STRATEGIC POLICIES AND PRIORITIES COMMITTEE

A G E N D A

DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST PURSUANT TO

THE MUNICIPAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST ACT.

DEPUTATIONS.List will be available at the meeting.

COMMUNICATIONS/REPORTS.

1.1999 CAPITAL BUDGET AND FIVE YEAR CAPITAL PLAN.

(NOTE:THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE BUDGET COMMITTEE RESPECTING THE 1999-2003 CAPITAL BUDGET AND FIVE YEAR CAPITAL PLAN WILL BE DISTRIBUTED PRIOR TO THE MEETING.)

2.1999 INTERIM OPERATING BUDGET ESTIMATES.

City Clerk.

(January 5, 1999)

Advising that the Budget Committee on December 8, 1998, during its consideration of a report (December 7, 1998) from the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer regarding the 1999 Interim Operating Budget Estimates, recommended to the Strategic Policies and Priorities Committee the adoption of the aforementioned report.

3.YONGE/DUNDAS RE-DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

SETTLEMENT OF EXPROPRIATION CLAIMS

259 VICTORIA STREET, TORONTO

OWNER: SALVATION ARMY, GOVERNING COUNCIL OF CANADA

(DOWNTOWN - WARD 24)

Commissioner of Corporate Services.

(January 12, 1999)

Recommending that:

(1)a final settlement be approved with the Salvation Army, Governing Council of Canada, for total compensation in the amount of $2,000.000.00 for its interest in the property located at 259 Victoria Street, in return for a full and final release; and

(2)the appropriate City officials be authorized and directed to take the necessary actions to give effect thereto.

4.TOXICS/POLLUTION PREVENTION, LAND AND

AIR/CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIONS.

Councillor Jack Layton, Chair, Environmental Task Force.

(January 12, 1999)

Recommending that:

(1)the Chief Administrative Officer and the Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services, as co-chairs of the Toronto Inter-departmental Environmental (TIE) Team, be requested to coordinate responses to the actions listed below and described in this report and provide a monthly status chart to the Environmental Task Force commencing in January, 1999;

(2)the Commissioner of Finance submit the Environmentally Responsible Purchasing Policy that is being prepared to City Council as soon as possible and submit it to the Environmental Task Force for information en route to Standing Committee;

(3)the Medical Officer of Health be advised that the Environmental Task Force supports the establishment of a Toronto-based Children's Environmental Health Network that will gather and disseminate information on protecting children from environmental risks to their health;

(4)the Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services report to the Environmental Task Force on actions that are currently being taken to reduce the release of household hazardous waste into the environment and suggestions for actions that could be taken by the Environmental Task Force or City Council;

(5)the City of Toronto's new seat of government have, as a pilot project, a drop-off spot in a visible location for disposal of batteries used by City employees;

(6)the Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services prepare a report regarding the setting-up of hazardous waste drop-off sites for the public in places such as fire stations;

(7)the Chief Administrative Officer and the Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services, as co-chairs of the Toronto Inter-departmental Environmental (TIE) Team, be requested to prepare a plan for disposal of pesticides whose use will be eliminated;

(8)City Council endorse a program to encourage and recognize employee suggestions that bring environmental, social and financial benefits to the City's operations and request the Chief Administrative Officer and the Commissioner of Corporate Services to bring forward a report on such a program;

(9)the Chief Administrative Officer and the Commissioner of Corporate Services report on how the City could achieve reductions in emissions from mobile and stationary diesel sources owned by the City and its Agencies, Boards and Commissions which are not included in the Provincial 'Drive Clean' Program;

(10)the Chief Administrative Officer and the Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services, as co-chairs of the Toronto Inter-departmental Environment (TIE) Team, be requested to report on how reports to City Council could include carbon dioxide accounting information;

(11)City Council request the Toronto Licencing Commission to ensure that fuel burning vehicles licensed by the Commission meet Provincial emission control specifications and that there is a mechanism for recognizing and encouraging compliance with provincial emission control specifications; and

(12)City Council indicate its support for efforts to make employer provided transit passes tax-exempt and its intention, as an employer, to review offering the transit pass as an employee benefit.

5.ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE BUDGET FOR 1999.

Councillor Jack Layton, Chair, Environmental Task Force.

(January 8, 1999)

Recommending that:

(1)an Environmental Task Force operating budget of $93,000 for 1999 as described in this report be approved; and

(2)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.

IN CAMERA.

6.SETTLEMENT OF CLAIM, CONTRACT NO. T-51-93,

DON VALLEY PARKWAY AT CHESTER HILL ROAD,

SLOPE STABILIZATION AND SOLDIER PILE RETAINING WALLS.

City Clerk.

(January 13, 1999)

Advising that the Urban Environment and Development Committee on January 11, 1999, during its consideration of a confidential report (December 1, 1998) from the General Manager, Transportation Services, seeking Council's approval of a proposed settlement of an outstanding claim by Bridgecon Construction Limited arising from Contract No. T-51-93, took the following action:

(1)requested that the confidential report (December 1, 1998) from the General Manager, Transportation Services respecting the above-noted matter, be considered by the Strategic Policies and Priorities Committee as an in-camera item; and

(2)requested the Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services to submit a further in-camera report to the Strategic Policies and Priorities Committee providing additional information on this matter, and including the earlier report which was submitted to the former Metro Toronto Council.

7.REPORT OF THE TASK FORCE ON COMMUNITY ACCESS AND EQUITY.

(NOTE:A FINAL REPORT FROM THE TASK FORCE ON COMMUNITY ACCESS AND EQUITY WILL BE DISTRIBUTED PRIOR TO THE MEETING.)

ANY OTHER MATTERS.