June 28, 1999
POLICY AND FINANCE COMMITTEE:
The Policy and Finance Committee on June 24, 1999, had before it the following communications:
(i)(June 1, 1999) from the City Clerk, advising that the Scarborough Community Council on May 26, 1999, during its
consideration of a communication (May 5, 1999) from the City Clerk respecting the possible acquisition of Ontario Hydro
Corridor Lands South of Highway 401, amongst other things, directed that the Strategic Policies and Priorities Committee
be advised that the Scarborough Community Council reaffirms its previous position regarding the acquisition of land in the
Hydro Corridor north of Ellesmere, south of Highway 401, subject to reducing the amount of land to be acquired to two
acres, as opposed to the entire corridor; funding for such acquisition to be taken from the Scarborough Parks Reserve Fund;
and
(ii)(June 24, 1999) from Mr. Jim Robb, Friends of the Rouge Watershed, providing information and outlining reasons
why funding for the acquisition of additional greenspace within the Hydro lands in Ward 14 should be provided from a
source other than the Beare Road Landfill Reserve Fund.
Ms. Linda Wheeler, appeared before the Policy and Finance Committee in connection with the foregoing matter and filed a
copy of a map of the area.
The Policy and Finance Committee:
(1)deferred consideration of the aforementioned communications, and the following motion until its meeting scheduled
to be held on July 20, 1999:
Moved by Councillor Disero:
"That the Recommendation embodied in the following communication be amended by adding thereto the following words
"subject to the Agreement of the vendor", so that the Recommendation shall read as follows:
"The Scarborough Community Council directed that the Strategic Policies and Priorities Committee be advised that the
Scarborough Community Council reaffirms its previous position regarding the acquisition of land in the Hydro Corridor
north of Ellesmere, south of Highway 401, subject to reducing the amount of land to be acquired to two acres, as opposed
to the entire corridor; funding for such acquisition to be taken from the Scarborough Parks Reserve Fund, subject to the
Agreement of the vendor."; and
(2)requested the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer to submit a report to the aforementioned meeting of the Policy and
Finance Committee respecting the Scarbrough Parks Reserve Fund.
City Clerk
P. A. Morris/tk
Item No. 5
Sent to:Policy and Finance Committee
cc:Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services
Commissioner of Economic Development, Culture and Tourism
Committee Administrator, Scarborough Community Council
Ms. Linda Wheeler, Prresident, Terraview-Willowfield Residents' Association
Mr. Jim Robb, Friends of the Rouge Watershed
Att.
