Untitled - Waterfront BIA
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TABIA ORGANIZATIONAL CHART Mr. LIONEL MISKIN (CHAIR) Kennedy Road BIA Tel: (416) 222-4582 shanemar@interlog.com TAX COMMITTEE (Deals with tax related issues) Mr. ALEX LING Bloor West Village BIA Tel: (416) 767-6233 Mr. JOHN KIRU TABIA Tel: (416) 889-4111 jkiru@toronto-bia.com Mr. JOHN WAKULAT Roncesvalles Village BIA Tel: (416) 239-6627 twakulat@sympatico.ca Ms. BEVERLEY DON Yonge Lawrence Village BIA Tel : (416) 657-4313 bev@ardithone.com MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE (Responsible for internal and external communications of the Association’s needs) Mr. PAUL DINEEN (CHAIR) Old Cabbagetown BIA Tel: (416) 968-2160 paul.dineen@on.aibn.com Ms. FAIZA ANSARI GreekTown on the Danforth BIA Tel: (416) 469-5634 bia@greektowntoronto.com Mr. JOHN WAKULAT Roncesvalles Village BIA Tel: (416) 239-6627 twakulat@sympatico.ca Mr. JOHN KIRU TABIA Tel: (416) 889-4111 jkiru@toronto-bia.com Mr. MICHAEL COMSTOCK St. Lawrence Market Neighbourhood BIA Tel: (416) 410-9242 Michael.Comstock@rogers.ca DR. CHRISTENA CHRUSZEZ Bloor Yorkville BIA Tel: (416) 925-8282 cchruszez@hotmail.com Ms. LAURA ALDERSON Weston BIA Tel: (416) 249-0691 laura@westonbia.com TASK FORCE ON CRIME (Prevention and Solutions) SUB-COMMITTEE Mr. NEIL WRIGHT (CHAIR) Harbord Street BIA Tel: (416) 961-1698 nwright@trebnet.com Mr. KEVIN GLEASON Liberty Village BIA Tel: (416) 530-5225 kevin.gleeson@corusent.com Mr. DAVID WRIGHT Harbord Street BIA Tel: 416-961-1698 dwright@trebnet.com Mr. JOHN KIRU TABIA Tel: (416) 889-4111 jkiru@toronto-bia.com Mr. NEIL MACDONALD The Beach BIA Tel: (416) 691-2912 neil@wordstoliveby.ca Ms. LAURA ALDERSON Weston BIA Tel: (416) 249-0691 laura@westonbia.com Mr. JAMES ROBINSON Downtown Yonge BIA (416) 597-0255 jamesr@downtownyonge.com TOURISM COMMITTEE (Responsible for positioning TABIA and it’s member BIAs within the City of Toronto tourism context) Ms. LYNN CLAY (CO-CHAIR) Liberty Village BIA Tel: (416) 516-1723 lynnclay@lvbia.com Ms. FAIZA ANSARI (CO-CHAIR) GreekTown on the Danforth BIA Tel: (416) 469-5634 bia@greektowntoronto.com Mr. JOHN WAKULAT Roncesvalles Village BIA Tel: (416) 239-6627 twakulat@sympatico.ca Mr. JOHN KIRU TABIA Tel: (416) 889-4111 jkiru@toronto-bia.com TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE (Responsible for dealing with transportation related issues) Mr. DAVID VALLANCE (CHAIR) Bloor Annex BIA Tel: (416) 962-2786 valladp@echo-on.net Mr. JEFF GILLAN Corso Italia BIA Tel: (647) 223-9064 jeffgillan@sympatico.ca Mr. JOHN WAKULAT Roncesvalles Village BIA Tel: (416) 239-6627 twakulat@sympatico.ca Mr. JOHN KIRU TABIA Tel: (416) 889-4111 jkiru@toronto-bia.com 7
TAX COMMITTEE Toronto’s Tax Plan: The past year has seen significant developments in the property tax field. First, the City began to recognize the accuracy of our prediction that the high commercial property tax would ultimately cause erosion of its tax base. Realizing that commercial development was stalled, and that commercial property was being transformed to residential development at an accelerating rate, the city sought a plan to stop, if not reverse, the process. Lacking the political courage to deal with the problem head-on, the City conjured up a novel approach. It would provide tax relief to commercial property owners by increasing taxes. We know; it is hard to believe. In effect, the proposal would reduce the ratio between the commercial and residential rates from its present figure of 4 or 4.5 to 1, to 2.5 to 1. But rather than reducing the burden on the commercial sector, the proposal calls for increases in both residential and commercial rates, with the commercial increases limited to one-third of the residential increases. The scheme proposes a fifteen year time frame for achieving the desired ratio, with a ten year time frame for what is called the “street retail” sector, a term which has yet to be defined. It does not explain how further tax increases will stem the outflow of commerce. Street Retail: The City’s Finance department said last spring that it is working on a precise definition of “street retail” and intended to implement the definition for the 2007 taxation year. To date, no definition has been announced. TABIA has previously made submissions to the City on a proposed definition and indicated that it would support a definition of the class as “all commercial property with rentable space not exceeding 15,000 square feet”. TABIA would also support a definition with a greater rentable area, up to, but not exceeding the threshold for the shopping center class or, alternatively, a class consisting exclusively of BIA properties or a class based on retail area if the class were to be extended to include all BIA properties. Acceleration of Full CVA: From the perspective of our small business membership, the immediate future gets worse. In addition to rate increases, the City proposes to accelerate the move to full taxation under the Current Value Assessment regime (CVA). When CVA was implemented in 1998, increases resulting solely from assessment changes were limited to 2.5% of the prior year’s taxes. This cap was subsequently increased to five percent of the prior year’s taxes. The City will now change the cap to five percent of a property’s full CVA level. Accordingly, if a capped property would pay $30,000 at its full CVA tax level, its tax bill would increase by $1,500 per year until it reached that target. Those increases would be in addition to the rate increases. Taken together, the rate increases