1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,800 So I would like to remind members of a few procedural rules for today's meeting. All electronic 2 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:10,380 devices including cellular telephones will be placed inside of the mold during the meeting. All 3 00:00:10,380 --> 00:00:16,660 microphones must be kept muted when not speaking. At the beginning of the meeting, it will conduct 4 00:00:16,660 --> 00:00:22,200 a roll call and I will record the members who are participating remotely. On any item, when 5 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:26,660 the chair asks for a mover or a seconder, please raise your hand to mover second item. 6 00:00:29,500 --> 00:00:29,980 The 7 00:00:29,980 --> 00:00:32,100 All voting will be conducted as majority votes, 8 00:00:32,380 --> 00:00:34,220 but the chair will call for all those in favor 9 00:00:34,220 --> 00:00:36,500 on all those opposed to the motion in front of the board. 10 00:00:37,140 --> 00:00:38,360 If you're opposed to the motion, 11 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:40,420 unmute your mic and indicate your opposition 12 00:00:40,420 --> 00:00:42,560 by stating your name and saying opposed. 13 00:00:43,380 --> 00:00:44,720 If you wish to speak to an item, 14 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:47,920 please send a personal WebEx chat message directly 15 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:48,860 to the chair. 16 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:52,760 The chat icon is served from the right on your control bar 17 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,220 that can be accessed by hovering over your meeting screen. 18 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:57,320 When the chair invites you to speak, 19 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,340 you can unmute yourself to speak. 20 00:00:59,340 --> 00:01:04,500 And just a reminder that this meeting is being audio and video recorded and live streamed 21 00:01:04,500 --> 00:01:06,140 on the TRCA website. 22 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:09,500 I will now conduct a roll call of the meeting. 23 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:11,260 Erika Braben, are you there? 24 00:01:15,110 --> 00:01:15,350 Erika? 25 00:01:18,300 --> 00:01:18,760 Absent? 26 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:20,080 Michelle Brown? 27 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:22,180 I am here. 28 00:01:25,010 --> 00:01:25,350 Thank you. 29 00:01:25,790 --> 00:01:26,390 Brad Shiddick. 30 00:01:33,750 --> 00:01:34,470 Tim Favry. 31 00:01:35,790 --> 00:01:37,590 I am here on the phone. 32 00:01:37,730 --> 00:01:38,790 I can't get in on the web. 33 00:01:38,910 --> 00:01:39,630 Crystal Meiki. 34 00:01:41,820 --> 00:01:42,160 Thank you. 35 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:48,710 I'm here. Good afternoon, everyone. 36 00:01:50,390 --> 00:01:51,890 Present, Scott Hendershot. 37 00:01:52,730 --> 00:01:53,270 Got it here. 38 00:01:54,530 --> 00:01:56,110 Present, Jack Heath. 39 00:01:56,950 --> 00:01:57,370 Present, 40 00:01:59,820 --> 00:02:00,480 Jim Carajanas. 41 00:02:04,700 --> 00:02:05,500 Councillor Carajanas, 42 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:10,840 I did see Councillor Carajanas earlier. 43 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:13,480 Thank you. 44 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:14,660 Max Kachar. 45 00:02:19,310 --> 00:02:19,710 Max, 46 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:22,700 absent. 47 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:23,860 John McKenzie. 48 00:02:29,620 --> 00:02:29,880 Here. 49 00:02:31,620 --> 00:02:32,560 Larry Miller, 50 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:37,600 thank you, Scott Pegg, 51 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:49,160 Theresa shootings, Theresa, 52 00:02:54,310 --> 00:02:56,270 Absent, Paul Vicente, 53 00:03:00,270 --> 00:03:01,390 Doug Willins, 54 00:03:05,590 --> 00:03:06,030 Doug Re there, 55 00:03:09,980 --> 00:03:11,640 Absent, and Chair Coin, 56 00:03:17,300 --> 00:03:18,180 and Chair Ernst. 57 00:03:21,290 --> 00:03:21,610 Thank you. 58 00:03:21,690 --> 00:03:24,810 We now have Quorum, and over to the co-chairs, the meeting is yours. 59 00:03:24,810 --> 00:03:29,670 That's where Daniel Max is here. I think he was having some of these unmuting. 60 00:03:30,330 --> 00:03:31,590 I did see that. Thank you. 61 00:03:34,950 --> 00:03:38,670 Okay. So the next items are approved. 62 00:03:38,930 --> 00:03:41,350 Well, actually there are two meeting minutes approvals. 63 00:03:43,190 --> 00:03:45,330 I guess we'll just take them in order. 64 00:03:45,570 --> 00:03:49,090 The July 25th, 2019 minutes. Any comments? 65 00:03:54,340 --> 00:03:56,160 Concerns with the approve? 66 00:03:59,490 --> 00:04:01,010 It's you shall hear our freedom. 67 00:04:01,010 --> 00:04:01,610 I 68 00:04:04,580 --> 00:04:06,640 think I saw Paul's hand seconding 69 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:16,480 and the next set of minutes was from November 28, 70 00:04:17,460 --> 00:04:22,200 2019, also in close approval 71 00:04:24,250 --> 00:04:26,950 or any comments, one comment, 72 00:04:30,220 --> 00:04:30,980 through your chair. 73 00:04:31,580 --> 00:04:39,520 I noticed that there's an inconsistency in the description besides names for Councillor 74 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:43,980 and for myself what listed for our respective cities 75 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:47,420 in the previous minutes what listed for Regent Peele? 76 00:04:47,900 --> 00:04:49,460 I'm not sure if that matters at all. 77 00:04:49,980 --> 00:04:51,440 It's just a small fix. 78 00:04:59,050 --> 00:05:01,470 So we'll adjust them both so that we reflect the cities then? 79 00:05:02,050 --> 00:05:02,330 Yes. 80 00:05:02,850 --> 00:05:03,050 Okay. 81 00:05:04,050 --> 00:05:05,510 Any other comments? 82 00:05:10,140 --> 00:05:11,400 So if there was adjustments, 83 00:05:13,660 --> 00:05:14,640 we'll give it a second. 84 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:18,860 You just gave it a move. 85 00:05:18,860 --> 00:05:20,720 We're going to move in a second after that. 86 00:05:20,860 --> 00:05:21,240 We have a move. 87 00:05:21,940 --> 00:05:22,200 Yep. 88 00:05:22,420 --> 00:05:23,800 Looks like Paul, I'll second that. 89 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:24,540 Okay. 90 00:05:29,660 --> 00:05:30,480 Item number four. 91 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:31,620 Disclosure of pd. 92 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:32,800 Interest in general. 93 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:33,640 Make sure they're up. 94 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:39,600 Who does this item? 95 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:46,700 I just for anybody to declare if they have any interest in the matters to come in. 96 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:47,000 Okay. 97 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:47,840 I believe. 98 00:05:50,130 --> 00:05:51,790 So without any disclosures. 99 00:05:52,170 --> 00:05:53,930 It's up to anybody to disclose the pd. 100 00:05:54,090 --> 00:05:54,370 Have any interest? 101 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:06,370 All right, similar to delegations, presentations and correspondence, and I think Darryl said we have nothing for those items. 102 00:06:07,450 --> 00:06:13,350 So we're just moving straight into the items for action and Darryl's presentation. 103 00:06:20,870 --> 00:06:24,890 Thank you, everybody, and welcome to PPG EMC. 104 00:06:26,450 --> 00:06:32,170 So the two reports under Section 8 are for action on your behalf. 105 00:06:32,530 --> 00:06:37,270 The first report is on the Strategic Priorities for 2020, and this is really just providing 106 00:06:37,270 --> 00:06:41,090 you with an update on the things that the team is working on on your behalf and on behalf 107 00:06:41,090 --> 00:06:42,250 of the businesses that we serve. 108 00:06:43,250 --> 00:06:49,030 Obviously, the first portion of this year has been unusual as everybody is well aware. 109 00:06:49,870 --> 00:06:54,650 So Jeff will later on in the meeting give a presentation on how we've adapted to COVID 110 00:06:54,650 --> 00:06:57,870 and how we've responded to the needs of our business community during this time. 111 00:06:58,430 --> 00:07:02,690 But the report of 8.1 really just lays out some of the things that we're working on in 2020 112 00:07:03,290 --> 00:07:07,950 to develop some energy around the program and build on the strategic refresh that was approved 113 00:07:07,950 --> 00:07:08,530 in 2019. 114 00:07:09,310 --> 00:07:12,510 I won't get into the details of the report itself. 115 00:07:12,510 --> 00:07:15,570 You have it in front of you, but the intent is really to do two things. 116 00:07:15,570 --> 00:07:19,950 One is to re-energize this group as well as the broader network, but also start to create 117 00:07:19,950 --> 00:07:24,130 a framework for improved collaboration amongst programs within TRC that lays the framework for 118 00:07:24,130 --> 00:07:28,070 leveraging better opportunities and amongst TRC's activities as we work out. 119 00:07:29,330 --> 00:07:33,210 So some of the work that we've been doing as a team is developing an integrated strategy, 120 00:07:33,630 --> 00:07:38,090 integrated through a delivery model that makes connections between things like PPG and our 121 00:07:38,090 --> 00:07:42,690 Sustainable Neighborhood Program, PPG, and our Sustainable Technology Evaluation Program, 122 00:07:42,850 --> 00:07:46,830 so that we can start to bring in some more of the programs that we offer and deliver 123 00:07:46,830 --> 00:07:50,410 to your CA and enhance the work that we're doing within the business community. 