00:32:27 Sandra Bayerl: I am thankful for the slower pace. 00:32:27 Nannette Pretzer: Lots of dog walks! 00:32:36 Natalya Anton: my 4 year to-do list is almost complete 00:32:37 Stacy Pasche: I can use a circular knitting needle now 00:32:37 Miriam Andrus: found my hospital has walking trails 00:32:37 Sheryl Mase: My grandson is two years old today! 00:32:37 Eric Palmer: Have gotten to know my neighborhood 00:32:37 Deb Radjenovich: A new puppy! 00:32:38 Brooke Hoskins: Bicycling! 00:32:38 Leslie Makela: I'm catching up on my TBR pile....all kinds of backlisted books that I missed 00:32:42 James B Lenze: My yard is looking great! 00:32:45 Kat Boyer: I got some reading done 00:32:47 Carol Dawe: I'm continuing to lose weight and to exercise. 00:32:48 Amy Knepp: Completed two virtual 5k's 00:32:51 Holly Hentz: My daffodils are blooming - very happy! 00:32:52 Maryanne Dearborn : Cooking more 00:32:53 Heather McCallister: Having my kids all home to spend nice family time 00:32:54 Debbie Mikula: Sounds of the neighborhood. Kids laughing, birds chirping. 00:32:55 Kim Senior: watching birds at my bird feeder 00:32:56 Julie Laxton: getting to know my neighbors more 00:33:00 Amy Rosen: yep Virtual 5Ks - 2 also 00:33:01 Kat Boyer: I've been doing virtual racing too 00:33:01 Heather Wood-Gramza: I am playing board games and card games with my family every night. My 17 year old daughter loves this time! 00:33:01 Dale Parus: Reading for me, rather than for leading the book clubs. 00:33:04 Jessica Luther: Super short commute to my office. ;) 00:33:05 Devan Green: I stopped eating fast food. My Dr. told me I can stop taking my water pill. 00:33:06 Bethany Nettleton: The opportunity to spend time with my sons. 00:33:07 Kat Boyer: I have two this weekend lol 00:33:09 Carolyn Stacey: Playing piano a lot! 00:33:11 Cindi Place: Can to talk in-person through car windows with an older patron in our parking lot! 00:33:12 Tamara Denby: Getting great grades in my MLIS classes :) 00:33:20 Teneia Combs: Walks with husband 00:33:22 Sarah Jones: I'm almost through a 25 pound bag of flour 00:33:28 Megan Buck: renewed appreciation for my nob, which I have always loved! 00:33:50 Leslie Makela: @Cindi Place, I stood in the grocery store parking lot and visited with one of my patrons for about 30 minutes through her window. It was so nice. 00:33:50 Cindi Place: Yay Tamara! Where are you attending classes? I am at WSU last semester! 00:34:29 Cindi Place: Leslie...so sweet! 00:34:32 Tamara Denby: University of Missouri 00:34:44 Tamara Denby: Congratulations, Cindi! 00:35:38 Amber Sheerin, MLA (she/her): Congratulations Tamara! 00:38:00 Kat Boyer: What if our employees have no internet access? 00:38:22 Valerie Meyerson: will you put the link in the chat? 00:38:37 Cindi Place: Will we have access to the slides? The link doesn't work for the poster in the presentation. 00:38:41 Sherma Horrocks: Can you email these links to us. 00:39:36 Amber Sheerin, MLA (she/her): https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/posters/FFCRA_Poster_WH1422_Non-Federal.pdf 00:40:04 Amber Sheerin, MLA (she/her): We will post slides with and links afterwards 00:40:13 Andrea Ingmire: I assume if we furlough staff, we are still required to pay back unemployment $$ correct? 00:40:20 Amber Sheerin, MLA (she/her): https://www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA3990.pdf 00:41:38 Kat Boyer: Would our reopening plan be able to include this? 00:42:06 Amelia Yunker: The poster link appears to be broken 00:43:10 Amelia Yunker: Nevermind, I got it to work 00:43:49 Debbie Mikula: Can you take employee’s temperature? How does this affect HIPAA rules? 00:44:59 Deb Radjenovich: Our health dept has required them in Grand Traverse County 00:45:22 Cindi Place: Debbie, one suggestion I heard for this is that employees take their own temperatures when they arrive at work and do a log entry each day they work with their temperature. 