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Funding Arts and Culture Top-10 Law Firms TORONTO EDITION FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2016 Vol. 20 • No. 49 2017 budget overview 19th annual Toronto rankings FUNDING ARTS TOP-10 AND CULTURE DEVELOPMENT By Leah Wong LAW FIRMS To meet its 2017 target of $25 per capita spending in arts and culture council will need to, not only waive its 2.6 per cent reduction target, but approve an increase of $2.2-million in the It was another busy year at the OMB for Toronto-based 2017 economic development and culture budget. appeals. With few developable sites left in the city’s growth Economic development and culture manager Michael areas, developers are pushing forward with more challenging Williams has requested a $61.717-million net operating proposals such as the intensifi cation of existing apartment budget for 2017, a 3.8 per cent increase over last year. neighbourhoods, the redevelopment of rental apartments with Th e division’s operating budget allocates funding to its implications for tenant relocation, and the redevelopment of four service centres—art services (60 per cent), museum and existing towers such as the Grand Hotel, to name just a few. heritage services (18 per cent), business services (14 per cent) While only a few years ago a 60-storey tower proposal and entertainment industries services (8 per cent). may have seemed stratospheric, the era of the supertall tower One of the division’s major initiatives for 2017 is the city’s has undeniably arrived. In last year’s Toronto law review, the Canada 150 celebrations. At the end of 2017 with the Canada 82- and 92-storey Mirvish + Gehry towers were the tallest 150 initiatives completed, $4.284-million in one-time funding buildings brought before the board. Th is year, the multi-tower will be gone and the contracts of 23 temporary staff ended. development of 1 Yonge, which will soar as high as 96 storeys, About $47-million of the division’s budget is allocated literally raised the stakes. A pending settlement, however, was to arts services, which provides fi nancial supports to arts not brought to the board in time to be reported in this year’s institutions and artists and produces major cultural events law review. and arts programs. Th is budget centre includes an additional Critics of the board frequently lampoon its alleged pro- $3.5-million over 2016, to meet council’s 2013 commitment to development bias and its failure to take seriously the input of investment $25 per capita in arts and culture by 2017. If council city staff on contested applications. CONTINUED PAGE 6 > decides to defer this commitment CONTINUED PAGE 5 > INSIDE Revenue toolbox CSO warning Reassignments Council debates Lake Ontario Committee fi nancial strategy Waterkeeper appointments > > > p 2 p 3 p 5 2 CITY OF TORONTO EDITION FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2016 UPCOMING DATES COUNCIL ROUND-UP DECEMBER 16-21 Budget Committee, 1:30 p.m., committee Toronto’s revenue strategy adopted “I believe we undercut our argument room 1 Council spent most of Monday debating that we need new revenue tools when we DECEMBER 20 make decisions that are not fact-based but TTC, time and location TBC its immediate and longer-term revenue strategy. By the end of day it adopted a suite politically driven,” Matlow told council. DECEMBER 21 Waterfront Toronto Design Review Panel, of revenue tools, some to be implemented “Every time we spend billions of dollars 9:00 a.m., 20 Bay Street, Suite 1310 immediately and some in the future. in projects that are not genuinely our JANUARY 3 Council directed the budget committee, as priorities, we are not taken as seriously by Government Management Committee, residents and governments when we are 9:30 a.m., committee room 1 part of the 2017 budget process, to introduce a 0.5 per cent tax levy to fund infrastructure. asking for funds for the actual priorities.” JANUARY 4 Economic Development Committee, As part of its longer-term revenue strategy In support: councillors Maria Augimeri, 9:30 a.m., committee room 1 council voted in favour of asking the province Joe Cressy, Janet Davis, Justin Di Ciano, JANUARY 5 to implement the legislative and regulatory Sarah Doucette, John Filion, Paula Budget Committee, 9:30 a.m., committee Fletcher, Mary Fragedakis, Mark Grimes, room 1 reforms necessary for the city to implement a hotel and short-term accommodation rental Mike Layton, Chin Lee, Josh Matlow, Pam JANUARY 6 Parks & Environment Committee, tax and to introduce tolls on the Gardiner McConell, Joe Michevc, Denzil Minnan- 9:30 a.m., committee room 1 Expressway and Don Valley Parkway. Wong, Gord Perks, Anthony Perruzza, JANUARY 11 Council also voted to ask the province