Community Benefits Framework

Community benefits initiatives will establish hard targets, and report on outcomes." 2. City Council adopt the Community Benefits Framework Goal and Principles, and Implementation Plan as set out in Attachment 1 to the report (June 11, 2019) from the Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration, as amended by Part 1 above. 3. City Council direct the Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration to submit a budget proposal in the 2020 budget process for 1.0 Full Time Equivalent to support the Community Benefits Framework. 4. City Council direct the Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration, in consultation with the General Manager, Toronto Employment and Social Services, and General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, to convene a Community Benefits Advisory Group, with consideration for stakeholder membership categories as set out in Attachment 2 to the report (June 11, 2019) from the Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration. 5. City Council request the Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration, in consultation with the General Manager, Toronto Employment and Social Services and the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, to include the Toronto Community Benefits Network as one of the community representatives on the Community Benefits Advisory Group, the details of which will be clarified in a Terms of Reference by the end of 2019. 6. City Council direct the Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration to report back to Economic and Community Development Committee in the first quarter of 2022 with a status update on the Community Benefits Framework Implementation Plan, and recommendations for Community Benefits Framework future direction. 7. City Council direct the Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration, the Chief Purchasing Official, the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, and the General Manager, Toronto Employment and Social Services, in collaboration with the Community Benefits Coordinator, to provide data required to report annually starting in 2019 and going forward, on City of Toronto community benefits targets and or achievements on a project by project basis where possible, to be published on a City web page by year-end 2019, and with consideration for aligning with an open data approach. 8. City Council direct the Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration, in consultation with the General Manager, Toronto Employment and Social Services, the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, the Chief Purchasing Officer and the City Solicitor, to develop and report back in the third quarter of 2020 on: a. recommendations to advance the City of Toronto's community benefit initiatives, including additional and/or higher minimum hard targets; b. a jurisdictional scan of best practices related to hard targets on community benefits, including community engagement, criteria and actual hard targets; and c. an indication of the required resources to move the Community Benefits Framework forward. 9. City Council direct the Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration, through the Community Benefits Coordinator, to support, as resources allow, any community benefits initiatives that may fall outside the focus of the Implementation Plan but are consistent with the guiding principles of the Community Benefits Framework, including private developments on privately-owned land where community groups and developers are both willing to enter into exploratory discussions. 10. City Council request the Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration, the Chief Purchasing Officer, Purchasing and Materials Management, the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, and the General Manager, Toronto Employment and Social Services, in collaboration with the Community Benefits Coordinator, and the City Councillor for Ward 24, Scarborough Guildwood, to utilize the Sir Robert L. Borden property located at 200 Poplar Road as a job skills training centre to assist job candidates from equity seeking groups, including Indigenous peoples, by providing pre-employment training and employment supports prior to and during employment, to maximize employment retention in eastern Scarborough. 11. City Council request the Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration to include the Mount Dennis community as part of the Community Benefits Network pilot.