July 15, 1998
TO:Budget Committee
FROM:General Manager, Transportation Services
SUBJECT:Scarborough Port Union Pedestrian Underpass
Transportation Capital Budget Project No. C-TR-703
WARD:Councillors Frank Faubert and Ron Moeser, Ward 16 - Scarborough Highland
Creek
Purpose:
This report responds to the request from the Urban Environment and Development
Committee to provide information on the proposed reallocation of funds from this project in
relation to transportation needs on a City-wide basis.
Funding Sources, Financial Implications and Impact Statement:
Not applicable.
Recommendations:
It is recommended that this report be received for information.
Council Reference/Background/History:
At the July 13, 1998, Urban Environment and Development Committee meeting, the
Committee considered a report from the General Manager, Transportation Services, dated
July 9, 1998, requesting that $900,000.00 from the Scarborough Port Union Pedestrian
Underpass, Project No. C-TR-703 be reallocated to Project No. C-TR-701, Scarborough
Sidewalk Construction as a result of projected under expenditures in the Underpass project
in 1998. The Committee directed that the report be forwarded to the Budget Committee for
consideration and requested that a further report be submitted to the Budget Committee on
whether the recommended reallocation of funds to the Sidewalk Construction project is an
appropriate use of funds given the City-wide transportation capital funding needs.
Comments and/or Discussion and/or Justification:
Project No. C-TR-703, the Scarborough Port Union Pedestrian Underpass, was included in
the capital budget submission of the former City of Scarborough that was amalgamated with
the six other capital budget submissions from the other former municipalities to develop the
consolidated 1998-2002 Capital Works Program for Transportation. The capital budget was
approved by City Council with an allocation to the Underpass project of $1,000,000.00 for
1998. Other projects in the Scarborough District were deferred from 1998 to 1999 to
accommodate the funding needs of this project.
The July 9, 1998, report to the Urban Environment and Development Committee outlines
the reasons why the anticipated expenditures in 1998 for this project will only be
$100,000.00 and requests that the funds freed up by the under-expenditure in 1998 be
reallocated to additional asphalt and concrete repairs in the Scarborough District. These
repairs were previously identified by staff of the former City of Scarborough as required in
1998, but were deferred during the initial budget process at the City of Scarborough because
of capital funding limitations.
Overall, the capital funding needs for transportation infrastructure in the City of Toronto
exceeds the funding provided by City Council by approximately $45 million per year.
Therefore, any under-expenditure in transportation capital projects should be reallocated to
other transportation capital needs. Recognizing that other projects in the Scarborough
District were deferred to accommodate the anticipated expenditure in the Underpass project
in 1998, it is appropriate that any funds freed up by an under-expenditure be first reallocated
to other needs in the Scarborough District. If the funds could not be utilized in 1998 in the
Scarborough District, then it would be appropriate to consider other projects based on
City-wide funding needs.
Conclusions:
The reallocation of funds from Project No. C-TR-703, the Scarborough Port Union
Pedestrian Underpass to Project No. C-TR-701, Scarborough Sidewalk Construction is
appropriate in relation to the City-wide funding needs for transportation infrastructure
because projects in the Scarborough District were deferred from 1998 to accommodate the
Underpass project during the original budget deliberations at the former City of
Scarborough.
Contact Name:
T.W. Mulligan
Assistant Director,
Planning, Design & Programming
Phone - 392-8329
David C. Kaufman
General Manager, Transportation Services
Barry H. Gutteridge
Commissioner, Works and Emergency Services
TWM/jc
