2025.03.12 LAB Minutes-Draft

City of Glendale — Regular Meeting (2025-05-14)

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D R A F T
MINUTES
LIBRARY ADVISORY BOARD
GLENDALE PUBLIC LIBRARY
5959 W. BROWN ST.
GLENDALE, ARIZONA 85302
MARCH 12, 2025
6:00P.M.
 
        
  
1.
CALL TO ORDER
 
2.
ROLL CALL
Present:
Theresa Fowler, Chair  
Meegan Tosh, Vice Chair  
Cody Bro, Board Member  
Thomas Varela, Board Member  
Joanne Henning, Board Member  
Absent:
April Greer, Board Member
 
Mia Gradillas, Board Member/Teen
Also Present:Kimberly Hall, Director-Community Services
Dawn Ferro, Deputy Director-Library Services
Kristin Fletcher-Spear, Library Administrator
Esther Peneff, Management Assistant
3.
CITIZEN COMMENTS
1) Gary Sherwood
2) Bud Zomok
 
4.
APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES
 
a.
Library Advisory Board Minutes of February 12, 2025.
  
 
 
Motioned by Board Member Cody Bro, seconded by Board Member Joanne Henning to
approve the February 12, 2025 Library Advisory board minutes.
 
AYE: Chair Theresa Fowler
 
Vice Chair Meegan Tosh
 
Board Member Cody Bro
 
Board Member Thomas Varela
 
Board Member Joanne Henning

Other:Board Member April Greer (ABSENT)
 
Board Member/Teen Mia Gradillas (ABSENT)
Passed
 
5.
NEW BUSINESS
 
a.
* ADDED DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION: Approval to submit E-Rate category 1
and 2 network hardware application.
Deputy Director Dawn Ferro discussed the need for the network and application to benefit
patrons.
 
 
Motioned by Vice Chair Meegan Tosh, seconded by Board Member Cody Bro to
approve the E-Rate category 1 and 2 network hardware application.
 
AYE: Chair Theresa Fowler
 
Vice Chair Meegan Tosh
 
Board Member Cody Bro
 
Board Member Thomas Varela
 
Board Member Joanne Henning
Other:Board Member April Greer (ABSENT)
 
Board Member/Teen Mia Gradillas (ABSENT)
Passed
 
b.
VELMA TEAGUE LIBRARY DISCUSSION PLAN: INFORMATION, DISCUSSION AND
POSSIBLE ACTION.
Kimberly Hall, Community Services Director, and Dawn Ferro, Deputy Director of Library
Services, will facilitate a discussion on the City Council's directive to transfer the
conversation about the future of the Velma Teague Library to the Library Advisory Board.
Board members will review a presentation and possibly take action.
 
 
 
Motioned by Board Member Cody Bro, seconded by Board Member Thomas Varela to
approve to get additional preliminary blueprint plans for options 1, renovate the existing
Velma Teague library, and option 4, move to Promanade.
 
AYE: Board Member Cody Bro
 
Board Member Thomas Varela
 
Board Member Joanne Henning
NAY: Chair Theresa Fowler
 
Vice Chair Meegan Tosh
Other:Board Member April Greer (ABSENT)
 
Board Member/Teen Mia Gradillas (ABSENT)
Passed
 
6.
BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS
Discussion on the next Library Advisory Board meeting due to a conflict on April 9th.
 
 
Motioned by Vice Chair Meegan Tosh, seconded by Board Member Cody Bro to vacate
the April 9th Library Advisory board meeting.  The next meeting will be on May 14, 2025.
 
AYE: Chair Theresa Fowler

Vice Chair Meegan Tosh
 
Board Member Cody Bro
 
Board Member Thomas Varela
 
Board Member Joanne Henning
Other:Board Member April Greer (ABSENT)
 
Board Member/Teen Mia Gradillas (ABSENT)
Passed
 
7.
NEXT MEETING
The next regular meeting of the Library Advisory Board will be held on May 14, 2025, at
6:00 p.m., in the Board Room of the Main Library, located at 5959 W. Brown St., Glendale,
Arizona, 85302.
 
8.
ADJOURNMENT
 
 
Motioned by Board Member Cody Bro, seconded by Vice Chair Meegan Tosh to adjourn
the Library Advisory board meeting at 7:46 p.m.
 
AYE: Chair Theresa Fowler
 
Vice Chair Meegan Tosh
 
Board Member Cody Bro
 
Board Member Thomas Varela
 
Board Member Joanne Henning
Other:Board Member April Greer (ABSENT)
 
Board Member/Teen Mia Gradillas (ABSENT)
Passed
 
 
The Library Advisory Board meeting minutes of March 12, 2025, were submitted and approved
this14th day of May 2025.
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Esther Peneff
Recording Secretary