Roger Dickinson.

Karina Tullamontis.

Phil Pluckybaum.

Katie Maple.

Here.

My van.

Phil Serna.

Patrick Kennedy.

Rich Desmond.

Rosario Rodriguez.

Pat Hume.

Mary Jane Lopez-Tath.

Rod Brewer.

Kevin Spees.

Brezen.

Tim Reed.

Joe Little.

Here.

My van.

Here.

Tanya Kravchop.

Here.

Nina Leuckivitt.

Here.

Portia Middleton.

Nick Boise.

And we have a corn with 10 members present.

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Okay.

Now we will move on to public comment on items not on the agenda.

Do we have any cards for anyone to speak?

Hearing and seeing none.

Now we will move on to item 3.1 for presentations, friends of the Sacramento Public Library.

You're here in person today.

I am. I could miss the opportunity to see your lovely faces in person.

Hello everyone. My name is Devon Graves.

I am currently serving as a vice president for the Friends of the Sacramento Public Library and the liaison to the joint powers authority board.

It is an honor to represent our amazing organization on behalf of the many folks across communities and the city, the county, and the broader Sacramento region.

So earlier this month, our friends of the Sacramento Public Library board met on March 11th where we were able to get updates on from our treasure, from the booked in and all the usual fun stuff.

So just wanted to highlight a couple things.

First thing that I think is exciting is that things are going great at our bookstore.

Our volunteers are continuing to be busy sorting and bringing in and organizing those donations.

So we continue to welcome donations to our booked in.

One of those things that we've been doing at our book didn't which is led by the great Pam Whiteley.

We are doing a special shelf specifically last month to Black History Month and now this month to Women's History Month.

So anyone interested in books related to those areas, please feel free to stop by.

The other thing going on, we have a lot of organizations reaching out to our book didn't for donations for books.

For folks who may be doing district events or looking to have some books to give out to children, please reach out to the book didn't is a resource that we're happy to partner with anyone on those efforts.

The other work that we have going on is we are going to be participating in some future community events where we'll be selling books but also giving away free books to children who are there as well.

So shout out again to our team at the book didn who are continuing to do awesome work on behalf of our organization.

The other thing that I mentioned last time during our presentation was the upcoming Big Dave Giving on May 1st.

I'm sure that many of you all have commitments to several organizations across the Sacramento region but we definitely challenge the members of the JPA to participate.

So last year we did the JPA Challenge, the Big Dave Giving Challenge.

So I'm going to ask you all again to be prepared on May 1 to donate to our organization as we're supporting book first in summer reading that are great programs that our library puts on.

So please donate and for those of you that have social media please continue to share and help spread the word that the friends are doing this work with the Big Dave Giving and excited that my colleague Diane Gregory who's on Zoom has been partnering on that work and doing some awesome work.

Thank you Diane and besides that we're going to continue to do the work that we're doing on behalf of the library advocating every single day.

We have an upcoming meeting in May. I believe May 11th, no May 13th at 7pm so folks if you're interested in engaging with the board please feel free to participate.

But that is the report on behalf of the friends. I'm happy to take any questions at the time.

Thank you Devon and great presentation as always and definitely any additional information we can do to help or be of assistance or just to get the word out.

Definitely let us know and we'll definitely do our part to help in getting the word out so we can have maximum involvement not only of the board but from the public as well. We always love to do that any comments from any of the directors.

Hearing and seeing none. Thank you Devon. Thank you.

So now we'll move on to item 3.2. Lost Gold Rush Towns of Sacramento. The book presentation by Eric Webb and Andrew McLeod who's joining us by way of Zoom.

That's correct. Can you hear me okay? We can hear you well.

Okay great thank you. Yeah first of all Andrews on Zoom with us. Our other co-author James Scott was our former director of the Sacramento Room, our archivist and he's actually in Portland now.

To give you an idea of the scope of time that we've been working on this book we started this before I retired two years ago and James also Andrew was an intern, a current finishing up his grad studies at Sac State and the public history program and he's an intern at the Sacramento Room.

First of all I come with an amazing amount of gratitude. I in retrospect I love nothing more than working for the libraries and incredibly important job and and this project is is very much a privilege and also a responsibility.

So I come that with with the men's gratitude. I think we often think of what makes Sacramento in our region special even world class and of course we things come to mind like our local agriculture the American Parkway for me it's our Vernal Pull ecology which is incredibly unique culturally our railroad museum first class when we open our shops train nuts from all over the world will go bananas.

