Item - 2024.IE16.3

The Infrastructure and Environment Committee recommends that:

1. City Council amend its decision on item 2024.IE10.1 by revising the date “November 1, 2024” and replacing it with “December 9, 2024” wherever it appears in the decision.

2. City Council authorize the inclusion into the proposed replacement City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 610 of an additional transition provision, generally as follows:

“Despite anything in this chapter to the contrary, a payment plan shall not be available in a screening review of a designated by-law provision or in a hearing review of a designated by-law provision.”

3. City Council authorize the appropriate City officials to submit directly to Council at the appropriate time in the opinion of the Director of Court Services, in consultation with Chief Technology Officer, Director, Revenue Services, Executive Director, Finance Shared Services and the City Solicitor, any necessary bills to amend City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 610 as it reads at that time to delete the transition provision in Recommendation 2 to the report (September 13, 2024) from the Director, Court Services, Chief Technology Officer, Executive Director, Finance Shared Services, City Solicitor, and General Manager, Transportation Services.

4. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to introduce the necessary bills to give effect to Council's decision and City Council authorize the City Solicitor to make any necessary clarifications, refinements, modifications, technical amendments, or by-law amendments as may be identified by the City Solicitor, in consultation with the General Manager, Transportation Services, the Director, Revenue Services, and the Director, Court Services, in order to give effect to the reasonable operation of the expanded Administrative Penalty System program.

On February 6, 2024, Toronto City Council approved the governance and administrative requirements to establish an expanded Administrative Penalty System that includes Red Light Camera and Automated Speed Enforcement violations. This change will move the dispute mechanism for violations of Red Light Camera and Automated Speed Enforcement offences from a court-based system to an administrative review model.

In the report approved by Council, staff recommended an effective date of November 1, 2024, for the new proposed replacement City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 610 governing the Administrative Penalty System, the expanded mandate of the Administrative Penalty Tribunal, the updated governance structure for the Administrative Penalty Tribunal, and any associated by-law amendments. This report proposes that City Council approve a revised effective date of December 9, 2024.

The Administrative Penalty System program team requires additional time to complete critical requirements for the system implementation. A revised implementation date of December 9, 2024, is being proposed to complete the balance of critical requirements including the privacy impact assessment, cyber risk assessment, user acceptance testing, penetration testing to secure the system and its data, as well as staff training.

Extending the implementation date to December 9, 2024, has no impact on the timelines for increasing the number of Automated Speed Enforcement Cameras from 75 to 150 as directed by City Council. It is anticipated the new camera systems will begin to be implemented starting in January 2025. More information on the expansion of the Automated Speed Enforcement program will be available in an upcoming Vision Zero report to the Infrastructure and Environment Committee on November 27, 2024.