.

Are you guys getting early down?

From that aspect, we do get feedback from the public, especially to the staff now.

We get reports on that monthly our board page.

We were give reports with you know positives and or negatives that staff receive.

Yeah, yeah, we did quite a bit of surveying sex related to that.

So we have some that's relative.

Okay, and then back to both of my colleagues.

Um we have something on the library web stack, which the library library staff has been promoting is we want people to share stories that would be you know positive, but it's and so we mean we mean advertising as well as you know, as Joe said also see that doing more, so it's not a survey subway such newspaper guys, so it's gonna kick up on surveys which paper you want, and then it's disappointed in order to add to the daily, but I understand costs.

What I was gonna say, too, like we're in the number of folks, we're still checking out a lot of obviously what I can do.

But folks are in hopefully have those numbers, like all their services.

Is that the compliment?

Well, we get those numbers at least yearly to get a report compared to the year.

They yeah, they track circulation, whatever whatever the items are being checked out, you know, our however it is.

You know, how it is out here.

I'm sure it's probably death.

I I don't know, but it's I know we give it as Joe said.

We can towards that give us that information.

So I know you guys have an online library.

And that's uh how was it rolling that love using that?

I think yeah, I know a lot of people.

Yeah, yeah.

And we should put some age direction.

By the way, on online.

And I actually we just sign it with the bigger libraries.

Yes, so much more access.

But TV's online, it's e-books on time and screen cookies.

I think we're not produced.

Yeah, I'm schooling school.

Um strategic plan is that like that like a website.

I was gonna say send it to the outside.

So maybe gentlemen should ask Mr.

Sharp.

Sure.

Is that um I I was I was thinking and I kind of you know made a very sharp list of notes uh you could say they can uh what what do we care achieving?

This is what I think and economic development, I can't develop saying people don't expire what how we have we have the business leaders quite a different people for giving those kinds of services for post-mediately because we do have people and librarians who have uh writing resume making is that you know very education, of course, and engagement because we have those folks activities, not just book chain, post-chain events and things like that, and basically you know, trying to help with quality of life because it's nice to like so my question had comes down to and all of you and we may not have this right now, but it was something like do we see what kind of proportion scan do we see in the picture where we could have a stronger collaboration between the city and the library?

There are many there are many things that probably actually can do it again, have an answer fine, but if the library has these points within what more can we do to see that we have to help each other because we're doing the same thing, right?

We're doing it, we're doing it differently.

You uh different maybe we need to have to do something more what would it be, but just an open-ended collation.

What one thing might my wife call it should be city, and I think one thing we could possibly do in global is just as we remote data for the city.

Make sure that we're including them just quality of life issue.

I think we I think we have lots of things.

We can maybe identify something library that can really deal with how that works perceive with collaboration.

I'm sorry, selling merchandise.

We do have a star.

Yeah, online start.

Okay.

Yeah.

No, I mean, uh, those money is go towards the deck.

You know, we did stage and they do have fundraising, so all the money gets they.

Sure, yeah, but as having said we really stuck shirts and tote bags and notebooks, not sure what else I sometimes have priorities.

No, I mean uh is this oh those money is goes to go towards the deck you know we did stage and they do have fundraising so all the money is they got sure yeah but as I said we will stuff shirts and tote bags and notebooks I sometimes have priorities so you know the movie whoever what is it night at the museum yes uh yes and this is something it'll it'll be not me deciding this I mean the city of Davenport having like a night of the library there you have so when my kids were little um the I would send them to Texas um for summer camp and um one of one of them was at an and so I will never forget the summer number one she lost her glasses in the ocean number two the boys and the girls beat the boys and they got to sleep the turn so oh wow it it was a room a tunnel that you walked through and then there were sharks around fish around you and it was the best thing that I mean should love and then one of the other summers they went to a library and they had it was called um some slumber party something slumber party but it was at a library and so they they had flashlights and they read like they should decide I can like it what it was a two day they went at like lunchtime they spent the night and then strictly not going so it was kind of like a night in the museum but it was really cool she was see Phoebe was six six when she did the library and nine or ten when she she did the the courses yeah they will never forget that's like that's a shard it's an interesting idea huh that's an interesting idea but those are camps that would we have family down there so we're grandma would take them to Texas with her for three four weeks and they would I would pay for whatever camp they wanted to go to down there.

One of them was at the apartment one of them was just an over when and she was little for that it was just an over just to share how to fund what you just said I could mean all of you if I'm right and thinking right here we did have something I think it was November where the little kids could get their stuff toys and they uh they came into the library and this was an exporter to little kids came into library and they slept in the their stuff toys slept in the library and the staff with then everywhere like in DL is on a book track or you know something like that and that generated such a lot of engagement on them and it was the fair community and the little kitty community kind of like whoa but that opened I mean even if it were littler and it wasn't like a complete overnight where well I don't want to say we're going to babysit them but look mom and dad go out parks wrecks used to have uh where you dropped your kids off at like six o'clock and them up at nine o'clock so you could go out with dinner um the last one that mine the Collins house so but I mean these are the bringing back memories and uh when my kids were little but they're just i guaranteed of somebody can look into it you know so two takeaways I have to keep any any member trustees would something like one more analyzes intuition is sure so uh they're nominated but uh one has the chance what jokes have we did the conversation with I'm going to do anything yeah may I may I um would it be valuable for us to make this annual and a conversation supposed to be yeah actually we haven't known since COVID oh so all right so we started doing I think we got two seconds I believe that little boards will be initial there's placing code says we're scoring here so those council so continue to bring that up like

Yeah, actually, we haven't done it since COVID.

Oh so all right.

So we started doing this right.

Okay, I think we got one or two cycles.

I believe that all of our boards will show us like oh there's placing the code that says we're scoring your syllabus and council.

So I continue to bring that up like AB active gas on the live.

So we should remember me to get the GPD.

Yeah, or those handing on uh you can we don't need to start like yeah well we will we will be the code says that's what if not annual maybe separate yeah that we want it you guys have the staff like here and so you know right yeah and that's why it's good to you know there's a lot of levels we have the liaison's civil service and upcoming but she also I mean she couldn't make every meeting sure there were times that she would just get online yes and and do it virtually yeah and I think there just says we could be present over she would also present a shop city so it was a good update can do up to do that yeah whatever's not Paul you meant why you got it all right thanks guys appreciate your time what you did for the library system of the city thank you for your service and I'll get one taking up right now no I have two reasons okay so then I'll actually follow out no she's she's more she's not okay so you're good it also we can wait for it that's my last time so awesome well thanks guys I think