Library Board Meeting – December 2, 2024

Toronto Public Library Board - Meeting No. 9         

Monday, December 2, 2024, 6:00 p.m. to 7:50 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
  • Justice Faith Betty
  • Serda Evren
  • Jonathan Hoss (Vice Chair)
  • Amina Mohamed
  • Councillor 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 28, 2024 Toronto Public Library Board Meeting Minutes (PDF)
  5. Confirmation of the October 28, 2024 Toronto Public Library Board Closed Meeting Minutes
  6. Confirmation of the November 12, 2024 Strategic Planning Steering Committee Draft Meeting Minutes (PDF)
  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 - TPL Foundation Update

Items for Action:

  1. Strategic Plan 2025-2029: Creating connection and belonging for Torontonians to thrive in every neighbourhood
  2. *Goldhawk Park Branch Grounds Construction - Award of Contract
  3. *Richview branch Waterproofing - Increase to Contract
  4. *2025 Interim Budget Estimates

Items for Information:

  1. Revised 2025 Operating Budget Submission
  2. Operating Budget Monitoring Report – September 30, 2024
  3. Capital Budget Monitoring Report – September 30, 2024
  4. *Audit Plan for the Year Ending December 31, 2024

Item for Action

  1. Sponsorship for AI Upskilling Initiative
    Previously confidential information now available to the public.

Closed Meeting

  1. Branch Relocation
  2. Collective Bargaining – verbal
  3. Update from City Librarian Selection Committee – verbal

Adjournment

  1. Adjournment
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