Public
Notice
2020 Rate Supported Budgets – Solid Waste Management
Services and Recommended 2020 Solid Waste Rates and Fees
Notice is hereby given that City
officials are recommending to Toronto City Council the enactment of a By-law
amending the City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 441 - Fees and Charges; and
any other Municipal Code Chapters as may be required to give effect to the following
effective January 1, 2020:
·
a
1.5% rate increase to properties that receive Multi-Residential Front End
Container and Multi-Residential Curbside collection services;
·
a
2.5% rate increase to all Single Family Residential and Residential Units Above
Commercial (RUAC) properties;
·
a 25%
increase in transfer station Tipping Fees; and
·
a 6.0%
increase to all other Solid Waste rates and fees currently in Schedule 1 of
Appendix A of Chapter 441
Available
at: http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/municode/1184_441-a.pdf unless otherwise indicated in Appendix A of this
Notice.
Appendix A, available at: http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2019/bu/bgrd/backgroundfile-139937.pdf,
includes the key changes in the recommended 2020 Rates and Fees.
The particulars of the proposed
Solid Waste Management Services Rates and Fees are set out in the report to the
Budget Committee of Toronto City Council from the Chief Financial Officer and
Treasurer and the General Manager, Solid Waste Management Services entitled
"2020 Rate Supported Budgets – Solid Waste Management Services and
Recommended 2020 Solid Waste Rates and Fees", (the "Report").
The Budget Committee will hear public deputations from any person, or
their counsel, agent or solicitor, who wishes to speak to the matter at the
following meeting:
Date:
November 25, 2019
Time:
9:30 a.m.
Location:
Committee Room 1
Toronto
City Hall, 2nd Floor
100
Queen Street West
To make a presentation at the
Budget Committee meeting on November 25, 2019, please email buc@toronto.ca or call 416-392-4666 no later than 12:00 p.m., November 22, 2019. Presentations will be limited to
5 minutes per person, unless the Committee decides otherwise.
Written comments may be submitted
to the Budget Committee, by email buc@toronto.ca, by fax 416-392-1879 or by mail addressed to:
Budget Committee
Toronto City Hall
100 Queen Street West, 10th Floor, West Tower
Toronto, ON M5H 2N2
Any comments received after the
Committee meetings will be forwarded to City Council.
The Budget Committee will make
its final recommendations on November 25, 2019, which will be forwarded for
consideration by the Executive Committee at its meeting on December 11, 2019 and
then to City Council at its meeting on December 17 and 18, 2020.
The adopted fees will be
implemented through a By-law that will amend the Municipal Code, if necessary.
While the Report sets out the
recommended rates and fee increases, the appropriate Committee may change these
recommendations.
Further, Toronto City Council may
adopt rates and fees that differ from the recommendations, including rates and
fees that are higher or lower than the rates and fees set out in the Report,
changes to rates and fees for which no change is recommended, and may adopt
additional new rates or fees.
For
further information on Solid Waste Rates included in the 2020 Recommended
Operating Budget for the Solid Waste Management Services, please contact John
Oswald, Manager, Financial Planning & Business Analysis, Solid Waste
Management Services, Tel: (416) 392-4226, E-Mail: John.Oswald@toronto.ca.
To obtain at no cost, or to view
a copy of the Report, please visit: http://www.toronto.ca/council
Further information:
If this matter is postponed at
the Committee meeting or City Council meeting or considered at a subsequent
Committee meeting, no additional notice will be provided other than the
information on the subsequent Committee or City Council agenda. Please contact
the above noted City official if you require notice in these cases.
Notice to people writing to,
communicating with or making presentations to Budget Committee:
The City of Toronto Act, 2006 and the City of Toronto Municipal Code
authorize the City of Toronto to collect any personal information in your
communication or presentation to City Council or its committees. The City
collects this information to enable it to make informed decisions on the
relevant issue(s). If you are submitting letters, faxes, emails, presentations
or other communications to the City, you should be aware that your name and the
fact that you communicated with the City will become part of the public record
and will appear on the City’s website. The City will also make your
communication and any personal information in it – such as your postal address,
telephone number or e-mail address – available to the public, unless you
expressly request the City to remove it.
The City videotapes committee and
community council meetings. If you make a presentation to a committee or
community council, the City will be videotaping you and City staff may make the
video tapes available to the public.
If you want to learn more about
why and how the City collects your information, write to the City Clerk's
Office, City Hall, 100 Queen Street West, Toronto ON M5H 2N2 or call
416-392-4666.
Closed Meeting Requirements: If the Committee wants to meet
in closed session (privately), a Committee member must make a motion to do so
and give the reason why the Committee has to meet privately (City of Toronto Act, 2006).
Dated at the City of Toronto this
November 15, 2019.
Ulli S. Watkiss
City Clerk