124 00:07:51,670 --> 00:07:58,970 A key part of this is the long-term financial strategy for PPG as well as the programs at 125 00:07:58,970 --> 00:07:59,470 your CA. 126 00:08:00,130 --> 00:08:04,570 We're working on a long-term financial plan that reflects this program as it continues to 127 00:08:04,570 --> 00:08:11,930 grow and evolve through the next five years as we work to implement the strategic plan 128 00:08:11,930 --> 00:08:12,310 refresh. 129 00:08:13,190 --> 00:08:17,690 And the last one, if you're looking at how, within that long-term financial plan, how 130 00:08:17,690 --> 00:08:19,330 our foundation fits within all of this. 131 00:08:20,050 --> 00:08:23,370 We have a foundation that has a long history of raising money for the communities that we 132 00:08:23,370 --> 00:08:28,090 as a conservation authority serve, we're looking at ways that we can leverage the programs and 133 00:08:28,090 --> 00:08:31,570 services we deliver to our communities to raise awareness of the foundation but also create 134 00:08:31,570 --> 00:08:36,270 giving opportunities for our community to make sure that if we as we come out of COVID those 135 00:08:36,270 --> 00:08:40,310 communities that are feeling acute financially still have access to some of the programs that 136 00:08:40,310 --> 00:08:47,030 are still vital to making. That's an overview of that. If there's any questions, I'm happy to 137 00:08:47,030 --> 00:08:47,590 entertain them. 138 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:54,240 Thank 139 00:09:00,860 --> 00:09:06,080 you for that. Just have a couple quick quick questions. One is kind of a thought. 140 00:09:07,740 --> 00:09:13,360 re-energizing the network under the heading of RASH now and particular emphasis on boards 141 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:16,820 of trade and chambers of commerce municipal economic development offices. 142 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:23,660 Can I suggest that there are members of the steering committee, and I would volunteer for 143 00:09:23,660 --> 00:09:31,360 this, that should be trying to present EPG to the boards of any of those organizations, 144 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:43,720 during the fiduciary boards for those organizations so that they can get an introduction to PPG to get it from a member of the steering committee, a member of the business community. 145 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:49,100 If that is viewed as helpful in trying to engage them. 146 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:58,320 I would hope that it would be and with the design a pretty quick presentation, most people are going to be meeting virtually so you can just dial in and make quick presentation. 147 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:05,220 and then step out of those meetings, but make it a little bit more impactful if somebody 148 00:10:05,220 --> 00:10:07,240 from the steering committee was available for doing that. 149 00:10:07,540 --> 00:10:15,280 And I'm not volunteering everybody, but you know, we can help, okay, I would expect. 150 00:10:15,700 --> 00:10:19,680 I'd say that would be a fantastic, I appreciate that. 151 00:10:20,100 --> 00:10:20,400 To River. 152 00:10:20,540 --> 00:10:20,880 Thank you, Doug. 153 00:10:22,020 --> 00:10:27,100 The send-in thing was, and again, still under the heading of rationale, and this is more 154 00:10:27,100 --> 00:10:31,040 in the nature of a thought, because I really don't know how to figure this out. 155 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:36,780 The last two bullets here, develop a long-term financial plan for sector-based programs 156 00:10:36,780 --> 00:10:39,540 and services, leverage opportunities to provide quilted employee engagement. 157 00:10:40,980 --> 00:10:46,020 I think at the next go-around, and this probably takes a little bit back to my curiosity about 158 00:10:46,020 --> 00:10:50,720 what's happening with CRCA as well earlier, so I'm really glad that John's here, so we can 159 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:53,100 deal with that under the business at the end. 160 00:10:53,100 --> 00:11:00,160 But how we tack into the federal and provincial financial challenges and opportunities as well, 161 00:11:00,260 --> 00:11:04,980 I think I'd like to hear a little bit more about how that kind of connects both from 162 00:11:04,980 --> 00:11:09,700 the business point of view, but particularly for the TRCA and PPG directly. 163 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:17,860 I, for frankly, lost track of how the governments are now financing a variety of activities 164 00:11:17,860 --> 00:11:23,740 during COVID but there's going to be a lot of work coming out of this and a lot of financial 165 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:30,460 elements to it. So I'd just like to understand how we can connect those pieces a little bit and 166 00:11:30,460 --> 00:11:35,840 maybe that's something for the next discussion. I know it could have been picked up in some of Jeff's 167 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:44,720 work but I'm thinking down the line as well. And through the chair it's John here. John thank you 168 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:54,540 I'm very excited by your question, I think it's the right question to be asking right now for our team. 169 00:11:54,840 --> 00:12:02,800 We have and working especially closely with the region appeal and I have to say with Christine to you and Andrew Barr and the team at the region. 170 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:09,760 And of course, you know, our team here that is on the call, which I'm thrilled about. 171 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:21,640 But we have such a great support from our team, especially the communication that we 172 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:22,860 continue on here. 173 00:12:23,900 --> 00:12:32,900 We've been able to get some support for the EV charging stations, and we've got a sense 174 00:12:32,900 --> 00:12:33,220 of that. 175 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:34,820 Some of that is moving in the right direction. 176 00:12:34,820 --> 00:12:39,760 and we'll be able to give you a better update on that shortly. 177 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:47,620 But on the other ones, we have been briefing the 416 caucus of MTS. 178 00:12:47,900 --> 00:12:56,820 We have had our board of directors at TRCA write to ministers in McKenna, minister Wilkinson 179 00:12:56,820 --> 00:12:57,520 and environment. 180 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:06,040 We have had a reach to the various ministers' offices, especially around designing programs 181 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:07,180 that make sense. 182 00:13:07,580 --> 00:13:11,720 As part of any infrastructure stimulus, we want to make sure that it's something that's 183 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:13,440 supported by our municipalities. 184 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:17,660 We understand they're under extreme stress on the public health side. 185 00:13:18,220 --> 00:13:24,760 So things like the local share and Leary can speak to this and this issue has come up at the 186 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:29,320 region appeal and again, Larry, your support and your conduit to the region has been very 187 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:29,620 helpful. 188 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:34,760 But this whole issue of local share and the percentage of that, most of these programs 189 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:39,920 require a significant local share and as an example, disaster mitigation adaptation funding 190 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:44,840 last year, it was 60% and 60% local share. 191 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:52,460 So the region or municipal partner had to put up 60% to get that 40% from the federal government. 192 00:13:52,460 --> 00:13:59,060 So that's very challenging, that'll be even next to impossible in this context of post-COVID 193 00:13:59,060 --> 00:14:00,120 to achieve that. 194 00:14:00,620 --> 00:14:04,860 So we've been asking for them to design programs that make more sense, where there's less local share, 195 00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:12,940 where there's the triple bottom line is accounted for, a little bit better in what they deliver. 196 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:19,120 So that messaging's gone forward, and we can speak to it in more specifics later on. 197 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:20,860 and I think that's a good idea when we come back 198 00:14:20,860 --> 00:14:23,900 and when we report back, I think we can include 199 00:14:23,900 --> 00:14:27,280 a great deal more information about our activities. 