Library Board of Trustees Agenda – August 16, 2023

AGENDA

August 16, 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 Amended/Approved July 6, 2023 Meeting Minutes
3.3 Approval of July 19, 2023 Meeting #1 Minutes
3.4 Approval of July 19, 2023 Meeting #2 Minutes
3.5 Approval of July 25, 2023 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

8) Old Business

8.1 Immediate Staffing Needs: Follow-up -- Discussion

9) New Business

9.1 Planning for Permanent Library Director Search -- Discussion
9.2 Staff input at board meetings -- Discussion

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