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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay, it is now 1101. We have a quorum,
and I'd like to call this regular meeting</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/20-1
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>of the Seattle Public Library Board of
Trustees to order.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>If there are no changes to the agenda,
may I hear a motion to approve the agenda</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>as published?</v>

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<v Faith Pettis>So moved.</v>

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<v Ron Chew>Second.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>That's been moved and seconded.
All in favor,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/24-1
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>please say I or raise your hand. I.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/25-0
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<v Bendixen, Carmen>Sykes.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/26-0
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>And that is unanimous.
As noted at the top of the agenda,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/26-1
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>the library board is accepting public
comment that is directed to matters on</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/26-2
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>the agenda by e-mail,
in person at the Central Library,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/26-3
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>and in this remote meeting. Amy,
is there any public comment today?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/27-0
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<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>There are new people here with me at
Central. Nobody has signed up in Q&amp;</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/27-1
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<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>A and there were no comments sent by
e-mail this month.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/30-0
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay, thank you.
We have a consent agenda with minutes</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/30-1
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>from our July board meeting and the July
finance report.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>If no one has changes to these documents,
may I hear a motion to approve the</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>consent agenda as published?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/29-0
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<v Tali H.>Motion to approve.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/31-0
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>And a second.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/32-0
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<v Faith Pettis>Second.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/34-0
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Thank you. All in favor,
please say I or raise your hand. I.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/35-0
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<v Ron Chew>Kai.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/36-0
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>And that also is unanimously passed.
Thank you.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/36-1
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Before we move on to Tom and the Chief
Librarian's report,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/36-2
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>I just wanted to make a brief statement.
Today we're going to hear about all the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/36-3
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>work accomplished using 2019 levy dollars
in our second quarter report.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/37-0
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>This report is one of the many ways that
the library shows accountability for the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/37-1
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>funds with which we are entrusted.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/38-0
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>And, thanks.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/59-0
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>library levy vote,
we know we have seven more years of levy</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/59-1
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>funding. But before we celebrate,
I wanted to offer a reflection.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/96-0
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Since January,
I've been surprised by the challenges of</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/96-1
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>moving the library levy to the August 4
vote.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>These were so surprising that I made
myself think through what would happen if</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>the levy was voted down.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/132-0
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>I imagined an analysis by library staff
of which branches are used the most.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/132-1
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>A series of difficult public meetings and
ultimately a library board vote on what</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/132-2
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>branches would be closed,
how many open hours canceled,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/132-3
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>what programs would remain,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/135-0
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>and how we would prioritize collections.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/156-0
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>And while the vote went our way,
to think that one-third of the library's</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/156-1
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>budget could be voted away made me pause.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>How do we run a system with that
possibility hanging over our heads?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/210-0
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>As an aside,
that's not the way the social contract</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/210-1
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>should work.
The social contract is built on a certain</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/210-2
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>level of trust between the governed and
the government.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>In exchange for taxes and commitments to
the rule of law by the governed,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>the government provides order and public
benefits.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/248-0
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>This exchange appears to be breaking down.
It may be due to a crisis of confidence</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/248-1
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>elicited by leaders here and elsewhere.
It is certainly due to the cynical</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/248-2
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>disconnection of what taxes should be
charged and raised and the cost of</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/248-3
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>inflation. As much as</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>disagreements over who should be taxed
and at what level.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/277-0
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>We, the library,
find ourselves caught in this breakdown,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/277-1
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>even though the library has little and
only indirect control over these</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/277-2
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>challenges.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/300-0
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>The thought exercise I ran through was
unpleasant,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>but it made the potential loss of funding
less scary because I had an idea of what</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/300-2
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>to do.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/343-0
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Going forward,
I believe we must consider what will</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>happen if voters choose a different path
in seven years.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>How would we serve the residents of
Seattle?</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>How do we preserve this system under less
favorable scenarios and plan for those</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/343-4
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>possible futures?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/390-0
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Today,
we should celebrate the vote of</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/390-1
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>confidence for the Seattle Public Library
system,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>reflected in the 75% plus vote in favor
of the levy.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>It is a testament to the century plus of
commitment and investment by the city and</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>the voters of Seattle.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>the hard work of our library staff and
partners,</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>particularly the Foundation and the
Friends,</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Yeah.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>and the leadership of Chief Librarian Tom
Fay and his team.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>So, Tom, over to you.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Thank you, Yazmin. And most certainly,
I agree with that statement and also the</v>

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<v Tom Fay>concerns.
Certainly was top of mind as we went</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/458-2
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<v Tom Fay>through the levy planning and proposal
process throughout,</v>

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<v Tom Fay>and obviously a big sigh of relief on
that night.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>So as we know, we did pass the levy by 75.
04%,</v>

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<v Tom Fay>I think is what it was finally certified
at.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>So a big kudos to the community for that
support. We appreciate it. I know that</v>

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<v Tom Fay>To get there,
we are grateful for the mayor proposing</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/526-1
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<v Tom Fay>the levy,
the city council for raising and</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/526-2
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<v Tom Fay>supporting amendments to the levy that
were critical for some of our capital</v>

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<v Tom Fay>needs and some of our other programming
and service needs. And of course,</v>

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<v Tom Fay>a huge thanks to the staff who worked
tirelessly</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/563-0
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<v Tom Fay>tirelessly to steward the public funds
from the previous levy and do great work</v>

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<v Tom Fay>every day.
That's what people remember is not a</v>

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<v Tom Fay>speech by me,
but by the service they receive from</v>

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<v Tom Fay>those staff members and all the branches
throughout the city.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>So we're very appreciative of that work.
And we know the public has a great trust</v>

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<v Tom Fay>in their work.
There's also been a tremendous amount of</v>

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<v Tom Fay>work from my senior management team
working through this entire process for</v>

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<v Tom Fay>over a year.
Thanks to all our patrons and library</v>

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<v Tom Fay>partners who testified at city council.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>I also want to thank ASMI Local 2083 for
their support of the levy and a number of</v>

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<v Tom Fay>our local labor unions as well.
And a big thanks to our Library</v>

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<v Tom Fay>Foundation and friends who dedicated an
unknown number of hours</v>

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<v Tom Fay>and a tremendous amount of time and
energy into advocating for the library</v>

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<v Tom Fay>and their communities.
I can assure you when I, that evening,</v>

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<v Tom Fay>I think Yazmin saw it as well,
that the group was at exhaustion level.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>I mean,
they had been doing something every day.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>were weeks on end.
So a big thank you for all their support.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>And finally,
a thank you to Yazmin Mehdi as the board</v>

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<v Tom Fay>vice president,
Tally Hairston for their leadership from</v>

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<v Tom Fay>the beginning of this levy development,
and to each of you for your support.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/745-0
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<v Tom Fay>along the way. It took several meetings,
many meetings.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>You had to listen to a lot of things that
were probably concerning.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>It was as we were trying to develop this.
And of course, it's very stressful.</v>

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<v Tom Fay>But thank you to everyone who helped get
this to this level of support in our</v>

