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Richmond Hill Public Library

Municipal — Richmond Hill Agency Tier 1 verified
registry id: rich-richmond-hill-public-library · last checked 2026-07-28 · parent: City of Richmond Hill · source authority: verify this org exists

statutory library board with councillors and citizen appointees

Current this library's internal records: Strategic Plan

Completeness

Endpoints

Document shelf (1 row)

YearTypeTitleArchive statusFlags
2024Annual report2024 Annual Reportstaged⚠️ still being checked — the fetch failed on 2026-07-28; ⚠️ still being checked — the fetch failed on 2026-08-01; ⚠️ still being checked — the fetch failed on 2026-08-02; ⚠️ still being checked — the fetch failed on 2026-08-04; ⚠️ still being checked — the fetch failed on 2026-08-05; ⚠️ still being checked — the fetch failed on 2026-08-06

Backgrounder

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

Richmond Hill Public Library - backgrounder

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

Mandate & statutory basis

Richmond Hill Public Library (RHPL) is a statutory public library board operating 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"). The Act requires council-established boards to have at least five council-appointed members (s. 9(1)) who cannot form a majority (s. 10(2)), and to provide "comprehensive and efficient public library service" (s. 20).

Roles, responsibilities & scope

RHPL is an agency of the City of Richmond Hill (registry row: rich-richmond-hill-public-library, parent_org field). The Board's role is to "oversee the mission, plans, and policies of the library" and ensure "the delivery of library services and programs represent the changing needs of the community" (rhpl.ca/board, fetched). RHPL publishes a Strategic Plan (registry row: rich-richmond-hill-public-library, strategy_current_url field: https://www.rhpl.ca/about-the-library/strategic-plan-reports) and an annual report (document id: rich-richmond-hill-public-library-ar-2024, flagged ⚠️ still being checked — the fetch failed on 2026-07-28 in the registry; the direct report URL also returned HTTP 404 when re-checked this review).

Governance & reporting line

Board leadership includes Chair Mona Shahnazari, Vice-Chair Jennifer Paige, and Library CEO Bruce Gorman, alongside municipal councillors and community representatives such as Stephen Chait, Shelly Wu, Sadra Nasseri and Jason Cherniak (rhpl.ca/board, fetched; registry row notes: "statutory library board with councillors and citizen appointees"). The Board meets monthly, on the third Thursday, at the Central Branch, with public delegation rights (rhpl.ca/board, fetched).

Budget scale

Budget scale: ⚠️ not yet confirmed against an original source. The registry-listed 2024 Annual Report (document id: rich-richmond-hill-public-library-ar-2024) could not be fetched either in the prior registry pass or in this review (HTTP 404 on the direct URL), so no budget figure could be confirmed.

Institutional history

RHPL operates today as a statutory board of the City of Richmond Hill under the Public Libraries Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.44 (registry row: rich-richmond-hill-public-library); its 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.

Richmond Hill Public Library - strategy evolution

2026-08-04 / registry: rich-richmond-hill-public-library / grounded in archived copies (cited document id + sha256) / read through our research file for that body

TL;DR: This brief was flagged by a prior session (2026-08-02) as having zero retrievable binaries; this review re-tested rather than copying that verdict forward. The registry's own flags field shows the single registered document (a 2024 Annual Report) has now been re-tested and failed on four separate dates — 2026-07-28, 08-01, 08-02, and 08-04 (today) — making this the most-repeatedly-verified failure in this batch, not a stale one. This session's own live re-test of the exact URL returns a clean HTTP 404 Not Found: the page does not exist at that address, as distinct from a bot-wall, an interstitial, or a rate-limit response. No load-bearing number or priority claim can be sourced from any document for this org.

Backgrounder summary

Richmond Hill Public Library (RHPL) is a statutory public library board under the Public Libraries Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.44, operating as an agency of the City of Richmond Hill, governed by a Board including council-appointed and citizen members (backgrounder, citing https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90p44 and https://www.rhpl.ca/board). The backgrounder itself could not ground a budget figure, for the same underlying reason this brief cannot: the 2024 Annual Report has never been successfully fetched.

Series inventory

_index.json: 0 ok / 0 stub-suspected / 0 extract-failed. This org's extraction index is empty because no document has ever been successfully archived for it.

Registry (our document registry) carries 1 row for this org (rich-richmond-hill-public-library-ar-2024, 2024 Annual Report), archive_status: staged — a known source URL exists (https://www.rhpl.ca/annual-report-2024) but capture has never succeeded. 0 rows are archived, 1 is staged, 0 are missing.

document id year type archive ref sha256-12 content read?
rich-richmond-hill-public-library-ar-2024 2024 annual-report (none — never captured) failed (staged; registry flags fetch-failed on 2026-07-28, 08-01, 08-02, and 08-04; this review's own live re-test of the exact URL returns HTTP 404 Not Found)

Priority evolution

Not determinable. No document — archived or otherwise — was successfully read for this org in this review; any priority narrative would have to be invented rather than grounded in text actually read, which this task's hard rules prohibit.

Priorities added, dropped, renamed

Not determinable, for the same reason.

Budget & mandate inflection points

Not determinable from any archived document.

Ontario/Toronto relevance

Indirect: RHPL is a GTA-region (York Region, City of Richmond Hill) statutory library board, structurally comparable to Toronto Public Library but administratively and geographically distinct from the City of Toronto itself (backgrounder). No document exists in this review to establish anything more specific.

Residuals & gaps