Good evening, everyone.

Welcome to the uh November 24th, 2025 uh library board meeting.

Can we have a call of the roll?

Mr.

Peter.

Present?

Dr.

Martado.

I'm present.

Dr.

Palacio.

Present.

Dr.

Payne.

Present.

Dr.

Yolo, present.

Dr.

White.

And do we have Ms.

Woodard?

Yes.

Yeah.

Okay.

We do have a quorum, sir.

All right.

The chair recognizes a quorum.

Thank you very much.

So good evening, everyone.

On behalf of the board, it's my pleasure to welcome you to the Indianapolis Public Library's November 2025 Board of Trustees meeting hosted at the Irvington Branch.

My name is Ray Beterman, and I'm the president of the Board of Trustees.

Thank you for joining us.

First, I would like to congratulate one of our board members.

Congratulations to Dr.

Kala Murtada, recipient of the Tau Chapter Yes Award from the National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa Inc.

This honor recognizes her outstanding leadership, dedication to youth, and lifelong commitment to education and service.

We'd also like to celebrate her impact on students, families, and communities across Indianapolis and beyond.

Thank you.

This week we celebrate Thanksgiving.

A time to reflect on what we're grateful for.

Before we start tonight's meeting, I want to take a moment and share my gratitude on behalf of the board to the people that make our library system exceptional.

First, to our staff.

Earlier this month, I had the opportunity and pleasure to attend part of Staff Day, a day dedicated to professional development, training, and recognition.

It was easy to witness the camaraderie among our employees and their passion for public service.

We're thankful to these dedicated library professionals for serving in our community every day.

Also, we're grateful to the many new cardholders that have joined us this year, and for our long-standing loyal patrons who visit our branches or connect with us online each week.

Our community is the reason we do this work.

The board is also thankful for how the Indianapolis Public Library is successfully delivering on our strategic plan objectives.

We seem to be in a time when many institutions, both public and private, are making tough choices.

Other organizations have been forced to consolidate or eliminate services or go away entirely.

The challenge at this institution is different.

Our community is asking for more of this institution as reflected in the comments we receive and in the data we review.

That positive demand is proof of our relevance, our value, and the trust people place in the Indianapolis public library.

High demands mean that we matter.

It means our branches are vibrant, our programs are meaningful, and the vast collections are essential to the people we serve.

It means our strategic focus is working, and we are on a good trajectory.

This board is thankful for and proud of this trajectory and the sign of strength.

The demand for our services represents as an organization.

Thank you, everyone.

As we look ahead to the holiday weekend, I'd like to remind our community that our branches will be open on Black Friday.

If you're looking for a break from the shopping crowds or from leftovers at home, we welcome you to stop by with your family.

Thank you all, and happy Thanksgiving.

Now I'll invite Mr.

Adam Todd, Irvington Branch Manager to the microphone to share his branch report.

Mr.

Todd.

President Bieterman, uh members of the library board, thank you for coming out tonight.

Welcome to Irvington and thanks for letting us host you.

Uh we're glad to have you.

Um, let's see where we are.

There we go.

It's like my TV remote.

All right, so um anyway, thanks for coming out.

Uh so here at the Irvington branch, we have uh four full-time librarians, including me.

We have one part-time librarian, we have a full-time public services associate, uh, a full-time circulation supervisor, three full-time library clerks, two part-time library clerks, four pages, and a full-time library security assistant.

Um, our library security assistant uh just in the last few weeks, has gone from part-time to full time.

Gregory and John were able to make that happen, and we really appreciate it.

She's uh been uh very valuable to us.

She's done a really nice job uh making connections with some of our most vulnerable patrons and also our teenagers who are here in the afternoon.

So it's been uh it's been really great having her and having her full times even better.

So we're happy about that.

Um who we serve in terms of age distribution, our largest population is 20 to 64.

Uh, and then we have uh you know, next up is zero to 19 at 25%, and then 65 plus is 14 percent.

Um, our racial distributions uh for our service areas, Caucasian, 64%, African American 22%, and Hispanic 11, and other multiple 3%.

Our base population for the service area is 47,984.

We have 13 uh schools, public and private, uh, I've included IPS and Warren Township, and then the Urban Community Charter Schools, which are the closest to us at this branch, and we have 49 churches in our service area.

Uh how we serve.

So uh last year we had 98,085 registered borrowers at this branch, and we did 1,060 uh new library cards.

So uh Andrea Boffman, who you can see in that picture there, she's our circulation supervisor, and just like to say she does an amazing job, and and her team does a great job too with working with our patrons, getting people signed up for cards, and uh they do a wonderful job and a lot too.

You can see by the numbers.

Uh we had uh a door count of 11,439 last year, 253,392 in total circulation, 19,121 computer sessions, and 9,570 reference assists.

Also, our reference team, the librarians and public service associates do a lot of great work helping people with you know everything from your standard ref reference questions, readers advisory to computer help, all those sorts of things, and they do a lot of great work here as well.

Programming.

Um, so we do uh weekly baby and toddler story time on Wednesday mornings.

Uh thing we've started with in the last year or so is a monthly pajama story time.

That's in the evenings.

Uh it's uh kids can wear their pajamas, bring their stuffed animals.

It's considerably uh, you know, a little quieter than the daytime story time tends to be a lot of singing and jumping and stuff, but this is you know, designed to get the kids kind of ready for bed.

So it's uh a different vibe, but the families have really been enjoying it.

Uh during the school year, we have a teen zone in this room in the afternoons.

We get you know like 30 to 40 kids, usually in the afternoons, mostly from the uh Irvington community schools, uh, the high school and the middle school.

Uh Ryan and Katie, our children's librarians and teen librarians do a great job creating activities for these kids, um developing relationships with them, games, um, contests, things like that.

And we have a lot of kids who are really uh enthusiastic about the program.

So it's worked out, it's worked out very well.

Uh we do a monthly family games program, we have author talks, uh we have in in October, you know, Halloween's a big deal around here, so we have uh a lot of programs leading up to Halloween and the Halloween festival.

We have uh the Irvington witches come out and do a story time, and then we try to put like sort of a spooky slant on all of our other programs, you know, whether it's story time or uh the games program, things like that.

Um another cool thing we've been doing uh our type ins.

Our uh our librarian Casey Panaghetti has a collection of vintage typewriters from all sorts of different eras.

Yeah, it's really cool.

And so we'll set them up in here, and uh people can come and just play around on them.

So what's been neat is a lot of kids who've never seen a typewriter in person, much less touch one, like get to you know, play around on them, and then you know, folks who grew up with them get to come back for a nostalgia factor and get to play with them that way too.

So, yeah, it's been really cool.

So that's been exciting.

We do uh monthly adult book discussions, uh the summer reading program for kids and adults went very well.

Uh our PDA did a great job planning that as always.

We have a seed library, and uh this year we got to do some support programs for the McFadden Lecture.

So uh Timothy Egan, of course, did the McFadden lecture in his book Fever in the Heartland.

A lot of the things that happened in the book take place in the neighborhood.

So we did some programs uh go along with that.

So we had a woman from the uh Indiana State Museum, Keisha Tandy, she came out and did a talk on uh uh black life in uh Indiana during the time of the Klan.

We had um uh Charlotte Ottinger, who wrote um probably the best biography of Madge Oberholzer, and she came out and did a talk that was really well attended about her book and about Madge's life.

And we also had uh hired uh Samson Levingston to come out.

He does history, historic walking tours around the city, and he came out and did uh three walks uh for our patrons, uh focusing on women of Irvington, so not just Madge, but uh women throughout history who lived in the neighborhood that were influential, and that was really really positive as well.

So we really enjoyed having him out too.

Um in terms of partnerships and outreach, uh the Irvington community council is always very supportive.

They gave us a bunch of money to uh get some old Halloween posters framed.

So uh we have about 25 or 30 more posters that are that are getting framed that are gonna hang up in here from every year they have a Halloween poster contest.

So and these are the winning posters.

So we're gonna have a bunch of those in here soon.

Um our city county counselor Andy Nielsen comes out and does open office hours here, which is nice.

We have the um ICANN, which is the Irvington Community Advocacy Network.

They do a ton of work with um getting resources, food, especially to folks in the area who need assistance.

Um I was just asked to join a new uh advisory council that they're putting together for ICANN.

So I'm gonna be representing the library on that shortly when that when that kicks off.

So they're great to have in our in our neighborhood.

The Irvington Historical Society, we do a lot of work with them.

They do displays out here a lot for us um on different topics, and they're they're wonderful uh smart people.

Uh the Urbington Halloween Festival is a great partner for us.

We host the uh the poster contest every year here.

All the posters are on display.

We host their uh window painting sign up, and then we are closed for the festival, but um they're pleased about that because it lets them use our entire parking lot, and uh, you know, Adam Parsons has let us the last couple years make the uh lobby and the restrooms available to uh festival employees and the vendors, and that's gone really well too, and they've they've appreciated that.

So they're they're wonderful, wonderful partners.

Um Irvington Pride's a big deal uh in the neighborhood.

The last two years we've had our drag story time in the morning, and then uh people kind of hang around for Pride, which starts shortly after that.

So that's worked out very well the last couple years.

Um the Urban Community Schools I mentioned.

We get the the most of the kids that come in uh regularly here uh go to the urban community schools, and so we have a nice uh working relationship with their administrators.

Uh our branch became a dementia friendly certified branch through Sokoa.

Uh a large percentage of our staff took a training on how to work with folks with dementia, and so uh we were given that uh designation.

The Irvington Presbyterian Church has a justice advocacy group that um does a lot of things in the neighborhood, like resource fair they have every year.

They also do a lot of community reads, and they'll usually hold the those here on different they usually it's a book on some social justice topic, so that's that's been a nice partnership as well.

And then uh the overdose lifeline um supplies us with Narcan for our box out front, and uh so we're pleased about that as well.

Um other thing we uh of course have a have a renovation on the horizon here.

