Budget 2024

Budget Update 2024


The Thunder Bay Public Library submitted our Capital and Operating Budget Briefs to City Council and City Administration in December, 2023.

The 2024 Budget was ratified in early February, 2024.

Now that the budget has been officially ratified, we wanted to take the opportunity to offer our sincere thanks for the support that we received from Library members and members of City Council!

This year, the Library's budget was ratified with a 4.5% increase in the operating budget and a 5% increase to the capital budget.

These modest increases will go a long way to helping the Library stay relevant to our users in this age of skyrocketing costs, and to deal with the rapidly increasing usage of the Library as compared with previous years.

These were the budget briefs that the Library submitted for 2024:

TBPL Operating Budget Brief

TBPL Capital Budget Brief

Thank you to Mayor Boshcoff and Councillors Agarwal, Aiello, Bentz, Ch'ng, Etreni, Foulds,Giertuga, Hamilton, Johnsen, Oliver, Pasqualino, Zussino who defended your Library and voted unanimously to support our funding request. 

 


Budget 2023

 

Thank you for showing your love for the Library during the 2023 City budget deliberations!


City Councillors told us that they received hundreds of calls and emails from the community about the Thunder Bay Public Library and that this made a big difference in their decision to fund your local Library.

We are SO grateful for your support! It means a lot that you took time out of your busy schedule to protest the proposed cuts and to tell City Council how much the Library means to you, your family, and your friends.

Thunder Bay Public Library provides a vital and essential service to our community.  You helped to show City Council that the Library matters deeply to people of all ages, abilities, ethnicities, and walks of life in our community!

Merci Beaucoup, Miigwetch, and Thank You from the bottom of our hearts!

Sincerely,
Richard Togman, CEO
On behalf of all of the TBPL Board and Staff