Members of the Committee and Staff: Please keep this agenda and the accompanying material until the City Council meeting dealing with these matters has ended.  The City Clerk’s Office will not provide additional copies.

Special Assistance for Members of the Public: City staff can arrange for special assistance with some advance notice.  If you need special assistance, please call 416‑392-5227, TTY 416-338‑0889 or e-mail coneill1@toronto.ca.

Closed Meeting Requirements:  If the Advisory Committee on Long-Term Care Homes and Services wants to meet in closed session (privately), a member of the Committee must make a motion to do so and give the reason why the Committee has to meet privately.  (City of Toronto Act, 2006)

Notice to people writing or making presentations to the Advisory Committee on Long-Term Care Homes and Services: The City of Toronto Act, 2006 and the City of Toronto Municipal Code authorize the City of Toronto to collect any personal information in your communication or presentation to City Council or its committees.

The City collects this information to enable it to make informed decisions on the relevant issue(s). If you are submitting letters, faxes, e-mails, presentations or other communications to the City, you should be aware that your name and the fact that you communicated with the City will become part of the public record and will appear on the City’s website. The City will also make your communication and any personal information in it – such as your postal address, telephone number or e-mail address – available to the public, unless you expressly request the City to remove it.

If you want to learn more about why and how the City collects your information, write to the City Clerk’s Office, Advisory Committee on Long-Term Care Homes and Services, 10^th Floor, West,100 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON  M5H 2N2, or by calling 416-392-5227.

Declarations of Interest under the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act.

Confirmation of Minutes - October 1, 2010.

Communications/Reports

Planning for the redevelopment of Kipling Acres has progressed steadily throughout the year and the design process is nearing completion.  This planning has been a highly collaborative process as the City of Toronto values community engagement in its decision‑making process.  Further, meaningful community engagement has been an important and valued component of planning and development work that the Long-Term Care Homes and Services Division (LTCHS) had led in the past.  For this reason, LTCHS found it very important to establish a Community Reference Group to provide community input and guidance in the redevelopment planning, for both the approved phase 1 (192‑bed long-term care home) and the proposed phase 2 (campus of care components).  The first meeting of the Community Reference Group was held in December 2009 and the group has been meeting monthly since then.

In addition to the Community Reference Group, the home has hosted regular meetings with three (3) distinct groups of neighbours, namely (i) Genthorn Avenue; (ii) Hinton Road; (iii) West Acres Seniors’ Club.  The home also hosted a community consultation meeting with the Councillor Rob Ford (Ward 2) who is now Mayor Elect.

As committed at the September meeting of the Advisory Committee on Long-Term Care Homes and Services, this report provides an update on the process, progress and current status of the planning for redevelopment of Kipling Acres.