Okay. Call this meeting to order and, Claudia, can you take the role? Sure. And please, thank you. Claire McCray. Jenny's Johnson is not here yet. Robert Yopold. Yeah. Deep Moors. Jesse LeBoucac. Yeah. Irincline. And we have Councilwoman Mary Beth Connelly. And that's it. And did we get any petitions? Now that I received. Okay. All right. And I'm going to read every chance to look at the minutes of the previous meeting. Are there any comments, questions, fixes, additions? I see me this time. Rafiq, on the adjournment, being over at the bed, this is Marish and Billy made by Mr. Morrison, seconded by Ms. Lee Paul. Oh my gosh. Oh, I have a announcement. Hi. Hi. Okay. Oh, I got that. Okay. Okay. Just that. Um, then you just get the answer. We're looking at minutes. Did you have anything you wanted to add? No, okay. Okay. Can I get a motion to approve the minutes from the last meeting? I'd love you to accompany the minutes for the last minute. As correct, you'll. As correct. Second. Okay, can I get a motion to approve the minutes from the last meeting? I would you approve the minutes for the last meeting. As correct you as collective. All in favor. Okay, approved. Excellent. Okay. Megan library, port and mail. Great. So in this evening, new position, I will follow up from the petition that we heard last. At our last meeting about holiday closures and this is what I found. So for context in February, I responded to an inquiry from the community relations and legislative affairs director regarding library closures on holiday weekends on behalf of the city resident. it after consulting with more 10 year staff I learned that during holiday weekends, including Labor Day and Memorial Day weekends, many employees request time off. This results in staffing challenges, making it difficult to maintain adequate coverage for safety. To address this staff for a typically scheduled to work Easter, the day before Memorial Day and the day before Labor Day adjust their schedules to work during the week, thereby increasing staff available to during these holidays. I'll say that again the staff who so we have staff that are regularly scheduled to work Sundays they are not given holiday pay for that day they adjust their schedules instead of working Sunday they work during the week to help us out. Closing the library on holiday weekends helps us maintain safe staffing levels and ensures we continue to provide excellent customer service. Following the citizens attendance last trust meeting I conducted further research on closures. The library utilizes these holiday weekend closures to perform deep cleaning projects such as carpet furniture and wall cleaning. Our facility is typically open to the public save seven days a week, 58 hours weekly. In 2024, the library welcomed approximately 167,901 visitors, which contribute to the public save seven days a week 58 hours weekly in 24 the library welcomed approximately 167,901 visitors which contributes to significant wear and tear on carpets furniture and services. I always say think about how many times a day you sit on your couch or your family's study couch multiply that by about 800 that's you know what we're working with here that's why our couches have a short but bright life deep cleaning is conducted either by an external contractor or by our in-house custodial staff who focused on high traffic areas. Data indicates that holiday weekends experience lower traffic compared to non- holiday weekends, making these periods the least disruptive times to close for cleaning. For example, on the Saturday before Memorial Day weekend in 24th May 4th, the library received 457 return materials, whereas the following weekends saw 630 returns. Typical weekend return range is from 600 to 800 items. The molarity weekends such as Labor Day, Fourth of July, Fathers Day, and Mother's Day also should reduce activity compared to regular weekends. Father's Day for some reason, like, nobody. I was thinking like every dad brings their individual library. Nope. They find other activities. The library is usually open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both Saturdays and Sundays year round. Within Region 5 Virginia libraries, which we are a part of, Manassas Park libraries, the only facility with comparable Sunday hours. They're open from 10 to 6. Loud and County and Prince William libraries either are open at noon or 1 p.m. on Sundays or they're closed. Alexander libraries are operating from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays while Rampa Hannock, Caroline County and smooth libraries are all closed on Sundays. More than half with Fairfax County Library branches are closed on Sundays, half of Arlington's branches closed on Sundays, and the branches open at noon on Tuesdays. Today I was also in a meeting with several other Virginia Library directors, and I just did a quick poll, hey are you open on Sundays and none of them were. In Massachusetts where I've spent most of my library career, most libraries are open from 1 pm to 5 pm on Sundays, with many libraries closing on Sundays and reducing hours on Saturday from the end of the school