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Mayor challenged to reveal budget cuts
Lake. Lounging
Public works committee avoids explicitly backing or rejecting consultant’s reductions Mayor Rob Ford’s council opponents are daring him to lay his budget cuts on the table after the first committee to consider a KPMG report neither explicity endorsed nor rejected any of the consultant’s suggested cuts. “Until we get the mayor’s budget, this is a lot of talk,” Coun. Gord Perks told fellow public works committee members yesterday during a meeting that lasted almost eight hours and heard more than two dozen public deputations. At the end, Ford allies voted to push forward KPMG’s controversial suggested cuts in the public works budget, but to ask city staff to find possible efficiencies to stave off reduced street-sweeping and snow-plowing, including an end to the clearing of snow ridges left by plows at the end of suburban driveways. The committee also signalled it doesn’t want to end fluoridation of drinking water. Voted down or ignored were pleas to save the city’s ambitious recycling target, annual Envi-
“The mayor of Toronto has been in office almost eight months and he still hasn’t given us a clue where any of the savings that he promised us are going to come from.” COUN. GORD PERKS
ronment Days, a service to pick up household toxic waste, and the current “scale of bike infrastructure.” Coun. David Shiner’s successful motion was crafted in the corner of the room with input from Ford’s policy chief, Mark Towhey. The public works chair, Coun. Denzil Minnan-Wong, defended not explicitly rejecting or endorsing any of the consultant’s suggested cuts before sending them on to Ford’s powerful executive council, which will consider them Sept. 19 and recommend a budget to council a week later. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Joey, 9, left, and Keegan Edgerton, 7, of Blackstock, Ont., enjoy the cool waters of Lake Ontario at Lakeview Park in Oshawa yesterday. VINCE TALOTTA/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
City still scorching after heat alert lifted Toronto has ended a heat alert that was issued over the weekend. Environment Canada says a humidex advisory remains in effect. The heat alert was issued Saturday as hot and humid weather was forecast in southwestern and south-central Ontario. Temperatures are expected to reach the mid 30s later in the week.