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<v Tom Fay>community.</v>

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<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah,
I'll add my thanks to the rest of the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/785-1
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<v Yazmin Mehdi>library board and all the staff,
the union, the friends,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/785-2
00:08:19.094 --> 00:08:24.154
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and the foundation.
It was absolutely without question a team</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/785-3
00:08:24.154 --> 00:08:28.970
<v Yazmin Mehdi>effort. And as Tom said,
the users of the library came out</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/797-0
00:08:29.170 --> 00:08:36.053
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and they they gave back to the, you know,
to the library and all the things the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/797-1
00:08:36.053 --> 00:08:38.290
<v Yazmin Mehdi>library has done for them.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/845-0
00:08:40.930 --> 00:08:45.244
<v Tom Fay>And with your permission,
I'll just continue on with my report.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/845-1
00:08:45.244 --> 00:08:49.626
<v Tom Fay>Just a couple of highlights.
As we were talking about elections,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/845-2
00:08:49.626 --> 00:08:54.615
<v Tom Fay>we had new ballot boxes installed in two
locations prior to the election.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/845-3
00:08:54.615 --> 00:09:00.210
<v Tom Fay>We have one out at the Central Library.
We also added one at the Northgate branch.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/893-0
00:09:00.530 --> 00:09:05.279
<v Tom Fay>We had, just as a kind of a reference,
the Northgate Branch had 3,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/893-1
00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:09.533
<v Tom Fay>974 ballots returned,
which they believe may be the largest</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/893-2
00:09:09.533 --> 00:09:14.920
<v Tom Fay>return ever for a box in its first
election. So it's in a really good spot.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/893-3
00:09:14.920 --> 00:09:20.450
<v Tom Fay>If you're out in the Northgate area,
you'll see it prominently on the corner.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/920-0
00:09:21.010 --> 00:09:28.338
<v Tom Fay>And then the Central Library box saw
about 2,878 ballots returned. So overall,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/920-1
00:09:28.338 --> 00:09:35.667
<v Tom Fay>we now have eight of the ballot boxes
scattered throughout our library system,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/920-2
00:09:35.667 --> 00:09:38.450
<v Tom Fay>all of which are heavily used.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/952-0
00:09:39.970 --> 00:09:47.520
<v Tom Fay>Let's see, also on August 2nd,
Kate Tang visited Montlake Branch for the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/952-1
00:09:47.520 --> 00:09:53.932
<v Tom Fay>branch's 20th anniversary celebration.
So always a fun event.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/952-2
00:09:53.932 --> 00:09:58.690
<v Tom Fay>This particular one in my comments here
says,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1008-0
00:09:58.850 --> 00:10:02.485
<v Tom Fay>It marks the last milestone anniversary
for a few years.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1008-1
00:10:02.485 --> 00:10:07.651
<v Tom Fay>That's not exactly accurate because we
also have our South Park 20th anniversary</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1008-2
00:10:07.651 --> 00:10:11.605
<v Tom Fay>coming up in September and Kate Tang will
be again going out,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1008-3
00:10:11.605 --> 00:10:15.177
<v Tom Fay>going to that one for me.
I'll be out of town for that,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1008-4
00:10:15.177 --> 00:10:19.195
<v Tom Fay>but I'm sure it'll be quite the
celebration out at South Park.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1008-5
00:10:19.195 --> 00:10:21.810
<v Tom Fay>They usually know how to bring the party.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1022-0
00:10:22.210 --> 00:10:26.187
<v Tom Fay>So for those who might have a chance to
go to that celebration,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1022-1
00:10:26.187 --> 00:10:29.170
<v Tom Fay>Amy will be sending out additional
information.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1066-0
00:10:30.290 --> 00:10:35.259
<v Tom Fay>And just a side note for everyone,
the HVAC installation work has begun on</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1066-1
00:10:35.259 --> 00:10:38.771
<v Tom Fay>August 9th at West Seattle and the
Fremont branches.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1066-2
00:10:38.771 --> 00:10:43.410
<v Tom Fay>So currently they're closed.
We expect them to open in early November</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1066-3
00:10:43.410 --> 00:10:48.247
<v Tom Fay>timeframe or November timeframe,
depending on how weather treats us over</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1066-4
00:10:48.247 --> 00:10:49.970
<v Tom Fay>the next couple of months.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1105-0
00:10:50.610 --> 00:10:55.495
<v Tom Fay>And once completed,
24 of 27 SPL branches will have air</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1105-1
00:10:55.495 --> 00:10:59.770
<v Tom Fay>conditioning.
And obviously the goal is in 27 to</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1105-2
00:10:59.770 --> 00:11:06.662
<v Tom Fay>hopefully wrap all of those up and be
fully air conditioned spaces by the time</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1105-3
00:11:06.662 --> 00:11:08.930
<v Tom Fay>we get to the end of 2027.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1107-0
00:11:09.090 --> 00:11:10.770
<v Tom Fay>or the first part of 2028.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1127-0
00:11:12.210 --> 00:11:17.500
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yay, and that includes Queen Anne Library,
which is my library,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1127-1
00:11:17.500 --> 00:11:19.650
<v Yazmin Mehdi>so I'm excited about that.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1128-0
00:11:18.690 --> 00:11:21.770
<v Faith Pettis>Tom,
which are which are the three that don't?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1172-0
00:11:23.090 --> 00:11:28.437
<v Tom Fay>Right now, it's, I'm trying to remember,
Queen Anne. Queen Anne is 1.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1140-0
00:11:26.050 --> 00:11:26.850
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Queen Anne.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1172-1
00:11:28.437 --> 00:11:32.028
<v Tom Fay>Columbia will,
has a partial air conditioning.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1172-2
00:11:32.028 --> 00:11:36.459
<v Tom Fay>When we're done with the,
when we're done with all of it,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1172-3
00:11:36.459 --> 00:11:41.730
<v Tom Fay>it'll have a full air conditioning system.
And then I am forgetting.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1174-0
00:11:41.810 --> 00:11:42.930
<v Tom Fay>The third one.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1179-0
00:11:44.130 --> 00:11:46.925
<v Tom Fay>I don't know why,
but I cannot pull it off the top of my</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1179-1
00:11:46.925 --> 00:11:47.170
<v Tom Fay>head.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1182-0
00:11:48.410 --> 00:11:49.090
<v Faith Pettis>No worries.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1195-0
00:11:48.610 --> 00:11:52.890
<v Tom Fay>If, if Rob is here,
he can probably rattle it up.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1196-0
00:11:52.450 --> 00:11:54.450
<v Yazmin Mehdi>It's one of the Carnegies, isn't it?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1198-0
00:11:56.130 --> 00:11:57.170
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Is it West Seattle?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1201-0
00:11:57.890 --> 00:11:58.690
<v Tom Fay>No, Wes.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1217-0
00:11:57.970 --> 00:12:01.570
<v Yazmin Mehdi>West Seattle is underway, also underway.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1206-0
00:11:58.930 --> 00:11:59.730
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Fremont.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1213-0
00:12:00.370 --> 00:12:01.010
<v Tom Fay>Fremont.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1221-0
00:12:00.370 --> 00:12:03.759
<v Faith Pettis>Those 2 are the ones being done,
but there's three more that need it,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1221-1
00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:04.050
<v Faith Pettis>right?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1228-0
00:12:05.650 --> 00:12:08.450
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>Is it the university project that's
currently closed?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1248-0
00:12:09.410 --> 00:12:12.023
<v Tom Fay>It could be. University will be,
once it's complete,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1248-1
00:12:12.023 --> 00:12:15.821
<v Tom Fay>it'll have air conditioning as well.
So that might be the third one that I'm</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1248-2
00:12:15.821 --> 00:12:16.610
<v Tom Fay>not remembering.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1247-0
00:12:16.170 --> 00:12:16.530
<v Faith Pettis>Okay.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1251-0
00:12:17.890 --> 00:12:19.810
<v Faith Pettis>Okay, we're getting close.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1297-0
00:12:19.090 --> 00:12:25.160
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Cool. We're getting very close.
Before we move on to the system reports,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1256-0
00:12:21.490 --> 00:12:22.210
<v Tom Fay>Almost there.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1297-1
00:12:25.160 --> 00:12:28.986
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Tom,
I want to give my colleagues a chance to</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1297-2
00:12:28.986 --> 00:12:34.807
<v Yazmin Mehdi>share anything or ask questions about the
two that are in the packet.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1297-3
00:12:34.807 --> 00:12:38.050
<v Yazmin Mehdi>It's a report from our human resources.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1301-0
00:12:38.850 --> 00:12:41.810
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Group and our library experience and
engagement.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1344-0
00:12:44.050 --> 00:12:50.111
<v Yazmin Mehdi>There's some really good stuff in there.
So I'll just start with a few things.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1344-1
00:12:50.111 --> 00:12:55.174
<v Yazmin Mehdi>One is from the HR report.
All regional manager positions are now</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1344-2
00:12:55.174 --> 00:12:58.704
<v Yazmin Mehdi>filled, which is terrific,
a great milestone.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1344-3
00:12:58.704 --> 00:13:02.770
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And I loved hearing that no AI is used in
screening.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1388-0
00:13:02.930 --> 00:13:06.303
<v Yazmin Mehdi>applicants.
I don't know why that makes me happy,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1388-1
00:13:06.303 --> 00:13:11.564
<v Yazmin Mehdi>but it does. Tom, I did have a question.
There's a bunch of awards listed and</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1388-2
00:13:11.564 --> 00:13:15.814
<v Yazmin Mehdi>there's an award called the Hunter
Maxwell Becker Brown Award.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1388-3
00:13:15.814 --> 00:13:19.794
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So at some point it would be really
helpful to know, like,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1388-4
00:13:19.794 --> 00:13:22.290
<v Yazmin Mehdi>who's that name for? I assume that's.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1395-0
00:13:22.330 --> 00:13:26.530
<v Yazmin Mehdi>four different people and not just one,
but who knows, maybe it is just one.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1398-0
00:13:27.970 --> 00:13:28.530
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Anne.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1405-0
00:13:27.970 --> 00:13:31.010
<v Tom Fay>Yeah, we can.
We'll get you the information on that one.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1449-0
00:13:31.410 --> 00:13:38.163
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay, and also the Summer Quest program,
I thought was fascinating. You know,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1449-1
00:13:38.163 --> 00:13:44.224
<v Yazmin Mehdi>basically, it's a summer reading program,
if you will, for everybody,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1449-2
00:13:44.224 --> 00:13:48.726
<v Yazmin Mehdi>not just children or teens,
but it includes adults.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1449-3
00:13:48.726 --> 00:13:51.410
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And I'd love to hear more about</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1474-0
00:13:51.730 --> 00:13:55.559
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the participant numbers this year versus
in past years,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1474-1
00:13:55.559 --> 00:14:00.893
<v Yazmin Mehdi>which are apples and oranges, obviously,
but curious what goals we had around</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1474-2
00:14:00.893 --> 00:14:03.970
<v Yazmin Mehdi>reaching adults and teens with that
program.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1514-0
00:14:05.010 --> 00:14:08.751
<v Tom Fay>So absolutely.
We'll likely bring that back for a kind</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1475-0
00:14:05.170 --> 00:14:05.690
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1514-1
00:14:08.751 --> 00:14:13.104
<v Tom Fay>of a fuller brief in a system report,
because we're also going,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1486-0
00:14:10.530 --> 00:14:11.170
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Ohh, great.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1490-0
00:14:12.250 --> 00:14:12.610
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Great.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1514-2
00:14:13.104 --> 00:14:17.184
<v Tom Fay>we will be starting,
I know Kay has this off the top of her</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1514-3
00:14:17.184 --> 00:14:20.177
<v Tom Fay>head,
but reasonably soon we'll be starting</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1514-4
00:14:20.177 --> 00:14:23.170
<v Tom Fay>what some requests will look like for
2027.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1543-0
00:14:23.810 --> 00:14:28.305
<v Tom Fay>So that's going to involve a lot more
people this time as we've gone through</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1543-1
00:14:28.305 --> 00:14:31.574
<v Tom Fay>this first year.
We'll get a lot more input from staff.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1543-2
00:14:31.574 --> 00:14:34.902
<v Tom Fay>And of course,
we'll have everything that we've received</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1543-3
00:14:34.902 --> 00:14:36.770
<v Tom Fay>from patrons during the process.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1578-0
00:14:37.490 --> 00:14:42.582
<v Yazmin Mehdi>That's great. And in the meantime,
I also wanted to note,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1578-1
00:14:42.582 --> 00:14:46.533
<v Yazmin Mehdi>there were songs that students put
together,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1578-2
00:14:46.533 --> 00:14:52.415
<v Yazmin Mehdi>obviously using some kind of program.
The mom song I really loved.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1578-3
00:14:52.415 --> 00:14:58.210
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I just wanted to say it was a great song.
And I loved the idea of</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1610-0
00:14:58.690 --> 00:15:03.891
<v Yazmin Mehdi>art around ajolotes,
which are this very specific to Mexico</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1610-1
00:15:03.891 --> 00:15:09.266
<v Yazmin Mehdi>aquatic animal. Anyway, I just,
I love getting these reports.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1610-2
00:15:09.266 --> 00:15:16.289
<v Yazmin Mehdi>It's really interesting to hear about the
different ways that the library serves</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1610-3
00:15:16.289 --> 00:15:19.930
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the patrons and in so many different ways.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1659-0
00:15:22.930 --> 00:15:26.830
<v Tom Fay>And we will,
I'm also getting text message or team</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1659-1
00:15:26.830 --> 00:15:31.419
<v Tom Fay>messages here as well.
So I've got the info from the Hunter</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1659-2
00:15:31.419 --> 00:15:37.538
<v Tom Fay>Maxwell Becker Browne Endowed Fund for
staff recognition that comes through the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1659-3
00:15:37.538 --> 00:15:41.133
<v Tom Fay>foundation.
So we'll send that off to you in a</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1659-4
00:15:41.133 --> 00:15:43.810
<v Tom Fay>separate e-mail a little bit later.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1657-0
00:15:45.250 --> 00:15:45.810
<v Yazmin Mehdi>That's great.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1698-0
00:15:45.250 --> 00:15:51.030
<v Tom Fay>and I did hit all of the branches,
several of my team. It is Queen Anne,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1698-1
00:15:51.030 --> 00:15:55.701
<v Tom Fay>Columbia, West Seattle,
and Fremont that are the remaining</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1698-2
00:15:55.701 --> 00:16:01.006
<v Tom Fay>locations. And of course,
the Uni project rounds everything out as</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1682-0
00:15:58.290 --> 00:15:58.770
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Oh.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1698-3
00:16:01.006 --> 00:16:04.490
<v Tom Fay>we finish that towards the end of the
year.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1707-0
00:16:06.130 --> 00:16:09.391
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Great. Well,
congratulations to all the award winners</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1707-1
00:16:09.391 --> 00:16:12.290
<v Yazmin Mehdi>at the Employee Recognition Awards
Celebration.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1711-0
00:16:16.210 --> 00:16:17.090
<v Yazmin Mehdi>All right, back to you.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1719-0
00:16:17.490 --> 00:16:22.690
<v Tom Fay>Any other questions on any of the reports
that you did see?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1721-0
00:16:25.730 --> 00:16:26.930
<v Tom Fay>Staying none.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1763-0
00:16:28.450 --> 00:16:31.524
<v Tom Fay>We'll go ahead and start with our first
system report,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1763-1
00:16:31.524 --> 00:16:34.822
<v Tom Fay>which is the 2026 Seattle Reads.
We'll ask Stesha Brandon,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1763-2
00:16:34.822 --> 00:16:38.791
<v Tom Fay>who is our literature and humanities
program manager, to come forward,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1763-3
00:16:38.791 --> 00:16:42.369
<v Tom Fay>and she'll give you a little brief on
where, who the author is,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1763-4
00:16:42.369 --> 00:16:45.611
<v Tom Fay>what the title is,
and some of the programming that we'll</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1763-5
00:16:45.611 --> 00:16:46.450
<v Tom Fay>have this fall.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1765-0
00:16:48.050 --> 00:16:48.930
<v Tom Fay>Stesha.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1781-0
00:16:55.250 --> 00:16:58.022
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>Hold on just one sec.
I'm having technical issues.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1781-1
00:16:58.022 --> 00:16:59.490
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>I'll have a right with you.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1786-0
00:16:58.890 --> 00:17:03.090
<v Tom Fay>No worries, I see her there,
so I know she's here.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1787-0
00:17:02.450 --> 00:17:04.170
<v Hybrid Meeting Cart 01>Yep, getting her there.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1818-0
00:17:09.730 --> 00:17:13.524
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Well,
I did read about the Seattle Reads author,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1818-1
00:17:13.524 --> 00:17:19.719
<v Yazmin Mehdi>so it's not a surprise anymore, but still,
it'll be great to hear what programs</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1818-2
00:17:19.719 --> 00:17:21.810
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Stesha has lined up for us.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1862-0
00:17:23.170 --> 00:17:28.395
<v Stesha Brandon>So hi everybody. As Yazmin said,
it's not a surprise anymore,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1862-1
00:17:28.395 --> 00:17:34.970
<v Stesha Brandon>but I'm sure by now you've heard that our
2026 selection is True Biz by Sarah</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1862-2
00:17:34.970 --> 00:17:42.050
<v Stesha Brandon>Novick. True Biz is Sarah's second novel.
It was a New York Times bestseller and it</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1910-0
00:17:42.410 --> 00:17:46.310
<v Stesha Brandon>is about a seismic year at the River
Valley School for the Deaf.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1910-1
00:17:46.310 --> 00:17:50.690
<v Stesha Brandon>And Sarah also has a new memoir that just
came out called Mother Tongue,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1910-2
00:17:50.690 --> 00:17:54.530
<v Stesha Brandon>which is a current peak pick.
So have any of you read True Biz?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1910-3
00:17:54.530 --> 00:17:58.670
<v Stesha Brandon>Because it has been out for a few years.
Carmen, I'm looking at you,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1910-4
00:17:58.670 --> 00:18:00.770
<v Stesha Brandon>but you're shaking your head. Okay.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1955-0
00:18:01.330 --> 00:18:05.297
<v Stesha Brandon>Great.
I'm so glad because you're going to love</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1955-1
00:18:05.297 --> 00:18:10.752
<v Stesha Brandon>it. The novel opens with Charlie,
who is a teenage student who is</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1955-2
00:18:10.752 --> 00:18:15.960
<v Stesha Brandon>transferring. She was born deaf,
was given a cochlear implant,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/1955-3
00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:21.250
<v Stesha Brandon>and but has been kind of having some
behavior issues at school.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2003-0
00:18:22.210 --> 00:18:28.269
<v Stesha Brandon>And the last ditch effort her parents do
is to send her to a school for the deaf.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2003-1
00:18:28.269 --> 00:18:34.180
<v Stesha Brandon>And she has never met another deaf person
because she was mainstreamed with the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2003-2
00:18:34.180 --> 00:18:38.392
<v Stesha Brandon>cochlear implant.
She does not know ASL and her world is</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2003-3
00:18:38.392 --> 00:18:42.530
<v Stesha Brandon>completely changed by going to the school
for the deaf.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2042-0
00:18:42.890 --> 00:18:47.363
<v Stesha Brandon>So it's really Charlie's story,
but we also meet other folks at the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2042-1
00:18:47.363 --> 00:18:51.112
<v Stesha Brandon>school, Austin,
who's one of the sort of golden child of</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2042-2
00:18:51.112 --> 00:18:55.125
<v Stesha Brandon>the school. We get to meet February,
who's the headmistress,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2042-3
00:18:55.125 --> 00:18:59.993
<v Stesha Brandon>who's fighting to keep the school open
because there's a lot of political</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2042-4
00:18:59.993 --> 00:19:02.690
<v Stesha Brandon>pressure to mainstream the deaf students.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2088-0
00:19:04.130 --> 00:19:07.810
<v Stesha Brandon>It's a really,
I felt like it was a really great book</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2088-1
00:19:07.810 --> 00:19:10.808
<v Stesha Brandon>because we get to learn along with
Charlie.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2088-2
00:19:10.808 --> 00:19:14.761
<v Stesha Brandon>If we are not familiar with deaf culture,
deaf community,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2088-3
00:19:14.761 --> 00:19:19.259
<v Stesha Brandon>we get to learn along with Charlie
because it's also new for her.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2088-4
00:19:19.259 --> 00:19:24.370
<v Stesha Brandon>But the book asks some really interesting
questions about bodily autonomy,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2137-0
00:19:24.570 --> 00:19:28.207
<v Stesha Brandon>about, you know,
sort of finding your people and deaf</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2137-1
00:19:28.207 --> 00:19:33.259
<v Stesha Brandon>culture and what happens when we
mainstream folks who are then kept out of</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2137-2
00:19:33.259 --> 00:19:38.243
<v Stesha Brandon>a culture to which they belong.
And there aren't any really easy answers,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2137-3
00:19:38.243 --> 00:19:43.160
<v Stesha Brandon>but I think that's exactly what makes it
a great pick for Seattle Reads,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2137-4
00:19:43.160 --> 00:19:46.730
<v Stesha Brandon>because it will be an opportunity for us
to discuss.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2190-0
00:19:46.850 --> 00:19:50.194
<v Stesha Brandon>a lot.
Sarah has written a number of other books</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2190-1
00:19:50.194 --> 00:19:53.880
<v Stesha Brandon>and as I mentioned,
another novel called Girl at War.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2190-2
00:19:53.880 --> 00:19:58.111
<v Stesha Brandon>She's also won the American Library
Association's Alex Award.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2190-3
00:19:58.111 --> 00:20:01.592
<v Stesha Brandon>And then her new book, Mother Tongue,
is a memoir.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2190-4
00:20:01.592 --> 00:20:06.915
<v Stesha Brandon>And she's an activist and an instructor
of deaf studies and creative writing.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2190-5
00:20:06.915 --> 00:20:08.690
<v Stesha Brandon>She lives in Pennsylvania.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2236-0
00:20:09.090 --> 00:20:13.899
<v Stesha Brandon>And I encourage you to read both books.
They were both the true biz.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2236-1
00:20:13.899 --> 00:20:17.662
<v Stesha Brandon>One of the reasons we selected it was
because it had,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2236-2
00:20:17.662 --> 00:20:23.098
<v Stesha Brandon>I think I want to say probably 10 or 15
nominations from different librarians</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2236-3
00:20:23.098 --> 00:20:27.489
<v Stesha Brandon>throughout our system.
And when I put a call out last year for</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2236-4
00:20:27.489 --> 00:20:29.650
<v Stesha Brandon>ideas for Seattle Reads. And so</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2275-0
00:20:30.130 --> 00:20:34.970
<v Stesha Brandon>That has just been,
it was great to get so much feedback from</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2275-1
00:20:34.970 --> 00:20:39.029
<v Stesha Brandon>library staff and I think the book really
holds up.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2275-2
00:20:39.029 --> 00:20:42.464
<v Stesha Brandon>So like we do every year for Seattle
Reads,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2275-3
00:20:42.464 --> 00:20:48.631
<v Stesha Brandon>we have physical and digital copies in
our collections and the wonderful folks</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2275-4
00:20:48.631 --> 00:20:49.490
<v Stesha Brandon>in the TCS.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2312-0
00:20:49.770 --> 00:20:55.837
<v Stesha Brandon>and our collection services have worked
with OverDrive to make unlimited copies</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2312-1
00:20:55.837 --> 00:21:00.692
<v Stesha Brandon>of the e-book available.
And I believe that started August 15th</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2312-2
00:21:00.692 --> 00:21:04.484
<v Stesha Brandon>and will,
they'll be available until October 1st.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2312-3
00:21:04.484 --> 00:21:09.490
<v Stesha Brandon>And I'm also happy to say that the
uncataloged copies of True Biz</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2355-0
00:21:09.570 --> 00:21:13.551
<v Stesha Brandon>And we also got a few catalog copies of
Mother Tongue as well.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2355-1
00:21:13.551 --> 00:21:17.280
<v Stesha Brandon>Those and the discussion guides arrived
earlier this week.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2355-2
00:21:17.280 --> 00:21:22.273
<v Stesha Brandon>So we're working to get those stickered
and then we're getting them out to the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2355-3
00:21:22.273 --> 00:21:27.329
<v Stesha Brandon>branches and to our community partners so
that folks will be able to pick those</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2355-4
00:21:27.329 --> 00:21:28.530
<v Stesha Brandon>books up, you know.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2397-0
00:21:28.930 --> 00:21:33.004
<v Stesha Brandon>in the community.
And we are doing several programs with</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2397-1
00:21:33.004 --> 00:21:36.148
<v Stesha Brandon>Sarah.
She's going to visit and do 4 public</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2397-2
00:21:36.148 --> 00:21:39.436
<v Stesha Brandon>programs that are designed for all
audiences.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2397-3
00:21:39.436 --> 00:21:43.867
<v Stesha Brandon>Those will take place on Friday,
September 25th and Saturday,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2397-4
00:21:43.867 --> 00:21:47.798
<v Stesha Brandon>September 26th.
And we are hosting programs at Central</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2397-5
00:21:47.798 --> 00:21:48.370
<v Stesha Brandon>Library,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2446-0
00:21:48.450 --> 00:21:52.092
<v Stesha Brandon>at Ballard Library,
and then at Hugo House and the Southeast</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2446-1
00:21:52.092 --> 00:21:55.734
<v Stesha Brandon>Seattle Senior Center.
I'm delighted that we started working</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2446-2
00:21:55.734 --> 00:22:00.630
<v Stesha Brandon>with the Southeast Seattle Senior Center
for Seattle Reads a couple of years ago.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2446-3
00:22:00.630 --> 00:22:04.690
<v Stesha Brandon>My wonderful colleague, Emily Billow,
made an introduction to them,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2446-4
00:22:04.690 --> 00:22:08.930
<v Stesha Brandon>and their book club has been
participating ever since. And so they are</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2491-0
00:22:09.010 --> 00:22:12.255
<v Stesha Brandon>working with us to host a program there
