The corporation that oversees billions of dollars worth of properties owned by the Toronto public school board is scrambling to replace board members after they resigned en masse last week in a row over transparency.
on Galloway Road, near Lawrence Avenue East, in order to sell it to Gabriel Dumont Non-Profit Homes Inc., which operates a nearby complex that provides affordable housing for Indigenous communities and is looking to expand.
Last summer, the TDSB hired third-party consultant Dentons LLP to conduct a review of the TLC board, looking into areas such as performance, operations, governance practices and accountability. The TDSB commissioned the review over concerns about accountability and transparency, although the board regularly reviews different departments. Chernos Lin said the TLC citizen directors threatened to resign before and during the review but didn’t.
According to the TDSB, the review outlined a number of findings. Among them, that the TDSB wasn’t aware the TLC contacted Ontario’s Integrity Commissioner seeking an exemption from the Lobbyist Registration Act — it prohibits publicly funded organizations from retaining paid lobbyists to lobby government — and then retained a firm to lobby the province.
Recommendations were made by the consultant and TDSB staff to improve accountability. Among them is that two TDSB staff members join the TLC board in March, when the terms of two citizen directors were set to end. That then means the new TLC board would be comprised of four citizen members, four trustees and two TDSB staffers. It’s a short-term change, lasting 18 months, while the TLC board undergoes a transition period and implements recommendations from the review.
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