{"id":2509,"date":"2007-11-22T16:38:17","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T20:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2007-11-22T16:40:25","modified_gmt":"2007-11-22T20:40:25","slug":"civic-double-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/11\/22\/civic-double-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Civic Double Jeopardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2404\/1719628799_cda2aa113b.jpg?v=0\" height=\"334\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 334px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I must have blinked during the restructuring of City Council&#8217;s governance model because I was shocked when I was told there wouldn&#8217;t be deputations on the City&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/city_budget\/index.htm\">capital budget<\/a> at Monday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/committees\/executive-committee.htm\">Executive Committee<\/a> meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Being a little to the left of 25, I hesitate to reference the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcol days\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but until November 2006 (when Council adopted its new procedural by-law), an interested person could depute to any standing committee of Toronto City Council as long as they were addressing an item on the agenda. That&#8217;s no longer the case.<\/p>\n<p>According to Executive Committee clerk Patsy Morris, if an item is to be considered by more than one committee of Council, only one committee is required to entertain deputations. In the case of the capital budget, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/committees\/budget-committee.htm\">Budget Committee<\/a> took care of the public input requirement back on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/budget2008\/capital_schedule.htm\">November 13<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some might say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So what? The public was heard and there&#8217;s no need to delay the process.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not how City Hall should operate. As the level of government closest to the people it serves, the City of Toronto ought to err on the side public input, especially in the case of the budget since it&#8217;s the most important decision made every year and there is opportunity to change it at both the Budget Committee and Executive Committee stages.<\/p>\n<p>On a more practical level, often times, due to the size of the budget, it&#8217;s the smallest details that have the biggest micro impact that get overlooked. If Budget Committee makes a seemingly small decision, a neighbourhood association might want to point out that a particular decision, if tweaked, could have a more desirable impact.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands, if that hypothetical neighbourhood association wanted to have their voice heard, they would have to setup meetings with members of Executive Committee and lobby them in hope of getting their voice heard through a councillor. That just isn&#8217;t how it ought to be. The neighbourhood association should be able to speak for themselves like they had been able to do\u00a0until late 2006.<\/p>\n<p>While there were many positives that came out of reforming\u00a0the City&#8217;s\u00a0governance model, restricting the number of opportunities to be heard on key items wasn&#8217;t one of them.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photograph courtesy <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2404\/1719628799_cda2aa113b.jpg?v=0\"><em>arcticlamb<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must have blinked during the restructuring of City Council&#8217;s governance model because I was shocked when I was told there wouldn&#8217;t be deputations on the City&#8217;s capital budget at Monday&#8217;s Executive Committee meeting. Being a little to the left of 25, I hesitate to reference the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcol days\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but until November 2006 (when<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/11\/22\/civic-double-jeopardy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Civic Double Jeopardy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4037,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4309,756,5835,408,5134,7400,22085,7399,19,894],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-budget-committee","tag-city-council","tag-clerk","tag-councillor","tag-executive-committee","tag-patsy-morris","tag-politics","tag-procedural-by-law","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-city-council"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Civic Double Jeopardy - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/11\/22\/civic-double-jeopardy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Civic Double Jeopardy - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I must have blinked during the restructuring of City Council&#8217;s governance model because I was shocked when I was told there wouldn&#8217;t be deputations on the City&#8217;s capital budget at Monday&#8217;s Executive Committee meeting. 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