Committee will hear a presentation from the architect at 720 design about different options for the size and scope of the project, including various options for amenities. Agenda HERE. Proposal HERE. Demographic Study HERE.
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Monthly meeting of the NE Library Citizens Committee. Agenda will be posted when released.
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Director’s Search Committee 15 March 2024 AGENDA Minutes Meeting Audio Committee Members Present: Stephanie Armbruster (LPL BoC Member) Alan Moore (LPL BoC member) David Pitre (former LBoC Member) Dawn Williams (community member) The second meeting of the library’s Director Search Committee was somewhat more subdued in regards to their objectives. No more requirements for
LPL Board of Control Monthly Meeting 19 February 2024 On the Agenda: Director’s Search Committee Report; Proposed Job Description & Advertisement AGENDA Minutes Meeting Audio Director Job Posting (Search Committee Proposal) Director Job Description & Responsibilities (Search Committee Proposal) Post-Meeting Analysis The February Board of Control got off to a bang when member Ella Arsement
LPL Board of Control Monthly Meeting 09 January 2024 On the Agenda: NE Library Update Director’s Search AGENDA Minutes Meeting Audio Post-Meeting Analysis January was a quiet compared to December’s major seismic shockwave of a meeting. Set against the far-reaching effects of disaffiliating with the American Library Association, the business at January’s meeting looked almost…normal.
LPL Board of Control Special September Meeting 11 September 2023 Agenda HERE Minutes HERE MEETING AUDIO HERE Agenda Items Some of this information is the same as it was for August, with a couple of important changes: Northeast Library Robert Judge is no longer President of the library board. In the wake
LPL Board of Control Regular August Monthly Meeting 21 August 2023 Agenda HERE Minutes HERE Proposed Bylaws Changes HERE MEETING AUDIO HERE Agenda Items Northeast Library Even though it isn’t the first thing on the agenda, it’s arguably the most important, as a library for the Northeast part of Lafayette Parish has been NECESSARY
LPL Board of Control Regular June Monthly Meeting 19 June 2023 Agenda HERE Minutes HERE MEETING AUDIO HERE June marks the one-year anniversary of LPL’s director canceling displays “which single out a portion of the population,” a move made to satisfy board members’ homophobic complaints about Pride displays that were put up at a few branch
Parish Council Retaliation As predicted, Parish Councilman Josh Carlson did not drop his bid to rid the library board of Mayor-President Josh Guillory’s appointee. Now, instead of replacing Guillory’s pick with his own, Carlson has simply filed an introductory ordinance to remove that pick altogether. If we needed proof that dissent from the far-right Christian Nationalist
Parish Council Retaliation 01 April 2023 In February, Mayor-President Josh Guillory’s newest library board appointee, Marquise Watson, attended her first meeting. That month was particularly contentious, with, you may remember, Robert Judge projecting images from books he finds offensive onto the large screen at the front of the room, causing an uproar. Judge pulled this