I call the meeting of the moderator part of the library board of library trustees to order it is Monday, July seventh.

And do we have a role call?

Yes.

Trustee Patty here.

Trustee Joshi here.

Vice Chair Delormier?

Here.

Chair Silveria.

Here.

And Trustee Moreau.

Here.

And is there a way for people online or not in the room to participate in this meeting?

Yes, if you are attending online, please raise your Zoom hand at the appropriate times.

I just agenda listed, but we do not have any information.

All right.

Um maybe what do you think?

I would agree to serve as vice chair.

Uh sometimes the role of vice chair is looked as sort of like learning the ropes and getting ready to be chair.

And I don't once Diane has been chair for a year, that won't be true for any of us because all of us will have been chair.

Um and um I would uh I would consider becoming vice chair with the understanding that I would serve as a substitute or uh you know if Diane can't be here or something like that, um for whatever reason, um, but not as uh any kind of guaranteed rollover.

In fact, I will say right now that I definitely plan not to accept chair a year after this.

Um so if I were to be vice chair now, then um I would decline the opportunity to become chair because I have been chair three times, yes, and um after Diane has been chair, then four of us will have been chair once, and uh um because I don't want to deny anybody else the opportunity, but no, I I would decline to be chair.

I just want to let you know that ahead of time.

So if the group feels that we should pick somebody to be vice chair coming up who would agree to be chair in 2627, I would certainly understand and not stand in the way, but that's where I'm coming from.

So thank you.

Knowing that I would not accept being chair in 26, 27.

That seems to be guidance that vice chair becomes chair rather than to go back to rather than obligation.

Well, even you know, point six here says if a board of commission member may be declined to serve as chair or vice chair.

I'm just letting you know that I would.

Okay, and my only uh expectation if I were to agree to be vice chair this year would be to substitute for Diane if she were absent or something.

Is there anyone I think it's a good idea for the vice chair because she's pretended for the first time in the director's evaluation is perhaps the most important functions, and you have an experience in that so you can help her that's true, of course.

All four of us do because all four of the rest of us have been chairs, so I mean, like you you had and learned the library, so um, anyhow.

Um as long as everybody is well aware of what my intent is and limitation, okay.

Because I think the next person would be Marcia, so it would be up to Marcia to say whether she would agree to be vice chair and want to be chair year after this.

Um in the words of my mother, better you than me.

All right, all right.

So we're gonna put a motion or a vote.

Uh do we need a motion?

I mean, we need I think we at least need it need a vote on this.

Okay, um roll call vote or roll call vote, roll call vote with um trustee Delormeier serving as chair and trustee petty serving as vice chair.

Um trustee Moreau, yes, trustee Silvera, yes, trustee Delorme, yes, trustee Joshi, yes, trustee petty yes, thank you.

All right, very good.

Thank you very much.

So and you're we are in July, but the July meeting will be your first time to preside.

Well, actually, she provided in April.

Yeah, as a uh quick question looking at the chart of the five trustees here that it looks it says term date, and for Marcia, it says June 30th of a week or two ago.

No, oh that's next year, okay.

Next year, that's right.

Okay, and I'm sorry, I I did my arithmetic wrong.

So we would need to take that up next first.

Yes, two of us have terms ending in June of next year.

And three of us have terms ending in 2020.

And I think that's on purpose so that it's not you know a whole brand new group thing.

Okay, so moving along to one of the most as the most important things we do is to uh evaluate the library director.

So we're talking about the timeline process for this year's evaluation, and let's see.

So every over the past 12 months.

So basically, what we're discussing is this takes about six weeks in all, including two post-session meetings, one with just the trustees to determine the content of the written evaluation, and then one with the director to discuss everything that he has submitted and that we have submitted.

So it is quite a long period, and we also need to get comments or input from library staff, and from if possible from other folks that uh the director works with, and we had uh a discussion with HR and I think the city attorney last year about whether we are supposed to evaluate the museum portion of Brian shop, and it was pretty much decided that yes, we are, even though we're not responsible before really.

So we will try to get some um input from museum commission and staff if possible.

There isn't much staff on the museum site, so we can figure out a way to do that so that it's um remains anonymous anyway.