They will be quite the deal but I do think there's one thing that's overlooked.

As you know the United States Congress the first piece of legislation was the open the national archives and we did the same thing here in California.

And as you also know we are ground zero our region is ground zero for California history west coast history and and so with that history in mind I would say that our cultural repositories or state library or state archives are our state parks are local history organizations like the Folsom History Museum certainly and elected to do a spade.

So I would say that we are going to do a special sought out for the center of Sacramento history for historian for our perspective we are second and none except for maybe the nation's capital with all due respect to Boston and Philadelphia our cultural institutions are incredibly important and I so I so with that in mind I urge everyone on the on the on the zoom here and our certainly our political leaders please go to our archives go to our

local Sacramento room go online subscribe to the center of Sacramento history YouTube channel this is some great stuff on their police of polar quarter culture institutions are our historic institutions.

So if I'm indulging a little history of local history here I'm old enough to remember the late great Joseph McGowan professor at Sac State in the history department I'll remember professor Surnat too

was one of his students and professor McGowan was our grand marshal of local history he created the founded the county historical society he he was a champion of local history at a time in the 1960s and 70s when it really wasn't very fashionable.

But the good news is and I think you'll be smiling upon us to see that in recent years we've we've we've undergone in our historical community a more expansive analysis of history.

So our historic partners like the center of Sacramento history and our state parks and our state library have done incredible work in recent years.

So with that in mind and in that spirit we produced this book lost gold rush towns of Sacramento with this expansive history there's there's a challenge of traditional narratives and mythology about the gold rush era and history in general some of the history is very difficult and we don't avoid that.

So so so we definitely are following in that in that new tradition that we have now. As for the book I'd like to offer two nuggets as a tease.

So when you drive down Southland Park drive from the zoo towards Belk Coolidge Library and you go up the hill in the neighborhood there did you know that at one point it was considered as a potential capital for a Pacific nation.

So our Pacific nation state and later on is a potential capital for the state of California.

Another nug of a gold little tease is that for all the wonderful my gold rush towns that we know about on the Buffalo Highway Highway 49 jacks and Auburn class of the and the rest.

Most important towns in the early California gold rush are now resigning under Folsom Lake. One of which contained one of the earliest and largest African American communities in California.

So and as a spoiler alert or as as to increase the drama it is not black miners bar.

So the book is a piece of what we call historical literature survey. It covers a lot of territory a lot of ground and we we and one of the benefits of that is you open the lot of pathways.

One of the things I've learned is a researcher is that for all of our amazing collections there are a lot of untold and untold stories and pieces of analysis that we have yet to uncover.

And it's quite remarkable we have a lot of work to do and so this is a conversation beginner.

And so as you read it you're going to have a lot of questions and say hey what about this what about that. And so this is intended to be a prompt for the research and inquiry.

We have a lot to uncover surprisingly enough.

As for I do have one reading recommendation when you when you go through the book a lot of us represent different parts of the region and it's very tempting to and I've done this myself is very tempting to go go where you know to go to your neck of the woods and take a look.

Please try not to do that. What you'll find although this is a survey once again a collection of essays you'll find that there's an interconnectedness with the region.

You cannot know Sacramento without knowing the eastern part of the county and vice versa. So so please keep that in mind.

And even though we're all Taylor our book talks when we do our series of book talks for our particular place where we're at we will always keep that in mind so we're all interconnected that way.

And then lastly I just like to say once again thank you.

Please support our historic institutions.

And second to none our history is very important.

It's reflective of our nation in general and the world in general truthfully.

So we will see you at the book talks be happy to know we have things on the on the burner out there in Folsom and and and here in Sacramento and everywhere in between.

So once again I thank you and I appreciate your indulgence.

I see Andrew's on the line if you'd like to maybe chime in for a couple minutes. I'll be terrific. Thank you.

So yeah I mean thank you Eric this is a really good presentation.

And I'll wait until does Andrew does Andrew have something he like to add to the presentation before I turn it over to the directors.

Yes please please please please go.

Okay thank you. I just want to really be I'm really grateful for the chance to address this group. I'm sorry I couldn't attend waiting for a family member to get out of the emergency room.

I just want to say that this book is really looking at what what happens when civic body is come under attack.

