Item - 2026.CC43.5

City Council on July 29 and 30, 2026, adopted the following:

1. City Council delegate the following authorities, in addition to those currently delegated under Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 195, Procurement, and Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 71, Financial Control:

a. commitment authority: delegate to the City Manager or delegate, who must be a Deputy City Manager or the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, the authority to commit funds for any contracts with a total term of up to ten (10) years, inclusive of any option years, or the projected term of capital funding for a project as approved by Council, provided that the procurement procedures in Chapter 195, Procurement, have been followed and cash flow funding has been provided in the operating budget or capital budget or pursuant to Chapter 71, Financial Control, section 19 (Donations and Sponsorships) to the satisfaction of the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer; and

b. award authority: delegate to the Chief Procurement Officer the authority to award any contracts with a total term of up to ten (10) years, inclusive of any option years, or the projected term of capital funding for a project as approved by Council, provided that all other pre-conditions to an award by the Chief Procurement Officer set out in Chapter 195, Procurement, have been met.

2. City Council adopt the confidential instructions to staff and receive for information the procurement plan set out in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (July 21, 2026) from the City Manager.

3. City Council direct that Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (July 21, 2026) from the City Manager remain confidential at this time as it pertains to criteria to be applied to negotiations carried on or to be carried on by or on behalf of the City of Toronto and be made public at the discretion of the Chief Procurement Officer following the award or closing of the contemplated procurement transactions.

4. In addition to the authority currently delegated by Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 195, Procurement, City Council delegate authority to the City Manager to approve any non-competitive contract with a total term of up to ten (10) years in an amount not to exceed $5 million (net of all taxes), in accordance with the exceptions set out in Chapter 195, Procurement, section 7.1 for non-competitive contracts, and under the condition that funding is within the operating or capital budgets deemed adopted, or has been donated pursuant to Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 71, Financial Control, section 19 (Donations and Sponsorships), to the satisfaction of the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer.

5. In addition to the authority currently delegated by Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 71, Financial Control, City Council delegate authority to the City Manager to approve any over-expenditures of a commitment in an amount not to exceed $5 million (net of all taxes) for goods and services and $10 million (net of all taxes) for construction services, provided that the over-expenditure is within the operating or capital budgets deemed adopted, or has been donated pursuant to Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 71, Financial Control, section 19 (Donations and Sponsorships), to the satisfaction of the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer.

6. City Council authorize the City Manager, despite Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 195, Procurement, to take any actions that are required to respond to tariffs and any new directives that may be issued under the Buy Ontario Act (Public Sector Procurement), 2025, during the election recess.

7. In addition to the authority currently delegated under Section 3.1 of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 67, Fair Wage, and notwithstanding the timing and posting requirements in Sections 3.1E, F and G of Chapter 67, City Council authorize the Manager, Fair Wage Office, in consultation with the City Solicitor, to update the wage rates in Schedule C of Chapter 67 to cover the years 2026 to 2028 with an effective date of September 1, 2026, and submit any necessary Bills for enactment by City Council at an appropriate time.

8. In addition to authority currently delegated by Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 71, Financial Control, City Council delegate authority to the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer to approve the following budget reallocations, provided that sufficient budgets and funds are available to reallocate:

a. 10-Year Capital Budget and Plan between projects or sub-projects in an amount of not more than $10 million (Chapter 71 - Section 71-9); and

b. Operating Budgets in an amount of not more than $2 million, including associated changes to service levels and complement (Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 71, Financial Control, Section 71-8).

9. City Council delegate authority to the City Manager, or his delegate to accept and spend donations which exceed the limit of $50,000 (as per the Donations Policy) and to accept and spend sponsorships which exceed the limit of $500,000 (as per the Sponsorship Policy), provided that the receiving Program has the capacity to meet the initial or ongoing costs and obligations associated with the donation or sponsorship.

10. City Council delegate authority to the Deputy City Manager, Corporate Services and the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer to approve Eco-Roof Incentive Program applications that exceed funding maximums of $50,000 for cool roof projects and $100,000 for green roof projects up to a maximum of $500,000 in total, providing there is available funding within the Eco-Roof Reserve Fund to meet all grant obligations and operating requirements.

11. City Council delegate authority to the Director, Insurance and Risk Management for the placement of insurance policies subject to the availability of approved operating and/or capital budgets.

12. City Council delegate authority to the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer to receive new time-sensitive provincial and/or federal funding, and to allocate such funds to the 2026 Operating and Capital Budgets for impacted City Programs to commence spending.

13. City Council authorize the City Manager, in consultation with the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, to take actions as required to preserve the City's ability to secure intergovernmental or other third-party funding opportunities that may arise, including entering into any necessary agreements, including the execution of Transfer Payment Agreements, in a form satisfactory to the City Solicitor with other orders of government or third parties to receive such funding.

14. City Council delegate authority to the City Manager to participate in consultations and stakeholder engagements on policy initiatives initiated by the provincial or federal government, including ongoing negotiations, where the City Manager determines, after consultation with the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and any impacted divisions, that such intervention or participation is needed to protect or advance the City’s interests.

15. City Council direct the City Solicitor to attend hearings on appeals of Committee of Adjustment decisions or to appeal a Committee of Adjustment decision on behalf of the City of Toronto at the request of the Executive Director, Development Review or their designate, after consultation with the Ward Councillor and the City Solicitor (with the exception that during the period from August 1, 2026, to the day after Voting Day 2026, inclusive, the delegation shall be to the Executive Director, Development Review, or their designate, after consultation with the City Solicitor); the delegation shall include the authority to direct appropriate City staff to attend the hearing and for the City Solicitor to retain outside consultants as necessary; and the City Solicitor shall be authorized to take all steps necessary to bring resolution to the matter in consultation with the Executive Director, Development Review.

