Item - 2016.HU8.1
Tracking Status
- This item was considered by Board of Health Budget Committee on September 26, 2016. The Board of Health Budget Committee has referred this item to an official or other body without making a decision. Consult the text of the decision for further information on the referral.
HU8.1 - Toronto Public Health 2017 Operating Budget Request
- Decision Type:
- ACTION
- Status:
- Referred
- Wards:
- All
Confidential Attachment - Personal matters about an identifiable individual, including municipal or local board employees, and labour relations and employee negotiations.
Committee Decision
The Board of Health Budget Committee:
1. Referred the item to the Acting Medical Officer of Health with the request that she, at a Board of Health Budget Committee meeting to be scheduled for October 2016, submit a 2017 Operating Budget Request for Toronto Public Health incorporating the following:
a. the following efficiencies identified in Attachment 2 to the report (September 12, 2016) from the Acting Medical Officer of Health:
- Student Nutrition Inflation - cost of food reduction
- line by line non-payroll spending review
- 311 Inter Divisional Charge value-based reduction
b. the following new and enhanced services:
- funding for Immunization to meet legislated standard adjusted for a two-year phase-in, in two equal parts
- Toronto Urban Health Fund - Year 3
c. price changes to recover full costs in the Food Handler Certification Program
d. no reduction to the Vector Borne Disease Program nor the Student Nutrition Program
2. Requested the Acting Medical Officer of Health to report further to the October 2016 meeting on:
a. Food Safety and Safe Water Inspections
b. Rockcliff-Smythe Community Health Officer
c. Student Nutrition Program - Year 5
d. what has been done to date on obtaining corporate sponsorship and future plans for obtaining corporate sponsorship for the Student Nutrition Program
3. Confirmed its instructions in closed session requesting the Acting Medical Officer of Health to report further to the October 2016 meeting.
Decision Advice and Other Information
The Director, Finance and Administration, Public Health gave a presentation on the Toronto Public Health, 2017 Operating and the 2017 - 2026 Capital Budget and Plan Request.
Origin
Summary
This report outlines the Toronto Public Health (TPH) 2017 Operating Budget Submission for consideration by the Board of Health. The TPH 2017 Operating Budget Submission totals $238,796.9 thousand gross / $57,722.3 thousand net. This submission is $6,044.3 thousand gross and $1,200.5 thousand net below the 2016 Operating Budget. The net decrease of $1,200.5 thousand from the 2016 Approved Operating Budget is comprised primarily of: 1) base budget increases for the salaries & benefits, and non-payroll economic factors of $1,099.3 thousand net; 2) budget reduction options of $2,633.3 thousand net; and, 3) new & enhanced services of $333.5 thousand net.
Background Information
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2016/hu/bgrd/backgroundfile-96180.pdf
Attachment 1: Toronto Public Health 2017 Operating Budget Submission
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2016/hu/bgrd/backgroundfile-96338.pdf
Attachment 2: Summary of Reduction Options
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2016/hu/bgrd/backgroundfile-96339.pdf
Attachment 3: Confidential - Summary of Confidential Reduction Options
(September 26, 2016) Presentation from the Director, Finance and Administration, Public Health on Toronto Public Health 2017 Operating and 2017 - 2026 Capital Budget and Plan Request
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2016/hu/bgrd/backgroundfile-96699.pdf
Speakers
Motions
That:
1. The item be referred to the Acting Medical Officer of Health with the request that she, at a Board of Health Budget Committee meeting to be scheduled for October 2016, submit a 2017 Operating Budget Request for Toronto Public Health incorporating the following:
a. the following efficiencies identified in Attachment 2:
- Student Nutrition Inflation - cost of food reduction
- line by line non-payroll spending review
- 311 Inter Divisional Charge value-based reduction
b. the following new and enhanced services:
- funding for Immunization to meet legislated standard adjusted for a two-year phase-in, in two equal parts
- Toronto Urban Health Fund - Year 3
c. price changes to recover full costs in the Food Handler Certification Program
d. no reduction to the Vector Borne Disease Program nor the Student Nutrition Program
2. The Acting Medical Officer of Health be requested to report further to the October 2016 meeting on:
a. Food Safety and Safe Water Inspections
b. Rockcliff-Smythe Community Health Officer
c. Student Nutrition Program - Year 5
That the referral motion be amended by adding the following request:
1. That the Acting Medical Officer of Health be requested to report on the health promotion and public relations budget and where reductions can be made.
That the referral motion be amended by adding the following request:
1. That the Acting Medical Officer of Health be requested to report on the breakdown of different levels of staffing and options for further staffing reductions that do not impact services levels.
That the referral motion be amended by adding the following request:
1. That the Acting Medical Officer of Health be requested to report on what has been done to date on obtaining corporate sponsorship and future plans for obtaining corporate sponsorship for the Student Nutrition Program.
11:54 p.m. - That the Committee recess to meet in closed session to consider Item HU8.1 titled Toronto Public Health 2017 Operating Budget Request, as it pertains to personal matters about an identifiable individual, including municipal or local board employees, and as it pertains to matters about labour relations and employee negotiations.
That the Committee confirm the instructions in closed session requesting the Acting Medical Officer of Health to report further at a meeting to be scheduled for October 2016.