And I think that's what I think is it's more looking happening on the federal 11th ladder with federal agencies back then it was communities that were removed despite being as far as we can tell.

Incorporated towns with you know solid land title and certainly the beginnings of democratic processes.

And there's a lot of there's a lot of trouble in the historic record they're missing newspapers the first 20 years of county assessor books are missing.

There's a lot that wasn't saved but there's so much that was and we would not be able to do this work without the ability to like go through and like come through these archives that are maintained by all these these groups from you know Sacramento or Folsom to Yolo County as well as all there's our wonderful.

State agencies like the library and archives.

And we don't know what's still out there this is very much the beginning and we are also very aware that we just looked at a limited part of Sacramento County and there's much more to uncover this is much much more the beginning than the end.

I just want to thank everyone again for being accountable professional librarians who you know really serving as the guardians of truth and the stewards of culture.

You know we couldn't have done this without you and thanks especially to the Sacramento Public Library for your support for this really important project at this critical time in our history.

Thank you.

Thank you, Andrew.

I think the presentation and this book is very very helpful also would like to have a have it signed before it's all said and done but I know there's a Sacramento the Sacramento area is so rich in history that if we're to do anything when we learn California history is really take a dive into the work that's taken what made

make Sacramento what it is today especially from a historical standpoint it's like there's a deeper story behind everything that we see with Folsom Sacramento the outlying regions that if people really dug a little deeper they find that a lot of the history that takes place here.

Not only predates the gold rush era but really taps into a bigger picture of where of who we are as as a people in as a region I know part of the bear flag revolt that took place like at Murphy's Ranch in what is now outgrow was also a key historical point because we see how we 99 we see everything else that is laid over it but there but when you go

on West Doctin Boulevard as you make a bend going to McConnell Estates winery there is a stone there that commemorates that particular moment in the bear flag revolution them that that triggered California to be coming a state so this book is going to be very very helpful definitely good for us to to have but also share with our friends and neighbors and family because this is this is a piece of American history that not a whole lot of people are not going to be able to do that.

We know a whole lot of people realize but once they realize once they read it and once we're able to share it with people it definitely opens up the door and helping people learn more and understand more about California in general with that said I'll turn it over to director Maple.

Thank you chair and and well said can say better myself and so with your indulgence it was going to ask if perhaps we can all take a photo together.

So if anybody would like to go down here to the lectern and and pose for and take a quick pose.

Mr. Chair while he's signing some more books and I did punch in him in the queue here.

I just wanted to say thanks as a geography undergrad proud geography undergrad that I see a number of maps both contemporary and historic maps in the book and I am a sucker for a good map.

So that will move on to item number four executive team report director Coil.

Thank you chair brewer and thank you directors for in jolging us in this presentation on this this fabulous new book and I'd be remiss if I did not mention that we have a number of other titles that staff at the library with other local historians have written covering different topics of sacrament of history.

We're proud to have this be another in that series that we have helped shepherd through the process and as Eric and Andrew highlighted it it really showcases the great resources that are available at our public library and in our local institutions that preserve our history and our culture.

I would like to start first if I might just highlight a couple things in the written report and then I'll discuss some some national issues that are impacting libraries.

The first is just to highlight some unique outreach opportunities that our team has put together our community engagement team has developed a film group session at Dreamland cinema.

This is a continuation of something that started last year which is very popular and so really excited to have that continue.

We're finding that the community is looking for small group settings and outside of the library that still want to take part in the library and so this really helps us do that and we're really excited to continue that program and as well they'll be extending their outreach opportunities this summer to places including Oak Park Farmers Market Tahoe Park Food Truck Night.

That sounds really exciting. I love a good food truck. Poetry Night at the Crocker, Eastern the Park and Earth Day celebrations.

So this is just a few of the events that we're able to go to. We get lots of requests from various community groups so we are trying to be out in the community where you might not expect us.

So if you have suggestions in your districts or know of community groups we welcome the suggestions as well so we can reach out to more people.

And the other two items I wanted to highlight in the report are just some facilities updates. We are moving forward with our partners at the City of Sacramento to work on the renovations of a number of buildings including the Martin King Library that project is underway and we begun conversations with this city about public art that will take place at that location.

Even though that building is an existing building they're still funding allocated for art and public places there.

