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This year's "Santa's Bobbing Into Town"event will be Saturday, December 10. Last year 175 kids attended the annual program hosted by the library. In the past this has consisted of storytime with Santa and then several stations with crafts and activities would be set up for the kids to rotate through. These station activities have gotten more difficult to organize as the attendance has grown, so we will be trying something new this year. The magician who appears yearly for one of the summer reading program events is going to put on a Christmas show for us charging a discounted fee ($275). We will be renting Mrs. Claus's costume. Also, we are looking for a sleigh/wagon ride driver if anyone has any suggestions. Old Business The new bulletin board construction is underway. We have a new technology contact- Kaye Schroeder-who recently take a look at our public computers and their performance issues. Kaye suggested getting computers capable of operating on Windowsl0 Professional as soon as possible in order to mitigate problems related to MalWare and other downloads currently affecting the performance of all of the computers. We had previously agreed on a replacement schedule of 2 computers per year,however Melissa said Kaye recommended we replace at least 3 computers next year. The cost for the computer itself is about$350 with probably another $150 to get Windows10 Professional installed on each one. Tom pointed out we have $2,000 already budgeted for computer replacement in 2017 and motioned that we consider increasing that amount to $3,000 and replacing all 6 computers at once, as they are all extremely dated. Kay seconded the motion to replace all 6 public computers and the group unanimously agreed. New Business Melissa discussed the opportunity for the library to participate in Minnesota's"Give to the Max Day". GiveMN hosts the 24-hour,which encourages Minnesotans to make donations online to the local groups and causes that mean most to them. The event for 2016 will be held from midnight to 11:59pm on Thursday,November 17. Board members had some concerns about the event targeting patrons who already donate to the library based on our letter-writing campaign, although it was also suggested that people who donate online are likely a slightly different demographic. If the library works with some other local non-profit organizations to see if we can promote this an event to raise money for local groups and causes in general, the library being one of these,to avoid appearing to double-target patrons who already donated. A suggestion was recently made to eliminate the choice of either a single person or family library card and go to only 1 option-the $5 family card that allows up to 15 items