The City Contract. Administrator For the purposes of this Agreement, the City designates as its Contract Administrator: Xxxxx Xxxxx, Buyer Purchasing Dept 2nd floor, 000 Xxxx 00xx Xxx, Xxxxxxxxx, XX
The City Contract. The Contract, which is presented in the form of a veritable urban strategy for action, is an innovative and structuring tool that redefines, extends and modernizes the long-established partnership between the Government of Quebec and Ville de Montréal in a certain number of sectors or fields. This five-year agreement commits the Government and Ville de Montréal, through the actions of 10 government departments and bodies, to the implementation of concrete measures for the sustainable development of Montréal from an economic, social, cultural and community perspective. It lays out objectives, guiding principles and a well-defined strategy. It structures development priorities for Montréal in a concrete shared action plan and defines the basic strategies under which the Government, the City and other social and economic stakeholders—notably the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal—will combine their efforts to achieve a certain number of objectives with regard to housing, urban renewal, infrastructure renewal, road transport and mass transit, social, community and economic development and cultural vitality. The City Contract also introduces new rules of partnership based in particular on decisional autonomy, flexibility, transparency and accountability with regard to results. It lays out important steps for balancing the City’s finances, which will have a positive impact on ratepayers’ tax burden, and ensure the stability of financial contributions from the Government. That said, the City Contract does not take care of all questions relative to modernization, nor does it provide solutions for all of the problems described in the various sectoral chapters. Rather, it represents an initial step that lays the groundwork for even more significant changes. It is expected that work will continue in the short and medium terms, and that results will be integrated into the Contract along the way. Thus, in implementing the integrated territorial approach set out in the Contract, priority will be given to housing, urban development and social development. Later on, sports, parks and waterways, and leisure and culture will be added. With respect to the modernization of City/Government relations, a certain form of decentralization of planning activities and program management is already under way in the housing sector. The City Contract is meant to strengthen this approach and extend it to the fight to eliminate poverty and social exclusion. Other sectors or types of ac...