Um everyone on staff's very excited about that.

We've been you know trying to brainstorm uh ideas and keep a running tab of things that we would like to see uh in the renovation.

Um we're you know, it's early in the process, but it's been great working with Diana Schwart and Adam Parsons, and so we're excited to see where that goes as well.

So that's it for me.

Do you do you have any questions or comments?

All right, any questions?

Let me say oh I wish we could go back to the days of the type.

Oh, yes, I'll go and back out.

Oh, yeah, you got to do time.

Oh, yeah.

Who did you say did your did you say history walks?

Yeah, it's a guy named Samson Livingston.

Yeah, it's wonderful.

Yeah, he does them all over town, and he yeah, he kind of uh he's great, yeah.

People really enjoy that.

Irvington Pride, yeah.

So that's the uh like the Pride Festival, not like the city like Indianapolis Pride, but the just an Irvington neighborhood one, and they do that every year, and um, so yeah, we're we have a table at that usually, and then also we do like our story time will lead into that program.

So part of the Indie Pride parade also.

Yeah, it's I think it's like a smaller version of it, you know, for the neighborhood, but they're all kind of tied together.

So yeah, very nice.

Thank you.

I did have a question.

Sure, sure.

13 private and public schools, plus the Irvington community school.

How are you building those relationships?

What's that like?

Is it with the principals or how is that relationship built?

My my librarians, the the children juvenile and teen librarians, they tend to be the ones that go out to the schools, you know, whether it's you know, and we kind of try to meet the schools where they are in terms of you know, we don't want to be too intrusive, but if they like us to come out and do story times and things like that, we definitely do.

If they don't really have, you know, time in their schedule for that, we can just drop off information about summer reading program, whatever it may be.

Uh, we try to do that.

And then for me, I tend to be in touch with the administrators, so I try to keep them abreast of like what we have going on, like our teen zone programs, or if we have special things happening.

Um, I try to keep them, you know, informed on that.

So uh we have sort of a different level as we try to you know reach out to everyone at the schools.

So it works out well.

What's the challenge with that?

13 different schools.

Yeah, about libraries are working with maybe one or two schools.

Yeah, what's the challenge?

Well, I think one thing is that they all kind of, you know, because some of them are you know, Warren Township or IPS or or the Turter Schools, they all kind of have different schedules.

So part of it's that, and then also honestly, you know, it can be tough because they have you know their school day with you know all the things that they have to do every day.

So sometimes it's hard for us to maybe find a way in, you know, like can you know what we try to be really open to whenever we get requests.

So um there's a school that's had us come out a couple times to talk to their students about how to do research projects, so they might have a topic and they'll reach out to us and we'll send someone out to talk about that.

So we try to just make ourselves available, and then a lot of the times they'll reach out to us about about things, and we'll try to just keep them informed about what we're up to as well.

Well, the reciprocity is invaluable.

Thank you so much for the work of building relationships with schools.

All right.

So many of them great.

Appreciate it, thank you.

Any other questions from the from the board?

All right.

Well, thank you very much.

Next, you may recall last month we saw a video about social the social work team uh during the CEO's report.

So this month, uh, we'd like to welcome uh Miss Daniel uh Girton and uh social work manager and uh Miss Jamie Murphy, uh social worker.

Please confirm well good evening.

Good evening, good evening.

And board, thank you for having us and allowing us this space to come and share a little of what we're doing these days.

So um, so I don't know if I can work that again.

Yeah, point that one.

All right, so I'm Danielle Gurden, and this is Jamie Murphy.

We are the social work team.

Um, we also have two interns.

We had one that did quit um in October, due to some some challenges, but we also have Lauren Ohm who has been with us since um school started and will be with us through the next semester as well.

So um, and hope to have some additional interns starting in um January for the new semester.

Um, so we've been doing our central office hours, we've continued those every Monday and Wednesday.

We're also um at the start of this year, started getting around to all of the branches, doing some rotating um branch office hours, which allows us to kind of build connections with the community as well as with the staff.

I think we appreciate being in that space, and staff seems to appreciate us being in that space as well.

So we enjoy doing that.

Um, and that allows um patrons to come in and ask questions, get resources and information in the branch land instead of having to come down to Central.

So we do enjoy doing that.

We have individual appointments at the branch, they can do it on telephone virtually.

Um, and so that's nice to be able to connect with people who may need a little additional time.

So uh we've been able to do some of those appointments.

We have our community resource collective.

We kind of change the name of it at Central.

I'm bringing in those providers to provide information and resources in the branch so people can connect with uh some of our partners who bring in information.

They really like the free swag that some of our partners provide.

So we um always enjoy having them, but the the information being at their fingertips while they're in the branch is the biggest part.

Uh, we had our uh first annual Black Health Fair that we collaborated with the CBLC, and that was an exciting time just to see everybody in that space, getting medical information, um, and again, those links to resources, um, which are critical in these times, especially.

So we've done community resource fairs for the branches as well as our favorite part, well, at least my favorite part, um, outreach events, um, being able to go out to the community and share with the community about the social work program, what we're doing, and how they can access our services as well.

Um, and also sharing what the library is doing as a whole, because I know I can say for myself when I started, I was unaware of all the things that the library offered, and so being able to learn all of the services and programs um that are being provided to the community and to share that with um the community has been huge.

So um, that is what we're currently doing, and I'll let Jamie share some um information from the seat of the social worker.

So I as my work as the social worker has really been exciting.

I celebrated my first year in November the 6th, so I'm excited about that.

As of November the 13th, we were able to have 297 individual contacts with patrons.

As of today, it was 405.

So the social work department team has really been able to make a great impact with our patrons.

I think it's very important, especially when you're talking about building community and uh tying resources together with our patrons.

And so the housing has been probably been the greatest need.

So out of those 297 contacts, individual contacts, uh 40 requests were for housing.

We had 139 who are just simply inquiring about the social work services and what social work looks like at the Indianapolis Public Library.

A lot of our patrons are still amazed that the library is offering social work services.

And so the the ability to be in the library where they feel comfortable and can ask questions and then also connect to other resources.

Outside of housing, uh the second greatest need has been, of course, employment.

So out of those 297 contacts, 30 were asking about employment.

So employment includes job fairs or employment programs, also any type of employment or employers that they could connect with.

And then just simply going back also to housing that included housing and uh housing programs, especially for those who are unhoused, so just connecting them with the housing list, uh which is part of the coordinated entry.

Uh the next thing that was um a high need was just other resources.

So those who are coming, uh courses we know they had the government shutdown.

So those who are uh trying to still connect with uh Social Security Administration, those who are trying to connect with FSSA for food stamps, so just really just trying to find information on how they can actually connect.

And then the next thing was uh we saw 22 people uh or 22 contacts uh who are requiring basic needs.

So that would be your uh food, uh clothing, uh things like that.

So those are some of the things that social work has been able to do uh within this live this last quarter, which started October the first.

Um we also have our bus passes that have been continue to be a need.

Um we've been able to provide those.

We've gone through 773 of our grant-funded bus passes and have been able to um get additional bus passes through some of our community resources to provide bus passes for those that are coming in to to utilize the community resource fair.

So um I think we we have a consistent um visit.

We have consistent visits from a lot of our patrons.

Some of them return back to share the the good news of what they're doing.

Hey, I got that job, um, can you assist with transportation?

Hey, I was able to get an appointment with the Social Security Office.

Um, so we we love hearing those success stories from people and just we always allow them to come back and ask whatever additional questions and get additional resources as well.

So I feel like um the ones that we've been able to make connections with know that we're there.

Um I have somebody come in last week that said, hey, one of my buddies told me that you guys were here, and I'm just coming to ask questions about what you do.

And so he wanted to see our new spaces.

If you haven't seen our new offices, come visit us, they're very nice.

And we are very appreciative of those.

Um, but we've been able to make some good connections and have some great conversations.

Um, and at the heart of it, that's what's what's greater are those conversations and connections and the work that um Jamie, myself, and Lauren are doing.

And so uh referrals, how um patrons are getting connected with uh the social work team is mostly through referrals, and so um uh the the flyer is on the website, and so we get a number of people who are browsing the library website and they are downloading the flyer, and so that flyer comes directly to our secure uh email box.

Um, also they're seeking out services through uh the library staff, and so they're turning in those flyers to them as well.

And then, of course, as Danielle stated, we table every uh Monday and Wednesday, and so they're coming to see um the table, they're getting information that way.

We often have uh flyers that are on our table that um they're coming to look at the information and just kind of find out what social work at the uh at the library is doing.

And so we've also had a number of um organizations that have partnered with us, and so they are also referring uh patrons to us, and so and those those that they interface with as well.

I think an interesting story um within one month.

I was sharing with Danielle.

We've had someone call from Illinois asking about resources in Illinois.

We had someone from Ohio, we had someone from another uh county here in Indiana.

So it's really just been interesting how how the information has really been spreading about the social work team.

Questions for us.

How many interns?

So we currently have one, we had two, and she had the to stop hers due to some medical challenges she was having.

Um we have one who's been consistent and hope to come back.

Absolutely.

Yes.

All that you are doing.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

It's it's just so good to hear all of this.

Yes, thank you for your service.

These are interns from value school work, right?

Yeah, we've had other schools that have reached out, um, they've heard from others some of the work that we're doing, and they want to get there.

We've had um inquiry from Indiana Westland as well as University of Kentucky.

Um, so just trying to figure out what works for the the team as a whole.

Services are really valuable, I very much appreciate it.

Interns can be a good thing, but there's only two of you.

So sometimes they are it's more than just one-on-one.

So it's great that everyone's recognizing you, but bring some of that in.

Thank you for what you do.

That that was it was great.

I was surprised.

The other question, please.

You mentioned going out to the community.

When you said going out to the community, what does that mean?

And where are you?

So we've been able to do um just a lot of different affairs.

So whether it's been resource fairs, where there's been job fairs.

