Library Board of Trustees Agenda – August 21, 2024

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AGENDA

August 21, 2024 4:30pm
East Lansing Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting
Library Large Meeting Room
East Lansing Public Library
950 Abbot Road
East Lansing, MI 48823
Public Comment - Email: elpladmin@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) Opening

3.1 Approval of Current Meeting Agenda
3.2 Approval of July 17, 2024 Meeting Minutes #1
3.3 Approval of July 17, 2024 Meeting Minutes #2
3.4 Approval of August 5, 2024 Special Meeting Minutes

4) Communications

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 None

8) Old Business

8.1 None

9) New Business

9.1 Approval of revisions to Naming Rights Policy -- Action
9.2 Resolution 02-25 to designate Freedom to Read Week September 22-28, 2024 -- Action
9.3 Staff Day - Library Closure Request -- Action
9.4 Presentation -- Election Update/Voting Rights - Marie Wicks (City Clerk)

10) Library Reports

10.1 Financial Report
10.2 Director's Report

  • Strategic Plan Update
  • Personnel Update

10.3 President's Report

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