Item - 2024.EX13.12

The Executive Committee:

1. Requested the City Manager, in consultation with the Executive Director, Customer Experience (311), to report back to the Service Excellence Committee by July 19, 2024 with an approach for centralizing and consolidating all routine Tier 1 services and contact centres across City Divisions into 311 Toronto (Toronto at Your Service) so that the public has a seamless, accessible, and consistent experience when requesting or inquiring about routine City services; commencing with outstanding services of Parks, Forestry and Recreation full integration into 311, and to provide next steps on the roadmap and the implementation plan by the first quarter of 2025.

2. Requested the City Manager, in consultation with the Executive Director, Customer Experience (311), to report back to the Service Excellence Committee by May 31, 2024 with an update on the development of the City’s Service Promise, and outlining the specific principles being considered for interactions across all service channels, including staff to public interactions and staff to staff interaction.

At its meeting on March 19, 2024, the Service Excellence Committee considered item SE2.1 and made recommendations to the Executive Committee.

Summary from the report (March 5, 2024) from the Executive Director, Customer Experience:

City Council, at its meeting on September 30, 2020, requested the Executive Director, Customer Experience, formerly known as the Director, 311 Toronto, to provide information on trending issues received via the Customer Experience Division (CXD), on a yearly basis. The purpose of this report is to provide a summary of Customer Experience Division’s services, contact centre volumes, projects, and divisional collaborations in 2023.