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Date of Meeting:
Friday, July 21, 2000
Time:
9:30 a.m.
Location:
Council Chamber, City Hall, 100 Queen Street West
Enquiry:
Trudy Perrin
Committee Administrator
Phone: 416-392-8027
Email: tperrin@toronto.ca
1. TORONTO INTEGRATED SOLID WASTE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ("TIRM")
PROCESS CATEGORY 2, PROVEN DISPOSAL CAPACITY - RESIDUAL SOLID
WASTE DISPOSAL CAPACITY OPTIONS.
The Policy and Finance Committee and the Works Committee jointly
recommended to Council:
(A) the adoption of the report dated July 14, 2000, from the Commissioner
of Works and Emergency Services, wherein it is recommended that:
"(1) should the Joint Committee and Council choose not to consider
options involving the extension of the service life of the Keele
Valley Landfill Site beyond 2002, then the Commissioner of Works
and Emergency Services be authorized to conduct final contract negotiations
as follows, to addition to satisfactory resolution of additional
contractual matters and exceptions as identified by the Commissioner
of Works and Emergency Services to be detailed in an In Camera report:
(a) with Republic Services of Canada Inc., for a no put or pay
contract for tonnages above 100,000 tonnes per year for a flexible
combined term of up to 20 years, to manage the private sector waste
received by the City of Toronto for disposal; and
(b) with Rail Cycle North Ltd., for a no put or pay contract for
a term of 20 years to encompass only the residual municipal solid
waste disposal needs of the City of Toronto and the Greater Toronto
Area Regional Municipalities of Peel, York and Durham, under the
terms and conditions of the Memorandum of Understanding between
the four participating municipalities;
and, subject to approval of Recommendations No. (1)(a) and (b) including
satisfactory resolution of additional contractual matters and exceptions
as identified by the Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services
to be detailed in an In Camera report, that:
(2) the commencement date
of the contract award to Republic Services of Canada Inc., be January
1, 2001, at a rate of 300,000 tonnes of solid waste, both municipal
and private sector solid waste, per year for two years less a day
in order to facilitate a December 31, 2002 closing of the Keele
Valley Landfill Site, and from and after January 1, 2003, on the
basis of the no put or pay basis as set out in Recommendation
No. (1)(a);
(3) the commencement date of the contract award to Rail Cycle North
Ltd. be January 1, 2003;
(4) the Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services be authorized
to enter into discussions with Onyx Arbor Hills Landfill Inc. to
determine if the existing disposal contract with Onyx Arbor Hills
Landfill Inc. can be renegotiated on the basis of the conditions
identified by the Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services as
detailed in an In Camera report;
(5) the Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services be requested
to undertake the contract negotiations, referred to in Recommendations
(1), (2), (3) and (4), listed above, and authorized to report to
the Council meeting of August 1, 2 and 3, 2000 on such negotiations;
(6) the Regional Municipality
of Durham be invited to continue to dispose of its municipal solid
waste at the Keele Valley Landfill Site from January 1, 2001 until
its closure at a disposal fee reflective of the market price as
determined through the TIRM Process, and that the Commissioner of
Works and Emergency Services report back through Committee to the
Council meeting of October 2, 3, and 4, 2000 on any price agreement;
(7) effective January 1, 2001, the Commissioner of Works and Emergency
Services be authorized to adjust from time to time the solid waste
management disposal fee at Torontos transfer stations by up to
15 percent upwards or downwards by giving two weeks public notice;
(8) the Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services be authorized
to share under confidential agreements with the Regional Commissioners
of Works for Durham, Peel, and York the detailed contract terms
of the proposed contracts with the appropriate Respondents in order
for them to finalize their due diligence processes and to develop
recommendations to their respective Regional Councils;
(9) the Commissioner of
Works and Emergency Services be authorized to develop with the Regional
Commissioners of Works for Durham, Peel, and York a formula for
the partial recovery by Toronto from the Regional Municipalities
of (i) the costs of the TIRM Process, and (ii) the study costs in
connection with the environmental assessment of the Adams Mine undertaken
by the former Metro Toronto as reflected in the per tonne service
fee credit given by Rail Cycle North Ltd., such formula to be based
on a contributing tonnage percentage to a contract with Rail Cycle
North Ltd.; and
(10) City Council request the Regional Councils of Peel, York, and
Durham to formally confirm no later than September 18, 2000, their
agreement to enter into a joint contract in partnership with the
City of Toronto for the disposal of residual municipal solid waste.;
(B) the adoption of the confidential report dated July 18, 2000,
from the Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services, wherein it
is recommended that the exceptions and conditions cited therein
be adopted, in order to facilitate final contract negotiations with
TIRM Respondents recommended for award of contracts, to address
the Citys residual solid waste disposal needs;
(C) the adoption of the confidential report dated July 18, 2000,
from the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, wherein it is recommended
that the financial terms of the final contract with any of the Respondents
be of acceptable form and content to the Commissioner of Works and
Emergency Services, the City Solicitor and the Chief Financial Officer
and Treasurer, and reflect the terms of conditions presented by
the Respondents in their final and best pricing scenarios;
(D) that the Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services be encouraged
to bring forward an integrated plan for accelerating the reduction
of the waste stream including the concept of anaerobic digestion
of organic waste for the production of energy; and
(E) that the Province of Ontario be encouraged to pass legislation
similar to that of the Province of Nova Scotia which prohibits organics
from being deposited in landfill sites, such legislation to include
a phase-in period, provided that funding assistance is given to
municipalities to handle their organic waste.
The Policy and Finance Committee
and the Works Committee jointly requested:
(i) the Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services to undertake
the contract negotiations referred to in Recommendations Nos. (1),
(2), (3) and (4) embodied in the aforementioned report dated July
14, 2000, and report thereon to Council for its meeting on August
1, 2 and 3, 2000, in accordance with Recommendation No. (5);
(ii) the Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services to include
in negotiations a retention of CO2 credits by the City of Toronto
and report thereon to Council with the Joint Committees recommendations;
(iii) the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, in consultation
with the Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services, to report
to Council with the Joint Committees recommendations on the various
options available to fund the budget impact of both diversion and
disposal costs in the next three years, including a review of tipping
fees; and
(iv) the Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services to submit
a report to the Works Committee annually in March on the City of
Torontos progress with respect to waste diversion and the cost
of such waste diversion programs.
2. COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY
AT KEELE VALLEY LANDFILL SITE.
The Works Committee recommended to Council the adoption of the report
dated June 27, 2000, from the Commissioner of Works and Emergency
Services.
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