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The meeting of a public city committee to order at a 5 p.m. territory or a convent, I respectfully inaugurate

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a convent that the city of Budaply is located on the insulated territories of Moscow, Skomish,

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through this and cocoon peoples.

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Each nation has distinct history and distinct traditional territories

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that are fully accomplished in the city.

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We encourage you to learn more about the whole nations

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whose ancestors have occupied and used these lands,

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including parts of the present day, burdened by thousands of years.

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Adoption of Agenda, the Papasifti-Kameli-Mini Agenda for Subtainable Suit, 2020-26,

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as there are any changes to the Agenda, where somewhere in the pre-smoothermotion

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adopt the Agenda of Subtainable Suit, 2020-26,

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So moved, in the second, I was looking forward, I was looking forward, I was looking forward

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I adopted an alpha-minus, the Minus of the Public Security Committee meeting held on June 25th,

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2026, was there any change, or as to the Minus, for someone please move a motion to adopt

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the Middle East of the Pops of the Community, meaning how to earn June 25th, so moved

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in the second, second, all the same fever in the post, carried. The next one is the

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delegations and the United Apprentices. The first two delegations are all for a similar topic.

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where we will have them present one after another and ask for comments and the questions

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after the second one is completed.

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Now we have the allocation from Machio first regarding the rise in all the temperatures

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and to the impact of indoor heat,

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uh, renewable people across BC.

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So, Michelle, you're a pre-stick seat at the present table,

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and proceed when you're ready.

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Appreciate it.

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Uh, as we can see, the world is getting hotter.

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The 2021 heat dome was not a nice-lated event.

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According to NASA,

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But 2024 was the warmest year on record, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures.

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NASA also reports that the 10 most recent years have been the warmest years ever recorded.

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The graph on the slide shows the trend upward trend of global temperatures since the 1800s.

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So it's really not a matter of if there will be another heat dome, but really when will the next one be?

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And how many more lies will be lost this time?

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Canada is warming twice as fast as the global average,

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and Canada's Arctic is warming nearly four times as fast.

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For local governments, this means that extreme heat

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is becoming more frequent, more intense, and more dangerous.

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Heat adaptation is no longer a future concern.

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It is a current public health necessity.

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And the heat risks from extreme heat include cardiovascular events, respiratory conditions, kidney disease, adverse pregnancy outcomes, and mental health impacts, such as increased anxiety, depression, and aggressive behavior.

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Who is most at risk? The impacts of extreme heat are not experienced equally. Research following the heat dome found that older adults, people living alone, and people without access to air conditioning experience, the highest risk.

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Low-income renters face particular challenges because they often live in older buildings with poor thermal performance.

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They have a limited ability to install cooling equipment.

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They cannot afford air conditioning or other higher electricity costs.

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And they have less flexibility to leave overheated homes.

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People with disabilities, chronic illnesses, language barriers, and limited social connections also face significant risk.

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extreme heat, therefore becomes both a climate issue and an equity issue.

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One of the most important lessons from the 2021 heat dome is that most fatalities and

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occurred indoors, reports following the event found that nearly all heat-related deaths occurred

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inside buildings, and many of those who died did not have air conditioning available.

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This is why housing conditions matter.

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B.C. has long recognized that tenants require protection from cold temperatures.

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However, for many years, there's been no equivalent protection when indoor temperatures

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become dangerously hot.

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As climate change increases the frequency of extreme heat events, thermal safety, inside

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rental housing should be viewed as a basic public health requirement.

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A home should not become a health hazard during extreme weather.

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What can local governments do about the global issue in response to the deaths that occurred

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during the heat dome?

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New Westminster became the first municipality in Canada to adopt an indoor heat by-law.

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This by-law requires landlords to maintain at least one living space in a tenant occupied

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rental unit at an average temperature of 26 degrees Celsius or below between 8 p.m.

