Environment, Infrastructure and Community Services Committee

Receive and file capital works department report CW-47-19 and Appendix A regarding the 2019 Accessibility Progress Report.

Retain Sun Life Financial as the service provider for the major medical, hospital, dental, long-term disability and basic and optional life insurance plans for the December 1, 2019 to November 30, 2020 policy year.

Receive and file finance department report F-44-19 providing the financial status report as at September 30, 2019.

Approve by-law 63-2019 attached as Appendix A to finance department report F-47-19 which provides for the levy of the 2020 interim taxes.

Approve by-law 64-2019 attached as Appendix A to finance department report F-38-19, to authorize the temporary borrowings of monies from the Royal Bank of Canada to meet the ordinary expenditures of the Corporation for the 2020 fiscal year; and Authorize the Mayor and Clerk to execute the Security Agreement, subject to the satisfaction of the City Solicitor.

Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute an agreement with E.G. Keenleyside for the publication and distribution of his book “An Illustrated History of the Burlington Cenotaph, The Story of a Community Memorial” to the satisfaction of the City Solicitor and any related documents related thereto.

Delegate to the Executive Director of Environment, Infrastructure and Community Services the authority to negotiate amendments and enter into agreements with Halton Region for the provision of contracted road maintenance services and to negotiate amendments and enter into agreements as outlined in Halton Region Report No. PW-29-19 to the satisfaction of the Executive Director of Legal Services and the Chief Financial Officer.

Table the City of Burlington 2019 Service Delivery Reviews Final Report prepared by Performance Concepts Consulting and Dillon Consulting, dated November 27, 2019; and Direct the City Manager to report back in Q1, 2020, on the proposed disposition of the four service reviews and recommendations contained in the “City of Burlington 2019 Service Delivery Reviews Final Report.”

Refer department of recreation services report PR-11-19 regarding community recreation framework to the Planning and Development Committee meeting on Tuesday, December 3, 2019.

Approve the updated leash-free area criteria and process as outlined in department of recreation services report PR-12-19; and Rescind delegated authority for the Director of Parks and Recreation to consider piloting alternative time leash-free areas as an alternative to fenced leash-free areas when requests come forward on a site by site basis utilizing the process outlined in parks and recreation department report PR-33-12.

Endorse the open air burning permit areas, with no changes, as detailed in Appendix A, Schedule A, of fire department report BDF-05-19 including the option of a one year pilot for open air burning in North Aldershot for 2020; and Approve updated by-law 65-2019 open air burning for the City of Burlington, attached as Appendix C, as outlined in Burlington Fire Department report BFD-05-19.

Receive and file Mayor's Office report MO-18-19 regarding the Mayor’s trip to Itabashi, October 2019.

Receive and file the update on MOU discussions with all related school boards (public and Catholic) to further partnership terms and funding towards student transit passes and appoint Councillors Rory Nisan and Shawna Stolte to the MOU discussion team; and Consider as part of the 2020 budget discussions free transit for students age 12 and under, to take effect January 1st to align with Metrolinx fare changes in March of 2019 that saw all children age 12 and under not charged any fare for GO trains or buses; and Direct the City Manager to report back on MOU progress by June with a recommendation for council to consider approving the program. The recommendation would include timing options and funding, including the potential to begin the program in September 2020, identifying a one-time funding source from September to December and adding the annualized cost to the 2021 budget.

Direct the Director of Road, Parks, and Forestry to report to committee explaining the root and proximate causes of the need to change the leaf collection program that occurred in November 2019, and provide any lessons learned from the experience of the 2019 program.

Refer roads, parks, and forestry department report RPF-18-19 regarding city-wide private tree by-law to the Planning and Development Committee meeting on Tuesday, December 3, 2019.

Suspend the rules of procedure to allow the meeting to proceed beyond the hour of 10 p.m., in accordance with procedure by-law 64-2016 s. 26.

Receive and file the following 12 items, having been given due consideration by the Committee of the whole.