Library Board Meeting – May 26, 2025

Toronto Public Library Board - Meeting No. 6  

Monday, May 26, 2025, 6:00 p.m. to 8:25 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 April 22, 2025 Toronto Public Library Board Meeting Minutes (PDF)
  5. Confirmation of the April 22, 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 – Customer Experience Update (PDF) 

Items for Information:

  1. Audit Findings Report – Year Ended December 31, 2024 – Toronto Public Library Board (PDF)
    - Kevin Travers, Partner, and Aamir S. Ibrahimi, Senior Manager, KPMG LLP, in attendance

Items for Action

  1. 2024 Audited Financial Statements – Toronto Public Library Board (PDF)
    Kevin Travers, Partner, and Aamir S. Ibrahimi, Senior Manager, KPMG LLP, in attendance
  2. Capital Budget Adjustment and Monitoring Report – April 30, 2025 (PDF)
  3. Dawes Road Reconstruction and Expansion Project - Award of Construction Contract and Budget Adjustment (PDF)
  4. Dawes Road branch – Increase to Architect Contract (PDF)

Items for Information

  1. Trends in Intellectual Freedom Challenges – 2025 Annual Report (PDF)
  2. 2024 Public Service Statistics, Trends and Comparisons (PDF)
  3. Operating Budget Monitoring Report – April 30, 2025 (PDF)
  4. *Accounts Written Off in 2024 (PDF)
  5. New Board Members - verbal

Closed Meeting

  1. Branch Relocation - verbal
  2. City Librarian Selection Committee Update - tabled report (PDF)
    (Confidential as the subject matter being considered involves personal matters concerning an identifiable individual)

Adjournment

  1. Adjournment
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