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From YouTube: Parks and Environment Committee - May 3, 2018
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Parks and Environment Committee, meeting 27, May 3, 2018
Agenda and background materials:
http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/decisionBodyProfile.do?function=doPrepare&meetingId=13043
Meeting Navigation:
0:08:59 - Call to order
Agenda Items:
0:10:36 - PE27.1 - Adaptive Reuse of Buildings M and T in Ashbridges Bay Park (Ward 32)
0:27:42 - PE27.2 - Installing Bike Tune-Up Stations in Toronto City Parks (Ward All)
0:13:22 - PE27.3 - Funding Update - Municipal Greenhouse Gas Challenge Fund (Ward All)
0:16:27 - PE27.4 - Home Energy Loan Program and High-rise Retrofit Improvement Support Program Update (Ward All)
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Welcome
to
the
meeting
27
of
the
parks
of
the
Environment
Committee
everyone
good
morning,
Andy
a
deeper
voice,
welcome
to
meeting
27
in
the
parks
and
Environment
Committee.
Look
at
our
audience.
It's
just
a
packed
room.
Obviously
we're
doing
everything
right.
Welcome
to
members
of
committee
and
no
other
members
are
in
attendance
and
nobody
from
the
public,
unfortunately,
for
those
in
the
room.
Well,
the
screen
at
the
back
I'll
just
go
through.
It
provides
for
your
life,
entertainment
for
those
who
want
to
follow
www.seannal.com.
A
Alright,
so
any
declarations
of
interest
under
the
municipal
conflict
of
interest
sack
seeing
none
can
we
have
confirmation
minutes
from
our
April
meeting
councillor
Layton.
That
was
a
all
in
favor
opposed
that
carries
great
all
right
and
we
will
go.
We
have
no
speakers
we'll
just
go
through.
We
have
short
and
sweet
agenda
for
items
and
let's
go
through
the
agenda:
pe
27.1,
adaptive,
reuse
of
buildings,
M&T
in
ash,
Padilla's,
Bay,
Park
and
I.
A
So
I'll,
just
before
we
adopt
staff
recommendations,
this
is
so
they,
the
kids
in
our
neighborhood,
call
it
the
crown
or
the
Giants
dentures
actually
teeth.
So
it's
building
this
called
building
T
where's
Frank
is
right.
There
half
a
ton
of
water
and
there's
also
Bill
exam.
We
couldn't
really
find
a
picture,
but
it's
kind
of
it's
it's
the
more
beautiful
building
actually,
but
we
have
a
chance
to.
As
you
know,
we
are
doing
Arata
waters,
doing
huge
work
over
here,
building
new
pumping
stations
and
decommissioning
these.
A
A
B
C
A
A
B
D
E
So
the
city's
been
quite
successful
so
far
with
its
fundraising
effort
to
mobilize
the
necessary
capital
to
fulfill.
You
know
the
targets
as
identified
and
transform
tío
our
recent
successes
with
the
municipal
GHG
Challenge
Fund.
This
was
a
competitive
application
process
where
the
city
took
a
series
of
applications
across
its
operations
to
the
Ministry
of
Environment
and
climate
change.
We
were
successful
with
10
major
greenhouse
gas
emission
reduction
projects.
The
provincial
contribution
is
52
million
dollars,
and
this
will
help
us.
E
You
know,
deliver
on
high-performance
buildings,
expanding
and
building
out
low
carbon
thermal
energy
networks,
deploying
electric
vehicles,
including
battery
electric
buses
as
part
of
the
TTC
fleet
and
conversion
of
its
of
its
green
fleet
and
utilising
biogas
as
energy
from
waste.
So
we're
we're
off
to
a
good
start.
A
B
Thank
you
very
much,
so
just
a
couple
questions
in
the
progress
of
the
help
program,
it
seems
like
the
high-rise
program,
is
actually
doing
quite
well
and
congratulations.
It
looks
like
it's
moving
forward,
but
we're
still
kind
of
struggling
to
get
from
free
application
to
read
completed
retrofits
in
the
help
program,
I'm
wondering
if
you
could
give
us
some
insight
into
why
we
think
there's
such
a
dramatic
drop-off
from
pre
applications,
expression
of
interest
to
final
completed
retrofits.
E
Through
your
chair,
there's
a
variety
of
reasons
why
a
homeowner,
who
expresses
original
interest
in
the
program
may
drop
out
the
largest
factor
that
we've
seen
is
the
inability
for
homeowners
to
to
require
to
acquire
lender
consent.
So
in
the
case
of
homeowners,
who
have
mortgages,
they're
required
to
get
consent
from
their
lender,
other
homeowners
may
just
drop
out
because
they're
no
longer
interested
in
undertaking
energy,
retrofits
they've
sought
alternative
financing,
maybe
from
their
bank.
