1. 2012 DRAFT operating and capital
BUDGET - ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE
budgetS PRÉLIMINAIRES de fonctionnement et
d’immobilisations de 2012 – COMITÉ
SUR L’ENVIRONNEMENT
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS AS AMENDED
That Council, sitting as Committee of the Whole, approve the
Environment Committee 2012 Draft Operating and Capital Budget, with the
amended pages 3, 4, 47 and 48 as follows:
1.
The Infrastructure Services Budget, as follows;
a)
User Fees (p. 13-14);
b)
Operating Resource Requirement (p. 9);
2.
The Community Sustainability Operating
Resource Requirement (p. 19);
3.
The Environment Committee Capital Budget (p. 22)
[individual projects listed on p. 23-26], be amended by the following:
That the budget request for the
Sustainability Practice and Neighbourhood Program described on page 20 of the
Community Sustainability Department’s 2012 Operating Resource Requirement (19)
be amended from $350,000 to $150,000, and that the remaining $200,000 be
allocated to the Forestry Services 2012 Operating Resource Requirement (p. 44)
for city-wide tree planting.
(this motion also amends The Forestry Services Operating
Resource Requirements (p.44).
4.
The Solid Waste Services Budget, as follows:
a)
User fees (p. 36-37);
b)
Operating Resource Requirement (p. 31); as
amended by the following:
c)
Capital Budget (p. 38) [individual projects
listed on p. 39-40];
5.
The Forestry Services Operating Resource
Requirement (p. 44), be amended (as
stated above)
RECOMMANDATIONS
MODIFIÉES DU RAPPORT
Que le Conseil, qui
siège à titre de comité plénier, d’approuver son budget préliminaire de fonctionnement
et d’immobilisations pour 2012, avec les pages 3, 4, 47 and 48 modifieés comme suit :
1.
Le budget
des Services d’infrastructure, comme suit :
a) les frais d’utilisation (pages 13 et 14) ;
b) les besoins en ressources de fonctionnement
(page 9);
2.
Les
besoins en ressources de fonctionnement des Services de viabilité des
collectivités (page 19);
3.
Le budget
d’immobilisations du Comité de l’environnement (page 22) [les projets
individuels sont décrits aux pages 23 à 26], modifié en ces termes :
Que la demande
de crédits budgétaires pour le programme Pratiques de la viabilité et
Habitabilité des quartiers décrit à la page 20 des besoins en ressources
de fonctionnement (page 19) du Service de la viabilité des
collectivités en 2012, soit réduite de 350 000 $ à
150 000 $, et que le solde de
200 000 $ soit attribué aux besoins en ressources de fonctionnement
(page 44) des Services forestiers en 2012 pour la plantation d’arbres dans
toute la ville.
(Cette motion modifie également les besoins en
ressources de fonctionnement [page 44] des Services forestiers.)
4.
Le budget
des Services de déchets solides, comme suit :
a) les frais d’utilisation (pages 36 et 37);
b) les besoins en ressources de fonctionnement
(page 31), tels que modifiés par la motion suivante :
c) budget d’immobilisations (page 38)
[liste des projets individuels aux pages 39 et 40];
5.
Les
besoins en ressources de fonctionnement (page 44) des Services forestiers,
modifiés (comme indiqué précédemment).
DOCUMENTATION :
1.
Committee
Coordinator’s report dated 26 October 2011 (ACS2011-CMR-ENV-0011);
2. Extract
of Draft Minute 15 November 2011.
Comité sur l’environnement
26 October 2011 / 26 octobre 2011
Submitted by/Soumis par : Committee Coordinator / Coordonnateur du comité
Contact Person/Personne ressource
:Carole Legault, Committee Coordinator
City Clerk and Solicitor/Greffier
et Chef du contentieux
CaroleA.Legault@ottawa.ca (613)
580-2424 x, 28934
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budgetS PRÉLIMINAIRES de fonctionnement et
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That the Environment 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 sur l’environnement 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:
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 Environment Committee Draft Operating and Capital Budget is now before the Committee for the purpose of hearing from public delegations and to consider and make recommendations to Council.
Special Environment Committee and Council meetings will be scheduled to consider the Rate-Supported Budget as follows:
- Table the Rate-Supported Budget - 31 January 2012
- Public Delegations and Committee Consideration - 20 February 2012
- Council Review and Adoption - 22 February 2012
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 recommendation in this 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 – English and French (issued previously to all Members of Council and held on file with the City Clerk.)
Document 2 - 2012 Environment 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.
extract of DRAFT Minutes 12 15 November 2011 |
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extrait dE L’ÉBAUCHe Du ProcÈs-verbal 12 le 15 novembre 2011 |
9. 2012 DRAFT BUDGET – ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE
BUDGET PROVISOIRE 2012 – COMITÉ DE L’ENVIRONNEMENT
ACS2011-CMR-ENV-0011 city-wide / À l’Échelle de la ville
REPORT
RECOMMENDATION
That the Environment 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.
Marian Simulik,
City Treasurer provided a PowerPoint presentation outlining the highlights of
the 2012 Draft Operating and Capital Budget for the Environment Committee. A
copy of her presentation is held on file with the City Clerk.
Committee received
correspondence dated 15 November 2011 from Jason Pearman,
Chair, Environmental Advisory Committee.