year to the Labor Day. For 225, I have already scheduled cleaning projects for the Sundays before Memorial Day and Labor Day. So I will proceed with closing the library on the Sunday before Memorial Day and Labor Day in 255. But looking ahead to 226, an alternative that we could consider is doing what the city's community center does and closing for a week of deep cleaning so they close for a week and they do all of their cleaning and repair history in that time. However, online closing the Sunday before Memorial Day, I live a required pain. Yeah. And what is it? So I welcome you to the either either. My recommendation would be to keep it as it is. But happy to consider other alternatives. I was hoping for a week's seems way more disruptive than two. Someday is before all this. I'm going to be able to see the future meeting. How we want to move forward with this. I'm in a decision for 2025 has been made because we scheduled cleanings. For 2026, I'm happy to hear your thoughts. My recommendation would be to keep it as it is. that it is. I was hoping for a week's seems way more disruptive than two Sundays before all this. I've been working for a few years. I think it sounds fine as is. I'm glad to agree and paying staff. I'm flim. Having a very happy day staff when they're working or when they're taking their annually for six days, but because we're cleaning, I don't think that's a good use, but a good use of limited library funds. I just don't make any sense to me. I don't have a thing since there's not that many holidays that we're talking about. Yeah, there's the impact on, I don't want to demean the few individuals who are, you know, they want some kind of change to be there, but you know, it's a community library. It's for everybody is good and sometimes, you know, take a hit when you don't want to. Is there, so this was someone who I wasn't here last, for sure. Someone had a question about like a holiday weekend, and then we're gonna be closed on Monday. So we're actually going to be closed on, so Labor Day and Memorial Day were closed the Sunday before the holiday and on the holiday. And Sunday Monday closure. And they're part of their concern was that other libraries don't have that in their lineup. And what I basically what I've concluded is that they don't because a lot of libraries are closed on Sunday or have reduced hours. And we are an exception where we have. We're open 10 to 5. And that is. While it might not be. It might not be the same hours as plays like DC, it is a lot more hours than other libraries in Virginia. For these people concerned, because it was two days a month, we're just that it was a random Sunday, it was good for me. That's what I'm trying to figure out. I think that it was not understanding why we were closed. Okay. Not to put words in their mouth. I mean, I'm happy that they wanted to come to library. But that is the two days. I mean, we could consider looking to other Sundays to close that are not connected to all of it. We get asked away. So we could do that. The carpet. We do like to have it. So I cannot schedule carpet cleaning for Sundays. carpeclean for Sundays. They only do carpe carpet cleaning on Saturdays. So how it works is we clean the carpets after closing on Saturday. Okay. And then the carpets have ample time to draw. Okay. So they have Sunday and Monday to dry without a patron traffic. So again, if you get the carpets cleaning your house, they will drive faster and better, then a place that welcomes, you know, hundreds of people every day. So we've good, great question, but that's that's kind of why we do that. So for example, we this is a preview to the rest of the airport, but when we're going to be again, we're going to have carpet cleaning. And we'll have ample time for those carpets to dry. We'll do furniture cleaning in-house, but again, ample time for that furniture to dry. It's kind of why we take advantage of that holiday weekend. OK, that makes sense. I was just trying to figure out what it was. No, absolutely. And I absolutely hear you. And then again, we actually experience less traffic on holiday weekends than on regular weekends. And that's how it's all just that. Right. Yes. It's a good work going out of time, vacation. In Massachusetts, I'll say, I totally that typically, Massachusetts libraries closed on Sundays and had reduced hours on Saturdays because the traffic that we would get on the weekends was not a good use of our resources to be open basically. So typically in Massachusetts libraries were open like 10 to 2 on Saturdays in the summer and then closed on Sundays. And that was because you saw lower traffic when the weather is good. We don't cut our powers. We don't do that. Yeah, I have not seen that in Virginia, but that's the experience that I'm coming from. And so the holidays that we choose to be closed are summer holidays, right? The beginning of the summer. I think to the fact that we've extended the hours in general, and I think, just for me I think that that we're always looking to provide more you know what we can't in terms of budget and all I said I think we can handle those two