City Council

That the report from Ottawa Public Health and the Emergency and Protective Services Department entitled “ Temporary Mandatory Mask By-Law - Update ”; Built Heritage Sub-Committee Report 14; Community and Protective Services Committee Report 12; and the reports from the City Clerk entitled “ Status Update – Council Inquiries and Motions for the Period Ending August 21, 2020 ” and “ Summary of Oral and Written Public Submissions for Items Subject to the Planning Act ‘Explanation Requirements’ at the City Council Meeting of July 15, 2020 ”; be received and considered.

WHEREAS the proposed Rental Housing Property Management By-law requires landlords and property managers to maintain a registry in respect of any request for accommodation voluntarily made by a tenant, including those related to evacuation from a building, vital service disruptions, or other matters of concern, and this has been called the “special assistance registry” in the proposed by-law; and WHEREAS the Chair of the City’s Accessibility Advisory Committee has provided input to remove or modify the use of the words “special” and “assistance” from the context of the proposed registry in order to reflect the rights of persons to request accommodation under the Ontario Human Rights Code and that these rights are part of the usual course of business rather than a special process; BE IT RESOLVED that the proposed Rental Property Management By-law be amended to: Remove the expression “special assistance registry” wherever it appears in the by-law and replace it with the expression “tenant support registry”, and Remove the expression “special assistance” wherever it appears in the by-law and replace it with “assistance”.

That the report from Ottawa Public Health and the Emergency and Protective Services Department entitled “Temporary Mandatory Mask By-Law - Update”; Built Heritage Sub-Committee Report 14; Community and Protective Services Committee Report 12; and the reports from the City Clerk entitled “Status Update – Council Inquiries and Motions for the Period Ending August 21, 2020” and “Summary of Oral and Written Public Submissions for Items Subject to the Planning Act ‘Explanation Requirements’ at the City Council Meeting of July 15, 2020”; be received and adopted as amended.

WHEREAS many brave women came forward and shared their experiences with this individual and showed tremendous courage by their actions and inspired many to stand with them; and WHEREAS the Integrity Commissioner’s “Report to Council on an Inquiry Respecting the Conduct of Councillor Chiarelli” ( ACS2020-OCC-GEN-0023 ) concluded that all three allegations were not vexatious or frivolous, and that the courageous and brave women who provided testimony were credible and their allegations were established and founded; and WHEREAS the City’s independent Integrity Commissioner found that Councillor Chiarelli contravened Section 4 and Section 7 of the Code of Conduct and has recommended to Council the suspension of the remuneration paid to this individual for 90 days for each complaint, amounting to 270 days; and WHEREAS as a first step, Council has approved, with amendments, a “Review of Recruitment and Hiring Process for Councillors’ Assistants” ( ACS3030-OCC-GEN-0022 ), which outlines various recommendations and is committed to continuing to look at ways to improve all aspects of the workplace of Members of Council and their staff; and WHEREAS the City’s Women and Gender Equity Sponsors Group has completed extensive community and employee consultations to inform the development of recommendations for the Women and Gender Equity Strategy improving equity within the City and its policies and services; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that City’s Chief Financial Officer be directed to invest

That the Rules of Procedure be suspended to consider the following motion in order to provide support in a timely manner to the Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority’s request for Provincial funding of flood control infrastructure on the Mississippi River; WHEREAS the City of Ottawa is the largest municipality within the Mississippi Valley watershed, which is represented by the Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority (MVCA); and WHEREAS the Province of Ontario, in its March, 2020 Ontario Flooding Strategy, reaffirmed its commitment to “continue its cost share funding arrangement with municipalities…to support high priority repairs to conservation authority infrastructure”; and WHEREAS the province allocated $5 million annually for this purpose in 2003 and has not increased or indexed the funding envelope in 17 years; and WHEREAS demand for replacement and upgrade of water and erosion control assets is increasing due to aging infrastructure and the impacts of climate change; and WHEREAS infrastructure within the Mississippi Valley watershed did not receive funding this year and there are no guarantees that it will in the foreseeable future based upon current program demand; and WHEREAS, should funding not be received from the province for these and other Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority capital projects, the burden of those costs will fall in part to member municipalities; and WHEREAS on July 13, 2020, the MVCA sent a letter to the Minister of Natural Resources

That the by-laws listed on the Agenda under Motion to Introduce By-laws, Three Readings, be read and passed.

That the following by-law be read and passed: To confirm the proceedings of the Council meeting of August 26 th , 2020.