Board of Health

BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Chair of the Board of Health Verbal Report , the Medical Officer of Health Verbal Report , and the reports titled: Ottawa Public Health 2019 Annual Report, Reconciliation, Indigenous Health Equity and COVID-19, Ottawa Public Health’s Strategic Plan for 2019-2022 – Update from Quarter One of 2020 , 2020 Operating Budget Q1 Status Report – Board of Health for the City of Ottawa Health Unit , be received and considered.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Board of Health approve that the meeting time be extended past 7:00 p.m. pursuant to Subsection 8(1)(c) of the Procedural By-law.

WHEREAS r acism, discrimination and stigma are associated with poorer physical, mental and emotional health and greater mortality, making anti-black racism, anti-Indigenous racism and racism against minorities an important public health issue; and WHEREAS public health has a role in promoting the health of the entire population by working with others to ensure fair opportunities for health and well-being; and WHEREAS Ottawa Public Health is guided by its commitments to Engage, as expressed in its 2019-2022 Strategic Plan (to work with residents, partners and communities to develop the conditions that support health and health equity); and WHEREAS members of the African, Caribbean, and Black community experience physical, social, mental and emotional harms to health due to anti-Black racism present across sectors including health, education, employment, housing, child care, policing and law enforcement, and the criminal justice system; and WHEREAS the mental health impacts of racial discrimination will be highlighted in Ottawa Public Health’s “ Mental Health of Ottawa’s Black Community” research study, which is set to be released soon and will include recommendations developed with the community; and WHEREAS Ottawa Public Health’s 2019-2022 Strategic Plan also expresses the health unit’s commitment to Reconciliation (working in partnership with First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples and communities to advance Indigenous health equity); and WHEREAS First Nations, Inuit and Meti

WHEREAS Ottawa Public Health has been in enhanced operations since January 28, 2020 due to COVID-19, which was declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020; AND WHEREAS since even prior to that date, Ottawa Public Health has been working closely with various health sector partners, neighbouring health units, as well as multi-jurisdictional all-hazards emergency preparedness partners, including first responders and the Ottawa Airport Authority, to assess the local situation, review guidance and recommendations from other jurisdictions, share information and coordinate actions to mitigate the impact of the pandemic; AND WHEREAS the Province of Ontario has been, and continues to be, in a Provincial State of Emergency since March 17, 2020 while the City of Ottawa has been, and continues to be in a Municipal State of Emergency since March 25, 2020; AND WHEREAS on March 25, 2020, the Government of Ontario announced an increased investment of up to $160M for the public health sector for COVID-19 extraordinary costs, $100M of which was specifically approved for extraordinary costs incurred by public health units and Public Health Ontario in monitoring, containing, and detecting COVID-19; AND WHEREAS on April 23, 2020, Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health issued a memo to boards of health/public health units regarding COVID-19 extraordinary costs in which he reiterated that public health units are expected to take all necessary measures to respond to COVID-19 while continuing to

BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Chair of the Board of Health Verbal Report, the Medical Officer of Health Verbal Report, and the reports titled: Ottawa Public Health 2019 Annual Report, Reconciliation, Indigenous Health Equity and COVID-19, Ottawa Public Health’s Strategic Plan for 2019-2022 – Update from Quarter One of 2020, 2020 Operating Budget Q1 Status Report – Board of Health for the City of Ottawa Health Unit , be received and adopted.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT Confirmation By-law no. 2020-3, a by-law of the Board of Health for the City of Ottawa Health Unit to confirm the proceedings of the Ottawa Board of Health at its meeting of June 15, 2020, be read and passed.