Public Library Board
Regular MeetingBastrop, TX · November 7, 2022
Agenda
Bastrop Public Library Board Agenda
Bastrop Public Library Pressley Meeting Room
1100 Church Street
Bastrop, TX 78602
(512) 332-8880
November 07, 2022
Agenda - Public Library Board at 5:30 PM
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require special assistance, please contact the City Secretary at (512) 332-8800 or write 1311
Chestnut Street, 78602, or by calling through a T.D.D. (Telecommunication Device for the Deaf) to
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1. CALL TO ORDER
2. PRESENTATIONS
2A. Mary Jo Jenkins Award Presentation.
3. CITIZEN COMMENTS
At this time, three (3) minute comments will be taken from the audience on any topic.
Anyone in attendance wishing to address the Board/Commission must complete a citizen
comment form and give the completed form to the Board/Commission Secretary prior to
the start of the Board/Commission meeting. Alternately, if you are unable to attend the
Board/Commission meeting, you may complete a citizen comment form with your
comments at www.cityofbastrop.org/citizencommentform at least two hours before the
meeting starts on the requested date. Comments submitted by this time will be given to
the Board/Commission during the meeting and included in the public record, but not read
aloud. In accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, if a citizen discusses any item
not on the agenda, the Board/Commission cannot discuss issues raised or make any
decision at this time. Instead, the Board/Commission is limited to making a statement of
specific factual information or a recitation of existing policy in response to the inquiry.
Issues may be referred to City Manager for research and possible future action.
It is not the intention of the City of Bastrop to provide a public forum for the embarrassment
or demeaning of any individual or group. Neither is it the intention of the
Board/Commission to allow a member of the public to slur the performance, honesty
and/or integrity of the Board/Commission, as a body, or any member or members of the
Board/Commission individually or collectively, or members of the City’s staff. Accordingly,
profane, insulting or threatening language directed toward the Board/Commission and/or
any person in the Board/Commission’s presence will not be tolerated.
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4. ANNOUNCEMENTS
4A. The library will be closed Friday, November 11th for Veteran's Day and Saturday,
November 12th for the annual Veteran's Day Car Show.
4B. November's City Friends Storytime will take place on Wednesday, November 16th with
Director of Engineering and Capital Project Management Fabiola De Carvalho as the
special guest.
4C. Students from Mina Elementary will be attending a tour at the library on Thursday,
November 17th.
4D. The library will be closed Thursday, November 24th, Friday, November 25th, and
Saturday, November 26th for Thanksgiving.
4E. Children's Library Associate Carmen Serna is slated to return to the library Tuesday,
November 29th.
4F. Announcements from the Library Director.
4G. Announcements from individual Library Board members.
5. REPORTS
5A. Library Director report.
5B. Statistical Comparison report.
5C. Financial report.
5D. Material Reconsideration Policy Committee report presented by Sally Keinarth, Rebecca
Bennett, and Barbara Clemons.
5E. Fiscal Year 2022 Recap report.
5F. Open House report.
6. WORKSHOP
7. ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION
7A. Discussion and possible action on Bastrop Public Library's Circulation Policy
7B. Consider action to approve Bastrop Public Library Board minutes from September 12,
2022 regular meeting.
7C. Individual requests from Library Board members for items to be listed on future agendas.
8. ADJOURNMENT
I, the undersigned authority, do hereby certify that this Notice of Meeting as posted in accordance
with the regulations of the Texas Open Meetings Act on the bulletin board located at the entrance
to the City of Bastrop City Hall, a place of convenient and readily accessible to the general public,
as well as to the City’s website, www.cityofbastrop.org and said Notice was posted on the
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following date and time: Thursday, November 3, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. and remained posted for at
least two hours after said meeting was convened.
/s/Bonnie Ueckert Pierson
Bonnie Ueckert Pierson, Library Director
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