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THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF TORONTO
Clerk's Department
Minutes of a Special Meeting of the Scarborough Community Council
Meeting No. 3
Thursday, March 25, 1999
The Scarborough Community Council conducted a Special Meeting on Thursday, March 25, 1999,
in the Meeting Hall, Scarborough Civic Centre, commencing at 7:00 p.m.
Members present:
Councillor Lorenzo Berardinetti, Chair
Councillor Gerry Altobello
Councillor Bas Balkissoon
Councillor Raymond Cho
Councillor Brad Duguid
Councillor Doug Mahood
Councillor Sherene Shaw
The Chair called the meeting to order, welcomed Mr. Michael R. Garrett, Chief
Administrative Officer and Ms. Wanda Liczyk, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and
members of the public present to this Special Meeting of the Scarborough Community Council
to consider the 1999 Operating Budget, and invited Mr. Michael R. Garrett to commence the
budget presentation.
3.1 1999 Operating Budget
The Community Council had before it:
(1) a communication (March 5, 1999) from the City Clerk advising that the Budget
Committee has completed its preliminary review of the 1999 Operating Budget and
forwarding, in accordance with Budget Committee direction:
(a) the 1999 Operating Budget, together with a communication (March 5, 1999)
from Councillor Tom Jakobek, Chair, Budget Committee;
(b) the preliminary recommendations of the Budget Committee for the information
of Community Council; and
requesting that Community Council forward its recommendations pertaining to the
1999 Operating Budget to the Budget Committee prior to the commencement of the
wrap-up meetings on April 6, 1999;
(2) a communication (February 24, 1999) from the City Clerk, referring for the
attention of the Scarborough Community Council, a report (February 19, 1999) from
the Chief Administrative Officer respecting Service Level Harmonization, as
directed by the Special Policies and Priorities Committee, at its meeting held on
February 23, 1999;
(3) a report (March 18, 1999) to the Budget Committee from the Chief Administrative
Officer and the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer respecting Service
Harmonization - Financial Impact Analysis; and
(4) a report (March 22, 1999) to the Budget Committee from the Chief Financial Officer
and Treasurer respecting Harmonization of Water and Water Pollution Control Rates.
The Community Council received:
(1) a presentation made by Mr. Michael R. Garrett, Chief Administrative Officer,
respecting the preliminary 1999 Operating Budget, and the Key Harmonization Areas
contained therein; and
(2) a presentation made by Ms. Wanda Liczyk, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, on
the issue of Water Rate Harmonization.
The following persons appeared before the Community Council respecting the 1999 Operating
Budget:
- Maria de Wit, Chair, Child Care Advisory Committee of Toronto;
- Jackie Creber, Chair of the Board, Youthlink;
- Mrs. Georgie Curtis, President, Scarborough Quarter Century Club;
- David Rew, East Scarborough Boys & Girls Club;
- Susette Clunif, Director, Community Services, Warden Woods Community Centre;
- Doreen Lalor, Coalition for Children and Youth, Scarborough;
- Richard de Gaetano, Scarborough Homelessness Committee;
- Valarie Hartling, Children s Aid Society;
- Margaret Hefferon, The Caring Alliance ... Keeping Hope Alive (a volunteer group
working with homeless families with children in Scarborough Shelters);
- Ken Amoroso, Membership Secretary, C.U.P.E. Local 79;
- Marika Bandera, President, Dorset Park Community Ratepayers Association;
- John Morris, Scarborough resident.
On a motion by Councillor Balkissoon, the Community Council extended beyond 10:00 p.m. to
complete its consideration of the 1999 Operating Budget.
The Special Meeting of the Scarborough Community Council continued.
The following persons appeared before the Community Council respecting the 1999 Operating
Budget:
- Raluca Baciu, Scarborough resident;
- Kathleen Rocklin, Scarborough resident;
- Christine Panourgias, Scarborough resident;
- Suzanne Peacock, Scarborough resident;
- Lyn Bezer, Toronto Home Child Care Association;
- Lynda Joseph, Professional Home Child Care provider;
- Douglas Grigg, Scarborough resident and House League Hockey supporter;
- David Conrad, Scarborough resident;
- Brian Dorgan, Scarborough resident;
- Lynda Wheeler, Terraview Willowfield Residents Association;
- Alan Burke, East Beach Community Association;
- Karin Eaton, Scarborough Arts Council;
- Angelo Zacharakis, Scarborough resident;
- Peter Clutterbuck, Community Social Planning Council of Toronto;
- John Elliott, Community Voices in Support;
- Ravi Kandiah, Agincourt Family Services; and
- Lister Tennant, Scarborough resident.
