"Have Your Say" Amplified: Enhancing Public Consultations and Surveys - Councillor Chris Moise, seconded by Deputy Mayor Ausma Malik

In order to ensure public input always informs City policy, this motion directs the City's Communications Office to provide centralized oversight of all public consultations and surveys, with mandatory listing on Have Your Say as a condition before any consultation may inform City staff decisions.

3. City Council direct the Chief Communications Officer to ensure the listing of all consultations published by the City of Toronto that are open to the general public on the City's "Have Your Say" website contain: a. a prominently visible "open date" (for clarity, meaning the first date that a member of the public may participate in the consultation); and b. "close date" (again for clarity, meaning the last date that a member of the public may participate in the consultation). 4. City Council direct the Chief Communications Officer to ensure that the City's "Toronto.ca" homepage contains a prominent link to the City's "Have Your Say" website so that members of the public can easily navigate the City's "Have Your Say" website as soon as practicable. 5. City Council direct the Chief Communications Officer to modify the City's "Have Your Say" website to provide updated functionalities that allow members of the public to filter the list of consultations published by geographical area and topic, as soon as may be practicable. 6. City Council direct the Chief Communications Officer to ensure that the existing Weekly Councillor Updates provided by the Communications Division include a listing of all new consultations published by the City of Toronto published on the "Have Your Say" website in the preceding week, as soon as may be practicable. 7. City Council direct that the Division Head of any City division which is going to conduct a consultation published by the City of Toronto that is open to the general public, shall ensure that the Communications Division is informed prior to the commencement of the public consultation and provide all information necessary to enable the Communications Division to include the proposed public consultation on the City's "Have Your Say" website's listing of public consultation.