Public Library Board Monday, January 06, 2025 06:00 PM Bastrop Public Library Pressley Meeting Room

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.

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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

  1. 3A.Consider action to approve Bastrop Public Library minutes from December 2, 2024, regular meeting.

4.ANNOUNCEMENTS

  1. 4A.The library will be closed Monday, January 20th for Martin Luther King Day.

  2. 4B.From Saturday, February 1st through Saturday, April 5th, AARP Foundation Tax-Aide will be at the library in the Pressley Meeting room every Saturday from 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. to assist community members with tax preparation and electronic filing.

  3. 4C.Announcements from the Library Director.

  4. 4D.Announcements from individual board members.

  5. 4E.Announcements from Planning & Zoning liaison.

5.REPORTS

  1. 5A.Director's report.

  2. 5B.Statistics report.

  3. 5C.Financial report.

6.PRESENTATIONS

7.WORKSHOP

8.ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION

  1. 8A.Discuss and consider possible approval on the Fiscal Year 2025 Library Board workplan.

  2. 8B.Discussion and possible action on Bastrop Public Library's Public Information Policy.

  3. 8C.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:  _____________________ at 4:00 p.m. and remained posted for at least two hours after said meeting was convened.

                                                                     
Bonnie Ueckert Pierson, Library Director