Item - 2019.EX7.24

The Executive Committee recommends that:

1.  City Council authorize the Director, Office of Emergency Management to negotiate and enter into agreements with Ontario Power Generation Inc. for the provision of, and funding support for the City's provision of emergency management services for nuclear emergency response between the City of Toronto and Ontario Power Generation Inc., as described in this agreement, on terms and conditions satisfactory to the Director, Office of Emergency Management, and in a form satisfactory to the City Solicitor.

2.  City Council authorize the Director, Office of Emergency Management, to accept funding as prescribed for in any agreements negotiated, such funding to be added to the Office of Emergency Management 2019 Operating Budget for as an in-year budget adjustment that:

a.  increases expenditures and revenues by $212,500 for a net $0 impact from $225,000 to $437,500; and

b.  increases the complement by three (3) additional temporary full-time Full Time Equivalents from 18 to 21 Full Time Equivalents.

3.  City Council authorize the Director, Office of Emergency Management to execute and submit on behalf of the City any documents related to the funding support for the City's provision of nuclear emergency management services for nuclear emergency response between the City of Toronto and Ontario Power Generation Inc., required by the agreement between the parties.

The purpose of this report is to seek City Council authority to enter into a new agreement with Ontario Power Generation Inc. to accept program funding, with respect to a revised nuclear emergency management program. This new agreement would replace existing agreements between the parties. The proposed maximum amount of funding under this new agreement would be $212,500 for the period July 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019, inclusive and $650,000 per calendar year for the period 2020 to 2024 ("primary funding"), plus such additional funding amounts with respect to costs incurred by the City for implementation of specific requirement. The primary funding will offset the addition of three full time, temporary staff who will supplement existing nuclear emergency management work currently being undertaken by the Office of Emergency Management.