Annual Membership Meeting
All members of the Friends of the Belton Public Library are cordially invited to attend the Friends’ Annual Membership Meeting to be held Thursday, , at the Harris Community Center, 401 N. Alexander Street, Belton, TX. The meeting will begin at 11:30 am.
Items on the meeting agenda are (1) election of four Board Members to replace members whose three-year terms are expiring and (2) voting on proposed changes to our bylaws. A copy of the bylaws with the proposed changes highlighted may be viewed as a pdf file by clicking the button below. The bylaws require a two-thirds majority of those members attending the meeting to ratify any changes. There will be an opportunity for discussion of these changes to the bylaws at the meeting.
For questions about the meeting or to request a printed copy of the proposed bylaws contact:
President
For directions and a map to the Harris Community Center:
Harris Center
The Friends celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the Book and Author Luncheon this year with speaker Lisa Wingate, New York Times best-selling author, who is from Austin. Lisa drew about 300 to the event, held at the Christ the King Catholic Church’s new community meeting facility. We used proceeds from the event plus on-hand funds to help pay $10,000 for the library’s renovation and playground, plus $4,600 for a new outdoor book drop. An additional $3,500 was used to purchase books given to children in the library’s Summer Reading program and at Christmas on the Chisholm Trail. Some members of The Friends participated in the Education-Connection reading program as community volunteers reading with, and sometimes to, a specific elementary student. Dr. Malinda Golden, BISD Superintendent, and Gabrielle Nino, Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning, visited the March board meeting to share some challenges facing schools today.