That:
Recommendation 1a of Executive Committee be amended so that:
- The rebate program be adjusted so that campaign contributions from $25 to $100 be eligible for a rebate of 90 percent and to offset the cost of this, no contribution over $300.00 be eligible for a rebate.
- No contributions to a mayoral campaign over $300.00 be eligible for a rebate.
Motion to Amend Item moved by Councillor Howard Moscoe (Out of Order)
Recommendation 1a of Executive Committee be amended so that:
- To be eligible for a City of Toronto contribution rebate, individuals who are the owners, senior officers or directors of a corporation that does business with the City of Toronto or develops land within the City of Toronto or acts on behalf of a corporation that does business with the City of Toronto, be required to declare that interest at the time they make a contribution to a candidate and such declaration be listed on the candidate disclosure form and the City web site.
Motion to Receive Item moved by Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong (Final)
That the Item be received for information.
Motion to Amend Item (Additional) moved by Councillor Raymond Cho (Final)
That City Council request the Provincial Government to amend the Municipal Elections Act to require individual donors who make multiple donations (for example donations to more than one candidate) to make their identity or official titles known together with their names at the time of donation.
Motion to Amend Item moved by Councillor Howard Moscoe (Final)
That Recommendation 2 of the Executive Committee be deleted.
b - Motion to Amend Item (Additional) moved by Councillor Michael Thompson (Final)
That Council request the City Clerk to report to the Executive Committee, after the 2010 Municipal Election, on the feasibility of implementing municipal funding for elections, the report to include:
- What amendments would be required to the Municipal Elections Act to allow a municipally funded election to take place;
- The cost of a municipally funded election; and
- What qualifications should candidates have to be eligible to register as a candidate in a municipally funded election.