Meeting called to order at 6:00 PM in the Council Chambers, Courthouse. The board approved the January 20, 2026 minutes, received the Librarian’s Report, approved the 90% estimate for the Hahnville Branch Library project, and passed two resolutions: designation of a Records Officer and a budget amendment for 2025. No public comments were offered. The meeting adjourned without further discussion.
Meeting adjourned shortly after 6:30 PM.
All right, we'll go ahead and get started. Welcome to the St. Charles Parish Library Board of Control meeting for March 17th. We'll call this meeting to order. If we can all stand and say a silent prayer and follow Bada Pledge. Hi. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and the Republic for one nation under God, indivisible Liberty and Justice Borough. Does everybody have a copy of the minutes from January 20, 2026? Yes. If so, can we get a motion to approve the minutes from last month? I'll make a motion. Ms. Robin seconds. And that motion passes. Yes. And then we're moving right along. Do we have any public comment? We do not. Okay, being none, we're gonna go to the librarian's report. Okay. All right. So we continue to remain busy at all of our branches with lots of programming and outreach happening. In addition to our regular story times, teen and adult programs at the East Regional Library. We hosted an after hours Pokemon program in February that brought in 134 patrons. Library staff also participated in several special outreach events last month, including the JB Martin Career Day, Alamans Elementary Mardi Gar Parade, and the Mimosa Park Elementary STEM Fair. We always enjoy going out into the community. Library staff are currently busy preparing for our 2026 summer reading program. Several of our staff attended summer reading workshops this past month, and programmers have been busy finalizing programming schedules for the event guide that will once again be mailed to all households in the parish sometime in May. Thanks to the Keep Louisiana Beautiful Get Down and Cleanup program. Keep Louisiana Beautiful is a state program that supports local communities through resources for litter prevention, beautification, and sustainability initiatives. Get down and cleanup is their library program that makes litter cleanup supplies readily available for checkout at local libraries across the state. In conjunction with Love the Boot Week and National Library Week in April, we will be joining 45 other parishes by launching the Get Down and Cleanup program. These kits will be a permanent item in our collection, and each branch will have four kits available. Patrons will use their library cards to check them out for two-week periods. And I have a sample of what the kits look like. So each kit includes a tote bag that holds everything. A trash grabber. Oh, if they do. Let me hold it. Trash grabber. A safety vest. And trash bags. So when patrons check these out, they will get this, be able to use them for cleanup projects in the community. They'll return them back to the libraries. So kids can check them out to use them for service hours. Things like that. And this program is offered to us for free, and replacement items are available to us at no cost. So we don't pay for any of this. So we're hoping to be able to get them ready for checkout that week so that patrons can come in and check them out and use them for trash bash. So keep an eye on our website and social media for more information.