It's really excited to see what new art we can add to that building to commemorate and honor that community and its namesake as well.

And then additionally if you you won't necessarily see this but at the library in the back of the main library we are expanding our automated material handler system.

It doesn't sound super exciting but it's actually very exciting. We're going to expand that capacity of that machine to be able to sort more books and be more efficient.

So by adding onto that conveyor belt system we're going to be able to process more books and have the delivery system even more efficient.

So that will be happening in the next couple weeks. The city and the contractors just removed a partition wall last week and they'll be working on installing the rest of the machine over the next couple months.

So we're excited about that as well.

So on the right I just wanted to highlight as we discuss changes in our services.

You can see from our statistics that our use continues to increase.

People continue to find the library and be excited about the offering as that we provide.

And while we, the Sacramento Public Library, very lucky in terms of how we're funded and the information and the support we get from our local municipalities.

And we have a lot of funding through the state library indirectly. Some of that funding, most of that funding actually federally is under under the knife right now.

A recent executive order from the president directed the, in essence, the closure of an organization, in independent federal agency called the Institute for Museum of Library Services.

And this is an agency that is dedicated and its sole purpose is to support libraries and museums.

The Sacramento Public Library has been the recipient of a couple of grants from that organization, as well as local institutions like the Crocker Art Museum and the history museum have also received grants, federal grants from this agency.

That funding will be most likely illuminated if the executive order has followed through.

And that will have significant impacts to libraries across the country and in California specifically.

Some states depend on that money to provide lots of services. Most of those funding in California are passed through grants that come to libraries for specific programs and activities.

You may have heard of, you've met connect a couple years ago. Some of the bookmobiles and technology across the state are funded through this funding.

And there is a distinct possibility, very real possibility that that funding will be zeroed out. And so we are waiting from, to hear back from the federal government, I want that proposal is.

I believe IMLS has through tomorrow, I think, to provide a budget maybe next week.

But I've shared with all of you a double-sided document that the California Library Association has created that discusses the federal funding that the state gets for libraries through these programs.

So you can be aware of that. In terms of what action the library is taking, we have been in conversations with our partners at the California Library Association, the American Library Association.

And they are advocating for that restoration. And we are waiting to see what happens with that. We also have been conversations with our federally elected officials about this issue and have some conversations with them as well.

The direct impact to the Sacramento Public Library will not be felt initially. As I said, we do not get direct funding. We get some grants. So as that money comes to the state library and it distributes it, we are able to take part in that.

The state library will be able to continue those grants through the end of the fiscal year. But after that, we are not sure what will happen with that funding. And so we will keep you apprised of that.

But we don't foresee any initial reduction services or offerings because of that based on how we are structured and we are funded. Other libraries in the state and quite from the other states will feel this more impactfully in California.

But we are very lucky in that regard but will still have impacts on us. So we will share that information with you as we know what those are.

I would want to keep you guys aware of that. That has been a very quick moving situation with that executive order only coming out within the last two weeks.

So I am happy to answer any questions that the board might have on this issue or anything in the report or anything else that I haven't addressed.

Thank you, Director Coil. The information you are providing here is pretty sobering. But I think the public needs to hear that and needs to know it because what we are experiencing is very real.

So any sort of secondary or tertiary abilities that we could do to keep ourselves sustaining is going to be the coin of the realm for the next few years.

Director Maple.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chair.

Thank you for this information. Now, having sitting on various regional words and we are hearing similar news, unfortunately, from the administration.

It would just be my request that you keep us up to date as much as you can as you have conversations with the federal government and various agencies that impact libraries.

And also tap us in where we can be helpful, whether that be writing letters, making phone calls, utilizing relationships that we may have.

Members of this board, we know that libraries are very important and so want to make sure that we are helpful. So thank you.

Thank you, and I certainly will do that.

Any other directors have any additional comments?

Good report, great report. Definitely looking forward to the food truck events because like you, I love a good food truck.

If you have three or four, it makes a meal.

So it's always, it's so like once again, thank you again. Thank you again, Director Coil.

Now we'll move on to information item 5.1, who plug discontinuation and digital resource strategy director, Keller, you're up.

Yeah.

I know it's for information, but if you just have something quick to actually, actually, our collection services, Michelle Hartman can give a quick brief, but we've been offering the Hoopl digital services basically since the pandemic.

