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AGENDA
April 16, 2025 5:30pm
East Lansing Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting
Large Meeting Room
East Lansing Public Library
950 Abbot Road
East Lansing, MI 48823
Public Comment - Email: ELPLBoard@cityofeastlansing.com
The East Lansing Public Library occupies the ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabeg Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi peoples land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw.
1) Call to Order
2) Roll Call
3) Consent Agenda
3.1 Approval of the following:
a. Current Meeting Agenda
b. Meeting Minutes - March 19, 2025
c. Communications
4) Presentation - Capital Region Community Foundation
5) Audience
5.1 Public Comment - limited to five minutes per person
6) Reports
6.1 City Council Liaison Report
6.2 Friends of the East Lansing Public Library Report
7) Committee Reports
7.1 Budget and Finance Committee - no report
7.2 Personnel Committee - no report
8) Old Business
9) New Business
9.1 City Charter Review -- Discussion
9.2 Presentation - Sustainable Library Initiative
10) Library Reports
10.1 Financial Report
10.2 Director's Report
- Books, Bites and Bids Update - Zandra Blake and Liz Kish
- Conference Report - Innovative Users Group Conference - Scott Drapalik
10.3 President's Report
- None
11) Adjournment
Board of Trustees
Pamela Smith, President
Ameenah Asante, Vice President
Shawn Nicholson, Secretary
Polly Synk
Amy Zaagman
City Council Liaison
Mayor Pro Tem Kerry Ebersole Singh
Staff Liaison
Kevin King