Authorization to Release Section 37 Funds from various developments to the Toronto Catholic District School Board towards Playground Improvements at St. Raphael Catholic School - by Councillor James Pasternak, seconded by Councillor Brad Bradford

The Toronto Catholic District School Board has identified a need for capital investments on the site, in the form of a renewed playground. This facility can continue to be used by community members to supplement their access to local outdoor play space outside of school hours. The Section 37 Implementation Guidelines (section 5.7) approved by Council in 2007 state that: "Cash contributions toward the capital improvement of school board playgrounds are eligible S.37 community benefits where the playground serves as a local park, where the public will continue to have reasonable access for the foreseeable future, and where there is no local City-owned parkland performing a similar function in the same community that could otherwise benefit from the cash contribution." The Toronto Catholic District School Board will sign an Undertaking governing the use of the funds and the financial reporting requirements prior to the funds being released from the City.

2772-2778 Keele Street (Source Account: XR3026-3700050), secured for parkland and streetscape improvements in the vicinity of the development site, in the amount of $64,854.00; and b. 3100 Keele Street (Source Account: XR3026-3701072), secured for capital improvements to parkland in the Ward, in the amount of $15,146.00. 2. City Council direct that the $80,000.00 be forwarded to the Toronto Catholic District School Board upon the signing of an Undertaking by the Toronto Catholic District School Board governing the use of the funds and the financial reporting requirements.