200 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:29,000 But really, a lot of it's been focused 201 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,340 at the senior levels of government 202 00:14:31,340 --> 00:14:33,860 making sure that if they are going to design programs, 203 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:35,840 that to design them with that in mind. 204 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,220 At the provincial level, we've reached out to Lori Scott 205 00:14:39,220 --> 00:14:41,940 and our Chair Jennifer Innis' of TRCA 206 00:14:42,500 --> 00:14:44,480 has been helping me on this reach out 207 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:46,960 and we've been delivering these presentations 208 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:52,580 to senior staff, and we also have, through the Climate Change panel, we have Pat Covell, 209 00:14:52,660 --> 00:14:57,560 who's the Chair of the TRCF, the Toronto Region Conservation Foundation, who's sitting 210 00:14:57,560 --> 00:14:59,980 on Minister Eurick's panel, that's on... 211 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:27,360 Climate Change Advisory Panel right now. And we, through her and through members of the panel, have been putting forward suggestions about how we could advance green, the green agenda through the economic stimulus agenda. If there's any of that that comes forward, how we could advance resiliency as a whole. So those are, that's a snapshot. I don't want to get into too much more detail, but we do have a lot of efforts underway. And Darrell, please feel free to add anything I missed. 212 00:15:32,140 --> 00:15:33,640 Thanks, John. Through the chair. 213 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:37,560 I think that, I mean, that's a pretty good overview of what's taking place. 214 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:42,020 I think what we could take is direction to staff to come back with a more detailed report 215 00:15:42,020 --> 00:15:47,580 on some of the things that John touched on as well as some other areas that we think specifically 216 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,660 applied to PPG and the membership that we serve. 217 00:15:52,140 --> 00:15:57,120 It may also be a good option for us to work with through you as the MC into the boards of trades 218 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:00,620 and chambers of commerce as well to get some input into that report from them. 219 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:06,120 If we were to frame that from two perspectives, one is what's PPG's role in supporting 220 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:12,280 the recovery, as well as what's PPG's role in supporting a recovery that improves the 221 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:15,180 sustainability performance at the same time as economic renewal. 222 00:16:17,410 --> 00:16:22,450 So getting back to some of the investment in the green economy that we'll see ideally. 223 00:16:24,490 --> 00:16:25,990 Is that what you're looking for, John? 224 00:16:29,820 --> 00:16:57,440 much better, thank you. And I appreciate the way both of you tackled that. There's going to be a lot to talk about. Pat Kobo is a great dealmaker, so it'll be, see how to reforming next time you're chatting with her, but, you know, she's the kind of person that we should also be having the right kind of dialogue with as we kind of treat this as well, given her understanding of the business community as well. 225 00:16:59,480 --> 00:16:59,960 Okay, 226 00:17:05,980 --> 00:17:09,460 so the next item up is proposed 2020 meeting schedule. 227 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:21,280 So the next report is 8.2 is really just an overview of the meeting schedule for the 228 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:22,200 remainder of the year. 229 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:27,600 We currently have them set it, and as I mentioned in my email last week, as they're set 230 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:32,100 at 6.30, sort of anticipating that this will drag on for a while yet. 231 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:35,080 Our goal is to have these meetings be efficient with your time. 232 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:38,080 If there's a significant conflict by all means, let me know. 233 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:45,000 We've aimed to work these meeting dates around council schedules wherever possible that we 234 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:45,420 can see. 235 00:17:46,460 --> 00:17:51,140 However, if there's something that we've missed, let Jeff or I know, and we can work with 236 00:17:51,140 --> 00:17:51,760 the clerk's office. 237 00:17:52,360 --> 00:17:53,220 If there's a major conflict. 238 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:58,000 Sorry to interrupt, but could we get a mover and a seconder for 8.1, please? 239 00:17:58,320 --> 00:17:59,260 Oh, sorry, yes. 240 00:18:04,420 --> 00:18:05,020 Chris and Jack. 241 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:06,120 So is this Chris? 242 00:18:06,340 --> 00:18:06,440 Yes. 243 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:07,940 Okay. 244 00:18:07,940 --> 00:18:08,040 Okay, 245 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:25,360 so we have a mover in the secondary, move on to item 8.2, 246 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:32,600 anything else on 8.2? 247 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:33,980 Or should we move from there? 248 00:18:34,780 --> 00:18:36,780 A mover in the secondary on 8.2? 249 00:18:42,220 --> 00:18:46,860 For a mover, he did not see enough of the faces here for the secondary. 250 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:49,160 Very. 251 00:18:55,120 --> 00:18:59,340 Okay, so item 9.1, update on the PPG programming. 252 00:19:03,700 --> 00:19:06,360 Okay, fantastic. Tom John, can you hear me? 253 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:08,940 Again, yes. 254 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:10,120 Perfect. 255 00:19:11,500 --> 00:19:15,220 Okay, thanks very much. So fantastic to meet everyone on the line today. 256 00:19:15,580 --> 00:19:20,080 My name is Jeff Roberts and there are a few individuals here that I haven't had the chance to meet yet. 257 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:26,980 So pleasure to to eat you individuals and hope that we get opportunities to meet face-to-face soon 258 00:19:27,780 --> 00:19:29,860 or at least computer to computer. 259 00:19:29,860 --> 00:19:36,240 So, my background, I'm incoming into the World Senior Manager with Partners in Project 260 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:36,620 Green. 261 00:19:37,180 --> 00:19:43,440 I come from a 10-year background in Sustainability, predominantly in the consulting world, working 262 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:48,900 for a few different professional services firms, and engineering firms like Pinchin and 263 00:19:48,900 --> 00:19:49,340 Deloitte. 264 00:19:50,460 --> 00:19:57,960 So, I won't deliver that point, but pleasure to meet you all, and this item on the agenda 265 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:03,740 really just to cover some of the ways in which our service offerings and programming have been 266 00:20:03,740 --> 00:20:07,240 adapted in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. 267 00:20:09,620 --> 00:20:11,880 So we'll proceed to the next slide please. 268 00:20:13,860 --> 00:20:17,700 And if I can give you the summary in the three main points, it would be these three. 269 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:22,840 The majority of our programs and deliverables within the PPG team here at TRCA 270 00:20:23,460 --> 00:20:28,520 continue and are on schedule and the second point would be that we're converting 271 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:32,540 naturally all of our formerly in-person events meetings conferences and 272 00:20:32,540 --> 00:20:37,100 roundtables to virtual environments at least for the time being and then the 273 00:20:37,100 --> 00:20:41,960 third point would be that we've increased the focus of our programming and our 274 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:50,580 cross promotion on elements that allow the residents of our jurisdictions as 275 00:20:50,580 --> 00:20:53,020 as well as the businesses that are part of our member network 276 00:20:53,580 --> 00:20:56,600 to implement sustainable practices within the home. 277 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,760 So there are a couple of key developments 278 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:02,440 in those areas that we'll go through 279 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:03,320 over the coming slides. 280 00:21:06,810 --> 00:21:10,730 In particular, I think what I'll do is I'll give a very quick, 281 00:21:10,750 --> 00:21:11,950 maybe one or two seconds run down 282 00:21:11,950 --> 00:21:13,670 of some of these programs for any individuals 283 00:21:13,670 --> 00:21:15,330 who could use a refresher. 284 00:21:16,010 --> 00:21:18,950 The Energy Leaders Consortium has been meeting 285 00:21:18,950 --> 00:21:27,310 for several years now, and it's a roundtable style committee where energy leaders across 286 00:21:27,310 --> 00:21:34,170 multiple industries can come together, share best practices, and learn from industry experts. 