as well.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2491-1
00:22:12.255 --> 00:22:17.553
<v Stesha Brandon>And then we are also hosting a special
program that is designed by and for deaf</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2491-2
00:22:17.553 --> 00:22:22.255
<v Stesha Brandon>community on Sunday, September 27th.
All of the programs will have ASL</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2491-3
00:22:22.255 --> 00:22:27.090
<v Stesha Brandon>interpretation and CART live captioning,
and then of course, patrons may</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2546-0
00:22:27.890 --> 00:22:32.760
<v Stesha Brandon>request additional accommodations like
they could for any program through our</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2546-1
00:22:32.760 --> 00:22:37.256
<v Stesha Brandon>Library Equal Access Program.
We have a lot of great community partners</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2546-2
00:22:37.256 --> 00:22:40.752
<v Stesha Brandon>that have been really helpful in this
program planning.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2546-3
00:22:40.752 --> 00:22:45.498
<v Stesha Brandon>We are delighted to be working with Deaf
Spotlight and Deaf Lit Fest as our</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2546-4
00:22:45.498 --> 00:22:49.181
<v Stesha Brandon>community liaisons.
They have been involved in the program</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2546-5
00:22:49.181 --> 00:22:50.930
<v Stesha Brandon>planning from the beginning.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2584-0
00:22:51.330 --> 00:22:56.462
<v Stesha Brandon>and they helped identify interviewers for
Sarah and then also helped design</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2584-1
00:22:56.462 --> 00:23:01.594
<v Stesha Brandon>Sunday's program for deaf community.
It was at their suggestion that we are</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2584-2
00:23:01.594 --> 00:23:05.240
<v Stesha Brandon>holding space for deaf community.
That program, well,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2584-3
00:23:05.240 --> 00:23:09.899
<v Stesha Brandon>all the programs will be in ASL,
but that program is by and for deaf</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2584-4
00:23:09.899 --> 00:23:11.250
<v Stesha Brandon>community primarily.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2645-0
00:23:12.170 --> 00:23:15.311
<v Stesha Brandon>Additionally,
we have worked with the folks at the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2645-1
00:23:15.311 --> 00:23:19.806
<v Stesha Brandon>Hearing Loss Association of America,
and then there's a Washington State</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2645-2
00:23:19.806 --> 00:23:22.762
<v Stesha Brandon>Association,
and we've worked with those folks,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2645-3
00:23:22.762 --> 00:23:26.889
<v Stesha Brandon>and also Hearing, Speech,
and Deaf Center are coming on as program</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2645-4
00:23:26.889 --> 00:23:30.030
<v Stesha Brandon>partners.
And so we're having them help spread the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2645-5
00:23:30.030 --> 00:23:33.725
<v Stesha Brandon>word about the programs,
and then they'll be at some of the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2645-6
00:23:33.725 --> 00:23:36.250
<v Stesha Brandon>programs to be able to share information.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2684-0
00:23:36.250 --> 00:23:41.570
<v Stesha Brandon>about their services and what they do in
our communities for deaf communities,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2684-1
00:23:41.570 --> 00:23:46.486
<v Stesha Brandon>hard of hearing communities, and everyone.
So it's going to be, I think,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2684-2
00:23:46.486 --> 00:23:50.729
<v Stesha Brandon>a really exciting September.
I can't believe it's almost here,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2684-3
00:23:50.729 --> 00:23:56.050
<v Stesha Brandon>because this has been months and months
of planning. But we're really excited.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2741-0
00:23:57.410 --> 00:24:01.688
<v Stesha Brandon>We're actually meeting with Sarah on next
week to talk through the programming.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2741-1
00:24:01.688 --> 00:24:04.095
<v Stesha Brandon>So I'm really excited to meet her in
person.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2741-2
00:24:04.095 --> 00:24:08.212
<v Stesha Brandon>And we've got a lot of great local
interviewers who are really active in our</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2741-3
00:24:08.212 --> 00:24:11.902
<v Stesha Brandon>deaf literary culture here in Seattle
that will be interviewing her.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2741-4
00:24:11.902 --> 00:24:14.630
<v Stesha Brandon>So I think it's going to be a really
special year.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2741-5
00:24:14.630 --> 00:24:17.090
<v Stesha Brandon>I look forward to seeing you at the
programs.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2745-0
00:24:17.250 --> 00:24:20.130
<v Stesha Brandon>And I'm of course happy to answer any
questions if you have any.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2775-0
00:24:22.850 --> 00:24:27.712
<v Ron Chew>Stesha. Hi, good to see you. Yeah,
I'm curious,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2747-0
00:24:24.050 --> 00:24:24.610
<v Stesha Brandon>Hi, Ron.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2753-0
00:24:26.450 --> 00:24:27.250
<v Stesha Brandon>Nice to see you.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2775-1
00:24:27.712 --> 00:24:35.309
<v Ron Chew>have you reached out to AARP at all?
I'm president of the Washington State</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2775-2
00:24:35.309 --> 00:24:43.210
<v Ron Chew>AARP and I'm sure that the folks we serve,
our membership would be very, very</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2787-0
00:24:44.050 --> 00:24:49.170
<v Ron Chew>interested in helping out or bringing
people to events and so forth.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2796-0
00:24:49.650 --> 00:24:53.570
<v Stesha Brandon>That's a great idea. I love that idea.
I don't think we've made any specific...</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2818-0
00:24:56.050 --> 00:24:59.698
<v Stesha Brandon>I definitely haven't reached out to them
yet about this particular program,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2818-1
00:24:59.698 --> 00:25:02.386
<v Stesha Brandon>but I'm happy to.
I love that idea and so I am making a</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2818-2
00:25:02.386 --> 00:25:03.490
<v Stesha Brandon>note of that right now.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2821-0
00:25:04.050 --> 00:25:06.450
<v Ron Chew>Great. I look forward to chatting further.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2825-0
00:25:06.970 --> 00:25:08.930
<v Stesha Brandon>Yeah, thanks for the suggestion.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2826-0
00:25:09.410 --> 00:25:09.810
<v Ron Chew>Sure.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2871-0
00:25:10.490 --> 00:25:14.683
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Ron, you're such a great advocate.
All your different hats,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2871-1
00:25:14.683 --> 00:25:19.786
<v Yazmin Mehdi>you are a great advocate for. Stesha,
I wanted to just mention I had the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2871-2
00:25:19.786 --> 00:25:25.447
<v Yazmin Mehdi>opportunity to meet with Joel Bergsbachen.
I don't know if I pronounced his last</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2871-3
00:25:25.447 --> 00:25:30.130
<v Yazmin Mehdi>name correctly, but he's with the Hearing,
Speech and Deaf Center.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2866-0
00:25:30.290 --> 00:25:30.690
<v Stesha Brandon>Mm.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2905-0
00:25:30.530 --> 00:25:35.318
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And just,
he gave me a really useful introduction</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2905-1
00:25:35.318 --> 00:25:40.490
<v Yazmin Mehdi>to this whole idea of deaf culture and
how, you know,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2905-2
00:25:40.490 --> 00:25:48.344
<v Yazmin Mehdi>someone who is born deaf has access to
that culture, but if they're mainstreamed,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2905-3
00:25:48.344 --> 00:25:50.930
<v Yazmin Mehdi>how it changes that access.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2902-0
00:25:51.010 --> 00:25:51.730
<v Stesha Brandon>Yes.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2918-0
00:25:51.970 --> 00:26:00.570
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So I really find this book as being an
entree to discussions around that.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2951-0
00:26:02.370 --> 00:26:06.476
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I think that's going to be incredibly
valuable for the community.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2951-1
00:26:06.476 --> 00:26:10.956
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So I'm really looking forward to reading
both books that you mentioned.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2951-2
00:26:10.956 --> 00:26:14.254
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I love memoirs,
so I might have to start with Mother</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2951-3
00:26:14.254 --> 00:26:14.690
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Tongue.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2994-0
00:26:15.010 --> 00:26:18.683
<v Stesha Brandon>Absolutely, yeah.
I think one of the reasons that we went</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2994-1
00:26:18.683 --> 00:26:23.433
<v Stesha Brandon>with the novel is because some of the
themes in the novel are a little bit</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2994-2
00:26:23.433 --> 00:26:28.436
<v Stesha Brandon>different than the themes in the memoir,
just because, you know, it's a novel.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2994-3
00:26:28.436 --> 00:26:31.983
<v Stesha Brandon>But they both get at some really
interesting questions,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/2994-4
00:26:31.983 --> 00:26:34.010
<v Stesha Brandon>and I think Sarah is going to be</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3049-0
00:26:34.090 --> 00:26:36.751
<v Stesha Brandon>excited to talk about both books,
you know,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3049-1
00:26:36.751 --> 00:26:39.413
<v Stesha Brandon>because they're obviously related.
So yeah,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3049-2
00:26:39.413 --> 00:26:42.740
<v Stesha Brandon>I think I loved how the book invites you
in. You know,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3049-3
00:26:42.740 --> 00:26:45.643
<v Stesha Brandon>if it's if you're not part of a deaf
community,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3049-4
00:26:45.643 --> 00:26:48.849
<v Stesha Brandon>it invites you in and you feel like
you're learning,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3049-5
00:26:48.849 --> 00:26:53.144
<v Stesha Brandon>but it also is a really fun read.
And I read it in like a day and I've</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3049-6
00:26:53.144 --> 00:26:56.290
<v Stesha Brandon>heard from a few other staff members that
they just</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3059-0
00:26:56.770 --> 00:26:59.128
<v Stesha Brandon>you know,
because you kind of get hooked and keep</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3059-1
00:26:59.128 --> 00:27:01.250
<v Stesha Brandon>reading. So,
so hopefully you'll enjoy both.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3088-0
00:27:02.130 --> 00:27:06.199
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Absolutely. And there,
I assume that you'll have,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3088-1
00:27:06.199 --> 00:27:10.024
<v Yazmin Mehdi>as you always do,
suggested reading and films.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3088-2
00:27:10.024 --> 00:27:16.210
<v Yazmin Mehdi>There have been recently some really
interesting films around deaf culture.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3136-0
00:27:16.770 --> 00:27:20.986
<v Stesha Brandon>Absolutely, yeah. We actually,
we did focus on books specifically for</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3136-1
00:27:20.986 --> 00:27:25.082
<v Stesha Brandon>this one, but you're right,
there have been some really interesting</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3136-2
00:27:25.082 --> 00:27:28.335
<v Stesha Brandon>films about deaf culture that have come
out recently.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3136-3
00:27:28.335 --> 00:27:32.672
<v Stesha Brandon>And I should give a shout out to, I think,
Jane Singer and Andrea Goff,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3136-4
00:27:32.672 --> 00:27:37.250
<v Stesha Brandon>who created the suggested further reading
for us, and they did a great job.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3172-0
00:27:37.530 --> 00:27:43.196
<v Stesha Brandon>And they also made a point of including
books for YA readers as well,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3172-1
00:27:43.196 --> 00:27:49.592
<v Stesha Brandon>just because the protagonists in the
novel, True Biz, are like 16, 17. And so,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3172-2
00:27:49.592 --> 00:27:54.530
<v Stesha Brandon>you know, we have,
there's some crossover opportunity there.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3178-0
00:27:55.410 --> 00:27:59.952
<v Yazmin Mehdi>That's awesome.
Any other questions from Tally, Faith,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3178-1
00:27:59.952 --> 00:28:00.530
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Carmen?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3191-0
00:28:01.090 --> 00:28:05.109
<v Faith Pettis>I'll just make a comment, Stesha,
that your enthusiasm is contagious and I</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3191-1
00:28:05.109 --> 00:28:06.610
<v Faith Pettis>can't wait to read the book.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3199-0
00:28:06.930 --> 00:28:09.846
<v Stesha Brandon>Oh, thank you. Thank you so much.
I can't wait for you to read the book</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3199-1
00:28:09.846 --> 00:28:10.130
<v Stesha Brandon>either.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3198-0
00:28:10.530 --> 00:28:10.690
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3244-0
00:28:11.250 --> 00:28:15.160
<v Tom Fay>And just a real quick note while I have
Stesha here,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3244-1
00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:19.882
<v Tom Fay>I do want to thank her because putting
this on, as you imagine,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3244-2
00:28:19.882 --> 00:28:24.677
<v Tom Fay>every year is quite the task.
And one of the things that we were</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3244-3
00:28:24.677 --> 00:28:30.358
<v Tom Fay>working on was maybe a little broader
county read along with our King County</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3244-4
00:28:30.358 --> 00:28:31.170
<v Tom Fay>colleagues.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3294-0
00:28:31.570 --> 00:28:36.651
<v Tom Fay>We weren't able to quite make that happen,
but that was not for lack of trying on</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3294-1
00:28:36.651 --> 00:28:41.609
<v Tom Fay>Stesha's part and working through that.
And she had to do some switching at the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3294-2
00:28:41.609 --> 00:28:44.770
<v Tom Fay>end to make sure that we had a great
program here.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3294-3
00:28:44.770 --> 00:28:49.666
<v Tom Fay>And I also want to thank her because I
did task her very quickly with One Book</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3294-4
00:28:49.666 --> 00:28:52.950
<v Tom Fay>One Coast,
which was a huge success with hundreds of</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3294-5
00:28:52.950 --> 00:28:53.570
<v Tom Fay>libraries.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3347-0
00:28:53.970 --> 00:28:58.841
<v Tom Fay>participating up and down the West Coast.
So a big thanks for the extra work there</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3347-1
00:28:58.841 --> 00:29:03.536
<v Tom Fay>during the course of the year to make
that happen. And not the scariest Stesha,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3347-2
00:29:03.536 --> 00:29:06.823
<v Tom Fay>but now all the colleagues across the
country are like,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3347-3
00:29:06.823 --> 00:29:10.110
<v Tom Fay>why can't we have one nation one?
But I'm like, we can,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3347-4
00:29:10.110 --> 00:29:13.690
<v Tom Fay>but let's give it a break one year.
We need a breather year.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3354-0
00:29:13.770 --> 00:29:18.018
<v Tom Fay>before we consider something like that.
But some great work and appreciate all</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3354-1
00:29:18.018 --> 00:29:18.610
<v Tom Fay>the effort.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3358-0
00:29:19.650 --> 00:29:21.250
<v Stesha Brandon>Thanks so much, Tom. I appreciate it.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3361-0
00:29:22.690 --> 00:29:23.650
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Thank you, Stesha.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3373-0
00:29:26.210 --> 00:29:30.410
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I wait to see you for the programs.
Don't forget, guys,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3367-0
00:29:27.970 --> 00:29:28.450
<v Tom Fay>Mmh.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3373-1
00:29:30.410 --> 00:29:32.210
<v Yazmin Mehdi>September 25th and 26th.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3377-0
00:29:33.730 --> 00:29:35.330
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Tom, what's next?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3423-0
00:29:35.330 --> 00:29:39.810
<v Tom Fay>All right, up next,
we have DeVante Daniels joining us.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3423-1
00:29:39.810 --> 00:29:45.890
<v Tom Fay>DeVante is our Director of Inclusion and
Belonging. And I believe, DeVante,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3423-2
00:29:45.890 --> 00:29:51.410
<v Tom Fay>we're real close to a year,
if we're not at a year of you being here</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3423-3
00:29:51.410 --> 00:29:55.010
<v Tom Fay>at SPL. And as folks might recall,
his first</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3462-0
00:29:56.290 --> 00:30:01.399
<v Tom Fay>two years or 18 months was generously
funded by a donor at the foundation.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3462-1
00:30:01.399 --> 00:30:06.099
<v Tom Fay>So we're again grateful for the
foundation and support of helping us</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3462-2
00:30:06.099 --> 00:30:10.186
<v Tom Fay>bring DeVante to SPL.
And he's got an update for you on the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3462-3
00:30:10.186 --> 00:30:14.410
<v Tom Fay>work that he's been doing.
I'll turn it over to you, DeVante.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3522-0
00:30:15.810 --> 00:30:19.343
<v DeVante Daniels>Thanks, Tom. I appreciate that.
Good afternoon. Good morning, board.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3522-1
00:30:19.343 --> 00:30:23.131
<v DeVante Daniels>I appreciate y'all making space and time
for me to meet with y'all today.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3522-2
00:30:23.131 --> 00:30:27.227
<v DeVante Daniels>I do have a presentation that I'll go
through briefly and try to leave a lot of</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3522-3
00:30:27.227 --> 00:30:30.351
<v DeVante Daniels>space for questions,
but I kind of wanted to build upon what</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3522-4
00:30:30.351 --> 00:30:34.549
<v DeVante Daniels>Tom was sharing a little bit earlier in
regards to gratitude for all the work not</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3522-5
00:30:34.549 --> 00:30:35.010
<v DeVante Daniels>only from</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3590-0
00:30:35.090 --> 00:30:37.706
<v DeVante Daniels>staff at SPL,
our friends found our friends in the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3590-1
00:30:37.706 --> 00:30:41.348
<v DeVante Daniels>foundation, but also you as the board.
I know he expressed it from the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3590-2
00:30:41.348 --> 00:30:45.144
<v DeVante Daniels>perspective of the organization as a
whole and towards community as well.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3590-3
00:30:45.144 --> 00:30:48.581
<v DeVante Daniels>But specifically for me,
the passing of the levy really gives me a</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3590-4
00:30:48.581 --> 00:30:52.685
<v DeVante Daniels>lot of stability for my own position and
also gives me the opportunity to build</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3590-5
00:30:52.685 --> 00:30:55.609
<v DeVante Daniels>out my office.
So I just wanted to give a special thanks</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3590-6
00:30:55.609 --> 00:30:59.610
<v DeVante Daniels>to all the work that I had the pleasure
of being able to witness y'all doing.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3594-0
00:30:59.610 --> 00:31:01.890
<v DeVante Daniels>in regards to supporting the library and
the levy.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3642-0
00:31:03.410 --> 00:31:06.143
<v DeVante Daniels>All right, I'm going to share my screen.
Again,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3642-1
00:31:06.143 --> 00:31:10.585
<v DeVante Daniels>I'll go quickly through this presentation
and try to leave a lot of space for</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3642-2
00:31:10.585 --> 00:31:14.172
<v DeVante Daniels>questions. So as Tom shared,
DeVante Daniels, he/him pronouns.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3642-3
00:31:14.172 --> 00:31:18.216
<v DeVante Daniels>I'm the director of inclusion and
belonging here at the Seattle Public</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3642-4
00:31:18.216 --> 00:31:20.949
<v DeVante Daniels>Library.
My one year mark will be next month on</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3642-5
00:31:20.949 --> 00:31:23.170
<v DeVante Daniels>the 15th. I wanted to come together and</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3709-0
00:31:23.250 --> 00:31:26.304
<v DeVante Daniels>share with you all just an overview of my
role and work.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3709-1
00:31:26.304 --> 00:31:30.591
<v DeVante Daniels>I wanted to highlight some of the ongoing
efforts that are already underway and</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3709-2
00:31:30.591 --> 00:31:34.771
<v DeVante Daniels>then provide just a brief outline of some
of the priority focus areas for the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3709-3
00:31:34.771 --> 00:31:37.825
<v DeVante Daniels>remainder of 2026.
I will share that this is a overview.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3709-4
00:31:37.825 --> 00:31:41.897
<v DeVante Daniels>It does not encompass all of the things
that are that I'm actively doing or</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3709-5
00:31:41.897 --> 00:31:45.112
<v DeVante Daniels>participating in,
but just kind of give you a little bit of</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3709-6
00:31:45.112 --> 00:31:45.970
<v DeVante Daniels>insight into it.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3753-0
00:31:47.170 --> 00:31:50.002
<v DeVante Daniels>To start with,
some of the roles and responsibilities</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3753-1
00:31:50.002 --> 00:31:54.356
<v DeVante Daniels>that I've been tasked with are developing
and implementing the library's inclusion</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3753-2
00:31:54.356 --> 00:31:57.713
<v DeVante Daniels>and belonging strategy,
designing and leading the inclusion and</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3753-3
00:31:57.713 --> 00:32:00.860
<v DeVante Daniels>belonging framework,
which includes setting goals, metrics,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3753-4
00:32:00.860 --> 00:32:03.430
<v DeVante Daniels>and assessments,
mediating conversations amongst</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3753-5
00:32:03.430 --> 00:32:06.210
<v DeVante Daniels>leadership and staff on culturally
sensitive issues,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3798-0
00:32:06.850 --> 00:32:10.672
<v DeVante Daniels>providing regular updates and reports to
staff leadership and to you all,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3798-1
00:32:10.672 --> 00:32:14.443
<v DeVante Daniels>contributing to reviewing, developing,
and implementing policies for the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3798-2
00:32:14.443 --> 00:32:17.232
<v DeVante Daniels>organization,
and serving as the executive sponsor of</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3798-3
00:32:17.232 --> 00:32:20.951
<v DeVante Daniels>the Race and Social Justice Change Team
and our staff caucusing groups.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3798-4
00:32:20.951 --> 00:32:23.999
<v DeVante Daniels>So this is, again,
just a highlight of some of the overall</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3798-5
00:32:23.999 --> 00:32:26.530
<v DeVante Daniels>roles and responsibilities that I have
taken on.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3807-0
00:32:26.770 --> 00:32:27.650
<v DeVante Daniels>in this position.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3870-0
00:32:29.650 --> 00:32:33.996
<v DeVante Daniels>Some of the initial work items that I've
had the opportunity to participate in and</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3870-1
00:32:33.996 --> 00:32:36.666
<v DeVante Daniels>mostly complete,
some of them are definitely still</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3870-2
00:32:36.666 --> 00:32:38.761
<v DeVante Daniels>underway.
First up was kind of the land</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3870-3
00:32:38.761 --> 00:32:41.798
<v DeVante Daniels>acknowledgement.
We had a great land acknowledgement that</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3870-4
00:32:41.798 --> 00:32:44.154
<v DeVante Daniels>just hadn't been updated in quite some
time.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3870-5
00:32:44.154 --> 00:32:47.086
<v DeVante Daniels>So I had the opportunity to work
internally with staff,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3870-6
00:32:47.086 --> 00:32:50.071
<v DeVante Daniels>lots of staff that were utilizing it on a
regular basis,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3870-7
00:32:50.071 --> 00:32:53.370
<v DeVante Daniels>as well as just individual staff who
reached out and provided.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3909-0
00:32:53.370 --> 00:32:57.820
<v DeVante Daniels>added some input. In addition to that,
I was able to partner with some local</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3909-1
00:32:57.820 --> 00:33:00.940
<v DeVante Daniels>tribal partners,
some that I had connection with from</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3909-2
00:33:00.940 --> 00:33:03.946
<v DeVante Daniels>previous roles,
and then some that I was able to be</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3909-3
00:33:03.946 --> 00:33:08.569
<v DeVante Daniels>connected to connected to through some of
the relationships with Seattle Public</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3909-4
00:33:08.569 --> 00:33:11.343
<v DeVante Daniels>Library.
That has been an extended process only</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3909-5
00:33:11.343 --> 00:33:12.210
<v DeVante Daniels>because we are.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3952-0
00:33:12.490 --> 00:33:17.380
<v DeVante Daniels>working to get it translated into Lesuchi.
So that's taken a little bit of time just</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3952-1
00:33:17.380 --> 00:33:21.811
<v DeVante Daniels>due to some of the challenges with our
language and Lesuchi not specifically</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3952-2
00:33:21.811 --> 00:33:25.838
<v DeVante Daniels>having some of those words.
So we are towards the end of that process</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3952-3
00:33:25.838 --> 00:33:29.809
<v DeVante Daniels>and hope to be able to share that out
with staff and with community.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3952-4
00:33:29.809 --> 00:33:31.650
<v DeVante Daniels>It'll be updated on our website.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3996-0
00:33:32.450 --> 00:33:37.248
<v DeVante Daniels>I will add just briefly,
one of the things we plan to add in 2027</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3996-1
00:33:37.248 --> 00:33:43.210
<v DeVante Daniels>after we update it is a list of resources
and tools that folks can access through</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3996-2
00:33:43.210 --> 00:33:49.171
<v DeVante Daniels>SPL that could increase their knowledge
of our local tribes. In addition to that,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/3996-3
00:33:49.171 --> 00:33:53.170
<v DeVante Daniels>community care response,
what that really ties into is</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4038-0
00:33:53.490 --> 00:33:58.285
<v DeVante Daniels>supporting and helping our trans and
non-binary staff who've had over the last</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4038-1
00:33:58.285 --> 00:34:02.959
<v DeVante Daniels>couple years some specific incidents and
things that have happened that have</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4038-2
00:34:02.959 --> 00:34:06.419
<v DeVante Daniels>created some tension and things for them
as a community.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4038-3
00:34:06.419 --> 00:34:11.275
<v DeVante Daniels>So I was tasked with continuing to meet
with them and work with them on what it</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4038-4
00:34:11.275 --> 00:34:14.250
<v DeVante Daniels>looks like for our organization to
support them.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4096-0
00:34:15.570 --> 00:34:19.452
<v DeVante Daniels>I will say that because of the nature of
the staff that it represents,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4096-1
00:34:19.452 --> 00:34:23.498
<v DeVante Daniels>they are very varied in positionality.
It is hard to sometimes pull those</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4096-2
00:34:23.498 --> 00:34:26.942
<v DeVante Daniels>meetings together and that has been the
most challenging part.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4096-3
00:34:26.942 --> 00:34:31.316
<v DeVante Daniels>But we are continuing to work with them
and I plan to meet with them twice more</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4096-4
00:34:31.316 --> 00:34:34.050
<v DeVante Daniels>before the end of the year to continue
that work.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4120-0
00:34:34.610 --> 00:34:37.801
<v DeVante Daniels>One of the things,
the outcomes that we've talked about with</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4120-1
00:34:37.801 --> 00:34:41.619
<v DeVante Daniels>that group is building some sort of
training to kind of talk about words</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4120-2
00:34:41.619 --> 00:34:43.816
<v DeVante Daniels>matter,
what it means to properly utilize</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4120-3
00:34:43.816 --> 00:34:46.850
<v DeVante Daniels>pronouns and the importance of all those
types of things.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4175-0
00:34:48.290 --> 00:34:51.988
<v DeVante Daniels>In addition to that,
I am the executive sponsor for the Race</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4175-1
00:34:51.988 --> 00:34:55.807
<v DeVante Daniels>and Social Justice Change Team and the
