Motions – Physical Distancing Centres

Council was asked to

1. staff be directed
   • Expand on the criteria used to identify factors and considerations for choosing recreation/community centres as short-term centres opened to respond to emergencies in the housing and homelessness sector to include applying a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) lens in the future
   • their proximity to schools or licensed childcare centres
   • to consult with those entities to understand the potential impacts
   • Provide the criteria and scoring used since 2020 to pick which city facilities to be used as Physical Distancing Centres, and specifically the scoring for all facilities considered in 2023, before picking Heron Road and Dempsey Jim Durrell and Bernard-Grandmaître locations