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Carl H.:February 16th, 10:13 a.m., this is a virtual meeting. I'll call the role, please say present. Valerie?Valerie M.:Valerie Maginsky, present.Carl H.:Dick Roberts.Richard R.:Dick Roberts, present.Carl H.:Carey Sue Connelly.Carey Sue C.:Carey Connelly, present.Carl H.:Joan Wagner.Joan W.:Joan Wagner, present.Carl H.:Beverly Arlequeeuw.Beverly A.:Present, Beverly Arlequeeuw.Carl H.:Susan Wade.Susan W.:Susan Wade, present.Carl H.:All right, anybody else on?Richard R.:Barbara Cassidy's on.Barbara C.:Barbara Cassidy.Carl H.:Okay Barbara. Well, thank you. Just bear with me.Carl H.:There seems to be a little delay on my home phone, but it seems like you can hear me. So, the first thing on the agenda is you all received a copy of the minutes for January 19, 2021. I'll set the motion to approve.Richard R.:I'll move, Dick Roberts.Valerie M.:Second, Valerie.Carl H.:Motion by Dick, seconded by Valerie. Any further discussion, revision, amendments to the minutes? Hearing none, I'll call the votes, all in favor? Aye.Valerie M.:Aye.Richard R.:Aye.Carey Sue C.:Aye.Carl H.:Vote sustained. All right, it's unanimous. Approval of statistics, financial reports, and bills. You all received information that included the payroll summary for January, 2021.Carl H.:The summary of Chase Bank activities through the period January 8th, 2021 to February 8th of 2021. Balance sheet as of January 31st, 2021, and an invoice for Susan Wade for November, December, and January totalling $13,980. Any input, Joan? Anything you saw there out of the ordinary?Joan W.:No, if you look at your papers you'll see, it refers to items we have discussed.Carl H.:Okay. Anybody else? Well, I'll accept a motion to approve specifics, financial reports and bills, to include payment of invoice for Susan Wade for November, December and January. It's owing $13,980. All in favor? Do I have a motion.Joan W.:Aye.Carl H.:Joan made the motion. Carey Sue C.:I second.Carl H.:All in favor?Barbara C.:Aye.Richard R.:Aye.Carey Sue C.:Aye.Carl H.:Approved. The Director's Report. I think you all received the Director's Report, and I'll accept a motion to waive the reading and accept the report under discussion. Beverly can review some of the topics. So motion to accept the report?Richard R.:I move.Carl H.:Dick Roberts.Valerie M.:Second, Valerie.Carl H.:Second. Done by Valerie. Okay, Beverly, there were a couple of FYIs, if you want to go over the important ones.Beverly A.:Okay, for the action items? Or for the FYIs?Carl H.:Yeah, do a couple of the FYIs.Beverly A.:Okay.Carl H.:Like I think the tax forms are coming soon. Beverly A.:Right, okay. So what we've received so far are the New York State tax forms, and what we are going to do is put them on a cart that can be rolled out and people can pick them up outside the library without any appointments.Beverly A.:If somebody needs something printed, we can certainly print that out for them and they can make an appointment to do that, but otherwise, the forms are just going to be out for patrons to come by and take, and if they call in, we can let them know that they can pick the forms that they need off of the cart.Carl H.:All right. Good point there. Did we resolve the issues of the town supervisors and monthly updates on library cards and registers? That's a done deal now?Beverly A.:Yes. I'm happy to say that with David Bavoso's help, we have resolved all issues and we've signed all the agreements. Actually Carl signed all the agreements, and they are proceeding forward as we had originally contracted, as the contract had read.Carl H.:That's good. All right, and David might have straightened out the paperwork with the drainage project? So what are we waiting to hear back from McGoey and Hauser?Beverly A.:Yes, what David had said was he now has all the paperwork submitted to McGoey and Hauser and then they do the final paperwork and send us the final bill. We then pay the final bill and then I can submit for the last 10% of that grant money.Carl H.:Good, okay. Another thank you to David.Beverly A.:Yes.Richard R.:Beverly, who did the employee W-2s this year?Beverly A.:That was Susan.Richard R.:Susan did them? So everybody has their W-2s and we're all set there? Obviously, February 1st is the deadline, right?Beverly A.:Right. She had them already like the second or third week of January, ready.Richard R.:Oh, thank you, Susan.Carl H.:Okay. I'm going to cover some of the action