Citizen Appointments to the Committee on the Status of Women

The Strategic Policies and Priorities Committee recommends the adoption of the following report (January19,1999) from Councillor Pam McConnell, Chair, Committee on the Status of Women:

Recommendation:

It is recommended that the following persons be appointed to the Committee on the Status of Women for a term to expire on November 30, 2000, and/or until their successors are appointed: Farhia Ahmed, Susan Holmes, Gerda Kaegi, Carol Mark, Raheel Raza, Rupert Ritchie, and Terry Winston.

Background:

City Council at its meeting on March 4, 5 and 6, 1998, adopted, as amended, Clause No. 6 of Report No. 3 of the Special Committee to Review the Final Report of the Toronto Transition Team, headed "Terms of Reference for the City of Toronto Task Force on Community Access and Equity" wherein it is recommended, in part, that:

"(3) (a)the existing municipal committees on Access and Equity be continued and be authorized to fill vacancies using the Task Force selection criteria."

Comments:

A flyer advertising vacancies on the Committee on the Status of Women was distributed widely to community organizations across the City of Toronto. The Nominating Subcommittee of the Committee on the Status of Women interviewed applicants for the Committee.

The Nominating Subcommittee recommends that the above noted persons be appointed to the Committee on the Status of Women. With these appointments, the Committee will include 2 persons from the former City of North York, 2 persons from Etobicoke, and one person from Scarborough.

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The Strategic Policies and Priorities Committee reports, for the information of Council, also having had before it a brief biographical profile of each candidate which was forwarded to all Members of Council, under separate cover, with the January 26, 1999 agenda of the Strategic Policies and Priorities Committee, and a copy thereof is also on file in the office of City Clerk.