12-01-2025 Board of Library Trustees Meeting (Video) - Dec 01, 2025

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What agenda items are introduced during the opening roll call?

Jonathan Evans 0:09

I call the order of this meeting, joint meeting of the Board of Library Trustees and the Board of the Santa Clara City Library Foundation and its friends at 6.09 p.m. As a note, I'm going to do the roll call for the Board of Library Trustees. Please raise your hand when your name is called so they can identify you more. Okay. Trustee Triforce. Our Vice Chair Triforce. Trustee Gracosa. Here. Hi. Trustee Muhammad. So you win. And trustee Evans. So we have a couple of that for the board like our trustees and then I guess that's the first getting bored.

Unknown 0:53

Maybe if we had a long city librarian speaking, maybe if we could just go around the joint table and introduce ourselves and then everybody knows who we are. That would be great. I think We're delighted to have this many people in the room. Thank you all for coming. Do you want

Joanne Davis 1:11

to go next, maybe?

Jonathan Evans 1:12

Yeah. Maybe we should start. Maybe

Joanne Davis 1:15

I wanted to start.

Jonathan Evans 1:18

Next to Patty, we'll just go around. Would

Kamil Sakajian 1:21

you like to go? Hi, I'm Kamil Sakajian. I'm the CEO at Michigan City Federal Credit Union, and I just joined the Friends, and glad to be here.

Daniel 1:32

My name is Daniel. I'm on the Library Board of Trustees. Been on the board for about a year now.

Joanne Davis 1:37

I'm Emma Atul. I just joined the board of the Santa Clara Friends. I can't remember the whole name. But I just joined two weeks ago, so I'm very happy. And I'm very happy to be here. Linda Sorby, Friends, Volunteer, President. Joanne Davis, Executive Director of the Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends.

Unknown 2:01

I AM ON THE FOUNDATION AND ON THE BOARD FOR ABOUT A YEAR AND

Joanne Davis 2:11

A HALF. I'M JANET ARSENAULT AND I'M ON THE BOARD AND I'VE BEEN ON THE BOARD AND I'M SECRETARY COMMISSAR AND I'VE BEEN ON THE BOARD FOR ABOUT THREE AND A HALF YEARS.

Jonathan Evans 2:24

I'M JONATHAN EVANS. I'M THE CURRENT CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF LIBERAL INTERESTS.

Ken Young 2:28

I'M KEN YOUNG. I'M THE TREASURER OF THE FOUNDATION BOARD.

Salim Mohammed 2:33

Salim Mohammed, delighted to be here. I wasn't here for the first time you folks met, I was out of the country. I am one of the newer trustees, about a year and a half now.

Joanne Davis 2:49

Oh, Lee Brofman, member of the board, Foundation of Friends. And previous trustee. Previous trustee. Debbie Triforos, board trustee.

Kathy Betts 3:03

Kathy Betts, I'm the current chair of the foundation. I'm Anne Dee, I'm the librarian

Joanne Davis 3:09

for the library.

Ken Young 3:12

I'm Steve Riccosa, I'm on both boards. Sorry, I had to come.

Shanti Bhaskaran 3:16

It's been a long

Ken Young 3:17

time.

Shanti Bhaskaran 3:18

I'm Shanti Basburn, I'm the literacy program supervisor at the library.

Rachel Schmidt 3:24

I'm Rachel Schmidt, the youth services coordinator for the Santa Clara City Library.

Jamie James 3:29

Jamie James the management analyst at the Santa Clara City Library.

Unknown 3:33

I'm going to win the new deputy city attorney that helping with the library.

Jonathan Evans 3:41

And we won't person. Yes.

Unknown 3:45

City Library. Hey, thank you. And Jonathan, do you want me to just take it on from here?

Jonathan Evans 3:54

Yeah, you can take it on. I think the next slide would be made more important.

Unknown 3:58

One of the things that we wanted to do with both boards is go over how important community grants are for us. So we have a very short presentation from our team. And then we'll go on with the following agenda of the board, the both boards meeting in terms of Harmony and all of the good things that we're planning for 26th. So without further ado, I wanted to introduce Rachel Schmidt and Shanti Bhaskaran. They are really our primary grant writers for our library, very community facing. I think you're going to enjoy the presentation, but more importantly, it really shows the dynamic relationship between the library, the community, and the foundation and the board and how it's so important for us to do those community grants together.

Shanti Bhaskaran 4:53

Thank you. Thank you so much for the opportunity to share about the importance of grants for our library and how the Foundation and the Board of Library Trustees can help us with our ability to raise grants. So as you can see, if our library budget would stretch enough to fulfill all our community's needs, we would not need to go through outside sources. But the fact is that with limited funding, the library is already doing a lot, and we need to find external sources and grants to be able to fulfill important community needs.