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And a-day, I'm during the heat season. The policy recognizes that cooling is a life-saving necessity for many residents. New Westminster also previously prohibited blanket restrictions on portable air conditioning units in rental housing.

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Their work provides vertiby with a made in Metro Vancouver policy model that can be studied and adapted here.

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My request for the committee is, I mean,

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Bernabey has already taken important steps.

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The city currently operates cooling centers during extreme heat events

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and provides residents access to libraries, recreation facilities, community centers,

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drinking water stations, shaded areas, and cooling resources.

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So building on that strong foundation, I encourage you to consider the following actions.

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direct staff to investigate and endorse heat by-law for rental housing, assess older rental

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buildings that may pose elevated heat risks, expand outreach to vulnerable residents during

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heat emergencies, support building retrofit programs that improve cooling and resilience,

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continue strengthening climate, climate, education, and public health planning.

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And these measures can help ensure that vulnerable residents are protected before the next heat emergency

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occurs. And so the call to action, you know, it showed us that extreme heat can be fatal.

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We know who's most at risk. We know that indoor heat is a major contributor to harm. And

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Bernabey is demonstrated leadership and climate action and emergency preparedness.

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is not a luxury. It's a life-saving and infrastructure. So thank you for your time and

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consideration to create the city that we all want to live in and be.

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Thank you. Thank you for your presentation. We will invite you back after the second presentation.

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So we have now a dedication from Max Dixon.

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Well, doc, we're going to see the board to implement on Max and the heat spiral for run to units.

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Right. Thank you so much for allowing me to present today.

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So, I'm a renter in Bernabee, I've lived here since 2024.

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Let me tell you a little bit about my summer last year.

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So, I live in one of those old rental buildings that Michelle was talking about.

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Built in the sixties, purpose built rental.

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It is not the hottest unit in the building.

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I'm only on the second floor, but last year when temperatures were consistently hot as they are every year and how it seems.

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that the apartment was getting similarly hot.

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So over 32 degrees consistently on the hottest days.

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And I'm not someone with real specific vulnerabilities, right?

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But I don't have any major health issues that make me more vulnerable to heat.

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But still, I was having significant issues from the heat.

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So I was sleeping really bad.

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My productivity was really bad. I worked from home.

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And there was a day after doing one too many chores that I had some mild heat exhaustion symptoms.

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just as they said, it's not got out of the blue, right?

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Like, you don't see it coming, so I got air conditioning, I stopped being foolish, I got

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air conditioning at the end of the summer, and lo and behold, my problems resolved.

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So my story is not that interesting, but it's also extremely common, right?

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Like this is the same pattern that just about everybody experiences, get through hot, get AC,

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and it's also not an issue because I didn't have any obstacles, like my health wasn't

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bad. I could afford the air conditioner and my mother wasn't preventing me from purchasing it,

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which is the crucial one. The temperatures I experienced are also very typical.

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CBC did some investigation with a bunch of households across Canada, including Vancouver,

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and they found that temperatures were over 26 degrees, over 12 hours of the day,

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in over half of the households. As you may know, 26 degrees is considered kind of the maximum

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safe temperature for indoor spaces.

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So here is a here's a graph based on some data that was collected

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by Acorn Canada was a residential at Tennessee Advocacy Group and they show exactly what you'd

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expect air conditioning improves outcomes for tenants when it's hot, right? Like all those

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heat related symptoms are significantly alleviated by air conditioning. Not even necessarily

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effective recognition, just having your conditioning.

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So what's preventing people from getting your conditioning?

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Also, as you would expect, affordability is the number one issue, but this is the

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interesting part to me, as almost 30% of people were prevented from getting your conditioning

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by the landlords or their leases, right?

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Almost 30% of people are prevented from protecting their health by restrictions imposed by

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their landlords or their leases, and in my opinion, it just doesn't make any sense.

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So, we know that policy options are available, as Michelle mentioned, the U.S. Minister

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imposed multiple policy options, banning your conditioner, bans from landlords in 2025,

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and then keeping a maximum number of over-night temperature of 26 degrees.

