Advancing the Community Benefits Framework

2. City Council direct the Chief Procurement Officer, in collaboration with the Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration, the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, the Manager, Confronting Anti-Black Racism Office and the Manager, Indigenous Affairs Office, to aspire to an annual 10 percent increase starting in 2021, in the number of vendors on the City's diverse supplier list, with a focus on increasing representation of Black-owned and Indigenous-owned businesses, to be in alignment with the Confronting goal to achieve 7.5 percent Black business enrollments in the City's diverse supplier list, by identifying or creating business development opportunities, conducting targeted outreach with business and community stakeholder groups, and reviewing and addressing potential barriers to participation including supplier council certification. 3. City Council direct the Chief Procurement Officer, in collaboration with the Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration, to conduct a five-year review (2017-2021) of the Social Procurement Policy to identify successes and improvements needed in the Social Procurement Policy, and to report back to the Executive Committee in the third quarter of 2022. 4. City Council direct the Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration to include the Toronto Community Benefits Network and other Stakeholders, as strategic partners in the Community Benefits Advisory Group and in the community benefits work, the terms of which will be established in an Memorandum of Understanding or Terms of Reference to ensure the expertise of all stakeholders is leveraged to support: a. community engagement; b. processes for project assessment and target setting; c. outreach; and d. recruitment and placement activities associated with the Community Benefits Framework. 5. City Council direct Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration, in collaboration with the Chief Purchasing Officer, the General Manager, Employment and Social Services, the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, and the City Solicitor, to strive to achieve a 10 percent EQUITY target in construction projects procured by Purchasing and Materials Management Division over $50 million, and Housing Now projects and to report back to the Economic and Community Development Committee in the second quarter of 2022 on the feasibility of making this 10 percent hard target mandatory. 6. City Council direct the Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration, in collaboration with the General Manager, Toronto Employment and Social Services the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, and the Chief Purchasing Officer, to incorporate, through the scope of the Community Benefits Framework implementation program, aids for small businesses that might be affected by long-term government infrastructure projects on main streets, such as the Eglinton LRT Crosstown construction. 7. City Council request the Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration to consult with the Toronto District School Board leadership of Step to Construction regarding their vision, program and recommendations to have students placed on job sites on Toronto's publicly funded construction projects; and to explore and consider a minimum hard target for equity seeking groups for hiring in construction across all large scale infrastructure projects. 8. City Council request the Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration to give consideration to defining the geographic catchment area/areas that the community benefits framework and community benefits agreements will apply to, and to include these definitions in future reports to City Council.