Library Board Meeting – December 1, 2025

Toronto Public Library Board - Meeting No. 10

Monday, December 1, 2025, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 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
  • Deputy Mayor Paul Ainslie
  • Tamara Balan
  • Serda Evren
  • Jonathan Hoss (Vice-Chair)
  • Ben Liu
  • Amina Mohamed
  • Deputy Mayor Amber Morley
  • Alim Remtulla (Chair)
  • Soo Wong

Agenda

  1. Call to Order
  2. Declarations of Conflicts of Interest
  3. Approval of Agenda
  4. Confirmation of the October 27, 2025 Toronto Public Library Board Meeting Minutes (PDF)
  5. Confirmation of November 13, 2025 City Librarian Performance Review Committee Meeting Minutes (PDF)
  6. Confirmation of November 13, 2025 City Librarian Performance Committee Closed Meeting Minutes
  7. 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.
  8. Business Arising from the Minutes
  9. *City Librarian’s Report
  10. Communications
  11. Presentations
  12. TPL Board Education – City Librarian Innovation Challenge (PDF)

Items for Action

  1. Revised 2026 Operating Budget Submission (PDF)
  2. Revised 2026-2035 Capital Budget and Plan Submission (PDF)
  3. Capital Budget Adjustment Monitoring Report – September 30, 2025 (PDF)
  4. Security Camera Policy (PDF)
  5. Specialized Professional Services – Award of Contract (PDF)
  6. Specialized Professional Services – Extension of Contract (PDF)
  7. *Display and Distribution of Information to the Public Policy (PDF)
  8. *Designated Holidays and Floating Holidays Policy (PDF)
  9. *Donations of Gifts-in-Kind to Special Collections Policy (PDF)
  10. *Flemingdon Park Refresh Project – Branch Closure (PDF)
  11. *2026 Interim Budget Estimates (PDF)

Items for Information

  1. *Audit Plan for the Year Ending December 31, 2025 (PDF)
  2. Operating Budget Monitoring Report – September 30, 2025 (PDF)
  3. Youth Hub Service Update and Expansion Plan (PDF)
  4. St. Lawrence Branch Relocation – Update (PDF)
  5. Reimagining tpl.ca (the Digital Experience Platform Project) - Update (PDF)

Closed Meeting

  1. Deer Park Branch Relocation – Update (verbal)
  2. Potential New Branch Opportunity
  3. City Librarian Performance Review Committee Update (verbal)

Adjournment

  1. Adjournment
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