days especially for one yeah yeah so I just So it might be great when you say it's gonna be safe certainly Okay, okay yeah I don't know that it says that has said that and it has just says we're closed so I'll say that the closing is twofold that we definitely take advantage of cleaning it's it's kind of a dual advantage where we have the opportunity to do cleaning which we need to do because this this place is a lot of people which is great. And the other part is that it helps us maintain good staffing levels on a week where people like to take off. So instead of having people work on that Sunday, we get to take all of those hours that people would have worked on Sunday and feed them into the week, which is super helpful. I don't have off the top of my head how many hours that is, but it's at least, so yeah, it's eight hours for at least at least five people. So we get to sprinkle that into the week instead of being sure it's staffed all week. And I would go, I would leave with that one And the cleaning would be the secondary or the one B. Because I think it's just important that the community recognize that staffing's an issue. It's a primary concern to make sure there's help for those who need it. And to maintain this with a broad enough wide-berg minutes open. And safety especially as we go into a time during economic downturn where people are using the library more and people are in more distress. I definitely don't want to be looking at having lower staffing levels in a time where libraries have higher usage and the people that we see are going to be in more distress. We would have put that information on the site like just about the... Um... That's a lot. We could put, we could just put right now our sign for memorial, just, memorial day just says closed the 25th and 26th in observance of memorial today. We could say closed the 25th and 26th and observant. We could take both of them. Okay, great. I can definitely do that. Thank you for that feedback. And that's what the community does and people just understand it. Right. Yeah. And yeah, it's people coming here. Thank you for cleaning for. Right. Yeah. They do a deep thing. They're close for a week and a week. I proposed that to management team. I was like, wow, we can close for a week and said, they're like, yeah, the week of Christmas. And I'm like, okay. And I'm like, okay. It's pretty. So, well, we're the saddest Sunday before Memorial Day. We're closing here. So, okay. Yeah, it's already a lot to get the content to come on the weekend. But that person asked me again to follow up this week. I wasn't comfortable giving them a full report without talking to you first. So I will follow up with them. Anything else on that topic? It sounds like we are okay moving forward. So it's a good decision. Okay, great. If we revisit it again, it's point to my sixth. I'm happy to do so. Just let me know, but that's, and I'll keep in, as always, we keep an eye on all of our data. We keep an eye on our circulation data. Our returns are, um, uh, traffic, uh, and our collections. And when that data changes, we make adjustments accordingly. And right now the data shows that on holiday begins, we are less busy. Right. Okay. Let's move on. For statistics, we've, we've, we've corrected our statistics. The original version had for total visits in April. One of the bars looked very, very small. I know. It's been corrected now and the difference is not that dramatic. In the original statistics that were, there was a misrepresentation of the total visits in April. Last year we had 14,795 visitors to the library in April. This year we had 14,590. This is less than last year but the difference is in a significant circulation however is up. So and I talked to staff and they didn't have a clear reason on why it would have been higher traffic last April than this April. we didn't have any kind of like special event or anything. Easter Easter. Oh, look at you, Erin. You did it. I should be this one. You did it. Yeah. Well, actually, that's that's pretty telling, right? Because then it's, you know, that's not a ton of people that would come to the library with the difference difference. But our circulation is up, even though the total traffic was a little bit down. It's also answered the question that I got last time to tell if we've had an increase since the community center has been closed. And the answer is not a significant one. So I looked at the past three months of data comparing last year and this year. on this year and it wasn't significant. It was generally higher, but it wasn't. It's on, we got a boom. That's the long flyers. I know, I was like, no, should you community out reach to the community center? Books on basketball. Any questions on those statistics? Okay, holidays and closures. The library will be closed, May 20th. May 20th. May 20th. May 6th. Memorial Day. And cleaning. I have no idea. And I also want to mention that staff volunteers, foundation members and trustees, if you would like, are marching in the Memorial Day parade. If you want to march, you can send me an email. Families are also welcome. I'll check the weather