287 00:21:35,090 --> 00:21:40,530 So, as far as adapting the programming to COVID-19, we've moved these consortium meetings to 288 00:21:40,530 --> 00:21:48,110 an online setting, and we do some mix of a roundtable session where our members can share best 289 00:21:48,110 --> 00:21:53,870 practices and seek support and advice from each other, as well as guest speakers and 290 00:21:53,870 --> 00:21:54,750 informational content. 291 00:21:55,130 --> 00:21:59,930 So some months it will be both, some months it will be one or the other, but we've continued 292 00:21:59,930 --> 00:22:02,490 to see good movement in progress for the ELC. 293 00:22:03,870 --> 00:22:04,770 So next slide please, 294 00:22:07,420 --> 00:22:09,820 an additional consortium that we're running that's focused on energy 295 00:22:09,820 --> 00:22:13,980 management is the small and medium enterprise energy management consortium. 296 00:22:13,980 --> 00:22:20,080 So, this is a neat program partially funded by the IESO that allows us to provide funding 297 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:27,620 to up to 10 small and medium enterprises to implement sustainable and energy reduction 298 00:22:27,620 --> 00:22:31,020 either monitoring or energy reduction technologies. 299 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:39,880 So, at present, we have five of the 10 locked in and confirmed contractually, and there are 300 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:43,860 two contracts that are in the works and likely to be wrapped up within the next 301 00:22:43,860 --> 00:22:48,920 several weeks. And so we anticipate that we'll have seven of the ten confirmed 302 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:55,280 and likewise we've moved these quarterly workshops into an online space 303 00:22:55,280 --> 00:23:00,560 and are meeting the demand for some of the workshops in sort of a conversion 304 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:04,900 fashion with our green economy webinar series which we've also 305 00:23:04,900 --> 00:23:08,820 kicked off in view of the COVID pandemic. 306 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:11,160 So next slide, please. 307 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:18,280 Our events are a few of our sort of hallmark offerings, 308 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:22,280 and at least for the PBG Connect Spring Networking event, 309 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:24,800 we move that as well to an online setting. 310 00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:27,560 I had a solid attendance of over 200 311 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:31,560 and had panelists including John Coyne 312 00:23:32,300 --> 00:23:35,040 to present on the topic of plastic mitigation. 313 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:43,040 And we followed that up with a networking session after the webinar to sort of mimic the typical 314 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:44,940 PPG Connect Spring Networking event. 315 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:54,220 And in view of the fact that a lot of our members are looking for ways to continue to pursue training professional development 316 00:23:54,220 --> 00:24:02,080 and sustainable practices, even in a time when face-to-face meetings aren't really on the table. 317 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:06,640 We kicked off the Green Economy Webinar Series, which is a monthly series of webinars, 318 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:13,140 where topics really vary every month, and we tend to bring in industry experts 319 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,440 who can provide some useful content for our members. 320 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:22,180 So we just had one on May 27th on the business case for a natural infrastructure, 321 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:26,000 collaborating with some of our other TRCA partners, 322 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:30,140 and our next is on June 24th on Sustainability Reporting, 323 00:24:30,140 --> 00:24:32,640 with an industry partner named FIGBITES. 324 00:24:33,420 --> 00:24:34,300 So looking forward to that one. 325 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,420 And if anyone, by the way, has questions on 326 00:24:37,420 --> 00:24:39,480 any of the Green Economy webinar series, 327 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:41,180 please don't hesitate to reach out. 328 00:24:42,300 --> 00:24:45,960 And finally, just by way of update on the PPG forum, 329 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:48,860 which is slated for November 2020. 330 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:51,820 Naturally, we'll have to see how things evolve 331 00:24:51,820 --> 00:24:54,520 in the coming months as far as program for that event. 332 00:24:55,420 --> 00:24:55,940 Next slide, please. 333 00:25:02,970 --> 00:25:05,250 So some of our programs that are continuing 334 00:25:05,250 --> 00:25:10,370 largely affected. One example would be our material exchange program. This is a 335 00:25:10,370 --> 00:25:15,970 really neat program that allows businesses to use our network and our 336 00:25:15,970 --> 00:25:20,450 research capabilities to connect with either other businesses within our 337 00:25:20,450 --> 00:25:28,190 jurisdictions or I guess we may be one slide behind. Could we proceed to the 338 00:25:28,190 --> 00:25:30,250 material exchange slide? Awesome. Thanks Daniel. 339 00:25:33,450 --> 00:25:34,530 So as I was saying the material 340 00:25:34,530 --> 00:25:40,810 exchange program allows businesses to connect to either other businesses or community groups 341 00:25:40,810 --> 00:25:49,390 to make use of excess material and avoid the landfill, save money, and overall improve their 342 00:25:50,210 --> 00:25:55,810 sustainability in-house. So one recent example of this, we connected TNO, the neighborhood organization, 343 00:25:56,590 --> 00:26:02,210 which is a community group in Toronto with Air Canada to use some excess banner material 344 00:26:02,210 --> 00:26:07,150 that they were able to convert into masks for frontline health care workers. 345 00:26:07,910 --> 00:26:11,450 We continue to see good demand for the Material Exchange program. 346 00:26:12,130 --> 00:26:17,750 It's intrinsically not the type of program that requires a lot of face-to-face interaction. 347 00:26:18,430 --> 00:26:24,050 And so generally speaking, that proceeds unabated in view of COVID-19. 348 00:26:25,930 --> 00:26:29,070 Many of you, of course, will be familiar with the PPG clienting events. 349 00:26:29,070 --> 00:26:33,530 Typically, we have a four per year as well as two private events. 350 00:26:34,450 --> 00:26:38,930 In the meantime, they have been postponed, but we are looking to revisit the possibility 351 00:26:38,930 --> 00:26:44,430 of doing some in either late summer or early fall, depending on the public health guidelines 352 00:26:44,430 --> 00:26:45,870 that are passed on. 353 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:53,140 And an additional program that you may be familiar with is our recycling collection drive. 354 00:26:53,940 --> 00:26:59,060 This program is rolled out as part of our people power challenge, which I'll move to in a moment. 355 00:26:59,060 --> 00:27:06,960 And again, this program is slated to continue, but it will depend on whether our members' 356 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:12,180 workplaces are filled at the time the fall comes around. 357 00:27:15,180 --> 00:27:19,580 So people power challenge, I should say next slide please, 358 00:27:21,660 --> 00:27:22,420 and next slide please. 359 00:27:25,100 --> 00:27:30,240 So the people power challenge is PBG's flagship employee engagement program. 360 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:37,020 It's a turn key sustainability program that allows our members to really drive employee 361 00:27:37,020 --> 00:27:43,460 engagement and keep sustainability top of mind in the midst of our modern sort of workplace 362 00:27:43,460 --> 00:27:45,540 where there are a million one priorities. 363 00:27:46,260 --> 00:27:50,820 And it gives our members really great resources because we've heard feedback over and over 364 00:27:50,820 --> 00:27:53,600 again that our members are very interested in sustainability. 365 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:58,740 Their employees are very interested in sustainability but they just don't have their resources or 366 00:27:58,740 --> 00:28:01,420 for necessarily the information and tools 367 00:28:01,980 --> 00:28:04,440 to drive those sustainability practices 368 00:28:05,780 --> 00:28:07,600 within those workplaces. 369 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:10,740 And so next slide, please. 370 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,800 He improvements that we're making to the program 371 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:18,160 for this year include changes that we've made 372 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:22,700 obviously in view of COVID-19 to allow the program 373 00:28:22,700 --> 00:28:25,620 to proceed online and in virtual settings 374 00:28:25,620 --> 00:28:27,520 as well as some updates that we've made 375 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,600 based on debrief conversations with the participants from prior years. 