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<p><strong>Announcements</strong></p>
<p>The Chair acknowledged that the Budget Committee was meeting on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. The Chair also acknowledged that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit.</p>
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<p>The Chair stated an African Ancestral Acknowledgement: Though I am not a person of African descent, I am committed to continually acting in support of and in solidarity with Black communities seeking freedom and reparative justice in light of the history and ongoing legacy of slavery that continues to impact Black communities in Canada. As part of this commitment, I would also like to acknowledge that not all people came to these lands as migrants and settlers. Specifically, I wish to acknowledge those of us who came here involuntarily, particularly those brought to these lands as a result of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery. In support of the City of Toronto's ongoing efforts to confront anti-Black racism, I pay tribute to those ancestors of African origin and descent.</p>
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<p>Where the Members of the Budget Committee listed in the attendance for this meeting participated remotely, they were counted for quorum as permitted by Section 189(4.2) of the City of Toronto Act, 2006, and City Council's Procedures.</p>
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2024 Capital and Operating Budgets
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<p>The Budget Committee will consider and make recommendations to the Mayor and City Council on the 2024 Capital and Operating Budgets.</p>
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<p>The following schedule has been established for the consideration of the 2024 Capital and Operating Budgets:</p>
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<p><strong>Tuesday, January 16, 2024</strong></p>
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<p>Service Group Presentation:</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Community and Social Services:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Toronto Fire Services<br />Toronto Paramedic Services<br />Children's Services<br />Economic Development and Culture<br />Toronto Employment and Social Services<br />Parks, Forestry and Recreation</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Toronto Shelter and Support Services (formerly Shelter Support and Housing Administration)<br />Court Services</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Seniors Services and Long Term Care<br />Social Development, Finance and Administration</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Toronto Public Library</p>
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<p>Agencies Questions and Answers only - no presentations:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Arena Boards of Management<br />Association of Community Centres<br />Exhibition Place<br />Heritage Toronto<br />TO Live<br />Toronto Atmospheric Fund<br />Toronto and Region Conservation Authority<br />Toronto Zoo<br />Yonge-Dundas Square</p>
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<p>Accountability Officers Questions and Answers only - no presentations:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Office of the Auditor General<br />Office of the Integrity Commissioner<br />Office of the Lobbyist Registrar<br />Ombudsman Toronto</p>
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<p><strong>Wednesday, January 17, 2024</strong></p>
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<p>Service Group Presentation:</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Infrastructure Services:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Toronto Water (rate)</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Solid Waste Management Services (rate)</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Municipal Licensing and Standards</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Engineering and Construction Services</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Toronto Emergency Management</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Policy Planning, Finance and Administration</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Transportation Services</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Transit Expansion</p>
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<p>Service Group Presentation:</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Housing Secretariat</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">City Planning</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Waterfront Revitalization</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Toronto Building</p>
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<p>Agency - Presentation:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) and Toronto Seniors Housing Corporation (TSHC)</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Toronto Transit Commission</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Thursday, January 18, 2024</strong></p>
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<p>Agency - Presentation:</p>
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<p>Agencies Questions and Answers only - no presentations:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Toronto Police Services Board</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Toronto Police Services Parking Tags Enforcement and Operations</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Toronto Parking Authority (rate)</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">CreateTO</p>
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<p>Service Group Presentation:</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Corporate Real Estate Management</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Customer Experience (formerly 311 Toronto)</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Environment and Climate</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Office of the Chief Information Security Officer</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Technology Services</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Office of the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Office of the Controller</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">City Clerk's Office</p>
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<p>That the Budget Committee set the following rule for this meeting:</p>
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<p>1. That the length of the second round of questions to the Toronto Police Service be limited to 3 minutes per Member of Council.</p>
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Auditor General’s Office - 2024 Operating Budget
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<p>This report presents to Budget Committee the proposed 2024 Operating Budget for the Auditor General’s Office (the "Office").</p>
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<p>This report presents to Budget Committee the proposed 2024 Operating Budget for the Office of the Integrity Commissioner.</p>
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<p>This report presents to Budget Committee the proposed 2024 Operating Budget for Ombudsman Toronto.</p>
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Toronto Lobbyist Registrar - 2024 Operating Budget Request and 2024-2033 Capital Budget and Plan
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<p>This report presents to Budget Committee the proposed 2024 Operating Budget and 2024-2033 Capital Budget for the Toronto Lobbyist Registrar (the "Office").</p>
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Toronto Police Service and Toronto Police Services Board 2024 Budget
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<p>At its Public Meeting held on Tuesday, December 19, 2023, the Toronto Police Services Board (Board) considered the following 2024 budget request reports:</p>