Uh here recently we were at the Fairbanks Hall, uh, which is part of IU Health, and so they had a conference for those who were uh have uh been diagnosed with diabetes.

We've been at Mary Rig um a couple of weeks ago for the trucker treat.

We've been at Marion County Public Health Department.

We have been so many different places.

I think is one of the things that I I think that we both enjoy just the ability to really get out, and that's where a lot of our community members are finding out about social work at the Indianapolis Public Library.

So when they come and see that bright orange uh tablecloth with uh social work written across, they are just amazed that the library is able to commit uh to serving the community with other services, and so thank you so very much.

I've been around long enough to know when we did not have the social work, and uh one of the executive members of the team wrote a beautiful article.

Go ahead, raise your hand.

Wrote a beautiful article about the importance of social work in the library and that connectivity, and so growing this program and doing it in a way that really does make a difference in the community is another asset that the library brings, and it's a powerful one.

And again, been around long enough to know that we didn't always have it, and so it's just really glad that you're committed to and making sure that those relationships work.

Thank you so much.

Thank you for your support.

Absolutely.

Any other questions from the board?

All right.

Well, thank you both very much.

All right, now we'll proceed with public comment.

Do we have public comments for today?

Here's the suit name.

Great.

All right, I will uh read the the statement and then we will begin the public comment.

Okay.

We welcome feedback from the public about the Indianapolis about our Indianapolis libraries, and this is a time when the public may address the library board.

If there are several individuals representing the same group, please select the spokesperson.

Please do not repeat the same comments someone else has offered.

Please note this uh that this public comment time is not an appropriate forum for commenting on matters related to employee charges, employee complaints, or alleged employee misconduct.

Any such matters should be brought promptly to the attention of the CEO or the human resources department where matters can be properly addressed in compliance with established library policies and procedures.

A five-minute limit will be allowed for each speaker.

Each speaker should give their name and let us know if they're up speaking on behalf of a group.

Uh first one up is Lori Molander.

And then we have uh City County Counselor Andy Nielsen answered that.

Welcome.

Thank you for the opportunity for us to speak.

My name's Lori Melander.

I'm on the board of directors at the Irvington Co-op.

We live right next door to the library.

Adam has been a tremendous support in listening to our concerns and helping us facilitate solutions.

Um we have uh ascertained one of them.

Umperties but up to each other on the west side.

Um it was relayed to me that the church owns the property, the library leases, the property in the parking lot.

We had a terrible storm this summer where a tree on the property, which is essentially the the restance there use as part of their backyard, which is okay, they take care of it and he's aware of it.

And um, anyway, a tree fell, a very large tree, and it fell on the railing.

It fell so hard, and these railings, they're green and they run the length of the concrete wall that supports the parking lot.

They have probably been there since they were first installed decades ago.

They are very rusty, children play on them.

I wish it was daylight so you could see how badly they need to be replaced.

When that tree fell, two huge cracks about five feet apart from the outside to the inside, meaning they cracked all the way through from the top all the way down to the ground.

They are starting to give way, and one day they're going to give way soon, and those cars that are parked there are gonna go with it, and children after school play there, and we're just scared.

Some it's a lawsuit waiting to happen, uh, especially with children involved.

Um, I don't know if it's uh uh libraries' responsibility or the Presbyterian church.

We have vandalism.

Um this building was built and the iron fencing was put up, they put it up down here at the north end where it uh butts up to our building and the library building.

Well, somewhere along the line, it was vandalized and they look like metal, but they're not because kids or someone inebriated came up to play Superman and stretched those bars apart.

Um I first brought it to Adam's attention about a year and a half ago, and he's been working on it trying to get it rectified, replaced.

And last Halloween, this is another lawsuit waiting to happen.

Her and myself found two young women, young teenage girls who were inebriated and were trying to get underneath that metal fencing.

If they had got stuck or had damaged their arm or whatever on the damaged pieces, there would be parents screaming.

Um concern is the safety of neighbors, children.

Uh right now, if uh a lot of it could be fixed very quickly by just replacing that wall on the north end of the fencing.

And if a fence with a double wide gate would be installed at the end of the concrete pad where um utility trucks come in if they have to get on the grass property and do work, or the lawnmowers, the big lawnmowers that come in to cut the grass for the library, and that way it would deter all foot traffic through there.

Now, as far as the concrete wall goes, I mean, um I do have video, and I think I sent it to Adam for your records.

Um he has a copy of it, but uh just in the last month, it's really really bad.

My five minutes is up.

Okay.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Next.

City County Councillor Adam Andy Nielsen.

Welcome, counselor.

Thank you, uh Commissioners, Mr.

President.

Uh, my name is Andy Nielsen.

I serve as the city counselor for District 14, uh, which we're in tonight.

Uh Irvington is my home branch, but I'm the proud representative of two branches, uh, both Irvington and Warren.

And as um our lovely branch manager Adam mentioned earlier, I regularly do monthly office hours here in Irvington, but also go out to Warren as well uh to connect with community.

Um I'm originally from Columbus, Indiana.

I give you that history because in Columbus, there's one library.

Um it's a beautiful library, architecturally designed, it's wonderful.

Um, but in small towns, uh like Columbus, with maybe a single library, library is an important part of the city, um, and is obviously a part of the community, but now being a representative of a district of this size, approximately the size of the city I grew up in, I've come to realize just how important uh these branches are to the communities that they serve.

And that's probably something you've heard before, but something I really want to emphasize.

And and more importantly, uh are are the people who work here.

They not only are our neighbors, but they're folks who we see out and about in the community.

They aren't folks who just click in and click out.

Um, also I hope things that you've heard before.

Um, but I come here tonight.

Uh, obviously, as a city counselor, uh, I take very seriously my role as the fiscal body for our city county.

And I know that you all are grappling with the effects and the unknowns that come with SB1.

I can tell you we really are.

And what I'm here to talk about tonight is and for the public's education, um, the library is a municipal corporation, you all set the budget, it works its way through the council, and I get an up and down vote.

But I am increasingly concerned, and Mr.

President, I know you had a statement, I wish I could have heard all of it, but I am getting increasingly concerned with the financial situation of our library system.

I am very concerned about it.

I do think that we have time, but my ask to all of you uh and to the administration, which I also know is working on this, is to be very serious about how come 2027, how we can ensure that everything I just said about the public library system in our city continues because I am not so certain based on the current financial situation, that's a guarantee.

And so I really am here tonight as an advocate for all of you and every individual in this room, and ensuring that the library system with such a strong reputation that it has in our community, and ensuring the people who work here are also taken care of is centered um not just next year and the year after, but really in the five and ten year window, when as a city we are really going to have to grapple with the effects that we have no control over.

But um, I come here tonight because you're obviously in my backyard.

Um, but also thank you for your for your service.

In line with that, I know there were some policy changes on the board as it relates to staff.

Uh again, the people who work here are as important as the buildings that they work in.

And I would hope and I ask that you, as you all are dealing, making these tough decisions, that you respect uh the dignity of work and ensure that people are taken care of in the process as well.

I think having answers to each one of those pieces is going to be important for us as legislators at the local level in coordination with all of you to meet the challenges that are ahead.

So I don't come here in uh in a dire situation, more of an appeal that we continue to work together.

We solve these, solve these issues that I see coming, and I'm worried that if we don't create more coordination is going to create a cliff that could have a very negative impact on our community.

So with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Uh, but I thank you for your time this evening.

Thank you very much.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

All right, let's move on to um what is that conclude public comment?

Yes, sir.

That's all.

All right.

Let's move on to approval of minutes.

Um, so there was regular meeting on October 27th, 2025.

Is there a motion to approve the minutes of the regular meeting held on October 27th, 2025?

So left.

Is there a second?

The minutes have been moved and seconded twice.

Uh we'll have uh any any discussion.

Hearing none, we'll have a call of the roll.

Dr.

Martado.

Approved.

Dr.

Basio.

Approved.

Dr.

Payne?

Dr.

Riolo approved.

Dr.

White.

Approved.

Miss Woodard.

Approved.

And Mr.

Bieterman.

Approved.

The motions carried.

Let's move on to the finance committee.

Dr.

White, you are chair of the finance committee.

We'll leave it to the table.

We'll go through our status of revenue at this time and expenses.

Mary.

Will you join her?

Mary and I are here to present the treasure report.

This will give a brief overview of our organizational financial performance through October 2025.

Currently on this slide, we have revenue as of um October 31st, 2025.

Um budget um percentage right now should be at 83% for our revenue is at 61%.

Again, this is um normal because we typically get all our revenue in November and December for the remaining of the year through the tax uh property taxes and into governmental um services.

But if you look at fines and fees and charges for services and miscellaneous, you'll see that we have already met the budget go of 83% of higher.

Um also for our investments, you'll see that the Husure Fund in Trust Indiana percentage is currently going low, lower than it was this time last year.

However, we're at 133,119 that we have um made in interest for this month.

On this next slide, um you have a slope graph, and you'll see the the how the budget is compared to October 2025 and October 2024, and is right, excuse me, right in the line as we have budgeted for this month.

And um to the right, you'll see a bar graph, and this is the year to date.

And again, this is all in in a line because this is typically the can candidates of the revenue for the library, and also in your board packet before I move on to the expenditure.

I want to point out that for um the parking garage, which is on page 39, that the year to date revenue for that, that's the additional revenue for the library is at 113,000 as well as for the share system.

That's on page 40 of your board packet, and that is also at 113,000 for the year to date as well.

So I just want to point that out because we typically don't really review that revenue, but if you get a chance to review the complete board package that is included in that now, Mary's gonna review the expenditure for October.

Our largest expenditure category is personal services and benefits, and um we have spent 74% of the budget, although 83% of the year is over by the end of October.

So that's good, it's under budget uh year to date as well as for the month.