So
there's
a
variety
of
factors.
B
E
Nature
of
the
program
involves
the
city
imposing
participating
properties,
a
local
improvement
charge,
which
is
a
charge.
That's
added
to
the
property
to
repay
the
amounts
provided
for
the
home
energy
retrofit.
The
nature
of
that
local
improvement
charge
is
similar
to
taxes
and
that
it
has
a
priority
lien
on
the
property.
Because
of
this
nature.
B
E
B
E
It's
been
dormant
as
of
late,
but
there's
still,
you
know
municipal
positions
happening
because
there's
interest
in
bringing
forward
a
regional
LIC
program.
Toronto
is
currently
the
only
jurisdiction
in
Ontario
that
has
programs
like
open
high-rise,
so
the
intent
is
trying
to
build
together.
Maybe
a
network
of
municipalities
who'd
be
interested
in
offering
this
type
of
program.
Now.
B
E
Not
potentially,
there's
probably
alternative
delivery
model
that
would
leverage
a
like
a
third
party
who
could
do
the
marketing
the
outreach
to
sort
of
drive
sales
for
the
program,
and
then
the
municipalities
could
do
some
more
of
the
back-office
contracting
composing
of
the
charge
on
the
properties.
Among
that's
one
example,
someone.
E
F
A
A
B
I
have
a
motion
this
is
actually
was
tabled
at
the
last
time
we
got
an
update.
It
was
a
recommendation
from
staff.
I
believe
that
the
City
Council
requests
the
Government
of
Canada
to
address
the
legal
and
policy
barriers
to
appear
to
contribute
to
lower
participates
participation
rates
in
local
improvement
charge
programs,
particularly
for
property
owners
with
default
issued
insurer,
insured
mortgages
to
city
council
requests
at
Government
of
Canada
in
the
province
of
Ontario
to
initiate,
as
part
of
their
climate
change
strategies
and
sentence
for
home
owners
of
buildings
and
homes,
to
undertake
energy.
B
Retrofit
audits
that
can
work
in
conjunction
with
existing
municipal
and
utility
incentive
programs
and
three
City
Council,
expressed
its
support
for
the
province
of
Ontario
Home
Energy
labeling
plan
as
part
of
the
climate
action
plan.
I,
don't
know
I
kind
of
lifted
this
from
last
from
the
last
report,
just
because
I
wanted
to
actually
highlight
the
first
one
and
and
express
its
relevance
to
the
can
to
the
success
of
this
program,
but
the
other
two
also
seemed
seemed
relevant
to
add
into
the
program.
B
I'm
still
like
it's
really
exciting
program
that
we're
moving
on
to
renewables,
which
I
didn't
ask
about.
I
forgot
to
ask
about
them
that
we
were
moving
to
also
provide
the
loan
incentive
for
renewable
energy.
That's
really
exciting
in
in
in
at
least
10
years
ago,
when
I
was
working
in
this
space
and
doing
research
on
this
there
I
don't
think
there
was
a
jurisdiction
that
captured
both.
That
said,
we're
gonna
do
your
home
and
it
was
either
the
home
energy
retrofit
or
the
or
the
Renewable
we've
managed
to
get
into
both.
B
What
is
even
more
exciting
about
this
and
I'll
nerd
out
for
a
second
here
is
that
we
we
have
confirmation
from
legal
and
finance
staff
that
well
at
this
point
in
time
we
are
using
a
legal
fight.
We
are
using
a
fund,
that's
budgeted.
There
is
no
reason
why
we
couldn't
fund
this
from
from
debt
that
doesn't
contribute
to
our
debt
ceiling,
meaning
City
of
Toronto
would
ultimately
have
an
unlimited
fund
and
energy
retrofit,
fun
and
and
and
renewable
energy
fund,
because
we
don't
necessarily
it
doesn't
count
towards
our
debt
ceiling.
B
We
got
that
confirmed
like
six
years
ago
now
and
we
haven't
gone
that
route
yet,
but
we
could
we
still,
though,
we're
gonna
have
to
have
more
than
140
deals
signed,
and
so
that's,
where
I
think
we
need
to
focus
our
efforts.
I
had
an
experience
this
past
year
and
my
partner
and
I
moved
to
a
new
home
because
we
were
expecting
another
child
and
we
did
a
bit
of
a
renovation
after
the
renovation.
B
None
of
it
was
energy
related
because
we
wanted
to
move
in
as
quickly
as
we
could
and
then
we
would
undertake
that
work.
We
then
had
did
the
the
energy
audit
and
I
sent
an
application
to
the
help
program
it
went
through
rather
rather
quickly.
