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Horicon library board accepts 2025 DPI annual report and endorses Monarch system leadership
Summary
The Horicon Public Library Board voted Feb. 9, 2026, to accept the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction 2025 Public Library Annual Report and approved a statement that the Monarch Library System provided effective leadership and met the library’s needs.
Kris Ries, chair of the Horicon Public Library Board, presided over a Feb. 9 meeting at which trustees accepted the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) 2025 Public Library Annual Report and voted to endorse the Monarch Library System’s leadership.
The board voted to accept the DPI report "as presented" on a motion by Trustee Kathy Galvin, seconded by Trustee Lisa Bischoff; the motion carried. In a separate motion, the board approved a statement that the Monarch Library System provided effective leadership and adequately met the needs of the Horicon Public Library (motion by Kris Ries, seconded by Karen Halsema); that motion also carried.
Board members reviewed the annual-report item as part of new business. The minutes record the formal acceptance and the endorsement but do not include additional detail about changes to library services or follow-up steps tied to the DPI filing.
The actions complete the board’s formal annual reporting obligations recorded in these minutes. The board adjourned at 8:02 p.m.; its next meeting is scheduled for March 9, 2026, at 6:30 p.m.
