Agenda
Community Services Committee


Community Services Committee Meeting
Monday, September 17, 2012
Tom Davies Square
, Chair
, Vice Chair

4:00 p.m.

COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMITTEE MEETING
COMMITTEE ROOM C-11

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DECLARATIONS OF PECUNIARY INTEREST AND THE GENERAL NATURE THEREOF

PRESENTATIONS

1. Report dated September 4, 2012 from the Chief of Emergency Services regarding New Provincial Emergency Response Time Standard for Emergency Medical Services.

(ELECTRONIC PRESENTATION) (RECOMMENDATION PREPARED)
(EMS Response Time Performance Plan in accordance with amended Regulation 257/00 of the Ambulance Act.)

1.1 Full Report (pdf)
  • Aaron Archibald, Deputy Chief of EMS Operations

Consent Agenda

(For the purpose of convenience and for expediting meetings, matters of business of repetitive or routine nature are included in the Consent Agenda, and all such matters of business contained in the Consent Agenda are voted on collectively. A particular matter of business may be singled out from the Consent Agenda for debate or for a separate vote upon the request of any Councillor. In the case of a separate vote, the excluded matter of business is severed from the Consent Agenda, and only the remaining matters of business contained in the Consent Agenda are voted on collectively. Each and every matter of business contained in the Consent Agenda is recorded separately in the minutes of the meeting.)

CORRESPONDENCE FOR INFORMATION ONLY

C-1. Report dated June 21, 2012 from the General Manager of Community Development regarding Update on Social Housing Funding.

(FOR INFORMATION ONLY)
(The report provides an update on the changes to Social Housing funding to be received from the Province over the next 5 years.)

1.1 Full Report (pdf)
C-2. Report dated September 5, 2012 from the General Manager of Community Development regarding Report Card on Homelessness for 2011.

(FOR INFORMATION ONLY)
(This is the fourth annual Report Card on Homelessness for the City of Greater Sudbury. The Report Card on Homelessness is completed by the Community Advisory Committee on Homelessness as a way to monitor, measure and evaluate the progess of the system we have in place to address housing instability in our community.)

2.1 Full Report (pdf)
2.2 Documentation - 2011 CGS Homelessness Report Card (pdf)

C-3. Report dated September 5, 2012 from the General Manager of Community Development regarding Samaritan Centre.

(FOR INFORMATION ONLY)
(This report is an update to the visioning session conducted at the Samaritan Centre.)

3.1 Full Report (pdf)

Regular Agenda

MANAGERS' REPORTS

R-1. Report dated September 5, 2012 from the Chief of Emergency Services regarding Update – Ontario Fire Marshal (OFM) Review of Fire Protection (Prevention) Services in the City of Greater Sudbury — Findings and Recommendations.

(RECOMMENDATION PREPARED)
(The Office of the Ontario Fire Marshal (OFM) presented the Findings and Recommendations of their "Review of the Fire Protection (Prevention) Services in the City of Greater Sudbury" on May 28th, 2012. The Chief of Emergency Services was asked to return a formal response to the OFM's recommendations within 90 days and report back to the Community Services Committee at their meeting of September 17th, 2012.)

1.1 Full Report (pdf)
1.2 PREVENTION_SUGGESTED_GOING_FORWARD_WORK_PLAN_OFM_2012 (pdf)

R-2. Report dated September 5, 2012 from the General Manager of Community Development regarding Review and Rationalization of the Seniors' Information Line.

(RECOMMENDATION PREPARED)
(Staff have completed a review of the Seniors' Information Line usage and will recommend the elimination of the annual grant to the Parkside OAC which in turn has a sub agreement with the NE CCAC to deliver this service. The number of calls being fielded by the NE CCAC, that are not CCAC or 2-1-1 related calls, simply does not warrant the annual grant of $50,000.)

2.1 Full Report (pdf)
R-3. Report dated September 5, 2012 from the General Manager of Community Development regarding Extreme Cold Weather Program.

(RECOMMENDATION PREPARED)
(This report requests an enhancement to the Cold Weather Alert Program.)

3.1 Full Report (pdf)
R-4. Report dated September 7, 2012 from the General Manager of Community Development regarding Good Food Box Budget Option.

(RECOMMENDATION PREPARED)
(The Good Food Box Organization has come forward at Public Input to request funding through budget deliberations process.)

4.1 Full Report (pdf)
R-5. Report dated September 7, 2012 from the General Manager of Community Development regarding Emergency Shelter Funding Budget Option.

(RECOMMENDATION PREPARED)
(The Emergency Shelters have come forward at Public Input to request funding for the operational top up for the 2013 budget.)

5.1 Full Report (pdf)

ADDENDUM

CIVIC PETITIONS

QUESTION PERIOD AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

NOTICES OF MOTION

ADJOURNMENT

BRIGITTE SOBUSH, DEPUTY CITY CLERK

FRANCA BORTOLUSSI, COUNCIL ASSISTANT

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