Item - 2022.MM47.44
Tracking Status
- City Council adopted this item on July 19, 20, 21 and 22, 2022 with amendments.
MM47.44 - Community Space for Bangladeshi-Canadian Community Services - by Councillor Gary Crawford, seconded by Councillor Brad Bradford
- Decision Type:
- ACTION
- Status:
- Amended
- Wards:
- 19 - Beaches - East York, 20 - Scarborough Southwest
City Council Decision
City Council on July 19, 20, 21 and 22, 2022, adopted the following:
1. City Council request the Chief Executive Officer, CreateTO, in collaboration with the Executive Director, Corporate Real Estate Management, the Executive Director, Social Development Finance Administration, and the General Manager, Parks Forestry and Recreation to undertake a review of 6 Thora Avenue for the purpose of social and community use in Beaches East York (Ward 19) and Scarborough Southwest (Ward 20) including an update of the state-of-good repair requirements and costs.
2. City Council request the Executive Director, Corporate Real Estate Management in consultation with the Executive Director, Social Development Finance Administration, to work with Bangladeshi Canadian Community Services and their potential partners to develop a proposed capital and operating plan, identify potential funding partners, establish a below market tenancy arrangement, and investigate the use of the proceeds from the sales of recent City-owned lands in the community and other capital funding sources to support the necessary repairs and retrofit of the facility.
Background Information (City Council)
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2022/mm/bgrd/backgroundfile-228745.pdf
Motions (City Council)
Speaker Nunziata advised Council that the provisions of Chapter 27, Council Procedures, require that Motion MM47.44 be referred to the Economic and Community Development Committee. A two-thirds vote of the Council Members present is required to waive referral.
That in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 27, Council Procedures, City Council reconsider Item MM47.44.
That City Council amend Recommendations 1 and 2 so that they now read as follows:
1. City Council request the Chief Executive Office, CreateTO, in collaboration with the Executive Director, Corporate Real Estate Management, the Executive Director, Social Development Finance Administration, and the General Manager, Parks Forestry and Recreation to undertake a review of city-owned spaces 6 Thora Avenue for the purpose of social and community use in Beaches East York (Ward 19) and Scarborough Southwest (Ward 20) including an update of the state-of-good repair requirements and costs.
2. City Council request the Executive Director, Corporate Real Estate Management in consultation with the Executive Director, Social Development Finance Administration, to work with Bangladeshi Canadian Community Services and their potential partners or any other suitable non-profit community group to explore a nominal long term tenancy if a suitable city-owned space is found to develop a proposed capital and operating plan, identify potential funding partners, establish a below market tenancy arrangement, and investigate the leverage support potential to the use of the proceeds from the sales of recent City-owned lands in the community and other capital funding sources to support the necessary repairs and retrofit of the facility.