The Surprise Library Advisory Commission on June 12 recommended approval of the Surprise Public Library System 2025 strategic plan and forwarded the recommendation to Library Director Lamphere.

Commissioners reviewed substantive content changes to the plan — including added community statistics, expanded historical background on the library system, a clearer timeline for priority tasks and updated percentage displays to improve readability — and were told the final visual layout would be handled by the communications team. A staff member told commissioners, “If you guys want to move to approve, this is not how it is going to look. We will work with our communications team when they are less busy and we are less busy to come up with something, and we'll make sure we get all of that to you guys. But the actual content, does not need to change.”

Commission discussion noted that community comments had been organized by goal and that timelines were now tied to the listed priorities so the plan would be revisited rather than filed away. Commissioners expressed interest in seeing the communications team’s final formatting when it is complete.

The commission’s recommendation is advisory to the library director; no city council action was recorded at the meeting. Commissioners also acknowledged that this meeting was Commissioner Jamie Baker’s final commission meeting under existing term limits.

The commission did not attach additional motions or amendments to the content during the vote and instructed staff to deliver the polished document through communications before future review.