{"id":5532,"date":"2009-07-16T12:27:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T16:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=5532"},"modified":"2009-07-16T13:59:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T17:59:04","slug":"mayor-organizing-council-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/07\/16\/mayor-organizing-council-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Organizing Council Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/17\/20165926_02cbdd2f55.jpg?v=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Toronto City Council Chambers\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/17\/20165926_02cbdd2f55.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spacing learned early this afternoon that Mayor David Miller has started organizing the second meeting of Toronto City Council since\u00a0the\u00a0strike\u00a0by civic employees\u00a0began on June 22.<\/p>\n<p>The right-wing of city council has been trying to petition for a meeting for several days, which the mayor and his allies\u00a0had resisted. According to Spacing&#8217;s sources, Mayor Miller\u00a0now believes that there are a critical number of &#8220;urgent&#8221; items that require a decision by council. Spacing has also\u00a0been told that the\u00a0list of urgent items\u00a0is in the process of being assembled by City Manager Joe Pennachetti [Correction: this post\u00a0originally named Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone in place of Pennachetti].<\/p>\n<p>The location of the upcoming city council meeting is also to be determined. When city council <a href=\"http:\/\/torontoist.com\/2009\/06\/a_bumpy_streetcar_ride.php\">met on June 26 <\/a>for an emergency meeting to approve the TTC&#8217;s purchase of new streetcars, the meeting was held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.<\/p>\n<p>A regularly scheduled council meeting\u00a0on the docket for\u00a0July 6 and 7 was cancelled at the time because it wasn&#8217;t deemed to be necessary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> As of 1:00PM, the National Post\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/np\/blogs\/toronto\/archive\/2009\/07\/16\/toronto-on-strike-mayor-now-mulling-council-meeting.aspx\">confirmed<\/a> this story, quoting a letter distributed to city councillors saying the meeting is expected to be held within one or two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photograph by <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stevenh\/\"><em>Steven H<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing learned early this afternoon that Mayor David Miller has started organizing the second meeting of Toronto City Council since\u00a0the\u00a0strike\u00a0by civic employees\u00a0began on June 22. The right-wing of city council has been trying to petition for a meeting for several days, which the mayor and his allies\u00a0had resisted. According to Spacing&#8217;s sources, Mayor Miller\u00a0now believes<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/07\/16\/mayor-organizing-council-meeting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Mayor Organizing Council Meeting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4010,"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":[14],"tags":[6435,425,3949,1103,5765,426,12743,953,641,1316,894,889],"class_list":["post-5532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spacing","tag-city-manager","tag-david-miller","tag-deputy-mayor","tag-joe-pantalone","tag-joe-pennachetti","tag-mayor","tag-mayor-organizing-council","tag-metro-toronto-convention-centre","tag-national-post","tag-the-national-post","tag-toronto-city-council","tag-ttc"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mayor Organizing Council Meeting - 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\/2009\/07\/16\/mayor-organizing-council-meeting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mayor Organizing Council Meeting - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spacing learned early this afternoon that Mayor David Miller has started organizing the second meeting of Toronto City Council since\u00a0the\u00a0strike\u00a0by civic employees\u00a0began on June 22. 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