January 28, 1999
To:Budget Committee
From:Strategic Policies and Priorities Committee
Subject:Environmental Task Force Budget for 1999
The Strategic Policies and Priorities Committee referred the report (January 8, 1999)
from Councillor Jack Layton, Chair of the Environmental Task Force, to the Budget
Committee for report thereon to the Strategic Policies and Priorities Committee.
The Strategic Policies and Priorities Committee reports, for the information of the Budget
Committee, having recommended to Council the adoption of the Recommendation embodied
in the report (January 21, 1999) from Councillor Jack Layton, Chair of the Environmental
Task Force, viz:
"It is recommended that the Environmental Task Force be allocated $16,000.00 for its
activities until May, 1999, and that these funds be provided on a prior approval basis".
Background:
The Strategic Policies and Priorities Committee on January 26, 1999, had before it the
following reports:
(1)(January 8, 1999) from Councillor Jack Layton, Chair, Environmental Task Force,
recommending that:
(i)an Environmental Task Force operating budget of $93,000 for 1999 as described in this
report be approved; and
(ii)the Chief Administrative Officer and the Commissioner of Works and Emergency
Services, as co-chairs of the Toronto Interdepartmental Environment (TIE) team, ensure that
the approved funds for the Environmental Task Force budget are included in the appropriate
1999 operating budget requests.
(2)(January 21, 1999) from Councillor Jack Layton, Chair, Environmental Task Force,
clarifying that the Environmental Task Force request is not for prior approval of $93,000.00;
advising that this is a request for consideration through the normal processes of the Budget
Committee and Council; and recommending that the Environmental Task Force be allocated
$16,000.00 for its activities until May, 1999, and that these funds be provided on a prior
approval basis.
Councillor Jack Layton, Don River, appeared before the Strategic Policies and Priorities
Committee in connection with the foregoing matter.
City Clerk
P. A. Morris/in
Item No. 5
c:Councillor Jack Layton, Chair of the Environmental Task Force
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