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And in my opinion, that is not a particularly honest requirement, right? 26 degrees overnight

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in the summer is the bare minimum for a livable space.

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And as many of you may also know, the reason why New West implemented those restrictions

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or those policies is because the 2021 keystone over 30 people died in New Westminster.

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Over 60 people died in Burnaby.

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And as Michelle mentioned, as you all know, there are policies in place, but some of these

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are just boxes left unticked, and I think they need some focus.

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And the 63 number I've learned is actually an undershoot, the corner service provides that number upwards over 70 and almost all of them happened indoors at home.

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So I think the need is clear.

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I think renters in Burnaby need protection from heat.

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And I think the policy options are available.

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Other municipalities have done it. They're not particularly difficult things.

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And what I'm asking is that you do what needs to be done.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Max, for your presentation.

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We now ask a mission to return a petition table.

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Any questions or comments from the committee?

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We'll have the committee member, Mar.

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Thank you, thank you, Chair.

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Thank you so much for the presenters for your information.

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And it is very sad that over 600 people die in 2021 because of the hit-dong.

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And as you mentioned, up to 70 people in Burnaby and these are our neighbors, these are our friends, these are family members.

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I personally know somebody in the US who had lost her sister in an older apartment because of the hit-dong back in 2021.

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I like to join your call and encourage us to be able to look into this because we know this is a human life that can be lost.

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And nobody should have to die in the wrong way.

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Oh, because the temperature is go up. I do a question. Michelle, for you chair, is I love how you talk about, like, of course, we have to think about a policy change and look at the Westminster and that's one option.

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What I love about your presentation is you also mentioned about that we have to do like with assessment.

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And we have to do outreach to seniors to let them be aware that it's dangerous when it's hard

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and often you don't even know you're having a history or can tell you passed out and that's too late if you're living on your own.

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What about looking into potential, financial incentives like government grants and programs.

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and if you had done research about that maybe it can make some recommendations.

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I've done a research on that, but I don't have a nurse here. Do you have any information on that?

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I've got my grants would be great. There was a bill before Parkland.

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There was a much deficient way to provide.

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Very expensive to record and a

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quite low degree of income.

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Yeah, I think I remember, I don't remember if it was the Ministry of Social Development,

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of poverty reduction.

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I think it's a different one, it's, you know, sorry,

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but for people on disability or income assistance

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there might have been an indoor,

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like a portable air conditioner program,

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just a $400 cost-covered program,

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but yeah, something like that for, you know,

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means qualified, means tested would be great.

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We could do some researching at back if that's appropriate.

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Thank you, I'm sure the city will look into that.

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Thank you.

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The committee member for it?

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For this to the council.

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Because it would be council having to do this.

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We can make suggestions and then the other thing is have you also reached out to the Bernabey Health Public Health Unit?

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Because there is a part of Fraser Health and the Public Health Unit would certainly be a helpful voice and provide further information.

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I suspect so that's just a suggestion.

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Thank you.

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Thank you for your very cogent personal comments.

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Thank you very much.

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And for the research, the presentations were very good.

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That's it for me.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you for the two presentations.

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It's very thoughtful that you can come to this committee and present this case.

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I personally, I and my friend, Dave Parkman, naturally, pass away during that time.

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He was a volunteer for Scandinavian culture center, so there's a lot to do the center as well.

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I believe in a house that's where he's up before the house, but when the hit comes during the night,

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even in the night time, probably in the day time, he's off already.

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But no one has to ignore about that, and he's actually in that kind of first situation.

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So I believe some kind of more education in the CNA community.

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Having that could also go a long way to eliminate that kind of tragedies.

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I believe in mental units that could be allowed to install rental,

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I don't know why, is this a city, can a city start by some issues, is it legal to

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require, we request, or require the cannon law to use the air conditions in the

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UNICE.

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Yeah, we can have our hotel manager to have some comments.