items under Old Business, but the first action item that we probably can move on is the Library Pandemic Response Plan. Did everybody get a chance to look at that? Beverly, you want to talk that down a little bit?Beverly A.:This is kind of a template that the State had offered, and that I edited it. But for the most part, this is all coming from a template that the state had offered. Some of the things I had to edit to fit our library, as was in the case that we had already had in our original pandemic plan. Beverly A.:Now, I know the question's going to come up in part D, for compensation, and that's left sort of generic, that we would adhere to all multiple state, federal and executive orders regarding sick leave or extended family medical leave. When I'm phoning other libraries, their directors are all saying that they are just going to follow what the state is recommending for compensation.Beverly A.:Here, in case somebody comes in contact with COVID or they come down with COVID, the wording is pretty similar to what we've already been following, and the building closure is going to be based on what the guidelines are from Orange County and the state. What they are recommending.Carl H.:Well, thank Valerie for that side by side use of COVID sick leaves. I reckon that that's good. That was pretty clear, so yeah. We can use that as guidance. That will work as far as that.Beverly A.:Okay.Carl H.:I mean, it's fine. If we can just have a witness, that will take care of the state requirement, but there’s always some questions because in the end, I think that if we outbreak and we follow the state and county's recommendations we would still have the final say. Any thoughts on that?Valerie M.:This is Valerie. I'm still concerned about the contractual agreements, and don't know whether or not this covers them.Carl H.:Yeah, I agree. I think it hasn't changed from what I've outlined in our follow-up, previous plan that we adopted back in March, and what's in the contract. But let's adopt this for now and I still think there are questions to be answered, like Valerie's alluding to, and we will just pick at it, if it comes up.Carl H.:I know that's not a great policy. I'm just saying that we'll abide by the contract. What's in the accepted plan at this point maybe still needs revision, because I think there is still a pathway between what's written and what David recommended, but I cannot jinx this to make it work. After this, we won't have this issue, but that's not how I like to operate, but I think that's where we're at.Valerie M.:Question, this is due when? April 1st?Carl H.:Beverly?Beverly A.:It was in April. I think it was like April 14th. I don't have the exact day.Valerie M.:Yeah, I seem to remember April.Beverly A.:But it was in April. Yes. I'd have to look at it in the minutes to remember the dates.Carl H.:It's not in lieu of our previous plans, right? It's in addition, to satisfy the state?Beverly A.:Yes.Carl H.:So I recommend that we accept this and forward it to the state. Who knows if we're going to get any input. If they're happy with it, will they take it back? Or is this just going to suffice? I recommend we approve it and Beverly, submit it, and see if we get any feedback, and then we'll have time to make any additional amendments next month when we meet. How does that sound?Richard R.:I agree. I'll move it at this time. I'll make the motion. Dick Roberts.Carl H.:Okay, got a motion.Carey Sue C.:I'll second.Carl H.:And second by Carey Sue to approve the Library Pandemic Response Plan for the state. Any questions?Richard R.:Yes. Beverly, put in your calendar, where it says the pandemic response plan will be evaluated annually, by the library director and the board of trustees. So maybe, put down a year from now, that we have to review this.Beverly A.:That's a good point, thank you.Carl H.:Now. All in favor?Richard R.:Aye.Carey Sue C.:Aye.Valerie M.:Aye.Joan W.:Aye.Carl H.:Opposed. Sustained. Okay, it carries unanimously. Second action item. Library budget and trustee election. We have two possibilities, proposed date of Tuesday June 8th. That would be with the Port Jervis School District vote, as we did last year, on Thursday, June 10th. As we had, prior to that, at the library, separate from the school board vote. So anybody have any thoughts on that?Richard R.:Who's up this year, Beverly?Beverly A.:Isn't it Joan?Carl H.:No, no.Joan W.:No, this is... Joan was just last year.Carl H.:Right?Beverly A.:Oh all right.Carl H.:Is it far to see?Joan W.:Yeah, let me look that up, okay? Just give me a minute to look that up.Carl H.:Yeah. So we can go on with other discussion? I mean, personally, I thought it went fairly well last year, Joan, with the district. It cost us, what did we pay him, Dick? 10,000. 