01-08-2026 Board of Library Trustees Special Meeting - Jan 08, 2026

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What is the purpose and agenda of the Board of Library Trustees special meeting?

Unknown 0:09

It is 5 p.m., so I'll call this meeting of the Board of Library Trustees to order. Roll call. Trustee Muhammad? Here. Vice Chair Trey Foros? Here. Trustee Ricosa? Here. Trustee Nguyen? Here. Chair Evans is also here, so we have a full set of people. Good to go. There's no consent calendar items. We do public presentations. This is a chance for members of the public to present on items on the thing. Do we have any members of the public who would like to make a statement? No, no, I'm sure. Okay. We'll move on to our first item, general business, and I'll bring it over to City Librarian Wong. Okay. From our last meeting, we had a direction from the board to have a special meeting specifically to talk about potential revisions to the city charter.

Unknown 1:07

And so one of the things tonight that we're going to be doing is looking at both the charter language and also the ordinance. We spent a little bit of time last time going over each one and the details on and to answer any questions, but. This is obviously another opportunity for us to do that. I think if anything, what we might do is go over all the language and then when. Masterfully thought about putting things into three buckets so that we could kind of take care of things quite wide array. The things that we might do is the things that we're totally not interested in doing. We might put those in that bucket and then take them off the shelf. And then we're not looking at that anymore. The ones that you really want to retain no matter what.

Unknown 1:54

And maybe we put that in that bucket. And then the ones that are sort of in the middle. that you might wish to retain, we'll put in that bucket. And then we'll spend most of the time talking about the first two buckets then. First bucket meaning, do you like the language that it's in? Do you want to revise it? Do you want to soften it? How would you like it derived? The second one, we might take a look at each of the different items, the pros and cons of each, and then come up with hopefully moving towards consensus, but we don't have to. Because there may not be unanimity on everything. Okay? Does that sound good? Yes. I can't read. What does it say on the green and orange sheet? Well, we're going to actually...

Unknown 2:40

Show what it is. Read it here because you'll have it in front of you. OK, so one of the nice things about the way this this packet is designed is that the last two pages actually are the ordinance and the charter. So we're going to follow it line by line. Now, the other thing that could happen, though, is if you come up with additional items, that's not to preclude that. So you if you say, oh, you know what? I don't see it on here, but I really like it. I like that idea. So one of the things to also give you some ideas is that the charter review committee looked at, is it Anaheim? So Anaheim's, we thought that it was important for you to know. And so that is listed also in your packet. It's on the very back page.

Unknown 3:28

Okay. So we can take a look at Anaheim as a body right now, if you want to. What is the pleasure of the board? Uh, it might be useful to go through each one. It might be helpful to talk about the Anaheim one first. That's new. I think we've all seen the other stuff. I think it would be helpful to go through that as an overview and understand that and we can discuss how that's different and maybe move on to the activity of taking our stuff into mind. Do we know why she chose Anaheim? We do not. Okay. Okay. Um, you know, Glenn, uh, was on vacation when all of this stuff happened and we just happened to hear that they were looking at Anaheim. We didn't get any specific direction, but Jen Beyer, who's also working with them and when found out that they were looking at Anaheim.

Unknown 4:29

So we quickly said, oh, well, we might as well give you Anaheim at the same time then. Um, because they were looking at as maybe an ideal one. Um, Because they too were looking at best practices that you had indicated some interest in. So let's do that. And then at the very end of the meeting, I'll go over the questions that you asked from the last time.