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- 2010 staffing structure
- Community Engagement
- State Of Good Repair
- Auditor Report on Parks, Forestry and Recreation Capital Projects, 2010
- Critique of the auditor's analysis
A new plan for staff activities: "Recreation Service Plan"
A Parks, Forestry and recreation staff report went to councillors on June 2, 2009 for approval. It's the latest iteration in a long stream of planning studies, called "Recreation Service Plan."
- Parks, Forestry and Recreation Master Service Plan for 2010
- Development of a City-wide Parks Plan 2010-Staff Report
- Resolutions passed at the March 10 2010 meeting of the Parks and Environment Committee.
Park maintenance standards and cost recovery
Park maintenance standards and cost recovery (pdf)
A new plan for "urban agriculture," including community gardens, farmers' markets and bake ovens in city parks.
The staff report on this plan was presented to the Parks and Environment Committee on June 16 2009. See the report
2010 Parks, Forestry and Recreation budgets (operating and capital)
Budget details:
park levies for PFR development reserve funds
park levies for PFR parkland acquisition reserve funds
Cost Comparison 2007-2010 (pdf)
2010 Parks Forestry and Recreation User Fees
www.toronto.ca/involved/statutorynotices/archive2010/feb/sn_bu_030110_a.pdf
Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation community grants programs
www.toronto.ca/parks/grants/reference.htm#minor
Community engagement example: park bake ovens
To Kelvin Seow, recreation manager, Toronto/East York, April 15 2010
Hello Kelvin,
Thank you for sending me the responses to my oven questions. Last night I forwarded your e-mail to the oven users who were copied on my original questions, and I got corrections from three people this morning. The corrections are in red, in the attachment called "Kelvin Seow reply."
As a summary, two main concerns:
1. there are important factual differences between the responses in your e-mail and the accounts of the people who actually got the ovens built and use them 2. the process of non-consultative policy development or review by PFR staff, re the ovens, is evidently going on as before, now in its third year: Draft policy. Read More >>
Kelvin Seow Oven Questions Reply
The Toronto Star, May 21, 2010: Porter: Why is it so hard to get city permission for a bake oven in a park?
Alexandra Park oven May 29 2009
Dufferin Grove oven 2002
Christie Pits oven
Riverdale Farm oven
Other Toronto public ovens, not in parks:
The Stop Community Food Centre oven
Unfinished Green Barn Oven May 22 2010
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