Item - 2025.IE23.8

The Infrastructure and Environment Committee recommends that:

1. City Council direct the Deputy City Manager, Corporate Services, with the support of applicable City Divisions, to work with the President, Toronto Parking Authority, to transition to a City-led negotiation of an agreement based on the Collaborative Model outlined in the report (June 26, 2025) from the Executive Director, Environment, Climate and Forestry, with the Short-Listed Proponents, identified through the Toronto Parking Authority's Request for Expression of Interest entitled "Electric Vehicle Charging Network" issued on March 23, 2023 (number BD-2023111), and based on the Key Negotiating Principles, both as set out in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (June 26, 2025) from the Executive Director, Environment, Climate and Forestry, for a multi-year Toronto-wide public Electric Vehicle Charging Delivery Model, and report back to the Infrastructure and Environment Committee by the end of the first quarter of 2026 on the results of the negotiation.

2. City Council direct that Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (June 26, 2025) from the Executive Director, Environment, Climate and Forestry remain confidential in its entirety in accordance with the provisions of the City of Toronto Act, 2006, as it involves a position, plan, procedure, criteria or instruction to be applied to any negotiation carried on or to be carried on by or on behalf of the City or local board.

On October 10, 2024, City Council adopted the IE-16.5 - Approach to Public Electric Vehicle Charging to 2030 staff report. The report outlined a strategy and plans that will ensure sufficient public charging infrastructure will be in place to realize TransformTO's goal of 30 per cent Electric Vehicle ownership of registered personal vehicles by 2030. To support the recommended Collaborative Delivery Model, the initial three-year City-wide Electric Vehicle charging installation and funding strategy will be presented to City Council in the fourth quarter of 2025. A key prerequisite to inform this plan is a decision around a preferred public Electric Vehicle charging delivery model. 

This report evaluates public Electric Vehicle charging delivery models to inform and support delivery model decision as a strategic decision that will enable the most efficient and effective way to achieve associated near- and long-term goals and objectives within the City of Toronto’s (“the City”) Strategic Planning Framework. 

Based on the evaluation completed on a City-led Model against a Collaborative Model, and considering the magnitude of the City’s unfunded capital program and the cost of generational programs such as the housing plan, transit, and climate action initiatives, City staff are recommending that Environment, Climate and Forestry, in coordination with the Toronto Parking Authority, begin negotiations with three Short-Listed Proponents, guided by Key Negotiating Principles, both outlined in Confidential Attachment 1, with the objective of identifying a Successful Proponent by fourth quarter of 2025 to inform the three-year funding plan and strategy around public Electric Vehicle charging, and report back to the Infrastructure and Environment Committee by the end of first quarter of 2026, on the results of those negotiations.