Minutes Confirmed on September 9, 2024

This meeting of the Board of Health was conducted with members participating in person and remotely.

The Board of Health:

1. Directed that Confidential Attachment 1 remain confidential in its entirety, as it pertains to the education or training of the Directors.

The Board of Health recessed its public session to meet in closed session to consider this item, as it pertains to the education or training of the Directors.

The Training and Development Consultant, Confronting Anti-Black Racism Unit, Social Development, Finance and Administration Division, will give a presentation on Training Session on Anti-Black Racism: Part 2.

The Board of Health will meet in closed session on this item in accordance with the provisions of the City of Toronto Act, 2006 which permits the closing of a meeting for the education or training of the Directors.

Announcements

The Chair acknowledged that the Board of Health was meeting on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. The Chair also acknowledged that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit.

The Chair further acknowledged that not all people came to these lands as migrants and settlers, and specifically acknowledged those who came here involuntarily, particularly those brought to these lands as a result of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery. In support of the City of Toronto's ongoing efforts to confront anti-Black racism, the Chair paid tribute to those ancestors of African, Caribbean and Black origin and descent.

Where the Directors of the Board of Health listed in the attendance for this meeting participated remotely, they were counted for quorum as permitted by Section 189(4.2) of the City of Toronto Act, 2006, and the Board's Procedures, as amended.