3. Placeholder funding of $5,000,000 each year from 2025 to 2030 be

APPROVED and that once funding for each year is within 5 years it BE DEEMED precommitted and available for immediate use.

b) THAT the Chief Administrative Officer and City Clerk BE AUTHORIZED to execute any agreements, declarations or approvals required resulting from receiving grant funding approval for the DMAF program and being satisfactory in technical content to the City Engineer, in financial content to the City Treasurer, and in form to the City Solicitor; and,

c) The Chief Administrative Officer BE AUTHORIZED to delegate signing of all claims and applicable schedules and other such documents required as part of the request for payment to the City Engineer or designate, subject to financial content approval from the area’s Financial Planning Administrator or their manager; and,

d) That Council PRE-APPROVE and AWARD any procurement(s) necessary that are related to the DMAF Targeting Success project, provided that the procurement(s) are within approved budget amounts, pursuant to the Purchasing By-Law 93-2012 and amendments thereto; satisfactory in financial content to City Treasurer, and in technical content to the to City Engineer; and further;

e) That the Chief Administrative Officer and the City Clerk BE AUTHORIZED to take any such action required to effect the recommendation noted above and sign any required documentation/agreement(s) for the DMAF Targeting Success project, satisfactory in legal form to the City Solicitor, in technical content to City Engineer and in financial content to the City Treasurer; and further;

f) That the Purchasing Manager BE AUTHORIZED to issue Purchase

Orders as may be required to affect the recommendation noted above, subject to all specification being satisfactory in technical content to the City Engineer; in financial content to the City Treasurer

4. THAT City Council RECEIVE this report as the response to CQ 13-2020

Executive Summary:

N/A.

Background:

The City of Windsor submitted a grant application in 2018 to the first Disaster Mitigation and Adaption (DMAF) program. The City was awarded $32.1M in grant funding through