05-04-2026 Board of Library Trustees Meeting (Video) - May 04, 2026

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What is covered in the opening roll call and consent calendar vote?

Unknown 0:10

Okay. Um it is six oh two PM and I will call this meeting of the Board of Library Trustees Order. Um And Tonight, uh a Vice Church Arparos is attending remotely with audio only due to a physical condition related to a temporary disability, um, as per section uh five four nine five three C2A of the California code. Um and for that we're gonna do roll call and uh everything, um uh roll call votes as part of this. Um so starting with roll call, uh trustee Mohammed here. Trusty Rakosa here, trustee Wynn, here, uh Vice Chair Triforos,

Patty Wong 0:48

here

Unknown 0:49

Uh, Chair Evans is here. Um, so that is uh full attendance uh with one person remote. And as a reminder, since we have remote participation, we'll be doing roll call votes. Um and Vice Chair Char Farros, um before each vote, um you'll have to announce if there's anybody over eighteen in the room with you. Um

Rafael Mandelman 1:07

Unknown 1:07

my understanding. Um that that's it, just before each vote. And I'll remind you. Um so hopefully that'll smoothly.

Rafael Mandelman 1:13

All right.

Unknown 1:14

Awesome. Okay. Um and with that we will move on to consent calendar. Uh consent calendar items are approved um as a single motion. Do we have a motion to approve the consent calendar? I'm gonna have to consent. I mean move uh to put the text account. Oh yeah, well sc go ahead second. Okay. Uh trust you win uh motion and trust you ricosa. Um we'll be to a roll call vote. Um uh trustee Mohammed. Yes. Trustee Rakosa. Aye. Trust you. I vice chair Carpados. And is there anybody over eighteen in the room with you? No, and I And I okay. I send it I for the motion and I I I'll also vote I for the motion, so that that passes unanimously. Okay. Uh first item uh is public presentations. Um that's a chance for somebody to address the board on a item not otherwise on the agenda.

Unknown 2:07

Do we have anybody with wish to address the board? Yes, we have um Joanne Davis from the foundation. Okay. Go ahead, uh. Hi, uh good evening everyone. Did you want to move up closer to my depth? Yeah, anyone remote can hear you. There's a chair right there. So

Joanne Davis 2:33

Hi, I'm Joanne Davis, Executive Director of the Santa Clara City Library Foundation and friends, and I have just a couple of announcements tonight. As as you know, because I've mentioned it before, it's our 25th anniversary year of the foundation this year, and we're having our annual 25th anniversary celebration on Saturday, May 16th at the Tride Museum of Art. From six PM to nine PM. We hope you'll join us. Our special guest will be Alexis Madrigal, who is an author and journalist, co-host of forum on KQED, and it's gonna be a Really, really nice program and wonderful auction items and really good food. So we hope to see you there. And then the other is um tomorrow night, um Tuesday, May 5th. At seven PM

Joanne Davis 3:24

The foundation will be receiving um recognition at the um Council meeting at Santa Clara City Halls and in recognition of the uh the foundation's 25 years of supporting the Santa Clara City Library. So we hope if you have time and can stop by, um we are first on the list. So it'll be starting at seven and they go pretty quick. So probably by 730 our part will be over, but it'll be we'll have a chance to say a few words, have a photo taken and um so we'd love to have as many supporters there as we can. Um no book sale in May, no Saturday sale in May because it's the weekend of our event. So We can only ask our volunteers to do so much. Does anyone have any questions about? The programs or what we're doing?

Unknown 4:18

How formal is the golem or the event this year? Is it more formal than normal or same as normal? Um,

Joanne Davis 4:24

like like dress way. Well, I I always tell people it's like anything from business casual to tuxedos because we've seen it all. Um, you know, we prefer, you know, not ripp jeans and t-shirts, but um we will have a professional photographer there taking pictures. So, you know, so come dressed um in something that you want to l see live on in perpetuity. How's that?

Unknown 4:51

That's why. Great.

Joanne Davis 4:54

Oh, and we're gonna we are gonna have a wonderful um guitarist this year, which will be something different. Last year we had the harpist, this year we have a guitarist, so um there will also be