Item - 2023.EC1.3

The Economic and Community Development Committee recommends that:

1.  City Council, in accordance with the City's Public Appointments Policy, appoint the following nominees to the Business Improvement Area Boards of Management set out below at the pleasure of Council, and for a term expiring at the end of the term of Council or as soon thereafter as successors are appointed:

            DuKe Heights:

            Aronov, Vladislav

            Bortoletto, Lou

            Cunsolo, Marco

            Damjanovic, Bogdan

            Gelbloom, David

            Goldkind, Murray

            Hertzman, David

            Menceles, Andrew

            Pliamm, Lew

            Punjani, Shafiq

            Rumanek, Jordan

            Serebryany, Carmela

            Tannous, Alaa

            Fairbank Village:

            Greco, Gino

            Konietzny, Kurt

            Kremizes, Taso

            Mazzone, Damiano

            McBean, James

            Mian, Asad

            Nielsen, Lorol

            Sousa-Freire, Jessica

            Torrone, Enzo

            Mount Pleasant Village:

            Antonio, Alyssa

            Cilla, Annalisa

            Fournier, Tanya

            Heller, Gregory

            Kutas, Matthew

            Lawrence, Corey

            Zammit, David

            Uptown Yonge:

            Chang, Peter

            Kiru, John

            Lokash, Stephen

            McKeown, Kevin

            Miadens, Brent

            Pyatt, Eva

            Reshetnikova, Sofia

            Soong, Mathew

2.  City Council direct that Schedule A of the Municipal Code Chapter 19, Business Improvement Areas, be amended by changing the number of members of the Fairbank Village Board of Management to eleven (11); changing the number of members of the Kennedy Road Board of Management to nine (9), number of Councillors to one (1) and wards to Ward 21, Scarborough Centre; changing the number of members of the Parkdale Village Board of Management to eleven (11), number of Councillors to one (1) and wards to Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park; changing the number of members of the Riverside District Board of Management to fourteen (14), number of Councillors to one (1) and wards to Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth; and changing the number of members of the Wexford Heights Board of Management to nine (9), number of Councillors to one (1) and wards to Ward 21, Scarborough Centre. 

The Economic and Community Development Committee:

1.  Directed the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture to meet with the local councillors for Eglinton-Lawrence (Ward 8) and Don Valley West (Ward 15) prior to the February 7, 2022 meeting of City Council to review a governance transition strategy for the Uptown Yonge BIA.

The purpose of this report is to appoint directors to the Boards of Management of four (4) Business Improvement Areas (BIA) that fall within more than one Community Council boundary for the new term of Council and make necessary changes to Schedule A of the Municipal Code, Chapter 19.