City Council · 2023-05-12 17:09 PM
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Majority required - MM6.26 - Adopt the item
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On March 29 2023, City Council considered Item 2023.EX3.2 which contained a report outlining unprecedented financial pressures faced by the City of Toronto government totalling $46.5 Billion over ten years. This staggering shortfall will have significant consequences in the near future affecting the cost of living for citizens, and for anyone who relies on City services. It is crucial that the City government demonstrate to the public that we will make a genuine effort to reduce financial pressures before we ask citizens to pay more, or accept less service. It is also important to the City's credibility to first look inward at opportunities before accepting financial relief from other orders of government. Sponsorships, naming rights and advertising are not new concepts for the City of Toronto. There are many examples of successful projects, such as the naming of Meridian Hall and the Meridian Arts Centre. These have produced considerable benefit to citizens while maintaining reasonable boundaries around the commercialization of public assets, and maintaining the confidence and support of the public. Given the fiscal context, it is now more crucial than ever to express a willingne…
City Council · 2023-05-12 17:09 PM
Majority required - MM6.26 - Adopt the item
I request reduction of the speed limit on Avenue Road, between Bloor Street and St. Clair Avenue West from 50km/h to 40km/h. This proposed measure responds to six years of respectful and urgent requests from the Avenue Road Safety Coalition, in consultation with residents and Transportation Services. Excessive speed, street racing and other forms of reckless driver behavior that endanger pedestrians are chronic features of this particular stretch of roadway, which has been the site of a multiple collisions causing death or serious injury. While this 2.1 km segment of Avenue Road is designated a Community Safety Zone, it does not conform with the safe design objectives of Toronto’s Vision Zero Road Safety Plan. Instead, it is a high-speed roadway that is unsafe, intimidating, and hostile to vulnerable road users and incompatible with the residential nature of the area. In the entire length of Avenue Road from Bloor Street to the 401, this is the only section with a speed limit in excess of 40 km/h. A major contributing factor to reckless driver behaviour is that, while the rest of Avenue Road has four lanes, this section has six. As a result, most drivers travel over the spee…
City Council · 2023-05-12 16:23 PM
Majority required - TEY.66 - Adopt the item
Dear Members of the Economic and Community Development Committee, The COVID-19 pandemic, combined with the opioid overdose crisis, has further magnified the issue of homelessness and the urgent need to work together to protect the health and well being of people experiencing homelessness. We need to continue to build on the collaboration that has taken place during the pandemic and strengthen how we use data to inform the planning and delivery of shelter and health services in Toronto. Connecting Home Initiative The Connecting Home Initiative is a proposal to create a real-time, e-integrated platform using client data from University Health Toronto (UHT), Inner City Health Associates (ICHA), and the Shelter Management Information System (SMIS). Through this work, clients experiencing homelessness could enable their health service providers to access their information to improve health and housing outcomes; and enable data-driven improvements in shelter and housing service, health care, and system planning. The first step in this project would be to undertake a feasibility assessment to understand if the Connecting Home Initiative is viable from a legal, privacy, and technical pers…
City Council · 2023-05-12 16:11 PM
Majority required - EC3.16 - Bravo - motion 3
City Council · 2023-05-12 16:10 PM
Majority required - EC3.16 - Matlow - motion 2
This report recommends adoption of the 2023 education tax rates and education property tax levy for school purposes, as required by legislation. The City of Toronto levies and collects education taxes on behalf of the Province of Ontario, based on the education tax rates set out in Ontario Regulation 400/98. In February 2023, City Council adopted the recommendation to continue the policy of limiting (capping) allowable tax increases to a maximum of 10% of a property's prior year's annualized taxes, for any property in the commercial, industrial and multi-residential tax classes that would otherwise experience a property tax increase of greater than 10% and where the tax increase is greater than $500. This report also recommends the 2023 percentage of the tax decreases (the ‘clawback’ rates) required to fund the capping limit on properties in the commercial, industrial and multi-residential property classes, as provided for by legislation. It has been long standing City Council policy to adopt clawback rates sufficient to fund forgone revenues arising from its adopted tax increase capping policy, and as provided for by legislation.
City Council · 2023-05-12 15:38 PM
Majority required - EX4.3 - Perruzza - motion 1
Across the country, major cities are piloting various programs to allow alcohol consumption in public parks. In Toronto, alcohol in parks is illegal but largely unenforced: No tickets were issued in 2022. Following the lead of these cities and acknowledging the desire for options to drink in public parks, this Motion directs staff to undertake an opt-in pilot program this summer, in line with the best practices of other Canadian cities. Throughout implementation, City staff shall engage with City Councillors, local neighbourhoods, and equity-deserving communities across the city as they evaluate the pilot's suitability for the Toronto context. This pilot needs to centre a public health and harm-reduction approach, and the evaluation should enumerate the full needs of the program including access to washrooms, waste receptacles, and necessary clean-up efforts. Reason for urgency: staff need direction now in order to implement bylaw changes this summer.
City Council · 2023-05-12 15:35 PM
Majority required - DM6.5 - Adopt the Item as amended
City Council · 2023-05-12 15:34 PM
Majority required - DM6.5 - Fletcher - motion 4b
City Council · 2023-05-12 15:33 PM
Majority required - DM6.5 - Fletcher - motion 4a
City Council · 2023-05-12 15:32 PM
Majority required - DM6.5 - Carroll - motion 2
City Council · 2023-05-12 15:31 PM
Majority required - DM6.5 - Malik - motion 3
City Council · 2023-05-12 15:29 PM
Majority required - DM6.5 - Matlow - motion 1
In 2020, 2021, and 2022 Toronto City Council elected to extend the application due date for the City's property tax, water and solid waste relief programs for low-income seniors and low-income disabled persons from August 31 to the end of October. Low-income seniors and low-income disabled persons may have been disproportionately affected by lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and inflation. In order to ensure that all eligible residents have ample opportunity to apply for this relief in 2023, it is recommended that the application due date for 2023 be extended from August 31, 2023 to October 31, 2023 for the 2023 tax year.
City Council · 2023-05-12 14:52 PM
Majority required - MM6.8 - Adopt the item
City Council · 2023-05-11 14:33 PM
Two-Thirds required - MM6.8 - Waive referral