Finance and Economic Development Committee

WHEREAS Ottawa Public Health (OPH) distributes 760,000 vaccines annually and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has provided OPH with four new Purpose Built Vaccine Refrigerators required to accommodate new Ministry vaccine packaging standards and storage volumes; and WHEREAS the existing vaccine room facilities (including ventilation, electrical, footprint and floor load requirements) are not sufficient to accommodate these new purpose-built refrigerators and one-time funds of $250,000 are required to retrofit and relocate the vaccine room to the ground floor from the seventh floor at 100 Constellation; and WHEREAS the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has rejected a request for the one-time funds for the retrofit and relocation costs required to operate the new refrigerators; and WHEREAS Ottawa Public Health ended 2012 with a year-end surplus of $286,000 and, given the refusal from the Ministry, now requires one-time City funds for the necessary retrofit and relocation of the vaccine room; and WHEREAS the City Treasurer supports this request and would have incorporated the recommendation into the Disposition of 2012 Tax and Rate Supported Operating Surplus/Deficit report had the request been received within the report deadlines; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that $250,000 be allocated from the One-time and Unforeseen Provision account to fund the retrofit and relocation of Ottawa Public Health’s vaccine room to the ground floor from the seventh floor at 100 Co

That the City Manager be directed to work with the Chief Medical Officer of Health to secure a proportional refund on the retrofit costs referenced in Motion FED 30/01.

WHEREAS Recommendation 2 directs the release of the $1 million performance security to the General Revenue account and the City Treasurer advises that it should be directed to the One-Time and Unforeseen account; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Recommendation 2 be amended to release of the $1 million performance security to the One-Time and Unforeseen account.