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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes_LAB_01.16.2024Minutes of the • Advisory Board City of GeorgetownTexas Tuesday, January 16, 2024 The Georgetown Library Advisory Board met on Tuesday, January 16, 2024 at 6:00 PM at Public Library, 402 W. 8th Street. The City of Georgetown is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you require assistance in participating at a public meeting due to a disability, as defined under the ADA, reasonable assistance, adaptations, or accommodations will be provided upon request. Please contact the City Secretary's Office, at least three (3) days prior to the scheduled meeting date, at (512) 930-3652 or City Hall at 808 Martin Luther King, Jr Street for additional information; TTY users route through Relay Texas at 711. The following Members Were in attendance' Present were: Susan Cooper, Nosa Asowata, Nancy K Hill, Catherine Morales, Susan R Poyo, Laura M Helpert 1. Regular Session 1.A LAB Minutes Consideration and possible action to approve the November 7, 2023 Library Advisory Board minutes --Nosa Asowata, Board Chair Moved by Catherine Morales; seconded by Susan Cooper to Approve minutes as distributed. Motion Approved: 5- 0 Voting For: Susan Cooper, Nosa Asowata, Nancy K Hill, Catherine Morales, Laura M Helpert Voting Against: None 1.B Long-range plan update Update on the Library's Long -Range Plan --Sally Miculek, Library Director Miculek reported the request for qualifications are due February 2, for firms who are interested in developing the Library's Long -Range Plan. After the deadline, the Long - Range Plan Steering Committee and select City staff will view and score submissions. Miculek will also host a proposal meeting to give interested firms an opportunity to discuss the scope of the project, tour the library building, and learn about library services. Once a firm is selected, Miculek will work with the City's Legal and Purchasing departments, along with the selected firm to create a contract which will go before Council for approval. No action required. 1.0 TSLAC Special Projects grant update Discussion and update regarding the Texas State Library and Archives Commission Special Projects grant for expanding express library services -- Sally Miculek, Library Director The Library is applying for a Special Projects grant from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission to hire a Senior Library Assistant who would be tasked with launching an express library service at the Carver Center. The target service areas include the Track, Ridge, Grasshopper and San Jose neighborhoods but could also serve anyone in the 78626 zip code area. Currently, the library's bookmobile is unable to serve these neighborhoods because their streets are too narrow. This service will allow increased library use for residents in the underserved area of Georgetown. If the Library receives the grant, there's an option to renew it twice more. The grant award is $75,000 for 3 years which would be used to offset salary cost for the Senior Library Assistant. The City would be responsible for supplementing a small portion of funding to cover benefits for the staff member. The Friends of the Georgetown Public Library are in support of the project and will provide a locker system and bookdrop to be placed at the Carver Center. Georgetown Health Foundation is also in support of the project and as a partner will provide the location space for the equipment to be installed. If awarded the grant, staff will implement this express service which will allow patrons to reserve library materials and pick-up them up, at their convenience, at the lockers. When they're ready to return library items, patrons will be able to drop them off at the bookdrop in the same location. No action required. 1.D Sustainable Libraries Initiative Discussion of the Sustainable Libraries Initiative-- Susan Cooper, Vice Chair and Sally Miculek, Library Director Vice Chair Cooper provided information to the Board about the Sustainable Libraries initiative and asked that the Library consider participation in the future. Only two public libraries in Texas have the certification. Cooper reached out to these organizations but has not heard back yet. She will provide more information on the program at the next Library Advisory Board meeting once she has the information for those participating libraries. No action required. 1.E Library Director's Report Consideration of the Library Director's report -- Sally Miculek, Library Director Miculek reviewed the Library's monthly statistics with the Board and discussed programs, activities and patron comments for the Library suggestion box. No action required. 1.F Meeting schedule Consideration and possible action to establish the Library Advisory Board's meeting schedule --Nosa Asowata, Chair No change required. The next meeting will occur as regularly scheduled on Tuesday, March 5 at 6 p.m. No action required. Please fill out a speaker registration form which can be found on the table at the entrance to the meeting room. Clearly print your name and the letter of the item on which you wish to speak and present it to the Board Liaison prior to the start of the meeting. You will be called forward to speak when the Board considers that item. Only persons who have delivered the speaker form prior to the meeting being called to order may speak. Speakers will be allowed up to three minutes to speak. If you wish to speak for six minutes, it is permissible to use another requestor's granted time to speak. No more than six minutes for a speaker may be granted. The requestor granting time to another speaker must also submit a form and be present at the meeting. A request must be received by the Advisory Board or Commission Liaison prior to the day the agenda for this meeting is posted. Each speaker will be given three minutes to address the Board or Commission members. No action can be taken. Citizens wishing to address the Board. Citizens wishing to address the Board. As of the deadline, no persons were signed up to address the Board -- Nosa Asowata, Board Chair None were present. - M. Adjournment Chair Asowata adjourned the meeting at7:02 p.m. --C-Q-4 These nu were approved at the meeting of - 5 hair Attest