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March 12, 1998
CORPORATE SERVICES COMMITTEE:
City Council, at its meeting held on March 4, 5 and 6, 1998, had before it Clause No. 3 of Report No. 2 of The Corporate Services Committee, headed AHonoraria for Councillors Appointed to Agencies, Boards and Commissions@.
Council directed that the aforementioned Clause be struck out and referred back to the Corporate Services Committee for further consideration, together with the following motions:
Moved by Councillor Balkissoon:
A That the foregoing Clause be amended by inserting in Recommendation No. (1) of the Corporate Services Committee, after the word >honoraria=, the words >expense allowances=, so that such recommendation shall now read as follows:
> (1) no additional honoraria, expense allowances, or stipends be provided for Members of Council who are appointed to act as Chairs or Members of Agencies, Boards or Commissions;=.@
Moved by Councillor Kinahan:
A That the foregoing Clause be amended:
(1) by deleting the word >additional= from Recommendation No. (1) of the Corporate Services Committee; and
(2) to provide that the application of this policy as it pertains to the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority be referred to the Commissioner of Corporate Services for report thereon to the Corporate Services Committee.@
City Clerk
M. Brown/dcm
Encl.
CITY CLERK
Clause embodied in Report No. 2 of the Corporate Services Committee, which was before the Council of the City of Toronto at its meeting held on March 4, 5 and 6, 1998.
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Honoraria for Councillors Appointed
to Agencies, Boards and Commissions
(City Council on March 4, 5 and 6, 1998, struck out and referred this Clause back to the Corporate Services Committee for further consideration, together with the following motions:
Moved by Councillor Balkissoon:
A That the foregoing Clause be amended by inserting in Recommendation No. (1) of the Corporate Services Committee, after the word >honoraria=, the words >expense allowances=, so that such recommendation shall now read as follows:
> (1) no additional honoraria, expense allowances, or stipends be provided for Members of Council who are appointed to act as Chairs or Members of Agencies, Boards or Commissions;=.@
Moved by Councillor Kinahan:
A That the foregoing Clause be amended:
(1) by deleting the word >additional= from Recommendation No. (1) of the Corporate Services Committee; and
(2) to provide that the application of this policy as it pertains to the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority be referred to the Commissioner of Corporate Services for report thereon to the Corporate Services Committee.@)
The Corporate Services Committee recommends that:
(1) no additional honoraria or stipends be provided for Members of Council who are appointed to act either as Chairs or Members of Agencies, Boards or Commissions; and
(2) in the last year of this term of Council, a citizen committee be established composed of people knowledgeable in compensation and municipal government, including representatives from the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Toronto and the Labour Council of Metropolitan Toronto, to report on a salary structure for Members of Council, for the consideration of the in-coming Council in the year 2001; and that the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and the Chief Administrative Officer be requested to report to the Corporate Services Committee on the provision of funding for outside consultants to assist the aforementioned citizen committee.
The Corporate Services Committee reports, for the information of Council, having requested the Commissioner of Corporate Services to submit a report to the Corporate Services Committee on a policy to provide assistance to Councillors' offices to provide for extended disability, overtime by administrative assistants, vacation, maternity/paternity/adoption leave and severance allowances.
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The Corporate Services Committee reports, for the information of Council, having had before it a communication (February 15, 1998) from the City Clerk referring, amongst other things, the following motions to the Corporate Services Committee:
(a) Moved by Councillor Adams:
> That Council adopt the following recommendation:
A It is recommended that the Special Committee be requested to consider the provision of assistance to Councillors= offices in the event of extended disability or sickness of office staff and other related matters, including severance allowances.@=
(b) Moved by Councillor Flint:
> That Part (2) of the following motion by Councillor Moscoe be amended to provide that the salary paid to Members of Council be no higher than $79,500.00 and that this sum not include any tax-free component; and, further that if Provincial legislation precludes this, then the sum be lowered accordingly.=
(c) Moved by Councillor Jones:
> That Council adopt the following recommendation:
A It is recommended that no additional honoraria or stipends be provided for Members of Council who are appointed to act either as Chairs or Members of Agencies, Boards and Commissions.@ =
(d) Moved by Councillor Minnan-Wong:
> That Council adopt the following recommendation:
A It is recommended that, in the event City Council cannot achieve a zero percent tax increase, Members of Council receive a penalty of ten percent in their own salaries.@=
(e) Moved by Councillor Moscoe:
A That Council adopt the following recommendations:
> It is recommended that:
(1) the question of the fourth assistant (clerical) for Members of Council be referred to the Special Committee recommended by the Mayor for further consideration;
(2) Recommendation 11 of the final report of the Toronto Transition Team be adopted, and further that the question of salaries for Members of Council be reviewed by the Corporate Services Committee at its first meeting, with the premise that the salaries be pegged at the average salary of a Member of the Provincial legislature (including the work on Committees but excluding the salaries of Cabinet Ministers); and
(3) in addition, the Corporate Services Committee be requested to review the personal expense allowances of Members of the Ontario Legislature, in order to establish a reasonable expense allowance for Members of Council.@; and
(f) Moved by Councillor Davis:
A That City Council appoint a Blue Ribbon Panel of six ratepayers, representing each of the former Area Municipalities, the membership of which shall be determined by the Corporate Services Committee, and that the sole responsibility of the Panel be to make recommendations to Council, through the Corporate Services Committee, regarding remuneration for the Mayor and Members of Council.@
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