00:45:29 Dale Parus: Is it not more logical for employees to check their temperature at home before leaving? Rather than showing up at the door? 00:46:04 Leslie Makela: It was mentioned yesterday in the Pandemic Policies webinar with the LOM that screening patrons is not allowed. You can only screen your staff 00:46:49 Susan Wess: what is considered above normal temp. 98.6? 00:47:13 Devin Erlandson: 100.4 is considered a fever 00:47:25 Susan Wess: thanks 00:47:40 Carol Dawe: Great question, Kat. Thank you. Combine and conquer. 00:47:54 Stephanie Olson: Could Carol share her 4-page as a sample? Iosco-Arenac District Library asks (Stephanie) 00:48:15 Sheryl Mase: So, temperature of 100.3 is okay? 00:48:16 Stacy Pasche: What about small libraries with no separate space? 00:48:40 David Conklin: Are we talking about if an employee has a fever or an employee reports positive test for COVID? 00:49:55 Debbie Mikula: Can you describe what a work share program is? 00:49:59 Ishwar Laxminarayan: What about employers who pay an unemployment tax? 00:49:59 A.M.: I keep hearing this messaging about employees making more under employment, but anecdotally I have spoken with many people who have not received unemployment due to the system’s slowdown. Do you keep track of the numbers of the people you’ve let go who have successfully been accepted for UIA? 00:50:07 A.M.: *unemployment 00:53:24 Sheryl Mase: No. Don’t drive them home! 00:54:03 Ishwar Laxminarayan: Our library has a union, so can we recall employe employees by function not necessarily by seniority? 00:54:13 Kathleen Oemke: could small libraries use a tent for a quarantine space 00:55:12 James B Lenze: Does it have to be an enclosed space? Why not just mark out a space on the floor (like Les Nesmans’s office in WKRP) 00:55:13 Miriam Andrus: The recall of employees will depend on what your union contract language is. In Midland it is by seniority 00:55:19 Stacy Pasche: If they work less than say, 10 hours a week and do not qualify for any benefit- will the library have to pay any unemployment? Is it a clean "break" so to speak? 00:57:38 Maryanne Dearborn : Is this being recorded and can we get a copy? 00:57:46 Valerie Meyerson: If we utilize the work share program, can we still pay for benefits? 00:58:08 Nancy Bellaire: Any thoughts on unemployment or any of the federal relief for substitutes who may work 2 days a week one week and maybe not again for 2 weeks? My thought was to let them apply and see what happens. 00:58:17 Megan Buck: is there any concern that the system will run out of money? 00:59:52 Maggie McKeithan: How do you find out the minimum income to qualify? 00:59:59 Nancy Bellaire: Thank you, that's what I thought! 01:00:09 Tamara Denby: Is there an end date for the $600 subsidy? 01:01:10 Lorena McDowell: I have had staff denied unemployment because they work to little (don't make enough). I have also had substitute awarded unemployment because they work enough jobs all together to qualify monetarily. 01:01:34 Lorena McDowell: Almost all of my staff is part-time. 01:01:52 Valerie Meyerson: @Lorena - how many hours and at what pay was that employee that was denied? 01:02:35 Lorena McDowell: She made less than $5000 a year. She works 4-8 hours a week. 01:02:39 Deb Radjenovich: This is considered a benefit improvement and must be paid for upfront. Don't recommend it! 01:03:18 Kimberly Swoverland: Could we please have these slides emailed to us? 01:03:24 Lorena McDowell: I believe the exact amount she made was around $4,800. 01:03:39 Valerie Meyerson: per quarter? 01:03:40 Amber Sheerin, MLA (she/her): The slide will be posted with the recording 01:04:51 Lorena McDowell: over the past year. 01:05:34 Carolyn Stacey: If you send an employee home, are they still paid as if the 01:05:38 Andrea Ingmire: What is your opinion on travel and how it impacts employees returning to work? Is it considered good practice to have staff traveling out of the area, self quarantine for 14 days after travel? Should we define what the 'out of area' means? 