On February 19th The Toronto Cycling Committee met and at that meeting discovered that the Budget for cycling programs had not been included in the 2001 budget submission. For more information on this see the post Toronto Cycling Buget at Risk for more info. As a result the committee made the following recommendation.

The Toronto Cycling Committee requested:

(1) that the $108,000.00 operating budget be reinstated into the 2001 City budget for final consideration by City Council;

(2) that the Toronto Cycling Committee members appear concerning the cycling budget at the Joint Meeting of the Policy and Finance Committee on Friday, February 23, 2001, and that the Toronto Cycling Committee also present deputation at further Committee meetings, where possible;

(3) that the Urban Development Services Department list the cycling programs as a separate line item in all future budget submissions in order that the confusion resulting from the budget documents this year can be avoided; and

(4) that the following members of the Toronto Cycling Committee be listed as deputants at the February 23, 2001 meeting of the Policy and Finance Committee:

(a) Mr. Israel Chackowicz, CAN-BIKE Instructor;

(b) Mr. Crawford Murphy, representing Toronto Catholic District School Board;

(c) Mr. Ron Hart, representing North York Cycling and Pedestrian Committee; and

(d) Mr. Martin Koob, representing Toronto Bicycling Network.

The Joint meeting of the Policy and Finance Commtiiee and the Budget Advisory Committee was held. The Cycling Budget issue was not on the agenda for that meeting so deputations were not held.

The next opportunity for this decision to be changed will be on Thursday, March 1, 2001 at the meeting of the Budget Advisory Committee. There will not be deputations permitted on this issue but a letter from the Toronto Cycling Committee will be presented.

If you want to let the members of the Budget Advisory Committee know your feelings on the issue you can e-mail them.

Budget Advisory Committee

David Shiner (chair) councillor_shiner@city.toronto.on.ca

Paul Sutherland (vice chair) councillor_sutherland@city.toronto.on.ca

Olivia Chow - councillor_chow@city.toronto.on.ca

Ron Moeser - councillor_moeser@city.toronto.on.ca

Joe Pantalone - councillor_pantalone@city.toronto.on.ca

Jane Pitfield - councillor_pitfield@city.toronto.on.ca

David Soknacki - councillor_soknacki@city.toronto.on.ca