The following
public delegations provided comments on the 2012 budget:
·
Roger
Peters, Ecology Ottawa*, applauded the City for investing in several
new initiatives, but highlighted three areas that should be included in the
budget:
1. Municipal financing of energy retrofits
2. Community owned solar on city-owned
facilities
3. Low income energy efficiency assistance
strategy
·
Heather
Hamilton, Vice-Chair, Ottawa Forests and Greenspace
Advisory Committee,*
provided comments and recommendations on behalf of her committee.
·
Marty
White, 1st Vice-President, National Capital Heavy Construction
Association spoke in support
of budget and provided comments with respect to investment in
infrastructure.
*Presentation and/or written submission held on file with Committee
Coordinator
The relevant portions of the 2012
Operating and Capital Budgets were put to Committee for consideration.
MOTION No. EC
12-03
Moved by Councillor Fleury,
That the Environment
Committee accept the amended pages 3, 4, 47 and 48 of the Environment Committee
Draft Operating and Capital Budget.
CARRIED
MOTION No. EC
12-04
Moved by Councillor Moffatt,
That
the Environment Committee recommend that Council, sitting as Committee of the
Whole, approve the Environment Committee 2012 Draft Operating and Capital
Budget, as follows:
6.
The Infrastructure Services Budget, as
follows;
a)
User Fees (p. 13-14);
b)
Operating Resource Requirement (p. 9);
7.
The Community Sustainability Operating
Resource Requirement (p. 19);
8.
The Environment Committee Capital Budget (p. 22)
[individual projects listed on p. 23-26];
9.
The Solid Waste Services Budget, as follows:
a)
User fees (p. 36-37);
b)
Operating Resource Requirement (p. 31);
c)
Capital Budget (p. 38) [individual projects
listed on p. 39-40];
10.
The Forestry Services Operating Resource
Requirement (p. 44).
CARRIED
MOTION No. EC
12-05
Moved by Councillor Hubley,
WHEREAS the Community
Sustainability Department submitted a 2012 Budget request of $350,000 as an
Operating Resource Requirement for the Sustainability Practice and Neighbourhood
Program; and
WHEREAS the Community
Sustainability Department has subsequently reassessed the need for this funding
and identified an opportunity to meet a portion of the program needs within
existing resources, thus reducing the overall requirement for the
Sustainability Practice and Neighbourhood Program from $350,000 to $150,000;
and
WHEREAS the Environment Committee
recognizes the ongoing need to improve forest cover in the City;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the budget
request for the Sustainability Practice and Neighbourhood Program described on
page 20 of the Community Sustainability Department’s 2012 Operating Resource
Requirement (19) be amended from $350,000 to $150,000, and that the remaining
$200,000 be allocated to the Forestry Services 2012 Operating Resource
Requirement (p. 44) for city-wide tree planting.
MOTION No. EC
12-06
Moved by Councillor Desroches,
WHEREAS Waste Diversion Ontario
(WDO) is required by the Ministry of the Environment to cover 100% of the Household
Hazardous Waste Program for Ontario municipalities; and
WHEREAS WDO has established an
arbitrary value for reimbursing municipalities that does not take into account
the actual costs of the program; and
WHEREAS this arbitrary valuation does
not cover 100% of the costs of this program, resulting in a pressure for the
City’s annual budget that should not be there;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED the
Environment Committee, through the Chair, ask the Minister of the Environment
to direct Stewardship Ontario to fully fund the cost of this program, as
required by the Ministry and that a copy be sent to all Clerks of
Municipalities of Ontario.
CARRIED
The report recommendations, as amended by
Motions No. EC 12/3, 12/4, No EC 12/5 and No
EC 12/6, were then put to Committee as set out in full below:
That the Environment Committee recommend that Council, sitting as
Committee of the Whole, approve the Environment Committee 2012 Draft Operating
and Capital Budget with the amended pages 3, 4, 47 and 48, as follows:
1. The Infrastructure
Services Budget, as follows;
a)
User Fees (p. 13-14);
b)
Operating Resource Requirement (p. 9);
2. The Community Sustainability Operating
Resource Requirement (p. 19);
3. The
Environment Committee Capital Budget (p. 22) [individual projects listed on p.
23-26], be amended by the following:
That the budget request for the
Sustainability Practice and Neighbourhood Program described on page 20 of the
Community Sustainability Department’s 2012 Operating Resource Requirement (19)
be amended from $350,000 to $150,000, and that the remaining $200,000 be
allocated to the Forestry Services 2012 Operating Resource Requirement (p. 44)
for city-wide tree planting.
(this motion also amends The Forestry Services Operating
Resource Requirements (p.44).
4. The Solid Waste
Services Budget, as follows:
a) User
fees (p. 36-37);
b) Operating
Resource Requirement (p. 31); as amended by the following:
That the Environment Committee,
through the Chair, ask the Minister of the Environment to direct Stewardship
Ontario to fully fund the cost of this program, as required by the Ministry,
and that a copy be sent to all Clerks of Municipalities of Ontario;
c)
Capital Budget (p. 38) [individual projects
listed on p. 39-40];
5. The
Forestry Services Operating Resource Requirement (p. 44), be amended (as stated above)
CARRIED
on a division of Nine YEAS and Zero NAYS as follows:
YEAS (9): Councillors D. Chernushenko, S.
Desroches, K. Egli, M. Fleury, D. Holmes, A. Hubley, S. Moffatt, P. Hume, M. McRae
NAYS (0):
Direction to Staff:
Prior to the next meeting,
Legal Staff to report back to Committee by way of a memorandum of the legal
aspects of Waste Diversion Ontario who has failed to cover the costs of the Household Hazardous Waste
Program.
This report will be presented to Council on
30 November 2011