Trustee Charles urged the board to create a formal plan to preserve the library’s archival materials and the knowledge held by longtime volunteer Richard Trask.

Charles told trustees he was "concerned, with regards to the historical maintenance of their ongoing engagement and support of the archival materials" and suggested the board "get serious about this and just, bite the bullet and start planning for the future." He offered to volunteer to help with that planning and said there are experts in Massachusetts who could assist the library in developing an archival program.

The chair and other trustees agreed the archives are a valuable resource. The chair noted she had spoken with the town manager about the archives and said she had potential budget-season ideas. Director Noel agreed that Richard is a repository of valuable information and said, "we won't have Richard forever," underscoring the need to document and preserve archival holdings and institutional knowledge.

Trustees asked for the archives to be considered as part of the action plan or budget planning cycle; the chair said it should be possible to include archival planning among action-plan suggestions ahead of the December action-plan filing deadline.

No formal vote or appropriation was made at the meeting; trustees agreed to add archival planning to the board’s action-plan homework and discuss potential budget items in the coming months.