Item - 2019.BU3.1

The Budget Committee requested budget briefing notes as follows:

1. The General Manager, Toronto Water, to address the feasibility under the current policy of charging for the highest parameter covered under the current Industrial Waste Surcharge program of increasing the charges levied on each of the four parameters to reduce the funding deficit in the program. Such briefing note to also advise on how implementing such increases would be phased in.

The Budget Committee also received Briefing Notes 29 and 30.

The Budget Committee, at its meeting of February 4 and 6, 2019:

1.  Deferred the consideration of item BU2.1 to the February 13, 2019 meeting of the Budget Committee along with the following motion:

Motion 1b by Councillor Mike Layton:

"That City Council direct that, effective January 1, 2019, City Council approve that the industrial waste surcharge program formula for the calculation of surcharge fees be applied to all treatable parameters that exceed the sewers by-law limits, instead of only the one parameter that exceeds the sewer by-law limits by the greatest amount, allowing full cost recovery for the wastewater services provided by the City, such surcharge to be phased in over a six year period to mitigate impacts to existing companies."

2.  Requested budget briefing notes as follows:

1. The General Manager, Toronto Water on:

a. examining the options for modifying the Block 2 Water Rate to provide economic benefits for large water consumption manufacturer's and present the implications for the increase of the discount rate using a range of 1 percent to 5 percent and consider a phase-in of options over a number of years.

b.  a list of the businesses charged under the Industrial Water Surcharge Program, and the parameters that they are exceeding to receive the surcharge; and

c.  a recommendation to move the Industrial Water Surcharge Program toward full cost recovery.