Toronto Public Health has engaged in an extensive consultation process with its staff and management as well as members of the Board of Health and Local Health Committees in order to develop a strategic plan for the next five years.  This plan, entitled “A Healthy City For All” builds on the organization’s history and charts its future direction.  It confirms the organization’s mission and foundational principles, and articulates priority directions and actions that will inform service and budget planning and provide the basis for monitoring organizational performance throughout the next five years.  Toronto Public Health’s Strategic Plan 2010-2014 is presented for adoption by the Board of Health.

The recommendations will have no financial impact beyond what has already been approved in the current year’s budget.

Toronto Public Health (TPH) oversaw the Health Impact Assessment (HIA) component of the Mixed Waste Processing Study conducted by Golder Associates on behalf of Solid Waste Management Services (SWMS). This study was initiated to evaluate the options for managing Toronto’s mixed waste in order to help achieve the City’s Target 70 waste diversion objectives.  Potential impacts from various approaches to dealing with City of Toronto residential mixed waste were assessed using HIA screening and scoping approaches.  This report presents the findings of the HIA and the recommendations the Medical Officer of Health (MOH) has made for future action by SWMS.

The HIA was conducted in two phases. The first phase assessed various technology options and informed SWMS’s decision to move forward with Mechanical Biological Treatment with Anaerobic Digestion (MBT with AD) as the preferred technology for a residential mixed waste processing facility.  The only city-owned site that has sufficient area to accommodate the full processing and final curing operations is next to Green Lane Landfill in the Township of Southwold (near London, Ontario).

Once the preferred site and technology were identified, TPH held an HIA workshop with stakeholders from the community neighbouring the selected site. The participants at the workshop identified both negative and positive potential impacts from the proposed facility. Potential mitigation efforts were also discussed. 

The Medical Officer of Health has communicated his recommendations on ways to address stakeholder concerns during the design and operation of the proposed facility to the General Manager, SWMS. SWMS has indicated that they will implement these recommendations. The MOH will continue to work with SWMS and the Residual Waste Working Group to ensure health issues are considered during the next phases. The HIA process helped influence the selection of a mixed waste treatment technology option such that the one with the least environmental and health impact was chosen.

There are no financial impacts arising directly from the adoption of this report.

This report provides an update on the implementation of the Environmental Reporting, Disclosure and Innovation Program. This program, now called ChemTRAC, is designed to protect public health and stimulate the greening of local facilities by tracking and reducing toxic chemicals found in Toronto’s environment. An important component of this program is the Environmental Reporting and Disclosure Bylaw (Municipal Code Chapter 423) which came into force January 1, 2010.

Toronto Public Health is coordinating the implementation of ChemTRAC, in partnership with Economic Development and Culture, the Toronto Environment Office and Toronto Water. The program activities in 2009 focused on informing facilities about the bylaw and developing resources to help them report their use of toxic chemicals.  This is an important step in order to ensure that facilities know how to comply with the bylaw and are aware of greening/pollution prevention resources. The education and outreach activities for facilities included a mailing to more than 6000 facilities that may need to report, a series of breakfast seminars held throughout the city, the development of a Guide to Reporting and release estimation calculators, along with creating and populating the program website (toronto.ca/chemtrac).

The development of an online reporting system to effectively and accurately collect the reported data was also started in 2009. This involved discussions with Environment Canada and Toronto Public Health Information Technology (IT) to plan and develop the necessary IT infrastructure.

These activities are the groundwork essential to continued program success and growth.

This report has no financial impact beyond what has already been included in the 2010 budget.

The purpose of this report is to provide information on the environmental assessment requirements applicable to the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (“the Island Airport”).

Federal environmental assessment of a proposed project at the Island Airport is carried out by the Toronto Port Authority (TPA), usually on the basis of a screening environmental assessment. The TPA is responsible for identifying potential environmental effects, determining the significance of those effects, identifying feasible mitigation measures, and selecting an appropriate course of action. The environmental assessment of a proposed project may be referred to a review panel under certain circumstances.

