Item - 2019.MM8.14

Tracking Status

  • City Council adopted this item on June 18 and 19, 2019 without amendments.

MM8.14 - Institutionalizing Resilience and Acting Now for Our Children’s Future - by Councillor Jennifer McKelvie, seconded by Councillor James Pasternak

Decision Type:
ACTION
Status:
Adopted
Wards:
All

City Council Decision

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

 

1.  City Council commit to “Institutionalize resilience into the City’s decision-making and take leadership on resilience” and that the City Manager “embed resilience as a practice across the City and its partners” as outlined in Action C4.1 (pages 143-144 of the Resilience Strategy) as a first step in implementation of the Resilience Strategy.

 
2.  City Council request the City Manager to report back to the Infrastructure and Environment Committee in September 2019 on a plan of action to further publicize and promote the Resilience Strategy.

 

3. Cty Council request the City Manager to extend an invitation for the Resilience Exhibit, curated by Assistant Professor Fadi Masoud and exhibited at the University of Toronto John H. Daniels School of Architecture, Landscape and Design, to be exhibited in the rotunda or public viewing area at City Hall, the Civic Centres and Metro Hall to further profile the City of Toronto’s Resilience Strategy. 

 

4. City Council request the City Manager to report back to the Infrastructure and Environment Committee by the end of the third quarter of 2019 on how staff will:

 

a. apply the lens of resilience to budget notes, infrastructure and development services notes, community and social services notes, and relevant new initiatives brought forward; and

 

b. track, and report to City Council on, the implementation of the recommendations in the Resilience Strategy.

Background Information (City Council)

Motions (City Council)

Motion to Waive Referral (Carried)

Speaker Nunziata advised Council that the provisions of Chapter 27, Council Procedures, require that Motion MM8.14 be referred to the Infrastructure and Environment Committee. A two-thirds vote of the Council Members present is required to waive referral.


Motion to Adopt Item (Carried)
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