Clause embodied in Report No. 1 of The North York Community Council, as deferred by the North York Community Council at its meeting held on January 21, 1998.

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 REQUEST FOR AMENDMENT TO SUBSECTION 8(4) OF BILL 103.

  The North York Community Council reports having referred the following Notice of Motion dated January 21, 1998, from Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong, Don Parkway, to the Functional Lead for Legal Services with a request that he submit a report thereon to the next meeting of the North York Community Council scheduled to be held on February 18, 1998:

 AWHEREAS the North York Community Council recognizes the importance of local decision making as crucial to the success of the City of Toronto; and

 WHEREAS the North York Community Council recognizes that some issues are best decided by local Community Councils; and

 WHEREAS the City of Toronto Act, 1997 (Bill 103) is incomplete in dealing with Community Councils because the intended authority to allow additional functions to be assigned to Community Councils does not appear in the final version of Bill 103; and

 WHEREAS it should be Council's role to decide what functions, if any, should be assigned to Community Councils for final decision;

 NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Ontario Legislature be petitioned on an urgent basis to amend Bill 103 by deleting the current subsection 8(4) and substituting a provision substantially as follows:

 8(4)The City Council may, by by-law, assign to a Community Council, with respect to the part of the urban area that it represents, any function that City Council may carry out in respect of that part of the urban area.

 8(4.1)Without limiting the generality of subsection (4), the City Council may assign to a Community Council the authority to make recommendations for by-laws which recommendations, subject to subsection (7), oblige the City Council to act under subsection (6).

 AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT this resolution be circulated to the other Community Councils in the City of Toronto.@