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BUDGET COMMITTEE
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Tuesday, February 17, 1998 Barbara Liddiard
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9:30 a.m.
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Interim Contact
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Committee Room 308 and 309
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392-7360
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55 John Street
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FAX 392-7337
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3rd Floor, Metro Hall
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Toronto
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DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST PURSUANT TO
THE MUNICIPAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST ACT.
CONFIRMATION OF THE MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING HELD ON JANUARY 20, 1998 AND REGULAR MEETING HELD ON JANUARY 26, 1998
COMMUNICATIONS/REPORTS.
1. ST. LAWRENCE CENTRE FOR THE ARTS - CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND
Community and Neighbourhood Services Committee
(January 15, 1998)
Referred from the Community and Neighbourhood Services Committee Meeting - January 15, 1998.
Referring for consideration with the budget process the communication (October 10, 1997) from the Assistant City Clerk, City of Toronto, advising that City Council on October 6 and 7, 1997, adopted Clause 53 of Report No. 23 of its Executive Committee, headed ASt. Lawrence Centre for the Arts: Capital Improvement Fund@, wherein Council took the following action:
A (1) Authorized the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts to make use of its Capital Improvements Funds in the amount of $8,000.00 for the purpose of engaging a theatrical consultant to carry out the preliminary design work with respect to renovations to the Jane Mallett Theatre.
(2) Authorized the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts to engage in a consultative process with appropriate City Staff, including staff from the Property Services Division and the Budget Planning and Policy Office.
(3) Directed that the above consultation be extended to include any appropriate working group/s that may be implemented under the new amalgamated City and that the proposal be reviewed in context of the new City of Toronto =s overall strategic plans.
(4) Directed that the proposal be submitted to the Budget Review Group, or other appropriate funding committee for approval by the new City of Toronto Council @.
2. PROFILE OF A CHANGING WORLD - THE 1996 COMMUNITY AGENCY SURVEY
Community and Neighbourhood Services Committee
(January 15, 1998)
Referred from the Community and Neighbourhood Services Committee Meeting - January 15, 1998.
Referring for consideration during the budget process the communication (July 21, 1997) from the Assistant City Clerk, City of Toronto, advising that City Council on July 14, 1997, adopted, without amendment, Clause 22 of Report No. 10 of the Neighbourhoods Committee, headed AProfile of a Changing World - The 1996 Community Agency Survey@, and in so doing took the following action:
A (4) Requested the Transition Team and the new Megacity Council to ensure that funding from the municipality for agencies within the current City of Toronto are maintained at least at current levels.@
3. 1997 CAPITAL WORKS PROJECTS
York Community Council
(February 2, 1998)
Recommending that the Budget Committee be requested to consider the following:
(1) that all outstanding 1997 Capital Works Projects which were approved by the Councils of the former area municipalities, but not commenced or completed during 1997, be identified and carried forward; and
(2) that these outstanding projects be automatically considered as fully funded 1998 Capital expenditures, and that funding for any new capital projects be commenced from this level of previous commitment.
4. 1998-2002 CAPITAL PROGRAM STATUS
General Secretary, Toronto Transit Commission
(January 27, 1998)
Recommending that:
(1) a meeting be set-up involving the Commission and the City Budget Committee for the purpose of having staff make a full presentation on the Capital Budget;
(2) the Chair of the Toronto Transit Commission meet with the City Treasurer and the Chief General Manager of the Toronto Transit Commission to discuss issues of capital and operating budgets and first principles being adopted by City Council; and
(3) the staff from the City of Toronto be requested to include in such meeting the former staff from the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto who were assigned the Toronto Transit Commission budget.
5. RESOLUTION - LOSS OF REVENUE AS A RESULT OF DOWNLOADING FROM THE PROVINCE - TOWN OF PICKERING
(A) Mr. Bruce Taylor, Town Clerk, Town of Pickering
(January 22, 1998)
Referring a resolution passed by the Council of the Town of Pickering, at its meeting of January 19, 1998, instructing the Town Solicitor to draft a contract between the Town of Pickering and the Province of Ontario in which the Province will agree that if reallocation of responsibilities is not revenue-neutral and will result in increased revenue for the Corporation of the Town of Pickering using 1997 Budget figures as a benchmark, then the Province will immediately pay to Pickering any such shortfall; that the contract be directed to the Premier of Ontario for his signature and that the executed copy be returned to the Corporation of the Town of Pickering no later than February 19, 1998; and that in the event of a disagreement between the Corporation of the Town of Pickering and the Province of Ontario over the impact of reallocation of responsibilities upon the Town of Pickering =s budget, the contract should direct that an independent auditor, agreed to by both parties, be retained at the cost of the Province of Ontario to determine the impact of restructuring of the Corporation of the Town of Pickering.
(B) City Clerk
(January 27, 1998)
Referring a communication dated December 23, 1997, from Mr. Bruce Taylor, Town Clerk, Town of Pickering, advising that the Council of the Town of Pickering, at its meeting of December 22, 1997, passed the resolution that the Town of Pickering expresses its strenuous objection to the proposal received from the Minister of Finance which provides a substantial loss of revenue for the Town of Pickering resulting from the downloading from the Province; its desire to meet with the Minister of Finance or his designate to discuss the funds withheld from the Town as announced; and that the Town be allowed to state its business case for accessing those funds.
ANY OTHER MATTERS.
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