King Township Public Library

statutory library board of 10 incl mayor plus 2 councillors

Completeness

• Document shelf: 1 row (1 archived · 0 staged · 0 pending · 0 missing)
• Backgrounder: on file
• Strategy-evolution brief: on file
• Custody audit: 1 of 1 row(s) audited, all clean
• Last verified: 2026-08-01 · this org has NOT had a full discovery-verification pass (our discovery-verification log)

Endpoints

• Website
• Open data: checked — none found
• API: checked — none found
• RSS: checked — none found
• Newsroom: checked — none found
• FOI / access requests: checked — none found

Document shelf (1 row)

Backgrounder

Source: this library's internal records — a mechanical research draft, not independently reviewed for publication; reproduced as-is.

King Township Public Library - backgrounder

Backgrounder / 2026-07-30 / registry row: king-township-public-library (this library's government-document registry) / lens file for this org's series briefs

Mandate & statutory basis

King Township Public Library is a statutory public library board created under the Public Libraries Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.44 (https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90p44 — fetched via text-render fallback and verified 2026-07-30, title confirmed as "Public Libraries Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.44"). Under the Act, a municipal council may by by-law establish a public library board (s. 3), and every board must have at least five members appointed by council (s. 9(1)) who cannot form a majority if they are themselves council members (s. 10(2)); boards must provide "a comprehensive and efficient public library service" (s. 20).

Roles, responsibilities & scope

The Library operates as an agency of the Township of King (registry row: king-township-public-library, parent_org field), delivering public library service to King Township residents. Its Board is responsible for policy governance and advocacy, working to "promote and represent the Library to both existing and potential stakeholders" and support its strategic vision and intellectual-freedom principles (kinglibrary.ca/library-board-administration, fetched). Day-to-day operations are led by a Chief Executive Officer with managers over patron experience, branch operations, collection development and digital services (kinglibrary.ca/library-board-administration, fetched).

Governance & reporting line

The Board for the 2023-2026 term has 10 members: Chair Caroline Anderson, Vice-Chair Aleisha Richards, Finance Chair Michael Tedesco, Mayor Steve Pellegrini, two councillors (David Boyd, Jordan Cescolini), and community appointees including Irene deGeus, Rose Grimaldi, Danielle Donadio and Patti Skrypek (kinglibrary.ca/library-board-administration, fetched; registry row notes: "statutory library board of 10 incl mayor plus 2 councillors"). Under the Public Libraries Act, Township Council appoints board members following each municipal election and fills vacancies as they arise (kinglibrary.ca/library-board-administration, fetched).

Budget scale

~$2.4M annual operating budget: the Board's KPMG-audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2025 report total revenue of $2,435,297 and total expenses of $2,493,683, against municipal grants of $2,342,639 from the Township of King (document id: king-township-public-library-fs-2025).

Institutional history

The Library operates today as a statutory board of the Township of King under the Public Libraries Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.44 (registry row: king-township-public-library); its specific founding year and any prior reorganizations are ⚠️ not yet confirmed against an original source.

Strategy evolution brief

Source: this library's internal records — a mechanical research draft, not independently reviewed for publication; reproduced as-is.

King Township Public Library - strategy evolution

2026-08-02 / registry: king-township-public-library / grounded in archived copies (cited document id + sha256) / read through our research file for that body

TL;DR: The archived series consists of one document — the Board's Approved Financial Statements for the year ended December 31, 2025 — and extraction failed entirely: the captured PDF yielded 0 bytes of text, most likely because it is a scanned/image PDF (_index.json note). No document content was readable for this brief; every substantive figure below is relayed from the backgrounder's own re-verification against the source, not independently confirmed by this review. There is no load-bearing number this brief can itself ground in primary text, and no evolution narrative is possible from zero usable documents. The open question this record cannot answer at all: what King Township Public Library's stated priorities, programs, or budget trend look like — the only archived document is unreadable financials, not narrative content, and even those financials could not be extracted.

Backgrounder summary

King Township Public Library is a statutory public library board created under the Public Libraries Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.44, operating as an agency of the Township of King with a 10-member Board for the 2023-2026 term (Chair Caroline Anderson, Vice-Chair Aleisha Richards, Finance Chair Michael Tedesco, Mayor Steve Pellegrini, two councillors, and community appointees). Backgrounder-cited budget scale of ~$2.4M annual operating budget (total revenue $2,435,297, total expenses $2,493,683, municipal grants of $2,342,639 from the Township of King, per KPMG-audited financial statements for year ended December 31, 2025) is relayed here as the backgrounder's own figure, sourced from the same document id this brief was assigned — but this brief's own extraction of that document returned zero text, so these figures are relayed, not independently re-confirmed (relay registry/backgrounder counts as such). The backgrounder flags the Library's founding year/prior reorganizations as ⚠️ still being checked.

Series inventory

_index.json: 0 ok / 0 stub-suspected / 1 extract-failed.

SHORT-FORM RULE APPLIES: 0 usable documents. No document content is readable in this archived set at all. The sections below state plainly that no evolution narrative — nor any single-document snapshot — can be built from primary text for this org this review.

Priority evolution

Not established. Zero usable documents; no priority language of any kind was read.

Priorities added, dropped, renamed

Not established. Zero usable documents; no comparison base exists.

Budget & mandate inflection points

Not established from primary text. The backgrounder relays a ~$2.4M budget scale (revenue $2,435,297, expenses $2,493,683, $2,342,639 in Township of King municipal grants, per KPMG-audited FY2025 financial statements) — this brief cannot independently verify those figures because the extraction of the underlying PDF returned 0 bytes of text. ⚠️ Still being checked: these figures require a future successful extraction pass (e.g., OCR of the scanned PDF) before they can be cited as this brief's own grounded finding rather than a relayed backgrounder figure.

Ontario/Toronto relevance

Indirect: King Township Public Library is a Township of King statutory agency board (an outer-GTA/York Region municipality), but with zero readable document content this brief cannot ground any Toronto/GTA-specific program or initiative claim in primary text. Its general category — a York Region municipal library board — places it within the GTA orbit institutionally, per the backgrounder, but that is a registry/backgrounder-level characterization, not something this document establishes.

Residuals & gaps

• Detector call confirmed correct, and the extraction gap is more severe than a stub. The one archived document is marked extract-failed with note "PDF extracted 0 bytes of text (likely scanned/image PDF)" — this is not a stub-suspected/interstitial case but a total extraction failure; no .txt file exists in this library's internal records/ to read at all, confirming the index's own status. No disagreement with the detector in either direction — there was nothing to read and the index says so accurately.
• This org has no usable archived document of any kind. Per the short-form rule's own logic, an org with 0 usable docs cannot exhibit evolution or even establish a single-snapshot baseline; this brief is a placeholder pending a future re-extraction attempt (OCR pass recommended given the "scanned/image PDF" diagnosis).
• ⚠️ Still being checked: the entire budget-scale picture above is backgrounder-relayed only, not primary-text-confirmed by this brief.
• ⚠️ Still being checked: no readable document exists for any fiscal year for this org; strategic priorities, programs, and governance detail beyond the backgrounder's own web-sourced summary are entirely unestablished from archived documents.