to Jaye Robinson and Kristyn Wong-Tam. Planning & Growth Management Against: Mayor John Tory and Paul Ainslie, Committee, 9:30 a.m., committee room 1 share the harmonized sales tax with the city and other Greater Toronto and Hamilton Ana Bailão, Jon Burnside, John Campbell, JANUARY 16 Community Development & Recreation Area municipalities in future budgets. If a Christin Carmichael Greb, Josh Colle, Gary Committee, 9:30 a.m., committee room 1 share of the HST is not granted, council has Crawford, Vincent Crisanti, Glenn De JANUARY 17 directed staff to explore the feasibility of a Baeremaeker, Frank Di Giorgio, Michael Etobicoke York Community Council, 9:30 a.m., council chamber, Etobicoke regional sales tax for GTHA municipalities, Ford, Michelle Holland, Stephen Holyday, Civic Centre with the city’s portion to be directed to a Jim Karygiannis, Norm Kelly, Giorgio North York Community Council, 9:30 a.m., city infrastructure fund. Mammoliti, Mary-Margaret McMahon, council chamber, North York Civic Centre A motion by Ward 22 St. Paul’s councillor Frances Nunziata, Cesar Palacio, James Scarborough Community Council, 9:30 a.m., Josh Matlow asking the city manager to Pasternak, David Shiner and Michael council chamber, Scarborough Civic Centre allocate the funds collected from the new Th ompson. Toronto & East York Community Council, 9:30 a.m., committee room 1 revenue tools to infrastructure projects based on recognized urban planning Ranked ballots off the table principles—such as ridership/user Toronto will not be getting ranked projections, land-use patterns, most urgent ballots in the foreseeable future. Council CITY OF TORONTO EDITION need, density and future development voted against a motion from Ward 43 potential—lost on a vote of 19-23. Scarborough East CONTINUED PAGE 4 > Ian A.R. Graham, Publisher Peter Pantalone SALES/SUBSCRIPTIONS NRU City of Toronto Edition NRU Publishing Inc. Billings Department [email protected] Planning Researcher [email protected] is not to be redistributed Editorial Offi ce 34B McMurrich Street [email protected] without the written consent 26 Soho Street, Suite 330 Toronto, ON M5R 2A2 Lynn Morrow, Editor Annual subscription rate is of the publisher. 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[email protected] 3 CITY OF TORONTO EDITION FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2016 Harbour water quality WEEKLY OVERFLOWS By Andrew Cohrs Th e amount of sewage in Toronto’s harbour is fl uctuating far above safe boating and swimming standards due to old infrastructure and the city is not warning residents, claims a local environmental group. “Th ere is raw sewage fl owing into the harbour and there is no notifi cation or awareness around water quality concerns,” Lake Ontario Waterkeeper founder and vice-president Krystyn Tully told NRU. In response to the lack of information being shared / JIM PANOU WATERKEEPER SOURCE: LAKE ONTARIO publically, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper conducted water sampling tests across Toronto harbour between Bathurst Quay Outfl ow from city water infrastructure is seen near the Harbourfront Canoe and the Keating Channel. Released in a report today, the results and Kayak Centre of 166 samples, taken over the summer, show that two-thirds failed to meet basic provincial standards for environmental protection and half of those samples failed to meet federal standards for safe boating and paddling. Tully says there is a correlation between rain events and sewage levels and the city’s old infrastructure is the issue. “Th e majority of the failing results that we found were collected aft er it rained but it’s not perfect. So it’s not like, if it’s WATERKEEPER SOURCE: LAKE ONTARIO dry, you never have to worry... Th e combined sewage system is designed to only overfl ow when it rains, but the reality is that if you have a connection between peoples’ toilets and the lake, you are going to end up with sewage in the lake, perhaps even Lake Ontario Waterkeeper identifi ed nine primary locations where sewage enters when it’s not raining.” Toronto Harbour Tully points out that the city has an older water infrastructure system—combined sewage and stormwater—that seems to turn off the tap and stop putting sewage into the lake, within be the primary contributor of sewage in Toronto’s harbour. a week you don’t have any sewage in the lake... Th ere is a real Stormwater and sewage pipes are connected and when the system probability of success if we put our minds to it.” is overloaded, such as during a rain storm, overfl ow pipes release Th e city has committed $2.8-billion towards its Wet Weather untreated water into the lake to relieve pressure on the system.
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