Supplies is the smaller category, and um that is at just 52% of the budget for that, uh, other services and charges is it 12 million year to date or 66 percent of that line item budget and capital outlay, which is for the books and materials, uh, and that is 66 percent as well of the budget used cash basis.

So then we have the bar graph as well showing on the left the bars for the expenses for the month, uh, with the gray being the budget, and this shows the largest category graphically as the personal services and benefits, um other services and charges is the next category largest and capital outlay, and then the year to date is showing over on the right with yellow being the year-to-date budget, and the 2025 year to date is blue.

So we're showing um that we are under budget on all the categories.

So we're creating a healthy surplus that strengthens our financial positions.

This is a combination of the revenue and expenses together.

Um on the left side, you'll see the pots of revenue that we utilize to cover the expenses, and it provides the percentage of the overall revenue that we received, and on the left side is the it provides the percentage of the expenditures that we have spent for the total year to date.

Any questions?

Sometimes our larger public doesn't know about the outlay for professional development.

Can you say some more about what the professional development is as a part of what is an ongoing cost for us?

It's important that the larger public know.

Yes.

Um, for instance, we just had staff day November 3rd.

Uh, our librarians are professionals, um, and it requires a master's degree, is my understanding, and they are licensed by the state library.

And uh there are continuing education requirements for that.

So in our talent and development division, we have our department, we have uh training staff uh who coordinate and uh arrange for conferences to be attended, and that is disclosed to the board every month.

Um, within right past all of our list of payments that we've issued is a list of the training attended that is um outside of our in-house training.

And also for the budget category, you'll find that on page um is in your detail financials.

I think that's page 28 of your uh board packet, and there's a um training and development line item.

Okay, and the reason why I said it is because our public we make these meetings public, and so ensuring that the public is aware that when we're expending public funds that we're doing it because it's tied to the professional growth, and it makes a difference for our staff to continue to grow and be ready for the challenges ahead and the kinds of knowledges that they need to have and the skills that they need to have as well.

So it's a wise expenditure.

Thank you.

We always keep staff first, we keep them in mind.

Excellent.

Any other questions?

There's uh for the person privilege uh I want to uh thank the confirming for his remarks.

Uh SB1 has created a storm that's coming, is going to impact many agencies, but it's mostly uh schools and libraries of sort.

I want to uh really thank you and your colleagues for how positively receptive you've been to Greg and Lalita when they come to you because we're not an independent entity.

We depend on the approval of city council.

Uh and I want to uh say to you that we will have to work together in unity, uh, because there are going to be some difficult decisions in the future that's going to uh make us all look for ways to um generate funding and hold on the fundings, etc.

But uh just listening to Greg and Lilita.

I I really want to uh say how much the board on behalf of the board appreciate how cooperative of itself if you've been with them.

And we I agree with you, I'm sure we all agree a few.

And we agree with you, I'm sure we all agree if you we have to pull together and stay together because uh I think it was a great idea to look at protecting people from tax increases and property, etc.

But I think that's a bigger scheme here that we're gonna have to deal with if we're going to protect the integrity of the future of our city, our education, our educational programs, libraries, etc.

So uh we will definitely be looking to continue to cooperate with you guys.

And thank you so much for sharing your concerns tonight.

I can assure you that we are aware of the re uh repercussions of SB1.

The storm is coming, and we're gonna have to get ready to work together to uh prosper in that difficult situation.

So thanks again for your comments.

All right, um was it was that a question?

Okay, no.

Got it.

All right, so any other questions uh clarification question.

So the capital always those are paid by bonds completely, or is it a no?

Yeah, that's coming out of operation.

Okay, okay.

That's all.

Okay, so um is there a motion to accept the reported treasurer for October 2025 for filing fraud?

So moved.

It's been moved and seconded.

Any further discussion?

Hearing none, we'll have a call of the roll.

Dr.

Martada.

Dr.

Palacio.

Approved.

Dr.

Payne, approved, Dr.

Riolo, approved, Dr.

White, approved, Miss Woodard.

Approved.

Yeah, Mr.

Baderman.

Uh approved.

Uh we'll move on to some of the resolutions.

Yes.

Resolution 49-2025.

I like to call up Ms.

Deb Lambert.

Thank you, Mary.

Just strategizing regarding Dr.

Palacio's last comment.

I'm gonna talk to you afterwards.

Good afternoon, good evening, um, library board president and members of the board.

And um Mr.

Hill.

Um it's uh it's my pleasure to bring two um resolutions with the finance committee um that are renewals that are for very solid services that we renew every year.

Um, the first one is for data axle reference solutions, premium plus.

They've added the premium plus on there recently.

Um, and this service is used by our librarians for providing reference services.

It uh costs 58,534 dollars and 44 cents ever since uh annually, ever since 2017, they have not increased the price for us.

We um acquire it through um our consortium membership with Midwest Consortium Library Services, getting 20% discount.

So it's pricey, but we're getting it at a really good rate.

Um, and uh as I mentioned, it's very popular, solid service.

We've had 294,000 uh retrievals of to answer reference questions um for the last year, and that averages 27 21 cents per per retrieval per answer.

Um so we're asking uh for a renewal for this service for another year.

The committee recommended to the full board of due path on this particular resolution.

Excellent.

Thank you very much.

So resolution 49 2025 regarding data axle reference solution premium plus subscription database renewal received a positive recommendation from the finance committee.

So the chair would request a second to such recommendation.

Second.

Uh any discussion.

Hearing none, we'll have a call of the role.

Dr.

Martada, approved, Dr.

Palacio.

Approved.

Dr.

Payne, approved, Dr.

Riolo, approved, Dr.

White, approved, Miss Woodard.

Approved, and Mr.

Beterman.

Approved.

The emotion's carried.

All right.

Uh resolution 50-2025.

Okay, this is the second one.

Um, another renewal for a very solid popular service.

This is for our electronic magazines that saw around the same number of usage, 296,000 issue checkouts for 2026.

Um I'm sorry, through uh for the last year of 2025.

And um we're on track for a 27% increase of usage over last year's usage.

Um this collection is um a set of 5,000 plus titles that they're always uh trying to update with a large number of world language um titles, and they're all available through the Libby app with our ebook services as well, so makes it very easy to access these titles, and we get so much more usage than our physical magazines, which are a dying medium, and this is where um they are picking up uh quite a bit of usage.

So we're asking for a renewal.

The annual cost is 80,000, and that has been pretty consistent for the last five years or so as well.

Um so we're asking for renewal for this service.

Committee uh recommends do pass for resolution 50.

Great.

Uh resolution 50-2025 regarding approval of overdrive e-magazine renewal received a positive recommendation from the finance committee.

So the chair would request a second to such recommendation.

Second, second all right.

Any uh any discussion hearing none will have a call of the roll.

Dr.

Matata approved, Dr.

Palacio, approved, Dr.

Payne, approved, Dr.

Riolo, approved, Dr.

White, approved, Miss Woodard approved, Mr.

Peterman.

Approved.

The motion is carried.

All right, moving to 51 2025.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Dan.

Um trying to get you to come up on the screen.

There it is.

I'm sorry.

Um resolution 51-2025.

This is a transfer between classifications and accounts.

Uh the transfer is for a total of 785,000 dollars.

45 um thousand dollars is a transfer of operating funds to move from IT office supplies to IT computer service to cover services related to baker tailor services, which is ending the cost of the synthetics unbound from innovative.

This is a replacement service for content cafe by banker tailor.

They announced they are shutting down operation and visit emergent need to cover these services, and then the other the remaining of the transfers is for $740,000 is to purchase additional ebooks and e audio books.

This was this will improve our patrons' experience, wait times, and ability to purchase patrons requests.

We have um that we have not been able to fill.

This transfer would come from the medical and dental to capital outlays.

Um the transfer has no impact on the total budget for the 2025 because this is funds just moving from one category to the next, which is in different characters.

Uh resolution 51-2025 regarding transfer between classifications and accounts received a positive recommendation from the finance committee, so the chair would request a second to such recommendation.

Second.

Uh any discussion.

Um, just one clarification question on on my part.

Um, just to make sure everybody understands that moving this money from personal services in the bucket of medical and dental insurance to books and materials will not have an impact on anyone's uh health insurance or premiums or the like.

Correct.

Um, the reason that we have a little bit more finance in there is because of during the time of budget.

I was also in a negotiation period with the um or medical insurance renewal.

So I kind of budget kind of high.

We end up, you know, coming out to where there's no increases, so therefore I have some money to move.

Great.

So being a a good steward of our finances, you were thinking ahead in uh anticipating potential cost increase, and then because of that uh foresight, we're able to move this money without having to seek additional money.

Correct.

Wonderful.

Thank you very much for your diligence.

All right, um, any other questions.

Hearing none, we'll have a call of the roll.

Dr.

Matata.

Approved.

Dr.

Palacio.

Approved.

Dr.

Payne?

Approved.

Dr.

Riolo approved.

Dr.

White?

Approved.

Ms.

Woodard.

Approved.

And Mr.

Peterman.

Approved.

The motion's carried.

All right.

Next, just update.

I want to share some um good updates.

This is because of our outstanding fiducial oversight and being good stewards of our taxpayer dollars that during our Moody's rating that we had um a couple weeks ago.

Uh we received a double A1 Moody rating, which is outstanding, which is the second highest rating, and we have continued to have this rating.

And this is for us being having a strong financial reserve.

They really pointed that out because of the times that we're in now.

We have to have some type of reserves that fall back on, especially with 2027 coming up.

And then we have an aggressive principal repayment for on the schedule.

So when we um get bonds that we typically pay them off as quickly as we can.

And because of our good ratings, we had um got a good interest at 2.814%.

Um, which is outstanding, which is um saving interest on our um on our bonds.

So that's again being good uh stewards of our taxpayer dollars.

So that's how judgment.

Yes, I I just wanted to confirm we have the best bond rating of any municipal corporation currently, correct?

Um I can't confirm that, but uh I believe so.

You can say yes to that.