376 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,480 One neat aspect that we're including this year 377 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:39,440 is integrating the UN SDGs or sustainable development goals, 378 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,840 such that competitive will receive a final report indicating 379 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:47,180 what actions were taken and the support of which SDGs. 380 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:53,020 And we've also, as I mentioned, increased the touch points throughout the program 381 00:28:53,020 --> 00:29:00,360 So that each individual participating at the participating workplaces will get more 382 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:05,240 touchpoints with us, additional webinars and training opportunities. 383 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:07,660 So next slide please. 384 00:29:10,380 --> 00:29:15,000 In particular as it relates to COVID, naturally we've moved the training and kickoff events 385 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:16,480 to be delivered online. 386 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:23,380 As I mentioned, we formally did in-person workshops and we've now moved these to be via webinar 387 00:29:24,020 --> 00:29:27,280 and increase the quantity of these webinars. 388 00:29:28,540 --> 00:29:31,840 As mentioned, the Recycling Collection Drive is planned to proceed, 389 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,180 but naturally that will be a touch and go 390 00:29:34,180 --> 00:29:37,480 and will update as we get closer to the date. 391 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,060 And we also have a September shoreline cleanup event planned. 392 00:29:41,860 --> 00:29:45,880 But we'll update the exact structure of that 393 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,480 based on public health guidelines at the time. 394 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:51,420 So next slide please. 395 00:29:52,580 --> 00:29:57,960 just for information of the group to have a sense of when this 396 00:29:57,960 --> 00:29:59,700 for a challenge one. 397 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:14,680 On the program, it'll be launching August 4th, so it'll be August, September, October. So we'll continue to recruit through June and then train the champions from each organization in July for our launching August. 398 00:30:17,900 --> 00:30:23,440 Okay, so that's the conclusion of the presentation. Happy to turn it back over to John Todd. 399 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,000 Okay, any questions or comments on that? 400 00:30:32,030 --> 00:30:36,350 Sorry, I'd like to start with the chair. My apologies for 401 00:30:36,350 --> 00:30:38,630 I'm not introducing Jeff at the other side of this. 402 00:30:39,930 --> 00:30:43,130 We've been on so many of these webinars and other online forums, 403 00:30:43,130 --> 00:30:44,490 so I just assumed that everybody knew Jeff, 404 00:30:44,670 --> 00:30:46,230 but we were very pleased that Jeff joined the team 405 00:30:46,230 --> 00:30:47,590 a week before COVID happened. 406 00:30:47,870 --> 00:30:49,470 So he's really gotten his feet 407 00:30:49,470 --> 00:30:51,110 within an unusual circumstance. 408 00:30:52,050 --> 00:30:53,970 It's unusual enough to be working in a place 409 00:30:53,970 --> 00:30:55,630 where you've been for a long time, 410 00:30:55,830 --> 00:30:58,290 but then to find a way to get to know everybody 411 00:30:58,290 --> 00:31:00,270 and get to know the systems from home 412 00:31:00,270 --> 00:31:01,450 has been particularly challenging. 413 00:31:01,630 --> 00:31:02,530 And he's rose to the challenge. 414 00:31:02,710 --> 00:31:05,090 So I want to welcome Jeff to the EMC 415 00:31:05,090 --> 00:31:07,410 and thank him for all the work he's done over the last 416 00:31:07,410 --> 00:31:08,870 several months as we've navigated. 417 00:31:15,170 --> 00:31:16,830 He doesn't look to hurt Darrell. 418 00:31:18,990 --> 00:31:20,530 It must have happened before. 419 00:31:22,530 --> 00:31:23,190 No comments. 420 00:31:23,970 --> 00:31:25,050 He's going to use the phone already. 421 00:31:27,410 --> 00:31:31,070 If I may ask a question or make a comment to Jeff. 422 00:31:31,210 --> 00:31:32,310 Thank you very much for that report. 423 00:31:32,690 --> 00:31:34,430 Jeff, and I know how challenging it is, 424 00:31:34,530 --> 00:31:36,630 trying to put everything together this way. 425 00:31:37,010 --> 00:31:39,050 The comment relates to the shoreline cleanup. 426 00:31:39,850 --> 00:31:43,430 If that goes ahead, or if it goes ahead in some fashion, 427 00:31:43,690 --> 00:31:48,870 do you find a way to repeat or restate or reinvigorate 428 00:31:48,870 --> 00:31:51,030 the entire discussion around plastics? 429 00:31:51,850 --> 00:31:56,050 We will have been several months since we engage on that. 430 00:31:56,230 --> 00:31:57,750 And while the discussions are taking place 431 00:31:57,750 --> 00:32:01,350 in a number of areas, the whole thrust 432 00:32:01,350 --> 00:32:05,410 of a plastic solution crisis in waterways, 433 00:32:05,930 --> 00:32:07,490 I think there's an opportunity not just 434 00:32:07,490 --> 00:32:13,730 to talk about the shoreline cleanup but more broadly capture that plastic pollution agenda 435 00:32:13,730 --> 00:32:19,350 a little bit more so we need a little bit more air in that balloon for all of us in this 436 00:32:19,350 --> 00:32:19,630 area. 437 00:32:21,410 --> 00:32:22,850 How long does it take to forward? 438 00:32:24,370 --> 00:32:30,870 That's a great idea and if we're able at all, which I expect we would as we do the shoreline 439 00:32:30,870 --> 00:32:36,250 cleanup to extract the volumes and weight of the plastics that we collect that would be 440 00:32:36,250 --> 00:32:37,910 great nitric to be able to show a case. 441 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:41,860 It's not very strong. 442 00:32:42,100 --> 00:32:42,320 It's possible. 443 00:32:46,460 --> 00:32:52,380 If I may add, one of the benefits and one of the reasons we're developing this integrated 444 00:32:52,380 --> 00:32:56,000 service delivery models to be able to leverage some of the other programs we deliver in schools 445 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,260 and in the community as well. 446 00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,840 Because microplastics has to be, I'm going to have to check that out. 447 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,000 I'm a virtual community learning activity. 448 00:33:03,260 --> 00:33:08,240 So you may have seen on our Facebook Live, we did a microplastic session, I think three 449 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:13,760 three weeks to go, and it's becoming something that's really requested from our community. 450 00:33:14,060 --> 00:33:15,520 So we'll integrate those two together. 451 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:16,640 It's great. 452 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:17,160 There you go. 453 00:33:21,050 --> 00:33:21,730 Hi, everyone. 454 00:33:21,950 --> 00:33:22,650 It's Kim Fabri. 455 00:33:23,590 --> 00:33:24,410 I apologize. 456 00:33:24,790 --> 00:33:26,090 I'm not able to get on the web. 457 00:33:26,290 --> 00:33:27,410 WebEx for some reason. 458 00:33:27,830 --> 00:33:32,970 Must be a whole Internet issue, but I wasn't able to see the slides, but I'm wondering if 459 00:33:32,970 --> 00:33:41,470 there's plans with respect to any of the webinar topics around helping companies or 460 00:33:41,470 --> 00:33:45,810 organizations, including municipalities, employees, 461 00:33:45,970 --> 00:33:52,970 return to work, both from a, you know, work-out balance 462 00:33:52,970 --> 00:33:57,030 perspective and a, and actually a perspective 463 00:34:00,390 --> 00:34:02,470 of the 464 00:34:02,470 --> 00:34:05,410 potential policy that they both have decreased emissions 465 00:34:05,410 --> 00:34:11,630 associated with commuting might be a timely topic for companies 466 00:34:11,630 --> 00:34:18,230 are looking to measure those things or even smaller companies that are for organizations 467 00:34:18,230 --> 00:34:24,570 that really are looking for support with respect to developing or return to work plan. 468 00:34:38,970 --> 00:34:43,210 If I may through the chair, thank you Tim. I agree. It's an interesting idea. 469 00:34:43,470 --> 00:34:48,670 We will certainly take it back and I'll get back to you with our sort of plan of action on that. 470 00:34:49,390 --> 00:34:57,010 And through the chairs, the chairs, it's John again, John McKenzie years, I guess I just 471 00:34:57,010 --> 00:35:03,070 wanted to say one of the things that has been an advantage for our partners within the 472 00:35:03,070 --> 00:35:08,510 network and also our municipal partners, government partners at all levels, has been the, 473 00:35:09,450 --> 00:35:14,430 I guess, the workshops and the training has helped with the re-skilling and so there's been 474 00:35:14,430 --> 00:35:21,190 this effort on educating and re-skilling during this period of time that is really, you 475 00:35:21,190 --> 00:35:26,450 know, some of its organic, some of its like, this is a time to take that pause and speak 476 00:35:26,450 --> 00:35:30,170 with your team like, what do you need to develop? What are the skills, what are the offerings? 