Item - 2022.RM48.1

CALL TO ORDER: 9:57 a.m.

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

The meeting opened with O Canada.

August 15, 2022

Members of Council observed a moment of silence and remembered:

Mike Filey

The Honourable William Carvel "Bill" Graham

Dianne Sylvia Green

Scott Lyall

Clayton "Clay" Ruby

Deepak Ruparell

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.

This meeting is being held as a hybrid meeting.  Members of Council, staff and the public are participating in today's meeting remotely and in person, and the meeting is being streamed live on YouTube.  I'd like to welcome the public who are with us here today, and who are watching the meeting online.

This morning's special meeting of Council is for the following purposes:

1. to consider deferred Item GL32.19 from the July 19 to 22, 2022 meeting;

2. to consider urgent New Business Heritage matters; and

3. to introduce and enact General Bills and a Confirming Bill for this special meeting.

Members of Council, this is a special meeting.  Under Council’s Procedures, no new business items, such as Member Motions may be introduced.   This rule cannot be waived.