I
went
through
a
gmail
address,
so
I
tried
to
not
use
my
personal
address
to
get
an
idea
of
how
fast
these
things
moved
through
and
then
I
went
to
my
my
mortgage
insurer
and
my
mortgage
holder
and
I
said
hey.
B
It
was
like
we're
gonna
do
this,
it's
only
a
couple
thousand
dollars.
It
was
just
some
insulation,
some
some
air
sealing
and
I
think
that
was
I.
There
was
a
third
measure
I
had
to
do
to
qualify
for
the
Enbridge
program,
and
windows
were
potentially
in
play,
so
it
was
somewhere
between
four
and
ten
thousand
dollars
on
a
business.
A
house
in
downtown
Toronto,
like
you
guys,
can
imagine
what
they
cost.
They're
the
same
in
all
of
our
neighborhoods
that
we
represent,
give
or
take
a
six
digits.
B
B
A
Thank
you
very
much
councillor
late,
many
questions
of
the
mover
of
the
motion.
Seeing
none
would
you
like
to
take
it
as
a
package
all
in
favor
opposed
that
carries
terrific
and
then
we'll
just
go
back
to
PE
27.2
installing
bike
tune-up
stations
in
child
city
parks,
any
questions
of
staff
seeing
okay
councillor
do
set
just.
D
Through
the
chair,
the
experience
that
we've
heard
about
through
transportation
services
and
through
the
TTC
is
that
these
stations
are
vandalized
heavily
and
so
far
there
hasn't
been
a
successful
installation.
Unless
that's
the
site
is
actually
protected,
either
by
presence
of
staff
or
gated
at
night.
So.
G
D
G
Basically,
what
we
got
before
us
is
that,
because
they
vandalized
so
frequently
it's
gonna
take
a
lot
of
staff
time.
A
lot
of
extra,
not
not
so
much
worried
about
the
money,
but
it
will
take
money
to
be
out
there
weekly,
replacing
them
repairing
them
and
that
really
doesn't
make
sense
until
we
come
up
with
another
idea.
That's
basically
what
I'm
hearing
through.
H
The
charity,
and
certainly
agreeing
with
Richards
previous
response,
but
also
want
to
direct
you
to
the
letter
correspondence
on
this
agenda
from
cycle
Toronto,
which
really
sort
of
describes
their
experience
and
and
and
agrees
with
the
comments
that
we've
made
in
the
report
and
also
supports
the
motion.
That's
going
forward
around
programmable
space
and
how
that
might
be
able
to
better
support
cyclists
using
the
city
infrastructure,
okay,.
G
A
A
C
A
Yeah,
okay,
so
anyone
to
speak
on
this
item.
Okay,
I,
have
a
motion,
so
this
is
here
it
is
on
the
screen
and
so
Richard
and
I
actually
saw
these
stations
or
heard
about
them.
When
we
were
at
a
parks
conference
in
and
well
was
that
Minneapolis,
and
so
we
thought
we
could
do
it
here
and
obviously
we've
looked
into
that
and
in
consulted
cycle
Toronto
and
our
other
stakeholders
and
witnessed
there's
a
station,
I
guess
behind
us
behind
City
Hall.
That
has
no
tools
on
it.
A
Everything
is
ripped
off,
so
we
want
to
have
nice
things
in
the
city,
but
right
now,
I
think
we
will
we'll
just
go
for
this
and
see
if
we
can
just
partner
with
cycling
enterprises
to
figure
out
just
some
sort
of
bike,
trailer,
a
movable,
portable
kind
of
thing
or
what
we
can
do,
because
it
is
a
problem
I
that
my
staff
needed
a
new
tire
and
or
needed
to
pump
up
their
tire.
And
if
London
beer
maker
had
gone
home
and
he
was
the
only
one
with
a
tire
pump.
A
Maybe
you
have
one
kind
of
Layton
in
your
office,
but
it's
very
hard
to
get
anything
paired
here
when
you
know
if
we
were.
If
we
are
trying
to
be
this
a
world-class
city
with
all
different
types
of
active
modes
of
transit
transportation,
then
we
need
to
provide
for
for
repairs
and
so
the
hairs,
my
emotion,
hope,
you'll
support
it.
A
G
G
Go
don't
come
during
the
middle
of
a
day,
because
there's
no
room
to
even
move,
but
our
city
staff,
our
park
staff,
are
ready
for
everyone
with
our
forty-something
porta-potties,
with
garbage
cans
placed
so
they're,
not
in
the
view
of
when
you're
taking
photographs
of
the
trees
that's
taken
into
consideration,
and
we
do
expect
thousands
and
thousands
of
people
so
show
blossoms
starting
in
the
next
week
day,
or
so,
that's
all
probably
next
week,
I
think
it
probably
but
come
out
enjoy
it.
Everyone's
welcome
all.