All right, thank you.

Okay.

Also wanted to thank you for maintaining a healthy surplus.

That's incredibly important, and how we can always fall back on it, it makes a big difference in terms of how we manage it.

And having that healthy surplus uh gives us a chance to have Wiggle Roam, just as I said.

Thank you so very much to you, Mary, and everybody who understands the necessity of doing this.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yes, uh one last point of personal privilege.

Uh we were talking about the typewriter and how am I quite and Debbie is today.

Uh this is a good time to reflect that the ebooks and the online movement is going to change the character and the functions of libraries in the future and things like the uh counseling and other services we provide will become greater uh attractions for our operation.

And I just appreciate the job that they um uh mental services and everyone who's doing because we are an involving service, and uh it's amazing.

Yes, I quickly this is gonna turn around.

It's not gonna be as slow as the tight writing.

Um, so it's gonna be important for us.

Remember that, and I just commend uh all of you for the great job you're doing as we meet these challenges and create the positive changes that's gonna keep people being involved with the library and being helped by the library services.

So again, thank you.

And that was not a question.

All right, thank you very much.

Thank you.

All right, moving on to the diversity policy and human resources committee.

Dr.

Cassio.

Ms.

Galarcia come up, and we have four resolutions to go through today.

All right, and I would like to invite Deb Lambert for the first one.

Hello again.

I also want to mention that I brought uh Melissa Brooks, our acquisitions and collection development manager here with me, who was very instrumental in working on this policy.

Um, so we're bringing with you um a resolution to ratify a revision of our selection policy, um, which is actually known as our um get the use selection and management of the materials collection policy, lovingly known as the selection policy.

Um we uh went through a process of researching involving many people from the um collection development team um to look at other libraries and you know reflect on the needs that we've had over the last few years since we've last updated this, and uh did a lot of research and then we got together um in a in a team um setting outside of the library to um spend an off site day focusing on on this and finding ways that we needed to update it, and then um we uh made a deliberate effort to um engage in multiple rounds of feedback with the leadership team and then with all library staff throughout the library system um to get their feedback on the draft that we came up with and uh to incorporate you know their thoughts and their um needs when using our selection policy and doing their jobs and serving the public and their ability to answer patrons about our question when things uh or collection when things come up.

We um received great feedback from staff about how extensive we updated it to answer a lot of their questions that they've had.

Um so the um the proposed policy also aligns with our new strategic plan um and initiatives for um the leadership of the library in general, um, with you know uh obviously the involvement of the library board in developing that strategic um plan is also um so there are um in an increased number of definitions for specific audiences um that we're uh trying to address and also specific collections that we've developed to focus on particular topics um within the collection and um the uh the other thing are things like AI that are impacting our world as well and legality um to make sure that our policies aligned with the legality of the federal government um and the state government and you know things like copyright law.

Um so we uh did a very thorough response uh review of that and updated it, and we shared it with you and discussed it with you earlier this month, and we're asking for uh ratification of our update to the policy to pass recommendation from the committee.

Great resolution 52-2025 regarding the approval of proposed revision of collection management policies, policy 600 received a positive recommendation from the diversity policy and human resources committee.

So the chair would request a second to such recommendation, second, uh any discussion.

As I expressed in the committee meeting, I thought that the entire document was inclusive and carefully worded, and I really appreciate the work that your committees did on that.

It's very thorough.

Thank you, Dr.

Riolo.

Thank you.

Any other comments?

All right, hearing none, we'll have a call of the roll.

Dr.

Machado approved, Dr.

Palacio approved, Dr.

Payne, approved, Dr.

Riolo, approved, Dr.

White, approved, Miss Woodard, approved, and Mr.

Bederman.

Approved.

The motion is carried.

Thanks again.

Thank you.

All right, we'll move on to 53-2025.

All right, my first resolution is 53-2025 is the appointment list.

This comes to you every year.

Uh this year we are asking for the three percent increase to all staff that qualify for the increase.

Uh staff that qualifies are those that are not in a probational period, and it will reflect in the first paycheck in 2026.

The list is included uh with the percentage in your board packet.

And this is coming fresh today.

No, we didn't have a recommendation yet.

Very good.

All right, so what's that?

Yeah.

Is it approved?

Yes.

Yeah, it was approved.

Okay, then it will okay.

That's very good.

So thank you.

That's all right.

That's right.

I do it all the time.

Uh so resolution 53-2025 regarding the appointment list.

Received a positive recommendation from the diversity policy and human resources committee.

So the chair would request a second such recommendation.

Second.

It's been moved and second.

Uh it's been uh recommended and seconded.

Any discussion.

Hearing none, we'll have a call of the roll.

Dr.

Matada, approved.

Dr.

Palacio, approved, Dr.

Payne, approved, Dr.

Riolo.

Approved, Dr.

White, approved.

Ms.

Woodard.

Approved.

Yeah, Mr.

Baderman.

Approved.

The uh motion is carried.

All right.

All right.

My next uh resolution is 54-2025.

This is the adopting um schedule of pay grace as tap positions, benefits for the library.

No changes as Lolita mentioned.

Our health insurance is stayed the same premium.

Um we are including one new holiday, which is the day after Christmas, and we are increasing our health savings account uh 200 portier for 2026.

But other than that, um the resolution is the same as previous years just select the additional signatures.

Sorry about that.

No, you're good.

I I heard everything, it was wonderful.

Perfect.

All right, so we did have a new password recommendation on this one as well.

Excellent.

So uh resolution 54-2025 regarding adopting a schedule of pay grade staff positions and benefits for the library employees received a positive recommendation from the diversity policy and human resources committee.

So the chair would request a second to such recommendation.

Second.

Any discussion.

Hearing none, we'll have a call of the roll.

Dr.

Matada.

Approved.

Dr.

Classio.

Approved.

Dr.

Cain.

Approved.

Dr.

Riolo.

Approved.

Dr.

White.

Approved.

Ms.

Woodard.

Approved.

And Mr.

Bateman.

Approved.

The motion is carried.

All right.

My last resolution for deny is resolution 55-2025.

This is the approval for the additional pay.

As Lolita had mentioned, we had a surplus in our uh health and benefits uh budget and a staffing.

So we uh we're looking to do an additional compensation to full times we're gonna do 1,500 for part-time 1,1100, and for hourly staff $900.

This will be for all qualifying uh staff members.

So those that are in the probational period don't qualify in a staff members that are not in an active payroll as in November 30th cannot qualify.

The additional compensation if approved will be received on December 19th.

All right.

Do you pass recommendation from the committee?

Great.

Resolution um can we pass back 54?

Thank you.

Resolution 55-2025 regarding approval of uh additional employee compensation received a positive recommendation from the diversity policy and human resources committee.

So the chair would request a second to such recommendation.

Second.

All right, it has been uh recommended and seconded.

Any discussion?

Um I will start the discussion.

Uh I'll say thank you so much for uh giving us the opportunity to vote on such a thing.

Um I I think many people have echoed the hard work that our staff has put in.

Um so being in a position to be able to do this uh is very important.

Um and um yeah, we're just very thankful that that we are in a financial position where we're able to do such things.

So thank you very much.

Thank you, thank you.

Amen.

All right.

Uh any other discussion.

Hearing none, we'll have a call of the roll.

Dr.

Murtada.

Approved.

Dr.

Palacio.

Approved, Dr.

Payne, approved, Dr.

Riolo, approved, Dr.

White, approved.

Ms.

Woodard, approved, and Mr.

Badaman.

Approved.

Uh, motion's carried.

Thank you very much.

Okay, that concludes our presentation.

Great.

We've got we've got them going both ways now.

All right.

There we go.

Yeah.

All right.

So uh facilities committee.

Dr.

Riolo, do we have anything for today?

The facilities committee shines so brightly that we decided that you can only take so much of our awesomeness, and we're giving you the month off.

We will be back strong in December.

That's the first time in a long time.

Shining bright.

Speaking of shining bright, uh, library foundation update.

Yes, there's more brightness.

But I'm gonna let you listen to all this.

Okay, um, our president, Roberta Jackers will be here next month.

So you do have as board members a few more weeks to um make any queries to her that you would like her to discuss when she's here.

The board of directors had uh for the foundation has passed the 2026 budget that includes two and a half million dollars for library programs and services, and thanks to the generosity of 95 library and foundation staff members.

The 2025 staff campaign was very successful and raised more than 25,000 in just four weeks.

So that's good.

Um we congratulate all staff that were involved with staff day, and they were proud to confer the Beth Tyndall Award to Deb and Mike Earrett.

Um the foundation also supported gift cards, Lillian Children's Hall Scholarship, and cash awards for the day.

Um, and major award winners included Melinda Mullikan for the Helen Norris Award, Flo Schick for the Lillian Children's Hall Scholarship, Brandy Winston for was recognized for leadership, and Elizabeth Tarr for exceptional experience.

And the foundation thanks 178 donors who made gifts this past month, including top institutional donors, Alan Whitehall, Clues Charitable Foundation, Avis Foundation, Blue in Inc.

And the foundation thanks 178 donors who made gifts this past month, including top institutional donors, Alan Whitehall, Clues Charitable Foundation, Avis Foundation, Blue in Inc., Comcast, Cartiva, McCallister Machinery Company, and PNC Foundation.

And this past month, the foundation provided more than 140,000 to the library for major initiatives that include bilingual storytime, seat library on the road to reading, and young adult authors visits.

Great stuff.

Thank you very much.

So before we move to the report of the CEO, I wanted to give a special thank you to Mr.

Hill for this year.

We talked about at the beginning, we're in the week of Thanksgiving, and you've done uh yeoman's work with the library and continue to do so, and it's uh exemplified through all of the positive feedback that uh we continue to receive about the library and all of its operations, and the fact that we're able to uh laugh and and be jolly in these meetings is in no small part because of the work that you do tirelessly behind the scenes.

