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We'll update from the Pleasant Health Library. So please come on down, Mr. Patrick Greenberg, the senior

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community library manager, provided presentation, and I say senior only because of your rank,

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not your age. It's a bit of a mouthful. Yes. So we're cueing up some slides here for you guys.

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May I? Is it on? All right, I'll just make a short question here. All right. All right. Good evening, Mr. Mayer.

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The council, city staff, and members of the public. My name is Patrick Greenberg. I'm the,

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let's just call it the library manager. I run the Pleasant Hill Library, and it's a treat to be back here

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with you in the beginning of 2026 to look back at some of the great successes and accomplishments

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of the Pleasant Hill Library, which is a thriving partnership between the county and the city.

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I never get tired of looking at these, these glam shots of our beautiful building, but I'm going to share some

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numbers and some stories to give you a picture of what happened in 2025. Here we go.

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Cool. So we had a very busy year. It was bigger than last year, and last year was bigger than the year

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before, and we just keep growing and getting busier in busier. We had 310,000 plus visitors,

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which was an increase from 2024. And I really like to highlight this, because the only way that we're

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able to manage this capacity is with the tremendous support and engagement of the city staff,

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the public works folks, who really keep our building going and looking great. And it's a big job. Every

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single day, Jason comes to work. He's usually there before me, and we're talking and checking in on things,

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and making sure the building is humming and ready for the public. So I just want to give a shout out

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to the great staff under Anne and, yeah, Mr. Carr, and all the folks who show up every day, Gerald,

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our gentleman who keeps track of all the landscaping and the custodial staff that do their best to keep up

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with over a thousand visitors a day. It is really a herculean task, and I appreciate it so deeply.

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We signed up a ton of new library cards. So 16% more new library cards than we signed up the previous year.

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We still have work to do. Believe it or not. I mean, the numbers are spectacular, but we actually

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have a lot more to do. And we have this dream that every kid in plus in Hill is going to have a library

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card of their own. And yet, we probably only have about 50% of youth that are enrolled in an elementary

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middle or high school that have their own card. Either they got one in an expired or maybe, you know,

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their mom or dad handles their card. But we are really pushing to try to get into schools and make sure

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that whoever doesn't have a card has one. And so it takes a big team, but I really appreciate

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the work that we're able to do in partnership with the Education Commission and even folks here on the

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Dias who have facilitated connections with the schools. It's super helpful for everybody to be on board with

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this mission to make sure that all of our kids have public libraries across the United States use to purchase

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books to build our amazing collections so we can lend them to the public. Well, they imploded last year

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are coming from all over to enjoy story times and all these special events. And that's what I'd like

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to highlight next, which is some of the fun activities that happen in the library where we are fostering

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literacy and lifelong learning. So story times to me are the heart of this library. When you look at

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our gate count, the busiest days are the story time days. And that's every Wednesday and Thursday at 11 a.m.

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We have play full musical storytelling that happens. If you have never happened to be in a library during

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one of those times, you should come down and play with us. It's super wonderful to see all the generations

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enjoying a story time together. And we had a very special story time this last year with Rebecca Walker,

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the daughter of Alice Walker, who read from her picture book and we gave away hundreds of copies of

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her book, which is called Time for Us. And it was really beautiful to see everybody enjoying that story

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and her connecting with young people in our town. Yeah, it was really really a special event that we had

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in celebration of Black children's picture book week. And we did of course do a lot of after school

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enrichment. So at 235 every day, you will see those doors are open. And they will not close again and

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for another half an hour because it just gets walking through it. Obviously being right next to plus

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and home middle school, we get a lot of traffic every day. And it's really fun to see how these young

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people decide to use the library. Some of them are doing their homework. Believe or not, they're actually

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popping open their Chromebooks and doing schoolwork. It's incredible. And some of them are playing games and

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just socializing. And of course, we have a lot of enrichment for them. So, you know, whether it's steam-based

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stuff or it's craft. We work with the teams that are in our building to, you know, sort of curate

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and experience after school to make it special for them to be there. So, we love our after school time.

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And, of course, our maker space is hopping. It is for libraries, a cultural hub,

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that reflects the diversity of the community, not just in the collections, but the books that we have,

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or the staff that we have, but especially in the programs that we have. So in addition to things that

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Korean drumming, we also had Arabic calligraphy. We had a Ramadan story time. The list goes on.

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And, of course, Lunar New Year is one of our biggest batches of the year. And I'm really excited that

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the land answer is coming back to us on February 17. So, that one always draws hundreds of folks.

