NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING

Organization: Pollard Memorial Library Board of Trustees
Date: Wednesday – March 13, 2024 - Time: 5:30 p.m.
Location: Pollard Memorial Library 401 Merrimack St. Lowell, MA 01852
 Ground Floor Meeting Room and via Zoom

On March 29, 2023, Governor Healey signed into law a supplemental budget bill which, among other things, extends the temporary provisions pertaining to the Open Meeting Law to March 31, 2025. Specifically, this further extension allows public bodies to continue holding meetings remotely without a quorum of the public body physically present at a meeting location, and to provide "adequate, alternative" access to remote meetings. The language does not make any substantive changes to the Open Meeting Law other than extending the expiration date of the temporary provisions regarding remote meetings from March 31, 2023 to March 31, 2025.

Members of the public wishing to attend the meeting and/or speak regarding a specific agenda item should email the Library Director at bcooley@Lowellma.gov indicating your name and on which agenda item(s) you would like to speak. Since the meeting is hybrid, you may attend in-person in the Ground Floor Meeting Room at the Library or online. If the meeting is hybrid and you do not wish to attend in-person, you will be sent the access information needed to join the meeting. If you do not have email access, you can also call 978-674-1548 for the meeting information.

AGENDA:
1. Meeting call to order
2. Attendance
3. Acceptance of / Amendment to Agenda
4. February 14, 2024 Meeting Minutes approval
5. Public Comment Period
6. Trustee and Staff Strategic Plan Retreat Update
7. Update from Strategic Plan Teams as needed *
8. Chairperson’s Report
9. Committee Reports *
10. Director’s Report (building issues, personnel, programming highlights, and budget)*
11. Liaisons’ Reports (PML Foundation and Friends of the PML)
12. Old Business *
13. New Business *
14. Adjournment

* Indicates placeholder in the event an item(s) not reasonably anticipated arises.