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Yes, through the chair, with respect to the last comment there is a legal, there are some multi-unit facilities that can have straddle by laws that would prevent folks from having air conditioning units.

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I think the trends are definitely moving away from that though at this time.

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And it's getting more difficult for people to have those in place just given the rising temperatures.

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Okay, so, let's see the host of Power to say, well, even though those, oh, you missed,

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you still should be allowed, I mean, at a continuous should be allowed.

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Through the chair, probably offer up a number of suggestions,

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probably after we get all the

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questions through here, I do have some thoughts on some ways forward here.

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would address your question as well as a committee member

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towards question there about staff involvement.

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OK, thank you.

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Thank you.

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Councilor Senegal.

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Thank you, Chair, through you.

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You know, I also wanted to take a moment to say,

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thank you to the delegation for coming

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for putting together a very clear report and picture

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about the situation in Bernabey.

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and thank you, Max, for sharing your particular story.

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You know, I am sure that for most Bernabey residents,

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if we hadn't been directly affected, certainly indirectly impacted,

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you know, I agree that this is an urgent important issue,

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so I also appreciate our citizen representatives,

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you know, also expressing their concern as well.

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If it's all right with chair, I would be happy to hear first

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from staff about the suggestions that you may see to move forward. Thank you.

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Thank you. So now that's in a management. Yes, thank you. And those are all extremely

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very good comments. And through the chair, we'd like to thank both presenters for putting

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the time. And effort you have put it clearly into your presentations. They're very factual. You're

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using some accurate data.

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As you were talking about this,

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you certainly brought me back to the heat dome at that time.

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When I worked with the RCMP at that time,

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I know it had a significant impact on the community.

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It's certainly a lot of folks, a lot of families

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lost loved ones.

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Had a significant impact on the RCMP officers,

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or partners would burn a be fire and the EHS service.

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It was usually impactful and what we did find was that a lot of the folks here, you're

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right on the mark where people that were older and age, they're all in apartments like

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you described there, the one that you live in right now.

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When I think about the way forward, I think we'll be appropriate right now as to refer this

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to staff.

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so that we can...

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Examiner, what they've done in New West. But we also need to do an environmental scan to take a look at.

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And all the province does have some regulations as it relates to the residential tents you branch and the BC building code.

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But those really speak to heat in apartments rather than cooling.

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And so it's the opposite side of what we're examining here today. And we're that's most appropriately dealt with.

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I'm not sure at the moment, but I think we need to do a really good in-depth analysis of that.

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And is it okay if staff reach out to both of you to discuss this further?

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Definitely.

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Okay.

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Anything we can do to help?

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Great.

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With respect to restrictions on, you know, place by landlords.

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You know, I think that's a key piece in here too.

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I think that's a, it should be a fairly simple, and here I am talking about, by-laws being simple,

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and that's the purpose of the case, but it makes a lot of common sense to look at

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a bare minimum being able to deal with something like that.

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But I'll let the staff that are most appropriately placed, do the examination on that, bring the information back.

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And I don't think that we need to go to Council to get staff to start working on that.

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We can get that examination starting from here and I'll make that decision right now.

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So we'll start the examination there.

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Awesome.

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Great, yes.

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Thank you.

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Thank you all for your presentation.

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Thank you.

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Thank you all so much.

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Appreciate it.

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The

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next time we have a delegation from Cracket Wilson, I'm recording the feeding of the wild life in Berlin.

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So Cracket pays to take a seat at the present table and proceed when you're ready.

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Okay, now for something completely different. We're talking about rats.

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And Arby's of them. City is calling with them.

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About 10 years ago I read the City Council to bring this attention

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bring us to their attention, specifically around the metro town, Skytrain area,

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and I found

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out through that meeting that the city didn't have jurisdiction over that. It was TransLink,

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but the city got in touch with TransLink and they did put up signs which seemed to help in

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to agree. There are still rats in the area. I saw two, a couple of days ago, in that area. People

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are still feeding them, though, and it might next to the signs believe it or not.

