Recent Board of Trustees Meeting

The most recent Trustees’ meeting was held at Honan-Allston Branch on 2/4/25.  As part of the trustees’ desire to engage with branches and patrons, the trustees were welcomed by Carin O’Connor, Branch Librarian and Sarah Markell, Vice President of the Friends.  The slides introduced all the staff, shared information about library circulation, programming and provided remarks from the Friends.  You can review them here.

President Leonard’s primary focus was BPL’s newly finalized Strategic Plan implementation and rollout plans.  The plan identifies four major BPL strategic roles: Lifelong learning and research partner, welcoming destination, community engager, and trusted resource.  Within those overarching roles, 15 goals have been identified with 86 initiatives for which a roadmap will be created.

Operationally, BPL currently has 495 full time and part time employees with 49 vacancies.  An overview of the budgeting process was presented including an overall timeline for the process.  Among other capital expenses $2.5M is allocated for the South End Library project for the FY26-29.  Presumably additional money for construction of the new building will be allocated when the construction phase is more imminent, likely late in 2025 when cost estimates will be available.

You can access the agenda, slides, meeting materials here.