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The board voted to approve the minutes of the May 20, 2025 meeting. Trustees moved and seconded a motion to create a consent agenda to contain items 205683 and 205684 and then voted to approve the consent agenda. After a procedural clarification and reapproval, the motion carried. The meeting concluded with a motion to adjourn, which passed.

No detailed roll-call tallies were recorded in the transcript; the board followed the standard voice-vote practice of \"all those in favor say aye,\" and the chair announced the motions carried.

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Staff described expanded summer early-childhood programming: a biweekly toddler play program that drew about 50 attendees at its first session, a multilingual play program and a new afternoon play session aimed at caregivers for whom morning programs conflict with work or nap schedules. Staff said those program changes were experimental for the summer and would be evaluated for future planning.

The board was introduced to a summer intern in community partnerships, Maya Lemery, who will work 12 weeks supporting teen and adult programs. Staff also summarized a recently completed community-partnerships internship held by Evelyn Best, a Lawrence University graduate now enrolled in the University of Michigan's Master of Library and Information Science program; Best produced a literature review and a short, staff-shared presentation on Gen Z and younger-adult library use with recommendations for programming and engagement.

Staff credited the Friends group for providing supplemental funding and noted Friends can act as a fiscal agent for grants requiring a 501(c)(3) applicant when appropriate. A large performer (Mystic and Magic) was scheduled for two shows during the week of the meeting.

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Staff said additional donor signage that required complex installation was hung the prior week. The hearing loop system for assistive listening is scheduled to be commissioned this week in the large meeting room and still must be installed in the library's service desks and the meeting-room area. A recently installed children's guarding gate was said to be physically in place but not yet fully functional, and exterior railing remains to be installed. The learning stairs will receive a rubberized surface rather than exposed concrete, staff said. Landscaping work was described as ongoing.

Staff said they would remove routine building updates from future agendas unless trustees asked for more detail; they offered to do a short training after the hearing loop installation to explain how the loop functions and why it was installed. Attendance and use of the new building were described as \"amazing\" overall, with May quieter as expected during seasonal transitions.

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The presentation described local tax dollars as the library's primary revenue source, noted the library's 2025 total operating budget as $5,200,000, and said the library accounts for roughly 7% of the city's $72'$73 million general fund. County reimbursement revenue was described as offsetting about 20% of the library's funding; the transcript identified the top revenue line for library grants and aids at \"1.2 plus million dollars.\" Staff also said the library expects to record roughly $15,000 in meeting-room rental revenue in 2025.

The session explained capital-project rules used by the city: assets costing $10,000 or more with an expected life of three years are treated as capital projects; expenditures over $25,000 are routed into a separate capital-improvement (CIP) request. The board was reminded that the council cannot bind future councils to multi-year commitments; council approval is annual.

Trustees were briefed on the overall municipal budget calendar. The library's proposed budget will go first to the board's finance committee before the August board meeting, then to the full board in August. The city executive budget is published in October. The city's Budget Saturday is scheduled for Nov. 1, followed by a public hearing Nov. 5 and final adoption on Nov. 12, according to staff.

The presenter outlined federal and state roles in library funding. State funding primarily supports regional library systems rather than individual libraries, and federal funding is described as limited and targeted to large-scale access programs (BadgerLink databases were named as an example). The Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) were cited as sources of competitive grants and system support; staff noted litigation related to proposed changes to those federal supports.

The board was told the library receives additional revenue from donations, Friends group fundraising and occasional state grants used for the building project. Staff said some revenues (donations, memorials) cannot be precisely forecast during budget preparation and are incorporated later via budget amendments.

Questions from trustees included whether the mayor had signaled an increase or decrease in the city budget; staff responded it was too early to say and noted state budget uncertainty. The presentation ended with an invitation for trustees to attend a finance-committee meeting before the August board meeting to review the proposed library budget in more detail.

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