01:06:45 Dwayne Betcher: if library mandates patrons to wear a mask and they refuse would they have the right to ask the patron to leave the facilities. 01:07:02 Leslie Makela: What if you have an employee who is deemed high risk by the CDC, but wants to return to work and do whatever is asked? Is there any liability? 01:07:04 Megan Buck: with Andrea's question...what if they don't tell us they traveled over a weekend but a fellow coworker reports it? 01:07:40 Jerilyn Klich: If high risk, would your disability potentially cover those who need to be off? 01:08:21 Andrea Ingmire: Does the quarantine have to be paid? Can require they use PTO? 01:08:45 Megan Buck: what if someone travels to them? so a family member visits an employee and stays at their house? 01:08:49 Leslie Makela: It's hard for me to wrap my mind around "policing" what my staff is doing on their own time. 01:08:49 Ishwar Laxminarayan: Under the unemployment discussion, how would it affect libraries like us who pay an unemployment tax 01:08:54 Brooke Hoskins: How do you define exposure to the virus? If someone in the building tests positive, are all employees exposed. Or just those n close contact with the person? 01:09:47 Stephanie Olson: We deliver between 9 locations twice a week covering two counties....should we stop these deliveries? 01:09:50 Kat Boyer: Can we get some links or something to get more information about that Workshare program? 01:09:51 Kelly Tinkham: What if we have less than 50 employees for FMLA? Are employees still eligible 01:09:59 Nancy Bellaire: What do we do with an employee that we expect will not wear a mask? I heard you talk about discipline, but most of what I have seen gives some wiggle room for "religious or other reasons" in the guidelines for masks. Should we just assign them to work in a location separate from others if possible? This person is anti vaccine, pro alternative medicine and I saw her at Kroger over the weekend without a mask! 01:10:02 David Conklin: @Dwayne Betcher that is not an HR question. That is a question for a lawyer. 01:10:08 Debbie Mikula: How do you deal with an employee who says they got Covid by returning to work? What is the our liability? 01:10:25 Natalya Anton: I agree with Leslie. I'm not sure how its legal to force staff to quarantine for taking a vacation 01:11:58 Linda Ballard: How exposure defined is covered in the CDC documentation. Your local health department too. 01:13:04 Nancy Bellaire: Thank you again. This helps a lot. 01:13:44 Jessica Luther: This has been great! I had a million questions and this has really helped. 01:14:51 Lorena McDowell: Please say this was recorded and we well get it sent out :) 01:15:03 Miriam Andrus: At the Library in Midland we are using ASANA to track employees work. We also have regular department meetings as well. 01:15:04 Lorena McDowell: So much information! 01:15:10 Jessica Luther: What are best practices for tracking their hours worked? 01:15:15 Ishwar Laxminarayan: That was a wonderful presentation. thank you so much! 01:15:47 Juliane Morian: I agree @Lorena, I hope this was recorded! I want to share as well. 01:16:00 Maggie McKeithan: What if you have an employee who can’t really work from home due to job duties, but is immuno-suppressed and does not feel safe reporting to work. What are my choices? 01:16:03 Rachel Ash, MLA (she/her): A recording of this session will be available on our website by tomorrow morning: https://www.milibraries.org/mla-connect-coffee-hour 01:16:16 Patty Braden: top left corner in Zoom shows it is recording. 01:17:01 Leslie Makela: I just ask my staff to write down the date and the amount of time they spend working or training from home. Until they prove otherwise, I trust that they are telling the truth. So far we are all being paid and only two of us are actually required to do any work during the Stay Home Order. I expect that to change if this goes on past the end of the month. 01:18:22 Carol Dawe: So very helpful. Thank you, Carol! 