Light Rail Sub-Committee

WHEREAS on December 19, 2012, Council approved the report entitled, “Design, Build, Finance and Maintenance of Ottawa’s Light Rail Transit (OLRT) Project”; and WHEREAS Council delegated to the City Manager the authority to negotiate, approve, execute, deliver, amend and extend the Project Agreement and associated ancillary agreements for the OLRT Project, subject to the terms and conditions described in that report; and WHEREAS on March 9, 2022, Council approved Motion 29/2 directing staff to issue a Notice of Default to Rideau Transit Group (RTG) in accordance with the Project Agreement and ask for a remedial plan and schedule for remediation of its defaults, and delegated the authority to the City Manager to take any other actions required under the Project Agreement to give effect to Council’s decision; and WHEREAS on October 13, 2021, Council directed staff to deliver a Notice of Dispute under the Project Agreement with respect to RTG Defaults, have the Defaults confirmed through the contractual dispute resolution process in the Agreement including, as necessary, asking the Court to confirm the validity of the RTG defaults and report back to Council on the outcomes of these actions; and WHEREAS the 2022-2026 Council has now been provided with an in camera update on the various legal disputes arising from the Stage 1 LRT Project Agreement; and WHEREAS the Ottawa LRT Commission Public Inquiry recently released its final report and included information that the City lessened