Um I've heard from people um even on uh staff day um how um meaningful it is for you to you know wake up at five or four in the morning and go on the uh delivery runs uh and and from you taking the time and having an open door policy to creating uh sets of awards to recognize the hard work of all the employees here.

Um that doesn't happen by accident, and it doesn't happen you know for any other reason than all of the thoughtfulness that you put into everything.

So on behalf of myself and and I know the board, uh, thank you so much for what you do.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

Oh, okay, I'm sorry.

I was daydreaming.

Sorry about that.

All right, uh welcome, thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Meterman.

Uh, thank you, uh NDPO board.

Uh, before you is the confirmatory resolution 562025 regarding finances, personnel travel.

It's in its typical format that's before you each month.

Uh, I ask for your approval.

To approve resolution 56-2025 regarding regarding finances personnel and travel, Dr.

Payton moved.

Is there a second?

Second.

All right, it's been moved and seconded and thirded.

Uh so um any uh discussion.

Hearing none, we'll have a call to roll.

Dr.

Matado.

Approved.

Dr.

Golasio.

Approved.

Dr.

Payne, approved.

Dr.

Riolo approved, Dr.

White, approved.

Miss Woodard.

Approved.

And Mr.

Biedeman.

Approved.

The motions carried.

Mr.

Hill.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, so this presentation highlights activities for the month of October.

Uh, your full report includes um branch programs, PDA.

It also includes media highlights, digital inclusion.

Uh we love our library and intellectual freedom updates.

Uh additional information on agenda items is also will be in this particular presentation.

Uh overview, we'll have daily impact, program review.

We'll do a staff day highlight, staff recognition, website visits, staff opportunities, and some upcoming events.

The first thing is our daily impact for this is for the month of October on a typical day.

We had 7,208 visitors.

Uh circulation, we circulated 13,700 items.

The visitor to circulation ratio is about two items per person, which is pretty good.

Programs, we had 32 programs on any given day.

Um that was attended by 576 patrons, or one in 13 visitors participated in a program, or 8% of the visitors that we had on that particular day participated in a program.

PC usage, we had 1,259 PC users for our 7,208 visitors.

That's about 17, 18% of our visitors on any given day used a PC, or one in six visitors.

This is strong engagement.

Many libraries report 10 to 20 percent of visitors using PC, so we're at the higher range of PC usage uh on any typical day.

New card holders, we had 123 new card holders, which is about 1.7% of visitors on any given day in October, which is roughly again one in 59 visitors received a new library card.

Programs across the library system.

We had 655 youth programs attended by 15,008 participants with an average of roughly 23 participants per program.

In October, 280 attendees joined bilingual and American Sign Language ASL at 15 of our locations for October.

In October Central hosted a nonprofit series, which consisted of 15 programs, and that's usually presented in the spring and the fall, held twice a year.

This fall, the series had over 200 patrons that benefited.

I know Dr.

Riola talked a little bit about uh Staff Day and some of the award recipients.

I just wanted to uh just mention those again.

The Helen Norris Distinguished Service Award was Melinda Mulligan, the Beth Tendle Award, Mike and Deb Earrett, and the Laura Bramble Distinguished Service Award is Kathleen Stewart.

On staff day, we had about 375 staff who participated, which is about 9% more than what we had last year.

So a really good turnout.

One of them is the outstanding leadership award, and the other one is the exceptional experience award.

The award includes a citation, a CEO coin, and a $1,000 prize.

The outstanding leadership award honors a library staff member who demonstrates exceptional leadership by inspiring and guiding others while fostering a positive, innovative, and service-oriented work environment.

This year's winner was Brandy Winston from the Central Library, and she is the manager central uh circulation services.

The Exceptional Experience Award honors individuals who consistently go above and beyond to provide exceptional experiences for everyone.

This award recognizes team members who exemplify our values through hospitable service, honest and clear communication, and commitment to creating welcoming environments.

And this year's winner was Elizabeth Tarr from the Info Zone, and she is a youth multimedia learning specialist.

She actually had a couple nominations, and they were phenomenal.

Had a lot of really good things to say about the work that she does, and we appreciate both of our winners.

Also, new is the Exceptional Experience Branch Award.

This award recognized uh quarterly to location whose tell us survey results from patrons show strong community feedback as measured by both volume and intensity of positive responses.

This award demonstrates the location's commitment to NDPL's values, delivering exceptional experiences and listening and sharing to promote respectful inviting communication.

The system wide winning branch receives a traveling trophy and a special window clean will be added to the branch entrance, announcing to everyone who walks through the doors that you are an exceptional experience branch.

In addition, we have system-wide award winners for each region.

So Southport was the system-wide winner, so congratulations to Southport for being exceptional.

And then the regional winners were West Region was West Indianapolis.

The mid-region was Info Zone, and the East Region is the Martindale Brightwood branch.

So congratulations to all.

Devia Pathic for Patron Services, Charlie Kane, Jordan Hunt, and J.R.

Edwards, they are patron services and they are from the Central Library.

Community involvement is Bruce Benton and Kathleen Services from Outreach and Volunteer Services.

Page Excellence is Lydia Cheeseboro from the Central Library, and other duties assigned is Rachel Nevada Wood from the Central Library.

Pierce Support, Blaine Crabtree, Glendale, and Committee's Choice is Todd Gilbert and Jill Laker from Beach Grove.

So can we give them a round of applause?

And earlier, um Adam Todd had mentioned uh Mo Scott and the work that she has done here, and I'm trying to wait for her to come in.

We can only have a sick.

Here she comes.

Okay.

Yes, three children.

Graduated from Christmas seconds.

Yes.

Okay, that's all.

And I could just ask you, you can just write there where you at Mo's Fine.

So Adam talked earlier about the positive impact that she has had.

And I just want to read a little something that came from Adam here.

In her capacity as Irvington's LSA, Mo has created relationships with many of our patrons that, while remaining professional, transcend the typical patron LSA interactions.

By being a friendly and welcoming presence at our branch, Mo has become someone who our patrons trust, including our most vulnerable patrons.

Mo routinely helps patrons by handing out chip handbooks for of help, making them aware of food and shelter resources in the area, or simply lending an air and offering an encouraging word.

Sometimes teenage patrons can be difficult to connect with, but by monitoring, monitoring, and even assisting with our daily teen zone.

Mo has made genuine connections with our teen patrons rooted in mutual respect and trust.

On a few occasions, teen patrons have confided in Mo about serious issues like bullying, food insecurities, etc.

There has been a noticeable change in the environment at Irvington since Mo started working here.

Her ability to assess and handle situations that might otherwise turn into major incidents has created a safer and more pleasant library for staff and patrons.

So on behalf of the executive leadership team, and I'd like to thank you for your impact here at Irvington.

And I want to present you with a CEO coin.

And also, most of all, thank you for your courage.

Thank you.

That would be good to me.

Oh, thanks for excuse me.

Thank you.

Thank you all.

Have you welcome and then a real quick retirements?

We had uh Melinda Mullikan.

She spent 27 years.

She was the manager of the Wayne branch, and I did go to her retirement.

We presented her with the with the plaque you see here.

Also, there was a proclamation read by Jared Evans, the chairman of the municipal corporations committee, and we also had a host of partners from the Wayne Township Schools also join us.

So congratulations to Melinda.

All right.

Real quickly, this is the October Library website visits.

Our website consists of multiple sites, including our main site.

There's a blog, the catalog, an event calendar, and much more.

Is a very extensive complex system, which is maintained by our data and web systems service team led by Jeff Edminster.

Can we give Jeff a round of applause?

And also our communication and marketing team manages content with input from staff across all library departments.

Great job on maintaining the website.

And there's just a few numbers up here that's in your package, so if it's kind of hard to see.

If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer those.

If not, I will have Miss Mary Ann McKenzie come up and she will do a strategic planning and assessment plan update.

From the boy, can you also extend to Melinda our appreciation for her work?

Um I've worked closely with Wayne Township Public Schools and the partnership with Wayne Township Public Schools and the work that Melinda has done, not to mention the fact that we've done plays over there and reenactments over there at the library.

Um it's just tremendous.

And if our board can extend a deep and sincere appreciation for leadership all these years.

Yes, ma'am, we'll do.

Any other questions for Mr.

Hill?

The time for the holiday party.

She said she wanted to come and party.

Six to nine.

Six to nine.

Six to nine.

We'll be there with bells on.

You'll be there.

Yeah.

Good evening.

Thank you all for inviting me yet again to talk about our strategic plan.

So it's quarter three of the very first year of a few year strategic plan.

And in the year one, our goal is to build a strong foundation so that we can reach the lofty goals that we have set.

So as a reminder, the way our reports are set up when it comes to our strategic priorities and our goals, the priorities, the overarching themes, the goals or the individual categories under those themes are really focusing on.

We're looking for blue arrows.

In particular in year one, you're really looking for that middle blue arrow, which is saying no significant change.

It's basically less than five percent from your baseline, but ideally positive change, not negative in that area.

And if you're really lucky, you see these positive desire changes, these dark blue upward facing arrows.

And anytime we see a negative not desired change, we don't panic, we take a closer look and see if we can understand and explain.

So I'm gonna walk you through just a handful of what's in your larger printed packet, but as always, I'll be able to answer questions about either the printed packet or the live data.

And I'm gonna focus looking at the priorities first.

So the very first priority we're gonna talk about is learning, and we're gonna see our first orange arrow on this slide.

And it's a great example of why we ask questions and look when we see orange arrows.

So over on the left-hand side, you can see since previous quarter, we're you know, heading in the right direction in most areas.

We have circulation per active card holder, e-resource use per active cardholder, and e-resource use of courses, databases, learning platforms, etc.

And then for the programs that are tied to the strategic priority of learning, we have some key questions that we measure.

So you'll notice that e-resource uses is seeing a large jump since the last quarter because we're heading into the academic year.

And if you look at the column compared to 2024, things are stable and positive in the bottom two categories, e-resource use and learning um measurements.