before. Yeah. I had one staff never signed up and said, only if it's below 90. Yeah. So they're like, they have a contingency. I'm really, really, really happy to have been with you. I'm really happy to have been with you. I'm super about cards together. Yeah, I'm happy, so the book hurts. Let's tell you where $4,800 and we just got new ones and I don't want them on the right. What about me? I don't even know what we did. We offer them to other libraries. Yeah, we don't really have room. And most of them were reading that shape the wheels and everything. And we've got the recycle. We have to find an alternative. So I can promise you hats and cloth and the circulation department made beautiful bookmarks that we're going to be handing out. So there will be bookmarks, hats and that's librarians. Finally one for number. Yeah, it's not. Maybe too. So there you go. Great. If you I can send out, I'll just send them an email to all of you actually if you choose to come great, but that's okay. There's a June 12th. The library is going to close at 2 PM for all staff meeting. The police have generally generously offered to come and talk to staff about best practices for calling the police during low medium medium and high level incidents. This is something that I've done in the past where the police talk about, you know, when you call if somebody is exiting the building, a good information to get them, that would help them. What a police and Ken can not when do when you call them, all that kind of stuff. And then we'll have a second topic and I've sent out a staff survey to either talk about request reviews or how to identify somebody in mental distress. So we'll cover one of both important topics, but I've sent a survey out to staff to see which one of them, don't have time for both, unfortunately. Thursday, June 19th, the library's closed for Juneteenth. Those are all the holidays and closures, any questions on that? It's staffing. The 20-hour library assisted one in adult services position has been posted and we've received over 90 applicants. Yeah, the position closes on June 12th. So, it's been a record for Marshall. Some of it we think is from indeed, they have indeed Oh, one so we haven't we did through all of them yet it is I thought a very high number for my first external post date I think that that's a it might be sign of times it's also benefited so I think that makes it really attractive. Even though it's my 20 hours. For collections, we currently only have one main vendor for materials, Bakeren Taylor. So Bakeren Taylor is the vendor that we use to purchase most of any basically, you can borrow from the library. Bakeren Taylor also runs our data. We have data on what parts of our collection need more or less materials, which parts of our collections are really well, which parts of our collection don't. We get all kinds of reports from them. We are looking to diversify our vendors. And so we're in the process of adding an additional two vendors in Grum, which is another really big one that I used at our libraries and then Brodart, which is a newer smaller one. We hope that that will be able to expedite our high, our high-fold items. I have a lot of people on our screen. So we're working on that right now. Any questions before I get to programs? All right, programs. Okay, so we're reading. I'm starting student first. It is almost June. So that will be for both kids and adults. We'll have the bingo sheet as we did in the past. The prize will be a book and for kids we have the coupon books as we have had in the past and raffles. We have two topical programs, Resume Writing and a program on dealing with high empathy, went really well. We had 10 people at the Resume Writing and 20 people at the High Empathy program. So I heard really great feedback on the Resume Writing. We are looking at running more writing workshops for resumes. We're actually going to probably split it into two people who are looking to change their resume, maybe looking for career change, and people who are looking to have a resume for people who have already formed resumes that they need to adapt, and people who are looking to write a resume from scratch. So we're looking at doing that. We're also looking to add more wellness programs. And we've seen an uptick in attendance for a weekly mindful meditation program. May is, do you know what dog man is? Okay, dog man is a graphic novel that many children enjoy. He's a dog and a police officer, it's graphic novel. It's by the same person as Captain Underpants. If you know Captain Underpants, Dogman was the highest rated. It won March madness for the Youth Services Department. So now May has been Dogmania, Dogman Mania, and we've had a variety of Dogman programs throughout May. June 7th, we have a chef demonstration for a lentiline quinoa salad. June 16th we have a retirement planning and we have a new I believe it's a new program high school tab so talk about books a book club for teenagers or people in high school. Building and then in activity I'll talk more about Q and joy when it will be our celebration of pride. Building updates, there's going to