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Really fun time. Tinkers and thinkers. In 2025, we moved the event to the spring time, which is a big

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shift for us. We've been doing it in September for a long, long time. So, when we pivoted to the spring,

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we just did a really fun sort of launch party doing rockets. And this year, April 18th, of 2026,

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it's going to be our 10th year. We've been doing this event for 10 years, with robots and rockets,

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and all kinds of hands-on learning, getting kids excited about science and tech. And it's going to be

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bigger than ever. We're taking over not just the senior center in the park, but also the teen center.

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And I'm really pumped about some of the really stellar exhibits that we're going to bring in.

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We're also really trying to focus on getting our youth to be exhibitors, not just to be participants,

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and enjoying the event. This year, we want them to also be showing off the science and the learning that

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they've been doing. So, it's always been a dream of mine. And we've seen some of that, but we're going to

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really be leaning into that more this time around. So, yeah, 10 years of tinkers, it's pretty

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pretty exciting. I'm looking forward to that. Free comic today is another wonderful annual event. We had it in

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May giving away thousands of comic books and having wonderful live draw experiences with professional

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comic artists. And that one will be actually all ages. Kids, teens, adults, everybody gets to do

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summer reading, everybody gets prizes. And we'll be doing that again this summer, of course.

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So, all of this isn't just a brag. It's something that I'm just so thrilled that I have an amazing

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community to work with. I have an amazing city to work with. I have an amazing army of volunteers who

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make it happen. And some of the most special volunteers are those who work in the friends of the

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library. I even brought a few tonight. They're out here. Katherine, I'm Lisa. So, the friends run

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three different bookstores, converting donated books into the gold that I make into magic at the

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library. So, over $140,000 that they donated to the library for books and equipment and all the programs that

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I just outlined and more. It's really astounding and unparalleled across the county with friends groups.

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I just really wanted to highlight that having all these book shops in town is a way for us to continue

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to boost literacy and learning. So, they are really an extension of our library. So, not only are they

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putting tens of thousands of more books into the hands of readers, but they're giving away books at events

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like the Halloween fashion, the park and things like that. It really is important that we have these

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sort of satellite libraries that can connect all over town and beyond the immediate neighborhood of the

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library. So, those are the highlights from 2025. Thank you so much for having me and let me know if I can

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answer any questions for you. Good questions from the dyes. I can't remember soccer.

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Thank you so much for all the great work that you do, the plus and whole library. I had a question

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you said you were trying to raise the number of students that have library cards and I was just wondering

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how you're going about doing that. Are you visiting schools? Are you putting a display out at the library?

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Farrowx has even busted kids to the library for a visit. And again, they've got the application

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filled out. We get in the card and we introduce them to the library and they get to run around before

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the library opens and borrow some books, which is super fun. That said, it doesn't have to just be second

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great. We'll do it with everyone. We love it when we get invitations out to any grades. In fact,

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we've had a pretty good thing going at college park, though they've had some changes with their

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administration. We'll be getting back in there this spring. We're during their

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forget the acronym, but they're their study period, right? And we've definitely been working our

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county librarian, Allison Eki, has been working closely with the county ed to try to figure out

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how you could scale this, where every student just automatically gets a card. It's a tricky one to do,

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but in the meantime, we're just open to any invitations to get out and visit and we've recently

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set up a page on ccclib.org or library website that's just a landing page for educators and they can

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fill out a forum and say, I've got a class of third graders and we want you to come and visit us and

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we'd like to learn about databases you have or we want you to read this a story, whatever they can

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just specify what kind of a visit they'd like and then we respond to those those go straight into our inbox.

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So yeah, we're continuing to try to innovate and how we can connect more deeply, but ultimately

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it comes down to the humans, right? It's the teachers and the school librarians and our staff

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to facilitate those things. So great question. We're just going to keep looking away.

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I'm just going to make a statement on my Patrick. And I just, you know, I saw the email that I got that

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the revenues for the friends, like kid a record of $440,000, which is just amazing numbers.

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And I just wanted to mention to the public as well that the friends had been instrumental in raising

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1.5 million to put all the furniture and fixtures into the library and the first place. And so

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while their programs continue and their contribution is massive, they really wrote a big

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thanks for getting the library to where it is today. Absolutely. Just wanted to add that, no.

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No, I appreciate that. That's absolutely true. It's so important because, you know,

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you need these bond measures to build the library. It's the building. It's not the furniture.

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It's not the furnishings. So that's why that's such a huge, huge thing for the city and for your

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programs as well. I have a council member. Well, thank you Patrick. I mean, my kids basically grew up at

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the library, right? And even before it was renovated to the day of what it looks like, right?

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We attended all of your story times. Love them. I wish my kids were still little, so keep going.

