02-12-2026 Board of Library Trustees Special Meeting - Feb 12, 2026

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What agenda items are covered in the opening roll call and consent calendar?

Rafael Mandelman 0:10

File.

Unknown 0:12

Okay, I heard the recording is in progress and you hear me through the T V and everything, right?

Patty 0:17

Yeah.

Unknown 0:18

Okay, and then you're talking and I'm talking. And then how long does it take for the recording to

Sharon Evans 0:28

Okay, it is six PM and I'm gonna call this uh um meeting of the Board of Library Trustees to order. Um we'll start with roll call. Um trusty triborum a biter triboro here. Uh trusty when trusty recovery. Um Chair Evans is here. Um and we're missing uh trusty mollet.

Wynn 0:48

I don't

Unknown 0:48

know

Sharon Evans 0:50

Uh and we did inform us before that he was gonna be able to attend. Uh is there uh somebody would like to use trust you? I make the motion to excuse trustee uh oh this uh I'm here okay Yeah. All in favor accusing question of them. Say aye. Okay, that asked you on to leave one absent. Okay, we're on the consent calendar. Um actions of the consent calendar are approved with a single motion. Do we have a motion that adopts the consent calendar? I motion that we move uh adopt a different calendar. Yeah, I guess that's

Wynn 1:28

second.

Sharon Evans 1:29

All in favor of adopting approved cellular items. I guess I've got the Minute Please we'll have them. All those presentations, these are for items not otherwise on the agenda. Do we have anybody who would like to do the presentation? No Joanne. We have no attendees online or in person. Then we will move on to general business. Which is uh our first item, uh item number two is discussion and action on recommendations for potential revision to the charter section one. thousand twelve and section one thousand thirteen for consideration of the tribal review and I'll turn it over to uh she's a very bottom

Patty 2:08

Okay. Um Uh so this is to go over the work that you have done um in January. And I think I think Yeah, we were we're gonna bring it up and bring it up. Okay, thank you. Okay. So um Well we're and um and just as a follow up, just let me let you know that um Oh no, okay. I just wanted to check if you had any questions. Um So Terry, can we move it up just a little bit? Yeah. Yeah, thank you. Okay. So the reason why you didn't get this whole wholesale thing right now is because Um When I shared uh some of the thinking with Glenn. He suggested that we um do a couple of things. One is to go over this again, of course, as we're gonna do tonight. The other thing he wanted us to kind of think about a little bit Is that the ordinance

Patty 3:14

While very, very helpful. Sorry,

Sharon Evans 3:17

you mean the referee exit of something?

Patty 3:19

Coming from the recording I

Sharon Evans 3:20

think we weren't able to shut about on the phone. Okay. That's okay. Is it okay? Oh near the zoo. Yeah, is it coming soon? Yeah, the laptop's actually muted, but they can use them still coming soon. Swell there maybe more than it's a little bit more than a lot of things. Yeah, you're confused. Do you want their air with you better?

How are proposed revisions to Charter Sections 1012 and 1013 being discussed?

Sharon Evans 3:43

Oh okay.

3:44

Okay.

Patty 3:46

Okay. All right. So um Glenn loves the progress we're making making. Um he did and and Wynn's suggestion about putting in the buckets is is uh right on target. What he wanted to suggest to us though is that um to remember that um a couple things. One is that the ordinance While very healthy to look at. Um is not part of the chart. And so um Charter language generally reflects um and changes made to it. should reflect what's currently in there. Um he did suggest though that if there's something in the ordinance that actually is not called for in the charter right now and you really want to put it in there, that more than happy to kind of entertain that. But in many ways, the ordinance language, and we'll go through this together, is um

Patty 4:37

More about outcomes and less about responsibility. So that's what those that's his language for me when when he was trying to explain to me why there's a big difference. Um and that In the charter. Um, less is more, I suppose. with so much verbiage, then you kind of lock yourself in. And in we need to be as flexible as possible within the charter so you can do your work well. And you'll see what I mean in a few seconds when we start going over ordinance. Because I know some of you really disliked some of the ordinance things and wanted to maintain that.