EMERGENCY AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMITTEE

A G E N D A

DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST PURSUANT TO

THE MUNICIPAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST ACT.

CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES. (Will be distributed prior to the meeting.)

DEPUTATIONS.

10:00 a.m.Public Meeting regarding the Final Report of the Task Force to Review the Taxi Industry (See Agenda Item 1).

COMMUNICATIONS/REPORTS.

1.FINAL REPORT OF THE TASK FORCE TO REVIEW THE TAXI INDUSTRY.

(NOTE:The recommendations of the Task Force to Review the Taxi Industry will be distributed after its meeting of October 27, 1998. Members of the Emergency and Protective Services Committee are requested to retain the report (October 7, 1998) from the Commissioner of Urban Planning and Development Services which was provided with the agenda for the Task Force meeting of October 27, 1998.)

1(a).Mr. Gerald H. Manley

(July 6, 1998)

Requesting an opportunity to address the Committee with regard to the prepayment of fares in taxi cabs in Toronto.

1(b).Ms. Lauri Sue Robertson

Vice President of Operations

HANDIDACTIS Inc.

(September 4, 1998)

Representing a training organization that teaches people who are not disabled to work with those who are, advising of the problems that people with disabilities face when using taxis; and requesting an opportunity to address the Committee to resolve their concerns.

2.PUBLICATION OF CAB INSPECTION SCHEDULES BY TORONTO LICENSING.

Mr. Gene MacDonald, Publisher

Mr. Stan Steiner

Cab Connection

(September 28, 1998)

Forwarding a copy of his letter (September 28, 1998) to Ms. Virginia West, Commissioner of Urban Planning Development, appealing the decision of the General Manager, Toronto Licensing, not to release the dates and times for the inspection of taxicabs in Toronto.

3.RECOVERY OF COSTS FOR AMBULANCE SERVICE DELIVERY INTO REGIONAL MUNICIPALITIES.

Acting General Manager, Toronto Ambulance

(October 5, 1998)

Recommending that:

(1)the Chief Administrative Officer and/or the Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services be requested to formally advise the CAOs and/or Councils of the Regional Municipalities of Peel, York, Durham and Halton of Toronto's desire to negotiate with the appropriate authorities a process for the recovery of the cost of cross-border ambulance services delivered by and into the City of Toronto;

(2)failing the conclusion of such agreements in a reasonable period of time, the CAO and/or the Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services be directed to submit bills and/or make payments to appropriate regional municipalities, using the formula established in Ontario Regulation 492/97 as amended by O. Reg. 354/98;

(3)concurrent with such negotiations, the Chief Financial Officer and Toronto Legal Services be directed to determine whether outstanding amounts under this Regulation should be shown as an accrual within the Toronto Ambulance budget;

(4)Toronto Ambulance set up a process to monitor specific cross border response activity, and to report back to the Emergency & Protective Services Committee if extraneous demand in any way compromises ambulance coverage within the City of Toronto; and

(5)the appropriate City Officials be authorized and directed to take the necessary action to give effect thereto.

4.PUBLIC ACCESS DEFIBRILLATION (PAD)

Acting General Manager, Toronto Ambulance

(October 8, 1998)

Recommending that:

(1)the City of Toronto Council endorse the concept of Toronto becoming a "Cardiac Safe City", actively encouraging public involvement in the provision of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and wherever possible the use of Public Access Defibrillators (PAD);

(2)Toronto Ambulance, in partnership with Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, assume the lead role in promoting and coordinating the Cardiac Safe City program, inclusive of promoting greater public participation in learning CPR and the introduction of Public Access Defibrillation; and

(3)the appropriate City Officials be authorized and directed to take the necessary action to give effect there.

5.APPLICATION FOR RELOCATION OF THE DELTA MAYFAIR BINGO HALL FROM 525 WILSON AVENUE (WARD 8) TO 1860 WILSON AVENUE (WARD 6), CITY OF TORONTO.

Commissioner of Corporate Services

City Clerk

(October 15, 1998)

Recommending that City Council, in accordance with Provincial criteria and procedures for the establishment of Bingo Halls approve the relocation proposal by Delta Mayfair Bingo.

6.PARKING TAG ISSUANCE AND REQUEST TO DISCONTINUE REPORTS.

Councillor Norman Gardner, Chairman, Toronto Police Services Board

(October 7, 1998)

Advising that the Toronto Police Services Board on September 24, 1998, recommended that:

(1)the Emergency and Protective Services Committee receive the parking tag issuance results for the months April 1998 to June 1998; and

(2)the Committee discontinue the requirement that quarterly parking enforcement reports be submitted by the Police Services Board, as more timely statistics are prepared by City Finance Department staff.

7.IMPACT OF LOCAL TELEPHONE SERVICE DE-REGULATION ON THE TORONTO POLICE SERVICE.

Councillor Norman Gardner, Chairman, Toronto Police Services Board

(October 7, 1998)

Advising that the Toronto Police Services Board on September 24, 1998, recommended that the Emergency and Protective Services Committee endorse recommendations with regard to the impact of local telephone service de-regulation on the Toronto Police Service and request City Council to send a letter to the Federal Minister of Industry indicating such endorsement, the specific recommendations are outlined as follows:

(1)that a mandate be developed for the Number Portability Administration Centre (NPAC) that includes the registration of all wireline and wireless telephone numbers; and

(2)that the Toronto Police Service have unobstructed automated access to a database of all wireline and wireless telephones in order to extract information, as necessary, for 9-1-1 calls, and 24 hours a day, 7 day a week access to a contact point for search warrants and telephone interception access.

INFORMATION ITEM

8.PROPOSED UNARMED CONSTABULARY IN THE CITY OF TORONTO.

(DEFERRED FROM LAST MEETING)

Councillor Norman Gardner, Chairman, Toronto Police Services Board

(August 28, 1998)

Advising that the Toronto Police Services Board on August 27, 1998:

(1)approved the establishment of a committee to review the issue of an unarmed traffic constabulary; and that the Committee will consist of representatives from the Toronto Police Services Board, the Toronto Police Service, the Ministry of Transportation, the Ministry of the Solicitor General, the Ministry of the Attorney General and City Legal; and

(2)referred the Chief's report (dated July 23, 1998) to the proposed committee as well as deferred consideration of the following motions to the above-noted committee:

"1.That the Board advise the Minister of Transportation that we do not support the proposed unarmed constabulary program.

2.That the Chief prepare a report for the next meeting of the Board on the following issues:

(i)With an aggressive zero-tolerance 'Community Road Safety' enforcement campaign (red light runners, rolling stops at stop signs, speeding in residential neighbourhoods and school zones) what would be the estimated revenues that could be achieved?

(ii)With the estimated revenues how many officers could be hired?

(iii)The possibility of establishing a 'Community Road Safety' enforcement unit?"

8(a).Councillor Michael Feldman, North York Spadina

(October 5, 1998)

Requesting that the Toronto Police Service be instructed to keep him personally informed as to the developments and findings of the newly struck committee.

ANY OTHER MATTERS.