1. Steering Committee
June 4, 2014

2. Today’s Agenda Approval of Terms of Reference
Approval of Work Plan
Budget
Discussion of a possible 3-year budget

3. Terms of Reference
(Please refer to printed copies of the ToR)

4. Work Plan
(Please refer to printed copies of the Work Plan)

5. Budget

6. 2014-2015 Budget: Expenses Item Amount Salaries1 $161,067.83
Supplies & Misc.
$700.00
Subtotal, direct expenses
$161,767.83
Overhead 40% of expenses)
$64,707.13
Total Expenses
$226,474.96
1. Two full time technical staff: 1 software designer/programmer, 1 network modeller

7. 2014-2015 Budget: In-kind Contributions
Item
Amount
Principal Investigator (PI) time in-kind2
$45,000.00
GB305L rental in-kind
$4,839.16
GB305A rental in-kind for PI (prorated)3
$994.58
Phone
$360.52
Subtotal, office space
$6,194.26
Total In-kind Contributions
$51,194.26
2. 50 days of PI time allocated to TMG activities
3. 1 day per working week

8. 2014-2015 Budget: Proposed Member Contributions
Agency
Amount
Metrolinx
$61,000.00
Region of Peel
$18,500.00
MTO
$30,500.00
Region of Halton
City of Toronto
City of Hamilton
Region of Durham
City of Mississauga
$6,000.00
Region of York
City of Brampton
Subtotal, member contributions
$226,500.00

9. 2014-2015 Budget Summary Total Expenses $226,474.96
Total In-kind Contributions
$51,194.26
Total, member Contributions
$226,500.00
Carry-forward previous year
$0.00
Surplus / Carry-forward
$25.04

10. Costing for Additional Web + Data Server
TAC requested a quote for a server to store the “network improvement” / “future year scenario” data (as per the item “Future year base networks” in the TMG Work Plan).
The University has costed this item at $1,500 per anum
This brings the total expense budget from $226, to $228,574.96

11. Member contributions with the web + data server
Agency
Diff.
Amount
Metrolinx $
$ 61,600.00
Region of Peel $
$ 18,700.00
MTO $
$ 30,800.00
Region of Halton
City of Toronto
City of Hamilton
Region of Durham
City of Mississauga $
$ 6,100.00
Region of York
City of Brampton
Subtotal, member contributions
$ 228,900.00

12. Discussion of 3-year budget
(no additional slides prepared)

13. Thank you!
Next Steering Committee Meeting:
September 10, 2014