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Fullerton trustees review mission and vision options, hear arts-and-culture plans and accept foundation donation
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Trustees reviewed proposed mission and vision statements, received reports on programs and passport-service staffing, accepted a $54,798 donation from the Library Foundation and directed staff to return with arts-and-culture plans in three months.
Fullerton's Board of Library Trustees used its Feb. 26 meeting to review draft mission and vision statements, hear routine reports on programming and operations, accept an annual foundation donation, and ask staff to return with a plan for arts-and-culture programming within three months.
Interim Director Beatrice led the monthly report, describing February programs including adult craft night (22 attendees), a February author talk with nearly 70 attendees, two teen board-game events (about 80 and 60 attendees), distribution of more than 80 STEAM kits in February, and a Hunt Branch Lunar New Year celebration that drew more than 300 participants. Staff also reported that the Hunt Branch closed for two to three days after wind damage blocked the entrance and caused a power outage; two murals at the Hunt will be relocated to the conference-center entrance while remodeling occurs.
Staff said electronic resource evaluations (language learning, homework and career help, reader-advisory services) are complete and that contracts for selected resources will appear on the next meeting agenda. Trustees pressed staff about reopening passport services and adding Sunday hours; staff said new positions being onboarded will support resuming passport services and extended weekend coverage once training is complete.
The board accepted the Library Foundation's 2025 annual donation of $54,798. Sean, a foundation representative, also reported the foundation's prior-year support ("just a hair under $200,000") and described a successful book sale that netted over $12,000 after expenses.
Trustees then reviewed six draft mission-statement options. Several trustees favored a concise option phrased as, "The library brings the Fullerton community together as a welcoming space where ideas, stories, and knowledge are explored and shared." Others preferred longer options that explicitly referenced equity, arts and culture, or the library's history-collection role. Staff agreed to combine trustee input and return revised mission and vision statements at a future meeting.
On arts and culture, staff described early conversations with local partners including the Fullerton Museum Center and the Muckenthaler to bring programming to the Hunt; trustees voted to direct staff and the incoming director to report back in three months with a more robust plan. The motion to request a three-month update passed unanimously.
The meeting concluded after routine consent-calendar approval and welcoming remarks to the incoming director and new trustee.
