Authority to Enter Into a Service Agreement with the Canadian Red Cross for Emergency Social Services

At the same time, City Council authorized the Deputy City Manager and Chief Financial Officer to establish a non-program account to fund and track costs related to providing emergency social services, as well as a reserve to receive annual surpluses from the non-program account and supplement funding in years that the non-program account has a deficit. In early 2013, the City transferred the Emergency Planning Unit within Shelter, Support and Housing Administration-which was responsible for delivering emergency social services-to the Office of Emergency Management. The City made this organizational change to consolidate emergency management services within Infrastructure and Development Services (formerly Cluster B). In October 2013, City Council authorized the transfer of staff and funding for salaries, benefits and administrative costs. As a result of this organizational change, formal authority now needs to be provided to the Director, Office of Emergency Management to negotiate agreements with the Canadian Red Cross and pay for the costs detailed in those agreements. This report recommends that authority be granted to the Director, Office of Emergency Management to enter into a service agreement with the Canadian Red Cross.

the Canadian Red Cross is responsible for costs within the first 72 hours of a curbside incident; b. the City is responsible for costs incurred by the Canadian Red Cross for curbside incidents that go longer than 72 hours and for emergencies; c. the City pays the Canadian Red Cross an annual contribution of up to $198,000 in order to build and maintain the organization's capacity to deliver emergency social services; d. the service agreement be for a one (1) year term, with an option to renew the agreement for four (4) additional 1 year periods (for a total of five (5) years) at the discretion of the Director, Toronto Office of Emergency Management; e. the total value of the agreement annually is $1.5 million; and f. on such other terms and conditions satisfactory to the Director, Office of Emergency Management and in a form satisfactory to the City Solicitor.