TPA can conduct building, expansion and modification at the Island Airport without being subject to a Federal environmental assessment, so long as only excluded activities are undertaken. Any expansion at the Island Airport that goes beyond the nature or scope of these exclusions, such as the Tunnel currently proposed, requires an environmental assessment.

The Tripartite Agreement among the Federal government, the TPA and the City, also may limit the expansion of operations at the Island Airport.

This report outlines the review process, funding applications and recommendations of the Board of Health AIDS Prevention Community Investment Program Review Panel regarding allocations in 2010.

The 2010 approved operating budget for the AIDS Prevention Community Investment Program includes an allocation of $1,679,000. This report proposes funding allocations in the total amount of $1,574,960 for 41 projects in the City of Toronto and $104,040 to Schools Without Borders (SWB) for the AIDS Prevention Community Investment Program Global HIV/AIDS Initiative.  Funding is to be used between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011.

The Community Partnership and Investment Program’s 2010 Approved Operating Budget includes funding of $1,679,000.00 for the AIDS Prevention Community Investment Program.  This report recommends $1,574,960.00 for 41 projects in the City of Toronto and $104,040.00 to Schools Without Boarders for the AIDS Prevention Community Investment Program Global HIV/AIDS Initiative. 

There is no financial impact beyond what has been approved in the 2010 Approved Operating Budget resulting from adopting this report.

The Deputy City Manager and Chief Financial Officer has reviewed this report and agrees with the financial impact information.

The 2010 Drug Prevention Community Investment Program Review Panel recommends that:

1.         City Council approve the allocation of $844,280 to 38 projects as recommended by the 2010 Drug Prevention Community Investment Program Review Panel in Appendix B and Appendix C of the report (June 10, 2010) from the Chair, Drug Prevention Community Investment Program Review Panel.

2.         City Council approve the listed applicants for multi-year assessment in Appendix D and E of the report (June 10, 2010) from the Chair, Drug Prevention Community Investment Program Review Panel.

3.         City Council grant authority to the Medical Officer of Health to execute Letters of Understanding on behalf of the City.

This report outlines the review process, funding applications and recommendations of the Board of Health Drug Prevention Community Investment Program Review Panel regarding allocations in 2010.

The 2010 Approved Operating Budget for the Drug Prevention Community Investment Program (DPCIP) includes an allocation of $844,280.  This report recommends the allocation of $844,280 to 38 projects.  Funding is to be used between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011.

The Community Partnership and Investment Program’s 2010 Approved Operating Budget includes funding of $844,280.00 for the Drug Prevention Community Investment Program.  This report recommends the allocation of $844.280.00 for 38 projects listed in Appendix B and Appendix C. 

There is no financial impact beyond what has been approved in the 2010 Approved Operating Budget resulting from adopting this report.

The Deputy City Manager and Chief Financial Officer has reviewed this report and agrees with the financial impact statement.

This report is the second biannual update on mortality trends in the homeless population in the City of Toronto. Data has previously been collected from three sources regarding deaths among homeless people. Recent years of data indicate a downward trend in number of deaths.

As two of the three sources of data are no longer available, this will be the last report of this type on tracking homeless deaths.

There are no financial implications arising from this report.

This report provides an update to the Board of Health on Toronto Public Health’s (TPH) Operating Budget Variance for the five months of operation ending on May 31, 2010.

Toronto Public Health’s operating budget was under spent by $389.8 thousand net or 2.5 percent for the five-month period ending on May 31, 2010.

Toronto Public Health gross expenditures were below budget by $248.0 thousand or 0.3 percent, attributable to the under spending of $247.5 thousand in Salaries and Benefits and $0.5 thousand in non payroll including utility costs. Revenue was overachieved by $141.8 thousand mainly due to higher than planned collection of user fees. At year-end, Toronto Public Health expects to be fully spent with no variance.

The Deputy City Manager and Chief Financial Officer has reviewed this report and agrees with the financial impact information.

Report to follow.

Report to follow.