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Regular



Debenture Committee


Meeting No. 4   Contact Rosemary MacKenzie, Council Administrator
Meeting Date Thursday, April 15, 2010
  Phone 416-392-8021
Start Time 1:45 PM
  E-mail rmacken@toronto.ca
Location Committee Room 3, City Hall
     


Debenture Committee

 

Mayor David Miller (Chair)

Councillor Shelley Carroll (Vice-Chair)

 

 

Joe Pennachetti, City Manager

Cam Weldon, Deputy City Manager and Chief Financial Officer

 

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If you want to learn more about why and how the City collects your information, write to the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, 100 Queen Street West, Toronto ON M5H 2N2 or by calling 416-392-8021.

 

 

 

Declarations of Interest under the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act.

 

Confirmation of Minutes - January 25, 2010

 

Communications/Reports

 

DB4.1

ACTION 

 

 

Ward: All 

Repeal of Sinking Fund Debenture By-law No. 886-2009
Recommendations

The Deputy City Manager and Chief Financial Officer recommends that:

 

1.         The Debenture Committee approve the repeal of By-law No. 886-2009 as contained in Recommendation 8 of Executive Committee Item EX40.10, entitled “Monetization of the Toronto Hydro Promissory Note” approved by Council at its meeting held on February 22 and 23, 2010.

 

2.         Authority be granted for the introduction of the necessary Bill to the Debenture Committee to authorize the repeal of the Debenture By-law No. 886-2009.

 

3.         The Debenture Committee authorize the appropriate City of Toronto officials to take the necessary actions to give effect thereto.

Summary

This report requests that the necessary Bill be introduced and adopted by the Debenture Committee at its meeting on April 15th, 2010 to give effect to the repeal of the sinking fund debenture By-law No. 886-2009.

Financial Impact

The 2010 debt charge savings of $33.3 million associated with this debenture have been included in the 2010 operating budget in the Non-Program Corporate and Capital Financing account.

Background Information
Report (April 14, 2010) from the Deputy City Manager and Chief Financial Officer
(http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2010/db/bgrd/backgroundfile-29391.pdf)


DB4.Bills

ACTION

 

Delegated

 

General Bills

Confirmatory Bills