Item - 2020.RM25.1

CALL TO ORDER: 9:37 a.m.

Speaker Nunziata took the Chair and called the Members to order.

The meeting opened with O Canada.

October 27, 2020

Members of Council observed a moment of silence and remembered:

Bruce Cox

Mario D'Alessandro

Michael John Patrick MacDonald, and

Shane Shannon Stanford

Speaker Nunziata acknowledged that City Council 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.  Speaker Nunziata also acknowledged that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit.

Speaker Nunziata advised Council of the following:

For the benefit of those who are connected to the internet, the City Clerk has posted all of the agenda materials for today's meeting at toronto.ca/council.

Members, although Civic Buildings, including City Hall are currently closed to the public, I want to emphasize that today's Council meeting is being conducted publicly and is being streamed live on YouTube.  I want to welcome the public who are watching our meeting this morning.

Speaker Nunziata acknowledged that the Interim City Clerk and his staff were launching the City Clerk's new Vote system today.   Members had received training and would be using the Clerk's Meeting Portal, CMP, to request to speak and question, and for recorded votes.

The Speaker proposed that Council conduct a short test of the system before we begin Council's opening routines.  The Interim City Clerk conducted tests of requests to speak and recorded voting.