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Bastrop Public Library Board Agenda Bastrop Public Library Pressley Meeting Room 1100 Church Street Bastrop, TX 78602 (512) 332-8880 April 07, 2025 Agenda - Public Library Board at 6:00 PM Bastrop Public Library Board meetings are available to all persons regardless of disability. If you 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 Relay Texas at 1-800-735-2989 at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting. __________________________________________ 1. CALL TO ORDER 2. 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. 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. 3. MINUTE APPROVAL 3A. Consider action to approve Bastrop Public Library minutes from March 10, 2025, regular meeting. 4. ANNOUNCEMENTS Public Library Board Agenda April 07, 2025 Page 1 of 2 4A. The library will be closed on Friday, April 18th and Saturday, April 19th in observance of Good Friday and Easter. 4B. The library will be celebrating Dia de los Niños on Tuesday, April 29th. Spanish children's books will be given out to the public. 4C. The Friends of the Library 2025 annual book sale will take place Friday, May 2nd from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and Saturday, May 3rd from 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Early entry for members of the Friends of the Library will be Thursday, May 1st from 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. The Lost Pines Garden Club will be partnering with the Friends of the Library and hosting a plant sale in tandem with the book sale on Saturday, May 3rd. 4D. Announcements from the Library Director. 4E. Announcements from individual board members. 4F. Announcements from Planning & Zoning liaison. 5. REPORTS 5A. Director's report. 5B. Statistics report. 5C. Financial report. 5D. Summer Reading Program 2025 Preview report. 6. PRESENTATIONS 6A. Database presentation, presented by Public Services Librarian Bethany Williams. 7. WORKSHOP 7A. Strategic Plan Workshop: Vision and Mission 8. ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION 8A. Individual requests from Library Board members for items to be listed on future agendas. 9. 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 following date and time: Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 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 Public Library Board Agenda April 07, 2025 Page 2 of 2