Item - 2018.CC44.14

That:

1.  City Council requests the Government of Ontario to fulfill its campaign promise to provide an additional $1.9 billion for mental health supports.

2.  City Council delete Recommendation 4 and adopt instead a new recommendation that:

a.  eliminates monies for CCTV as described in Appendix B, #18, reduces associated funding for enforcement initiatives by $1.350 million, and requires further study on Shot Stopper before possible funding; and

b.  eliminates monies for Shot Spotter as described in Appendix B,  #19, that reduces associated funding for enforcement initiatives by $1.260 million, and requires further study on Shot Stopper before possible funding:

as follows:

4.  City Council:

a. authorize the City Manager to request, enter into any necessary agreements, receive, and allocate Provincial or Federal Government funding up to $12.4 million to support enforcement initiatives and enhanced community security in local communities most impacted by gun violence as detailed in Appendix B, #17 and #20; and

b.  require the City Manager to initiate public consultations, obtain expert advice regarding the Shot Spotters technology and to report back to City Council through the Executive Committee prior to requesting funding for Initiative #19, as detailed in Appendix B.

3.  City Council authorize the City Manager to request, enter into any necessary agreements, receive, and allocate Provincial or Federal Government funding up to $2.6 million to fund to implement measures in the approved Youth Equity Strategy that are deemed most effective at addressing the roots of youth violence by the General Manager, Social Development, Finance and Administration, and the Toronto Police Service.

Part 2 of motion 1 by Councillor Matlow lost

That in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 27, Council Procedures, City Council reconsider the vote on Part 1 of motion 1 by Councillor Matlow.

That:

1. City Council urge the Federal Government to ban the sale of handguns in the City of Toronto.

2. City Council urge the Provincial Government to ban the sale of handgun ammunition in the City of Toronto.

3. City Council direct the City Manager to report back on by-law and/or policy initiatives addressing gun violence that may be taken by the City of Toronto including potential by-laws to control the sale of handguns in Toronto.

4. City Council direct the City Clerk to write to the Chief Coroner for Ontario, on behalf of Toronto City Council, to request an inquest be held into gun violence related deaths in Toronto to make useful recommendations directed to the avoidance of further deaths due to gun violence and to circulate this resolution to Ontario municipalities asking that they support this request for their communities.

That City Council direct the City Manager in consultation with the Toronto Police Services Board, to establish a Gun Amnesty/Buyback program and report to City Council in the first quarter of 2019 on the status of implementation.

That City Council request the Province of Ontario to review the Residential Tenancies Act or any other relevant legislation with a view to provide more tools to evict people for criminal behaviour specifically related to guns, gangs and drug trafficking and to provide more resources to the Landlord and Tenant Board to process evictions on a more timely basis.

That City Council request the City Solicitor and the Executive Director, Municipal Licensing and Standards to report directly to City Council at the first meeting in 2019 on:

a. the success or effectiveness of curfews in municipalities where they have been instituted; and

b. the feasibility of introducing a curfew by-law for the City of Toronto that prohibits children under the age of 15 years old from being present in a public place after midnight without a parent or guardian present, such report to include a draft by-law for enactment;

That City Council request the Toronto Police Services Board to immediately hire 100 new police officers, funded in 2018 through the Tax Rate Stabilization Fund, with the 2019 costs to be considered as part of the 2019 Budget Process.

That City Council direct the City Manager to hire a consultant to conduct a report on how lack of parenting has contributed to gun violence in Toronto and report the findings directly to City Council at the first meeting in 2019.

That City Council request the Toronto Police Services Board to reinstate carding.

That Councillor Mammoliti be permitted to withdraw his motion 3f.

That City Council request the Provincial Government to review the Police Services Act with due regard to providing police with the necessary intelligence, information and evidence gathering tools needed to respond to contemporary gun violence crimes.

That City Council request the Chief Executive Officer, Toronto Community Housing Corporation to determine what additional resources are needed to take immediate steps to address gun and gang violence within the Toronto Community Housing Corporation complexes that are within Neighbourhood Improvement Areas, such as hiring on-site security 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and to report back to the City Manager with any resources request for inclusion in the 2019 Operation Budget.

That City Council request the Minister of Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction and the Minister of Public Safety to advise the City of Toronto on:

a.  how Ottawa can support efforts to deter or reduce the ongoing wave of gun and gangs violence in Toronto;

b.  ways of stopping the free flow of illegal guns along the United States of America border into Canada; and

c.  how the allocated federal funding will assist the City in eradicating the level of gun violence in Toronto.

