The St. Paul Public Library Board convened on March 4, 2026, with five members present (Councilmembers Bully, Coleman, Naker, Yang, and Chair Joels) and two excused (Councilmember Johnson and Council Vice President Kim). The board approved the February minutes, adopted a resolution authorizing a transfer of funds from the Friends of the St. Paul Public Library for the Hayden Heights renovation, and received detailed updates on the Hayden Heights and Rondo Community Library projects.
Hayden Heights Library Update (Staff Report 26-20-28):
Rondo Community Library Update (Staff Report 26-29):
Your board to order roll call, please. Bully. Coleman. Here. Johnson. Kim. Naker. Here. Yang. Here. Chair Joels. Here. Five present to absent two being excused. Councilmember Johnson and Council Vice President Kim. Well, welcome everyone to the March meeting of the library board. We have a couple of items on our agenda today. So I'll turn it over to you. The first item that we have on the agenda is minutes 26-9. Library board minutes for February 4th, 2026. Seeing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All those opposed. Five in favor, zero opposed. The minutes are approved. The next item on the agenda is resolution public hearing 26-49 authorizing the execution of Mo to support the transfer of funds from the friends of the St. Paul Public Library to the St. Paul Public Library and amending the library's 2026 financing and spending plans. So this basically is a resolution that's going to support and execute an MOU between the library and the friends. And this will increase create an increase in the capital budget for Hayden Heights by 1.65 million dollars. And it allows us to have enough cash from the friends to be able to begin the project this year on schedule. So this also is a public hearing. So if you're here to speak on this item, you have two minutes. So if this is a public hearing, is there anyone here to speak on this item? Okay. I am not seeing anyone, so I will take a motion from Councilmember Ying to close the public hearing and approve this item. All in favor say aye. Aye, and aye. All those opposed, can't make the comment. Oh, sorry. Councilman, sorry, Councilman Young has a comment. Thank you, Churchills. I uh wanted to say thank you to the friends for their amazing work and the partnership to the city when I was looking at the resolution for the resolution. I just thought to myself, I wish every city had a front all the friends. Um, like how we have them here, and so we are just so fortunate for their partnership. I mean very supportive of this. Thank you, Council Marie. All right, so I think we already took the vote, so five in favor, zero opposed. The resolution is adopted. The next item on the agenda is staff report 26-20-28.