5,000?Richard R.:No. I think, Susan, was it not 2500? Susan?Susan W.:I'll look it up.Richard R.:Yeah, we paid the district.Carl H.:I mean, even if it cost more than if we did it ourselves, I think that it went smoother, I mean, for Susan to have to go through all the motions and in the past, I think, we've separated it because we were concerned the library would get shut down with the district. So I don't know, it was last year. It really wasn't close though. Personally, I don't have a problem going with the June 8th school district.Richard R.:How is the district going to do it? With absentee ballots this year, or are they going to have an in-person election? We don't know yet, do we?Beverly A.:We don't know yet. That's the big question. I haven't contacted the school district yet.Susan W.:The cost last year was 2500...Richard R.:That's right.Susan W.:... and if everybody needed to be contacted by absentee ballot, there's no way you could do it for 2500 dollars.Richard R.:No, no.Carl H.:When do we have to have that date set by? Can we put this off for a month and Beverly can talk with the school district and see where they're headed? And if they'd be willing to do it with us again?Susan W.:I'm sure it can be put off a month because we only need to be advertising four weeks prior to the vote.Richard R.:Great. So in March, April, May. Yeah, we'd be still way ahead if we did it in March. March 16th is our next meeting. So is Valerie up this year?Susan W.:I think so.Carl H.:Just one more comment. Petitions, we usually require, what is it? 25 signatures, or is it 100?Beverly A.:No, it's 25.Carl H.:All right. Normally, for a city wide, you would need 130, and I think this year, they only need 40, because they don't want people going door-to-door to get signatures.Carl H.:The Governor, I think, issued that, to the Board of Civil Actions. So, I'm just thinking, it might be the same for us, where you only need 10 signatures rather than 25. I'm not sure though. That's why we've got to check these things out, Beverly. How many signatures are a requirement of the school board? Last year, I don't think they required anything.Valerie M.:Correct.Beverly A.:I have Valerie. It says her term expires this year. So I think it's Valerie up for a vote.Carl H.:Yeah.Richard R.:Then, who would be the next year, it might be me?Beverly A.:It would be Carl. Carl's up in June of 2022.Carl H.:Okay.Richard R.:When's my term up?Beverly A.:I'm looking that up now. 2024.Richard R.:Okay.Carl H.:So do we want to table that for next month and then they can talk to the school district to come again.Richard R.:Yeah, we have to find out, will the school district allow us to do it this year and how are they doing it? Are they going to do it just by absentee? Or are they going to do it in person where they usually hold their elections?Beverly A.:Susan and I are going to be meeting this month and we're going to be talking over the budget. So we plan to have a budget sort of in place, a tentative one to present to the board next month.Richard R.:Okay. How are you going to handle the computer setup, because we've been out of business since last year, actually? The Hub?Beverly A.:Yes, I am not sure how to do that because it depends on when we open again, to allow people to come in, to use the Hub. That's a big, big question.Carl H.:We might talk about that under new business because I'm going to talk about minimum standards, and that is somewhat ready. Okay.Richard R.:Yes, okay. Good.Carl H.:All right. So the next action item is to open the library to the public for in-person visits by appointment. Beverly, did you have a deadline to do that?Beverly A.:Right now, I do not. I read the paper this morning. It looks like the numbers in Orange County are up again. It looks like there's 500 new cases of COVID in Orange County, in the last week. I don't know if that's a result of the Super Bowl gatherings or what happened.Carl H.:It could be. No, we've got to be higher than any other county that surrounds us. I mean, Orange County has got to be right behind New York City. I'm looking at this state website, and on the 15th, it was seven percent, and 159 new cases, and