staff caucusing groups.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4175-2
00:34:55.807 --> 00:35:00.535
<v DeVante Daniels>That is the change team has been a very
pivotal part of supporting me and the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4175-3
00:35:00.535 --> 00:35:03.566
<v DeVante Daniels>work that I'm doing.
Currently as an Office of 1,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4175-4
00:35:03.566 --> 00:35:08.112
<v DeVante Daniels>it's been really great to have that space
to be able to partner with staff</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4175-5
00:35:08.112 --> 00:35:09.810
<v DeVante Daniels>throughout our organization.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4222-0
00:35:10.130 --> 00:35:12.865
<v DeVante Daniels>on moving us further towards equity
maturity.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4222-1
00:35:12.865 --> 00:35:17.562
<v DeVante Daniels>And I'm really continuing to work with
the caucus groups and the facilitators.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4222-2
00:35:17.562 --> 00:35:21.783
<v DeVante Daniels>They have a great team of staff led
facilitators that have had a great</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4222-3
00:35:21.783 --> 00:35:25.470
<v DeVante Daniels>opportunity, thanks to Brian,
Brian Sharkey, our HR Director,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4222-4
00:35:25.470 --> 00:35:29.334
<v DeVante Daniels>to go through some training recently
around conflict resolution.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4222-5
00:35:29.334 --> 00:35:32.010
<v DeVante Daniels>That's been extremely helpful in that
space.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4243-0
00:35:33.010 --> 00:35:37.871
<v DeVante Daniels>We do have plans in the future to work
with them and work with the organization</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4243-1
00:35:37.871 --> 00:35:42.671
<v DeVante Daniels>to have more caucus groups that will be
more representative of the communities</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4243-2
00:35:42.671 --> 00:35:44.130
<v DeVante Daniels>within our organization.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4295-0
00:35:46.370 --> 00:35:49.094
<v DeVante Daniels>Last but not least,
language access plan development.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4295-1
00:35:49.094 --> 00:35:52.878
<v DeVante Daniels>I want to give a huge shout out to Helen
and Leo from our marketing online</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4295-2
00:35:52.878 --> 00:35:56.459
<v DeVante Daniels>services team who were shepherding that
work prior to me getting here.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4295-3
00:35:56.459 --> 00:35:59.486
<v DeVante Daniels>They've done a great job.
I actually think language access,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4295-4
00:35:59.486 --> 00:36:02.816
<v DeVante Daniels>especially externally,
is something that we do an amazing job at.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4295-5
00:36:02.816 --> 00:36:06.650
<v DeVante Daniels>And one of my first assessments was that
it would be great if we can try to</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4343-0
00:36:06.930 --> 00:36:10.684
<v DeVante Daniels>turn some of that internally.
We have a large subset of staff where</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4343-1
00:36:10.684 --> 00:36:14.659
<v DeVante Daniels>English is not their first language.
So how do we internally change our</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4343-2
00:36:14.659 --> 00:36:19.241
<v DeVante Daniels>communication strategies to include them
as well from an accessibility standpoint?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4343-3
00:36:19.241 --> 00:36:22.498
<v DeVante Daniels>And last but not least,
just participating in meetings and</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4343-4
00:36:22.498 --> 00:36:25.424
<v DeVante Daniels>conversations with designated staff and
work groups.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4343-5
00:36:25.424 --> 00:36:29.730
<v DeVante Daniels>I've had the opportunity to meet with
staff from all across our organization.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4390-0
00:36:30.290 --> 00:36:34.139
<v DeVante Daniels>I really want to give a huge shout out to
them for being transparent and candid</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4390-1
00:36:34.139 --> 00:36:36.448
<v DeVante Daniels>with me,
not only about some of the good things</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4390-2
00:36:36.448 --> 00:36:39.432
<v DeVante Daniels>that are happening,
but also some of the challenges that they</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4390-3
00:36:39.432 --> 00:36:42.222
<v DeVante Daniels>are experiencing.
I think that it's been integral in this</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4390-4
00:36:42.222 --> 00:36:44.868
<v DeVante Daniels>first year for me to be able to get a lay
of the land,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4390-5
00:36:44.868 --> 00:36:47.611
<v DeVante Daniels>a better understanding of how libraries
work in general,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4390-6
00:36:47.611 --> 00:36:50.450
<v DeVante Daniels>as somebody who is new to libraries,
but more specifically</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4393-0
00:36:50.730 --> 00:36:52.370
<v DeVante Daniels>how things play out at SPL.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4455-0
00:36:55.330 --> 00:36:57.608
<v DeVante Daniels>Next,
I just wanted to share just like some of</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4455-1
00:36:57.608 --> 00:37:01.242
<v DeVante Daniels>my early observations and themes.
These are the kind of things that I feel</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4455-2
00:37:01.242 --> 00:37:04.102
<v DeVante Daniels>like keep me coming to work and motivated
to do this work.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4455-3
00:37:04.102 --> 00:37:06.719
<v DeVante Daniels>And this is something that I picked up
very early on.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4455-4
00:37:06.719 --> 00:37:10.741
<v DeVante Daniels>I would even go back as far as just like
early on in the interview process is what</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4455-5
00:37:10.741 --> 00:37:13.746
<v DeVante Daniels>really drew me to this role.
Just a deep passion for service.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4455-6
00:37:13.746 --> 00:37:17.090
<v DeVante Daniels>There's like a really strong pride in
serving patrons and community.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4499-0
00:37:17.450 --> 00:37:21.630
<v DeVante Daniels>that I've seen across all levels of staff
throughout this organization.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4499-1
00:37:21.630 --> 00:37:25.521
<v DeVante Daniels>And it's really tangible.
And that was something that I really was</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4499-2
00:37:25.521 --> 00:37:28.134
<v DeVante Daniels>desiring as I was looking into my next
role.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4499-3
00:37:28.134 --> 00:37:31.443
<v DeVante Daniels>And I'm glad to be in a place that that
is so prevalent.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4499-4
00:37:31.443 --> 00:37:36.147
<v DeVante Daniels>The other thing that stands out to me a
lot is the amazing work that we put into</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4499-5
00:37:36.147 --> 00:37:37.250
<v DeVante Daniels>the strategic plan.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4558-0
00:37:37.810 --> 00:37:40.513
<v DeVante Daniels>The mission, vision,
and values that were created,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4558-1
00:37:40.513 --> 00:37:44.490
<v DeVante Daniels>staff really want to live into them.
They really are taking it personally.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4558-2
00:37:44.490 --> 00:37:47.935
<v DeVante Daniels>They want it to be not only a part of how
we show up internally,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4558-3
00:37:47.935 --> 00:37:51.222
<v DeVante Daniels>but how we show up externally with our
patrons and community.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4558-4
00:37:51.222 --> 00:37:55.039
<v DeVante Daniels>And then last but not least,
just a strong patron experience. Our team,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4558-5
00:37:55.039 --> 00:37:58.008
<v DeVante Daniels>our staff do an excellent job working
with our patrons,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4558-6
00:37:58.008 --> 00:37:59.970
<v DeVante Daniels>and they're very passionate about it.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4563-0
00:38:00.250 --> 00:38:04.392
<v DeVante Daniels>So those are just some like broad early
observations and things that keep me</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4563-1
00:38:04.392 --> 00:38:04.930
<v DeVante Daniels>motivated.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4617-0
00:38:06.130 --> 00:38:09.381
<v DeVante Daniels>Last but not least,
I just wanted to share a few of the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4617-1
00:38:09.381 --> 00:38:13.328
<v DeVante Daniels>remaining 2026 priorities.
One of them being a staff survey focused</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4617-2
00:38:13.328 --> 00:38:17.334
<v DeVante Daniels>on inclusion and belonging.
I've had the opportunity to develop that</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4617-3
00:38:17.334 --> 00:38:21.688
<v DeVante Daniels>survey in partnership with our HR team,
our employee engagement committee,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4617-4
00:38:21.688 --> 00:38:24.533
<v DeVante Daniels>the change team,
and our senior management team,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4617-5
00:38:24.533 --> 00:38:25.810
<v DeVante Daniels>as well as a few other</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4657-0
00:38:26.050 --> 00:38:28.345
<v DeVante Daniels>again,
identified staff who wanted to share</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4657-1
00:38:28.345 --> 00:38:31.109
<v DeVante Daniels>their thoughts and opinions on what that
looks like.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4657-2
00:38:31.109 --> 00:38:34.499
<v DeVante Daniels>The goal is for that to come out in
September. That is the hope.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4657-3
00:38:34.499 --> 00:38:38.827
<v DeVante Daniels>It will be out there for about a month to
give me a broader view and understanding</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4657-4
00:38:38.827 --> 00:38:42.947
<v DeVante Daniels>of how folks are feeling when we talk
about inclusion belonging at the Seattle</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4657-5
00:38:42.947 --> 00:38:43.730
<v DeVante Daniels>Public Library.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4701-0
00:38:45.810 --> 00:38:49.597
<v DeVante Daniels>Secondly, training and development.
I haven't been in the process of</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4701-1
00:38:49.597 --> 00:38:53.987
<v DeVante Daniels>developing a foundational training for
inclusion, belonging, and racial equity.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4701-2
00:38:53.987 --> 00:38:58.158
<v DeVante Daniels>I had the opportunity of taking our
senior management team to that training</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4701-3
00:38:58.158 --> 00:39:02.658
<v DeVante Daniels>on August 14th, just a couple weeks ago.
I'm really looking forward to the follow</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4701-4
00:39:02.658 --> 00:39:04.250
<v DeVante Daniels>up from that training and the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4750-0
00:39:04.850 --> 00:39:08.645
<v DeVante Daniels>commitments from our leadership team to
progress that work. After that,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4750-1
00:39:08.645 --> 00:39:12.916
<v DeVante Daniels>or as we continue through that process,
the model that I've adapted is kind of a</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4750-2
00:39:12.916 --> 00:39:16.553
<v DeVante Daniels>leadership first approach,
taking our senior management team through</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4750-3
00:39:16.553 --> 00:39:18.609
<v DeVante Daniels>it,
ensuring that we all have a shared</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4750-4
00:39:18.609 --> 00:39:22.194
<v DeVante Daniels>understanding of not only what the
terminology in those words mean,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4750-5
00:39:22.194 --> 00:39:26.570
<v DeVante Daniels>but what does it look like at the Seattle
Public Library to operationalize equity.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4771-0
00:39:27.410 --> 00:39:30.366
<v DeVante Daniels>The model will then follow kind of a
train the trainer model.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4771-1
00:39:30.366 --> 00:39:33.275
<v DeVante Daniels>We will go through the different layers
of our organization,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4771-2
00:39:33.275 --> 00:39:37.090
<v DeVante Daniels>starting with our managers and pushing it
through the rest of our organization.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4822-0
00:39:38.370 --> 00:39:41.055
<v DeVante Daniels>And last but not least,
the RSJI change team,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4822-1
00:39:41.055 --> 00:39:45.025
<v DeVante Daniels>which I'm the executive sponsor of.
They have an amazing work plan.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4822-2
00:39:45.025 --> 00:39:49.461
<v DeVante Daniels>They've spent a lot of time the last year
and a half or so working with the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4822-3
00:39:49.461 --> 00:39:53.139
<v DeVante Daniels>consultant, Elizabeth,
who I'll also give a huge shout out to,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4822-4
00:39:53.139 --> 00:39:55.941
<v DeVante Daniels>and trying to establish not only their
charter,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4822-5
00:39:55.941 --> 00:39:58.860
<v DeVante Daniels>but their scope of work and what it means
to be a</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4883-0
00:39:58.930 --> 00:40:03.379
<v DeVante Daniels>kind of volunteer staff group within this
organization and support equity work.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4883-1
00:40:03.379 --> 00:40:07.996
<v DeVante Daniels>We have a really great partnership with
HR right now through one of our subgroups,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4883-2
00:40:07.996 --> 00:40:12.334
<v DeVante Daniels>and we're really focused on policy,
hiring and retention in that partnership.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4883-3
00:40:12.334 --> 00:40:15.838
<v DeVante Daniels>In addition to that,
we are focused on this year continuing to</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4883-4
00:40:15.838 --> 00:40:18.453
<v DeVante Daniels>collect, document,
and share equity successes.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4883-5
00:40:18.453 --> 00:40:21.512
<v DeVante Daniels>There's a lot of amazing work going on at
the library,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4883-6
00:40:21.512 --> 00:40:23.570
<v DeVante Daniels>and I think it's important that as we</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4888-0
00:40:23.690 --> 00:40:25.318
<v DeVante Daniels>continue to want to get better and do
more,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4888-1
00:40:25.318 --> 00:40:27.650
<v DeVante Daniels>it's also important to recognize the
successes that we've had.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4903-0
00:40:29.570 --> 00:40:32.834
<v DeVante Daniels>I know that was a little fast.
I wanted to leave as much time for</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4903-1
00:40:32.834 --> 00:40:35.010
<v DeVante Daniels>questions as possible.
So now is that time.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4906-0
00:40:38.050 --> 00:40:39.170
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Thanks, DeVante.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4935-0
00:40:40.850 --> 00:40:46.803
<v Yazmin Mehdi>That was a wonderful and succinct report.
I'd like to, since I always start talking,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4935-1
00:40:46.803 --> 00:40:52.057
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I'd like to open this up first to my
colleagues. Tally, you're off, or no,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4935-2
00:40:52.057 --> 00:40:55.559
<v Yazmin Mehdi>you're not off mute.
I thought you were off mute.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4935-3
00:40:55.559 --> 00:40:57.170
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Anybody have questions?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4936-0
00:41:00.370 --> 00:41:00.770
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Fay.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4976-0
00:41:01.010 --> 00:41:05.694
<v Faith Pettis>I'll jump in if no one else wants to
start. That was fantastic, DeVante.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4976-1
00:41:05.694 --> 00:41:10.507
<v Faith Pettis>Thank you very much. And you know,
I've heard a lot of these presentations</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4976-2
00:41:10.507 --> 00:41:15.192
<v Faith Pettis>before with different organizations,
and that was jam-packed with really</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4976-3
00:41:15.192 --> 00:41:18.850
<v Faith Pettis>milestone deliverables.
So congrats on a very full year.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4995-0
00:41:19.250 --> 00:41:23.175
<v Faith Pettis>I have two questions. One is,
I have now forgotten,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4975-0
00:41:20.690 --> 00:41:21.010
<v DeVante Daniels>Yeah.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4995-1
00:41:23.175 --> 00:41:28.157
<v Faith Pettis>but what is your background?
Can you just review that for us real</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4989-0
00:41:26.210 --> 00:41:26.530
<v DeVante Daniels>Yeah.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/4995-2
00:41:28.157 --> 00:41:28.610
<v Faith Pettis>quick?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5065-0
00:41:28.930 --> 00:41:32.494
<v DeVante Daniels>Yeah, absolutely. Thanks, Faith.
Thank you for the kudos. First of all,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5065-1
00:41:32.494 --> 00:41:34.969
<v DeVante Daniels>I appreciate it. My background,
previously I was,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5065-2
00:41:34.969 --> 00:41:38.434
<v DeVante Daniels>my background is mostly in community
engagement and co-creation work.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5065-3
00:41:38.434 --> 00:41:41.255
<v DeVante Daniels>I've been doing equity work for the past
14 or so years,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5065-4
00:41:41.255 --> 00:41:45.264
<v DeVante Daniels>started at the state very similar to like
our current change team in a volunteer</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5065-5
00:41:45.264 --> 00:41:47.541
<v DeVante Daniels>role.
And then it carried me throughout that.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5065-6
00:41:47.541 --> 00:41:51.650
<v DeVante Daniels>So I went from doing community engagement
and co-creation work at the state level,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5071-0
00:41:51.930 --> 00:41:55.330
<v DeVante Daniels>to the county level to now at the Seattle
Public Library.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5121-0
00:41:53.890 --> 00:41:58.710
<v Faith Pettis>Okay, okay, okay, it shows. That's why,
that's what I suspected is you've had a</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5121-1
00:41:58.710 --> 00:42:03.229
<v Faith Pettis>lot of experience doing this work.
So one of the things that I always have</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5121-2
00:42:03.229 --> 00:42:07.446
<v Faith Pettis>difficulty with is figuring out how we
measure success in this space,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5101-0
00:42:06.450 --> 00:42:06.850
<v DeVante Daniels>Yeah.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5121-3
00:42:07.446 --> 00:42:11.905
<v Faith Pettis>because it is not something that is
achievable immediately within a year,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5121-4
00:42:11.905 --> 00:42:13.170
<v Faith Pettis>within two years. And</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5141-0
00:42:13.810 --> 00:42:17.833
<v Faith Pettis>It's also not something that you can
count something. You know,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5141-1
00:42:17.833 --> 00:42:22.170
<v Faith Pettis>so how do you measure success?
I noticed that one of your slides had</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5141-2
00:42:22.170 --> 00:42:22.610
<v Faith Pettis>some...</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5146-0
00:42:23.570 --> 00:42:25.250
<v Faith Pettis>idea that you would be measuring.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5181-0
00:42:38.370 --> 00:42:38.770
<v Faith Pettis>Right.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5208-0
00:42:38.810 --> 00:42:41.167
<v DeVante Daniels>We talk about employee well-being and
belonging.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5208-1
00:42:41.167 --> 00:42:44.823
<v DeVante Daniels>Those are things that we can measure via
surveys and things of that nature.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5208-2
00:42:44.823 --> 00:42:47.998
<v DeVante Daniels>And then I think overall,
it's more of kind of an equity maturity</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5208-3
00:42:47.998 --> 00:42:49.730
<v DeVante Daniels>model. When I think of that, I mean,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5271-0
00:42:51.330 --> 00:42:53.656
<v DeVante Daniels>When I think about an equity maturity
model,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5271-1
00:42:53.656 --> 00:42:57.222
<v DeVante Daniels>I think about things like awareness.
How do we go from awareness and</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5271-2
00:42:57.222 --> 00:42:59.548
<v DeVante Daniels>compliance to sustainability and
innovation?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5271-3
00:42:59.548 --> 00:43:03.321
<v DeVante Daniels>And I think that's really the telltale
sign of an organization maturing.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5271-4
00:43:03.321 --> 00:43:07.301
<v DeVante Daniels>What policies have we put in place to
ensure that equity is not only a thing</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5271-5
00:43:07.301 --> 00:43:10.609
<v DeVante Daniels>that is showing up in our strategic plan
and how we talk about,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5255-0
00:43:10.130 --> 00:43:10.290
<v Faith Pettis>Okay.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5271-6
00:43:10.609 --> 00:43:13.090
<v DeVante Daniels>but it shows up in our policies and
procedures?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5317-0
00:43:13.410 --> 00:43:17.731
<v DeVante Daniels>and that it outlasts, you know, me,
that it outlasts the organization in and</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5317-1
00:43:17.731 --> 00:43:20.706
<v DeVante Daniels>of itself.
So it is something that we are continuing</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5317-2
00:43:20.706 --> 00:43:23.961
<v DeVante Daniels>to struggle through as far as how to
measure it directly,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5317-3
00:43:23.961 --> 00:43:28.619
<v DeVante Daniels>but there are certain aspects that we can
measure that lead us to being successful</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5317-4
00:43:28.619 --> 00:43:31.032
<v DeVante Daniels>in it.
I hope that answers your question a</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5320-0
00:43:29.410 --> 00:43:32.378
<v Faith Pettis>Okay, good answer. And it does,
good answer. I have,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5317-5
00:43:31.032 --> 00:43:31.650
<v DeVante Daniels>little bit.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5320-1
00:43:32.378 --> 00:43:34.450
<v Faith Pettis>I have highlighted one more question.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5318-0
00:43:34.610 --> 00:43:35.010
<v DeVante Daniels>OK.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5326-0
00:43:36.130 --> 00:43:38.290
<v Faith Pettis>In a perfect world,
how long do you think it would take?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5333-0
00:43:39.010 --> 00:43:42.930
<v DeVante Daniels>Nobody's asking that question, Faith.
In a perfect world.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5334-0
00:43:44.290 --> 00:43:44.930
<v DeVante Daniels>Hove.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5353-0
00:43:45.970 --> 00:43:48.978
<v Faith Pettis>Let me rephrase that.
In a perfect library system,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5344-0
00:43:46.050 --> 00:43:47.090
<v DeVante Daniels>I'm gonna, I'm.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5353-1
00:43:48.978 --> 00:43:52.930
<v Faith Pettis>if you got full cooperation from everyone,
how long would it take?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5357-0
00:43:57.330 --> 00:43:58.930
<v DeVante Daniels>I would say two to three years.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5373-0
00:44:00.850 --> 00:44:06.450
<v DeVante Daniels>with the appropriate staff.
That's going to be my caveat. Yeah. Yeah,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5371-0
00:44:03.730 --> 00:44:06.130
<v Faith Pettis>Got it. Got it. Thank you very much.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5373-1
00:44:06.450 --> 00:44:07.650
<v DeVante Daniels>great question.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5384-0
00:44:08.770 --> 00:44:13.970
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Wonderful. Great questions, Faith. Carmen,
did you have a question?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5404-0
00:44:14.930 --> 00:44:18.248
<v Bendixen, Carmen>No,
DeVante kind of pre-answered it with the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5404-1
00:44:18.248 --> 00:44:23.410
<v Bendixen, Carmen>caucuses and that you're looking at
forming more. So that was really.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5406-0
00:44:24.610 --> 00:44:25.610
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Just wanted to.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5438-0
00:44:26.610 --> 00:44:30.854
<v Bendixen, Carmen>emphasize that.
So when you have an update on, you know,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5438-1
00:44:30.854 --> 00:44:35.471
<v Bendixen, Carmen>how things are going or the next time
maybe we get an update,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5438-2
00:44:35.471 --> 00:44:38.450
<v Bendixen, Carmen>maybe you can let us know if about that.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5433-0
00:44:36.450 --> 00:44:37.410
<v DeVante Daniels>Okay, yeah.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5485-0
00:44:39.010 --> 00:44:41.252
<v DeVante Daniels>Yeah,
I think I think we have great caucus</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5485-1
00:44:41.252 --> 00:44:44.015
<v DeVante Daniels>groups now,
but I also think there's a few more that</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5485-2
00:44:44.015 --> 00:44:47.091
<v DeVante Daniels>would be helpful in representing some of
the staff groups.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5485-3
00:44:47.091 --> 00:44:51.367
<v DeVante Daniels>I think English as a second language one,
things of that nature that we could add</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5485-4
00:44:51.367 --> 00:44:55.434
<v DeVante Daniels>that would really help us to give an
additional space for identities that are</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5485-5
00:44:55.434 --> 00:44:59.605
<v DeVante Daniels>represented here. But yes, currently,
it's kind of one of those capacity things</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5485-6
00:44:59.605 --> 00:44:59.970
<v DeVante Daniels>because</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5515-0
00:45:00.370 --> 00:45:03.810
<v DeVante Daniels>they're facilitated by staff.
So I'm trying to figure out ways that we</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5515-1
00:45:03.810 --> 00:45:07.057
<v DeVante Daniels>can increase their capacity,
whether that means finding additional</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5515-2
00:45:07.057 --> 00:45:10.982
<v DeVante Daniels>staff or trying to potentially utilize
funding to bring in outside facilitators,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5515-3
00:45:10.982 --> 00:45:13.890
<v DeVante Daniels>but really want to be able to provide
that space for folks.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5518-0
00:45:17.810 --> 00:45:18.850
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Tell your run.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5519-0
00:45:20.770 --> 00:45:21.170
<v Ron Chew>Um...</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5554-0
00:45:22.050 --> 00:45:27.919
<v Ron Chew>DeVante, enjoyed your presentation.
I like brevity and precision,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5528-0
00:45:24.610 --> 00:45:24.850
<v DeVante Daniels>Yeah.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5554-1
00:45:27.919 --> 00:45:35.300
<v Ron Chew>and you delivered, so thank you for that.
One of the lenses I bring more recently,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5554-2
00:45:35.300 --> 00:45:41.170
<v Ron Chew>just because I am with AARP and I'm a
senior, have you thought of</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5569-0
00:45:41.330 --> 00:45:48.316
<v Ron Chew>how an age-conscious or age-friendly
perspective kind of dovetails with your</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5569-1
00:45:48.316 --> 00:45:48.770
<v Ron Chew>work.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5620-0
00:45:50.130 --> 00:45:54.418
<v DeVante Daniels>Not specifically. I will say I was,
I did notate a comment you made in the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5620-1
00:45:54.418 --> 00:45:58.478
<v DeVante Daniels>last board meeting in regards to the 4th
floor in the Red Room from an</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5620-2
00:45:58.478 --> 00:46:02.308
<v DeVante Daniels>accessibility perspective.
I think I try to think about it overall</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5620-3
00:46:02.308 --> 00:46:06.311
<v DeVante Daniels>from accessibility and typically I lean
more into a universal design,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5620-4
00:46:06.311 --> 00:46:09.170
<v DeVante Daniels>meaning that if we address the needs of
those who</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5652-0
00:46:09.250 --> 00:46:11.675
<v DeVante Daniels>have the most,
then it kind of trickles down and</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5652-1
00:46:11.675 --> 00:46:14.942
<v DeVante Daniels>addresses everybody's needs.
So I'll be honest and say I have not</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5652-2
00:46:14.942 --> 00:46:17.565
<v DeVante Daniels>thought about it specifically from that
perspective,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5652-3
00:46:17.565 --> 00:46:21.722
<v DeVante Daniels>but that is something that I will take in
and add as I continue to progress in this</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5652-4
00:46:21.722 --> 00:46:21.970
<v DeVante Daniels>work.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5676-0
00:46:22.770 --> 00:46:26.558
<v Ron Chew>Yeah,
and I'm happy to offer a conversation</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5676-1
00:46:26.558 --> 00:46:32.328
<v Ron Chew>maybe about some of my thinking relative
to my work in that field.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5661-0
00:46:29.730 --> 00:46:30.130
<v DeVante Daniels>Yeah.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5676-2
00:46:32.328 --> 00:46:34.050
<v Ron Chew>So happy to hook up.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5678-0
00:46:34.570 --> 00:46:36.259
<v DeVante Daniels>Okay,
I will definitely reach out and I</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5678-1
00:46:36.259 --> 00:46:36.850
<v DeVante Daniels>appreciate it.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5680-0
00:46:37.410 --> 00:46:38.210
