Item - 2019.IE5.10

City Council on June 18 and 19, 2019, adopted the following:

1. City Council adopt the confidential recommendations in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (May 15, 2019) from the General Manager, Solid Waste Management Services.

2. City Council direct that Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (May 15, 2019) from the General Manager, Solid Waste Management Services remain confidential in their entirety as they relate to commercial or financial information that belongs to the City and has potential monetary value, and it involves a position, plan, procedure, criteria or instruction to be applied to any negotiation carried on or to be carried on by or on behalf of the City.

3. City Council direct the General Manager, Solid Waste Management Services to report back to the Infrastructure and Environment Committee on the following items once Provincial regulations for transition of the Blue Box Program Plan to a full extended producer responsibility model under the Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act, 2016, are known:

a. the potential service levels impacts;

b. cost and rate implications;

c. any other relevant integrated solid waste management system considerations;

d. a proposed consultation framework plan for stakeholders that considers any changes in Blue Bin Recycling service delivery; and

e. proposed next steps.

4. City Council authorize the General Manager, Solid Waste Management Services and/or designate to negotiate and enter into any new agreements or amending agreements (including but not limited to amending agreements to receive external funding) necessary for the City's continued waste diversion operations throughout the transition period under the Waste Diversion Transition Act, 2016, based in part on the recommendations on pricing set out in the Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (May 15, 2019) from General Manager, Solid Waste Management Services, and on terms satisfactory to the General Manager, Solid Waste Management Services and each in a form satisfactory to the City Solicitor.

5. City Council direct the City Manager to formally request that the Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks to provide an update on the future of the Extended Producer Responsibility transition for the Blue Box program as the delay is costing the city in outdated contract costs.

Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (May 15, 2019) from the General Manager, Solid Waste Management Services remains confidential in its entirety in accordance with the provisions of the City of Toronto Act, 2006, as it relates to commercial or financial information that belongs to the City and has potential monetary value, and it involves a position, plan, procedure, criteria or instruction to be applied to any negotiation carried on or to be carried on by or on behalf of the City.