be curvy cleaning and floorless. I'm a little more. It's a little more early weekend. We also, I'm very excited to tell you, have new paint in the study rooms around the YS area and some of the lower and the lower level conference room, but only at the part that doesn't have the projector on it. We've chosen, we have new paint that is washable. Our old paint was not very washable. This is also very durable paint. So please don't go punch the wall, but you could. We're also going to get paint. So painting has been happening on Fridays after we close. Then it's hopefully drive at the time we open on Saturday. The rooms we've been able to book off a little bit, but this coming Friday, and our goal was to get that done before the carpet cleaning. So it was painting and the carpet cleaning. And so to this Friday, we're going to be doing the darker part of the adult fiction site. That's a part that gets a lot of chairs banged into it. We had discussed putting another chair rail there, but we think that a solution might be adding the super magic amazing paint that is washable and durable. So we're going to give that a shot on Friday. And then the carpets are Saturday night and then the greatest Monday. And here we go. All these skills that were in the University of America. Do you know, I have a dream of a that someday I'll teach a library class of everything that you did not know about libraries and a lot of it will be buildings. It will be elevators. It will be roofs. It's back. There's like a whole semester on eight nights. Life is like paint. Yeah, restrooms. Oh my god, restrooms. That's a requirement is like having a person who's shelled up there. Yeah. There's what? There's what? There's what? Yeah. What kind of toilet paper? How much toilet do we have? Um, the other GST TV show you guys take on a road to be like, okay, we weren't re-storked a library doing a person that would do old houses. Yeah. You know, I have never owned an HVAC. I was not a homeowner until I got married in my husband. And the first time someone was like, HVAC, I was like, I don't know if that is. I don't know. I don't know. I will consider that for when I retire. Yeah, I'm pretty big now right now. Or I always said that we need to have a show like the officer at Abit Elementary with her libraries. And yeah. I will come see there that's for when I read that. Yeah. We always said that we need to have a show like the officer at elementary with her libraries. Um, moving on, there's visibility and grip on the stairs now and with today's. So it was an 88 compliance issue that we resolved. So the stairs are main staircase now has strips on it and also the back staff staircase inside, inside, not outside. Speaking about side, we had an accident where the pole, the light pole by our parking spaces was knocked over. DPW did a really great job of responding my away and getting the pull out. The police did a great job of coming in and helping us out with that. And we're working to repair that. And then I was in a discussion about painting the storm drains for June Joy, but I think we're running into the deadline for that. So it might not be something that happens in June. It is something that I'm interested in in the future. So some projects that we were in discussion of and then I had difficulty finding out exactly who to contact about it, but we're looking at maybe in the future having painted storm drains for events. And then I would love to paint the crosswalk, but that might be a deeper project. So just just to heads up that that was something that I had started in discussion and I think that we're running into because June is soon. For a little bit of a few death left in there. Any questions on building updates or. Thank you find your joy. Equity I was just going to talk about you enjoy. The library is working on June joy programs for pride month. That's the city celebration of Pride. We're working on that with O'coms and Parks and Rec mostly. June 1st, there will be a program Pride and Joy at the library. So we'll have Legos build joy for kids downstairs. Upstairs will have Legos for adults, Rainbow puzzles, coloring, information on the history of pride. I think one more thing, but other joyful things and that will be run by adult services and myself actually. And then June 28th, MRSPL and Bards Alley will co-host local authors Susie Duman and Chip Ponds who are talking about their new contemporary romance novels and that will be here and then later in the day there will be an event at Cherry Hill Park and that will be kind of the book ends of Prague for us. Any questions on that? Yes, do you have a Cherry Hill Archival library? It's a it's a Parks and Racks of Ash. So we're kind of partying with Parks and some metrics and part two and part two and part two and part two and part two and part two and part two and part two and part two and part two. This is like the big day and we'll have the author events here and then we'll also have Perciverent will have a big a bigger event at Cherry Hill Park. And just an interesting thing that I was talking about with actually some library staff on equity. Just