477 00:35:30,290 --> 00:35:34,490 And so we're seeing quite a bit of interest in professional development. And I know 478 00:35:34,490 --> 00:35:40,070 that through the integrated integration that is and with all of these different divisions 479 00:35:40,070 --> 00:35:45,970 now reporting to Daryl and for that coordination that's happening, I think we're putting together 480 00:35:45,970 --> 00:35:52,850 a much more refined and much more sophisticated suite of training options and accreditation 481 00:35:52,850 --> 00:35:58,810 options for professionals in this field, so I think there's going to be more to look 482 00:35:58,810 --> 00:36:04,530 forward to on that front, but I think that has been this competent opportunity that we're 483 00:36:04,530 --> 00:36:11,170 trying to seize as part of this whole, you know, you never want to waste a good crisis. 484 00:36:11,330 --> 00:36:13,490 This isn't a good crisis, but we don't want to waste it. 485 00:36:13,590 --> 00:36:20,790 And we're continuing on and trying to make those offerings forward a part of all of this. 486 00:36:21,930 --> 00:36:22,910 Yeah, you know, I agree. 487 00:36:23,090 --> 00:36:30,690 I think the increase training and education hours, or just another example of, call it more 488 00:36:30,690 --> 00:36:37,010 more positive side of this pandemic and if there are there's metrics you can track and communicate 489 00:36:37,010 --> 00:36:38,270 that's a positive. 490 00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:46,960 The pandemic's created an interesting new waste challenge too and that's what 491 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:53,420 to do with disposable PPE. I don't know if you've given that any thought but it's certainly something 492 00:36:53,420 --> 00:36:59,820 that we're starting to wrestle with. We're moving towards reusable as much as possible but still 493 00:36:59,820 --> 00:37:01,800 anticipating quite a bit of waste from this? 494 00:37:04,300 --> 00:37:10,220 Yes, from the local health authorities that it has to be medical waste, to treat it as medical waste. 495 00:37:13,300 --> 00:37:14,380 I was going to mention Todd. 496 00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:22,580 We published an article as basically as soon as we heard from the OWNA with guidance on that on the PBG website. 497 00:37:23,300 --> 00:37:26,820 So I'd be happy to sort of summarize it. 498 00:37:26,820 --> 00:37:35,420 It was basically indicated that for most workplaces, at least at the Ontario level, they were advising 499 00:37:35,420 --> 00:37:40,760 that it be treated as regular waste, but naturally in certain environments, hospitals, etc. 500 00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:44,940 They have their own sort of stipulations for how that was treated. 501 00:37:49,420 --> 00:37:56,280 If I may, apologies, I didn't catch who was the prior speaker, were there particular municipalities 502 00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:02,920 where they were requiring that the NEPPE be treated as medical waste? 503 00:38:03,940 --> 00:38:10,540 It's a little bit of both. It's Michelle here, Michelle Brown commercially in the property management industry. 504 00:38:10,660 --> 00:38:13,520 Our cleaners don't want to pick it up if it's not deemed medical waste. 505 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:19,100 So for the cleaners sake, they're asking that it's disposed of in a sanitary manner. 506 00:38:19,100 --> 00:38:25,140 and then BIA's and municipalities have all said that they prefer to send the message 507 00:38:25,140 --> 00:38:26,420 that it's all dealt with that way. 508 00:38:29,090 --> 00:38:30,090 At least in the short run. 509 00:38:32,630 --> 00:38:32,910 Understood. 510 00:38:33,310 --> 00:38:33,430 Okay. 511 00:38:33,590 --> 00:38:33,850 Thank you. 512 00:38:37,940 --> 00:38:38,880 Questions, comments? 513 00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,080 Motion in a second on 9.1? 514 00:38:50,780 --> 00:38:50,980 Lost? 515 00:38:51,140 --> 00:38:54,780 Most of your cases there, so if folks have their hands up, I can't see. 516 00:38:55,380 --> 00:38:55,980 There's John. 517 00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:58,440 We have a second. 518 00:39:02,410 --> 00:39:03,110 Michelle Williams. 519 00:39:03,790 --> 00:39:04,010 Okay. 520 00:39:04,690 --> 00:39:06,930 I see a second from few folks. 521 00:39:07,190 --> 00:39:07,670 All right. 522 00:39:09,850 --> 00:39:12,150 So move on to any new business, 523 00:39:20,210 --> 00:39:24,030 perhaps this is where we might have a few minutes of John's time. 524 00:39:25,050 --> 00:39:29,330 Yes, just to tell us how things are generally at TRCA. 525 00:39:29,550 --> 00:39:38,390 Before you got on, John, I was speaking with Darren Jeff and others about whether or not you could have given us a spend a while and weird things have been happening. 526 00:39:38,390 --> 00:39:48,250 So just to help put PPG in context, how are things at the TRCA for you and the staff and the rest of the board and so on? 527 00:39:48,970 --> 00:39:53,430 Thank you very much for the opportunity to provide an update, very happy to you. 528 00:39:53,930 --> 00:40:04,990 And I guess this has been a pretty dramatic change and there's been a huge impact on TRCA operations beginning in March of 2020. 529 00:40:04,990 --> 00:40:11,710 2020. And I guess it began with, and I don't want to recap all of this, but I think the 530 00:40:11,710 --> 00:40:18,690 key thing is that, you know, the first big thing that had implications was that we had 531 00:40:18,690 --> 00:40:24,970 to, very quickly, in short order, stop a lot of our programs involving the public. And 532 00:40:24,970 --> 00:40:31,250 the Maple Syrup Festival was, you know, hour by hour. Is it a go? Is it an a go? And unfortunately, 533 00:40:31,250 --> 00:40:37,030 It was a go in the morning by the board of directors taking into account risk mitigation 534 00:40:37,030 --> 00:40:42,830 approaches, and before in the afternoon, it had been called off for the remaining two 535 00:40:42,830 --> 00:40:42,970 weeks. 536 00:40:43,130 --> 00:40:43,830 And that's an example. 537 00:40:44,070 --> 00:40:49,730 And very similarly, we had our major tri-ECCA, the International Raging Control Association 538 00:40:49,730 --> 00:40:55,010 and TRCA conference, which because of the so many delegates coming from the United States, 539 00:40:55,710 --> 00:41:00,210 and this is such a major event, we had over 1,000 people coming. 540 00:41:00,210 --> 00:41:23,450 We had all of the speakers lined up, but all of a sudden we had to move very quickly and swiftly to cancel that as well, and to come up with an entire program to try to chunk out segments of it so that the information could still get conveyed in a, I guess, in a respectful, responsible way, but over time. 541 00:41:23,450 --> 00:41:33,510 So that was very, very dynamic and very, very, you know, very, very impactful as well, 542 00:41:33,730 --> 00:41:38,630 because, and they're also, previous list, there have been issues with the education 543 00:41:38,630 --> 00:41:39,270 sector. 544 00:41:40,430 --> 00:41:47,550 Unfortunately, Darryl and I, in particular, and we're in a situation of having to issue declared 545 00:41:47,550 --> 00:41:58,170 emergency leaves to over 175 staff at TRCA that were in the fields primarily in the education 546 00:41:58,170 --> 00:42:04,390 and training in the parks and culture divisions of the organization, also some incorporate 547 00:42:04,390 --> 00:42:11,890 services as well. But groups that were involved in vets and I guess where their income fees 548 00:42:11,890 --> 00:42:17,030 where the revenue was coming from the public and visitation, there's no visitation. So 549 00:42:17,030 --> 00:42:24,670 was very challenging and so what we did as part of that though we had developed in parallel 550 00:42:24,670 --> 00:42:31,350 with that as quickly as we could a employee redeployment program where we could try to place 551 00:42:31,350 --> 00:42:38,350 some of the displaced employees that into areas where there were positions in restoration 552 00:42:38,350 --> 00:42:44,950 infrastructure where we had funded projects. There was also a parallel effort of trying 553 00:42:44,950 --> 00:42:51,450 to ensure that our erosion hazard work, our mitigation work, some of our planting work, 554 00:42:51,770 --> 00:42:55,850 some of our restoration work that we do for municipal partners and some of our infrastructure 555 00:42:55,850 --> 00:43:03,470 was defined as an essential service in the regulations and legislation that was being 556 00:43:03,470 --> 00:43:09,130 promulgated very quickly. And so that was a huge effort in terms of the chair, 557 00:43:09,130 --> 00:43:15,310 Jennifer Innis and myself regularly frequently speaking to senior officials, ministers, 558 00:43:16,410 --> 00:43:21,750 you know, all senior bureaucrats and the province trying to make sure that we were in 559 00:43:21,750 --> 00:43:21,950 there. 560 00:43:22,810 --> 00:43:28,690 And we were, some of the wording was pretty vague, ambiguous at times, but we were able 561 00:43:28,690 --> 00:43:33,430 to move forward with most of our work being deemed as essential. 562 00:43:33,430 --> 00:43:40,710 So I think, and again, Kudos to Darrell and his leadership and the team on being able 563 00:43:40,710 --> 00:43:41,290 to adapt. 