Community and Protective Services Committee

the Thriving Communities Priority, I would like to direct staff to specifically include the Recreation Infrastructure needs of the oldest parts of the City in the upcoming Infrastructure Strategy. This would include the needs related to the renewal of aging facilities as well as growth pressures resulting for intensification, employment areas and population growth.

WHEREAS Province of Ontario has announced some significant changes to social assistance in the province, including but not limited to the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) and Ontario Works; and WHEREAS as individuals and families who see a drop in income due to these cuts will have a higher need for supports through community agencies, food banks, emergency shelters, and public health providers, placing an increased burden on their budgets and that of the City of Ottawa; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Community and Protective Services Committee recommend Council request the Mayor and Chair of Community and Protective Services Committee to write to the Honourable Todd Smith, Minister of Children, Community and Social Services, urging his ministry to: 1. reverse its plan to cut $1 billion from the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) and Ontario Works; 2. maintain the ODSP disability definition; 3. increase the social assistance rates; and 4. consult with relevant stakeholders as the government reviews social assistance programs.

WHEREAS on September 25, 2019 as part of the 2020 Budget Directions Timeline and Consultation Report (ACS2019-FSD-FIN-0004), Council approved some of the 2020 Recreation, Cultural and Facility Services User Fees, in order to allow 2020 registrations and rentals sold in 2019 to use the 2020 rates; and WHEREAS, as outlined in that report the Draft 2020 Operating Budget

That the Community and Protective Services Committee recommend that Council, sitting as Committee of the Whole, approve the Community and Protective Services Committee 2020 Draft Operating and Capital Budgets as follows: 1. Emergency and Protective Services Budget, as follows: a) General Manager’s Office and Business Support Services - Operating Resource Requirement (page 1); b) Security and Emergency Management, as follows: i) User Fees (page 5); ii) Operating Resource Requirement (page 4); c) Fire Services, as follows: i) User fees (pages 9 - 11); ii) Operating Resource Requirement (page 8); d) Paramedic Service, as follows: i) User Fees (page 15); ii) Operating Resource Requirement (page 14); e) By-Law and Regulatory Services, as follows: i) User fees (pages 18-26); ii) Operating Resource Requirement (page 17). 2. Community and Social Services Budget, as follows: a) General Manager’s Office and Business Support Services Operating Resource Requirement (page 29); b) Employment and Social Services Operating Resource Requirement (page 31); c) Children’s Services, as follows: i) User fees (page 35); ii) Operating Resource Requirement (pages 33 - 34) d) Housing Services Operating Resource Requirement, as follows: i) Community Homelessness Prevention Initiative (page 37); ii) Home for Good (page 37) iii) Reaching Home (page 37) iv) Remaining Housing Services Operating Resource Requirement (page 37); e) Long Term Care Operating Resource Requirement (page 39); f) Partner and Stakeh