City CouncilMeeting 40
Integrated Transition to Housing Strategy Update
Council was asked to
- Council withdraw the delegated authority to the General Manager, Community and Social Services, to buy, accept, install, contract, or approve any sprung structure project
- any recommendations regarding sprung structures presented to Committee and Council in the 2022-2026 term will include a sunset clause with a clear end date
- such recommendations will also include a transition strategy to reallocate the resources and funding of the sprung structure project(s), in the medium and long term, towards other more permanent or semi-permanent housing solutions that align with the Integrated Transition to Housing Strategy while ensuring compliance with provincial and federal funding requirements.
Lost
3 for, 21 against
- Affects
- City-wide
- Agenda item
- 14.1
- Motion number
- 2024-40-04
- City file number
- ACS2024-CSS-GEN-008
How each member voted
The recitals
- Council approved the Integrated Transition to Housing Strategy (ITHS) on July 12, 2023
- as a supplement to the ITHS report, and “As part of the work of the Emergency Shelter Crisis Taskforce, Council passed four motions on November 22, 2023, [including] directing staff to: (Item 19.3) Actively advance the option of a Sprung Structure(s), or other semi-permanent facility option” to address the shelter system capacity requirements anticipated for the coming years
- the consideration of the November 2023 motion required the suspension of the rules of procedure and, hence, received less scrutiny than normal Council business by circumventing the Community Services committee and its public delegation process
- the ITHS Update report apprises Council on staff’s efforts to install new sprung shelters as part of their delegated authority
- the City’s current approach to sprung structures has moved forward without any public delegations and visibility and without direction from Council
- staff will be making a multi-million-dollar decision on introducing a new shelter system without Council oversight
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