Board of Health
The full agenda, as filed
All 2 items in the clerk’s order. Each carries the city’s own words: the staff recommendation, what the body decided, and its status. Nothing below is written by us.
HL22.1adopted
Re-open Item HL21.3 - 2025 Board of Health Committees and Appointments
At its last meeting on January 20, 2025, the Board of Health appointed Charles Ozzoude to the Association of Local Public Health Agencies' (alPHa) Board of Directors and Board of Health Section for a term of office ending December 31, 2025, and until a successor is appointed. Staff recommended that the expenses for attending alPHa's 2025 meetings and semi-annual meetings/conferences be paid within Toronto Public Health's 2025 Approved Operating Budget. It has come to my attention that this recommendation was inadvertently omitted from this motion. By re-opening this item, I am requesting that the Board of Health make a technical amendment in order to adopt this recommendation.
The Board of Health: 1. Re-opened Item HL21.3, headed "2025 Board of Health Committees and Appointments". 2. Replaced Part 4 with the following revised Part 4: 4. Appointed Charles Ozzoude to the Association of Local Public Health Agencies' (alPHa) Board of Directors and Board of Health Section for a term of office ending December 31, 2025, and until a successor is appointed and pay expenses for attending Association of Local Public Health Agencies' 2025 meetings and semi-annual meetings/conferences within Toronto Public Health's 2025 Approved Operating Budget.
Staff recommendation as filed
Councillor Chris Moise recommends that: 1. The Board of Health re-open Item HL21.3, headed "2025 Board of Health Committees and Appointments". 2. The Board of Health replace Part 4 with the following revised Part 4: 4. Appoint Charles Ozzoude to the Association of Local Public Health Agencies' (alPHa) Board of Directors and Board of Health Section for a term of office ending December 31, 2025, and until a successor is appointed and pay expenses for attending Association of Local Public Health Agencies' 2025 meetings and semi-annual meetings/conferences within Toronto Public Health's 2025 Approved Operating Budget.
HL22.2withdrawn
Endorsing Toronto Public Health's Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Hub
Last year, as part of their announcement that new legislation would force the closure of safe consumption sites across the province, the Provincial government introduced funding for the creation of new Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) Hubs. Supervised Consumption Service sites impacted by the legislation, including the site operated by Toronto Public Health, were invited to apply to transition their services into Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment Hubs. Toronto Public Health, in partnership with multiple City Divisions, hospital, health, and community partners, applied to the Ministry of Health to establish the Downtown Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment Hub and received approval on January 2nd. While the Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment Hub model does not replace the need for supervised consumption services, the treatment, mental health, social and primary care services that will be offered through the Hub are valuable and much-needed in the downtown core.
Item HL22.2 was withdrawn from the agenda and will be considered at a future meeting date.
Staff recommendation as filed
Councillor Chris Moise Recommends that: 1. The Board of Health endorse the establishment of the City of Toronto's Downtown HART Hub as developed with partners.