off the cuff a little is not, we think about things like Juneteenth and Pride Month and all of those events when they come up, but what we've actually decided and discussed is that we wanna make sure that there's diversity and equity in all of our displays. So instead of, or in addition to having a display like on Juneteenth, just making sure that there are always people of color in whatever display we're doing. And I thought that that was a really great response. So that is something that the staff is purposefully doing. And I wanna mention that. Other, I have on Tuesday, May 13th, I attended a special school award meeting where the library received a Business Education Partnership Award. The library has been a long time partner with the schools from sharing databases and local history resources to provide a first-time library prize for elementary students. The library hosts hipstangs, reading club, and LEGO Robotics Club, which pairs high school students with younger students for introductory reading and engineering skills. This week we also had the kindergarten classes here. So I appreciate that we received that award. It was really great. And I got to stay for the awards that also went to school staff members. And that was really powerful wonderful. Somebody, the custodial staff member from the high school was recognized and she's the unofficial greeter of the high school which was lovely speech specialist, preschool aid, and then the teacher of the year who said you cannot teach anyone anything you can only inspire them to learn, which I thought was really powerful. She was also named the Washington Post teacher of the year, I believe. Yeah, so great. On Sunday, May 18th, I also attended the ribbon cutting for the Marion Costner Shelby Peace Garden at the high school, which Mary Beth, that was Mary Beth's project. The Peace Garden includes a historical exhibit that features pictures from the library's historical rooms, so I was really proud to be a part of that while I was walking around the exhibit. And then the next Trustee meeting is June 18th. I do not have a report from the foundation or the schools, any questions? That's enough, right? I have one thing. Yes. All's passed. Oh, did you have? No, I participated in the interviews for the high school kids who want to sit on city boards and commissions. I didn't interview anyone wanting to sit on the library board, but there were three other sets of interviews and apparently there were a few kids who were interested. I will say I was a little intimidated. I mentioned this to Megan. There was a kid who had a four page resume. She pretty much put everything she ever done, including playing piano, a crank on the way back. I would too. Yeah, I was going to have to do something almost a little bit. But these kids really had done a lot and were interested in it. They included a rising sophomore who was new to the area and rising seniors. So it was very interesting. So well, we should have something. So the other thing is it turns out that some of the boards and commissions give the kids projects. And I was like project. You want to project? I don't think we need to give a project. I think, but, but 182? 188? 188? 188? 188? 188? I don't think we need to give a project, I think. But if... 18? Right, 18. Yeah, I'm going to say that. I don't want to tear it to be my girlfriend's kid. You know, it might be something, or they might... You might want to think again, depending on the kid, about if they're more interested in adults or kids or take sore poetry, you know, invite them to help a staff member put together a program. Or shadow on. Yeah, shadow on. I'd be happy to have somebody to go. Yeah, just, yeah. If something else to think about, and this I mean we get somebody, apparently everybody gets a board so we should be getting somebody awesome. That's good. Yeah. We've just held us here so I think I've been here. Yeah, I said the flag here. Yeah, I think I can get it. Just for me. There could be an interesting age back when I'm in. Yeah, you. Yeah. Absolutely. That's all. And Amy is is not here right now. I know that. Generally, the foundation is working on updating their website. And they're also looking to attend firmers markets events, upcoming firmers markets events. That's mostly what we spoke about at my last foundation beam. That's not an official report. Do you know they're having a stand at the one-other festival? I know sometimes the news and don't. They are not having a stand. They are marching. There are members who are going to be martyla bus and they'll wear foundation gear. Nice. And they also had a fundraiser at the pancake house. Oh, yeah. It's really hard to do. Any, we'll do a man and give none of the. Oh, did you have anything from the humanities or some humanities? Yes, I was the real briefly. I, 2025, I guess I will have this kind of burned this. And I'm wanting to see if anyone will be able to take over my position at the Art and Humanities Council. It's typically the third Thursday of the month and it's at 9.30 in the morning, which I know can be difficult. There's no meeting in June, but I can't be there in July. Just something to think about. I was not able to attend the last meeting, but they on police that me sent information about what they did. And I'm happy to send the annual report that they just put together. Thank you. Again. So great. You can send it out to the board. It's pretty sensitive about the work that they've been doing there. And they've also been discussing the 250th anniversary planning. And they had arts day. I found it was like the people are me. I can't remember. It was supposed to be April and it got rained out. Oh, that's easy. We'll miss it. Okay. Yeah. Anybody's interested? What does he want to is. Okay. Any other business? Anybody have anything to order for? Okay. Okay. Well then. Oh, you're going to do your part. