August 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM - Regular Board Meeting

1. Call to Order/Roll Call

2. Pledge of Allegiance

3. Public Comment

4. CONSENT AGENDA: All items on the Consent Agenda are considered to be routine and will be enacted in one motion. There will be no individual discussion of these items unless a Trustee so requests. The requested item will then be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered at the end of the Consent Agenda. 

4.A. Approval of Minutes

4.A.1) Minutes of the July 16, 2025 Regular Board Meeting.

4.A.2) Minutes of the July 21, 2025 Finance Committee Meeting. 

4.B. Payment of the Bills

4.B.1) Approve operating expenses of $313,930.27, payroll expenses of $314,420.52, Special Reserve expenses of $15,000.00, for a total monthly expense of $643,350.79.

4.C. Treasurer's Report

4.C.1) Review Financial Reports

4.D. Trustee Reports

4.E. Executive Director's Report

4.E.1) Library Activity Statistics

4.E.2) Monthly Program Statistics

4.E.3) Library Highlights

4.F. Communications & Committee Reports

5. Unfinished Business

6. New Business

6.A. Action to ratify the scheduling of a Public Hearing for the Annual Budget and Appropriations Ordinance on September 17, 2025 at 6:30pm. 

6.B. Discussion about library investment options

6.C. Action on Resolution 2025-03 of the Board of Library Trustees of the Niles-Maine District Library, Cook County, Illinois, providing for transfer of funds from the Library's Corporate Fund to the Library's Special Reserve Fund. 

7. Executive Session to discuss:

• The appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(1).
• Litigation, when an action against, affecting or on behalf of the particular public body has been filed and is pending before a court or administrative tribunal, or when the public body finds that an action is probable or imminent, in which case the basis for the finding shall be recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed meeting. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(11).
• Discussion of minutes of meetings lawfully closed under the Open Meetings Act, whether for purposes of approval by the body of the minutes or semi-annual review of the minutes as mandated by Section 2.06. 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(21).

8. Action, if any, on executive session items.

9. Other

10. Adjournment