Item - 2022.HL35.4

The Board of Health:

1.  Received the report (March 7, 2022) from the Medical Officer of Health for information.

This report provides the Board of Health (BOH) with an update on the Toronto Public Health (TPH) 2022 Operating Budget approved at the City Council meeting of

February 17, 2022.

On October 25, 2021, the BOH recommended a 2022 TPH Operating Budget of $362,678.1 thousand gross and $128,753.0 thousand net. This budget included seven proposals for new and enhanced services in the amount of $4,193.0 thousand gross and $247.8 thousand net for resources for the collection, analysis and visualization of public health data to inform public health outcomes and support City divisions engaged in programs and services that impact on health, as well enhanced resources for the Toronto Drug Strategy Secretariat, enhanced programming for The Works, an expanded Outreach Overdose Team, an expansion of the Injectable Opioid Agonist Treatment (iOAT), resources to improve data sharing to inform work on addressing the opioid poisoning crisis, and Mobile Consumption Services.

City Council approved a TPH 2022 Budget Committee Recommended Operating Budget of $361,684.1 thousand gross and $128,345.8 thousand net. The Council approved budget provides an increase of $16,940.0 thousand gross (4.9 per cent increase in gross expenditures) and $3,954.4 thousand net (3.2 per cent increase in net expenditures) over the 2021 Approved Operating Budget.