Recommendation: That, on the
recommendation of the Director of Intergovernmental and Community Liaison,
the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Campaign for a long-term federal
plan for municipal infrastructure funding: Target 2014: Building our Future BE
SUPPORTED and the following resolution BE ADOPTED:
Development of a new long-term federal plan
for municipal infrastructure funding
WHEREAS the Building Canada
Plan and a number of important federal-provincial transfer agreements vital
to Canada’s cities and communities, will expire in March 2014;
AND WHEREAS federal investments
over the last few years have helped to slow the decline of our cities and
communities, and the Government of Canada has committed to develop a new
long-term plan for municipal infrastructure funding in consultation with
municipal and provincial/territorial governments;
AND WHEREAS a seamless
transition from the Building Canada Plan to a new long-term plan is necessary
to ensure that municipalities can continue planning their capital spending
effectively;
AND WHEREAS the Federation of
Canadian Municipalities (FCM) has launched a campaign to ensure that the new
plan reflects municipal priorities across the country and asks its member
municipalities to pass a Council resolution supporting the campaign;
AND WHEREAS the City of London
has continuing infrastructure needs, such as roads, bridges, water and
wastewater, that can only be met with through the kind of long-term planning
and investment made possible by a national plan;
AND THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED
that The Corporation of the City of London endorse the FCM campaign and urge
the Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities to work with FCM
and cities and communities to ensure the new long-term infrastructure plan
meets the core infrastructure needs of cities and communities;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that
The Corporation of the City of London urge the Minister of Transport,
Infrastructure and Communities to ensure that the new long-term
infrastructure plan is fully in place when existing programs expire in 2014
and prior to adoption of 2014 municipal budgets;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that
a copy of this resolution be sent to the Minister of Transport,
Infrastructure and Communities, to the Ontario Minister of Municipal Affairs
and Housing, to MPs Preston, Holder, Truppe and Mathyssen, MPPs Bentley,
Matthews, Armstrong and Yurek, the Ontario Minister of Infrastructure, the
Federation of Canadian Municipalities and the Association of Municipalities
of Ontario. (2012-F12-00)
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