<p> </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- Toronto Police Service – 2024 Operating Budget Request;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- Toronto Police Service – 2024-2033 Capital Program Request;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- Toronto Police Service Parking Enforcement Unit – 2024 Operating Budget Request; and,</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- Toronto Police Services Board – 2024 Operating Budget Request.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The Board approved the foregoing reports and requested that copies of the draft Minutes be forwarded to the City’s Budget Committee for consideration. The Board also directed that its decisions be transmitted to the City’s Budget Committee and Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, to be considered as part of the City of Toronto’s 2024 budget process.</p>
<p><br />For ease of reference, below are the substantive recommendations related to this year’s City Budget Process that the Board approved on December 19th, with the effect that all four budget requests listed above were approved:</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Toronto Police Service – 2024 Operating Budget Request<br /><br /></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">(1) Approve the Toronto Police Service’s (Service’s) 2024 net operating budget request of $1,186.5 Million (M), a $20.0M or 1.7 percent increase over the 2023 approved budget.</p>
<p><br />Toronto Police Service – 2024-2033 Capital Program Request</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><br />(1) Approve the Toronto Police Service’s (Service) 2024-2033 Capital Program at a 2024 debt request of $33.2 Million (M) and gross amount of $88M (excluding cash flow carry forwards from 2023), and a total of $269.6M debt and $827.7M gross for the 10-year program, as detailed in Attachment A.</p>
<p><br />Toronto Police Service Parking Enforcement Unit – 2024 Operating Budget Request</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><br />(1) Approve the Toronto Police Service Parking Enforcement Unit’s (P.E.U.) 2024 net operating budget request of $51.3 Million (M), a 0 percent increase over the 2023 approved budget.</p>
<p><br />Toronto Police Services Board – 2024 Operating Budget Request</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><br />(1) Approve the Board’s 2024 net operating budget request of $2,355,300, which is a $178,500 increase over the 2023 approved budget.</p>
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Toronto Public Health 2024 Operating Budget Submission
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<p>At its meeting on October 4, 2023, the Board of Health - Budget Committee considered Item HU2.1, Toronto Public Health 2024 Operating Budget Submission.</p>
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Toronto Public Health 2024-2033 Capital Budget and Plan Submission
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<p>At its meeting on October 4, 2023, the Board of Health - Budget Committee considered Item<br />HU2.2, Toronto Public Health 2024-2033 Capital Budget and Plan Submission.</p>
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Toronto Transit Commission 2024 Conventional and Wheel-Trans Operating Budgets and 2024-2033 Capital Budget and Plan
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<p>At its meeting on Wednesday, December 20, 2023, the TTC Board considered the attached report entitled “Staff Recommended 2024 TTC Conventional and Wheel-Trans Operating Budgets and 2024-2033 Capital Budget and Plan”.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The Board adopted the following:</p>
<p> </p>
<p>It is recommended that the TTC Board:</p>
<p> </p>
<p>1. Approve a 2024 Operating Budget totalling $2.568 billion in gross expenditures, $1.337 billion in revenues and net funding requirement of $1.231 billion for the TTC comprising the following services:</p>
<p> </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">a. 2024 TTC Conventional Operating Service Budget of $2.404 billion in gross expenditures, $1.329 billion in revenues and a net funding requirement of $1.076 billion, as summarized in Appendix B1 of this report; and</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">b. 2024 Wheel-Trans Operating Budget of $163.6 million in gross expenditures, $7.9 million in revenues and a net funding requirement of $155.7 million, as summarized in Appendix B2 of this report.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>2. Approve a 2024 year-end workforce complement of 17,508 positions, comprised of 14,422 operating positions and 3,086 capital positions, reflecting an increase of 367 operating positions and 176 capital positions, as summarized in Appendix C of this report;</p>
<p> </p>
<p>3. Approve a 2024 Capital Budget of $1.369 billion and future year planned estimates of $11.029 billion for a total TTC 2024-2033 Capital Budget and Plan of $12.398 billion, comprising the following:</p>
<p> </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">a. A 2024 Capital Budget of $1.319 billion and future year planned estimates of $10.970 billion, for a total TTC 2024-2033 Base Capital Budget and Plan of $12.289 billion, as outlined in Appendix E of this report; and,</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"> </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">b. A TTC 2024 Capital Budget of $50.02 million and future year planned estimates of $58.89 million, for a total TTC 2024-2033 Capital Budget and Plan of $108.91 million for Transit-Expansion-Related Projects, as outlined in Appendix E of this report.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>4. Forward this report to the City Budget Committee and the City Manager as the official 2024 Operating Budget and 2024-2033 Capital Budget and Plan submission for the Toronto Transit Commission.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>5. The TTC Board requests the TTC CEO to report to the Board in Q3 2024 on the service crowding standard change made in the 2023 budget, including the impacts on riders and TTC finances, and the cost and service implications of reversing that decision in the 2025 budget.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>6. That TTC Staff report back in Q2 2024 on the establishment of a Budget Committee.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>7. That staff advise the TTC Board of their specific requests to the City in relation to traffic, on street parking, and the City Building Fund.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>8. TTC Board resolve to closely monitor the 2024 financial performance and the resulting draws of the TTC Stabilization Reserve fund, and commit to making in-year adjustments to reduce reliance on the reserve fund as a first priority should there be favorable variances to financial performance.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The recommendations of the Toronto Transit Commission Board as set out above are submitted for City Council approval through the Budget Committee.</p>
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<p><strong>Announcements</strong></p>
<p>The Chair acknowledged that the Budget Committee was meeting on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. The Chair also acknowledged that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit.</p>
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<p>The Chair stated an African Ancestral Acknowledgement: Though I am not a person of African descent, I am committed to continually acting in support of and in solidarity with Black communities seeking freedom and reparative justice in light of the history and ongoing legacy of slavery that continues to impact Black communities in Canada. As part of this commitment, I would also like to acknowledge that not all people came to these lands as migrants and settlers. Specifically, I wish to acknowledge those of us who came here involuntarily, particularly those brought to these lands as a result of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery. In support of the City of Toronto's ongoing efforts to confront anti-Black racism, I pay tribute to those ancestors of African origin and descent.</p>
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<p>Where the Members of the Budget Committee listed in the attendance for this meeting participated remotely, they were counted for quorum as permitted by Section 189(4.2) of the City of Toronto Act, 2006, and City Council's Procedures.</p>
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