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But I do really like the fact that you had reached out to educators. You've given them the opportunity

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to actually have the library come to the school. So I think that's fantastic. To Amanda's point about

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reaching out on library cards. Maybe there's a possible way to have a waiver or a form for parents to

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fill out for the educators, right? And say, okay, my child would like a library card. You know,

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we can fill out a library card while they come to the school of visit. So for example, if I'm having a

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lunar, new year's story time, we can actually have some documents available. And the parents can

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fill it out beforehand. And then that way you'll have people registered for library cards. Just an example

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of opportunity. Yeah, and that's sort of what the, we have a special application for the schools.

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And it is just a matter of sort of coordinating with the teachers to get that into the hands of the

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parents at the right time. And then the teachers can authenticate the address and the things that we need

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as a representative of the school. But yeah, it takes a few pieces, right? If there are places where we don't

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have a community library in place and trying to fill some of those gaps. But yeah, I've been grateful we've

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been able to have it out to a couple of schools over the years to pop up. You know, have a

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bunch of hands-on learning available. It does geared towards the early learning side of things. So,

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you know, great for kindergarten or pre-K. There's a little bit less there for those older elementary

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school students simply because it's not a full bookmobile that you can walk into for those of you who

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maybe may have grown up in a rural area where there's like a bookmobile that's like a bus. This isn't

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quite that. But it is another way for us to connect with schools when those kids may not be able to walk

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to us or we may not be able to bus to us. Yeah, I think that's great because I've learned that some of

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the schools had budget cuts and so they didn't have library hours for the early ages as you had mentioned.

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So, thank you for doing that and all the work that you know. No, I appreciate you mentioning that. It's

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wild to think, you know, that the youngest students at our school little resources. If you click on that,

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you will see an amazing menu of things that you may currently be paying for that are actually free to you.

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So, yeah, lots of the periodicals, you know, things that we used to get, you know, thrown onto our doorstep.

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You can now pull up, you know, on your mobile device. So, yeah, pretty much every newspaper you

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can think of. We have digital access to and then a lot of the super popular magazines. So,

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the New Yorker, the economist, all that kind of stuff, you can access to either through one of

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apps we have like, like press reader, Libby or Flipster or just through your browser if you want to do it that way.

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So, just go to the website and sign up. Yeah, actually if you've already got a card, all you'll do is when

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you click on the service you want to access, it'll basically give you a login link. You put in your library

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card number and your pen and then you're in. Different, different periodicals will have different rules.

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Like it'll give you like unlimited access for three days and then you just sign in again to keep using it.

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That's how I read my New York Times. Awesome. That's good. Yeah, exactly. And thank you so much in the second quick question.

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I had, as I know, as you said, you had a, you're looking at doing cultural performances and having different

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if, if there's organizations out there, do they just reach out to you directly? Do they go to, there's their special site in the website that they couldn't.

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They're actually, yes. So if you go to the website and scroll down to contact us, there's actually a program proposal form.

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So anybody who, you know, has a, a performance or a presentation that they would like the library to consider, can go through there.

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If you have special ideas, please then I'm straight to my inbox. I'm happy to, to look at those myself.

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Sure. I'd love, you know, we're always, we, we love to discuss with our community like on a Tuesday night. We've got family nights every Tuesday night, right? So people come in.

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I'll be like, what do you want to do next week? What do you want? You know, like, we're, you know, we got 52 weeks to fill and we'd love to have a variety, right? Something that everybody can see themselves in and, and something that'll surprise everybody. So if you've got ideas, I'd love to hear.

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Perfect. Thank you so much for all you do.

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Appreciate it.

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Patrick, thank you very much for you and your staff for, you know, really setting the standard for library services in our county. Really appreciate it.

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Thank you.

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Are we still number one by like 30% or something?

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It's more than 30%.

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Even more than that? Just, just wanted to point that out.

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Yeah. So, well, let me put it this way.

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In the three years that we've been open, we've put about seven years of mileage on our building.

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So, yeah, we're, we're kind of, we're traveling at a different speed.

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But, um, but yeah, you know, this is, this is, like, we've had everything going for us. You know, we have this amazing partnership with the city,

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incredible friends, you know, community that just loves, loves, loves libraries.

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And so we've had just strong wind in our back the whole way.

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And so it should be nothing less.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. But without Patrick, we probably went on that library built.

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I'm just, I've said that many times.

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And a lot of people in this room that made it.

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Well, okay. But really, without your energy and your enthusiasm,

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that brings every bit of library, this, this library would not have been.

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Oh, the privilege.

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But privilege not to be here.

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Thank you so much.

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Take care.

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Thank you.

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All right. Well, we'll move on to item five point two on our agenda tonight,

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which is a proclamation recognizing the lunar new year.

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And so with that, I'd like to invite Dr. Andrew Medina from DVC's A-A-A-N-H-P-I organization.

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And a member of the lunar new year committee to receive the Proclamation,

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which I will read and then I'll bring it down.

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I'll take a picture.

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Madam Clerk, you got to.

