Changes to Membership and Quorum - Children's Action Committee

The Community and Neighbourhood Services Committee recommends the adoption of the recommendation of the Children's Action Committee embodied in the following communication (May 15, 1998) from the City Clerk; and further that the following additional changes to the membership and quorum be approved:

(a) that Trustee Lillian Schaeffer be appointed as the alternate of the Toronto District School Board Trustee;

(b) that Ms. Clara Wills, Early Year's Action Group (North York), and Ms. Sue Hunter, Toronto Child Abuse Centre, be added to the membership of the Children's Action Committee; and

(c) that the quorum of the Children's Action Committee be reduced to 12 members:

Recommendations:

(1) That Trustee Rose Andrachuk be appointed as the representative for the Toronto District Catholic School Board to replace Trustee Christine Nunziata.

(2) That Ms. Colette Murphy be appointed as the representative for the United Way to replace Ms. Cynthia D'Anjou-Brown.

(3) That Ms. Valerie MacDonald be appointed to replace Ms. Annie Kidder as the representative for People for Education.

Background:

The Children's Action Committee had before it communications from the following regarding its membership:

- (April 17, 1998) from Director of Education, Toronto Catholic District School Board, recommending that Trustee Rose Andrachuk be appointed as their representative to replace Trustee Christine Nunziata, who has resigned; and

- (April 30, 1998) from the President, United Way of Greater Toronto, requesting that Ms. Colette Murphy be appointed as their representative to replace Ms. Cynthia D'Anjou-Brown, who has resigned.

(A copy of each of the communications referred to in the foregoing communication was forwarded to all Members of Council with the agenda of the Community and Neighbourhood Services Committee for its meeting on June 18, 1998, and a copy thereof is also on file in the office of the City Clerk.)