Toronto's budget committee spent Monday tweaking the final details of the city's 2010 capital budget, making sure to add revenue for the Pan Am Games.
The city had already set aside funding for the sporting event but Toronto was only officially declared the host of the 2015 Pan Am Games last week.
The budge committee is formally recommending the city spend about $45 million on projects, including an international-standard swimming facility at the University of Toronto's Scarborough campus.
"This is infrastructure that the city needs well beyond the Pan Am Games so that by using partnership funding, we'll be able to produce a world-class facility in a part of town that badly needs it for the games and for the future," said Toronto Budget Chief Shelley Carroll.
The committee is expected to meet again on November 28 for a final debate on the $2.4 billion capital budget before it goes before the city's executive committee on Dec. 3.
It will go before all of city council for approval on Dec. 8.