01:18:29 Kimberly Swoverland: to clarify, if an employee does not feel safe (or has someone immune-compromised at home) and they refuse to come back to work, they are considered terminated? 01:18:37 Gretchen Evans: Thank you for giving this presentation. 01:18:51 Heather Wood-Gramza: Thanks for this information. This has been very helpful. 01:19:52 Lorena McDowell: I had someone apply for unemployment who is still working remotely for us, and has never been fulltime. 01:20:06 Lorena McDowell: They are still saying we need to pay his unemployment 01:20:18 Lorena McDowell: why? if we are still paying his normal hours? 01:20:52 Helena Hayes: I tried to lay them off, because they would have made more money, but my Board wouldn't let me. 01:21:10 Patty Braden: some of my pt staff are making more than their supervisor right now! 01:21:11 Lorena McDowell: We have to pay the difference because he also had another job that did lay him off...I don't understand this. 01:21:45 Sheryl Mase: What is a reimbursing employer??? 01:22:41 Kat Boyer: If we pay the MML quarterly is that who we are? 01:22:50 Kat Boyer: A reimbursing employer? 01:23:11 Ishwar Laxminarayan: What is a good source to keep up with all the HR implications for public entities? 01:23:40 Dale Parus: Hi Debbie Mikula, great question on what step libraries are in on the reopening plan. Local libraries need to know the timeline, for many reasons. Funding concerns, employment decisions, public relations, etc. 01:24:42 Sheryl Mase: Thank you, Carol! 01:24:43 Devin Erlandson: Please! I'd love to see that plan. 01:24:45 Monica Kroondyk: Carol, YOU ROCK!!! 01:24:46 Amber Sheerin, MLA (she/her): Carol Stone: cstone@midland-mi.org 01:25:05 Sherma Horrocks: can you send a picture of these slides 01:25:06 Stacy Pasche: "it's never too late to be what you what you might have been" -George Eliot. Go to library school Carol! 01:25:07 Angela Pike: SHOULD THEY sign something that says they read the plan 01:25:26 Lisa Buttigieg, MLA: Great Coffee Hour!!! Thank you!!!! 01:25:26 Maryanne Dearborn : Carol - you deserve a great big gold star. This has been so very helpful. 01:25:46 Lorena McDowell: So the library has to pay for the two-weeks of sick leave, correct? 01:25:49 Teneia Combs: This was coffee hour RIGHT ON TIME 01:25:51 Eric Palmer: Thank you for this great information. 01:25:54 Tina Marie Russette: thanks Carol. great presentation. 01:26:07 Teneia Combs: Thank you for such thorough information 01:26:10 Angela Pike: how do we get this across to our library board 01:26:11 Nancy Bellaire: Can you refresh our memories of where this presentation will be for future viewing? 01:26:13 Donna Clark: So the document will be in the notes sent out? 01:26:20 Susan Wess: where will the 4 pg plan be? 01:26:25 Sherma Horrocks: Thank 01:26:27 Debbie Mikula: All presentations are on the MLA website 01:26:31 Zaley Nelson: Thank you! 01:26:33 Leslie Makela: Thank you! I have to get to another "meeting". 01:26:37 Angela Pike: library board discussion? 01:26:40 Bethany Nettleton: Thank you! 01:26:41 Kat Boyer: Yeah I have to go to another meeting too lol 01:26:46 Kat Boyer: Yay digital meetings all day 01:26:47 Debbie Mikula: We’ll put Carol’s plan on the website as well 01:26:53 Brooke Hoskins: THANKS! 01:26:53 Shawn Andary: Thanks so much. Am looking forward to the 4 page plan 01:26:54 Sandra Bayerl: thank you!!! 01:26:55 Tamara Denby: Will slides be available to download? 01:26:56 Linda Adams: so helpful! 01:26:57 Rachel Ash, MLA (she/her): Archived coffee hours are available here: https://www.milibraries.org/mla-connect-coffee-hour 01:26:58 Holly Hentz: Thank you for this Coffee Hour - very helpful! 01:27:02 Amy Rosen: Thank you! 01:27:04 Debra Jeske: Thank you! 01:27:06 Michele Howard: Thank you! 01:27:06 Carolyn Stacey: Much appreciated! 01:27:23 Debbie Mikula: Thank you Carol. Love you! 01:27:25 Ishwar Laxminarayan: Stay safe everyone! 01:27:26 James B Lenze: Thanks. 01:27:43 Joyanne Huston-Swanson: Thank you for these insights 01:27:47 Oscar DeLong: Thank you 01:27:49 Jessica Little: Thank you!