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The signs end, and yesterday I'm walking by there, and there's always used like a hundred

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pigeon cells, huddled around one area, and I know that somebody's fed them there.

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Specifically, now, the major problem is the north-east ferrisis corner of Derr'sford,

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Now, at the risk of sounding racist, none of your personal people are of Indian authenticity.

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I don't know if this is a cultural thing, but it's the only people I see are in the Indian

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intensity. The seek temple adjacent to it regularly is throwing food out there like rice, noodles,

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flatbreads, different blanks, that sort of thing. Two days ago I saw a woman get out of

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a car, throwing all sorts of stuff out there like hamburger buns, that sort of stuff.

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And this is not like one through twice a day, this is throughout the day. It's like regular.

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I did speak with the BIOS officer who got in touch with me and they were going to do a bit of a stake out.

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I don't know if they, but the result was there.

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But I know damn well that if somebody was there from six to the morning to eight it might.

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They probably catch at least half a dozen people.

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It's that prevalent.

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And the thing with rats is there's an old expression.

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Everywhere you see there's a hundred you don't see.

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And I know that's true, because I remember walking along Kingsway and the next of the late Donald's

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name, Hi Jade and I see this ratman into the flower bed there and there was a went along

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with a dog.

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You can hear all this rustling rustling, you hear like like it doesn't rat.

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Approximately two years ago, I was walking the dog in the morning, the sun was not up

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yet, it was funny to get late.

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I'm getting about two minutes away from this area of Kings of Bechford and Kelly, and my neighbor,

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who's an early advisor to my self, who's coming on her direction, and he's just, you're not going to believe what you're going to see up there.

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Well, the scene was right out of Willard. You probably know what I'm talking about. It was a whole film from 1970s where a guy could control rats and he had a small army rat attacking people.

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There are dozens, dozens of rats running around.

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You had to see it to believe it.

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I mean, any women, I just would have gone screaming,

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any other direction, it would have been just terrifying

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for other people.

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And basically, we feed the breed.

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That's part of the problem.

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I think I don't know, because this is on the OPC-Electric

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where we're right away, whether

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the history is dictionary that are still translating, but sign is definitely needs to go up

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and it should be in Punjabi as well as English.

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I think the city should be in touch with the

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seat temple telling them what they're doing is illegal. This is in contravention of the wildlife act.

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Let me check that out and advise the parish members that is illegal. I might say also mentioned

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numerous times I've seen the Bonnie's taxi pull up, get out, out the bird's seed, and this is like, this is like this over 10, 10, 15 year period.

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But I see that regularly happening. I can go, I can go in the morning, see the seafood, walk to Metro town, come back in our later.

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It's more food is out. All the time.

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also the north east corner of Edmunds and Mary. There's a small lot there. It's just like

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one city lot, little park, same thing. People feed you rats there. I drove by there tonight

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and there was probably a hundred-pitched pigeon sitting in that little, little, one little lot.

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And we'll down with somebody, but throw it out for them.

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Well, that's about yet.

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I think signage needs to go up.

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It would help.

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Certainly, the temple needs to be contact.

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We need to understand what they're doing is illegal.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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So, I'm Mr. Rosen.

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We have a hotel manager, but...

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I don't know how to come here.

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Yeah, thank you Mr. Wilson. I appreciate you bringing these concerns forward. I would say that the rat issue is not specific to burn or be you or to anyone neighbor. I think I live out in the valley and they're out there. They're all across this region right now. So I do take note that you've been in contact with staff and that you've been talking with the number of our officers about this issue.

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So I encourage you to continue to work with them on this and we'll look at the appropriate

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strategies to deal with education or with signage.

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I don't even, this afternoon you said to know what the hedger's dictionary word

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or not.

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Yeah, it depends.

