(Letter dated May 8, 1998, addressed to the Urban Environment and Development Committee, from the City Clerk.)

City Council, at its Special Meeting held on April 29 and 30, 1998, in adopting the 1998 Operating and Capital Budgets, directed, inter alia, that the 1998 Capital Program pertaining to the Toronto Harbour Commission (No. 60) be amended:

(1)to provide that the matter of the proposed fixed link project at the Toronto City Centre Airport be referred to the Urban Environment and Development Committee, for further consideration, and the Committee be requested to:

(a)consider the potential impacts on the police marine unit to meet its objectives and any other additional costs resulting from this link; and

(b)review the Ascreening@ Environmental Assessment on the fixed link to the Toronto City Centre Airport.

(2)by adding thereto the following:

AIt is further recommended that:

(a)the report dated April 23, 1998, from the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, entitled >Toronto Harbour Commissioners - Financing Options for the Fixed Link Project=, be adopted, subject to amending Recommendation No. (2) by inserting the words >and the Budget Committee=, after the words >and Treasurer=, and adding at the end thereof the words >and that such financing assumes no net cost for the City=s Capital Budget=, so that the recommendations embodied in such report shall now read as follows:

>It is recommended that:

(1)the THC submit to the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer a revised 5-year business plan for the Toronto City Centre Airport as well as any supplemental financial analysis of preferred options; and

(2)the financing authority for the fixed link project in the recommended 1998 Capital Budget for the THC be deferred pending a report from the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and the Budget Committee respecting the financial implications of financing the fixed link capital project and that such financing assumes no net cost for the City=s Capital Budget.=; and

(b)the Commissioner of Urban Planning and Development Services be requested to submit a report to the next meeting of the Urban Environment and Development Committee on whether plans are being considered by the Toronto Harbour Commission to substantially lengthen the City Centre Airport runway and grant landing rights to DC-9s.= @

(Enclosures are on file in the office of the City Clerk.)

 Sent to:Commissioner of Urban Planning and Development Services

General Manager, Toronto Harbour Commission

Urban Environment and Development Committee