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Top.

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All right.

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So whereas on Tuesday, February 17, 2026, the lunar new year will commence.

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And families in the Pleasant, California and around the world will join together

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and welcoming the year of the horse.

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And whereas the lunar new year is an important holiday for many Asian communities.

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And Americans of Asian origin, including those of Chinese Korean,

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Vietnamese, Tibetan, Mongolian, Singaporean, Malaysian, and Filipino heritage.

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And whereas the lunar new year Spring Festival is based on the lunar calendar,

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which includes the Chinese Zodiac or Shang Chao, a repeating 12-year cycle of animal science,

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and they're ascribed attributes.

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Through the animal science, though the animal science can vary across cultures,

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the lunar new year marks the transition from one animal to the next,

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with February 16th, 2026 ending, the year of the snake and February 17th,

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starting the year of the horse.

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Those born in the year of the horse are often seen as enthusiastic,

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confident, sociable, and characterized by vitality, independence, and a love of freedom.

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And whereas we recognize the discriminatory laws, xenophobic policies and

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treatment suffered by Californians of Asian descent are a blight on our state's history.

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We must continue to stand against the anti-Asian rhetoric and violence that increase

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during the COVID-19 pandemic and reject past and present prejudice and embrace all people.

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And whereas we look forward to a joyous new year and probably reflect on the contributions

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of Californians of Asian descent for their significant developments from America's first

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trans-continental railroad to the farms and small businesses foundational to our state's economy.

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Therefore, eyes, access, mayor of the city of Pleasanton, on behalf of the city council,

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do proclaim February 17th, 2026 as a lunar new year.

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In the city of Pleasanton Hill, in which everyone celebrating the holiday,

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a happy new year, good fortune, health and happiness.

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We encourage everyone in Pleasanton Hill and the surrounding areas to join

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in the spirit of celebration and reaffirm our communities commitment to family,

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diversity, each all respect and creating an inclusive environment of belongings,

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belonging for all of our residents.

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So, doctor, come in.

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Thank you so much.

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Good evening, Mr. Mayor.

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Members of the council and community partners.

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My name is Dr. Andrea Medina, proud coordinator of a nopi.

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I'm deeply honored to accept this recognition on behalf of Diablo Valley College.

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And our learning community recognizing Asian-American,

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Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders.

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This award is not about one person or one program.

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It reflects the collective commitment to visibility, to equity,

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and to the belief that a nopi students deserve to be seen and to be heard.

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We are growing vibrant diverse community with distinct histories, cultures,

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and needs, proud to boast over 1300 students identify as AAPI at DBC.

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And we're growing vibrant.

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And at Diablo Valley College, we work with students who are first generation,

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multilingual, working multiple jobs, and navigating through this sometimes complicated

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higher education system.

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There I have every day with resilience, passion.

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I also want to thank our community partners from Contra Costa, Chinese School.

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And of course, you lovely members here at Pleasant Hill.

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I want to thank you most importantly, our students since they are our voice,

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and they continue to teach us what courage, persistence, and hope truly means.

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So on behalf of the DBC is a nopi, we thank you for recognizing our importance of work.

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It strengthens that only our college, but our entire city.

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Except this honor with immense gratitude.

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And it's sincerely thank you for this honor.

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Thank you, Dr. Medina, from right down there.

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It is a free event.

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So please, everybody here, show up at DBC.

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What time does this start?

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It starts at 9.30 a.m. and it ends at 1.30.

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And then right across the street, we're having a day market.

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So yummy food, lion dancing, all the bells and whistles.

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All right, we'll move on to the next question.

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All right, we'll move on to item 6 of tonight's agenda, which is city comments.

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City manager comments.

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And these in Bender Nail are a team city manager.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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She has a lot to say.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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Jessica, David and Council members, members of the public for announcements for you.

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And I'll start with a reminder that we have the city of pleasant hills taking a major step towards enhancing our roadway safety through the development of the pleasant hills safety action plan.

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The goal of the studies to analyze collision data and incorporate community input to inform projects and strategies that reduce safety risks and eliminate traffic related fatalities and severe injuries.

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The public's input is vital to achieving a safer transportation network for all road users.

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We encourage you to take the survey.

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You can visit us online phillca.gov slash SS the number four A as in safe streets for all.

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Moving on to climate action plan, a reminder that the public reviewed draft of the pleasant hills 2025 climate action plan or cap is available for review on the city's website.

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The cap includes goals and strategies and actions to meet targets set by state law to reduce GHG admissions emissions and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045.

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The planning commission is going to hold a public hearing next Tuesday February 10th here in the council chamber at 7 p.m.

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If you'd like to review the cap, you can visit it online on the city's website phillca.gov.

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On Tuesday February 24th at the end of this month from 10.