16. In addition to the authority currently delegated by Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 213, Real Property, City Council delegate to the City Manager authority to approve real estate transactions to an upper financial limit of $50 million, where such transactions are deemed by the City Manager to be appropriate to advance City priorities, or another time sensitive project, providing there is available funding.

17. In addition to the authority currently delegated by Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 213, Real Property, City Council delegate to the Deputy City Manager, Corporate Services, in consultation with the Executive Director, Social Development, and/or the Division Head responsible for the proposed tenants' programs, authority to approve initial Community Space Tenancy leases with new tenants who do not already occupy space pursuant to the Community Space Tenancy Policy or the Below Market Rent Policy, provided the tenant meets the criteria of the Community Space Tenancy Policy and that any financial implications have been included in the 2026 Council Approved Budgets for the relevant divisions.

18. City Council delegate authority to the General Manager, Transportation Services, notwithstanding any City of Toronto By-law to the contrary, until the end of the day on January 31, 2027, to regulate traffic and parking as may be required for the purposes of managing traffic movement, accommodating construction or development, or addressing public safety or the safety of any property, and further direct the City Solicitor, in consultation with the General Manager, Transportation Services, to submit any necessary Bills to amend City of Toronto Municipal Code traffic and parking Chapters, including their Schedules, directly to the first meeting of Council in 2027, with such amendments being effective retroactively to the date established by the General Manager, Transportation Services.

19. City Council delegate to the General Manager, Transportation Services, notwithstanding any City of Toronto By-law to the contrary, until the end of the day on January 31, 2027, the authority to temporarily close to vehicular and pedestrian traffic any highway or portion of a highway, as required for the purposes of managing traffic movement, to accommodate construction or development, or to address public safety or the safety of any property and exempt the General Manager, Transportation Services, in carrying out this delegated authority, from the requirement in section 937-5 of City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 937, Temporary Closing of Highways, that being the requirement to notify the local Ward Councillor of the pending closure and the requirement to report on the proposed closure if so requested.

20. City Council amend City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 950, Traffic and Parking, to prohibit parking, stopping or standing, until the end of the day on January 31, 2027, on any highway where the General Manager, Transportation Services has erected temporary signage as required further to permitted street work or temporary street occupations.

21. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to submit directly to City Council at the appropriate time any necessary Bills to amend the appropriate City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapters to reinstate the traffic and parking regulations to what they were immediately prior to the By-law amendments made in Parts 18, 19 and 20 above.

22. In addition to the authority currently delegated by Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 71, Financial Control, and the authority currently delegated to the City Solicitor, in consultation with the responsible operating Division Head, Deputy City Manager or the City Manager, to submit contractual disputes of $500,000 or less to arbitration, City Council delegate authority to the City Solicitor and the responsible operating Division Head, Deputy City Manager or the City Manager to agree to arbitration of contractual disputes, on such terms as are acceptable to the City Solicitor and the responsible operating Division Head, Deputy City Manager, or the City Manager.

23. City Council direct that the authority to agree to arbitration includes the authority to execute agreements regarding the terms under which any arbitration shall be conducted, including appeal rights or that the arbitration award be final and binding, and the authority to discontinue or settle such arbitrations where it is concluded by the City Solicitor and the responsible operating Division Head, Deputy City Manager, or the City Manager that it is reasonable to do so.

24. In addition to the authority currently delegated by Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 71, Financial Control, and the authority currently delegated to the City Solicitor to settle any legal action for any claim where the amount to be recovered, exclusive of interest or costs, is $500,000 or less, City Council delegate authority to the City Solicitor and the responsible operating Division Head, Deputy City Manager, or the City Manager to settle any contractual disputes on such terms as are acceptable to the City Solicitor and the responsible operating Division Head, Deputy City Manager, or the City Manager.

25. City Council direct that the authority to settle claims contained in Part 24 above include authority to settle claims even where no formal legal action has been commenced and to execute any documents in furtherance thereof.

26. In addition to authority currently delegated by Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 71, Financial Control, City Council delegate authority to the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, in consultation with the City Manager and operating Division Head or Deputy City Manager, to approve budget reallocations to satisfy any arbitration award or settlement reached pursuant to the authority contained in Parts 23 and 24 above, providing there is available funding.

27. City Council delegate to the City Solicitor, in consultation with appropriate City, Agency, Board and Commission officials, as the case may be, the authority to settle claims under the Expropriations Act, provided that funds have been provided in an operating or capital budget.

28. City Council delegate authority to the City Manager or delegate, who must be a Deputy City Manager or the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, to provide City funding in amounts satisfactory to the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer to non-profit and Indigenous delivery partners provided that sufficient budgets and funds are available.

29. City Council authorize the City Clerk to take any required action under the Funeral, Burial and Cremation Services Act, 2002, that the City Clerk determines is necessary and urgent as part of any obligation or requirement under the Act.

30. City Council direct that the delegated authorities in Parts 1 to 29 above be in effect immediately following the end of the City Council meeting on July 29 and 30, 2026, until the first regular scheduled business meeting of City Council’s new term, in December 2026, unless otherwise indicated in Parts 1 to 29 above.

31. City Council direct the City Manager to report back to City Council at the first regular scheduled business meeting of City Council’s new term, in December 2026, on the exercise of any delegated authority in Parts 1 to 29 above, including the use of any delegated procurement-related authorities.

Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (July 21, 2026) from the City Manager remains confidential at this time in accordance with the provisions of the City of Toronto Act, 2006, as it pertains to criteria to be applied to negotiations carried on or to be carried on by or on behalf of the City of Toronto. Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (July 21, 2026) from the City Manager will be made public at the discretion of the Chief Procurement Officer following the award or closing of the contemplated procurement transactions.