That City Council request the Toronto Police Services Board to request the Chief of Police, to determine how the existing Police Community Partnerships within 11, 12 and 13 Divisions could be expanded to other parts of the City where local community organizations (i.e. Ratepayer and Tenant Associations, local Business Improvement Areas, community organizations and community leaders), working in partnership with the Toronto Police Service, can help in reducing the level of crime through crime prevention initiatives, at no cost to the Toronto Police Service.

That City Council amend Recommendation 6 by adding the words "and to all not-for-profit organizations working with the City of Toronto through Social Development Finance and Administration initiatives" so that the recommendation now reads as follows:

6. City Council forward this report for information to the Boards of the Toronto Police Service and Toronto Community Housing Corporation and to all not-for-profit organizations working with the City of Toronto through Social Development Finance and Administration initiatives .

That City Council request the Executive Director, Social Development Finance and Administration to ensure that the Community Crisis Response Program and other trauma recovery programs include culturally appropriate methods and resources.

That City Council amend Recommendation 4 to require the City Manager to request the Toronto Police Services Board to report to City Council through the Executive Committee on ShotSpotters technology, and specifically a business case analysis review, including but not limited to a review of: consistency with privacy legislation; an effectiveness review; community consultations, especially with impacted neighbourhoods; a detailed capital and operating cost review; and a lost opportunity review analyzing where else these monies might be applied, prior to requesting funding for Initiative #19: ShotSpotters.

That City Council request Toronto Police Services Board to request the Chief of Police to:

a.  accelerate and increase the hiring of experienced community officers from other Services to be deployed City-wide; and

b.  accelerate the implementation of a sustainable Neighbourhood Policing Model City-wide recommended through the Toronto Police Service modernization plan and to report to the Budget Committee through the 2019 budget process to address if any additional funding is required.

That City Council request the Government of Canada to strengthen its proposed gun control legislation in Bill C-71, An Act to amend certain Acts and Regulations in relation to firearm, by:

a.  restoring the 1977 controls on the sale of unrestricted firearms requiring firearms dealers to record the license number, make, model and serial number of all firearms sold and subject these records to annual inspection so that police services can inspect records as needed to trace firearms used in crimes;

b.  creating more stringent transport provisions for restricted firearms to limit transport outside of direct transfers between their place of storage and approved destination; and

c.  prohibiting the availability, sale, possession and use of handguns, assault rifles and semi-automatic firearms in Canada, with the exception of the Canadian Armed Forces, police services or other entity that is authorized to possess firearms with legal obligations imposed by the municipal, provincial and federal governments.

That City Council request the Toronto Police Service Board and the Province of Ontario to consider the recommendations in the April 2018 report, "Another Day, Another Janazah" published by the Somali Youth Research Initiative, a research project that works to analyze and better understand the scope, experience of violence and homicides among Somali-Canadian youth in Ontario, in particular, the report calls for the following recommendations:

a.  the collection of disaggregated data to better address gaps in data and to do so in consultations with Somali-Canadian families and their community, regarding concerns that Somalis are dying at a greater rate than members of other community groups that are impacted by gun violence, in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Canadian Human Rights Act;

b.  the establishment of an advisory group composed of community leaders, victim families, police services, and community organizations to analyze and review current homicide investigation practices to identify existing gaps to improve clearance rates; and

c.  investments in culturally-sensitive mental health resources for Somali-Canadian families by increasing the funding provisions of Enhanced Youth Outreach Workers and counsellors with a focus on mental health.

That:

1.  City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to report back in the first quarter of 2019 to the Planning and Growth Management Committee with draft options for a zoning by-law amendment that would have the effect of the City of Toronto regulating, within its borders, the sale, storage, and use of ammunition for firearms, with the exception of ammunition that is stored or used by the Canadian Armed Forces, a police force, or other entity that is authorized to store or use ammunition in connection with a legal obligation imposed by the municipal, the provincial or the federal government.

2. City Council request the City Manager and the Executive Director, Municipal Licensing and Standards, in consultation with the Toronto Police Services Board, to report on the findings of their review of the powers under the licensing provisions of the City of Toronto Act to regulate/and or limit the sale of ammunition, similar to the regulations implemented for fireworks.

3. City Council request the City Manager, in consultation with the Toronto Police Services Board, to conduct a review of existing municipal initiatives in Canada that have as their aim the reduction and/or regulation in the sale, storage, and use of ammunition, and to identify possible regulatory options that may be pursued by the City of Toronto in this regard.

4. City Council request the City Manager to present City Council with a comprehensive analysis of the legislative tools available to City Council to regulate the sale, storage and use of ammunition with the City's borders.

