That on the recommendation of the Managing Director, Corporate Services and City Treasurer, Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director, Housing, Social Services and Dearness Home, the following actions be taken with respect to the City of London Housing Service Review:
a) the staff report dated September 16, 2019, and the subsequent updated report, BE RECEIVED;
b) Option 3 identified in the reports, noted in a ) above, BE APPROVED;
c) the Civic Administration BE DIRECTED to take all necessary steps to implement the above-noted Option 3;
d) the Civic Administration BE DIRECTED to report quarterly to Municipal Council with a status and progress update on the implementation of Option 3;
e) the City Clerk BE DIRECTED to make the necessary arrangements to bring forward the appropriate by-laws to implement actions identified in Option 3; and
f) the Civic Administration BE DIRECTED to report back to Corporate Services Committee on the feasibility of using the same approach taken for affordable housing to reduce the effective tax rate for London Middlesex Community Housing (LMCH) buildings to be equivalent to the residential tax rate, including any amendments that may be necessary to the Municipal Housing Facilities By-law to do so;
it being noted that the Strategic Priorities and Policy Committee received communications dated September 12, 2019 from D. Astolfi and J. Atkinson, and received verbal delegations and the attached submissions from the Housing Development Corporation and the London & Middlesex Community Housing.