2024.MM24.42

Background

“City Council has committed to a phased-in approach to a universal school food program, including a universal mid-morning meal by the 2026 to 2027 school year and a universal school lunch program no later than 2030. This matter is urgent as action is needed from all orders of government, particularly as the 2025 to 2026 budgets are prepared at the Federal and Provincial levels.”

Source: City of Toronto

Item Description

This item directs the “City Manager to consider this emergency declaration in ongoing and future work related to food insecurity such as the City of Toronto’s Poverty Reduction Strategy, Food Charter, and School Food Program” and “request the Provincial Government to immediately increase its base funding to existing school food programs and increase its financial commitment to enable the expansion of school food programs to additional schools to build a universal school food program.”

Source: City of Toronto

Proposed by

Mayor Olivia Chow, seconded by Councillor Rachel Chernos Lin