Toronto Shelter and Support Budgets

2024

2024 OPERATING BUDGET

$Million
Revenues $299.9
Gross Expenditures $787.5
Net Expenditures $487.5
Approved Positions 1,255.5

Staff report on Dufferin Grove outreach model only:

Uploads:BackgroundResearch/DufferinGroveCommunityInformation_May_15_2025.pdf

"Between February 1 and April 30, 2025, staffing costs for the EOM totaled $32,951.94, of which $10,825.92 were for Corporate Security. An additional $8,893.08 was spent on portable toilets"

Comment from park friend Omar:

At first glance, a lot seems to be missing.

Security alone, for example, over an 88 day period between Feb 1 and April 30th is documented as costing only $10,825.92

2 security guards @ 24 hrs/day for 88 days = 4224 hours total.

For this to have cost the city $10825.92 per this report, it would mean that their wage was $2.56/hr. Minimum wage is $17.60/hr.

4224 hours at minimum wage would be $74,342.40 - over 7 times the cost of what's listed in this briefing note, and I doubt gardaworld would bill the city the exact amount that it pays its staff without a profit margin. Nor are overtime hours being considered for shifts in excess of 8hrs.