<v Ron Chew>Thank you DeVante.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5682-0
00:46:38.530 --> 00:46:38.930
<v DeVante Daniels>Yeah.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5725-0
00:46:40.290 --> 00:46:45.833
<v Tali H.>Yazmin, can I just quickly ask DeVante,
who are your cohorts? Like,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5686-0
00:46:40.530 --> 00:46:41.010
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Anne.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5689-0
00:46:42.130 --> 00:46:42.690
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Please?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5725-1
00:46:45.833 --> 00:46:51.622
<v Tali H.>who are you collaborating with in the
organization? I assume Kay, Tom,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5725-2
00:46:51.622 --> 00:46:57.410
<v Tali H.>are there others who you're kind of,
and by name I mean more position.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5709-0
00:46:52.130 --> 00:46:52.530
<v DeVante Daniels>Yeah.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5763-0
00:46:57.730 --> 00:47:01.364
<v DeVante Daniels>Yeah, yeah,
I would say our whole senior management</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5763-1
00:47:01.364 --> 00:47:05.906
<v DeVante Daniels>team. So as you shared, Kate Tang,
director of LEED, Rob Gannon,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5763-2
00:47:05.906 --> 00:47:11.078
<v DeVante Daniels>director of our administrative services
team, Rick, Rob, Darth, you know,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5763-3
00:47:11.078 --> 00:47:15.970
<v DeVante Daniels>I've had the opportunity to collaborate
with all of them. They've all</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5804-0
00:47:16.010 --> 00:47:19.104
<v DeVante Daniels>been able,
been willing and able to support me in</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5804-1
00:47:19.104 --> 00:47:22.446
<v DeVante Daniels>different ways,
especially in this first year with it</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5804-2
00:47:22.446 --> 00:47:27.211
<v DeVante Daniels>just being me. In addition to that,
I've had the pleasure of connecting with</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5804-3
00:47:27.211 --> 00:47:32.162
<v DeVante Daniels>some really tenured and experienced staff
members as well. I think of Tina Mat,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5804-4
00:47:32.162 --> 00:47:35.132
<v DeVante Daniels>Ayan,
just different folks who have really just</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5804-5
00:47:35.132 --> 00:47:36.370
<v DeVante Daniels>been integral in me.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5847-0
00:47:36.650 --> 00:47:40.326
<v DeVante Daniels>not only understanding the system,
but preparing for how we can change the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5847-1
00:47:40.326 --> 00:47:44.003
<v DeVante Daniels>system and continue to make it better.
In addition to that, like I shared,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5847-2
00:47:44.003 --> 00:47:46.356
<v DeVante Daniels>the change team,
the employee engagement group,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5847-3
00:47:46.356 --> 00:47:49.885
<v DeVante Daniels>I've really tried to spend a lot of time
learning from staff and better</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5847-4
00:47:49.885 --> 00:47:53.807
<v DeVante Daniels>understanding what their experience is
and how we can change that experience to</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5847-5
00:47:53.807 --> 00:47:56.650
<v DeVante Daniels>make this the place that everybody wants
to come work at.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5884-0
00:47:58.210 --> 00:48:02.183
<v Tali H.>Thank you, DeVante.
One of the key criteria for success of</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5848-0
00:47:59.090 --> 00:47:59.250
<v Faith Pettis>Bo.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5884-1
00:48:02.183 --> 00:48:07.099
<v Tali H.>roles like this is isolation versus
incorporation. And so your question,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5860-0
00:48:05.570 --> 00:48:05.810
<v Faith Pettis>Thanks.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5884-2
00:48:07.099 --> 00:48:12.553
<v Tali H.>your answer to that made me feel really
good about the long term success of this</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5884-3
00:48:12.553 --> 00:48:12.890
<v Tali H.>role.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5937-0
00:48:13.330 --> 00:48:15.473
<v DeVante Daniels>Yeah, thank you.
I appreciate the question.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5937-1
00:48:15.473 --> 00:48:17.665
<v DeVante Daniels>I will also give a little some kudos to
Tom,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5937-2
00:48:17.665 --> 00:48:21.514
<v DeVante Daniels>who's done a great job of connecting me
with my counterparts and other library</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5937-3
00:48:21.514 --> 00:48:23.950
<v DeVante Daniels>systems,
which has been extremely helpful in this</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5937-4
00:48:23.950 --> 00:48:26.434
<v DeVante Daniels>first year,
just being able to have those sounding</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5937-5
00:48:26.434 --> 00:48:30.477
<v DeVante Daniels>boards and those spaces of folks who have
been through some of the challenges that</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5937-6
00:48:30.477 --> 00:48:33.936
<v DeVante Daniels>I'm experiencing and can give me
resources and tools to progress them.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5937-7
00:48:33.936 --> 00:48:35.690
<v DeVante Daniels>So thank you, Tom, for that as well.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5936-0
00:48:37.490 --> 00:48:39.010
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Faith, did you have something more?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5984-0
00:48:39.490 --> 00:48:43.291
<v Faith Pettis>Well, he partially answered my question.
I thought, Tali,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5984-1
00:48:43.291 --> 00:48:46.895
<v Faith Pettis>you were going to ask who you connect
with externally.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5984-2
00:48:46.895 --> 00:48:51.089
<v Faith Pettis>That was going to be my question.
And so other library systems,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5963-0
00:48:51.010 --> 00:48:51.330
<v DeVante Daniels>Eat.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5984-3
00:48:51.089 --> 00:48:54.890
<v Faith Pettis>similar counterparts,
what about locally or in the state?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5973-0
00:48:54.690 --> 00:48:55.170
<v DeVante Daniels>Um, I have...</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/5984-4
00:48:54.890 --> 00:48:57.250
<v Faith Pettis>Do you have a group or organization?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6002-0
00:48:57.570 --> 00:49:01.002
<v DeVante Daniels>I don't have a specific group or
organization.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6002-1
00:49:01.002 --> 00:49:05.894
<v DeVante Daniels>I am looking forward to attending,
the name is going to escape me.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6002-2
00:49:05.894 --> 00:49:10.130
<v DeVante Daniels>I believe it's not PLA,
but Tom is in October in Spokane.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6008-0
00:49:10.690 --> 00:49:12.450
<v Tom Fay>Oh, the Black Caucus.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6061-0
00:49:12.610 --> 00:49:15.438
<v DeVante Daniels>Yes, the Black Caucus.
So I think that's going to be a great</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6061-1
00:49:15.438 --> 00:49:18.498
<v DeVante Daniels>space and opportunity for me to connect
with folks. I, of course,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6061-2
00:49:18.498 --> 00:49:21.928
<v DeVante Daniels>have my own mentors that I've carried
with me throughout my career that I</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6061-3
00:49:21.928 --> 00:49:24.015
<v DeVante Daniels>continue to connect with.
And then Domenica,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6061-4
00:49:24.015 --> 00:49:27.724
<v DeVante Daniels>who's at the King County Library System,
is one of those folks that I'm able to</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6036-0
00:49:25.370 --> 00:49:25.490
<v Faith Pettis>Yes.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6061-5
00:49:27.724 --> 00:49:30.042
<v DeVante Daniels>connect with.
I'm still kind of building out that</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6061-6
00:49:30.042 --> 00:49:33.658
<v DeVante Daniels>network from a library perspective,
but if there are suggestions that you all</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6061-7
00:49:33.658 --> 00:49:33.890
<v DeVante Daniels>have,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6063-0
00:49:34.290 --> 00:49:35.490
<v DeVante Daniels>Definitely open to that.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6084-0
00:49:38.450 --> 00:49:42.303
<v Yazmin Mehdi>That's great.
I'm sure that if the board has ideas,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6084-1
00:49:42.303 --> 00:49:47.490
<v Yazmin Mehdi>DeVante, they'll reach out to you.
I wanted to just say a few things.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6117-0
00:49:50.290 --> 00:49:57.058
<v Yazmin Mehdi>One of the things that you just said that
I find so helpful is that what you're</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6117-1
00:49:57.058 --> 00:50:03.403
<v Yazmin Mehdi>trying to do is get help the library and
by virtue of helping the library,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6117-2
00:50:03.403 --> 00:50:09.410
<v Yazmin Mehdi>we're helping patrons and therefore
essentially the whole city go from</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6149-0
00:50:09.810 --> 00:50:16.996
<v Yazmin Mehdi>awareness to, I love what you said,
innovation. It's not just being important.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6149-1
00:50:16.996 --> 00:50:23.908
<v Yazmin Mehdi>It's not enough to simply be aware of
people's identities and how they move</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6149-2
00:50:23.908 --> 00:50:28.638
<v Yazmin Mehdi>through the world.
It's to make it operationalized,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6149-3
00:50:28.638 --> 00:50:29.730
<v Yazmin Mehdi>as you said.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6174-0
00:50:31.330 --> 00:50:37.971
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I love this term equity maturity.
So I found how you presented this</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6174-1
00:50:37.971 --> 00:50:44.319
<v Yazmin Mehdi>information enlightening.
As much as I think I and my colleagues</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6174-2
00:50:44.319 --> 00:50:46.370
<v Yazmin Mehdi>care about this work,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6177-0
00:50:47.570 --> 00:50:49.170
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I sometimes find that...</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6210-0
00:50:50.130 --> 00:50:54.449
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I have to stretch to really explain it
myself,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6210-1
00:50:54.449 --> 00:50:58.953
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and this presentation was super helpful
in that,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6210-2
00:50:58.953 --> 00:51:05.570
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and I wanted to maybe make a pitch that
the training that you're doing.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6245-0
00:51:07.090 --> 00:51:13.195
<v Yazmin Mehdi>within the library system that perhaps
the board could be part of some of those</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6245-1
00:51:13.195 --> 00:51:19.377
<v Yazmin Mehdi>trainings. Maybe we could get invited,
hint hint, to be part of those trainings.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6245-2
00:51:19.377 --> 00:51:25.330
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Because I think we can all use not just a
refresher, but sort of an update to</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6276-0
00:51:25.570 --> 00:51:32.702
<v Yazmin Mehdi>why this work and how this work is
important and how you're going about it.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6276-1
00:51:32.702 --> 00:51:37.206
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Because it's as we work with the library
staff,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6276-2
00:51:37.206 --> 00:51:44.619
<v Yazmin Mehdi>all of that then has an impact on the
patrons and we should be as well versed,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6276-3
00:51:44.619 --> 00:51:45.370
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I think.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6281-0
00:51:45.810 --> 00:51:50.450
<v Yazmin Mehdi>as the staff and how this work needs to
proliferate.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6353-0
00:51:51.170 --> 00:51:54.910
<v DeVante Daniels>Yeah. Thank you, Yazmin.
I'm totally open to the idea and happy to</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6353-1
00:51:54.910 --> 00:51:58.037
<v DeVante Daniels>work with Amy and the board to make that
a possibility.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6353-2
00:51:58.037 --> 00:52:02.671
<v DeVante Daniels>The foundation board has also expressed a
similar interest in doing something like</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6353-3
00:52:02.671 --> 00:52:05.295
<v DeVante Daniels>that. So yeah,
I would be happy to share that.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6353-4
00:52:05.295 --> 00:52:09.762
<v DeVante Daniels>I'm a huge proponent of plain language
and try to make things as simplified and</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6353-5
00:52:09.762 --> 00:52:14.005
<v DeVante Daniels>easy for folks to digest as possible.
So I'm glad that that came through in</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6353-6
00:52:14.005 --> 00:52:15.010
<v DeVante Daniels>this conversation.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6349-0
00:52:15.730 --> 00:52:17.090
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yeah, this is terrific.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6395-0
00:52:15.770 --> 00:52:18.957
<v Tom Fay>And I think,
and that's an important piece too,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6395-1
00:52:18.957 --> 00:52:22.543
<v Tom Fay>as we talk about, you know,
even with the foundation,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6395-2
00:52:22.543 --> 00:52:26.461
<v Tom Fay>since they are funding major equity
projects and programs,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6395-3
00:52:26.461 --> 00:52:32.039
<v Tom Fay>when I talked to DeVante about it and to
Brian Lawrence, it really came down to it.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6395-4
00:52:32.039 --> 00:52:36.090
<v Tom Fay>I want to make sure we're always speaking
the same language.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6440-0
00:52:36.850 --> 00:52:42.063
<v Tom Fay>Of course, that holds true for the board,
even though many of you support equity</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6440-1
00:52:42.063 --> 00:52:46.118
<v Tom Fay>work at a variety of levels in your own
organization or lives.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6440-2
00:52:46.118 --> 00:52:51.267
<v Tom Fay>How is the library defining things and
how is it kind of prioritizing its work?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6440-3
00:52:51.267 --> 00:52:55.966
<v Tom Fay>And what is that language that we use?
Even for within the organization,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6440-4
00:52:55.966 --> 00:52:56.610
<v Tom Fay>that's why</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6476-0
00:52:56.770 --> 00:53:00.280
<v Tom Fay>As DeVante says,
getting this drill down all the way</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6476-1
00:53:00.280 --> 00:53:05.048
<v Tom Fay>through the organization is critical
because we have practitioners at a</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6476-2
00:53:05.048 --> 00:53:08.559
<v Tom Fay>variety of levels in the organization and,
you know,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6476-3
00:53:08.559 --> 00:53:13.526
<v Tom Fay>the moving from awareness and even
sometimes very performative work around</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6476-4
00:53:13.526 --> 00:53:16.572
<v Tom Fay>equity.
People like to stay in the safe zone,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6476-5
00:53:16.572 --> 00:53:16.970
<v Tom Fay>right?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6511-0
00:53:17.450 --> 00:53:21.274
<v Tom Fay>Formative is safe. Awareness is safe.
Innovative,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6511-1
00:53:21.274 --> 00:53:26.475
<v Tom Fay>it's scary that the entire organization
has to be on the same page.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6511-2
00:53:26.475 --> 00:53:32.364
<v Tom Fay>And I think he's really been doing some
great work to try to get us on that.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6511-3
00:53:32.364 --> 00:53:35.730
<v Tom Fay>So most certainly we'll figure out a way
to</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6536-0
00:53:36.370 --> 00:53:39.637
<v Tom Fay>have a session.
I know we have some other topics we want</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6536-1
00:53:39.637 --> 00:53:44.337
<v Tom Fay>to maybe have a retreat on and this might
be a topic we can bring to that retreat</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6536-2
00:53:44.337 --> 00:53:47.490
<v Tom Fay>as well as we consider that over the next
month or so.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6575-0
00:53:48.330 --> 00:53:53.942
<v Yazmin Mehdi>That's great. Thanks, Tom.
I appreciate you trying to figure out how</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6575-1
00:53:53.942 --> 00:53:59.961
<v Yazmin Mehdi>to make, engage us in this work.
Though a land acknowledgement to me is a</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6575-2
00:53:59.961 --> 00:54:05.818
<v Yazmin Mehdi>perfect example of something,
if not done well and backed by resources,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6575-3
00:54:05.818 --> 00:54:07.770
<v Yazmin Mehdi>just seems performative.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6610-0
00:54:08.450 --> 00:54:12.977
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So I really like,
I would love to learn more so that I can</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6610-1
00:54:12.977 --> 00:54:18.655
<v Yazmin Mehdi>also share this beyond, you know,
in my work outside the library as well.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6610-2
00:54:18.655 --> 00:54:23.490
<v Yazmin Mehdi>We are so lucky to have you, DeVante.
Thank you for your work.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6609-0
00:54:23.970 --> 00:54:25.330
<v DeVante Daniels>Thank you. I appreciate that. Yes.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6618-0
00:54:28.450 --> 00:54:32.930
<v Tom Fay>I know. Well, thank you, DeVante.
I will see you later today.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6673-0
00:54:34.370 --> 00:54:37.507
<v Tom Fay>All right,
moving on to our next system report.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6673-1
00:54:37.507 --> 00:54:42.605
<v Tom Fay>We have a few of them for you this month.
We have our community use agreement</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6673-2
00:54:42.605 --> 00:54:47.115
<v Tom Fay>post-implementation update,
and we'll have Rob Gannon and Kate Tang.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6673-3
00:54:47.115 --> 00:54:50.253
<v Tom Fay>Rob is our Director of Administrative
Services,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6673-4
00:54:50.253 --> 00:54:55.090
<v Tom Fay>and Kay is our Library Experience and
Engagement Director. They should be</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6678-0
00:54:55.170 --> 00:54:58.290
<v Tom Fay>Here at the table,
and I'll turn it over to the two of you.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6696-0
00:54:58.770 --> 00:55:03.471
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Oh my gosh, we like, hello,
these are all super pithy reports.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6696-1
00:55:03.471 --> 00:55:07.650
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I cannot wait for this one. Rob, welcome.
Kay, welcome.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6697-0
00:55:09.090 --> 00:55:10.450
<v Kai Tang>Thank you.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6753-0
00:55:12.210 --> 00:55:17.844
<v Kai Tang>Well, I will go ahead and kick it off.
We do have a brief report for you today.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6753-1
00:55:17.844 --> 00:55:22.562
<v Kai Tang>I first want to thank Andee,
our environmental safety and security</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6753-2
00:55:22.562 --> 00:55:27.351
<v Kai Tang>manager, our security team,
the CUA team who has been working every</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6753-3
00:55:27.351 --> 00:55:31.153
<v Kai Tang>week on this,
our supervisors supporting our teams on</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6753-4
00:55:31.153 --> 00:55:32.210
<v Kai Tang>the front line.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6799-0
00:55:32.450 --> 00:55:36.204
<v Kai Tang>and our staff who are our biggest
community engagers.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6799-1
00:55:36.204 --> 00:55:41.557
<v Kai Tang>Just to share a little bit about our
community use agreement and in turn our</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6799-2
00:55:41.557 --> 00:55:47.396
<v Kai Tang>incident reporting that we do internally,
I wanted to share some big movements that</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6799-3
00:55:47.396 --> 00:55:52.610
<v Kai Tang>we've had over the course of the year
starting on August 1st of last year.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6836-0
00:55:52.930 --> 00:55:58.197
<v Kai Tang>So August 1st of 2025,
we moved away from 31 separate shift logs</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6836-1
00:55:58.197 --> 00:56:04.761
<v Kai Tang>that documented incidents or occurrences
in our spaces to one incident reporting</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6836-2
00:56:04.761 --> 00:56:11.650
<v Kai Tang>system centralized for the entire library.
Our current system provides access to all</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6875-0
00:56:11.890 --> 00:56:16.193
<v Kai Tang>SPL staff members for awareness and
transparency.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6875-1
00:56:16.193 --> 00:56:23.335
<v Kai Tang>And this system is a SharePoint list that
we have beefed up so that staff are able</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6875-2
00:56:23.335 --> 00:56:28.584
<v Kai Tang>to enter incidents.
It empowers them to lean in and live our</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6875-3
00:56:28.584 --> 00:56:30.650
<v Kai Tang>community use agreement.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6930-0
00:56:31.010 --> 00:56:37.195
<v Kai Tang>And this is a change from our previous
process that was solely designated to our</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6930-1
00:56:37.195 --> 00:56:40.937
<v Kai Tang>security team.
This process has given staff more</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6930-2
00:56:40.937 --> 00:56:46.664
<v Kai Tang>autonomy and I think support to create
the welcoming spaces that encourage</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6930-3
00:56:46.664 --> 00:56:51.781
<v Kai Tang>everyone to be successful.
The shift in the language of our CUA is</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6930-4
00:56:51.781 --> 00:56:55.370
<v Kai Tang>one of the largest changes that I know
you are</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6966-0
00:56:55.490 --> 00:56:59.537
<v Kai Tang>all aware of.
And it really acknowledges that we are</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6966-1
00:56:59.537 --> 00:57:05.188
<v Kai Tang>human and that it's okay to have a bad
day and we can try again tomorrow.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6966-2
00:57:05.188 --> 00:57:09.159
<v Kai Tang>And when we look at the trends from this
last year,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/6966-3
00:57:09.159 --> 00:57:13.970
<v Kai Tang>we can see that though we still have
suspensions from patrons,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7005-0
00:57:14.250 --> 00:57:19.595
<v Kai Tang>They have changed from long term or a
very long period of time to briefer</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7005-1
00:57:19.595 --> 00:57:23.351
<v Kai Tang>periods of time,
like a correct or leave situation.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7005-2
00:57:23.351 --> 00:57:27.758
<v Kai Tang>Like today might not have been the day to
be in the library,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7005-3
00:57:27.758 --> 00:57:33.464
<v Kai Tang>but try again tomorrow so that we're able
to welcome more people back into our</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7005-4
00:57:33.464 --> 00:57:33.970
<v Kai Tang>spaces.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7049-0
00:57:34.290 --> 00:57:37.652
<v Kai Tang>Again,
this has been a big culture shift for</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7049-1
00:57:37.652 --> 00:57:41.239
<v Kai Tang>staff,
but it's also been really super exciting</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7049-2
00:57:41.239 --> 00:57:46.096
<v Kai Tang>to see how accepting and eager they are
to switch to the system.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7049-3
00:57:46.096 --> 00:57:49.534
<v Kai Tang>It is still a work in progress and
iterating,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7049-4
00:57:49.534 --> 00:57:54.690
<v Kai Tang>and the community use agreement team is
meeting weekly every Friday.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7101-0
00:57:54.930 --> 00:57:57.908
<v Kai Tang>to get updates from staff feedback,
security,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7101-1
00:57:57.908 --> 00:58:02.375
<v Kai Tang>and just to see how we can make this
process smoother going forward.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7101-2
00:58:02.375 --> 00:58:07.554
<v Kai Tang>I don't have statistics for you today
because this is our first year using this</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7070-0
00:58:05.530 --> 00:58:06.010
<v Tom Fay>Thank you.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7101-3
00:58:07.554 --> 00:58:10.921
<v Kai Tang>type of system.
So we really don't have anything to</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7101-4
00:58:10.921 --> 00:58:14.999
<v Kai Tang>compare it to. But again,
the trends that we're seeing is that</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7101-5
00:58:14.999 --> 00:58:17.330
<v Kai Tang>though we still do have suspensions,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7146-0
00:58:17.530 --> 00:58:22.601
<v Kai Tang>they're a much shorter period of time.
Things that we're looking forward to in</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7146-1
00:58:22.601 --> 00:58:26.966
<v Kai Tang>the future are trainings.
And so I want to give a huge shout out to</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7146-2
00:58:26.966 --> 00:58:31.780
<v Kai Tang>Morgan, our HR training manager,
who created beautiful on-demand trainings</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7146-3
00:58:31.780 --> 00:58:36.530
<v Kai Tang>for staff to access when onboarding and
for those in need of a refresher.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7188-0
00:58:36.930 --> 00:58:42.802
<v Kai Tang>We are looking at the sustainability of
our training and onboarding for staff.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7188-1
00:58:42.802 --> 00:58:46.890
<v Kai Tang>And currently,
we do have monthly LEED in my division,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7188-2
00:58:46.890 --> 00:58:50.903
<v Kai Tang>supervisor meetings with our security
manager, Andee.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7188-3
00:58:50.903 --> 00:58:55.958
<v Kai Tang>This is where LEED supervisors,
who are a large part in keeping our</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7188-4
00:58:55.958 --> 00:58:56.850
<v Kai Tang>spaces safe,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7240-0
00:58:57.810 --> 00:59:03.272
<v Kai Tang>as well as our staff and patrons.
But they are able to have these monthly</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7240-1
00:59:03.272 --> 00:59:09.324
<v Kai Tang>talks, get tips and tricks, ask questions,
and learn more about keeping ourselves</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7240-2
00:59:09.324 --> 00:59:14.269
<v Kai Tang>and our communities safe.
We are looking forward to having regular</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7240-3
00:59:14.269 --> 00:59:17.959
<v Kai Tang>recurring,
hopefully quarterly sessions in person</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7240-4
00:59:17.959 --> 00:59:21.650
<v Kai Tang>with our security team and our community
resource</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7285-0
00:59:21.770 --> 00:59:25.983
<v Kai Tang>specialists as we build out the
sustainability of this for our staff.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7285-1
00:59:25.983 --> 00:59:30.016
<v Kai Tang>And this would be, again,
in addition to those on-demand trainings</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7285-2
00:59:30.016 --> 00:59:32.784
<v Kai Tang>that you would be able to access at any
time.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7285-3
00:59:32.784 --> 00:59:37.600
<v Kai Tang>I did learn recently that we will have a
transition of our internal system to a</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7285-4
00:59:37.600 --> 00:59:40.850
<v Kai Tang>third-party vendor to support our
incident reporting.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7315-0
00:59:41.250 --> 00:59:45.805
<v Kai Tang>and it will have a focus and on
transparency and accessibility for all</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7315-1
00:59:45.805 --> 00:59:48.884
<v Kai Tang>staff,
because we really want to make sure that</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7315-2
00:59:48.884 --> 00:59:53.567
<v Kai Tang>our staff still continue to feel
empowered and also know what's going on</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7315-3
00:59:53.567 --> 00:59:54.530
<v Kai Tang>in the library.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7324-0
00:59:56.130 --> 00:59:58.493
<v Kai Tang>Rob,
I want to throw it over to you in case I</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7324-1
00:59:58.493 --> 01:00:01.010
<v Kai Tang>missed anything and then if there are
questions.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7365-0
01:00:02.370 --> 01:00:06.168
<v Rob Gannon>Thank you, Kay. And now good afternoon,
members of the board.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7365-1
01:00:06.168 --> 01:00:11.068
<v Rob Gannon>I just want to echo a couple of Kay's
points and then add one or two additional</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7365-2
01:00:11.068 --> 01:00:14.498
<v Rob Gannon>items. First,
a great deal of thanks and gratitude does</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7365-3
01:00:14.498 --> 01:00:19.276
<v Rob Gannon>go out to all of our internal staff,
from the security officers to the branch</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7365-4
01:00:19.276 --> 01:00:20.930
<v Rob Gannon>staff to the central staff.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7407-0
01:00:21.730 --> 01:00:26.414
<v Rob Gannon>in really figuring out how to implement
more effectively or to implement</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7407-1
01:00:26.414 --> 01:00:31.803
<v Rob Gannon>effectively this community use agreement,
but also treat it as an ongoing iterative</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7407-2
01:00:31.803 --> 01:00:37.001
<v Rob Gannon>process. So the work that Kay describes,
her direct involvement in a lot of this</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7407-3
