That the following actions be taken with respect to the 2023 Annual Budget Update:
a) Case #P-10 - Roadways - Reduction to Previously Approved "For Consideration" Business Cases for Streetlights and Winter Maintenance and Walkway Maintenance Reductions - Operating Expenditure ($196,000); Tax Levy ($196,000); Capital Expenditure ($200,000); BE APPROVED;
i) Case #P-10a – Reduce previously approved additional investment in local improvement for streetlights – Operating Expenditure ($136,000); Tax Levy ($136,000); Capital Expenditure ($200,000);
ii) Case #P-10b – Reduce annual walkway maintenance – Operating Expenditure ($60,000); Tax Levy ($60,000)
b) Case #P-11 - Parks and Horticulture - Reduction in Horticulture Aesthetics - Operating Expenditure ($200,000); Tax Levy ($200,000) BE APPROVED;
c) Case #P-14 - Revised Neighbourhood Strategic Initiatives and Funding - Humane Society of London and Middlesex Animal Campus - Operating Expenditure $3,000,000; Tax Levy $0 BE APPROVED; it being noted that his will be funded from the Operating Budget Contingency Reserve;
d) Case #P-16 - Community Improvement/BIA - Funding for the Hamilton Road BIA - Operating Expenditure $100,000; Tax Levy $100,000 BE APPROVED, and that the property tax levy funding to Business Improvement Areas BE REVIEWED in conjunction with the consideration of future multi-year budget updates, and during this term of Council, in 2026;
e) Case #P-17 - Capital Financing - Reduction to Previously Approved "For Consideration" Business Case - Infrastructure Gap RF Contribution - Operating Expenditure ($475,000); Tax Levy ($475,000) BE APPROVED;
f) that consideration of Business Case #P-13 - Information Technology - Eliminate Printing of Council Agenda Materials - Operating Expenditure ($8,000); Tax Levy ($8,000) BE REFERRED to the next multi-year budget process, 2024 to 2027; and,
g) that consideration of Budget Amendment #P-15 - Neighbourhood Strategic Initiatives and Funding Increase to Neighbourhood Decision Making Program - Operating expenditure $250,000; Tax Levy $250,000, BE REFERRED to the next multi-year budget process 2024-2027.