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Memo
To: City Council
From: Meg Lojek, Library Director
CC: Anette Spickard, City Manager
Date: 10/30/2019
Re: Monthly Department Report – October 2019
1. Staff:
The part time front desk librarian position has been filled by Jennifer Hoban.
2. Classes, Workshops, Events:
Please see attached for November library program calendar.
Free movie benefit for Shepherd’s Home, Heartland Hunger, and Cram the Van. The movie is Emilio
Estevez in The Public, about homeless people taking over a public library in the Midwest for an evening.
Movie will be at the Golf Course Clubhouse, and donations will support these 3 community organizations.
Wednesday, November 20, 7:00 PM.
The Armchair Travelogue hosts a presentation by local business owner and teacher, Jodi Lea, about her
pilgrimage to Assisi. November 7, 6:30 PM.
Payette Children’s Forest granted $300 to support library programs about bats, bees, birds and butterflies.
Bat Week was attended by 27 people and was a great partnership with a Boy Scout Project as well. Bat Story
Time had 50 people attend.
Doing Democracy “Solution or Pollution? What is our local government doing to help control climate
change?” was attended by 23 very motivated people.
3. The Next Chapter Campaign:
Library design progress: We have accomplished a plan for repurposing the existing library as a shared space
between three departments. Consultants are working on finalizing cost estimates for an upcoming work
session with Council. Other goals are fine-tuning the scope and funding of the library project’s related
elements (e.g., pedestrian plaza, moving the “Shortcut” statue, parking, Parks, and elements in the Children’s
Discovery Garden). We are grateful that Gustie Laidlaw, Pavla Clouser and Kurt Wolf are forming a team
to address the landscape design of the plaza at no additional cost to the project.
The Library is the honored recipient of $10,000 closing MIC funds to support library growth.
4. Library Stats:
October statistics will be included with next month’s report to capture the complete month.