Library Board Meeting – February 24, 2025

Toronto Public Library Board - Meeting No. 2    

Monday, February 24, 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
  • 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 January 27, 2025 Toronto Public Library Board Meeting Minutes (PDF)
  5. Confirmation of January 27, 2025 Toronto Public Library Board Closed Meeting Minutes
  6. 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.
  7. Business Arising from the Minutes
  8. *City Librarian’s Report
  9. *Communications (PDF)
  10. Presentations
  11. TPL Board Education – Friends of Toronto Public Library – Annual Update
    Frank Velikonja, President, Friends of Toronto Public Library and Rosemary Fontaine, Vice President, Friends of Toronto Public Library, in attendance.

Items for Action:

  1. 2025 Operating Budget – Adoption (PDF)
  2. 2025-2034 Capital Budget and Plan – Adoption (PDF)
  3. 2024 Capital Budget Adjustment and Monitoring Report – December 31, 2024 (PDF)
  4. Specialized Professional Services –Extension of Contract (PDF)
  5. 2025-2029 Fundraising Priorities (PDF)
  6. *Wireless Service Solution – Extension of Contract (PDF)
  7. *Deer Park Branch General Contractor – Award of Contract (PDF)
  8. *North York Central Library Teen Space General Contractor - Award of Contract (PDF)
  1. a. **Toronto Public Library Board April Meeting – Revised Date (PDF)

Items for Information:

  1. Operating Budget Monitoring Report – December 31, 2024 (PDF)
  2. *2024 Fundraising Update (PDF)
  3. *Annual Statistical Report to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (PDF)
  4. *Toronto Public Library Board Members – Expenses Paid for 2024 (PDF)
  5. Annual Risk Register – Update (PDF) with confidential attachment

Closed Meeting

  1. TPL Foundation Fundraising Plan - Update (verbal)
  2. Collective Bargaining Update (verbal)

Adjournment

  1. Adjournment
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