Council / Conseil
4 December 2009 / le 4 décembre 2009
Submitted by/ Soumis par : Jacques Legendre, Chair, Crime Prevention
Ottawa / Président, Prévention du crime Ottawa
Contact
Person/ Personne ressource : Nancy Worsfold, Executive Director,
Crime
Prevention Ottawa / Directrice génerale, Prévention du crime Ottawa
613-580-2424
x 28518, Nancy.Worsfold@ottawa.ca
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OBJET :
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PRÉVENTION
DU CRIME OTTAWA : PRÉVISIONS BUDGÉTAIRES DE FONCTIONNEMENT DE 2010
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That City Council receive and table the Crime
Prevention Ottawa Draft 2010 Operating Budget, for subsequent consideration by
Council in Committee of the Whole to be held January 25 to 29, 2010, as
required.
Que le Conseil reçoive et dépose l’avant-projet du budget de
fonctionnement 2010 de la Prévention du
crime Ottawa aux fins d’examen ultérieur par le Conseil qui siégera à
titre de Comité plénier du 25 au 29 janvier 2010, le cas échéant.
On June 10, 2009, City Council
approved a new budget process whereby each standing committee would receive the
draft operating and capital estimates for areas within that Committee’s Terms
of Reference. Each standing committee
would also review and challenge the capital projects being proposed for each service
area.
On September 23, 2009, City Council further
approved that the Standing Committee Draft Estimates be prepared on the basis
of no new needs. The new needs were to
be indicated separately with the full rationale provided, in order to be considered
as part of the Standing Committee’s review.
Council is responsible for review
and approval of Board’s of Council draft estimates. These are the estimates for
Crime Prevention Ottawa.
Crime Prevention Ottawa (CPO) was established
in 2005 by Council as a quasi-independent body, CPO is jointly responsible to
the City of Ottawa and to the people of Ottawa. Budget motion no. 27/66
from 2005 created an annual investment of $400,000 and “the secondment
of two full-time staff positions” from CPS.
CPO’s role is to build community capacity, foster
community action, nurture partnerships and engage in policy dialogue. Crime
Prevention Ottawa brings together in partnership all local aspects of crime
prevention including police, school boards, the United Way, Children’s Aid,
community organizations, Ottawa Community Housing and community volunteers.
Crime Prevention Ottawa supports service delivery with partnership building,
advice, training, information and funding. The focus of CPO’s crime prevention
efforts are:
• to reduce violence against women,
• to reduce crime in high risk
neighbourhoods and
• to work with youth in high risk
environments.
Crime Prevention Ottawa’s successes to
date include:
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Learning
opportunities: publications,
workshops and public forums reaching over 2,000 community members, raising
awareness and increasing community participation.
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Leveraging
funds, CPO has received grants and has successfully lobbied for a running total
of $934,190 since our inception.
Crime Prevention Ottawa recently completed
their new Strategic Plan which was approved by Council on November 25, 2009.
The estimates provided show no increase
from the 2009 Adopted Budget.
There are no specific rural implications
associated with this report.
The public consultation on the Draft Operating
and Capital estimates will be conducted at the standing committee meetings and
through Councillor-led ward meetings.
Further consultation will occur during the public delegations sessions
to be held from January 25 to 27 by Committee of the Whole.
There are no legal/risk management impediments to implementing the
recommendations in this report.
Financial implications are identified within the report.
Document 1 - 2010 Draft Operating Estimates
Estimates will be
amended as per Council adoption and forwarded to Committee of the Whole and
Council for further consideration.