it's evened out since the end of the first week of February. It's always been between 159 and 175 cases.Carl H.:Orange County is always going to be higher. The good news is that it's probably higher in Newburgh and Middletown, and Port Jervis seems to be somewhat consistent. So I don't know. Anybody else's thoughts? I mean, personally, I think we could set a date, and see what happens. Beverly, were you talking to the staff? I mean, it seems like your email from last week showing the numbers indicated that you thought it was.Beverly A.:Well, I had a staff meeting on Friday and unfortunately, the staff aren't ready, I guess. They don't feel like the numbers are low enough to let people in the building. They have concerns.Carl H.:Okay.Beverly A.:So, I don't know the right answer for this right now.Carl H.:All right. That's good. That was sufficient input. Anybody else have an opinion how we should handle this? I mean, last month I think I said we could even go week to week, and by email take a consensus, what everybody thought. We wound up, I think, because the numbers were high, that we just waited for the meeting. But I'm happy to put it off weekly and then see where we are.Richard R.:Okay. Are the oldest staff members getting their vaccinations? Beverly?Beverly A.:No. No one has reported to receiving the vaccinations yet. I don't recall. Oh, I think that Sharon Penner did. Sharon Penner is the only one that's had her vaccine so far. The New York State Library Association is petitioning to get the library staff in on the next phase, which would then allow more of the library staff to get vaccinated. But right now, I don't know if anybody else, besides Sharon Penner, has.Richard R.:Yeah, because my wife and I got it at Walgreens. I went to Liberty, she went to Monticello on Saturday, but my understanding is Walgreens in Port Jervis is taking a lot of people. I think Carey has an appointment for Port Jervis Walgreens some day.Carey Sue C.:Yeah, Thursday.Richard R.:Really? Right. If they want it, they should really go on the Walgreens site and register and they'll see where the vaccinations are, and they may find that there is one-Carey Sue C.:Hey Joan, what about you?Joan W.:I have mine.Carey Sue C.:All right, good. Joan W.:Yeah, I'm going to get the second part next week.Carl H.:But come April 1st, everybody's going to be able to get vaccinated, is my guess. Other than signing up and getting one. So that's the issue with not mandating people to get the vaccine. I mean, even in nursing homes, more than half of the workers aren't getting vaccinated.Carl H.:So all right. So let's put this off, and Beverly can email them next week, at the end of next week and see if they know whether we should open prior to the next meeting. We can do that every week.Beverly A.:Okay.Valerie M.:This is Valerie. I think the staff opinion should be included as far as a poll in general because if they're not comfortable, I think that should be taken into consideration as well as vaccination levels, et cetera. I think we need some criteria to base a decision on, and that should be supplied along with the email.Valerie M.:So what are the Orange County numbers? What do the staff think? What are the vaccination numbers amongst staff? Because remember, if we have, what do you call it, an infection or if a patron comes in and they show up having COVID, we're going to be closed for, what is it, 10 days?Joan W.:Yeah, 10 days. Yes.Valerie M.:So we should be, no matter what, we should be prepared to be closed 10 days, and know what we're going to be doing as far as staff and compensation and all those items are concerned.Carl H.:Yeah, and that's going to be long-term, let's face it, even after the majority of people get vaccinated. It's just not going away. It's like the new flu.Valerie M.:Especially with the variations that are coming up now.Carl H.:Good, so Beverly, you're happy to do that before, just ask the staff if they have anything in how they feel.Beverly A.:Okay.Valerie M.:This is Valerie. I would expect that at a certain point, the board would decide we're going to open. So we might better have some idea as to the comfort level or statistics or something that we could use as a yard stick.Carl H.:Right. So the other yard stick obviously, is what are other libraries doing?Joan W.:Right.Carl H.:I think, all they all, at this point, open for appointments, Beverly?Beverly A.:Yes. They are either doing curbside or by appointment.Carey Sue