But that top right corner, we have a relative change of minus five percent and an orange downward facing arrow.

So it turns out that we're great at turning our cardholders into active cardholders.

So our active card holder numbers have been really growing, and our circulation hasn't quite kept pace.

So this is not something we're gonna panic over.

Essentially, since circulation is growing, not growing at the same rate, and active cardholders is growing rapidly, a little bit more rapidly.

Uh, this ratio winds up being trending in the downward direction.

So we're gonna keep an eye on it and hope that as we have more active cardholders over time, they'll become borrowers at the same levels of our historical active cardholders.

So I think that that's an interesting metric to keep an eye on, not something to panic about.

In fact, if anything, we're kind of um victims of our own success of doing a great job of enrolling some new cardholders.

Um, we just want to make them borrow and engage more.

Next up, we have belonging and here we look at people count, web traffic, and um percent active card holders.

And this is what you'll see where we're seeing that growth in active cardholders here, and then like all the programs related to belonging.

We have two different key questions we look at from our um our program surveys.

What you'll find here in belonging is because uh it's a new category.

We can't compare it as much to 2024, so we're really looking at that short-term lens to measure progress so far.

And you'll see that we've gone down just a little bit in our key questions on the bottom left when we look at the program survey.

Not enough to really be statistically relevant.

So it's something that we'll keep an eye on and really take a hard look at that at the end of the year to see if we can learn anything, especially because one of those questions is the program helped me feel more connected to others in the community, and that was something new that we were trying to measure for this strategic priority.

When you look at people count and web traffic steady or moving upwards, people count going upwards, it's very exciting, but our baseline year was 2024, and we had a few more branch closers that year.

We are incredibly lucky for a brief period of time, we have all of our branches open.

So we'll expect that this will be strong, and we might see it soften a little bit as we head into future quarters as renovations and remodels start to hit again.

And of course, present active cardholders, it's gone great, and we are happy to see that, and we will continue to turn those active cardholders into regular borrowers to support all of our metrics.

Next, we have well-being.

Well-being, we have the partner survey, which is something that we haven't started yet.

I think previously I've been coming and saying we're gonna have some results in quarter one.

Still optimistic we're gonna have some results in quarter one.

We did take a little bit of a pivot there.

We realized that the system that we use to track partners was due for an upgrade.

So we're gonna make sure that upgrade is complete so that as we launch that survey, we can not only measure response to the survey, but long-term impact and how we engage with our partners.

Um, so that one doesn't have any measurements yet, and then for well-being programs, you're gonna see that our uh patrons love our well-being programs.

All the program surveys usually tend to be in that 90%.

We don't have a whole lot of room for growth, but you do see some little bit of wobbling from quarter to quarter, but not enough to be more than one percent most of the time.

Now, in each quarter, we take a closer look at one particular strategic priority and the goals underneath it.

This quarter that is going to be well-being.

And underneath well-being, what we'll find is we have our first goal, which is social service connection.

You heard from the social work team today, they do a fantastic job, and you'll see that they are really hitting their strides, really growing and had some really ambitious goals for this year.

Um, if anything, I would expect in future years as we get those long-term lenses, we'll start to see that from our baseline.

We had a really strong growth, but maybe we might see this growth slow in that short-term lens because there is finite capacity to that team.

So really excited to see this, and I'm really proud of the progress they've been making.

Um, next we have mental well-being and physical well-being.

So this looks at programs offered in program attendance.

Our patrons love, especially our physical well-being programs, they're well attended.

Um, they are consistently well attended regardless of where we offer them.

So these have had some strong growth.

A lot of that growth is because for physical well-being, we tend to do a spring flight and then a fall flight of programs for people to choose from at the different branches.

So summer we might see a little bit fewer programs offered just because we don't want to compete for community room space with summer reading programs.

Next, we have socioeconomic well-being, and you'll see that it comes with a paragraph to explain the data because we see two orange arrows, and one of them is huge.

Relative change for program attendance was minus 51%.

We look at programs offered and program attendance paired together because they both tell us ultimately what that attendance story should be.

Essentially, when I was like, oh wow, why is there this huge number?

I went and looked at socioeconomic well-being.

Quarter one and quarter two, we have taxpayers, and we do a lot of taxpayer education support programs that really drives engagement in those first two quarters.

So, this is something that as we develop a long-term lens for this, we start to compare quarter to quarter versus to prior quarter.

We'll stop seeing these wild variations, but it was nothing to panic about, and we have plans.

I've already seen the community action plans for next year to continue those tax education assistance programs next year.

So we're expecting that we'll have strong numbers when we do the year-to-year comparison and hopefully some growth.

And since I'm talking about well-being and the goals underneath the goals, we have the objectives, which are the specific actions.

You can see a update for each individual objective in your packet.

I'm just gonna kind of give you a speed realm of some highlights.

As a reminder, the symbols here look very similar, but they mean something slightly different.

Our objectives are harder to measure in a quantifiable way.

I can't tell you percentage growth sometimes, but I can tell you if we're on the right track or not.

So we have some a few more symbols to let you know where we're at at a glance, and then in your placket, you'll find that there are paragraphs to describe each one.

Um, I wanted to give you a slightly different perspective of the social work team than what they shared with you earlier.

One of the things they're doing is developing staff tools and recommending staff tools.

They did a great job this past quarter of developing an internal tool on the library's SharePoint page that staff can access, and then also recruiting a physical handbook of helps to be donated and distributed by our staff.

So our goal here was to essentially connect staff with tools to help provide social service resources and connections.

And we have hit that goal.

And in fact, the new internet page that they launched has been used by 125 staff.

And remember, we're about 600 staff in general, so it's a pretty large number, and it was accessed over 400 times.

I expect those numbers will continue to grow in future quarters.

Next, we have seed packing.

There are very few objectives that were specifically related to volunteering.

So this is one that I really like to take a look at.

Um we had set a goal of 300 volunteers by 2027.

We've smashed that, we've exceeded that in year one.

So this is something where we'll be looking at maybe taking a look at setting a new goal for the next year or by the end of 2027 since we've already exceeded it.

Um seed packing is something that we do to support our very popular seed library.

We couldn't offer that program without volunteers who come and do somewhat monotonous work of counting how many seeds go in each packet or measuring them out.

Um and so we took as an opportunity to connect volunteers with each other for a chance for community engagement and support, and that has been popular.

And in fact, we have an upcoming session coming up here.

If you are interested in engaging and volunteering in this, in addition to your volunteer work as board of trustees members, um, I hope that you'll look for this on our program calendar.

Lastly, we have uh W3.2.

This is going to talk about package programs.

Package programs is a very library word, and it essentially means that our programming department is developing a series of programs that can be offered at multiple branches or at a single branch if it has a unique audience.

And so they had set a goal for a couple of our objectives to say rather than saying we're gonna run 20 programs, they would develop these package programs so they could tell her that um package program to the branches where it made the most sense and where they could find presenters weren't.

So they had set a goal of three career development package programs, which they have already met for the year.

And you can see up on the top right corner, um, one of them that still has a session coming up is Meet a Professional, which is um is IT right for me.

It's a break and fix session with Perskolis Indianapolis, and that's gonna be at um the final session is going to be December 4th, 1 p.m.

at Glendale.

So it's a great program.

But we also had charting your career, a three-part series at Martin Dell Brightwood, and then for the teens, cookies and careers with Purdue University.

It was offered as six branches in the spring.

So we'll continue to try and dial this in.

You'll notice I didn't put attendance numbers on here.

Um we have variable attendance for the career development program.

It's something where you have to offer the right program for the right audience at the right time, and so that's definitely something they think we're going to continue to experiment over the life of the strategic plan.

Um, but these were well thought out programs, um, and we're happy to continue to dial them in and get them an audience.

So that's my live presentation.

Of course, we also have everything in the board packet.

If you have any questions, I am happy to answer them.

Right.

Any questions from the board.

Please.

So thanks for putting this together and updates.

And I'm gonna also take a little pause here to echo President Bitterman and thanking everybody and leadership of Mr.

Hill.

Um executive team and leadership, whole staff.

I know we have another meeting in December, so I'll say thanks again then.

Um but I like where you were saying that don't panic, don't panic.

Um, thanks for that.

Not panicking, but um, also see at the quarter to quarter, more of a representation of seasonal variation, but rather than oh, we're looking at growth or whatnot, because it's season to season, like you mentioned, it'll change.

So it uses a characterization of that variation.

It does, and so I think there'll be something that you can learn from in year one.

In year two, you will start to compare to prior year quarter and then to the baseline.

So our short-term lens just gets longer as we move through this, and then of course, next quarter I'll be coming to you and showing you this entire year in comparison to the prior year, and you won't have that quarter to quarter comparison.

Um, I do think it helps you learn a lot about how things change seasonally, but I it can be alarming to look at those orange arrows in the short term.

So that that longer lens that'll start to even out a little bit in the in future reports.

And also, I've been seeing just a side comment.

I've been seeing a lot of those uh we love the library um signs around when I drive around.

So thanks for doing this.

It's great.

Absolutely.

And I know um Mary has some great objective reporting.

I'm sure you'll see at the end of the year around that for that objective.

Questions?

Not so much a question but a comment.

And the fact that the library here is really working hard to promote well-being is noted as an important part.

Just reading a quote.

Of course, there's always a problem with funding.

Professional development is seldom well funded, and it's often one of the first budget items to be cut.

In fact, what our library has done has been to support them.

And this is a positive thing.

Positioning it as part of well-being may receive better support because it avoids the misconception that professional development funding is used to select individuals to attend a conference as a privilege or a reward.

But that's not what this library does.

What this library does is recognize the necessity of well-being and professional development.

And so while we're checking out the larger public, working with the internal professional development is a major plus.

So thank you, and thank you to the staff for making sure that we do the right things with that financing and opportunity for professional development.