A. Councillor Altobello moved that the Scarborough Community Council recommend to the
Budget Committee that:
(1) the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer be requested to report to Budget
Committee on the impact of:
(a) phasing in the water rate increase over a five-year period, as was
undertaken with the introduction of Current Value Assessment; and
(b) capping the commercial users at 2.9% for three years;
(2) water rate harmonization be initiated after all users within the City of
Toronto are metered; and
(3) staff report to the Budget Committee on financing of water meters to flat
rate users through users fee on water consumption of those flat rate users.
B. Councillor Balkissoon moved the following motion, as proposed by Community Voices
of Support, and directed that it be forwarded for consideration by the Budget
Committee:
WHEREAS, in the performance of its mandate to oversee the consolidation of
all municipal grant programs for the amalgamated City of Toronto, the
Municipal Grants Review Committee concluded that the 1999 consolidated
community grants budget should be flatlined at the 1998 level; and
WHEREAS within a flatlined community grants budget, there is $1,378,000
available for allocation to begin levelling-up programs and services in
under-resourced communities and areas; and
WHEREAS the Municipal Grants Review Committee recommended the flatlined
grants budget for 1999 and the reallocation of the $1.3 million to the
grants budget; and
WHEREAS the Community and Neighbourhood Services Committee supported this
recommendation at its meeting on March 24;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Scarborough Community Council endorse the
position of the Community and Neighbourhood Services Committee on the 1999
consolidated grants budget, specifically that the 1999 consolidated grants
budget be flatlined at the 1998 level, including the $1.3 million available
for reallocation to the grants budget.
C. Councillor Balkissoon also moved that the Scarborough Community Council recommend
to the Budget Committee that:
(1) the Scarborough Quarter Century Club funding be retained in the Budget and
funded at the same level as 1998, i.e., $13,000.00, from the Corporate Non-
Departmental Account;
(2) Recreation Division insurance coverage of Permit Users be reinstated for
the full year in 1999, and that the Director of Parks and Recreation, East
District, be requested to report to Scarborough Community Council in the
fall of 1999 on the impact of insurance cancellation, after consultation
with all Scarborough area user groups;
(3) since the harmonization of water and sewer rates across the City is being
recommended on a revenue neutral basis:
(a) implementation be deferred to allow a complete public consultation
process by Ward Councillors on a Ward by Ward basis;
(b) an implementation policy be considered for the budget year 2000;
(c) the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer be directed to develop
phase-in financial impacts, similar to the implementation of
Current Value Assessment; and
(4) the Community Council Chair arrange a meeting with Mayor Lastman, to which
all Members of the Scarborough Community Council are to be invited, to
discuss the issue of harmonization.
Upon the question of the adoption of Motions A., B., and C. by Councillors Altobello and
Balkissoon, it was carried.
The Community Council also received the following written submissions:
- (March 24, 1999) from Community Voices in Support, addressed to Councillor Chris
Korwin-Kuczynski, Chair, Community and Neighbourhood Services Committee, and
attaching draft motion on the Community Grants budget for consideration of the
Scarborough Community Council;
- from Doreen Lalor, Coalition for Children and Youth (Scarborough), attaching
proposals on the City Budget from the Metro Network for Social Justice;
- (March 24, 1999) from L.A. Hemphill, Principal, Agincourt Collegiate Institute,
respecting the provision of additional resources to support Public Health Services
of Toronto;
- (March 1999) from Diane Weinwurm, Co-Chair, The Lung Association Tuberculosis
Committee, respecting the importance of providing adequate resources for the
prevention and treatment of tuberculosis;
- (March 22, 1999) from Anne Dubas, President, C.U.P.E. Local 79, expressing concern
over the impact of the continuing loss of staff in the City and stressing the
importance of maintaining a skilled civil service which can provide quality
services to the public;
- (March 18, 1999) from Councillor Ron Moeser, requesting that Community Council
consider the restoration of the Leaf Pick-Up Programme to the level which was
provided in 1998;
- petition, containing 106 signatures, protesting the continued increases in the
cost of ice rentals for House League Hockey in Scarborough, and advising (i) that
the 1999 increase is the second of three to occur over three consecutive years,
all for the sake of harmonizing costs across the amalgamated City of Toronto;
(ii) that the previous Scarborough Council felt it was important that costs for
minor hockey in Scarborough should be reasonable and affordable so as many
children as possible could have the opportunity to play, regardless of economic
circumstances; and (iii) requesting that this matter be reviewed prior to final
approval of the 1999 Operating Budget.
Copies of the foregoing communications were forwarded for the information of the Budget
Committee, and copies thereof are on file in the Office of the City Clerk, Scarborough
Civic Centre.
(Clause 20(a), Report No. 4)
3.2 Uponthe questionof adjournmentof theCommunity Councilmeeting, thevotewas taken,as follows:
Yeas: Councillors Altobello, Berardinetti, Balkissoon, Cho, Duguid, Mahood -6
Nays: Nil
Decided in the affirmative by a unanimous vote of the Members of Community Council present
and voting.
The Community Council adjourned its meeting at 11:10 p.m.
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Chair
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