01:00:37.001 --> 01:00:40.530
<v Rob Gannon>is an expression of how frequently people
are meeting,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7458-0
01:00:40.850 --> 01:00:46.664
<v Rob Gannon>to talk about the community use agreement
as it's applied, its impact on staff,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7458-1
01:00:46.664 --> 01:00:51.605
<v Rob Gannon>the environment, on patrons,
and make ongoing adjustments to how we</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7458-2
01:00:51.605 --> 01:00:56.474
<v Rob Gannon>use those community use understandings to
improve our environment.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7458-3
01:00:56.474 --> 01:01:01.561
<v Rob Gannon>And that doesn't just happen.
That's a great deal of deliberate work.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7458-4
01:01:01.561 --> 01:01:05.050
<v Rob Gannon>So kudos to everyone for participating in
that.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7501-0
01:01:05.570 --> 01:01:08.573
<v Rob Gannon>Kate did mention our efforts to collect
data,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7501-1
01:01:08.573 --> 01:01:13.796
<v Rob Gannon>and while we don't have direct means of
comparing the last year to prior years,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7501-2
01:01:13.796 --> 01:01:19.214
<v Rob Gannon>that doesn't mean we're not still trying
to cultivate enough information to give a</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7501-3
01:01:19.214 --> 01:01:24.306
<v Rob Gannon>report and some deeper information on or
to substantiate the trends that Kate</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7501-4
01:01:24.306 --> 01:01:25.090
<v Rob Gannon>referred to.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7538-0
01:01:25.490 --> 01:01:31.017
<v Rob Gannon>We do have good experience and evidence
to suggest that suspension lengths are</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7538-1
01:01:31.017 --> 01:01:35.774
<v Rob Gannon>shorter and less frequent,
but we do want to bring forward our best</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7538-2
01:01:35.774 --> 01:01:39.832
<v Rob Gannon>comparison so that we can demonstrate
that in a real way.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7538-3
01:01:39.832 --> 01:01:43.890
<v Rob Gannon>So we look forward to bringing that in
the coming months.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7586-0
01:01:44.850 --> 01:01:49.727
<v Rob Gannon>A couple of things that I want to
emphasize on some internal process.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7586-1
01:01:49.727 --> 01:01:54.674
<v Rob Gannon>All of the work that Andee and the
security team and the work that Kay</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7586-2
01:01:54.674 --> 01:01:58.855
<v Rob Gannon>referred to is ongoing,
but it's also informing some of our</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7586-3
01:01:58.855 --> 01:02:04.011
<v Rob Gannon>behind the scenes internal practices.
So in addition to consolidating and</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7586-4
01:02:04.011 --> 01:02:06.450
<v Rob Gannon>making more efficient the reporting</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7624-0
01:02:06.490 --> 01:02:10.534
<v Rob Gannon>process.
We are also using that to inform how we</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7624-1
01:02:10.534 --> 01:02:17.385
<v Rob Gannon>can make more efficient and even expedite
the production of the suspension letters</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7624-2
01:02:17.385 --> 01:02:23.081
<v Rob Gannon>and keep that as a core piece of
information going into the incident</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7624-3
01:02:23.081 --> 01:02:25.970
<v Rob Gannon>reporting structure so people know.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7667-0
01:02:27.170 --> 01:02:31.431
<v Rob Gannon>that a suspension has occurred,
that it can be effectively communicated</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7667-1
01:02:31.431 --> 01:02:36.107
<v Rob Gannon>to the patrons and that other staff at
other affected branches are also aware.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7667-2
01:02:36.107 --> 01:02:40.251
<v Rob Gannon>So speeding up that process,
making it clear and repeatable is a core</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7667-3
01:02:40.251 --> 01:02:43.210
<v Rob Gannon>piece of work,
and I think we've made a number of</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7667-4
01:02:43.210 --> 01:02:44.690
<v Rob Gannon>strides in the past year.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7669-0
01:02:45.170 --> 01:02:46.450
<v Rob Gannon>With more work to come.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7713-0
01:02:47.610 --> 01:02:53.254
<v Rob Gannon>We are, one of our next stage efforts,
and I want to allude to this because it's</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7713-1
01:02:53.254 --> 01:02:57.713
<v Rob Gannon>also a core to the community use
agreement, is to evaluate our,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7713-2
01:02:57.713 --> 01:03:01.545
<v Rob Gannon>what we refer to as the administrative
review process.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7713-3
01:03:01.545 --> 01:03:07.050
<v Rob Gannon>This is the means by which a suspended
patron can bring forward their concerns</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7755-0
01:03:08.010 --> 01:03:12.531
<v Rob Gannon>about that suspension and have it
reviewed or provide additional</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7755-1
01:03:12.531 --> 01:03:17.818
<v Rob Gannon>information that can then be considered
about the final disposition of that</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7755-2
01:03:17.818 --> 01:03:22.549
<v Rob Gannon>suspension. So to be clear,
we've had this in place and it's always</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7755-3
01:03:22.549 --> 01:03:24.010
<v Rob Gannon>been a feature of our</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7800-0
01:03:24.970 --> 01:03:29.578
<v Rob Gannon>of our community use agreement and prior
to that, the rules of conduct.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7800-1
01:03:29.578 --> 01:03:34.762
<v Rob Gannon>But making that more open and understood,
revamping it and making adjustments so</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7800-2
01:03:34.762 --> 01:03:38.538
<v Rob Gannon>that, if you will,
the due process element of that is more</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7800-3
01:03:38.538 --> 01:03:43.274
<v Rob Gannon>accessible and clearly understood.
That is one of our next phase efforts.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7800-4
01:03:43.274 --> 01:03:45.770
<v Rob Gannon>So we look forward to kicking that off.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7806-0
01:03:46.250 --> 01:03:50.970
<v Rob Gannon>here in the coming months in bringing
that information back to you.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7853-0
01:03:52.050 --> 01:03:57.395
<v Rob Gannon>And then the last thing I just want to
refer to is that as we're going through</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7853-1
01:03:57.395 --> 01:04:02.740
<v Rob Gannon>this ongoing review and improvement of
our community use agreement as applied,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7853-2
01:04:02.740 --> 01:04:07.003
<v Rob Gannon>it's also informing our practices in the
security environment.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7853-3
01:04:07.003 --> 01:04:11.604
<v Rob Gannon>So our security officers,
the security leads, Andee is the manager,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7853-4
01:04:11.604 --> 01:04:12.890
<v Rob Gannon>are routinely using</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7902-0
01:04:13.370 --> 01:04:18.448
<v Rob Gannon>information coming out of the suspension
process to inform their understanding of</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7902-1
01:04:18.448 --> 01:04:23.712
<v Rob Gannon>the best possible means of supporting the
environment, improving security practices,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7902-2
01:04:23.712 --> 01:04:28.790
<v Rob Gannon>and looking even at specific instances to
figure out are there better ways for us</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7902-3
01:04:28.790 --> 01:04:32.010
<v Rob Gannon>to continually evolve our enforcement
practices. So</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7955-0
01:04:32.370 --> 01:04:36.872
<v Rob Gannon>It's not just a as applied,
but it's also being turned internally so</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7955-1
01:04:36.872 --> 01:04:41.570
<v Rob Gannon>we can routinely update our efforts.
It's also then informing A broader</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7955-2
01:04:41.570 --> 01:04:46.007
<v Rob Gannon>security audit and assessment.
So we know that it's not just simply</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7955-3
01:04:46.007 --> 01:04:50.379
<v Rob Gannon>about library staff and security officers
interacting with patron.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/7955-4
01:04:50.379 --> 01:04:55.730
<v Rob Gannon>We know that there are things that we can
do to improve our physical environment.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8004-0
01:04:56.090 --> 01:05:00.060
<v Rob Gannon>our operating environment,
our technology environment,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8004-1
01:05:00.060 --> 01:05:04.970
<v Rob Gannon>all under the guise of making a safe,
welcoming space for everyone,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8004-2
01:05:04.970 --> 01:05:09.735
<v Rob Gannon>but having additional tools and resources
to do that effectively.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8004-3
01:05:09.735 --> 01:05:13.922
<v Rob Gannon>So our security audit is also underway.
It will complete,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8004-4
01:05:13.922 --> 01:05:16.810
<v Rob Gannon>it's on target to complete by the end of</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8051-0
01:05:17.450 --> 01:05:21.607
<v Rob Gannon>the calendar year and it will deeply
inform how we bring forward additional</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8051-1
01:05:21.607 --> 01:05:24.014
<v Rob Gannon>tools and resources,
whether it's training,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8051-2
01:05:24.014 --> 01:05:28.116
<v Rob Gannon>whether it's improvements to physical
environments, additional technology,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8051-3
01:05:28.116 --> 01:05:30.906
<v Rob Gannon>et cetera.
So what we learned in the community use</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8051-4
01:05:30.906 --> 01:05:35.337
<v Rob Gannon>agreement over the past year is helping
inform that overall audit and putting us</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8051-5
01:05:35.337 --> 01:05:36.650
<v Rob Gannon>in an improved position.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8073-0
01:05:37.130 --> 01:05:41.856
<v Rob Gannon>to think even more broadly about how we
make Seattle Public Library the most</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8056-0
01:05:39.930 --> 01:05:40.170
<v Tom Fay>Soh.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8073-1
01:05:41.856 --> 01:05:46.890
<v Rob Gannon>welcoming and safe space for our staff,
for our patrons, and for our communities.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8082-0
01:05:51.690 --> 01:05:55.290
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Once again, colleagues,
I'd like to open it up to you first.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8084-0
01:05:56.410 --> 01:05:56.890
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Ron.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8086-0
01:05:57.850 --> 01:05:58.490
<v Ron Chew>Yeah.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8117-0
01:05:59.930 --> 01:06:05.150
<v Ron Chew>I have a question.
I'm not sure there's an answer to this</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8117-1
01:06:05.150 --> 01:06:10.280
<v Ron Chew>necessarily. You know,
I spent a lot of time at a couple</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8117-2
01:06:10.280 --> 01:06:17.750
<v Ron Chew>branches and also at the central branch.
And it's clear that a number of folks who</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8117-3
01:06:17.750 --> 01:06:19.370
<v Ron Chew>create issues have</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8151-0
01:06:19.570 --> 01:06:22.942
<v Ron Chew>behavioral health issues,
mental health issues.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8151-1
01:06:22.942 --> 01:06:27.158
<v Ron Chew>And sometimes they're on medication,
sometimes they're off,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8151-2
01:06:27.158 --> 01:06:30.320
<v Ron Chew>sometimes they're diagnosed wrong,
you know,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8151-3
01:06:30.320 --> 01:06:34.395
<v Ron Chew>and then you dial it in and you get the
medication right.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8151-4
01:06:34.395 --> 01:06:38.330
<v Ron Chew>This has been on my mind more recently
because it was a</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8190-0
01:06:39.370 --> 01:06:42.755
<v Ron Chew>poet, writer,
who's actually pretty well known,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8190-1
01:06:42.755 --> 01:06:46.985
<v Ron Chew>and he passed away recently,
so I'm writing a story for the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8190-2
01:06:46.985 --> 01:06:51.005
<v Ron Chew>International Examiner on him.
But there are two people.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8190-3
01:06:51.005 --> 01:06:53.050
<v Ron Chew>One was the person who was...</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8218-0
01:06:54.410 --> 01:07:01.586
<v Ron Chew>going over to the Wing Luke Museum with a
2 by 4 knocking out the windows.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8218-1
01:07:01.586 --> 01:07:07.613
<v Ron Chew>The other person was the person that
finally got it dialed in.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8218-2
01:07:07.613 --> 01:07:13.450
<v Ron Chew>But I see folks like that when I visit
the library. And it's</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8248-0
01:07:13.690 --> 01:07:20.657
<v Ron Chew>I mean, it was really tragic. Last year,
I said he was dying and he wanted to</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8248-1
01:07:20.657 --> 01:07:24.855
<v Ron Chew>apologize for things he had done and so
forth.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8248-2
01:07:24.855 --> 01:07:32.090
<v Ron Chew>He set a bunch of fires in Chinatown and
other places. Very complex. But I guess</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8250-0
01:07:33.770 --> 01:07:34.250
<v Ron Chew>You know.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8266-0
01:07:35.330 --> 01:07:41.030
<v Ron Chew>I'm assuming you grapple with that.
How does that, I mean, do you have tools?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8266-1
01:07:41.030 --> 01:07:45.050
<v Ron Chew>I don't know if there's an answer, Kay,
Rob, thoughts.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8324-0
01:07:47.290 --> 01:07:52.396
<v Kai Tang>Yeah, Browne, that's a great question.
And I think that's the beauty of the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8324-1
01:07:52.396 --> 01:07:55.620
<v Kai Tang>public library is that we are open to
everyone.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8324-2
01:07:55.620 --> 01:07:59.987
<v Kai Tang>And I will say that our staff are not
only extremely empathetic,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8324-3
01:07:59.987 --> 01:08:03.279
<v Kai Tang>they also are really great at finding
resources.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8324-4
01:08:03.279 --> 01:08:06.370
<v Kai Tang>I lean on our community resource
specialists.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8314-0
01:08:06.050 --> 01:08:06.250
<v Tom Fay>Two.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8373-0
01:08:06.490 --> 01:08:10.285
<v Kai Tang>that are right now housed in Central and
thanks to the levy,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8373-1
01:08:10.285 --> 01:08:13.770
<v Kai Tang>we will hopefully be expanding that to
other locations,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8373-2
01:08:13.770 --> 01:08:17.814
<v Kai Tang>as well as our partnerships that we have
with folks in the city,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8373-3
01:08:17.814 --> 01:08:20.614
<v Kai Tang>like the care team and our first
responders,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8373-4
01:08:20.614 --> 01:08:24.970
<v Kai Tang>because it really takes a village.
It takes our entire community. And</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8420-0
01:08:25.650 --> 01:08:29.919
<v Kai Tang>That is a lot of pressure to put on our
staff alone. Again,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8420-1
01:08:29.919 --> 01:08:35.328
<v Kai Tang>our staff are wonderful resources.
I want to thank Laura Harrington and the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8420-2
01:08:35.328 --> 01:08:40.594
<v Kai Tang>CRS team because they do fabulous jobs
being in those spaces to help with</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8420-3
01:08:40.594 --> 01:08:44.650
<v Kai Tang>security officers to de-escalate
situations when we can.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8459-0
01:08:45.010 --> 01:08:50.262
<v Kai Tang>as well as to create relationships with
folks so that we can identify when</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8459-1
01:08:50.262 --> 01:08:55.865
<v Kai Tang>they're having a bad day or when there
might need to be different interventions</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8459-2
01:08:55.865 --> 01:09:00.628
<v Kai Tang>in them using our spaces.
But I really do think that our folks lean</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8459-3
01:09:00.628 --> 01:09:04.410
<v Kai Tang>on our connections that we have within
the community.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8500-0
01:09:04.810 --> 01:09:08.272
<v Kai Tang>And again,
our security officers have training as</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8500-1
01:09:08.272 --> 01:09:12.357
<v Kai Tang>well as our CRS team.
And with the supplements that we are</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8500-2
01:09:12.357 --> 01:09:15.957
<v Kai Tang>getting,
hopefully when we move into this new levy,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8500-3
01:09:15.957 --> 01:09:21.011
<v Kai Tang>we'll be able to provide additional
support and resources like training,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8500-4
01:09:21.011 --> 01:09:23.850
<v Kai Tang>mental health 101 training for our staff.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8503-0
01:09:24.410 --> 01:09:26.570
<v Kai Tang>But I'll throw it over to Tom and Rob.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8523-0
01:09:28.810 --> 01:09:31.883
<v Rob Gannon>I would just say Kay answered the
question,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8523-1
01:09:31.883 --> 01:09:35.585
<v Rob Gannon>a very insightful and difficult question,
very well.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8523-2
01:09:35.585 --> 01:09:38.170
<v Rob Gannon>The thing I would under score is that</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8537-0
01:09:39.450 --> 01:09:42.648
<v Rob Gannon>Our staff,
our building staff in Central and the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8537-1
01:09:42.648 --> 01:09:46.890
<v Rob Gannon>branches, our security team,
the community resource specialists.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8578-0
01:09:48.170 --> 01:09:53.884
<v Rob Gannon>They are working every day to build
relationships with the patrons and</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8578-1
01:09:53.884 --> 01:09:59.680
<v Rob Gannon>notably patrons who have visible
circumstances that require support and</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8578-2
01:09:59.680 --> 01:10:05.636
<v Rob Gannon>assistance and not just a blind eye or a
strict interpretation of a rule.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8578-3
01:10:05.636 --> 01:10:07.970
<v Rob Gannon>You see our security officers</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8622-0
01:10:08.570 --> 01:10:12.464
<v Rob Gannon>always standing at the door,
welcoming patrons, greeting them.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8622-1
01:10:12.464 --> 01:10:17.286
<v Rob Gannon>They know folks who are coming in and
they're prepared to understand what the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8622-2
01:10:17.286 --> 01:10:21.799
<v Rob Gannon>circumstances are for that given day,
offer de-escalating services where</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8622-3
01:10:21.799 --> 01:10:25.075
<v Rob Gannon>necessary,
help them make connections and referrals,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8622-4
01:10:25.075 --> 01:10:27.610
<v Rob Gannon>but also to be there to provide necessary</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8638-0
01:10:29.130 --> 01:10:31.647
<v Rob Gannon>safety and support when things do
escalate.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8638-1
01:10:31.647 --> 01:10:36.052
<v Rob Gannon>So it really is a relationship-based
approach that our team takes. And that,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8638-2
01:10:36.052 --> 01:10:40.399
<v Rob Gannon>I think, is certainly not the cure.
It's certainly not going to fix many of</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8638-3
01:10:40.399 --> 01:10:43.260
<v Rob Gannon>the challenges,
but it is sort of the fundamental</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8638-4
01:10:43.260 --> 01:10:46.921
<v Rob Gannon>disposition of the library.
How can we help? How do we support?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8638-5
01:10:46.921 --> 01:10:49.610
<v Rob Gannon>How do we read and evaluate rather than
apply?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8651-0
01:10:51.210 --> 01:10:54.753
<v Rob Gannon>harsh strictures and I think that's
embodied also in the community use</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8651-1
01:10:54.753 --> 01:10:56.650
<v Rob Gannon>agreement and why it was put in place.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8685-0
01:10:56.770 --> 01:11:02.171
<v Tom Fay>It also looks at some holistic pieces and
thankful to our friends and our</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8685-1
01:11:02.171 --> 01:11:06.478
<v Tom Fay>foundation for providing some other
resource to our teams.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8685-2
01:11:06.478 --> 01:11:12.245
<v Tom Fay>That could be everything from maybe some,
you know, food items like, you know,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8685-3
01:11:12.245 --> 01:11:15.530
<v Tom Fay>snack type items,
not hot meals or anything.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8722-0
01:11:16.490 --> 01:11:22.047
<v Tom Fay>even water, simple things like that,
ability to charge, phone,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8722-1
01:11:22.047 --> 01:11:28.839
<v Tom Fay>cable devices to be able to do that.
All of those things help prevent crisis</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8722-2
01:11:28.839 --> 01:11:35.719
<v Tom Fay>for folks who are experiencing some of
the more difficult things a person can</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8722-3
01:11:35.719 --> 01:11:36.690
<v Tom Fay>experience.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8774-0
01:11:36.770 --> 01:11:40.128
<v Tom Fay>and in life.
And I think all of that goes to, again,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8774-1
01:11:40.128 --> 01:11:44.247
<v Tom Fay>help with the de-escalation.
If you haven't had anything to eat,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8774-2
01:11:44.247 --> 01:11:48.620
<v Tom Fay>that could be the thing that's throwing a
person to their wit's end,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8774-3
01:11:48.620 --> 01:11:52.929
<v Tom Fay>as it would for any of us.
Same thing if you haven't had a drink of</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8774-4
01:11:52.929 --> 01:11:56.921
<v Tom Fay>water on a very hot day,
that you need to be able to carry out</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8774-5
01:11:56.921 --> 01:12:00.090
<v Tom Fay>with you and not have to look for another
source.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8778-0
01:12:00.290 --> 01:12:03.930
<v Tom Fay>when there are very few open sources for
water.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8783-0
01:12:04.970 --> 01:12:05.370
<v Ron Chew>Yeah.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8817-0
01:12:05.010 --> 01:12:09.649
<v Tom Fay>any other type of food. So it's a very,
you know, it's not just one effort.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8817-1
01:12:09.649 --> 01:12:13.982
<v Tom Fay>It's many, many, many efforts.
It's staff looking for grants that help</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8817-2
01:12:13.982 --> 01:12:17.034
<v Tom Fay>support that.
It's our foundation and our friends</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8817-3
01:12:17.034 --> 01:12:21.246
<v Tom Fay>providing those resources.
It's a big commitment by our teams to get</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8817-4
01:12:21.246 --> 01:12:23.810
<v Tom Fay>this done, but I think they do a good job.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8851-0
01:12:24.810 --> 01:12:28.123
<v Ron Chew>Yeah,
and my question actually was really</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8851-1
01:12:28.123 --> 01:12:33.488
<v Ron Chew>partly a shout out to staff,
because I've seen some of the security</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8851-2
01:12:33.488 --> 01:12:38.064
<v Ron Chew>officers de-escalate pretty ugly
situations. Just partly,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8851-3
01:12:38.064 --> 01:12:41.930
<v Ron Chew>you could tell they dealt with the folks
before.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8882-0
01:12:43.250 --> 01:12:47.802
<v Ron Chew>and can anticipate some things,
but then also the tolerance and</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8882-1
01:12:47.802 --> 01:12:52.639
<v Ron Chew>compassion of a lot of the library staff
to deal with these things.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8882-2
01:12:52.639 --> 01:12:57.761
<v Ron Chew>And so I think that's a really
underappreciated aspect of the work that</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8882-3
01:12:57.761 --> 01:12:58.330
<v Ron Chew>happens.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8884-0
01:13:00.410 --> 01:13:01.370
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Thanks, Ryan.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8887-0
01:13:01.370 --> 01:13:02.250
<v Kai Tang>Thank you.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8906-0
01:13:14.250 --> 01:13:14.570
<v Ron Chew>Yeah.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8945-0
01:13:14.610 --> 01:13:18.033
<v Tom Fay>you humanize them,
which is not what they experience on a</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8945-1
01:13:18.033 --> 01:13:21.043
<v Tom Fay>daily basis,
you have a much bigger impact and the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8945-2
01:13:21.043 --> 01:13:25.470
<v Tom Fay>ability to actually come to a better
resolution and make sure that they're</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8945-3
01:13:25.470 --> 01:13:29.307
<v Tom Fay>successful in the library.
That's always our end goal is to make</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8945-4
01:13:29.307 --> 01:13:33.970
<v Tom Fay>sure you're successful in whatever you're
trying to accomplish at the library.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8948-0
01:13:34.650 --> 01:13:35.210
<v Tom Fay>each day.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8957-0
01:13:37.730 --> 01:13:42.730
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Thanks.
I think I want to first Faith or Carmen.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8958-0
01:13:44.010 --> 01:13:44.730
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Tally.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8967-0
01:13:46.210 --> 01:13:51.610
<v Yazmin Mehdi>What I what I'm hearing from this report
is that.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8998-0
01:13:53.690 --> 01:14:00.622
<v Yazmin Mehdi>There isn't an easy way to compare
essentially apples and oranges.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8998-1
01:14:00.622 --> 01:14:08.795
<v Yazmin Mehdi>The way that the rules of conduct were
written and how we applied those versus</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/8998-2
01:14:08.795 --> 01:14:12.210
<v Yazmin Mehdi>this, I might say, more nebulous.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9001-0
01:14:12.730 --> 01:14:15.290
<v Yazmin Mehdi>community use agreement.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9055-0
01:14:17.690 --> 01:14:22.050
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Well, actually,
nebulous is not the right way to describe</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9055-1
01:14:22.050 --> 01:14:26.184
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the agreement.
I think it is the right way to describe</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9055-2
01:14:26.184 --> 01:14:31.596
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the situations that staff are finding,
that they are not cut and dried.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9055-3
01:14:31.596 --> 01:14:37.309
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And part of the shift from rules of
conduct to a community use agreement is</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9055-4
01:14:37.309 --> 01:14:37.610
<v Yazmin Mehdi>that</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9092-0
01:14:38.250 --> 01:14:42.170
<v Yazmin Mehdi>you can't make some of these situations
cut and dried.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9092-1
01:14:42.170 --> 01:14:48.158
<v Yazmin Mehdi>There isn't necessarily a black or white
answer to addressing a patron in distress.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9092-2
01:14:48.158 --> 01:14:53.006
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So I'm definitely, that is,
if that's what you're trying to convey,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9092-3
01:14:53.006 --> 01:14:56.570
<v Yazmin Mehdi>that is the thing that I am picking up
from this.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9106-0
01:14:58.570 --> 01:15:06.246
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And I think I want to say I get that.
I want to encourage us to try to find</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9106-1
01:15:06.246 --> 01:15:06.650
<v Yazmin Mehdi>ways</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9136-0
01:15:08.410 --> 01:15:14.842
<v Yazmin Mehdi>not to quantify per se,
but to evaluate the scenarios that our</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9136-1
01:15:14.842 --> 01:15:21.376
<v Yazmin Mehdi>staff are dealing with,
to evaluate the ways that we are having</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9136-2
01:15:21.376 --> 01:15:26.890
<v Yazmin Mehdi>to respond to these scenarios,
and to be able to give</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9168-0
01:15:27.850 --> 01:15:34.753
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I think more of a picture of how well
it's working or how we're making</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9168-1
01:15:34.753 --> 01:15:39.712
<v Yazmin Mehdi>adjustments.
I want to encourage you to do that in</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9168-2
01:15:39.712 --> 01:15:44.476
<v Yazmin Mehdi>whatever way you can. A,
because I know you can.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9168-3
01:15:44.476 --> 01:15:46.810
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I've seen Rob's numbers.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9201-0
01:15:47.210 --> 01:15:53.326
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and spreadsheets, but B,
because I think we owe it to ourselves,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9201-1
