Item - 2025.CC28.1

City Council on March 26 and 27, 2025, adopted the following:

1. City Council direct the General Manager, Parks and Recreation, for the purposes of conducting public consultations on Queen’s Park North enhancements, to negotiate and sign a donation agreement with the Weston Foundations, on terms and conditions satisfactory to the General Manager, in a form satisfactory to the City Solicitor and in compliance with the Donations to the City of Toronto for Community Benefits Policy, in order for City staff and professionals retained by the Weston Foundations to undertake a first phase of community engagement and preliminary design regarding Queen’s Park North enhancements, including the funding of appropriate City staff resources, that will inform the scope of the larger donation acceptance agreement and the staff report directed in Part 2 below.
 

2. City Council authorize the General Manager, Parks and Recreation, to negotiate a donation acceptance agreement with the Weston Foundations to fund the final design and delivery of Queen’s Park North enhancements, and provide additional funding support for ongoing maintenance and programming of Queen’s Park North park enhancements, on terms acceptable to the General Manager, Parks and Recreation and report to the Executive Committee in the Fall of 2025 with a project implementation update, inclusive of an update on the terms of the recommended donation acceptance agreement.