It’s Devils Night, and this year the Devil’s business seems to involve the monthly board of directors meeting of the Guelph Public Library. Nothing particularly evil, or diabolical, is on the agenda though, just the usual business of running the local library system including budgets, the state of services and usage, plus the ongoing developments of the new library project. Plus, what issues are top of mind for library advocacy?
NOTE #1: This meeting will take place in Programming Room at the Main Library on Norfolk Street, but you can also watch it on video via Cisco Webex. (Find the link on the library board’s webpage.)
NOTE #2: The meeting begins at 6 pm and is expected to wrap up around 8 pm.
NOTE #3: The Library does not make the complete agenda with reports available to the public, not the point form agenda.
Consent Agenda – It’s a pretty full dance card on the consent agenda with the usual updates about service capacity, service utilization and the operating variance report, but there will also be other reports including updates to the new library milestones, a policy overview, and an update about fundraising. Plus, there’s a report about the advisory priorities of the Ontario Library Association, and the Federation of Ontario Public Libraries.
Presentations & Reports –It’s a comparatively shorter agenda for this portion of the meeting when the reports are presented in more detail. The board will go over the results of their recent retreat which focused the delivery of services at the library, plus CEO Steve Kraft will talk about advocacy priorities and there will be an amendment to the 10-year budget.
CLOSED MEETING:
There’s one item on the closed agenda, a matter pertaining to section (d) labour relations or employee negotiations, as well as (b) meaning personal matters about an identifiable individual, under Section 16.1(4) of the Public Libraries Act.
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