C.:Let me ask, when you're saying by appointment, is that just one person, or can 10 people come in at the same time?Beverly A.:We have openings for four people to come and browse, and four people to use computers. So we have a maximum of eight people per half-hour that can be in the building.Carey Sue C.:Okay, all right.Beverly A.:So every half-hour, we could have eight more people in the building.Carey Sue C.:All right. I guess that would work out. But you're not doing that right now?Beverly A.:No. We had been doing it, where we were allowing four people to browse, and four people on the computers every thirty minutes. Valerie M.:This is Valerie. So as far as contact tracing is concerned, everybody has to sign in and have their temperatures taken, et cetera, all visitors, with appropriate contact.Beverly A.:Yes. We get their name and phone number when they book or they register for their appointment, and then we take their temperature and check their ID when they come in.Valerie M.:Now, I know some places, even in other countries, they're using a QR code, especially if someone's vaccinated. I understand that there's a little card that people are getting to say, "I've been vaccinated with such and such." Are we asking for any proof of vaccination?Beverly A.:That was not our protocol but we can certainly add that. But at the time, when we were open, the vaccination wasn't even available. So we haven't been open since the vaccination has been available.Valerie M.:So that might be a consideration.Carl H.:What is the usefulness of somebody showing that they've been vaccinated?Valerie M.:Well, it looks like they're going to start doing that with airplanes, and it's going to become more ubiquitous. It's already in various countries, before you enter into a restaurant or something like that, it's already loaded on your smartphone, and you lift the smartphone up to the QR code, and it just automatically identifies you, that you have been vaccinated and that you're essentially allowed into the facility. So it's something I think we should consider, moving forward. I'm not suggesting that we do it. I'd like to put it on the table for discussion. Carl H.:Yeah, my only thought is we're not going to be limiting somebody's entering the space by not having a vaccine. If we can't even get the employees to be vaccinated, we certainly can't prohibit the patrons from coming in. Valerie M.:I would agree, but it's an extra level of-Carl H.:Contact.Valerie M.:Yeah.Carl H.:All right, let's move on, and we'll give that some thought as more people can get a vaccine. Let's move on to Old Business, the boiler project, I see we got an email from Lyle, it's dated February 12th. Beverly, any input there?Beverly A.:No, I had tried to pressure him to get back to us before our board meeting and that's what the result of that was, from the questions of last month, that were asked at the board meeting.Carl H.:So there wasn't really much news. All right. We'll still take it to April. That brings the question of current furnace issues. So George has been going in every day and checking the boiler, and there are a couple of issues. He said that the feeder needs to be replaced. He is not that concerned because he's going in there every day and checking it and he hopes that it will last until the furnace replacement. But Beverly, you need to let Lyle know because I don't believe that they were going to replace the feeder. Carl H.:And Ralph should be familiar with this. George has been talking to him about it. Now, if George thinks that it won't make it, he asked me, it's like $850 to install a backflow and flush it, but he'll know by checking it every day, if it's going to go or needs to be replaced prior.Carl H.:The other thing he said was, he realizes that certain rooms are cold, but if they're not in use, we really shouldn't be too worried about bringing the temperature up in them. Like our meeting room.Beverly A.:Mm-hmm (affirmative).Carl H.:He's been gauging it, and there are some places that we have heat lock. By the elevators. So he told Ralph, just leave those rooms closed, leave the thermostats alone. I mean, we've only got three more weeks of these extreme temperatures and things will get warmer in there, but we need to not put more pressure on this burner.Beverly A.:Okay.Carl H.:We should follow the recommendation and live with the cold rooms unless they're going to be used, which I can't see why, and let's get through February. And