The Board of Library Trustees met on June 25, 2026, to receive updates on a public art policy, discuss fundraising project ideas for the MC Gives campaign, approve revisions to the library card policy, and set the timeline for the annual director evaluation. The meeting included a public comment from a remote attendee and concluded with trustee comments and a director's report on grants and upcoming events.
How do we give us a hug We have a cigar. Right. Yeah, and this I'm trying to think of play the tabas or something like that drums. See the countdown. So uh four, three, two, one. Well, the Board of Library Trustees. Welcome to anybody who might be with us. Um public remotely. If that's happening. Let's see who. Do we have our wonderful chair Diane? Present. Awesome. Can we have our vice chair Bob Huddy? Right here. All right. Let's see. We have our gossip. Okay. Okay. And I think that's a very good question. And a little reminder to anybody that does join in the Zoom, if you would like to have any questions or comments, please raise your little hand. Okay. We will get going with um presentations. Uh, first we have we will receive an update on uh the library intern's work on public art policy. Yeah, and actually Ariana should be joining us shortly. I'll go ahead and jump in. So she doesn't want to rearrange it for her or not. I can I can only start with it. We should jump in on everything. And she can sit right there when she got there. Yeah. So Ariana is Ariana is our uh middlebury intern, was brought in as a federal work study program through a middlebury college, who work on this in their project space. And so we started off with a um the project looking at was work on a public art policy. This is primarily something through the museum's cultural arts commission. We do have a policy right now for accepting the accessioning museums and cultural arts collections. So the art that we have that is city owned, that's all part of our museum's collection. So that is something that we've had for some time. So we do have the museum's cultural arts um commission and that policy that but we're looking at a public art policy for how do people apply for um generally art that's in owned by the private in public view. So it's private art and public spaces, as well as public art would essentially be nonprofits or other organizations that are on there. You're saying if I painted something, what would I do to get it displayed? Exactly. So right now you would do it through primarily through a sign permit. Oh, so there's would be like seems a little so like so. Most uh businesses, if they're doing things, if they're doing an update to a historic property, there is a historic property, historic preservation commission, HPC, and they would go through um a short structure like change. So any change with that. So we're looking at continuing with that, is is through HBC is continuing through like historic preservation commission, and anything for sure. And the other ones would be um, so if there's a sculpture or something like that, they still have to go through all of their business license requirements and everything like that. Now, this rigor doesn't apply to if we or the library wanted to display any images that we own in the California history, for example. That's inside that right.