It's a good article, and I recommend others read it because it does speak to what the American Library Association does speak to.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Well, thank you.

All right.

Thank you very much.

Okay, no unfinished business, no new business, future agenda items.

This time is made available for discussion of items not on the agenda, which are of interest to library board members and the opportunities given to suggest items be included on future library board meeting agendas.

Do you any board members have something to suggest for the December meeting?

Just one moment.

Please.

One of the things that have noticed, and I'm sure all of us have is uh the importance of the volunteers and community outreach.

We've not drawn much attention to how important and critical those volunteers are at every single branch.

And you always mention it, Greg.

But for the larger public to know that the outreach and community volunteer services, including the bookmobile and the things that we do are invaluable.

Um just like to draw attention to that and the community action plans.

Um the two, well, the lady who spoke about the tree falling on the fence and had the that was so cold, you know, when they don't understand that this is not really a board issue.

This is it goes down to the CEO and the different departments about that.

But when they come, like that was a brave lady who came to speak to us, but when she was finished talking, we have nothing to say.

And I I've been looking at this over the months on the library board.

We should have some kind of statement to say thank you for your concern, your comments.

We need to direct that to the appropriate individual so that they won't just be cut dry.

They need to know that thank you for having concerns about teenagers and other problems that could occur or possible lawsuits that could occur.

But this is not the board's action to take at this time.

However, we direct those to concerns.

Now I'm sure that Adam Todd has talked to the ladies several times, they decide to go to the top.

And when they go to the top, most of the time we sit silent and look at them like they have three heads, and they kind of slip we're all embarrassed.

But if we could just have like a thank you kind of comment and let them know, here's the next step we're gonna go to and turn that over to our people who can uh take care of it.

And if that means they have to make a recommendation to the board, that'll be okay too.

But you guys understand what I'm saying, because we are so invitational now, and we're so positive, and I just thought I've seen that before, and I think it's kind of cold.

Uh, and so at least we can say thank you and kind of redirect them because they will leave thinking, well, maybe I made a difference or something, but to her or she's gonna feel that uh we just then take the time even to say the thing to her remarks, but I know we're not that kind of bored, because I love our board, but we need to let we talk about the public, and that's our public, and and she needs to not leave and think that the board doesn't care.

We do care, however, our functions are different, and our procedure for action doesn't start with the board.

Okay, so that's the exception to what you said.

Almost every meeting when someone does present, there is a thank you.

Almost always we say thank you, and um this time because we did not, I think you're right to point it out.

But almost every meeting, in fact, I usually write Laurie Felender.

I wrote it down, Presbyterian Church.

Properties butt up against the railings, three fell down because I wanted to say thank you, but we didn't make that time, and your point is well taken.

We have to thank you.

We should have another little statement to close it out because thank you.

But that's what I'm saying.

It just takes a few cells of the paragraph.

But I agree that you I do remember times we have said, thank you.

But today it was seen to be just cold.

All right, well, thank you for that.

Uh and I I agree.

We'll we'll uh we'll add something to that effect.

Yeah, that's that's a very good comment.

All right, any anything else?

Okay, uh next uh board meeting.

Um so this is going to be the end of the regular board meeting.

We have to do the annual meeting still, so don't leave.

It's not over yet.

Uh, but this meeting's going to be over.

But our next regular meeting on the board is December 15th, 2025 at the Hawville Branch Library, 2121 West Michigan Street.

It begins at 6:30 p.m.

Um, and this meeting is adjourned.

All right.

Now we see that about eight minutes before eight thirty.

Well, so what's beautiful is that I believe the notice said it will run one into the other, so we can begin.

We we don't have to wait just unless typically we'll run those one follows immediately following.

Anybody else call in here?

Yeah, they're calling it all the time.

I'm good.

Yeah, I put on my library shirt.

So uh so do we do we need to take a moment?

Do people need a moment or can we call like all right?

Um so I'd like to call to order the uh annual meeting of um Indianapolis Marion County Public Library.

Uh it's November 24th, 2025.

Um, can we have a roll call?

Yes, Mr.

Federman.

Present.

Dr.

Martada, present Dr.

Passio.

Present.

Dr.

Payne, present Dr.

Riolo, present.

Dr.

White?

Proved.

And Miss Woodard present.

Great.

All right.

Uh I recognize a quorum.

And and good to see you.

Uh all right.

Oh, she's been there all along.

She her box has been moving up and down and left and right.

Yeah.

I saw it.

I did.

I'm the one's getting seasick watching me move around the screen.

All right.

So the first matter on our agenda for the annual meeting is election of officers.

Pursuant to the bylaws, our officers are elected for one-year terms, and the term of office for each current officer ends December 31st, 2025.

Uh the term of these office elections will be from January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2026.

In accordance with the bylaws, no officer except treasurer may serve in the same uh role for more than three consecutive terms.

Election of officers uh is to be accomplished by nomination and roll call.

Uh we'll now commence the process.

Um so we'll start with president.

Uh nominations are now uh in order for office of president.

Uh, do we have any nominations?

Nominate Mr.

Bedemer for President.

Thank you very much.

All right.

Any other nominations for president?

Okay.

Um that the nomination be closed.

Yeah.

So so we'll close the nominations.

Uh I wanted to make sure there was enough time for anything.

Um so um Miss for me.

Mr.

Bademan has been nominated.

Are there any further nominations?

If none, nominations are there for closed.

And I will call for a roll call vote to elect Mr.

Bieteman to the office of president of the board for the term beginning January 1, 2026 and ending December 31st, 2026.

Angie.

Yes, ma'am, Dr.

Matada.

Approved.

Dr.

Placio.

Yes.

Dr.

Payne.

Approved.

Dr.

Riello.

Hi.

Dr.

White.

Yes.

Miss Woodard.

Approved.

And Mr.

Federman.

I approved.

Well, thank you.

Thank you all very much.

I I um I'm honored to be selected again, and I look forward to serving um this board.

So thank you.

All right.

Nominations are now in order for the office of vice president.

We'll take nominations for the office of vice president.

I nominate Dr.

Murtada.

Second any motion.

All right.

Dr.

Martada's been nominated.

Are there any further nominations?

All right.

Nominations are therefore closed, and I'll call a roll call vote to elect Dr.

Murtada to the office of vice president of the board for the term beginning January 1, 2026 and ending December 31st, 2026.

Angie, can we have a call of the roll?

Yes, Dr.

Martado.

Dr.

Palacio.

Yes.

Dr.

Payne.

Yes.

Dr.

Riolo.

Hi.

Yes.

Dr.

White.

Yes.

Miss Woodard.

Approved, yes.

And Mr.

Bederman.

Yes.

Okay.

So congratulations, Dr.

Martada.

Thank you.

Thank you for the board.

All right.

Moving on to Secretary.

Nominations are now order for the Office of Secretary.

Do we have any nominations?

Dr.

White.

I'm nominated Dr.

Riolo.

Okay.

Not until I'm on.

Any other dominant nominations for secretary.

Okay.

So Dr.

Rillo has been nominated.

Um nominations are closed.

I'll call for a roll call vote for Dr.

Riolo for the Office of Secretary of the Board for the term beginning January 1, 2026 and ending December 31st, 2026.

Dr.

Murtada.

Yes.

Dr.

Plassio.

Yes.

Dr.

Payne.

Yes.

Dr.

Riolo.

Dr.

White.

Yes.

Miss Woodard.

Yes.

And Mr.

Federman.

Yes.

All right.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Yes, you get to sign twice now.

All right.

Nominations are now in order for the Office of Treasurer.

I nominate Mary Bankin for treasurer.

Anyone else nominate anyone else?

Hearing none, we'll have a vote on it.

All right.

So Mary Rankin has been nominated.

And the nominations are closed.

I'll call for a roll call vote to elect Miss Mary Rankin, the Office of Treasurer for the term of January 1st, 2026, and ending December 31st, 2026.

Can we have a call of the roll?

Dr.

Martada.

Yes.

Dr.

Placio.

Yes.

Dr.

Payne.

Yes.

Dr.

Riolo.

Yes.

Dr.

White?

Yes.

Miss Woodard?

Yes.

And Mr.

and Mr.

Bederman.

Yes.

All right.

That one's passed.

Congratulations on another year, Miss Frank.

We look forward to all of your signing.

All right.

Now we're going to move on to resolution 57-2025, the annual resolution.

Annually, the board approves its annual resolution to approve, confirm, and reauthorize those matters, which are addressed annually.

Can I have a motion to approve the annual resolution?

So moved.

It's been moved.

Is there a second?

Second.

It's been moved and seconded.

Is there any discussion?

Hearing none, uh, we'll have a call of the roll.

Dr.

Martada.

Approved.

Dr.

Plassio.

Approved.

Dr.

Payne.

Approved.

Dr.

Riolo.

Approved.

Dr.

White?

Approved.

Miss Woodard.

Approved.

Yeah, Mr.

Beterman.

Approved.

All right.

Resolution is passed.

There being no additional business to conduct at this annual meeting.

I'll entertain a motion to adjourn.

I have one point of address.

Oh, all right.

We know that Dr.

Patricia Payne has served this library board for how many years now, Ted?

Many.

I think 16.

For a long time.

For a long time, straight through construction of the branches, uh, straight through the redesign of central, straight through the ups and downs through COVID, and and it has served as a signature on all these documents for the secretary.

Um I think it'd be appropriate for us to uh recognize that those years of service in a special way, and at some point very soon we need to have some kind of recognition for Dr.

Payne.

I know that's already been considered uh by our CEO, but I wanted to make sure that within this meeting at this moment in time, we give a standing ovation for Dr.

Payne.

I'm standing to sloppy hood.

Thank you so much.

All right.

Uh there being no additional additional business uh to conduct at the meeting, I'd entertain a motion to adjourn.

So move.

All right.

Uh second.

We all in favor?

Yes.

All right.

I I I alright.

The motion's ended.

The meeting's ended.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.