The last Guelph Public Library Board of Directors meeting for 2024 will be focused on the future. Mostly. Hopefully, the board has spent the month sitting with the new direction for the Library for the next four years, because this meeting will once and for all determine the future! (…until 2029.) For everything else, please check out the preview for this November meeting of the Library Board.
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, only the point form agenda.
Consent Agenda – As usual, this portion of the agenda includes correspondences, the acting CEO report, service utilisation and capacity scorecards, the operating variance, and the human resource scorecard, plus the Central Library update. There is one additional report though called “Operational Policies Status Report”, but we maybe won’t know what that one’s about because, as part of the consent agenda, the board will only tackle these reports if a member asks to pull them for further discussion.
Presentations & Reports – Two items are on this agenda, the first is the finalised version of the 2025-2028 Strategic Plan, which was approved as a draft at last month’s meeting, and there will also be a staff report about the Strategic Plan, but it’s unclear how it pertains to the plan’s development or even it pertains to the upcoming Strategic Plan at all.
CLOSED MEETING:
There are two matters on the closed meeting agenda and they’re both under Public Libraries Act, Section 16.1(4) A (d) for “labour relations or employee negotiations”. What’s interesting is that these two matters are being tabled in two separate in-camera sessions, which means that the board will go in-camera, discuss a topic, emerge from in-camera and then go back in-camera again for a separate matter. Unless, perhaps, this is a typo.
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