Library Advisory Board Meeting - December 4, 2025 - Dec 04, 2025

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Prince William County Library Board 49 min 8 agenda items transcribed 10 hours ago official recording ↗

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What agenda items were approved at the start of the meeting?

Barbara Montgomery 3:35

But Thanks. Ready, jeans. Good evening. Uh tonight is December fourth, twenty twenty five. It's hard to believe the year's almost over. And this is the uh meeting of the library advisory board. And we'll begin the evening by saying the Pledge of Allegiance. And then that's a big fly mouth

Unknown 3:59

sign right on

Barbara Montgomery 3:59

the Hold out. I pleasure to be able to do that.

Unknown 4:10

One nation, and it is hope with liberty and justice for all.

Barbara Montgomery 4:19

Yeah. Welcome seasoning. Yeah. Is Montgomery please? I'm a left government, Woodbridge District. Yeah, perfect. Really next to Seoul, they're very large. The dating Yapschool district, Mary Joe Howard, Wright School District. Um they go um town that district Michelle Baker Gang School District.

Keith 4:47

It smaller city menaces.

Barbara Montgomery 4:50

So let the record show that Natalie Shorter from the Acucline district is not here. We have not So Um announcer actually comes in. Right. Hope that everyone after the Thanksgiving turkey and everything. had time to read the um minutes from the last meeting and the uh reports and everything. Do we have any Additions, corrections for the minutes that were done. Hearing none, do I hear a motion to approve them? Snow. Awesome. Thank you. All in favor? So the minutes will be approved as they were provided. Thank you. And we have a a brief agenda. Um couple of things that I'm gonna try to mention when it's chair time, but do we have any um Other inficials from the floor. The agenda? Yes. I would like to um discuss the bylaws work that the committee worked on.

Barbara Montgomery 6:02

We can um we can give an overview of that, I think.

Michelle Baker 6:06

And anything else? I have two. I would like um to add to that. The timeline for the passing of the file offs. Okay. As well as next steps. Next steps and where where we are and where we go. Very good. Okay. Um the other thing I would like to ask the board, um, and particularly Ms. Patterson. to um support a new um actually monasses um business it's sort of a non profit is to support the the V's the Monasse being a V city the the Annual festival of the bees they have. They have a consignment shop and they're looking for books. And I know that our friends get first dance on the books, but there are some books that Um because we do have two collator gardens, I thought it would be kind of a nice um way to tie them within if we could see fit to do that.

Michelle Baker 6:58

Um It's called Bus Around Town. It is um well I can tell you more about it, but it's by uh She's the Ellis who's on the The council, Vanessa City Council, she and I was working together on the Are there specific dates? She's opening actually a consignment uh store in in Manassas and it'll be open on certain days, but it's called Those Around Town. And it features a handmade and um Oh, because I'm an ad hoc. But anyway, she's she is in need of books. Today I was actually dumpster diving in case to get some for her. So I'd rather not do that every week. And I'm hoping that we can support her in some way with some overflow.

Barbara Montgomery 7:41

Maybe if you have something you could email to us or something. I could do that.

Michelle Baker 7:46

I and I forgot the fly it was when I walked out the door today, but she's having an open house on um Sunday is the Stop it.

Barbara Montgomery 7:56

Well it's certainly a I mean, collinators are in extreme danger. Um last time I heard statistics were looking at down by at least a third. All the pollinators. And of course bees are not the only pollinators, but Wouldn't have food if we didn't have Pollinators and I'm glad that the library has the pollinator garden next to it. Okay, so we'll we'll have to get in there. Right. Anything else before we put the agenda? Mm-hmm. Do I hear a motion to approve the agenda as amended? And make a motion to approve this up. We have a uh motion and second, all in favor?

How were the library bylaws reviewed and updated by the committee?

Barbara Montgomery 8:45

Fine. Thank you. Um We are under the understanding that citizens are offered time to come and uh it's just a a couple of brief minutes, but Um they can contact through our our library if they would like to come in um sit at a board meeting and if they have a very important point they'd like to make. But we don't have anyone here tonight for that purpose. Uh So first order business for me, I want to say