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Library staff preview CLC annual report, budget priorities, programs and strategic planning
Summary
Staff presented the 2025 CLC annual report, hiring updates, budget highlights (personnel largest expense), a proposed solar CIP funded by sustainability credits, health partnerships (American Heart Association blood-pressure kiosk), upcoming artist-in-residence, and community engagement plans for strategic planning.
Library staff used the meeting to brief trustees on organizational priorities including the CLC (City-sized Libraries Collaboration) 2025 annual report, active hiring processes, budget composition and emerging programs.
The presentation outlined that CLC — a 13-member group of mid-sized Wisconsin libraries — is building a 2025–26 data dashboard to visualize per-capita state annual-report data to inform strategic planning. Staff said the CLC group formed in 2021 to address challenges faced by libraries serving 30,000–100,000 people and that two additional libraries joined in 2025.
On staffing, staff reported three ongoing recruitments: an…
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