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The role of the executive committee is to set the City of Toronto's priorities, manage financial planning and budgeting, labour relations, human resources, and the operation of City Council. The committee existed in the old City of Toronto beginning in 1969. Before that Toronto had a Board of Control, as did former cities North York and Etobicoke.
Prior to the election, the province of Ontario passed the Strong Mayors Act, which granted the office of mayor additional powers including the development of the budget, creating council committees, appointing the chairs and vice chairs of those committees, the power to reorganize departments, appointing department heads, and appointing the city manager.
As the City of Toronto is constituted by, and derives its powers from, the province of Ontario, it is a "creature of the province" and is legally bound by various regulations and legislation of the Ontario Legislature, such as the City of Toronto Act, Municipal Elections Act, Planning Act, and others. [4]
The organisation attends public consultation meetings in an effort to advocate for increased housing development in Toronto. [6] It is a registered third party advertiser in Toronto elections. [ 7 ] More Neighbours Toronto has endorsed candidate for city council , and was the target of various investigative journalism pieces.
In 1998, following amalgamation, Works and Emergency Services Department established the Toronto Emergency Planning Office, which inherited ownership for emergency management planning and administration of the Toronto Emergency Planning Committee [2]. In 2001, a new Emergency Operations Centre was established.
Urban planning, Land economics, Housing First woman to have received a PhD in Planning in Canada [35] She was the City of Vancouver's co-director of Planning and led the community consultation of city of Vancouver's first citywide plan. [36] Ann has been a global planning advisor for many fast growing cities in China, Sweden and Australia.
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Construction in Toronto's Regent Park. The Regent Park Revitalization Plan is an initiative begun in 2005 by the City of Toronto with fellow development, government, and community partners, with a focus on rebuilding the Toronto neighbourhood of Regent Park for 12,500 residents over a 15- to 20-year period.