AGENDA
September 20, 2023 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 25, 2023 Closed Session Special Meeting Minutes
3.3 Approval of August 16, 2023 Meeting Minutes
4) Communications
4.1 None
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 Subcommittee report - Policies -- Action
NEW Code of Conduct - September 2023
NEW Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines - September 2023
NEW Code of Conduct Penalties and Appeals - September 2023
NEW Safe Child Policy - September 2023
8) Old Business
8.1 Permanent Director Search -- Action
8.2 Strategic Plan
8.3 Staff Input at Board Meetings -- potential Action
8.4 Staff Photo List
9) New Business
9.1 Guest: Kate Pohjola Andrade (Woodlands Library Cooperative)
9.2 Interim Director - Evaluation
9.3 MSU Homecoming Parade - Friday September 22 closing at 2pm
10) Library Reports
10.1 Financial Report
10.2 Director's Report
10.3 President's Report
11) Adjournment
Board of Trustees
Amy Zaagman, President
Pamela Smith, Vice President
Ameenah Asante, Secretary
Shawn Nicholson
Polly Synk
City Council Liaison
George Brookover
Staff Liaison
Angelo Moreno, Interim Library Director
