Community and Protective Services Committee
Comité des services
communautaires et de protection
and Council / et au
Conseil
10 November 2011 / le 10 novembre 2011
Submitted by/Soumis par : Committee Coordinator / Coordonnateur du comité
Contact Person/Personne ressource : Marc Desjardins,
Committee Coordinator/Coordonnateur du comité
City Clerk and Solicitor/Greffier
et Chef du contentieux
(613) 580-2424 x, 28821, Marc.Desjardins@ottawa.ca
That the Community and Protective Services Committee consider the relevant portions of the 2012 Operating and Capital Budgets and forward its recommendations to Council, sitting as Committee of the Whole, for consideration at the meeting to be held November 30, 2011.
Que le Comité des services
communautaires et de protection examine les sections pertinentes des Budgets
d’immobilisations et de fonctionnement de 2012 et qu’il présente ses
recommandations au Conseil, siégeant à titre de Comité plénier, aux fins
d’examen lors de sa réunion prévue du 30 novembre 2011.
City Council, on 14 September 2011, approved the 2012 Budget Process and Timetable for developing and approving the 2012 budget, indicating that the individual Committees, Board and Commission would hold meetings to listen to public delegations, review their respective budgets and make recommendations to Council. At that time, Council also approved that the tax supported budgets for the following would be tabled on 26 October:
• City Tax Supported Programs
• Police Services
• Library Services
• Public Health
• Transit
• Committee of Adjustment
• Crime Prevention Ottawa
On 26 October 2011, City Council adopted the following Motion:
WHEREAS this Council is committed to promoting a culture of fiscal
responsibility at City Hall; and
WHEREAS the Long Range Financial Plan incorporates a maximum tax
increase of 2.5% for the years 2012 to 2014; and
WHEREAS this Council wishes the Standing Committee and Transit
Commission Budget recommendations to be consistent with the Long Range
Financial Plan;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that City Council direct each Standing
Committee and the Transit Commission to work within the funding envelope for
the budgets in their mandates, and that any additions to the budget will
require offsetting reductions.
The 2012 Community and Protective Services Committee Draft Operating and Capital Budget is now before the Commission for the purpose of hearing from public delegations and to consider and make recommendations to Council.
The Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee will review and make recommendations on those portions of the budget with Rural Implications.
This meeting was advertised in the three daily newspapers and public delegations will be received by the Commission. As well, there will be four multi-ward bilingual budget consultation meetings held between the 1st and 4th of November, in advance of Council's consideration of the Budget to be held on the 30th of November 2011.
There is no accessibility impact associated with the tabling of this report.
There are no legal impediments to implementing the recommendation in this report.
There are no risk management impediments to implementing the recommendations int his report.
Financial Implications are identified in the 2012 Draft Operating and Capital Budgets, as well as in the City Treasurer's Transmittal Report dated 26 October 2011 and entitled "2012 Draft Operating and Capital Budgets - Tax Supported Programs", tabled with Council on 26 October 2011
Document 1 - City Treasurer's report dated 26 October 2011, entitled 2012 Draft Operating and Capital Budgets - Tax Supported Programs (issued previously to all Members of Council and held on file with the City Clerk.) English / French
Document 2 - 2012 Revised Community and Protective Services Committee Draft Operating and Capital Budgets (issued previously to all Members of Council and held on file with the City Clerk.)
The Committee Coordinator will forward the Committee's
recommendations to Council for consideration, at the meeting of November 30,
2011. Budgets will be amended as per
Council deliberation and adoption.