The first meeting of the city's newly created Light Rail Subcommittee will discuss a motion that suggests giving council more authority over the terms of the project agreement for Stage 1.
When Stage 1 was approved in 2012, city council at the time gave authority to the city manager to negotiate, approve, execute, deliver, amend and extend the project agreement and associated ancillary agreements with the LRT project. However, the Ottawa LRT public inquiry's final report found that former city manager Steve Kanellakosabout failures during the trial running period ahead of the system's launch in 2019.
Subcommittee chair Coun. Steve Desroches says he expects the motion will be modified before it's approved, as he does not support it in its current state. Desroches noted this is a new subcommittee that was created in the wake of a public inquiry into the construction of the Confederation Line. The subcommittee doesn’t make any operational decisions, which are the purview of the transit commission, but is focused on oversight recommendations. He said he believes decisions to launch Stage 2 should still be handled by experts and should not be what he called “a political decision.
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