Taken from the roll call in the town’s own minutes. The minutes record who was not there and almost never why.
What was decided (2 motions)
1 carried, 1 recorded otherwise. Every motion below is printed as the minutes print it.
WHEREAS the Vehicle-for-Hire By-law (2016-272, as amended) regulates taxicabs, limousines and Private Transportation Companies; and, WHEREAS accessible on-demand taxicab service has suffered due to the lack of accessible plates/vehicles on the road, resulting in inadequate service to the accessible community; and, WHEREAS a centralized dispatch service for on-demand wheelchair accessible vehicles has been identified to improve the availability and quality of service; and, WHEREAS there is currently only one taxicab dispatch firm operating in Ottawa and previous market scans have identified that this specific dispatch firm is the only viable provider of accessible taxi dispatch services in Ottawa; and, WHEREAS a centralized dispatch would function more efficiently as a publicly operated entity; and, WHEREAS staff have advised that the City is not currently in a position to develop its own centralized dispatch system; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Council direct staff to look into the feasibility of implementing a City of Ottawa run centralized dispatch system respecting on-demand accessible taxicab service and report back to Council before the end of the proposed three-year pilot project, ensuring sufficient time to implement a public option should the report identify this option as feasible and should Council decide to pursue it.
Moved by J. Bradley
Carried
WHEREAS the provision of quality paramedic services within established response times is a priority of Council and expected by the community; and WHEREAS there have been 184,113 emergency responses in 2022, an increase of 23.3% over 2021; and WHEREAS response times are impacted by increased response volumes due to population growth and aging patient demographics, increasing ambulance offload delays, staffing pressures and the city’s geography, hospital locations and traffic patterns; and WHEREAS Paramedic offload delay continues to be the single largest issue impacting paramedic services in Ottawa and across Ontario; and WHEREAS i n 2022, Ottawa paramedics were in the hospital for approximately 500 hours per day in offload delay and the total hours