And we are now changing our strategy and how we are off, how we're going to offer future services. And Michelle, maybe if you'd just like to add a minor comment on that.

Hello.

Yes, so Hoopl has a very interesting model where anytime anything is checked out, it costs us money.

Whereas Libby, you buy a license to something and you have access to it for a year or two years, and you pay one price in advance, and then it's borrowed as many times as it can before the year runs out.

So what we've been finding in Hoopla over the last couple of years is that while there's some very dedicated users, it only represents about 10% actually less than 10% of our digital circulation.

And yet it's costing about 22% of what we're spending on our digital circulation. And our dollars are just going to go further in the Libby app.

So being able to discontinue Hoopla, we are going to be looking at options to kind of fill in the blanks of what we're losing with Hoopla.

Hoop will also be able to put a little bit more funding towards Libby so that our wait times are a little lower, we'll offer a few more titles, hopefully, and use the tools that they have been introducing over the last year to really help get people through the whole cues.

So that's kind of where our plan is with Hoopla and why we're doing this and what we expect to see out of it.

And what's the timeline for the complete transformation, Michelle?

Yeah, so Hoopla will be discontinued as of pretty much midnight May on the end of May 4th.

People that have something checked out will still be able to access their materials until their regular due date, but they won't be able to borrow new things as of May 5th.

And then come the new fiscal year is when I expect that we'll be able to put a little bit more towards Libby and also if we're going to get like a music streaming service or anything like that, that'll happen in the new fiscal year.

Based on some reallocation of what we were spending on Hoopla.

Okay, and the reason why I brought that up is because I know last month we talked about the different applications that we will be having and that are at the customers or users, library users or customers, but they're also our loving public.

As they give them different options and it would be it would be a shame for some of them who would still look to use Hoopla would not have it available and it will create a little bit of confusion.

So just having that clarity and have it in just speaking this whole transfer all into existence, I think will help some of our folks as they begin the process or continue the process of utilizing our services.

Especially as a person, especially with the streaming services and other applications that we have available.

We're also we're communicating a lot with our Hoopla users. We send a direct email to anyone who's been active in Hoopla in the last year.

Also letting everyone know that there's more in Libby than they're probably aware of.

There's music streaming in Libby, like you can watch concerts through a part of Libby called KELK Quello, which we're talking like any kind of genre you can watch Beyonce or Bon Jovi, you know, like it's all over the place, right?

We also have classic music available through Libby and the streaming that people use can Hoopla for, like the movies and TVs shows and stuff like that.

We have available through Canopy. It's a different selection. Some of it's not as popular materials kind of thing, but there's still like the BBC content available on there.

So it's not a complete change. It's just a change of where they're going to access some of it from.

And the rest of it, we're going to we're going to look to try to fill in some of those holes for sure.

Thank you. Thank you for this quick overview is definitely helpful.

Helpful for me, but also I know as I as I talk to folks and and as some of them use the streaming services just to be able to tell them, hey, this is what's happening.

We'll go a long ways. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you again for this presentation.

I'm sure you've ever, alternate director craft check has a comment.

Okay.

Thank you. I just wanted to uplift something that I had heard in the community from some self described power users of the library.

So I agree that the Libby catalog is hands down the best.

So I think that's a great amount of books and the low weight times should really be the model for the nation.

However, hoopla had a great amount of books available in audio book format that Libby simply doesn't have.

So shutting off hoopla is going to make a great amount of audio books unavailable to the public.

I would advise that the focus on the new Libby books that are bought be on audio books.

The ebooks are incredible with or without hoopla, but the audio book catalog should be bolstered now that hoopla will be gone.

Have a response or anything to director craft trucks.

First, obviously, we really enjoy hearing some of that feedback because it's really important for us to know.

And second, I will say that there are some things that are limited on where you can get them.

There are some ebooks and the audio books that are only available through Amazon and Audible.

We will never get them in the library.

There are some materials that the audio books aren't going to be available through overdrive.

There are some that we don't currently have that are available, but we haven't purchased because they cost $110.

So we don't necessarily, our audio books will automatically start to go up once we are able to put more money towards it.

It's just the cost of everything has kind of been a little bit slower to get to some of those.

Like if we have it in ebook and it's available in audio book, we don't always get the audio book because of the cost.

But thank you for sure for that feedback. It's very good to know.

Okay.

And director, do you see has a comment director, do you are now up?