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. We passed a budget. Yeah. or we could also that's nice to get done with the budget. And then last week we started the budget and then for the current year. So it was never a time when we're not talking about the big money around. The budget funds a lot of things. It's about a five to eight percent increase over the pre-CRF all searches and less better shape than almost all of our surrounding jurisdictions. For now, we're all a little worried about what the future will hold. But for now, we seem to be okay that the early 2025 revenue reports have a little flinky life like sales tax and else tax was not as high as predicted but it wasn't down. So we'll see. And there's plenty of restaurants opening this culture for you. Yeah. And of course. Yeah, make some lobster and sauce spice and Julie ice cream are all open up at West Hall station. Hello Julie. And then Crepe Rees could read over to you. Crees could open around the corner again. So I saw that I only used every new with the dog gone to the bathroom. So I played inside. Yeah. It's now a red house. It was a white house. It's a little frost. It's a little frost. It's a little frost. Oh, there was to be there. I don't know. You can walk to it. Yeah, wait. Maybe some sideage. Sure. So keep shopping local. The move here had two of them. The eve last week, which was amazing. Yeah. It's not this week. Originally they said it was this week. I was you. Okay. So there's a little digital side of this. I think it's down to like 23 days and next number of hours. So it's really lovely. It has some small theaters with a smaller screen. Maybe with 100 seats for some films. And then they've got this I max. It's not not all my max it's called something else that is huge. I mean it's got this it's gigantic screen. I don't know. Basically. Yeah. All my comfortable seeds. They're going to have $5 Tuesday and $2 kids days and they have a sensory day. I don't know how often they have that, but for kids where the lights, where it's quieter and the lights are on and so all that is happening. I'm excited. Yeah, yeah. What else do we have? Oh, and then the thing council took up last week, which we're hoping to resolve quickly because we've been talking about it for several years now. It's changing the streetscape, sitting standards for brick sidewalks, right? Everyone, and the progress. You know, they give a little bit of a character, but they're also dangerous, slippery, and you don't know what to do. Thanks. So the ones that are already brick are not gonna change, but the new one, the standard we talked about last week, is concrete with a brick ribbon on the each side. Oh, the stuff. And that's the sidewalks. And then crosswalks. They're recommending getting rid of brick crosswalks across the main roads. And just turning them into a continental stripe, which is the zebra stripe. Just wait. Right. We're just going to find some plastic. And there's some council members that still think brick is better because it makes because it's charming. It's charming. And although it's close cars down and stuff, but it's difficult to plow and it's difficult to plow to all those I think we're going to go with continental. We may end up with something like at the top of Oak, it should come up, Oak towards Broad Street. There was a test to one there that it stamped asphalt. It seems to be holding out better. The problem with that is if it ever needs to be patched, you can't repatch the state's state's to asphalt. You just have to have a asphalt blob and then let it be your stand asphalt. So that when we're still figuring out, but all of these are safety would be the fray hour in here. And then some of the ones, my request in, I don't know if I actually, I don't know, was like, when you exit Harris Teter, is teeter, it's so bad there, because it's cars are written over it. So the request that when it comes time to change those things, they put in the concrete apron there or cement apron instead of bricks. So that is exciting to me. I've been asking you to that for like four years now. So, and that's funny. And I would love to say that there's gonna be a summer snow now but it doesn't appear that there is. Yeah, the sidewalks over at the New Founders Road too and beyond the development over here in the secondary schools. Yes, those are brick. And I believe both