Other Items Considered by the Committee
(a) Standing Committee Briefing.
The Works and Utilities Committee reports having received presentations from the following regarding the programs and services under the responsibilities of the Committee; and having directed that:
(1) the President/Chief Executive Officer, Toronto Hydro-Electric Commission, be requested to:
(i) submit a report to the Committee for its meeting scheduled to be held on June 17, 1998, on the progress to date of the harmonization of the hydro rates of the former municipalities, with a request that staff work towards the lowest possible rates;
(ii) submit a report to the Committee on:
(a) the status of capital spending and cutbacks of the former Hydro-Electric Commissions;
(b) a methodology to ensure that the new Toronto Hydro-Electric Commission utilizes a rate structure which does not encourage waste; and
(2) the Acting Executive Commissioner for Emergency and Protective Services and appropriate staff be requested to submit a report to the Committee for its next meeting, scheduled to be held on February 11, 1998, on the waste management facilities proposed for the Dufferin Transfer Station site;
(3) the Acting Executive Commissioner for Emergency and Protective Services and appropriate staff be requested to submit a report to the Committee on:
(i) financial commitments made by Metropolitan Toronto for waste disposal with respect to the trucking of solid waste to Michigan, and the cost thereof to the new City of Toronto;
(ii) the policy with respect to combined sewer overflows (CSOs), and, in consultation with the Chair of the Committee, at the appropriate time, provide guidance on how changes might be made to such policy; and
(iii) the feasibility of keeping the water supply and water pollution control budget separate and free standing; and
(4) Councillors Berardinetti and Layton be requested to submit a proposal to the next meeting of the Committee on the Terms of Reference for a committee similar to the former Metro 3Rs Task Force, to review the various pilot projects undertaken during 1997, and on the establishment of a residents group similar to the former City of Scarborough=s Environmental Advisory Committee:
- Mr. Barry H. Gutteridge, Acting Executive Commissioner for Emergency and Protective Services;
- Mr. John N. Brooks, President and Chief Executive Officer, Toronto Hydro-Electric Commission;
- Mr. Michael G. Thorne, Interim Functional Lead for Water Supply and Water Pollution Control Issues, and submitted a copy of his presentation; and
- Mr. Mike Price, Interim Functional Lead for Solid Waste Management, and submitted a copy of his presentation.
(b) Biosolids Demonstration Facility -
Harbour Remediation & Transfer Inc.
The Works and Utilities Committee reports having deferred consideration of the following matter until its next meeting, scheduled to be held on February 11, 1998, to be considered as the first item of business, with a request that the appropriate staff submit a report to such meeting on the status of the project and on further demonstration projects which move towards 100 percent diversion of biosolids from incineration:
(December 23, 1997) from the Metropolitan Clerk forwarding a copy of Clause No. 1 of Report No. 13 of The Environment and Public Space Committee, headed ABiosolids Demonstration Facility - Harbour Remediation & Transfer Inc@., which was adopted, as amended, by the Council of The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto at its meeting held on December 10 and 18, 1997.
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Ms. Karey Shinn, Chair, Public Committee for Safe Sewage Treatment in Metropolitan Toronto, appeared before the Works and Utilities Committee in connection with the foregoing matter.
(c) Membership Of Works And Utilities Committee.
The Works and Utilities Committee reports having received the following communication:
(January 9, 1998) from the City Clerk listing the Members appointed to the Works and Utilities Committee for a term of office expiring on May 31, 1999, and/or until their successors are appointed.
Respectfully submitted,
COUNCILLOR BETTY DISERO,
Chair
Toronto, January 14, 1998
Trudy Perrin
Tel. (416) 392-8027
