Library Board of Trustees Agenda – January 22, 2025

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AGENDA

January 22, 2025 5:30pm
East Lansing Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting
Room 2/Local History 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. Closed Session Meeting Minutes - November 20, 2024
     c. Meeting Minutes - December 18, 2024
     d. Communications

4) Audience

4.1 Public Comment - limited to five minutes per person

5) Reports

5.1 City Council Liaison Report
5.2 Friends of the East Lansing Public Library Report

6) Committee Reports

6.1 Budget and Finance Committee - report
6.2 Personnel Committee - no report

7) Old Business

7.1 FY2026 Budget -- Discussion

8) New Business

8.1 Resolution 05-25 to authorize application for special liquor license for Books, Bites and Bids on April 11, 2025 -- Action
8.2 Reading/review of Meeting Room Policy -- Discussion
8.3 Eating in the library -- Action

9) Library Reports

9.1 Financial Report

  • Donation

9.2 Director's Report

  • New Staff
  • Review Trello Boards

9.3 President's Report

10) 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