MEETING PREVIEW: Guelph Public Library Board for October 27, 2025

As the weather cools, people across town are looking for indoor activities to fill their spare time, and there’s always some activity to do indoors at the Guelph Public Library! And if it’s the last Monday of the month, then you know what activity is going down, and that’s the monthly Library Board of Directors meeting. What should you expect if you pop by in-person or tune-in virtually? Let’s check out the preview…

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 Microsoft Teams. (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 – On the consent agenda there’s the slate of usual reports including the CEO report, new library update, service scorecards, and the operating variance. As usual, if any member of the board would like to pull a report for further discussion they’ll talk about it, otherwise it will be passed as a set before moving on to the other matters of discussion.

Presentations & Reports – There will be two presentations for this meeting. The first concerns “Library Square”, which is the open public area that will be a part of the completed Baker Street redevelopment along with the new main library and residential building, and the second has to do with the Youth Programming Strategy, a very important part of library services.

CLOSED MEETING:

It’s hard to imagine that these reasons represent the same topic, but the board will move into closed session in order to discuss matters covered under parts c and d of the Public Libraries Act, Section 16.1(4). Part c has to do with a “proposed or pending acquisition or disposition of land by the board” and part d has to do with a “labour relations or employee negotiations”.