City Council, at its meeting held on January 2, 6, 8 and 9, 1998, had before it the following Motion:

AWHEREAS the Toronto Transition Team on December 11, 1997, submitted to Council the final report of the Team, entitled >New City, New Opportunities=, which embodies 136 recommendations for the new City; and

WHEREAS Council also has before it a report dated December 30, 1997, from the City Clerk submitting a draft Procedural By-law proposed by the Transition Team;

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT Council give consideration to the final report of the Toronto Transition Team and the draft Procedural By-law proposed by the Transition Team.@

Council also had before it, during consideration of the foregoing Motion, the following reports and communications:

(i) from the Toronto Transition Team (December 11, 1997) submitting the final report of the Team, entitled ANew City, New Opportunities@, which embodies 136 recommendations for the new City;

(ii) from the City Clerk (December 30, 1997) submitting the draft Procedural By-law of the Transition Team;

(iii) from the Assistant City Clerk, City of Toronto (December 10, 1997) forwarding a Discussion Paper for City Council=s consideration in determining the role of the Community Councils;

(iv) from the Administrator, Board of Health for the City of Toronto Health Unit (November 12, 1997) forwarding a communication dated October 15, 1997, from the Chair, Northern Health Area Community Health Board, respecting the future Toronto Board of Health;

(v) from the General Manager, Metropolitan Toronto Housing Company, and the General Manager, City of Toronto Non-Profit Housing Corporation (Cityhome) (December 22, 1997) respecting the Interim Boards of Directors for the Municipal Housing Companies, the appointment process, the passing of special resolutions to enable the issuance of Articles of Amendment for each of the housing companies, and the confirmation by the Council of amending by-laws which will harmonize the provisions in the companies= by-laws respecting directors, with the intended structure and make-up of the interim Boards once the Articles of Amendment are in place;

(vi) from the General Secretary, Toronto Transit Commission (December 17, 1997) recommending that the membership of the Commission, under the new City of Toronto, be expanded to 11 Council Members, in order to retain a 20 per cent representation of Council;

(vii) from the Metropolitan Clerk (December 3, 1997) forwarding the recommendations of the Public Art Policy Advisory Committee of Metropolitan Toronto that the Public Art Policy Advisory Committee be carried forward into the new City of Toronto as a public art committee in some form and that the format be changed slightly to provide that the Committee assume a policy function which reports through an appropriate standing committee of the new Council which deals with public art and culture; and that Members of Council be included in the membership of the new Public Art Committee;

(viii) (1) from the Metropolitan Clerk (September 26, 1997) forwarding the recommendations of Metropolitan Council pertaining to the Metropolitan Cycling and Pedestrian Committee; and

(2) from the Metropolitan Clerk (October 16, 1997) forwarding the recommendation of Metropolitan Council that City Council maintain and strengthen existing cycling and pedestrian advisory committee structures;

(ix) from the Metropolitan Clerk (December 23, 1997) forwarding the recommendation of Metropolitan Council that a Telecommunications Committee or Task Force be established;

(x) from the Metropolitan Clerk (October 16, 1997) forwarding the recommendation of Metropolitan Council that the Special Committee on Transit Accessibility be continued with the same membership;

(xi) from the Chief Administrative Officer, Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (MTRCA) (November 21, 1997) forwarding a recommendation of the MTRCA that the new City of Toronto be requested to appoint representatives to the Don Watershed Regeneration Council based on Community Councils that have an interest in the Don Watershed, as early as possible in 1998;

(xii) from the Metropolitan Clerk (July 7, 1997) forwarding the recommendations of Metropolitan Council pertaining to the final report of the Metro Task Force on Services to Young Children and Families, entitled AFirst Duty@;

(xiii) from the 18 Members-Elect requesting that the first Community Council meetings be held on the evening of Thursday, January 8, 1998, in each jurisdiction;

(xiv) from the Chair, Toronto Transition Team (December 31, 1997) advising that the Team, in concert with the Chief Administrative Officer, has undertaken an internal search process to identify for recommendation to the new Council candidates for the positions of executive commissioner, solicitor and auditor;

(xv) from Mr. G. Collver, Etobicoke Citizens for Effective Government (January 5, 1998) noting that references to a Healthy City Office and an Office of Environmental Planning and Management were omitted in the Transition Team=s final report and requesting that consideration be given to inserting these references in order to highlight the vital importance of these Offices and to emphasize their significance in integrating strategic policy and planning support to City Council;

(xvi) from the President, Local 79, Canadian Union of Public Employees (January 5, 1998) submitting comments on the final report of the Toronto Transition Team;

(xvii) from the City Clerk (January 5, 1998) forwarding comments received from Members of Council regarding the draft procedural by-law;

(xviii) from the Metropolitan Clerk (October 16, 1997) advising that Metropolitan Council on October 8 and 9, 1997, recommended that the hiring of a Children=s advocate who has expertise on children=s issues be a high priority of the new City of Toronto Council; and

(xix) from the Assistant City Clerk, City of Toronto (December 30, 1997) forwarding, for consideration by the new City Council, a report dated August 29, 1997, from the Commissioner of Urban Development Services, embodied in Clause No. 5 of Report No. 8 of the Economic Development Committee, headed ASubmission to the Transition Team on Economic Development in the New City of Toronto@.

Council adopted the foregoing Motion, without amendment.

Council, in adopting, as amended, the recommendations of the final report of the Toronto Transition Team, directed, in part, that Recommendation 21 of the final report of the Toronto Transition Team pertaining to one Councillor per ward representation be referred to the Urban Environment and Development Committee and circulated to the Community Councils for consideration and report thereon to Council.