564 00:43:42,170 --> 00:43:48,030 We have a lot of great staff and very, very bright folks that have been able to completely 565 00:43:49,130 --> 00:43:57,130 change the format at which they deliver presentations and which they deliver their services to a 566 00:43:57,130 --> 00:43:58,910 virtual format almost overnight. 567 00:43:58,910 --> 00:44:14,110 And so that's been a really big effort within a lot of the programs so we've got some great staff and they've been able to continue to deliver the services through that and we've been working very closely with our municipal partners on that. 568 00:44:14,250 --> 00:44:16,830 So I talked a little bit about re-skilling. 569 00:44:17,450 --> 00:44:21,230 We've been supporting that work by the training. 570 00:44:21,230 --> 00:44:28,230 and I think long story short there's been impacts of course on our parks and 571 00:44:28,230 --> 00:44:33,410 conservation areas we are only now over the last few weeks opening them up. There's 572 00:44:33,410 --> 00:44:38,950 been such a demand for grain space that people were using them anyway so we had 573 00:44:38,950 --> 00:44:43,290 to try to figure out a way to do this safely and we are doing it safely. We also have 574 00:44:43,290 --> 00:44:47,870 a number of tenants on our properties. Treetop trekking is an example of what 575 00:44:47,870 --> 00:44:54,690 while and there's still efforts to try to support those types of uses but they have to be done safely 576 00:44:54,690 --> 00:44:58,050 and it's all subject to public health. So a lot of work underway on that. 577 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:29,900 We've received some great appreciation from the development industry by being able to maintain our levels of service. And in fact, probably increase because we don't have as much walk in traffic that diverts staff from conducting their reviews. We've actually been able to increase, turn around on planning and permit reviews and the building industry has been appreciative of that. So we've continued that whole service during 578 00:45:29,900 --> 00:45:38,040 this whole pandemic. We are at our TRC offices. We are working with a very small crew. We're 579 00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:43,260 moving into the next phases of planning. The essential work is continuing. We have a lot of 580 00:45:43,260 --> 00:45:48,520 construction underway on the waterfront and in our ravines, multiple construction sites, 581 00:45:49,220 --> 00:45:55,120 big construction sites on the shorelines. And in some cases, for example, in Lakeview or Ashbridge 582 00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:59,580 which is the rates of, we've been able to get more of the fill materials delivered 583 00:45:59,580 --> 00:46:05,720 more quickly because the roads have been less congested and we've been able to make some 584 00:46:05,720 --> 00:46:11,780 great progress by having our teams working with the industry being able to actually get 585 00:46:11,780 --> 00:46:16,240 the work done at a more accelerated rate during this period interestingly enough. 586 00:46:16,500 --> 00:46:21,360 So we are moving forward with a lot of those projects and protection of infrastructure and working 587 00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:27,640 with our partners. There's a lot of great work going on and I'm probably missing so much 588 00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:33,620 John but I did want to let you know that I think just in terms of the work that's happening 589 00:46:33,620 --> 00:46:38,720 in the teams, there's a lot of coordination that's taking place. And again, Darryl, you know, 590 00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:43,340 I want to just recognize that there's been a lot more effort at coordinating different parts of 591 00:46:43,340 --> 00:46:49,400 TRCA and, you know, having partners in Project Green, working with CINO, immigrant action 592 00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:55,040 program, the teams from other parts of the organization, government community relations. 593 00:46:55,840 --> 00:47:00,820 And all of this is connecting us better with our partners, better with industry, better 594 00:47:00,820 --> 00:47:06,800 with our municipal governments, so it's actually, there's a great deal of coordination going 595 00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:07,460 on in collaboration. 596 00:47:07,460 --> 00:47:12,200 So I'm actually really excited about the work that's coming forward and that we're going 597 00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:16,360 to be receiving as an executive committee and as a committee on this. 598 00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:19,320 So maybe I'll stop there. 599 00:47:19,460 --> 00:47:23,640 And if there's any questions myself or Darryl, please do answer them. 600 00:47:23,720 --> 00:47:26,320 Darryl, please feel free to add anything that I missed. 601 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:32,760 Well, thank you, John. 602 00:47:33,060 --> 00:47:33,600 Yeah, I don't know. 603 00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:35,800 I'm not sure that there's anything that I can add to that. 604 00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:38,540 That's a pretty comprehensive overview of the last several months. 605 00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:41,220 So thank you for writing that. 606 00:47:41,260 --> 00:47:44,880 One thing I did want to mention that has been an interesting. 607 00:47:45,740 --> 00:47:50,260 What this has done has really helped us review our protocols and procedures 608 00:47:50,260 --> 00:47:57,020 and for conducting work safely, field visits, field measures, and TRCA, because we wanted 609 00:47:57,020 --> 00:48:01,600 to, and we had to, continue some of this essential work, I mean, you can't stop an erosion 610 00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:05,440 project that's halfway through in the middle of springtime, you just can't, you gotta keep 611 00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:06,500 doing it, you gotta finish it. 612 00:48:06,860 --> 00:48:13,040 So we very quickly developed field measures, safety protocols for visits, safety protocols 613 00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:17,780 for staff that we've then shared with our municipal partners, so we've been on a leading 614 00:48:17,780 --> 00:48:24,220 edge of a lot of this protocol development. We have a strong health and safety team and a lot of 615 00:48:24,220 --> 00:48:30,380 information sharing going on with all of our partners in the network. So I guess, you know, 616 00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:36,400 and we even shared that with industry because at many times we had our contractor saying, 617 00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:41,460 I don't know if we can do this. There's questions. And so through our vendors, we shared some of this, 618 00:48:41,540 --> 00:48:46,900 they adopted our protocols in the field. And you know what, we were inspected regularly by the 619 00:48:46,900 --> 00:48:52,400 Ministry of Labor right after, and they were on our sites, and visiting us, and checking 620 00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:56,340 everything, and we had pre-audited a lot of it through our own health and safety teams, 621 00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:58,480 so that was very, very helpful. 622 00:48:59,180 --> 00:49:05,020 There's been some great work of the team, and highlighting some of this, I know there's 623 00:49:05,020 --> 00:49:09,440 been some articles that they produced, that these seminars have been well attended. 624 00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:14,460 So I just really appreciate the efforts of the team to maintain continuity during this 625 00:49:14,460 --> 00:49:14,700 period. 626 00:49:19,090 --> 00:49:24,850 That sounds fantastic. So kudos to all of you for the incredible effort, obviously, in 627 00:49:24,850 --> 00:49:32,290 not only maintaining what it is that we're up to, but enhancing, in many ways, both the 628 00:49:32,290 --> 00:49:37,090 service offer and the timeliness of those service offerings. So thank you from my perspective 629 00:49:37,090 --> 00:49:37,830 to all of you. 630 00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:43,280 Any other new business? 631 00:49:45,650 --> 00:49:48,710 No. It's Scott Hunter Shop. Can you hear me? 632 00:49:49,130 --> 00:49:53,610 Yes, again. Hey, how's it going? Sorry, you can't see me. I'm dialing in from my 633 00:49:53,610 --> 00:49:55,690 I work on a computer and I don't have a camera yet. 634 00:49:56,970 --> 00:49:59,130 But hey, nice to talk to you folks again. 635 00:49:59,270 --> 00:50:00,050 Hope everyone as well. 636 00:50:00,150 --> 00:50:01,710 So someone wants to throw out there to the team 637 00:50:01,710 --> 00:50:05,730 and see you guys think, I know we've all kind of learned a lot. 638 00:50:06,330 --> 00:50:08,970 I shouldn't say I know for sure we've all learned a lot 639 00:50:08,970 --> 00:50:11,410 from this experience over the last three plus months. 640 00:50:11,730 --> 00:50:17,290 And I know in particular, in an interesting position, 641 00:50:17,490 --> 00:50:19,590 because as you all know, I work in sustainability. 642 00:50:19,730 --> 00:50:21,130 But for the last two or three months, 643 00:50:21,130 --> 00:50:25,110 I've been focused on supporting the corporation and COVID response, actually, 644 00:50:25,190 --> 00:50:27,990 particularly with my boss and I have been focused on temperature scanning 645 00:50:27,990 --> 00:50:30,670 and supporting all of our 55 sites around the world. 