Agenda Package: Governing Council - December 17, 2020

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AGENDA

Pursuant to section 28 (e) and 38 of By-Law Number 2,
consideration of items 12-16 will take place in camera
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OPEN SESSION

  1. Chair’s Remarks
     
  2. Report of the President - Student Presentation
     
  3. President’s Advisory Committee on the Environment, Climate Change, and Sustainability: Annual Report, 2020: From Vision to Action* (for information)
    (Professor John Robinson, Chair and Presidential Advisor on the Environment, Climate Change, and Sustainability) 
     
  4. Capital Project: Report of the Project Planning Committee for the Academic Wood Tower* (for approval)
    (Arising from Report Number 230 of the Academic Board (November 18, 2020)

    Be It Resolved

    THAT the Report of the Project Planning Committee for the Academic Wood Tower dated September 18, 2020 (revised November 10, 2020), be approved in principle; and, 

    THAT the project totaling 5,334 nasm (11,143 gross square metres (gsm)), be approved in principle, to be funded by Divisional Reserves, Operating Budget Contribution, Fundraising, Provostial Funds, Government Funding and Borrowing.
     
  5. Capital Project: Report of the Project Planning Committee for the New Woodsworth College Academic Building* (for approval)
    (Arising from Report Number 230 of the Academic Board (November 18, 2020)

    Be It Resolved

    THAT the Report of the Project Planning Committee for the New Woodsworth College Academic Building, dated September 17, 2020, be approved in principle; and,  

    THAT the project totaling 2,399 net assignable square metres (nasm) (5,558 gross square metres (gsm)), be approved in principle, to be funded by Future Major Capital Project Reserves, Divisional & College Operating Reserves and Borrowing.

     

CONSENT AGENDA**

  1. Minutes of the Previous Meeting of the Governing Council – October 29, 2020 (for approval)
     
  2. Business Arising from the Report of the Previous Meeting
     
  3. Reports for Information
    1. Review of Academic Programs and Units – Part 1
      (Arising from Report Number 230 of the Academic Board (November 18, 2020)
      1. Semi-Annual Report: April 2020 – October 2020
      2. Follow-up Reports from Previous Reviews:
        1. Temerty Faculty of Medicine, MD Program (Provostial Review) 
        2. Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy (Provostial Review) 
        3. Health Studies Program (Faculty of Arts and Science) 
    2. Report Number 44 of the University of Toronto Mississauga Campus Council (November 16, 2020)
    3. Report Number 44 of the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus Council (November 17, 2020)
    4. Report Number 230 of the Academic Board(November 18, 2020)
    5. Report Number 220 of the University Affairs Board (November 24, 2020)
    6. Report Number 255 of the Business Board (November 25, 2020)
    7. Report Number 518 of the Executive Committee (December 8, 2020)

  1. Date of Next Meeting – Thursday, February 25, 2021 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. 
     
  2. Question Period
     
  3. Other Business

IN CAMERA SESSION+

  1. Capital Project: Report of the Project Planning Committee for the Academic Wood Tower – Total Project Costs and Sources of Funding+ (for approval)
    (Arising from Report Number 230 of the Academic Board (November 18, 2020) and Report Number 255 of the Business Board (November 25, 2020))
     
  2. Capital Project: Report of the Project Planning Committee for the New Woodsworth College Academic Building – Total Project Costs and Sources of Funding+ (for approval)
    (Arising from Report Number 230 of the Academic Board (November 18, 2020) and Report Number 255 of the Business Board (November 25, 2020))
     
  3. Capital Project: Report of the Project Planning Committee for the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Centre West/Phase 1 – Further Revised Total Project Cost Increase and Sources of Funding+ (for approval)
    (Arising from Report Number 230 of the Academic Board (November 18, 2020) and Report Number 255 of the Business Board (November 25, 2020)) 
     
  4. Appointments: Members of the Governing Council to Governance Bodies, 2020-21- Addendum+ (for approval)
     
  5. Appointment of an Assistant Secretary to the Discipline Appeals Board+ (for approval)

*     Documentation is attached.
**   Documentation for consent item included. This item will be given individual consideration by the Governing Council only if a
       member so requests. Members with questions or who would like the consent item to be discussed by the Governing Council are
       invited to notify the Secretary, Ms Sheree Drummond, at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting by telephone at 416-978-2118 
       or by email at sheree.drummond@utoronto.ca 
*** Documentation is to follow 
+     Confidential documentation is attached for members only.
++   Confidential documentation will be provided at the meeting for members only.