Item - 2024.MM20.11
Tracking Status
- City Council adopted this item on July 24, 2024 with amendments.
MM20.11 - Improving Access to Outdoor Ovens in City Parks - by Councillor Brad Bradford, seconded by Councillor Alejandra Bravo
- Decision Type:
- ACTION
- Status:
- Amended
- Ward:
- 19 - Beaches - East York
City Council Decision
City Council on July 24 and 25, 2024, adopted the following:
1. City Council direct the General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation, to review the 2011 Outdoor Ovens in City Parks Policy and related procedures from a customer service and equity perspective and to identify opportunities, if any, to reduce administrative or financial barriers to the community use of outdoor ovens, while ensuring that public health and safety and liability considerations continue to be met, and report back to the Economic and Community Development Committee by the first quarter of 2025 with proposed recommendations and rationale for updates to the policy, such report to include:
a. the annual amount collected by the City from park volunteer groups to access Outdoor Ovens; and
b. the total cost to the City to administer park volunteer groups permit applications and process their fees.
Background Information (City Council)
Motions (City Council)
Speaker Nunziata advised Council that the provisions of Chapter 27, Council Procedures, require that Motion MM20.11 be referred to the Economic and Community Development Committee. A two-thirds vote of the Council Members present is required to waive referral.
That in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 27, Council Procedures, City Council reconsider Item MM20.11, headed "Improving Access to Outdoor Ovens in City Parks."
That City Council amend the Recommendation by adding the words "such report to include the annual amount collected by the City from park volunteer groups to access Outdoor Ovens; and the total cost to the City to administer park volunteer groups permit applications and process their fees" so it now reads as follows:
1. City Council direct the General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation, to review the 2011 Outdoor Ovens in City Parks Policy and related procedures from a customer service and equity perspective and to identify opportunities, if any, to reduce administrative or financial barriers to the community use of outdoor ovens, while ensuring that public health and safety and liability considerations continue to be met, and report back to the Economic and Community Development Committee by the first quarter of 2025 with proposed recommendations and rationale for updates to the policy, such report to include:
a. the annual amount collected by the City from park volunteer groups to access Outdoor Ovens; and
b. the total cost to the City to administer park volunteer groups permit applications and process their fees.