Yes, this is Nick voice.

I also wanted to reiterate that I had been contacted about similar concerns that the new liby books that we do have as many as possible be brought in on audio book.

Our audio book catalog needs to be bolstered now that who plus gone because liby does not support a lot of the audio books that who pleaded.

So I just wanted to, you know, once again reiterate that same point from our community.

It was one of the greatest features of who blow was not only the instant borrowing, but also what we would call like the mid list or the back list.

The books that aren't like crazy popular, but are parts of series that we don't necessarily carry in an overdrive or liby that who has, but we were, we'll definitely be taking a look at making the selections more broad as well as more the quantity of them available also, but even the title selections making that more broad for sure.

Good deal.

Do we have additional comments online?

No.

Do we have comments or questions from our directors on the dias?

Hearing and seeing none. Thank you again, Michelle.

Thank you.

And thank you again, director Keller for this overview.

For items 5, 2 through 5, 5, part of the monthly treasurer's report and trusting that everyone has been able to go through each of those.

And now we move on to the consent calendar item number 6.

We have item 6.1 through 6.7.

Do we have any items that are needing to be pulled off the consent calendar? Any comments from any of the directors?

Hearing and seeing none.

Director Dickinson, you are now up.

I just have a request and it's illustrated by item 6.4.

And I appreciate that you gave us the total scoring matrix for the bidding after our conversation last time around.

But in the future can you show us the individual scoring and the point totals broken down by reviewer or rater as opposed to just the aggregate total?

That would help. That would that would help at least from my point of view.

Thanks.

We can certainly do that director to get some other problem.

Yeah. Thanks for the feedback.

I appreciate this is for me a step on the right direction.

Okay. Thanks.

No, thank you. Thank you, director Dickinson.

Do we have any other comments from directors online or on the dice?

Hearing and seeing none. I'm looking for a motion.

For the consent calendar moved by director maple do I have a second?

Second by director left of it.

All those members present vote by desiring I or we could do a voice vote by the clerk.

Aye. Aye.

All those opposed?

Any abstainings?

I have to interject because it's a special telecommunic.

So do you have to do a voice vote because of the hybrid?

We have to do a roll call.

Madam Clerk please call the roll. Roger Dickinson.

I.

Karina Talamontes.

Phil Pluckybone.

Katie Maple.

Aye.

My Vang.

Yes.

Phil Surner.

All right.

Patrick Kennedy.

Rich Desmond.

Rosario Rodriguez.

Andrew Hume.

Mary Jane Lopez Taff.

Rod Burr.

Aye.

Kevin Spees.

Kevin Spees.

Tim Reed.

Joe Little.

Yes.

Tonya Kravchuk.

Aye.

Nick Boyce.

Yes.

Reno left of it.

Yes.

Emotion passes with nine members voting.

Okay.

Consent and calendar is now adopted.

Thank you again, director.

Now I move on to action seven.

We have no action items.

Now we move on to item number eight.

Reports, ideas, questions from board members.

Do we have any items, directors?

Director left of it?

Just a few comments.

One is I want to go back to the audio books.

It does make me wonder about access and inclusion issue for people that can't like read

a electronic book.

So I guess for me that would be an important reason to think about investing more in audio

books.

A few, forgive me for being stuck on one topic.

But we do have a movie called Hopeville which talks about the reading crisis and some hope

about how a young person was positively affected by a teacher that intervened in the right

way.

On April 1st at the Sophia and tickets are still available.

So I want it to let the public know.

Well, no.

Also just hoping that in April or May we'll do a joint literacy presentation with our staff

here and the SCOE staff.

Peter, I don't know if there's a way to get a date set up if you need my help there.

Let me know.

Okay.

And then my last on March 31st it is Trans Day of Visibility.

And I just bring that up because I went to an event at the LGBTQ Center last week and there were about 100

people there talking about the impacts of the federal changes.

It was very heartbreaking.

And I bring it up only because I'm hoping our library has books that represent that community.

And so I just want to make sure those are maybe on the 31st would be a really good day to make them very visible.

Thank you.

Thank you, Director Lefko.

Any additional comments from our directors, reports, ideas, questions, anyone else online?

Hearing and seeing none, we are at the time of 349.

I want to thank everyone for being a part of today's meeting.

We will see you next month.

This meeting at the Sacramento Public Library Authority is adjourned.