other than Ralph, should I mention any other problems that you see with the furnace?Beverly A.:No. He just mentioned that the Hub and the Security Room were cold, so he had turned them up and they hadn't changed at all, but then he closed some vents and it seemed to help. So I'm not sure what that was the result of.Carl H.:Yeah, that's what George told him to do.Beverly A.:To close some vents?Carl H.:Yeah, because when he was playing around with the thermostat, that’s not helpful.Beverly A.:Yeah. So he just wanted to make sure that there weren't any zone issues, from those two zones and that that wasn't going to be a problem down the road.Carl H.:All right. The next thing is the Port Jervis Electric proposal. I was looking at the estimate of 11/24. Does that include the repair and the replacement of the ballasts and the bulbs. I think there were five of them that got damaged in the LED replacement?Beverly A.:Yes.Carl H.:I was looking at the long-term plan the other night and it says that for all items over $1,000 and up to $10,000, and all projects up to $20,000, the Board of Trustees will be in direct contact with vendors via the posting of non-competitive bid notices in local spots, such as the village and town halls, and the post office, as well as the Port Jervis Free Library. So you know I was prepared to go ahead with this but it was correct and I thought that Beverly could just post that and maybe reach out to other vendors?Beverly A.:Yeah, I had an additional thought on that. Every year, I have to create a project, or I try to create a project that will help the library, with the New York State Construction Grant. What I would like to possibly do is wait to do all this electrical work, and put it into a proposal for the next New York State Construction Grant which would be due this summer. That would take less of a hit to our budget, if we did it that way. Carl H.:Well, the question is what other projects would that go along with? Can we fit it all in?Beverly A.:I would like to do some renovations in the reference room, where I would reorganize it where the computers are laid out there, so we could have a little bit better flow in the reference room. So my thought was to include a reference room renovation and the electrical proposal. Valerie M.:Were there some questions regarding the review of the existing electrical system and whether or not everything is up to current code?Carl H.:In my mind, there is. So Beverly, I think you need to bring in a certified inspector to do an assessment of all the electrical work and see what isn't up to code because my guess is there will be a hefty price tag too.Beverly A.:Okay.Carl H.:Thank you. That was good.Beverly A.:All right, so that should all be included in the Construction Grant proposal.Carl H.:Yeah.Richard R.:Actually, that changes my thinking. Instead of spending $8000, if we can get everything up to code, and that might be another $10,000, then we'd probably need a construction grant for that.Carl H.:All right. Anything else before I move onto new business.Valerie M.:What about the doors?Beverly A.:The doors are just waiting for good weather to be installed. Everything's ready to install. It's just the weather keeps changing every time. He counts the days.Valerie M.:Thank you.Carl H.:All right. New business. So on January 26th, I listened in to a Zoom meeting with RCLS. They talked about the minimum standards for a library. It was lengthy. It was about an hour and it was a result of the pandemic. There is a question if libraries are meeting minimum standards. So, one of the questions Grace had is do we have a strategic plan, and that was to all libraries, but she picked me out. So after I gave her an insufficient answer, I pulled up the plan, and then talked to her about it.Carl H.:It looks like we should continue to review that plan with the eye towards updating it and extending it prior to the end of 2021, because although we have a five-year plan, it expires at the end of this year. But that goes back to the point that Dick had about the Hub and that should be included. Because Grace's point was the State understands that libraries are not meeting the goals that they might have laid out for the community, but that's because of the pandemic and I think everybody understands. But once things loosen up and things are back to normal, especially, we might get some questions about the budget or the election.Carl H.:Moving forward, how is the library going to