That City Council direct the City Manager and appropriate staff to consult and work with the gender-based violence sector and women's organizations to develop an intersectional gender-based analysis and approach when carrying out the research, work and implementation as it relates to Items CC44.14 and HL28.6.

That City Council request the Federal Government to enact legislation:

a.  to control guns coming into Canada along the American and Canadian border; and

b.  to create gun repositories that require all long guns and hand guns to be locked up and only retrieved if and where there is a need for hunting or going to the range for target practice, such repositories to be developed in a private-public partnership.

That City Council direct the Executive Director, Social Development Finance and Administration, in consultation with the Medical Officer of Health, work with relevant community partners, Toronto Community Housing Corporation and the Toronto Police Services Board, to ensure access to a range of support services and programs for victims, witnesses, and community members who experience violence.

That City Council require the City Manager to monitor the use, and potential community benefits of Shot Spotters in at-risk communities, in consultation with affected communities and the Toronto Police Services Board and to report back to City Council on the effectiveness of this technology in the first quarter of 2019.

That City Council request the Executive Director, Municipal Licensing and Standards, in cooperation with the Chief Building Official and Executive Director, Toronto Building and the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, to investigate any operating gun clubs with a shooting range in the City of Toronto to determine if they are operating legally and take appropriate action if required.

That City Council request the Director, Real Estate Services and the General Manager, Shelter, Support and Housing and Administration to investigate and determine the feasibility of acquiring and repurposing the remaining gun clubs with shooting ranges in the City of Toronto for civic purposes.

That City Council request the Medical Officer of Health, the General Manager, Children Services and the Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration to work together to ensure that the anti-violence strategy and initiatives include and benefit children in the middle childhood years, 9 to 14.

That City Council request the City Manager, in collaboration with the Toronto Police Services Board, prior to awarding the contract to ShotSpotter, to consult with the office of the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner and if any concerns are identified and not resolved to the satisfaction of the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner that these matters be reported to the Executive Committee.

That City Council request the Mayor to establish a Community Safety Advisory Body in the first quarter  of 2019, composed of representatives from:

a. the City of Toronto;

b. the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services;

c. the Ministry of the Attorney General;

d. members of the judiciary;

e. chairs of the Toronto District School Board and Toronto Catholic District School Board;

f. Toronto Community Housing Corporation;

g. the Toronto Police Services Board and the Toronto Police Service;

h. the Board of Health;

i. youth;

j. business;

k. individuals who have experienced incarceration;

l. labour;

m. the media; and

n. and other individuals with extensive expertise and experience in the field;

to provide expert, informed guidance to the City and other orders of government on how to enhance community safety and effectively coordinate their enforcement and prevention initiatives.

That City Council amend motion 3b by Councillor Mammoliti so that it now reads as follows:

That City Council request the Province of Ontario to review the Residential Tenancies Act or and any other relevant legislation with a view to provide more tools to evict people for criminal behaviour Toronto Community Housing tenants who have been convicted of offences specifically related to guns, gangs and drug trafficking and to provide more resources to the Landlord and Tenant Board to process evictions on a more timely basis.

That Councillor Augimeri be permitted to withdraw her motion 16.

That City Council request the Board of Directors of the Toronto Community Housing Corporation to report to the Executive Committee in the first quarter of 2019 on the concrete steps being undertaken by the Corporation to reduce the number of gun crimes in Toronto Community Housing.

City Council request the Mayor to convey to the Attorney General of Canada and Public Safety Minister City Council's request that relevant legislation, including but not limited to legislation currently before Parliament, be amended to:

1. include tougher penalties -- including mandatory-minimum sentences -- for gun traffickers;

2. direct more resources to tackle domestic firearm trafficking, specifically targeting large single purchasers of firearms; and

3. implement tougher screening for mental health and intimate partner violence issues for licensed gun owners and those seeking to acquire firearm permits.

Councillor Doucette, rising on a Point of Order stated that it is not appropriate for Councillor Karygiannis to ask the Chief of Police personal information about the family of the victim of the shooting tragedy on the Danforth.

Councillor Karygiannis, rising on a Point of Privilege stated that he was asking questions of clarification.

Councillor Mammoliti, rising on a Point of Privilege, stated that he never receives more than the allotted five minutes to speak, but Councillor Mihevc had received an extra minute of speaking time.

Councillor Perks, rising on a Point of Order stated that he wished to understand which motion Councillor Mammoliti wished to withdraw.

Councillor Fletcher rising on a Point of Privilege stated that she wished to request Audio Visual staff to turn down the volume of the Councillors' microphones and turn up the volume of the Speaker's microphone.

Councillor Shiner, rising on a Point of Privilege, stated that he wished Councillor Augimeri to withdraw her remark.