The final consultant’s report on city services suggests massive cuts to arm’s-length agencies as well as environmental grants, the TTC and housing improvement.

Suggestions include:

• “Rationalize the footprint of libraries to reduce service levels, closing some branches” to save up to $13.3 million. Reduce hours and days of operation.

• Eliminate public health’s $6.2 million Community Partnership and Investments Program, and with it 685 programs that provide meal subsidies for low-income children, 42 AIDS prevention programs and 38 community drug prevention projects.

• Eliminate the dental health program.

• Consider reducing or eliminating the city’s $47 million in grants, including those for arts programs and community safety programs. Such a move, KPMG wrote, would “potentially” hurt “vulnerable individuals.” Mayor Rob Ford annually votes against the grants.

• Sell Exhibition Place or privatize its operations.

• Negotiate into the Toronto police contract the ability to have “one-officer patrols (and) reduced salary and benefits, retirement benefits and shift overlap.” Freeze hiring and entice older officers to take buyouts.

• Privatize some TTC bus routes, roll back service improvements, consider eliminating overnight bus service or charging a premium fare, contract out more Wheel-Trans service and/or make criteria stricter so fewer disabled people qualify. Sell off TTC parking lots.

• Reduce or eliminate the capacity to develop new affordable housing given the low level of senior government funding.

• Consider selling or leasing city-owned “Green P” parking lots. Install a system so drivers can pay through a cellphone.

• Consider eliminating the Housing Improvement Loans program or delivering through third party or community agency.

• Run the city’s theatres — Sony Centre, St. Lawrence Centre and Toronto Centre for the Arts — through a single board. Consider selling one or more; the report singles out the Centre for the Arts.

• Integrate the Waterfront Secretariat’s work with city planning

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With files from Paul Moloney, Daniel Dale and Donovan Vincent

Consider reducing or eliminating all of the city’s $47 million in grants, including those for arts programs and community safety programs. Such a move, KPMG wrote, would “potentially” hurt “vulnerable individuals.” Ford annually votes against the grants, which he derides as “free money,” though he has frequently been the only member of council to oppose them.