SPECIAL OTTAWA CITY COUNCIL MEETING

14 July 2011

ANDREW S. HAYDON HALL

10:00 a.m.

 

AGENDA 17

 

Special Meeting Called by His Worship Mayor Watson to deal with matters related to Ottawa’s Light Rail Transit (OLRT) Project – Cost and Design; and, Long Range Financial Plan - Transit, together with related reports.

 

 

1.       Prayer

 

 

2.       Roll Call

 

 

3.       Declarations of interest including those originally arising from prior meetings

 

 

4.       Communications

 

 

5.        Regrets

 

No Regrets filed to date.

 

 

6.                 Motion to Resolve Into Committee of the Whole

(Councillors J. Harder and D. Chernushenko)

 

July 14th - Hearing of Public Delegations

 

 

 

 

7.       Motion to Introduce Reports

(Councillors J. Harder and D. Chernushenko)

 

Deputy City Manager, Infrastructure Services and Community Sustainability

 

 

1.                   IMPLEMENTATION OF THE OTTAWA LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT PROJECT

 

MISE EN ŒUVRE DU PROJET DE TRAIN LÉGER D’OTTAWA

 

 

REPORT RECOMMENDATIONS

 

That Council:

 

1.      Approve the implementation plan for the Ottawa Light Rail Transit project as described in this report.

 

2.      Approve the public-private Design-Build-Finance-Maintain procurement model as the basis for the selection of a private sector partner as established in this report.

 

3.      Approve the Request for Qualifications/Request for Proposals process for the selection of the preferred proponent as outlined in the report.

 

4.      Engage Infrastructure Ontario (IO) as the Commercial Procurement Lead for the OLRT Project as described in this report.

 

5.      Approve the updated Business Case for the OLRT project as outlined in the report.

 

 

City Treasurer’s Report

 

 

1.                   Long Range financial plan transit

 

PLAN FINANCIER À LONG TERME DU TRANSPORT EN COMMUN

 

 

REPORT RECOMMENTDATION

 

That Council receive this report for information.

 

 

8.       Motion to Rise and Report

(Councillors J. Harder and D. Chernushenko)

 

 

9.       Motion to Adopt Reports

(Councillors J. Harder and D. Chernushenko)

 

 

10.     Confirmation By-law (Councillors J. Harder and D. Chernushenko)

 

 

11.     Inquiries

 

 

12.     Adjournment (Councillors J. Harder and D. Chernushenko)

 

 

 

Simultaneous interpretation of these proceedings is available.  Please speak to the attendant at reception.

 

NOTICE

 

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