Item - 2025.MM35.23

City Council on December 16 and 17, 2025, adopted the following:

1. City Council authorize the City Manager or designate to execute amendments to the Amended and Restated Funding Agreement between the City and Metrolinx, dated February 19, 2021, and other project related agreements as necessary to give effect to this motion, for Union Station Enhancement, Package 1 to permit additional funding for one (1) full-time temporary City staff to perform services related to real estate agreements and issues, increase to the funding for legal support for property agreements and such other terms and conditions as may be satisfactory to the City Manager, the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, the Deputy City Manager, Corporate Services, and the Deputy City Manager, Infrastructure and Development Services, and in a form satisfactory to the City Solicitor.

2. City Council authorize an amendment to the existing retainer agreement with Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP (Purchase Order number 6048193) for property matters at Union Station in connection with the Union Station Enhancement Project Package 1, to: increase the retainer amount to Eight Hundred and Thirty Thousand Dollars ($830,000.00) and to include the provision of legal advice and expertise for any necessary property agreements including easements, operating agreements and/or amendments to the existing Amended and Restated Reciprocal Rights Agreement between the City and Metrolinx, dated Dec 7, 2009, and as amended August 19, 2013, related to Union Station Enhancement Project Package 1; and to authorize the City Solicitor to further amend the amount of the retainer as needed.