01:15:53.326 --> 01:15:57.748
<v Yazmin Mehdi>to our staff,
and to the patrons to be able to</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9201-2
01:15:57.748 --> 01:16:04.523
<v Yazmin Mehdi>articulate further how we're making
strides toward a safe and welcoming</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9201-3
01:16:04.523 --> 01:16:06.970
<v Yazmin Mehdi>environment for everybody.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9227-0
01:16:07.210 --> 01:16:13.000
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and ensuring that a few patrons aren't
wagging the dog, if you will,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9227-1
01:16:13.000 --> 01:16:17.531
<v Yazmin Mehdi>aren't taking a disproportionate amount
of resources.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9227-2
01:16:17.531 --> 01:16:22.650
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So I hope that that made some sense to
you. I just given the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9228-0
01:16:24.330 --> 01:16:24.890
<v Yazmin Mehdi>The.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9255-0
01:16:26.210 --> 01:16:31.554
<v Yazmin Mehdi>criticisms that we've gotten from at
least some members of the press about</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9255-1
01:16:31.554 --> 01:16:35.402
<v Yazmin Mehdi>this topic.
I'd really like to feel like we are armed</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9255-2
01:16:35.402 --> 01:16:39.250
<v Yazmin Mehdi>with good information to then be able to
report back.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9296-0
01:16:42.090 --> 01:16:47.690
<v Tom Fay>And I think it's important to note,
and Kay and Rob can jump in, but I mean,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9260-0
01:16:42.330 --> 01:16:42.730
<v Kai Tang>Thanks.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9296-1
01:16:47.690 --> 01:16:53.799
<v Tom Fay>really the data analysis piece of it will
come in that second year where we're able</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9296-2
01:16:53.799 --> 01:16:59.690
<v Tom Fay>to start looking at year over year change,
right? Because in an apple to orange,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9344-0
01:17:01.490 --> 01:17:06.101
<v Tom Fay>process of the rules of conduct,
which had a very regimented approach to</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9344-1
01:17:06.101 --> 01:17:09.448
<v Tom Fay>everything,
and everything had a thing that attached</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9344-2
01:17:09.448 --> 01:17:13.301
<v Tom Fay>to another thing. If this happened,
this will happen to you.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9344-3
01:17:13.301 --> 01:17:18.039
<v Tom Fay>It is hard to have a year over year
comparison with two different types of</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9344-4
01:17:18.039 --> 01:17:22.523
<v Tom Fay>systems. So as we go forward,
we will definitely have more comparative</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9344-5
01:17:22.523 --> 01:17:23.850
<v Tom Fay>data, at least within</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9347-0
01:17:23.970 --> 01:17:25.450
<v Tom Fay>the new system that we're working on.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9413-0
01:17:27.450 --> 01:17:31.821
<v Kai Tang>In this new system,
we are taking down information like if</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9413-1
01:17:31.821 --> 01:17:37.453
<v Kai Tang>911 was called, the response to it,
if we partnered with other systems like</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9413-2
01:17:37.453 --> 01:17:42.788
<v Kai Tang>the care team and first response,
if our community resource specialists</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9413-3
01:17:42.788 --> 01:17:46.863
<v Kai Tang>were involved,
if our security officers were involved.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9413-4
01:17:46.863 --> 01:17:52.050
<v Kai Tang>And so we are gathering more data on that
so that we would be able to</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9415-0
01:17:52.130 --> 01:17:52.570
<v Kai Tang>See.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9451-0
01:17:54.250 --> 01:17:58.732
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Thank you, Kate. I appreciate that. Again,
I appreciate that this work,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9451-1
01:17:58.732 --> 01:18:02.903
<v Yazmin Mehdi>in order to be effective,
cannot just be cut and dried. But again,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9451-2
01:18:02.903 --> 01:18:07.759
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I feel like we owe it to ourselves to be
able to evaluate how well things are</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9451-3
01:18:07.759 --> 01:18:10.250
<v Yazmin Mehdi>going and to make changes if we need to.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9502-0
01:18:11.690 --> 01:18:15.451
<v Rob Gannon>If I could, I would just add,
I think I certainly hear all your</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9502-1
01:18:15.451 --> 01:18:19.035
<v Rob Gannon>comments, Yazmin,
and the concerns that are expressed there.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9502-2
01:18:19.035 --> 01:18:22.032
<v Rob Gannon>We do have some good information to bring
forward.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9502-3
01:18:22.032 --> 01:18:26.910
<v Rob Gannon>And I think the iteration that Kay and I
have been referring to over the past year</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9502-4
01:18:26.910 --> 01:18:30.730
<v Rob Gannon>has yielded a lot of good qualitative
information about how this</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9540-0
01:18:30.770 --> 01:18:34.006
<v Rob Gannon>transition has impacted our environment
and our patrons.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9540-1
01:18:34.006 --> 01:18:38.492
<v Rob Gannon>And I think we can cultivate a lot of
that information and bring it forward in</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9540-2
01:18:38.492 --> 01:18:43.204
<v Rob Gannon>a way that complements the data elements
and some of the holes that might exist in</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9540-3
01:18:43.204 --> 01:18:47.406
<v Rob Gannon>that apples to oranges comparison.
So I think that'll be a key piece that</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9540-4
01:18:47.406 --> 01:18:49.450
<v Rob Gannon>we'll want to bring forward as well.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9546-0
01:18:50.570 --> 01:18:53.367
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Great,
I'll look forward to that next report.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9546-1
01:18:53.367 --> 01:18:55.130
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Thank you both for your time.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9547-0
01:18:55.450 --> 01:18:56.010
<v Rob Gannon>Thank you.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9548-0
01:18:55.610 --> 01:18:56.570
<v Kai Tang>Thank you.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9563-0
01:18:58.250 --> 01:19:03.530
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Tom, I know we're running out of time.
I don't know what our what's our norm.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9591-0
01:19:01.090 --> 01:19:05.542
<v Tom Fay>We're doing, we're doing,
we're doing okay.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9566-0
01:19:05.450 --> 01:19:05.850
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9591-1
01:19:05.542 --> 01:19:11.512
<v Tom Fay>We have our second quarter 2026 levy
report and I believe,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9591-2
01:19:11.512 --> 01:19:18.090
<v Tom Fay>is it Elisa that is doing this?
I believe so. Yes, there she is.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9647-0
01:19:18.490 --> 01:19:23.396
<v Elisa Murray>Hello. I'll try to keep it quick.
A really good discussions and some of us</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9647-1
01:19:23.396 --> 01:19:27.124
<v Elisa Murray>will repeat some of what you've already
heard. But yeah,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9647-2
01:19:27.124 --> 01:19:30.722
<v Elisa Murray>last year of the 2019 levy,
and this is the Q2 report.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9647-3
01:19:30.722 --> 01:19:35.366
<v Elisa Murray>Just want to thank Jessica Smith and
David Christensen of Strategy and</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9647-4
01:19:35.366 --> 01:19:38.833
<v Elisa Murray>Performance who helped create and review
the report.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9647-5
01:19:38.833 --> 01:19:41.450
<v Elisa Murray>I don't think they're on the call today.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9685-0
01:19:41.930 --> 01:19:48.087
<v Elisa Murray>Staff who contributed program summaries
and then reviewers and the senior</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9685-1
01:19:48.087 --> 01:19:53.994
<v Elisa Murray>management team, super helpful.
Just to share some highlights in hours</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9685-2
01:19:53.994 --> 01:20:00.816
<v Elisa Murray>and access. Library use continued to grow.
Our active library users increased 10%</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9685-3
01:20:00.816 --> 01:20:02.730
<v Elisa Murray>compared to Q2 of 2025.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9733-0
01:20:03.210 --> 01:20:08.443
<v Elisa Murray>We had 890,000 in-person visits.
Pickup locker use continued to grow.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9733-1
01:20:08.443 --> 01:20:13.003
<v Elisa Murray>We launched Summer Quest.
I know that was already discussed,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9733-2
01:20:13.003 --> 01:20:19.208
<v Elisa Murray>so hopefully you're all doing it and will
return turning your activity trackers by</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9733-3
01:20:19.208 --> 01:20:23.395
<v Elisa Murray>September 4th.
World Cup was a big focus in Q2 and also</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9733-4
01:20:23.395 --> 01:20:24.890
<v Elisa Murray>the beginning of Q3.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9775-0
01:20:25.370 --> 01:20:29.625
<v Elisa Murray>Our libraries were really abuzz with
World Cup excitement. We were,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9775-1
01:20:29.625 --> 01:20:32.942
<v Elisa Murray>the Central Library was part of the FIFA
Unity Loop.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9775-2
01:20:32.942 --> 01:20:36.947
<v Elisa Murray>We hosted watch parties with snacks,
which I thought was great.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9775-3
01:20:36.947 --> 01:20:41.828
<v Elisa Murray>And our security team completed refresher
training to be prepared for the big</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9775-4
01:20:41.828 --> 01:20:44.770
<v Elisa Murray>influx of visitors,
and it went very smoothly.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9822-0
01:20:45.850 --> 01:20:50.906
<v Elisa Murray>We hosted almost 2,000 programs in Q2,
and our meeting rooms were used by</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9822-1
01:20:50.906 --> 01:20:55.073
<v Elisa Murray>patrons more than 2,800 times.
And we put together an insert</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9822-2
01:20:55.073 --> 01:21:00.129
<v Elisa Murray>specifically on meeting room use.
It's not something we talk about a lot,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9822-3
01:21:00.129 --> 01:21:04.570
<v Elisa Murray>but it's just a huge benefit of library
space to have these free</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9866-0
01:21:04.650 --> 01:21:08.982
<v Elisa Murray>meeting spaces as well as study rooms.
And it's really fascinating to look at</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9866-1
01:21:08.982 --> 01:21:13.537
<v Elisa Murray>that data more closely and see the huge
variety of ways in which people are using</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9866-2
01:21:13.537 --> 01:21:15.981
<v Elisa Murray>it.
And we highlighted one particular story</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9866-3
01:21:15.981 --> 01:21:20.479
<v Elisa Murray>about a hula group that's been using the
Broadview branch and tried to summarize</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9866-4
01:21:20.479 --> 01:21:24.090
<v Elisa Murray>some of that variety.
I can't remember the page number now, but.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9905-0
01:21:25.450 --> 01:21:29.519
<v Elisa Murray>It's in the hours and access part.
And then social services team,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9905-1
01:21:29.519 --> 01:21:34.635
<v Elisa Murray>I know we've been kind of talking about
some of that, the importance of that work.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9905-2
01:21:34.635 --> 01:21:39.382
<v Elisa Murray>They continue to connect patrons to
lifeline resources and community through</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9905-3
01:21:39.382 --> 01:21:42.650
<v Elisa Murray>regular programs, interactions, referrals.
It's very</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9948-0
01:21:43.210 --> 01:21:47.797
<v Elisa Murray>complicated and nuanced work that they
really excel at. In collections,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9948-1
01:21:47.797 --> 01:21:52.256
<v Elisa Murray>so we continue to make investments in
digital and physical materials,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9948-2
01:21:52.256 --> 01:21:57.289
<v Elisa Murray>and then they really started to prepare
for the transition to a new integrated</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9948-3
01:21:57.289 --> 01:22:00.538
<v Elisa Murray>library system.
Maybe you've heard of that. In Q2,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9948-4
01:22:00.538 --> 01:22:02.450
<v Elisa Murray>digital checkouts grew by 12%.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9989-0
01:22:02.890 --> 01:22:07.012
<v Elisa Murray>compared to Q2 2025.
So that's a trend that we continue to see.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9989-1
01:22:07.012 --> 01:22:10.683
<v Elisa Murray>Purchased, you know, digital titles,
physical titles, 6,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9989-2
01:22:10.683 --> 01:22:15.514
<v Elisa Murray>000 levy funded peak picks titles.
We refurbished our local map collection</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9989-3
01:22:15.514 --> 01:22:19.185
<v Elisa Murray>in the map room.
We added almost 90 items in the Seattle</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9989-4
01:22:19.185 --> 01:22:21.568
<v Elisa Murray>room,
and there's a couple of really</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/9989-5
01:22:21.568 --> 01:22:23.050
<v Elisa Murray>interesting examples of</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10034-0
01:22:24.290 --> 01:22:28.431
<v Elisa Murray>kind of the history of nursing in Seattle,
some personal stories,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10034-1
01:22:28.431 --> 01:22:33.387
<v Elisa Murray>and we added newly digitized materials
document in Seattle's great fire to our</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10034-2
01:22:33.387 --> 01:22:37.968
<v Elisa Murray>digital collections, all available online.
Technology and access, again,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10034-3
01:22:37.968 --> 01:22:42.611
<v Elisa Murray>a huge focus was preparing for the
transition to a new integrated library</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10034-4
01:22:42.611 --> 01:22:43.050
<v Elisa Murray>system.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10077-0
01:22:43.770 --> 01:22:49.069
<v Elisa Murray>That transition starts on September 6th
at 6 P.m. That is ingrained in my brain.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10077-1
01:22:49.069 --> 01:22:54.042
<v Elisa Murray>This is one of our final levy promises.
It's really exciting to see it come</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10077-2
01:22:54.042 --> 01:22:58.099
<v Elisa Murray>together with engagement from staff
across the system. In Q2,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10077-3
01:22:58.099 --> 01:23:02.090
<v Elisa Murray>it was really about planning and testing
for implementation.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10127-0
01:23:02.490 --> 01:23:07.573
<v Elisa Murray>And this team recruited and trained 100
library staff known as Polaris Peer</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10127-1
01:23:07.573 --> 01:23:10.650
<v Elisa Murray>Champions.
And they're really contributing in</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10127-2
01:23:10.650 --> 01:23:14.262
<v Elisa Murray>countless ways to this project.
So shout out to them.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10127-3
01:23:14.262 --> 01:23:19.212
<v Elisa Murray>I think the stats on the stats on tech
use are always really interesting.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10127-4
01:23:19.212 --> 01:23:22.490
<v Elisa Murray>Patrons use public computers for 101,
000 hours.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10148-0
01:23:23.210 --> 01:23:27.714
<v Elisa Murray>printed 573,
000 pages on library printers and used</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10148-1
01:23:27.714 --> 01:23:33.690
<v Elisa Murray>Scan Easy to scan almost 160,000 pages.
And I think that's like a...</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10194-0
01:23:35.170 --> 01:23:38.794
<v Elisa Murray>a 30 plus percent increase for Scan EZ
since last year.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10194-1
01:23:38.794 --> 01:23:41.642
<v Elisa Murray>Our hotspot program continue to be
popular.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10194-2
01:23:41.642 --> 01:23:46.301
<v Elisa Murray>We also have an insert on that in the
report that David Christensen put</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10194-3
01:23:46.301 --> 01:23:51.090
<v Elisa Murray>together that's summarizing some of the
findings from our hotspot survey,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10194-4
01:23:51.090 --> 01:23:54.650
<v Elisa Murray>which we provide to everyone who checks
out a hotspot.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10184-0
01:23:52.730 --> 01:23:53.050
<v Tom Fay>Chief.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10258-0
01:23:55.050 --> 01:23:58.715
<v Elisa Murray>And it's the first time that we've looked
at that in a while.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10258-1
01:23:58.715 --> 01:24:01.907
<v Elisa Murray>Under helping children,
continue with play and learn.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10258-2
01:24:01.907 --> 01:24:06.222
<v Elisa Murray>We had about 75 in-person weekly play and
learn programs at 7 locations.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10258-3
01:24:06.222 --> 01:24:10.655
<v Elisa Murray>Many positive comments about that.
We summarized some of the findings from</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10258-4
01:24:10.655 --> 01:24:14.025
<v Elisa Murray>the Bright Spark annual survey.
And then in maintenance,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10258-5
01:24:14.025 --> 01:24:17.690
<v Elisa Murray>lots and lots of work,
some of which we've already discussed.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10293-0
01:24:18.170 --> 01:24:22.408
<v Elisa Murray>We made steady progress on the university
branch renovations.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10293-1
01:24:22.408 --> 01:24:27.808
<v Elisa Murray>I think there's a blog post going up
today that will share up-to-date progress</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10293-2
01:24:27.808 --> 01:24:31.021
<v Elisa Murray>on that with many photos. And then,
of course,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10293-3
01:24:31.021 --> 01:24:36.490
<v Elisa Murray>the cooling center project to install
modern HVAC systems. We are preparing for</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10333-0
01:24:36.770 --> 01:24:41.886
<v Elisa Murray>those closures at Fremont and West
Seattle branches that started on August</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10333-1
01:24:41.886 --> 01:24:46.047
<v Elisa Murray>9th. And then strategic plan,
I'll just share one highlight,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10333-2
01:24:46.047 --> 01:24:51.300
<v Elisa Murray>which is that we launched a summer
version of the Story Squad literacy pilot</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10333-3
01:24:51.300 --> 01:24:55.530
<v Elisa Murray>with Seattle Public Schools with 63 kits
delivered to summer.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10347-0
01:24:55.930 --> 01:25:02.262
<v Elisa Murray>sites for learning and I know we'll have
more updates on that in Q3.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10347-1
01:25:02.262 --> 01:25:05.290
<v Elisa Murray>And then of course, library levy.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10376-0
01:25:07.290 --> 01:25:12.244
<v Elisa Murray>The city council approved the proposal
and then of course it was passed in</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10376-1
01:25:12.244 --> 01:25:17.197
<v Elisa Murray>August, as you all know. So yeah,
thanks again to everyone who helped with</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10376-2
01:25:17.197 --> 01:25:20.170
<v Elisa Murray>this report and happy to take any
questions.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10385-0
01:25:21.410 --> 01:25:25.050
<v Tom Fay>And as a reminder,
we will need a vote of acceptance on this.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10387-0
01:25:25.690 --> 01:25:26.970
<v Elisa Murray>That's right. Yes. Thank you, Tom.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10428-0
01:25:29.010 --> 01:25:32.421
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I am seeing no questions from my
colleagues.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10428-1
01:25:32.421 --> 01:25:38.181
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I would just like to say that once again,
the quarterly levy report does an</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10428-2
01:25:38.181 --> 01:25:44.245
<v Yazmin Mehdi>incredible job of accountability to the
public around what the library uses the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10428-3
01:25:44.245 --> 01:25:48.490
<v Yazmin Mehdi>levy money for and how we're meeting
those commitments.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10460-0
01:25:48.890 --> 01:25:53.453
<v Yazmin Mehdi>You, Elisa,
highlighted a bunch of great information.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10460-1
01:25:53.453 --> 01:25:59.368
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I would just add a few others.
The digital preservation platform that</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10460-2
01:25:59.368 --> 01:26:04.185
<v Yazmin Mehdi>was put together for the Seattle Rooms,
so that Seattle,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10460-3
01:26:04.185 --> 01:26:07.650
<v Yazmin Mehdi>specific to Seattle history is available.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10516-0
01:26:08.810 --> 01:26:14.911
<v Yazmin Mehdi>The idea of locker pickups versus
in-branch pickups so that people can have</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10464-0
01:26:09.450 --> 01:26:09.930
<v Tom Fay>Nick.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10516-1
01:26:14.911 --> 01:26:19.648
<v Yazmin Mehdi>access beyond the library branch hours.
I would love, Tom,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10516-2
01:26:19.648 --> 01:26:25.187
<v Yazmin Mehdi>at some point for you all to reflect on
the closure of the Chinatown</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10516-3
01:26:25.187 --> 01:26:31.530
<v Yazmin Mehdi>International District Branch and what we
can do to avoid such a long closure.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10548-0
01:26:31.850 --> 01:26:35.889
<v Yazmin Mehdi>In future,
that is a building we don't own.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10548-1
01:26:35.889 --> 01:26:42.591
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So it's a very particular thing.
I wanted to say a group that I help run</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10548-2
01:26:42.591 --> 01:26:46.815
<v Yazmin Mehdi>had to use a meeting room for the first
time,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10548-3
01:26:46.815 --> 01:26:51.130
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and it was a boon to us that it was
available.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10586-0
01:26:51.530 --> 01:26:55.417
<v Yazmin Mehdi>because our host couldn't host us.
As you say,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10556-0
01:26:55.290 --> 01:26:55.530
<v Tom Fay>Faith.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10586-1
01:26:55.417 --> 01:27:02.282
<v Yazmin Mehdi>that is one of the many ways that library
buildings are used beyond just providing</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10586-2
01:27:02.282 --> 01:27:07.080
<v Yazmin Mehdi>library service.
I love the meet me where there's never a</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10586-3
01:27:07.080 --> 01:27:11.050
<v Yazmin Mehdi>paywall work that the Marcom team put
together.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10604-0
01:27:11.850 --> 01:27:17.145
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Helen and her team are very,
they're wonderful at what they do.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10604-1
01:27:17.145 --> 01:27:21.530
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I wanted to note the passing of Alan
Browne Zubiaga.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10636-0
01:27:23.290 --> 01:27:30.861
<v Yazmin Mehdi>who sounds like he was an incredible part
of our team and is a big loss to the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10636-1
01:27:30.861 --> 01:27:35.365
<v Yazmin Mehdi>community.
The security audit that Rob already</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10636-2
01:27:35.365 --> 01:27:41.690
<v Yazmin Mehdi>talked about is going to be interesting
to see the response from.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10651-0
01:27:42.410 --> 01:27:47.271
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I wanted to note the fact that our
hotspot users,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10651-1
01:27:47.271 --> 01:27:50.090
<v Yazmin Mehdi>68% do not have a cell phone.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10690-0
01:27:51.850 --> 01:27:57.630
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I think sometimes it's hard for some of
our patrons to realize just how important</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10690-1
01:27:57.630 --> 01:28:01.789
<v Yazmin Mehdi>those hotspots are.
It's hard to imagine that people don't</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10690-2
01:28:01.789 --> 01:28:06.371
<v Yazmin Mehdi>have cell phones, but guess what?
People don't have cell phones,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10690-3
01:28:06.371 --> 01:28:09.050
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and so library hotspots are essential.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10722-0
01:28:11.610 --> 01:28:18.713
<v Yazmin Mehdi>metric tons of carbon emissions are
avoided per HVAC system that we install,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10722-1
01:28:18.713 --> 01:28:22.771
<v Yazmin Mehdi>electric HVAC system.
So that's incredible.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10722-2
01:28:22.771 --> 01:28:29.690
<v Yazmin Mehdi>That investment that the levy allows us
to do is just a huge investment in</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10748-0
01:28:30.010 --> 01:28:36.366
<v Yazmin Mehdi>our future. So, Elisa, thank you so much.
I really appreciate that we have that</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10748-1
01:28:36.366 --> 01:28:41.530
<v Yazmin Mehdi>much information and data to show what
the levy dollars provide.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10755-0
01:28:42.810 --> 01:28:45.881
<v Elisa Murray>Thank you, Yazmin,
and I really appreciate your additions.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10755-1
01:28:45.881 --> 01:28:47.130
<v Elisa Murray>Yeah, they're wonderful.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10758-0
01:28:49.690 --> 01:28:51.370
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Tom, should we move on?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10804-0
01:28:51.690 --> 01:28:55.879
<v Tom Fay>All right, we can. Thank you, Elisa.
As always, a great report.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10804-1
01:28:55.879 --> 01:29:00.788
<v Tom Fay>Really appreciate all the extra work
that's gone into really making this a</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10804-2
01:29:00.788 --> 01:29:05.828
<v Tom Fay>more concise and consumable report,
and especially the graphic elements that</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10804-3
01:29:05.828 --> 01:29:10.279
<v Tom Fay>help tell the story as well.
So thanks for all of your work and the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10804-4
01:29:10.279 --> 01:29:13.290
<v Tom Fay>performance and strategy team as well as
they</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10807-0
01:29:13.770 --> 01:29:14.890
<v Tom Fay>Pull all that data.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10824-0
01:29:16.250 --> 01:29:18.970
<v Faith Pettis>Did we need to approve?
Did we need to approve it?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10829-0
01:29:16.250 --> 01:29:20.930
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Faith, did you? Oh, yes. Thank you. Yes,
we do. Thank you, Faith.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10812-0
01:29:16.330 --> 01:29:16.890
<v Tom Fay>All right.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10827-0
01:29:19.690 --> 01:29:20.410
<v Tom Fay>Need to prove it.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10842-0
01:29:21.690 --> 01:29:26.890
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So I would entertain a motion to approve
the second quarter levy report.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10844-0
01:29:27.210 --> 01:29:28.170
<v Faith Pettis>I'll make that much.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10846-0
01:29:28.650 --> 01:29:29.210
<v Bendixen, Carmen>Second.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10854-0
01:29:30.250 --> 01:29:33.050
<v Yazmin Mehdi>All those in favor,
please say aye or raise your hand.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10860-0
01:29:34.330 --> 01:29:37.450
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And that passes unanimously. Thank you,
Faith.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10863-0
01:29:41.370 --> 01:29:42.010
<v Tom Fay>All right.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10864-0
01:29:41.370 --> 01:29:41.970
<v Elisa Murray>Thanks, everyone.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10869-0
01:29:43.130 --> 01:29:43.770
<v Tom Fay>Thank you.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10872-0
01:29:43.210 --> 01:29:45.610
<v Bendixen, Carmen>I gotta run, so thanks everyone.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10875-0
01:29:46.410 --> 01:29:47.290
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Thanks, Carmen.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10887-0
01:29:49.330 --> 01:29:53.919
<v Tom Fay>All right, on to our union report.
I think we have Jesse. Yeah,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10887-1
01:29:53.919 --> 01:29:55.210
<v Tom Fay>I see Jesse there.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10927-0
01:29:58.970 --> 01:30:03.474
<v Jessica Lucas>And this meeting has really given me a
few emotions today,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10927-1
01:30:03.474 --> 01:30:08.206
<v Jessica Lucas>and I want to say that I appreciate a lot
of what I've heard.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10927-2
01:30:08.206 --> 01:30:14.008
<v Jessica Lucas>Most recently around security and the
understanding and the seaways and the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10927-3
01:30:14.008 --> 01:30:18.130
<v Jessica Lucas>understanding of how staff are a part of
that system.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10930-0
01:30:19.130 --> 01:30:21.770
<v Jessica Lucas>really brought up a lot of good feelings
to hear.</v>

