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 (1 motion)
1 carried, 0 recorded otherwise. Every motion below is printed as the minutes print it.
WHEREAS Mayor Sutcliffe and his office have been engaging with members of the Ottawa and Eastern Ontario Building Trades Council (the Building Trades Council) over the last few months to strengthen the relationship and advance the interests of qualified, unionized labour at City Hall; and WHEREAS the City of Ottawa invests approximately $1.9 billion every year to build new infrastructure or renew existing infrastructure, which are all projects that generate economic and employment opportunities; and WHEREAS the City has implemented a number of procurement policies and practices to ensure the best use of tax dollars in awarding these infrastructure contracts, including but not limited to, Sustainable Procurement Guidelines, a Supplier Code of Conduct, a Vendor Performance Management Program and Health & Safety Certifications, just to name a few; and WHEREAS the Building Trades Council is composed of 20 trade unions and approximately 35,000 local union members that live, work and pay taxes in the Ottawa area; and WHEREAS the Building Trades Council has requested that the City of Ottawa consider implementing a Fair Wage Policy similar to the one in place in Toronto; and WHEREAS these 20 trade unions invest heavily in training, skills upgrades, health and safety training, and apprenticeships, which produce the next generation of qualified tradespeople to supply Ottawa’s construction industry, thanks to properly indentured and registered apprentices who have signed an apprenticesh