Item - 2019.OM2.1
Tracking Status
- City Council adopted this item on January 30, 2019 with amendments.
OM2.1 - Heat Relief Services (2018.HL29.2)
- Decision Type:
- ACTION
- Status:
- Amended
- Wards:
- All
City Council Decision
City Council on January 30 and 31, 2019, adopted the following:
1. City Council request the Deputy City Manager, Corporate Services, to work with the Deputy City Manager, Community and Social Services, as well as other relevant City Divisions and Toronto Public Health, to promote heat relief strategies, using the initiatives identified in the report (November 14, 2018) from the Medical Officer of Health, as part of their divisional mandates.
2. City Council request the Deputy City Manager, Corporate Services, in collaboration with Toronto Public Health, to lead an interim work group to coordinate the implementation of heat relief strategies for 2019 and to include in its work plan the creation of a by-law for property owners to maintain an up-to-date voluntary contact list of their tenants (name, phone numbers, special health circumstances etc.) to be used in extreme weather emergencies and to consider the feasibility of creating a cool room or air conditioned space and/or shade structure on the property.
3. City Council request the Medical Officer of Health to report to the Board of Health on possible enhancements for signage and "neighbour checking" in time for consideration for the 2020 Budget.
Background Information (City Council)
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2019/om/bgrd/backgroundfile-123705.pdf
(November 14, 2018) Revised Report from the Medical Officer of Health on Heat Relief Services
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2019/om/bgrd/backgroundfile-123947.pdf
(November 8, 2018) Report from the Medical Officer of Health on Heat Relief Services
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2019/om/bgrd/backgroundfile-123948.pdf
Motions (City Council)
That:
1. City Council amend the temperature provisions of Municipal Code Chapter 497, Heating, effective April 1 2019 to allow for variable dates as determined seasonally by the Medical Officer of Public Health, in consultation with Environment Canada.
2. City Council request the Director, Municipal Licensing and Standards, to review Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 629, Property Standards - D(4) Window protection in apartment buildings to examine the possibility eliminating the use of a 'guard' or a 'controlled sash' that restricts outside air into apartment units and report back to General Government and Licensing Committee in the second quarter of 2019.
That Councillor Matlow be permitted to withdraw his motion 1.
That City Council request the Medical Officer of Health to report to the Board of Health on possible enhancements for signage and "neighbour checking" in time for consideration for the 2020 Budget.
That City Council amend the Board of Health recommendation 2 by adding the words "as part of this interim work group, to develop a strategy for dealing with units that are dangerous from a heat perspective" and replacing them with "to include in its work plan the creation of a by-law for property owners to maintain an up-to-date voluntary contact list of their tenants (name, phone numbers, special health circumstances etc.) to be used in extreme weather emergencies and to consider the feasibility of creating a cool room or air conditioned space and/or shade structure on the property", so that recommendation 2 now reads as follows:
2. City Council request the Deputy City Manager, Corporate Services, in collaboration with Toronto Public Health, to lead an interim work group to coordinate the implementation of heat relief strategies for 2019 and to include in its work plan the creation of a by-law for property owners to maintain an up-to-date voluntary contact list of their tenants (name, phone numbers, special health circumstances etc.) to be used in extreme weather emergencies and to consider the feasibility of creating a cool room or air conditioned space and/or shade structure on the property.