Committee of the Whole / Comité plénier

2009 Budget Motion/Motion du budget 2009

Dept./Service :

Page :

Branch/Direction:

Finance/Non-departmental

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Operating/Fonctionnement

Capital/Immobilisation

Increase/Augmentation:

Decrease/Réduction: : 320K

Moved by/

Motion de: Councillor El-Chantiry

Seconded by/

Appuyée par: Councillor Qadri

Re : Provincial Offences Collection

WHEREAS the Province downloaded the responsibility for the Administration and Collection of Provincial Offences fines on March 19, 2001; and

WHEREAS the outstanding amount of the receivables at the transfer was $24 million and the current outstanding amount as at October 31, 2008 is $49 million; and

WHEREAS on average, the first twenty-five percent of the municipal amounts collected are remitted to the Province’s Victim Fine Surcharge fund; and

WHEREAS the Revenue Division, Provincial Offences Collection Section has been acknowledged by the Ministry of the Attorney General audit group as having one of the highest rates of collection on the downloaded receivables; and

WHEREAS the Revenue Division, Provincial Offences Collection Section has collected over $21 million in defaulted fines since April 2002; and

WHEREAS one collector costs the City approximately $70,000 per annum and returns approximately $150,000 in annual revenue;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Revenue Division be provided with four additional FTE’s at the annual cost of $280,000 and that the Provincial Offences revenue budget be increased by $600,000.