646 00:50:31,450 --> 00:50:35,870 But what I wanted to suggest out here perhaps for this team into PIPG 647 00:50:36,970 --> 00:50:42,070 and TRC and such is maybe putting together something along the lines 648 00:50:42,070 --> 00:50:46,070 of a collection of lessons learned from this entire COVID experience 649 00:50:46,070 --> 00:50:48,870 from all the companies that are connected to PIPG. 650 00:50:48,870 --> 00:50:54,370 So just a few examples that kind of come to mind from my perspective is we certainly as 651 00:50:54,370 --> 00:50:57,750 a corporation, again, probably when we make aircraft engines, we all know what's happening 652 00:50:57,750 --> 00:50:59,690 with the aviation industry these days. 653 00:51:00,310 --> 00:51:02,350 We look at individually at our factories, right? 654 00:51:02,470 --> 00:51:06,290 We see our environmental metrics, metrics in general, they are all dropping. 655 00:51:06,830 --> 00:51:10,690 Not only from a factory perspective, but obviously from its muting perspective, too, as well. 656 00:51:11,810 --> 00:51:20,410 We were seeing a bit of a renewed slash catalyst for interest in the environment and maybe not 657 00:51:20,410 --> 00:51:26,110 necessarily now, but when we sort of kind of come out of this, a little bit more maturely post-COVID, 658 00:51:26,930 --> 00:51:32,170 we can kind of really start to see a bit of a better understanding and appreciation for the environment, 659 00:51:32,670 --> 00:51:37,010 considering perhaps the science of COVID was not taken seriously enough with the start. 660 00:51:37,010 --> 00:51:42,290 and now we are where we are, perhaps that same sort of analogy can be kind of applied to 661 00:51:42,290 --> 00:51:47,590 the environment, but we've all talked a lot about the opportunities to learn and educate 662 00:51:47,590 --> 00:51:52,950 in some situations where some corporations are having some downtime such that when people 663 00:51:52,950 --> 00:51:57,790 are back to some semblance of what normal is, they can kind of hit the ground running. 664 00:51:58,450 --> 00:52:02,950 We've been talking a lot about the office of the future as I'm sure everyone has working from home. 665 00:52:02,950 --> 00:52:07,890 I don't think it's going to be an odd thing out too much anymore. 666 00:52:08,090 --> 00:52:09,910 I think it's going to become much, much more common. 667 00:52:10,090 --> 00:52:11,770 And there's all sorts of discussions, of course, 668 00:52:11,770 --> 00:52:15,890 at our primary level as well going up to Raytheon technologies on that. 669 00:52:16,530 --> 00:52:19,930 The fact that it better will collect balance potentially. 670 00:52:20,110 --> 00:52:26,190 The fact that we all have professionally and personally time perhaps to slow down a little bit 671 00:52:26,190 --> 00:52:29,930 and notice what is important to us and our lives and all that kind of good stuff. 672 00:52:29,930 --> 00:52:35,750 So, long story short, not to go on too long about it, but just the idea that we have a community 673 00:52:35,750 --> 00:52:41,590 of folks that are connected at PIPG, but wouldn't be interesting to put together a, you know, 674 00:52:41,730 --> 00:52:48,470 again, some sort of collection of lessons learned from COVID across the entire spectrum, 675 00:52:49,050 --> 00:52:55,710 that we as, you know, a community of businesses and, you know, VEMC, but as well, 676 00:52:55,710 --> 00:53:01,530 anyone who's connected to PIPG to sort of, so everyone understands what goodness has come 677 00:53:01,530 --> 00:53:08,190 out of this. We have been given a tactical pause. It's not a good thing. I was going to 678 00:53:08,190 --> 00:53:12,570 say it certainly not been handed you up on the silver platter, but there's so much to be 679 00:53:12,570 --> 00:53:17,430 learned from this. And I know I'm speaking personally, but I know speaking to all of my colleagues 680 00:53:18,430 --> 00:53:22,770 that are now sort of more or less permanently working from home will be for at least another 681 00:53:22,770 --> 00:53:24,810 the two, three, four, five months, if not permanently, 682 00:53:25,910 --> 00:53:28,550 the landscape of working is changing. 683 00:53:29,670 --> 00:53:31,510 And we could make this for the better 684 00:53:31,510 --> 00:53:33,610 along the lines of what we are trying to do 685 00:53:33,610 --> 00:53:34,770 with respect to this committee 686 00:53:34,770 --> 00:53:38,410 and what TRCA and PIBG do for the 11th. 687 00:53:38,970 --> 00:53:41,570 So it is thought, I don't want to miss any 688 00:53:41,570 --> 00:53:43,170 of the sort of lessons and opportunities 689 00:53:43,170 --> 00:53:45,750 that I think are boundless out there. 690 00:53:46,410 --> 00:53:47,490 So I just kind of want to throw that 691 00:53:47,490 --> 00:53:48,690 at everyone to see what they thought. 692 00:53:48,690 --> 00:53:49,450 hard 693 00:53:55,690 --> 00:53:56,770 to disagree with. It's great. 694 00:53:59,490 --> 00:54:24,870 So I know it's very I'm kind of it's a bit of a shotgun approach but it's just interesting as time goes on that we as a business are learning so much and I think we all personally are learning so much from that it would be such a shame to quote unquote go back to what were we were before when and the lot of cases maybe that doesn't make a lot of sense. 695 00:54:25,990 --> 00:54:28,710 There's a lot of positive changes we can take away from them. 696 00:54:29,730 --> 00:54:30,170 Thanks. 697 00:54:30,170 --> 00:54:30,850 Probably right. 698 00:54:31,590 --> 00:54:33,510 I think we should keep returning to that at some point. 699 00:54:34,010 --> 00:54:37,350 So I think what it is that we want to reflect on further, 700 00:54:37,410 --> 00:54:40,030 because it's going to take some time for us to absorb this as all 701 00:54:40,030 --> 00:54:41,970 as you point out pretty fast. 702 00:54:42,870 --> 00:54:43,250 No question. 703 00:54:43,730 --> 00:54:47,410 And it takes a while for us to absorb a lot of that 704 00:54:47,410 --> 00:54:49,830 and think about those implications over the longer term. 705 00:54:54,560 --> 00:55:11,260 So I'm just going to say if you like, we could look at bringing a report back later in the year on some of the learnings that we as PPG have observed or have heard from our members and be a little intentional about reaching out to the membership about what they've learned in specific areas through this process. 706 00:55:11,260 --> 00:55:11,980 Yeah, sure, sure. 707 00:55:12,260 --> 00:55:13,720 At this point in a day, I've got a bunch of COVID. 708 00:55:14,460 --> 00:55:15,360 I'd make a good idea there. 709 00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:16,660 Yeah, for sure. 710 00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:19,860 I would suggest that we aim for the, I think it's the November 711 00:55:19,860 --> 00:55:20,260 meeting. 712 00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:21,940 That might be the better time. 713 00:55:21,940 --> 00:55:22,760 Just gives us a bit more. 714 00:55:22,860 --> 00:55:22,960 Yeah. 715 00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:23,680 Put it together. 716 00:55:24,460 --> 00:55:24,820 Absolutely. 717 00:55:25,220 --> 00:55:25,300 Yeah. 718 00:55:25,420 --> 00:55:28,420 There's a lot of things that can be sort of tied into regular 719 00:55:28,420 --> 00:55:31,540 conversation and business, but you know, and people, there's 720 00:55:31,540 --> 00:55:33,860 certain things that will be connected to certain individuals 721 00:55:33,860 --> 00:55:34,620 in their roles. 722 00:55:34,660 --> 00:55:38,220 I kind of say, you know, I really kind of learned X, Y, and Z 723 00:55:38,220 --> 00:55:38,780 from this. 724 00:55:38,780 --> 00:55:41,200 And I think people should know about that. 725 00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:42,320 We don't want to miss the opportunity. 726 00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:42,900 Cool. 727 00:55:43,240 --> 00:55:43,520 Thanks, right? 728 00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:50,900 Yeah, this certainly seems to be a sentiment that, you know, 729 00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:52,480 as we talk, we're going back to normal. 730 00:55:53,980 --> 00:55:56,180 Normals part of what got us into this situation. 731 00:55:56,660 --> 00:55:58,300 So that's exactly it. 732 00:55:58,500 --> 00:56:01,480 Take the opportunity to make some changes for the better. 733 00:56:02,300 --> 00:56:02,560 Mm-hmm. 734 00:56:03,300 --> 00:56:03,600 All right. 735 00:56:05,260 --> 00:56:06,900 Last call for any new business. 736 00:56:10,910 --> 00:56:12,490 Motion for item 10. 737 00:56:13,250 --> 00:56:13,650 In the second. 738 00:56:13,650 --> 00:56:14,570 I 739 00:56:19,340 --> 00:56:27,020 can motion that. Okay, I'll second it. Jim Kerr, James. Okay, everybody was 740 00:56:27,020 --> 00:56:34,420 motioning to honor of the James we're waiting for five. Okay, I didn't see it in, so I don't know. 741 00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:37,560 I need to pick your screen. 742 00:56:39,930 --> 00:56:42,610 Okay, finally motion to adjourn. 743 00:56:44,950 --> 00:56:45,750 Okay, he was John. 744 00:56:48,530 --> 00:56:49,050 Second. 745 00:56:55,050 --> 00:57:04,750 Thank you very much. Thank you very much for the report. 746 00:57:07,470 --> 00:57:09,430 Great work, Jeff. Thank you, Jeff. 747 00:57:09,430 --> 00:57:11,250 Thank you, good night, good night.