of those I distinctly remember walking the founders rose sidewalk being this is amazing it's open and then like the next week it was yeah, it's one of her. So both of them got chartered hearts. The city inspectors went and looked at them and the grading was wrong. Okay, so they have to be graded for flooding and and other things. The one of the high school West Falls station, it's a hill there and it was just too steep. So they're actually putting in a concrete or cement pad for part of it because it was just too steep with all that. But that is what happened basically. It was just, I don't know how I got missed all along the way, but when we became, I don't doubt it. It was fun. Yeah. It was nice to have it open for a little while. It was nice to have it open for a little while. It was nice to have it open for a little while. It was nice to have it open for a little while. It was nice to have it open for a little while. The Dera Falls Church, that's in a longer fetus road too. Okay. road to okay, the terrible Do you know any of the There's a tate bakery Another time restaurant. Yeah, I'm getting another time restaurant. There's the time restaurant. I think I'm being... Hey, the camera store is gonna be turned into like a goth book shop. But I am beyond the... Oh, really? Maybe we'll open it again. It's gonna be like, it's called the Darkness Unveiled. The song is... You really think you have bookstore? Yeah, it's. Arlington. Yeah, it's an urban block band right? It was bad. I was walking and coming from getting groceries. I saw that. I put up the Instagram. So it's very Saturday. Which is where they go to care for store. Where do you stay? To my phone. No, no, no, no. To my phone. To my phone. I love this a lot. I love this a lot. I love this a lot. I love this a lot. I love this a lot. I love this a lot. I love this a lot. I love this a lot. I love this a lot. I love this a lot. I love this a lot. I love this a lot. I love this a lot. I love this a lot. I love this a lot. I love this a lot. was anything. Are there any updates on when those crosswalks? Yeah, thank you. The hot, hot, hot, hot, hot. It's a big mess. Yeah. This week. Yeah, we had a next week. We had a town, a town hall or a city meeting yesterday. And they did tell us about that. I think I think as I can see if my recall is great. It looks so good to be. Yeah, it looks just good. It was my first time doing it in time. It was dominion, right? Like, even got done with any heavy waste that like just gets into the, I've been seeing them working on the electricity. Yeah, yeah. That's good. Yeah. So that should be open too. Well, like it just seems they're going to be cool, but also just crossing broad street. Just seems a little. Yeah, I'm curious. So be careful. I'm going to lost the much. I'm just starting to feel very curious to see. Cars are going to have a clutch. You know, like that reaction to what happens It's a different kind of flash What kind of what what do you need a different kind of flash? Well, it's not like a one two three Traficly like they're going to read though. Yeah, it's gonna turn red, but they're different. They're like Like side by side three. It's three. So it's one, two, three like this. And they are red or yellow. I see people, I know that. They're super amazing. And actually, if you are signed up for the city balls church official news release, one came out Tuesday and it said, hawk signals. I knew that they said something about this. Hawks signals are launching May 29th for pedestrian safety. And they have so on May 29th, they're new, they're part of a long-term plan and roadway safety. It doesn't, the Hock signals will remain dark until pedestrians activate them. The button activated by pressing or waving in front of the sensor or on the button wakes the hawk signal. Once illuminated, the hawk signal displays a series of illuminated notifications to motorists, instructing specific vehicle actions, and making it safe for pedestrians to cross. While motorists will follow the headlights, pedestrians, and I want you to watch the walk signal across the street and monitor traffic to ensure it is safe to cross. So it's a helper not an invitation to close your eyes and walk across street. So I guess it'll turn yellow. It's dark or yellow or red. So the lower one must be yellow and then the top two are probably red. I hope the work there's one anger by the bedroom that's like just one of those stop sign ones. And that seems to work. I mean, I've seen a lot of people crossing and you say, because people fly down the city. Yeah, I think. That's a peaceful stirs, my dream. So hopefully it's a similar infant. I don't know how about there's and then there's directions kind of on how it works and there's talk about yellow and red lines. I think it's one of those things where when we see it, it'll make sense. Yeah. One of the most. Thank you. Sure. Anything else? Anybody have anything else? Can I get a motion to adjourn? To adjourn. So the second. Anything is adjourned. Okay. Sorry. Thanks everybody. Oh, we ordered it. Yeah. I think it's a bit of a surprise for us, but we'll see you next time.