SPECIAL BUDGET COMMITTEE

A G E N D A

Date of Meeting:Friday, April 16, 1999Enquiry:Ms. Betty Henderson

City Hall, 2nd FloorFAX 392-2983

100 Queen Street West

Toronto

DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST PURSUANT TO

THE MUNICIPAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST ACT.

COMMUNICATIONS/REPORTS

1a.(a)SERVICE HARMONIZATION - FINANCIAL IMPACT ANALYSIS

Chief Administrative Officer and

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

(March 18, 1999)

Providing a summary of the financial impact, by former municipality, of the various service harmonization proposals, as well as the proposed water and approved hydro rate harmonization initiatives, tax rate harmonizations, Current Value Assessment (CVA) and the net financial and fixed assets brought into the amalgamated City by each former municipality, as requested by the Budget Committee, Works and Utilities Committee and Urban Environment and Development Committee; and recommending that this report be received for information.

(b)HARMONIZATION OF WATER AND

WATER POLLUTION CONTROL RATES

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

(March 22, 1999)

Providing a Background Study, which presents a review of the current practices and rate structure respecting the water and wastewater program and recommends a strategy towards a harmonized rate structure across the new City.

* PLEASE NOTE TIME OF MEETING HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO 12:00 NOON

(c)WATER RATE HARMONIZATION - ADDENDUM (1)

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

(March 31, 1999)

Responding to the motions raised by the Community Councils at their meetings of March 26-30, 1999; providing additional options respecting water rate harmonization; and recommending that this report be received for information.

(d)WATER RATE HARMONIZATION - ADDENDUM (2)

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

(April 12, 1999)

Providing additional options regarding the water rate harmonization initiative which address the issues raised respecting funding for the conversion of flat-rate (unmetered) accounts to metered service; and recommending that this report be received for information.

(e)IMPACT OF THE TAX RATE COST TRANSFER TO WATER RATE

ON SERVICE HARMONIZATION IMPACT ANALYSIS

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

(April 7, 1999)

Providing the Budget Committee with a recalculation of the financial impact, by former municipality, of the various service harmonization proposals, incorporating an adjustment for the $18.4 million transferred from the property tax levy to the water rate during 1998; and recommending that this report be received for information.

(f)FINANCING THE WATER AND WASTEWATER CAPITAL AND OPERATING BUDGET (2)

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

(April 12, 1999)

Responding to a motion moved by the Budget Committee at its meeting of April8,1999, respecting a policy upon which the water rate is based; and recommending that this report be received for information.

2.(a)SHELTER, HOUSING AND SUPPORT

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

(April 1, 1999)

Providing a summary of the Budget Review Process for Shelter, Housing and Support Program.

(b)IMPACT OF RECENT PROVINCIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

ON THE 1999 BUDGET FOR THE SHELTER, HOUSING

AND SUPPORT DIVISION

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and

Commissioner of Community and Neighbourhood Services

(April 9, 1999)

Reporting on recently announced Provincial intiatives to address homelessness and their impact on the 1999 budget for the Shelter, Housing and Support Division of the Community and Neighbourhood Services Department; and recommending that this report be received and forwarded to the Community and Neighbourhood Services Committee for information.

(c)HOSTEL OMBUDSPERSON PILOT PROJECT

City Clerk

(September 10, 1998)

Advising that the Community and Neighbourhood Services Committee on September10, 1998, recommended to the Budget Committee the adoption of the report (August 20, 1998) from the Commissioner of Community and Neighbourhood Services respecting the Hostel Ombudsperson Pilot Project.

3.(a)1999 VEHICLE AND EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT PROGRAM

Commissioner of Corporate Services

(April 7, 1999)

Recommending that:

(1) the 1999 Vehicle and Equipment Replacement Program, in the amount of $59,768,415.00, be approved;

(2)funding for new requests totalling $152,625.00 for Ambulance Services and Water Wastewater Services be deferred pending provision of cost/benefit justification;

(3) when a vehicle or equipment unit becomes surplus, it be reassigned to replace a unit due for replacement, provided it is suitable for continued use in the required application; and

(4) Fleet Management Services report to the Budget Committee on the long term replacement plan for the City, Ambulance Services, Fire Services, Toronto Police Services, Library, C.N.E. and Zoo and a funding mechanism in conjunction with the Finance Department.

(b)FLEET MANAGEMENT SERVICES PROGRAM - 1999 OPERATING BUDGET

Commissioner of Corporate Services

(April 13, 1999)

In response to the motions tabled at the Budget Committee on April 7, 1999, which directly affect the Fleet Management Services Program; and recommending that this report be received for information.

4.TORONTO HARBOUR COMMISSIONERS

To be considered at a later date.

5.PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL OF TORONTO WATERSHEDS

Commissioner of Urban Planning and Development Services

(April 9, 1999)

Recommending that the proposal for a Council of Toronto Watersheds be referred to the Environmental Task Force for consideration.

6.SUMMER TWICE-A-WEEK GARBAGE COLLECTION

Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services

(April 8, 1999)

Recommending that staff report to the Works and Utilities Committee by October, 1999 with the proposed eligibility criteria for residential areas that would receive summer twice-a-week garbage collection in the year 2000, including the associated cost impacts.

7.FACILITIES AND REAL ESTATE - 1999 OPERATING BUDGET

- FURTHER BUDGET REDUCTIONS

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

(April 10, 1999)

Responding to a request from the Budget Committee for further reductions to the 1999Operating Budget for Facilities and Real Estate; and recommending that this report be received for information.

8.1999 OPERATING BUDGET - CORPORATE REPORT

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Report to follow.

ANY OTHER MATTERS.