and the cap increases would have many businesses paying annual tax raises far in excess of the 6.5% raises which have been imposed on them in 2004 and 2005. The plan and TABIA’s response to it are set out more fully in TABIA’s winter 2006 newsletter (vol. 6 #1). Provincial Budget: Over half of the property tax bill is imposed by the provincial government to fund education. But a huge amount of the provincial levy is used to subsidize education in other parts of Ontario. Particularly troublesome is the discrepancy between the rate imposed on Toronto business and the corresponding rate in adjoining municipalities. For example, the 2005 rate in Toronto on commercial property was 2.22%, as compared to 1.74% in Peel, 1.68% in York, 1.65% in Durham and 1.53% in Halton. The result is the extraction of approximately 120 million dollars of revenue from Toronto business for use elsewhere. For a small Toronto retailer, the differential can easily run into thousands of dollars. 8
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TA<strong>BIA</strong> ORGANIZATIONAL CHART<br />
Mr. LIONEL MISKIN (CHAIR)<br />
Kennedy Road <strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (416) 222-4582<br />
shanemar@interlog.com<br />
TAX COMMITTEE (Deals with tax related issues)<br />
Mr. ALEX LING<br />
Bloor West Village <strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (416) 767-6233<br />
Mr. JOHN KIRU<br />
TA<strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (416) 889-4111<br />
jkiru@toronto-bia.com<br />
Mr. JOHN WAKULAT<br />
Roncesvalles Village <strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (416) 239-6627<br />
twakulat@sympatico.ca<br />
Ms. BEVERLEY DON<br />
Yonge Lawrence Village <strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel : (416) 657-4313<br />
bev@ardithone.com<br />
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE<br />
(Responsible for internal and external communications of the Association’s needs)<br />
Mr. PAUL DINEEN (CHAIR)<br />
Old Cabbagetown <strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (416) 968-2160<br />
paul.dineen@on.aibn.com<br />
Ms. FAIZA ANSARI<br />
GreekTown on the Danforth <strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (416) 469-5634<br />
bia@greektowntoronto.com<br />
Mr. JOHN WAKULAT<br />
Roncesvalles Village <strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (416) 239-6627<br />
twakulat@sympatico.ca<br />
Mr. JOHN KIRU<br />
TA<strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (416) 889-4111<br />
jkiru@toronto-bia.com<br />
Mr. MICHAEL COMSTOCK<br />
St. Lawrence Market<br />
Neighbourhood <strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (416) 410-9242<br />
Michael.Comstock@rogers.ca<br />
DR. CHRISTENA<br />
CHRUSZEZ<br />
Bloor Yorkville <strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (416) 925-8282<br />
cchruszez@hotmail.com<br />
Ms. LAURA ALDERSON<br />
Weston <strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (416) 249-0691<br />
laura@westonbia.com<br />
TASK FORCE ON CRIME (Prevention and Solutions) SUB-COMMITTEE<br />
Mr. NEIL WRIGHT (CHAIR)<br />
Harbord Street <strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (416) 961-1698<br />
nwright@trebnet.com<br />
Mr. KEVIN GLEASON<br />
Liberty Village <strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (416) 530-5225<br />
kevin.gleeson@corusent.com<br />
Mr. DAVID WRIGHT<br />
Harbord Street <strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: 416-961-1698<br />
dwright@trebnet.com<br />
Mr. JOHN KIRU<br />
TA<strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (416) 889-4111<br />
jkiru@toronto-bia.com<br />
Mr. NEIL MACDONALD<br />
The Beach <strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (416) 691-2912<br />
neil@wordstoliveby.ca<br />
Ms. LAURA ALDERSON<br />
Weston <strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (416) 249-0691<br />
laura@westonbia.com<br />
Mr. JAMES ROBINSON<br />
Downtown Yonge <strong>BIA</strong><br />
(416) 597-0255<br />
jamesr@downtownyonge.com<br />
TOURISM COMMITTEE<br />
(Responsible for positioning TA<strong>BIA</strong> and it’s member <strong>BIA</strong>s within the City of Toronto tourism context)<br />
Ms. LYNN CLAY<br />
(CO-CHAIR)<br />
Liberty Village <strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (416) 516-1723<br />
lynnclay@lvbia.com<br />
Ms. FAIZA ANSARI<br />
(CO-CHAIR)<br />
GreekTown on the Danforth <strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (416) 469-5634<br />
bia@greektowntoronto.com<br />
Mr. JOHN WAKULAT<br />
Roncesvalles Village <strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (416) 239-6627<br />
twakulat@sympatico.ca<br />
Mr. JOHN KIRU<br />
TA<strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (416) 889-4111<br />
jkiru@toronto-bia.com<br />
TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE<br />
(Responsible for dealing with transportation related issues)<br />
Mr. DAVID VALLANCE<br />
(CHAIR)<br />
Bloor Annex <strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (416) 962-2786<br />
valladp@echo-on.net<br />
Mr. JEFF GILLAN<br />
Corso Italia <strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (647) 223-9064<br />
jeffgillan@sympatico.ca<br />
Mr. JOHN WAKULAT<br />
Roncesvalles Village <strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (416) 239-6627<br />
twakulat@sympatico.ca<br />
Mr. JOHN KIRU<br />
TA<strong>BIA</strong><br />
Tel: (416) 889-4111<br />
jkiru@toronto-bia.com<br />
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