Greater Toronto Services Board

1999 Budget and Business Plan

The Strategic Policies and Priorities Committee recommends the adoption of the following Recommendations of the Greater Toronto Services Board, embodied in the following communication (May 10, 1999) from the Executive Director, Greater Toronto Services Board:

"(1)( ii)recommended expenditure for the annual external audit be eliminated, and the budget accordingly reduced by $5,000; and

(3)the annual external Audit responsibility be conducted each year, at no cost to the Board, by the external auditor for the Regions of Durham, Halton, Peel and York, and the City of Toronto on a rotating basis, commencing with the City of Toronto for the 1999 Budget and the Region of Peel for the 2000 Budget."

The Greater Toronto Services Board adopted as amended the "Greater Toronto Services Board 1999 Budget and Business Plan" at its meeting of May 7, 1999. The Board also had before it a report, dated May 5, 1999, from the joint meeting of the Interim Budget Advisory Working Group and the Interim Personnel Working Group which was adopted without amendment. These reports are attached for your information.

May I bring to your attention recommendations 1.ii) and 3. in the report dated May 5, 1999, from the joint meeting of the Interim Budget Advisory Working Group and the Interim Personnel Working Group which recommends that:

"1.ii)recommended expenditure for the annual external audit be eliminated, and the budget accordingly reduced by $5,000; and

3.the annual external Audit responsibility be conducted each year, at no cost to the Board, by the external auditor for the Regions of Durham, Halton, Peel and York, and the City of Toronto on a rotating basis, commencing with the City of Toronto for the 1999 Budget and the Region of Peel for the 2000 Budget".

I would ask that you provide us with whatever approvals are necessary to implement this recommendation.

Thank you for your assistance with this matter.

(The reports referred to in the foregoing communication, respecting the Greater Toronto Services Board 1999 Budget and Business Plan and the May 5, 1999, report from the joint meeting of the Interim Budget Advisory Working Group, were forwarded to all Members of Council with the June1,1999, agenda of the Strategic Policies and Priorities Committee and copies thereof are also on file in the office of the City Clerk.)