Item - 2023.MM7.28

City Council on June 14 and 15, 2023, adopted the following:

1. City Council direct the General Manager, Shelter, Support and Housing Administration and the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat to allocate a minimum of 20 percent of the total of all grant funding provided by the City under the federal Reaching Home, provincial Homelessness Prevention Program and City Homelessness Investment Fund to the Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit and Métis) funding stream and City Council authorize the General Manager, Shelter, Support and Housing Administration and the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat to allocate a minimum of 20 percent of any additional community-based grants funding for housing and homelessness services to the Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) funding stream, and/or to increase the percentage of funding allocated, all as determined by the General Manager, Shelter, Support and Housing Administration and the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat and in consultation with the Toronto Indigenous Community Advisory Board.

2. City Council authorize the General Manager, Shelter, Support and Housing Administration and the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat to enter into, on behalf of the City, a Memorandum of Understanding, or to amend any existing Memorandums of Understanding, with the Toronto Indigenous Community Advisory Board and the Aboriginal Labour Force Development Circle as the Indigenous Community Entity, or a future Indigenous Community Entity designated by the Federal Government, in relation to the administration of the Indigenous funding stream, on terms and conditions satisfactory to the General Manager, Shelter, Support and Housing Administration and the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat.

3. City Council authorize the General Manager, Shelter, Support and Housing Administration and the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat to enter into, on behalf of the City, funding agreement(s) with the Aboriginal Labour Force Development Circle, as the Indigenous Community Entity, and/or a future Indigenous Community Entity designated by the Federal Government, to administer the Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit and Métis) funding stream in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding, on terms and conditions satisfactory to the General Manager, Shelter, Support and Housing Administration and the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat and in a form satisfactory to the City Solicitor.