Library Board Meeting – June 23, 2025

Toronto Public Library Board - Meeting No. 7

Monday, June 23, 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

  1. Call to Order
  2. Declarations of Conflicts of Interest
  3. Approval of Agenda
  4. Confirmation of the May 26, 2026 Toronto Public Library Board Meeting Minutes (PDF)
  5. Confirmation of the May 26, 2025 Toronto Public Library Board Closed Meeting Minutes
  6. Confirmation of the January 14, 2025 City Librarian Selection Committee Meeting Minutes (PDF)
  7. Confirmation of the January 14, 2025 City Librarian Selection Committee Closed Meeting Minutes
  8. Confirmation of the March 25, 2025 City Librarian Selection Committee Meeting Minutes (PDF)
  9. Confirmation of the March 25, 2025 City Librarian Selection 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 (PDF)
  14. Presentations

Items for Action:

  1. 2024 Audited Financial Statements – Toronto Public Library Board (PDF)
    Kevin Travers, Partner, KPMG LLP, in attendance

Items for Information

  1. TPL Board Education – Centre for Democracy Update (PDF) 

Items for Action

  1. *Financial Empowerment Service – Award of Contract (PDF)
  2. Pleasant View Branch Expansion and Renovation Project – Award of Construction Contract and Budget Adjustment (PDF)
  3. Pleasant View Branch Expansion and Renovation Project – Increase to Architect Contract (PDF)
  4. Purchasing Policy - Update (PDF)
  5. Multi-Year Accessibility Plan 2025-2029 (PDF)
  6. *Bridge Platform – Extension of Contract (PDF)

Closed Meeting

  1. Branch Relocation – Update (verbal)
  2. TPL Foundation Framework for Space Naming Opportunities (PDF)
  3. Reducing Seniors Social Isolation – Fundraising Update (verbal)
  4. City Librarian Selection Committee Report
    (Confidential as the subject matter being considered involves personal matters concerning an identifiable individual)

Adjournment

  1. Adjournment
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