Other Items Considered by the Board
(a) Election of Chair and Vice-Chair.
The Interim Board of Health reports having appointed Councillor John Filion as Chair of the Interim Board of Health, and Councillor Irene Jones as Vice-Chair of the Interim Board of Health.
(b) Implementation Plan for the 1998/1999 Community-Based Funding Programs for AIDS Prevention and Drug Abuse Prevention
The Interim Board of Health reports having adopted the following report:
(January 6, 1998) from the Acting Medical Officer of Health:
1. Authorizing the Acting Medical Officer of Health to finalize schedules, undertake promotion and revise the 1997 application package as needed to implement the AIDS and Drug Abuse prevention funding programs in keeping with grants-related decisions made by Community and Neighbourhoods Services Committee and City Council; and
2. Authorizing the Acting Medical Officer of Health to recruit members to review panels for the AIDS and Drug Abuse prevention funding programs that reflect representation according to the membership guidelines in place in 1997. Such review panels will make funding recommendations to the Board of Health in May/June 1998.
(c) Citizens= Forum on Public Health.
The Interim Board of Health reports having agreed to continue to provide staff support to the Citizen=s Forum on Public Health, and took no action with respect to the remaining four recommendations in the report.
(December 10, 1997) from the Acting Co-Chair, Citizens for Public Health, recommending:
1. That staff support be provided for their efforts;
2. That staff of Public Health prepare a report on the public forum held on November 19, 1997 on the deputations and written submissions received from citizen groups;
3. That the foregoing report be circulated as widely as possible to citizen and community groups throughout the new City;
4. That the report be also forwarded to the new Board of Health in the City of Toronto for their consideration; and
5. That the Council of the new City of Toronto give consideration to holding public hearings on the structure and membership of the new Board of Health before it is established.
Respectfully submitted,
COUNCILLOR JOHN FILION,
Chair
Toronto, January 7, 1998
Christine Archibald,
Tel: (416) 392-7030
