Library Board Meeting – March 24, 2025

Toronto Public Library Board - Meeting No. 3  

Monday, March 24, 2025, 6:00 p.m. to 8:20 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 February 24, 2025 Toronto Public Library Board Meeting Minutes (PDF)
  5. Confirmation of the February 24, 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
  10. **Presentations
    - Naming Policy - Update (PDF)
       Anthony Nolan
    - Sponsorship Policy - Update (PDF)
       Kate Mills
  11. TPL Board Education – Literary and Cultural Programming at Toronto Public Library (PDF) 

Items for Action:

  1. Naming Policy – Update (PDF)
  2. Sponsorship Policy – Update (PDF)
  3. Media Relations Policy (PDF)
  4. Multi and Single Function Printers and Managed Print Services – Increase and Extension to Contract (PDF)
  5. Security Guard Services – Increase to Contract (PDF)
  6. Janitorial Services – Increase to Contract (PDF)
  7. *2025 Roofing Construction – Award of Contracts (PDF)
  8. *Malvern Branch Renovation – Increase to Construction Contract (PDF)
  9. *Social Service Team – Extension of Contract (PDF)
  1. a. **Toronto Public Library Board April Meeting – Revised Date (PDF)

Items for Information:

  1. Intellectual Freedom Challenges – 2024 Annual Report (PDF)
  2. Annual Customer Satisfaction Survey - 2024 Results (PDF)
  3. Social Impact Study - Update (PDF)
  4. Economic Uncertainty and Tariffs – Toronto Public Library’s Considerations and Supports for Torontonians (PDF)

Closed Meeting

  1. Collective Bargaining Update – verbal
    (Confidential as the subject matter being considered involves labour relations or employee negotiations.)

Adjournment

  1. Adjournment
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