Library Board Meeting – April 22, 2025

Toronto Public Library Board - Meeting No. 5         

Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 6:00 p.m. to 8:05 p.m.

Toronto Reference Library, Boardroom, 789 Yonge Street and via Webex and Teleconference

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Land Acknowledgement Statement

Toronto Reference Library is on Indigenous land. This is the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (also known as the Six Nations Confederacy), the Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Toronto Public Library gratefully acknowledges these Indigenous nations for their guardianship of this land. We’d also like to remind and reaffirm, as Torontonians and Canadians, our accountability to these Indigenous nations, and to all Indigenous peoples and communities living in Toronto.

This land is also part of the Dish with One Spoon territory that includes a treaty between the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Anishinaabek and allied nations, to peaceably share and care for this land, its waters, and all of the biodiversity in the Great Lakes region.  All those who come to live and work here are responsible for honouring this treaty in the spirit of peace, friendship, and respect.

Closed Meeting Requirements:

If the Toronto Public Library Board wants to meet in closed session (privately), a member of the Board must make a motion to do so and given the reason why the Board has to meet privately (Public Libraries Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.P.44, s. 16.1).

Members:

  • Sakariya Ahmed
  • Councillor Paul Ainslie
  • Tamara Balan
  • Serda Evren
  • Jonathan Hoss (Vice-Chair)
  • Amina Mohamed
  • Deputy Mayor Amber Morley
  • Alim Remtulla (Chair)
  • Soo Wong

Agenda

(Revisions marked with two asterisks**)

  1. Call to Order
  2. Declarations of Conflicts of Interest
  3. Approval of Agenda
  4. Confirmation of the March 24, 2025 Toronto Public Library Board Meeting Minutes
  5. Confirmation of the March 24, 2025 Toronto Public Library Board Closed Meeting Minutes
  6. Confirmation of the April 08, 2025 Toronto Public Library Board Special Meeting Minutes
  7. Confirmation of the April 08, 2025 Toronto Public Library Board Special Meeting Closed Meeting Minutes
  8. Confirmation of April 14, 2025 City Librarian’s Performance Review Committee Meeting Minutes
    (Minutes to be published after April 14, 2025)
  9. Confirmation of April 14, 2025 City Librarian’s Performance Review Committee Closed Meeting Minutes
  10. Approval of Consent Agenda Items
    All Consent Agenda Items (*) are considered to be routine and are recommended for approval by the Chair. They may be enacted in one motion or any item may be held for discussion.
  11. Business Arising from the Minutes
  12. *City Librarian’s Report
  13. *Communications
  14. Presentations
  15. TPL Board Education – Biblio Bash 2025 – Update 

Items for Action:

  1. 2025 – 2029 Strategic Plan Implementation and Measurement Framework and 2020-2024 Strategic Plan Results
    - Accessible Attachments
  2. 2025 – 2029 Digital Strategy
  3. Microsoft M365 User License Renewal – Award of Contract
  4. Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning Maintenance and Services – Award of Contract
  5. *Bridlewood branch Construction – Increase to Tender

Closed Meeting

  1. City Librarian’s Performance Review Committee:
    City Librarian’s 2024 and 2025 Performance Review
    (Confidential as the subject matter being considered involves personal matters concerning an identifiable individual)
    (Report to be published after April 14, 2025)
  2. City Librarian Selection Committee Update
    (Confidential as the subject matter being considered involves personal matters concerning an identifiable individual)

Adjournment

  1. Adjournment
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