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01:30:23.450 --> 01:30:28.271
<v Jessica Lucas>Sorry, I had my mic up.
It brought up some really good feelings</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10936-0
01:30:26.490 --> 01:30:27.050
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Yay.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10967-1
01:30:28.271 --> 01:30:34.448
<v Jessica Lucas>to hear that you understood how staff are
involved in security incidences and how</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10967-2
01:30:34.448 --> 01:30:38.591
<v Jessica Lucas>it affects them.
So I just wanted to say thank you for</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10967-3
01:30:38.591 --> 01:30:42.282
<v Jessica Lucas>that moment.
And also I want to say thank you to</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10967-4
01:30:42.282 --> 01:30:42.810
<v Jessica Lucas>Yazmin.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10985-0
01:30:44.330 --> 01:30:49.059
<v Jessica Lucas>for doing that thought exercise at the
beginning of, you know,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/10985-1
01:30:49.059 --> 01:30:55.290
<v Jessica Lucas>that you talked about at the beginning of
this meeting and just showing, you know,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11019-0
01:30:57.370 --> 01:31:03.838
<v Jessica Lucas>what we worry about when we think that
the levy might not pass and to Tom for</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11019-1
01:31:03.838 --> 01:31:09.228
<v Jessica Lucas>the acknowledgement of staff's
contribution to the levy passing.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11019-2
01:31:09.228 --> 01:31:15.530
<v Jessica Lucas>That was very well said and I appreciate
that. I'm sure members do as well.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11020-0
01:31:16.410 --> 01:31:16.890
<v Jessica Lucas>Um...</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11058-0
01:31:18.730 --> 01:31:23.058
<v Jessica Lucas>The union and members also had a moment
of anxiety,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11058-1
01:31:23.058 --> 01:31:27.553
<v Jessica Lucas>several moments of anxiety before the
election night,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11058-2
01:31:27.553 --> 01:31:31.299
<v Jessica Lucas>and the relief that came after was
palpable.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11058-3
01:31:31.299 --> 01:31:37.958
<v Jessica Lucas>It really helped to see how members of
the community around us came together in</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11058-4
01:31:37.958 --> 01:31:39.290
<v Jessica Lucas>the Yes Seattle.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11099-0
01:31:39.690 --> 01:31:46.451
<v Jessica Lucas>libraries campaign and the MLK labor for
their help in the social media and door</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11099-1
01:31:46.451 --> 01:31:51.459
<v Jessica Lucas>knocking aspects.
It gave us a lot more like things to hold</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11099-2
01:31:51.459 --> 01:31:58.137
<v Jessica Lucas>on to as we worried and just wanted to
pass on our appreciation to everyone who</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11099-3
01:31:58.137 --> 01:31:59.890
<v Jessica Lucas>was involved in that.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11118-0
01:32:00.970 --> 01:32:05.460
<v Jessica Lucas>as well as our staff. So thank you.
I'll leave it there and I know we will</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11118-1
01:32:05.460 --> 01:32:10.010
<v Jessica Lucas>need to get on with things unless you
have any questions for me. Thank you.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11153-0
01:32:11.290 --> 01:32:14.020
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Jesse,
we just want to once again thank the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11153-1
01:32:14.020 --> 01:32:18.178
<v Yazmin Mehdi>union for your partnership,
you and your colleagues partnership on</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11153-2
01:32:18.178 --> 01:32:21.404
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the levy.
Another key partner to ensuring that that</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11153-3
01:32:21.404 --> 01:32:25.004
<v Yazmin Mehdi>went the way it needed to go.
So thank you for your work.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11153-4
01:32:25.004 --> 01:32:27.610
<v Yazmin Mehdi>And it was great to see you on August 4th.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11152-0
01:32:28.250 --> 01:32:29.690
<v Jessica Lucas>OK. Thank you.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11154-0
01:32:29.930 --> 01:32:30.570
<v Tom Fay>Thank you.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11206-0
01:32:33.290 --> 01:32:37.180
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Okay,
next is Friends and Foundation reports,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11162-0
01:32:36.170 --> 01:32:36.570
<v Tom Fay>Beat.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11206-1
01:32:37.180 --> 01:32:42.000
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and my understanding is there was no
Foundation meeting,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11206-2
01:32:42.000 --> 01:32:48.004
<v Yazmin Mehdi>and I got to go to the Friends board
meeting in Faith place this time.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11206-3
01:32:48.004 --> 01:32:54.600
<v Yazmin Mehdi>The Friends held their August meeting in
person at Volunteer Park following a</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11206-4
01:32:54.600 --> 01:32:55.530
<v Yazmin Mehdi>social hour</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11242-0
01:32:55.850 --> 01:33:01.237
<v Yazmin Mehdi>of silent reading in the park.
And please stop and ponder a social hour</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11242-1
01:33:01.237 --> 01:33:06.025
<v Yazmin Mehdi>of silent reading. I did.
The friends celebrated the win of the</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11242-2
01:33:06.025 --> 01:33:11.412
<v Yazmin Mehdi>library levy with Tom's announcement that
the final vote had passed by,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11242-3
01:33:11.412 --> 01:33:14.330
<v Yazmin Mehdi>let's say it again, 75.04% of the vote.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11289-0
01:33:15.450 --> 01:33:21.284
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Plans for the October 24th annual meeting
are in full swing as are interviews of</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11289-1
01:33:21.284 --> 01:33:26.758
<v Yazmin Mehdi>the candidates to fill the five open
positions on the Friends board. Tally,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11289-2
01:33:26.758 --> 01:33:31.584
<v Yazmin Mehdi>it was very nice to be there with your
sister. I loved getting to,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11289-3
01:33:31.584 --> 01:33:37.274
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I think I'd actually met your sister
before in a different context altogether,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11289-4
01:33:37.274 --> 01:33:37.490
<v Yazmin Mehdi>but</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11325-0
01:33:38.050 --> 01:33:42.264
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I believe she's one of the brand new
board members.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11325-1
01:33:42.264 --> 01:33:48.829
<v Yazmin Mehdi>Upcoming fall events include the South
Park Branch 20th anniversary celebration,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11325-2
01:33:48.829 --> 01:33:54.258
<v Yazmin Mehdi>as we discussed earlier,
an extension of the Friends Bookshop open</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11325-3
01:33:54.258 --> 01:33:56.690
<v Yazmin Mehdi>hours from 10 to 3 to 10 to 5,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11335-0
01:33:57.010 --> 01:34:01.362
<v Yazmin Mehdi>beginning October 1st,
and the Short Run Festival in Georgetown</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11335-1
01:34:01.362 --> 01:34:02.450
<v Yazmin Mehdi>on November 7th.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11354-0
01:34:03.810 --> 01:34:09.774
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So that is the Friends report and I
believe Tom is, is that all we have? Oh,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11354-1
01:34:09.774 --> 01:34:13.570
<v Yazmin Mehdi>updates from library board members.
Any updates?</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11359-0
01:34:17.010 --> 01:34:18.690
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I think we did a lot this month.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11361-0
01:34:19.890 --> 01:34:20.850
<v Tom Fay>Just a little.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11407-0
01:34:23.130 --> 01:34:29.880
<v Yazmin Mehdi>So sorry to go over by 5 minutes, folks,
but thanks everybody. I, oh wait,</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11407-1
01:34:29.880 --> 01:34:36.090
<v Yazmin Mehdi>I got to do my thing here. Sorry.
It is now 1235 and this meeting is</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11407-2
01:34:36.090 --> 01:34:39.330
<v Yazmin Mehdi>adjourned. See you all in September.</v>

06e058f8-2a50-485c-8643-90ad9cd177b4/11398-0
01:34:39.650 --> 01:34:40.450
<v Tom Fay>Thanks, all.</v>

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01:34:39.890 --> 01:34:40.530
<v Faith Pettis>Thank you.</v>