Item - 2015.EX5.3

The Executive Committee recommends that:

1.  City Council authorize the transfer of management responsibility of the lands identified within this report from the Board of Governors of Exhibition Place to the City's Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division by:

a.  amending By-law No. 25-85 "Respecting the Management of Exhibition Place" enclosed as Appendix A to the report (March 11, 2015) from the City Manager and By-law No. 45-84 "Respecting the Regulation of Traffic in Exhibition Place" of the former Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, to remove a strip of land located south of Lake Shore Boulevard from the Lands shown under the management of the Board as highlighted on the map enclosed as Appendix B to the report (March 11, 2015) from the City Manager;

b.  transferring the lands to the management responsibility of the City's Parks, Forestry, and Recreation Division and subject to Municipal Code Chapter 608, Parks, and update the configuration of the roadways at Exhibition Place to reflect the current status; and

c.  authorizing the City Solicitor to introduce the necessary bills to amend the former Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto By-laws No. 25-85 and No. 45-84, and Chapter 63, Exhibition Place Governance.

2.  City Council authorize the General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation to continue to allow the Canadian National Exhibition Association to use the strip of land south of Lake Shore Boulevard shown in Appendix B to the report (March 11, 2015) from the City Manager, as required for the purpose of staging events for the annual Canadian National Exhibition, at an annual rental fee of one dollar, and on the same terms and conditions of use as set out in the Master Agreement between the Canadian National Exhibition Association, the Board of Governors of Exhibition Place and the City save and except for any terms and conditions relating to the provision by the Board of any unionized or non-unionized Exhibition Place personnel or services.

3.  City Council authorize the City Manager and the Board of Governors of Exhibition Place to make the necessary amendments to any governance policies or instruments consistent with the decisions of City Council in this report, including the Relationship Framework of the City with the Board of Governors of Exhibition Place.

On February 6, 2015, the Board of Governors of Exhibition Place (the Board) approved amendments to the former Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto By-law No. 25-85 "Respecting the Management of Exhibition Place" (Metro By-law 25-85), attached in Appendix A, to remove a small strip of land south of Lake Shore Boulevard from the lands shown under its management, subject to City Council approval.

This report recommends that City Council amend Metro By-law 25-85 as requested by the Board, and further recommends that City Council place these lands within the jurisdiction of the City's Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division (PFR) and subject to Municipal Code Chapter 608, Parks, to allow PFR to licence/permit the strip of land to the Canadian National Exhibition Association (CNEA) for the purpose of staging the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE).

This strip of land being removed from the management of the Board is highlighted in Appendix B to this report, and more specifically shown in the drawing attached to Metro By-law 25-85. The changes recommended in this report would allow PFR to manage and permit the land, as has been the recent practice, and to implement activities being prepared on the land for the Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games.