STRIKING COMMITTEE

A G E N D A

Date of Meeting:Monday, November 16, 1998Enquiry:Joanne Hamill

DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST PURSUANT TO

THE MUNICIPAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST ACT.

DEPUTATIONS.

COMMUNICATIONS/REPORTS.

1.APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS OF COUNCIL

TO THE TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD

AND THE TORONTO PEDESTRIAN COMMITTEE.

City Clerk

(November 12, 1998)

Recommending that the Striking Committee give consideration to Members' preferences outlined in Schedule 1, and recommend to City Council the appointment of Members of Council to the following:

(i)Toronto Public Library Board; and

(ii)Toronto Pedestrian Committee.

2.APPOINTMENT OF COUNCILLOR JANE PITFIELD

TO VARIOUS BOARDS AND COMMITTEES.

City Clerk

(November 6, 1998)

Recommending that the Striking Committee give consideration to:

(1)the request of Councillor Michael Prue that he be permitted to resign from the following Boards, effective upon Council's agreement to permit Councillor Pitfield to serve on such Boards:

(i)Todmorden Mills Heritage Museum and Arts Centre Advisory Board; and

(ii)Leaside Memorial Community Gardens, Board of Management; and

(2)the request of Councillor Jane Pitfield for appointment to the following Boards:

(i)Todmorden Mills Heritage Museum and Arts Centre Advisory Board, in place of Councillor Michael Prue;

(ii)Leaside Memorial Community Gardens, Board of Management, in place of Councillor Michael Prue; and

(iii)Pape Village Business Improvement Area (BIA).

3.1999 COUNCIL MEETING SCHEDULE

City Clerk

(November 12, 1999)

Submitting various options for the schedule of meetings for Council, its Standing Committees and Community Councils, in 1999; and recommending that:

(1) option 4(a) (Appendix "F"), based on a two and three-week meeting cycle for City Council, be approved, and that the 1999 schedule of meetings submitted as Appendix "H" to this report be adopted;

(2) a copy of the 1999 Schedule of Meetings be circulated to the City's agencies, boards, commissions, Council-appointed task forces, special committees and sub-committees with a request that wherever possible, they avoid scheduling meetings which conflict with City Council meetings and the Standing Committees to which they report;

(3)subject to City Council adopting staff recommendation (1), the City Clerk and Solicitor be requested to report on possible amendments to the Procedural By-law to implement the recommended 1999 meeting schedule, and in particular, address deferrals of Council business from one meeting to another and ways to control the potential for "fast tracking" Committee business as a major exception to the legislative process;

(4)in order to give Members and the public sufficient time to review agenda items in advance of meetings, the current practice of issuing supplemental agendas or "walk-in" items be discontinued, and that any late item be accepted only if it pertains to an item that is already listed on the main agenda or if it is a matter of emergency health or safety, or legal deadline, of if it is a matter referred from one committee to another committee within the meeting cycle, and in the event of a late item, it must be received by the City Clerk in sufficient time for distribution to Members no later than the day before a meeting;

(5)subject to City Council's decision on a revised Council-Committee governance structure, the City Clerk report back, through the Striking Committee, on any amendments to the 1999 Council meeting schedule to accommodate the revised Council-Committee governance structure; and

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

ANY OTHER MATTERS.