MINUTES
May 28, 2025 at 5:30 p.m.
East Lansing Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting
Library Large Meeting Room
950 Abbot Road
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.
The Library Board of Trustees of the City of East Lansing was called to order on Wednesday May 28, 2025 at 5:30pm in the Library Large Meeting Room with the following members present:
Present: Ameenah Asante, Shawn Nicholson, Polly Synk
Excused: Pamela Smith, Amy Zaagman
1. Call to Order 5:31 p.m.
2. Roll Call
3. Consent Agenda
3.1 Approval of the following
a. Current Meeting Agenda
b. April 16, 2025 Meeting Minutes
c. Communications
Consent agenda approved as amended (agenda removed).
Motion to amend agenda to move Summer Reading Program under Director's Report to Item 5.3 under Reports and add Item 7.2 under Old Business for Children's Musical Garden Update from Director.
Synk moved
Nicholson seconded
All in favor
4. Audience
4.1 Public Comment - limited to five minutes per person - none
5. Reports
5.1 City Council Liaison Report - none
5.2 Friends of the East Lansing Public Library Report
- Newsletter distributed.
- Bingo event for FriendShop.
- Monthly shop sales reviewed.
5.3 Summer Reading Preview - Storm Hawthorn
6. Committee Reports
6.1 Budget and Finance Committee - no report
6.2 Personnel Committee - no report
7. Old Business
7.1 FY26 Action Plan -- Presentation
7.2 Children's Musical Garden Update from Director -- Discussion
8. New Business
8.1 Review of Charter Review Committee recommendation -- Discussion
9. Library Reports
9.1 Financial Report
9.2 Director's Report
- MLA Spring Institute Reports - Eric Berling, Storm Hawthorn, Rheanna Reeder, Gillian Streeter
9.3. President's Report
10. Adjournment
Meeting adjourned at 6:28 p.m.
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, Library Director