April 8, 1999
To:Toronto Cycling Committee
From:City Clerk
Subject:Rationalization of Six Existing Committees
and the Task Force on Community Safety
The Etobicoke Community Council at its meeting held on March 30, 1999:
(1)deferred consideration of the communication (March 10, 1999) from the City Clerk for
deputation at the meeting scheduled to be held on April 28, 1999, and to permit further
dialogue between the affected parties;
(2)tabled the motion by Councillor Bruce Sinclair and directed that it be forwarded to the
Etobicoke Safety Council, Crime S.C.O.P.E. and the Etobicoke Crime Prevention Association
for comment; and
(3)received the following communications:
-(March 24, 1999) from the City Clerk;
-(March 28, 1999) from Ms. Rhona Swarbrick, Co-Chair, Toronto Pedestrian Committee;
and
-(March 29, 1999) from Mr. Jeffery Zajac, Chair, Etobicoke Safety Council.
Background:
The Etobicoke Community Council had before it a communication (March 10, 1999) from the
City Clerk forwarding the following recommendation contained in Clause No. 7 of Report No.
2 of The Emergency and Protective Services Committee, which was adopted, as amended, by
City Council at its meeting held on March 2, 3 and 4, 1999:
"It is recommended that the following recommendation be referred to the Etobicoke
Community Council for consideration:
'It is recommended that the functions of the Etobicoke Safety Council, the Etobicoke Crime
Scope and the Toronto (formerly Etobicoke) Crime Prevention Association be transferred to
the City's Cycling and Pedestrian Committees to promote traffic safety issues in the City of
Toronto.' "
The Etobicoke Community Council also had before it the following motion and
communications:
(i)"Moved by Councillor Bruce Sinclair:
WHEREAS for many years, several community committees have rendered invaluable services
to the former City of Etobicoke and indeed, to the whole of the former Metropolitan Toronto
area, and
WHEREAS the Community of Etobicoke is in danger of losing the many innovative ideas for
a safer and better community that have come from the Etobicoke Safety Council, the
Etobicoke Crime Prevention Association and Etobicoke CrimeS.C.O.P.E. and its
sub-committee for community betterment, the Community Standards Sub-Committee,
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that a Special Advisory Committee, composed of
J.Thomas Riley, former Commissioner of Parks and Recreation Services, John Reble,
Etobicoke Community legal advisor, or his representative, and the Etobicoke Community
Council Administrator, be constituted as an investigative committee to recommend to
Council, at the earliest opportunity, a new comprehensive structure for community safety and
improvement in Etobicoke.";
(ii)(March 24, 1999) from the City Clerk advising that the Toronto Cycling Committee on
March 22, 1999, requested the Etobicoke Community Council to defer consideration of the
recommendation respecting the transfer of functions of the Etobicoke and East York Safety
Councils to the Toronto Cycling Committee and the Toronto Pedestrian Committee, to its
meeting to be held on April 28, 1999;
(iii)(March 28, 1999) from Ms. Rhona Swarbrick, advising, on behalf of the Toronto
Pedestrian Committee, that the Emergency and Protective Services Committee has been
requested not to reopen this matter for discussion until representatives of the affected parties
have met to discuss the implications of the proposed merger; and
(iv)(March 29, 1999) from Mr. Jeffery Zajac, Chair, Etobicoke Safety Council, requesting
that discussion of this matter take place during the April 1999 meeting of the Community
Council to allow representatives of the Etobicoke Safety Council to attend in deputation.
Councillor Irene Jones declared her interest in the foregoing matter in that her husband
provides accounting assistance to the Etobicoke Crime Prevention Association.
City Clerk
M. Sutherland/
Sent to:Toronto Cycling Committee
Toronto Pedestrian Committee
Etobicoke Safety Council
Crime S.C.O.P.E.
Etobicoke Crime Prevention Association