be nearing its goals? So Beverly, do you have some thoughts how the board members will go back to putting that on the agenda, and go back to looking at that plan. You originally, in the beginning of the year, got us to look at the plan and talk about it. So it's good that we had some discussion but of course, we got sidetracked in March by the pandemic.Valerie M.:This is Valerie. This weekend, I was looking at an application for the streaming video movies, courses, et cetera. It's called Kanopy, with a K. K-A-N-O-P-Y. Have we looked at that before or looked at the cost or how it might be something we could consider? Beverly A.:I will get more information on that.Valerie M.:Thank you.Carl H.:Do any of the board members have anything else? Have you got anything else for the good of the library?Beverly A.:I do have one more thing I would like to revisit some old business. It's the one that we have that's offering the senior clerk test.Beverly A.:I would like to get the board's permission to request the civil service test for senior clerks for one staff member that is eligible to take it. That would be Danielle DeLorenzo. This would be a promotional test from library clerk to senior library clerk. The senior library clerk test can only be offered to full time employees because it is a promotional test, and Danielle has been with the library for three years, and she has proven herself to be a very diligent employee, and I believe it warrants her to be promoted from library clerk to senior library clerk.Beverly A.:Just to give some background, Danielle is responsible for coordinating the library's programming, marketing, social media, the website, as well as working with the children in the children's room. Her work, I guess, is best exemplified by the success of PJ Fanfest, which was the result of months of planning and organizing. I feel that Danielle has proven herself to be valuable to the library and I would like to compensate her for her hard work, and that can only be done by offering her the senior clerk test. If she does successfully pass the test, her pay would increase by $1.75 per hour.Richard R.:How many hours does she work?Beverly A.:35 hours a week.Richard R.:So almost $60 a week she would increase. Plus benefits added to that, remember. Carl H.: But I think those tests are good for two years, and if we approve this, as long as she understands this isn't approval that once we create it, she'll get promoted. That's a separate vote at a future time, correct?Beverly A.:Okay, so I know it's going to take several months for Civil Service to order the test.Beverly A.:So that's why I would like to get the process started because I'm having difficulty reaching Cheryl at Civil Service and I'm not sure what her current status is.Carl H.:Well, I'm sure Joan can help you with that. She sits on that board, right?Joan W.:Yes.Carl H.:Are they giving tests, Joan?Joan W.:They gave one a few weeks ago but I wasn't there for that. I think they did it in a school, but I'm not sure.Beverly A.:This would only be for one employee.Joan W.:Oh, just one employee. Yes, I get it. But Beverly, Cheryl is there. Believe me, she’s there every day, as far as I know. They’re all working in there. Beverly A.:Okay.Richard R.:Valerie, is the building open? Is City Hall open or is it by appointment only?Valerie M.:By appointment.Richard R.:Okay, so the building's still closed and so forth, to the public?Joan W.:Yes, it is. It's still closed.Carl H.:Okay. All right. So, I'll entertain a motion to allow the director to contact Civil Service and schedule a personal test for senior clerk.Valerie M.:That's with the understanding that there is no intent established right now to expand that promotion.Carl H.:Correct.Valerie M.:I move. Valerie.Carl H.:Valerie. Motion made. Second?Carey Sue C.:I'll second. Carey.Carl H.:Any further discussion, all in favor?Richard R.:Aye.Valerie M.:Aye.Carey Sue C.:Aye.Carl H.:Opposed? Sustained. All right, anything else for the good of the library? If not, the next meeting is March 15th, at 10:00 a.m. and we'll see if that will be in person. I will entertain a motion to adjourn at 11:04.Richard R.:So moved. Dick Roberts.Valerie M.:Second, Valerie.Carl H.:All right, Dick. Second, Valerie. My apologies for the late start to this meeting. All in favor.Richard R.:Aye.Valerie M.:Aye.Joan W.:Aye.Carey Sue C.:Aye.Carl H.:Aye. All right. Thank you. ................
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