2. WAIVER OF TIPPING FEES - WABANO
ABORIGINAL HEALTH CENTRE
Renoncement des frais de deversement – centre pour la
sante des autochtones wabano
That Council accept soils at the Trail Road Landfill Facility for 272-274 Bradley Road and 297-299-307 Montreal Road without the application of a tipping fee to facilitate the expansion of the Wabano Aboriginal Health Centre.
Que le Conseil autorise l’installation du site d’enfouissement du chemin
Trail à accepter la terre provenant du 272-274, chemin Bradley et du
297-299-307, chemin Montréal sans imposer de frais de déversement, afin de
faciliter l’agrandissement du Centre de santé autochtone Wabano.
Documentation
1. Deputy City Manager, Infrastructure Services and Community Sustainability report dated 10 February 2011 (ACS2011-ICS-PGM-0063).
Comité de l’environnement
and Council / et au Conseil
10 February 2011 / le 10 février 2011
Submitted by/Soumis par : Nancy Schepers, Deputy City Manager/Directrice municipale adjointe,
Infrastructure Services and Community Sustainability/Services d'infrastructure
et Viabilité des collectivités
Contact Person/Personne ressource : John L. Moser, General Manager,
Planning and Growth Management Department/Directeur général, Infrastructure et
Viabilité des collectivités
(613) 580-2424 ext. 28869, john.moser@ottawa.ca
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That Environment Committee recommend Council accept soils at the Trail Road Landfill Facility for 272-274 Bradley Road and 297-299-307 Montreal Road without the application of a tipping fee to facilitate the expansion of the Wabano Aboriginal Health Centre.
Que le Comité de
l’environnement recommande au Conseil d’autoriser l’installation du site
d’enfouissement du chemin Trail à accepter la terre provenant du 272-274,
chemin Bradley et du 297-299-307, chemin Montréal sans imposer de frais de
déversement, afin de faciliter l’agrandissement du Centre de santé autochtone
Wabano.
The Wabano Aboriginal Health Centre located on Montreal Road is a
non-profit, charitable, organization that provides important health care services
to the over 30,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis people in the Ottawa area.
Wabano has planned a significant expansion in order to accommodate the demand
for its existing services as well as for a number of services not currently
offered.
In addition to primary health care services, the expanded facility will
also provide cultural gathering space, afterschool programs for children,
social enterprise activities for young mothers, family counselling, and social
and community development initiatives.
The striking architectural design will provide a marquee building in the
Vanier area. The expansion received Site Plan Approval from the Planning and
Growth Management Department on January 6, 2011, and following receipt of
Federal and Provincial Stimulus Funding, construction is to commence in Spring
2011 for occupancy in 2012. The $14.2-million capital project is to be
partially financed by a $9.6-million community fundraising campaign. Wabano has
asked the City for assistance in lowering its project capital requirements
where feasible in order to ensure the project can commence construction in the
coming weeks.
The purpose of this report is to seek the approval of Council for the
soils as fill at the Trail Road Landfill Facility without fee.
During the first site investigation undertaken by Trow Associates Inc. (Trow) for the Wabano Aboriginal Health Centre redevelopment consultants determined that there was the presence of contaminated soils on the property related to a former dry-cleaning operation on an abutting property. After conducting a second, more extensive study, Trow determined that the amount of soils requiring excavation for the project is approximately 3935 square metres (approx. 7870 metric tonnes). Of that, the maximum amount estimated to be contaminated is 2735 square metres (approx. 5470 metric tonnes). The remaining 1200 square metres (approx. 2400 metric tonnes) is inert fill.
This new information has caused a significant impact to the project’s budget and overall feasibility. In addition to this new information, there has been project increases related to site plan alterations that necessitated the entrance to be moved from Montreal Road to Bradley Avenue at an additional $2 million to the project’s capital cost. The changes also made it necessary to decrease the number of what would have been considered rentable parking spaces. This caused a decrease in the valuation of the building, thus making the project as a whole more difficult to finance. The changes also added an additional six months of project planning.
Since the funding provided by the
Federal and Provincial governments is Stimulus Funding, it is essential that
the project have shovels in the ground by March 31, 2011. While Wabano has a
funding plan to allow commencement of the project, due to the various
unforeseen increases in the required project capital, this plan requires the
assistance of the City to receive the contaminated soils in order to allow work
to commence before the deadline. Alternative arrangements would have to be secured for the disposal of
the contaminated soils which could negatively impact Wabano’s ability to
commence construction by March 31, 2011 which in turn could seriously
jeopardize the overall project delivery.
This is an important project for the City’s Aboriginal community as well as the future development of Montreal Road. According to a letter provided to City staff, it is the opinion of Ottawa Police Chief White that the project would significantly decrease the City’s long-term social spending.
Further, this project is important to implementing several of the City’s strategic priorities including:
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The
rejuvenation of one of Ottawa’s mainstreets, Montreal Road;
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Increasing
the architectural threshold in the Capital as identified in the Official Plan;
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Providing
support to aboriginal organizations to promote their unique cultural identity
as identified in the Arts and Culture Master Plan; and
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Providing
front-line health care services to a community of interest as set out in the
Human Services Plan.
City staff have worked to help support the project where possible, including the waiving of development charges related to the project, in accordance with Council policy for Community Health Centres. The City will also be providing relief, where permissible, through the program that reduces fees related to development review and permits for eligible not-for-profit projects.
Based on the merits of this project and its alignment with the City’s strategic plans, staff recommends providing landfill services for the project without the application of tipping fees. The Wabano Aboriginal Health Centre will be responsible for the trucking costs associated with transporting the soils to the Trail Road Landfill Facility.
There are no rural implications associated with this report.
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Comment from Councillor Fleury:
The Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health
provides a service to the community that is invaluable. This expansion will
allow the centre to provide many services that the city does not otherwise have
the resources to maintain. The Wabano Centre provides basic necessities to the
Aboriginal community in Ottawa; a community that represents 4% of the
population at large but over 30% of the homeless community. Aboriginal Health is
a special category of Health; though federally mandated, it requires
cooperation from both the Federal and Provincial governments in order to be
effective. There has been support from both the Provincial and Federal levels
of government in developing this project and it is now time for the city to do
its part and contribute to help make this expansion a reality.
There are no legal/risk management impediments to implementing the recommendation in this report.
Sustainable, Active, and Healthy City Priority:
Objective 9: Ensure public health programs that work to
promote health and prevent disease are maintained in concert with the growing
population of the city.
Planning and Growth Management Priority:
Objective
1: Manage growth and create sustainable communities by becoming leading edge in
community and urban design
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At a current tipping fee of $94 per tonne, the acceptance of this soil free of charge would result in a revenue loss of approximately $740,000 to Solid Waste Services, assuming all the soil including the contaminated soil complies with O Reg 588/00 (Leachate Toxicity Analysis).
There are no cost implications of accepting the soil as it would be used as daily cover as part of the regular operations.
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Staff in the Environmental Services Department will accept soils from the Wabano Aboriginal Health Centre development that meet the requirements of O. Regulation 558 and are suitable for disposal at the Trail Road Landfill Facility. If the contaminated soil does not meet O Reg 588/00, then it cannot be accepted at Trail as it would be in violation of its Certificate of Approval. The Wabano Aboriginal Health Centre will endeavour to minimize the amount of soils requiring disposal by analysing for and separating clean fill from contaminated soils.