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This meeting of the Boards and Commission subcommittee was called to order by Council President Monique Williams Johns at 4:00 PM on October 20, 2026. The subcommittee approved the minutes from September 22, 2026, and considered one new appointment and two reappointments to county boards. No public comments were received.
Okay, thank you. Welcome to the October 20th Boards and Commission subcommittee calling the meeting to order and uh running through roll call for in the chamber. We have Councilman Smiley, Councilman Cartier, Councilwoman Kilpatrick, Councilman Toole, Councilwoman George, and Council President Monique Williams Johns. And online, Councilman Keneco, Tackett, and Carter. That's what I see right now. My aide uh Ken Hempel will be taking the minutes for today. And do I have a motion for approval of the minutes for September 22nd? All in favor. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, thank you. Those minutes are approved. Today, short agenda. We just have one new appointment of Polly Sear to the Newcastle County Library Advisory Board in Ms. George's district. Thank you very much. She is online, so she can she can speak, but I do just want to make a few comments. So Polly, if if you've been to Newark, if you've seen anything in Newark or been a part of anything that has happened in that area, you know who Polly's here is. She's former mayor of the City of Newark. And if you need something done, she is the person to get on your team in the City of Newark. So I really appreciate her. She's a dedicated volunteer in so many areas, and she brings uh a lot of experience uh and professionalism uh to any position that she applies for. So the fact that she's willing to serve on our library advisory board uh is just very exciting to me. So with that, I will turn it over to Polly so she can tell us a little bit about why she'd like to be on that board. Polly, the mic is yours. You're muted, Polly. Apologize. Uh thank you, Councilwoman George. Uh outside of my passion for libraries in general, I'm in my fourth year of being part of the Friends of the New York Free Library and sharing our capital campaign for our new library currently under construction in Newark. I do look forward to be off to be able to offer my experience in knowledge and relationship development with lab. Particularly as it relates to our libraries in Newcastle County with funding and development. Um as Val mentioned, uh as former mayor of Newark and with my years of experience in working with many nonprofits in Newcastle County. Um I do believe my dedication to the community and to the county as a whole will be helpful uh with my advocacy experience, uh budget experience, policy experience, and really long-range planning. So I I really look forward to serving on lab. Um it will be fun to serve on a board with like-minded people uh in the library world. Thank you. Thank you so much, and yes, an exciting time for you to come on with the brand new library coming online as well. So you'll be representing that on the board. So thank you for your willingness to serve. Are there any comments or questions from the rest of council? Okay. Seeing none, uh, we just so you know, um, Polly will be voting on this next week, next Tuesday night. You don't have to be present for that, but uh, you're obviously always welcome to attend, but you don't have to be there. It will just be uh a vote um probably on the consent agenda.