At the direction of City Council, City of Calgary Administration prepared a Sustainable Environment and Ethical Purchasing Policy (SEEPP) to establish minimum ethical and environmental standards for suppliers to The City. This policy was approved in principle by Council in January, 2007 (FCS2007-19). As part of the SEEPP, the related Supplier Code of Conduct (scc) includes a clause (3.1.5e) that encourages the payment of liveable wages. This clause states: e) Recognizing that wages are essential to meeting workers’ basic needs, all City of Calgary suppliers and their subcontractors will make every effort to ensure that workers receive wages that exceed legislated minimums that meet basic needs by local standards. This clause is currently a non-mandatory clause in the SCC, although suppliers who can demonstrate compliance receive additional points in the bid scoring process. At time of approval of SEEPP, a Motion Arising further directed City of Calgary Administration to report back to the SPC on Finance and Corporate Services: … on the implications from a triple bottom line context of including a living wage in the Sustainable Environment and Ethical Procurement / Supplier Code of Conduct. The effect of this motion would be to make the current non-mandatory clause (3.1.5e) a mandatory provision within the SCC. A report detailing the implications of adopting a Living Wage policy was brought to Council in April, 2008 (FCS2008-10). This report was adopted by Council who further directed Administration to … develop Living Wage policy options to be applied, among others, to City staff and City service suppliers and to report back to the SPC on Finance and Corporate Services with associated implementation plans and financial impacts not later than 2009 January.