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On the locations that you're talking about, because you're quite correct

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that, and sorry, through the chair, you're quite correct that part of the

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lens you're talking about or associated with Translinks. So we've got

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connections with Translinks to work with them. There's other areas within the

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city that belong to the province as a deal with the Ministry of Transportation

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infrastructure.

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There's, you know, properties that belong to Fraser Health and

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private properties, so it's all case-specific, so we'll continue to work with you and we'll

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look at the areas that you're talking about and see what's most appropriate to deal with them.

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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, I'm Mr. Wilson, for your

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The

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next one is the LMSGDF repulse.

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There's a no-the repulse.

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The next one is the information repulse.

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The first one we have the verbal repulse from the Tot-Police.

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anti-graph tea connoisseur providing our report,

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grafting structures.

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So Todd, if you're ready, I can take seat and begin.

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Thank you, good evening.

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My name is Todd Pollitch.

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I'm the Antigraphy Coordinator for the City of Burnaby.

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I've been in this position since 2017.

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This evening we're going to talk just a little bit

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about the Antigraphy program as a more of an informational

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and kind of the insight to the graffiti that we're dealing with on a daily basis for the city.

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The graffiti tends to be a very polarizing topic and subject where a lot of people advocate for graffiti,

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thinking it's a form of expression and artistic and then the other side of the spectrum,

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where a large number of people think that graffiti is vandalism and destruction of property.

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Let me talk a little bit about that and kind of helping to define what that is and what that means.

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And I just like to just identify that graffiti really is an interesting phenomenon and it is quite typically a barometer for society.

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Then we do see the tens and patterns of graffiti increase decrease and change to do with whatever social scenarios are going on within our societies.

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So, just a quick breakdown of what we see as far as graffiti, and a lot of this is misunderstood,

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so I'm going to kind of take it to kind of the base level of it, and I've got images up here

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that kind of break down what types of graffiti that we deal with.

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And so, the first one I'd like to identify, and this is, it's quite often in this conception,

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is that graffiti is gang related.

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And so, you can see in our slide here that the percentage of gang related graffiti in the Lower Mainland

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and pretty much Canada is zero.

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So there's a different kind of a scenario that exists

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between the United States and Canada,

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as far as graffiti goes.

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And our gangs typically do not use graffiti.

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They're non-territorial and use other means.

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The United States gangs definitely do use graffiti.

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So a lot of the misunderstandings that come from graffiti

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is that it is gangredate.

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And to this part of the world, Canada, it is not.

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The other elements of graffiti that we deal with

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are anarchistic graffiti, which is sheer destruction of property, social graffiti, and political

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graffiti. The number one form of graffiti that we deal with is typically known as through

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the industry called hip-hop graffiti. And hip-hop graffiti is the typical graffiti that we

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see where it's people's names, or the monotrues being painted or scribed or used with

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marker pens or spray paint on various properties.

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So this populates a large majority of the graffiti that we see in Burnaby.

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To just kind of step back in a lot of the misconceptions that people have about graffiti

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and the argument that I receive quite often is about the artistic nature of graffiti

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and the inclination for it to be expressive and a way for young people to go into

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use as a creative outlet and the other side of the spectrum being vandalism. So I do

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argue the fact that graffiti can be artistic and there are people who are very artistic

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and very skilled and talented that do graffiti, but that is a very, very small, small minority.

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I've got to list it here is the graffiti that we see and that we witness, that we experience and

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encounter is 1% and that's being generous as far as artistic nature goes. The reasons for that are

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completely different conversation.

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I can go on for hours about it, I won't.

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A lot of it is to do with motivation.

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And the type of graffiti that we deal with

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and the people that do it,

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they have no interest in the visual aesthetics.

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They have no interest in creating art.

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They have no interest in creating something

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that's beneficial, positive to society.

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The hip-hop graffiti that we typically see

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is basically it's based on the motivation

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of self-promotion and forwarding someone status

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in the graffiti sculpture, and what that means and what it comes down to is scribbling up your

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name as many places as possible, as quickly as possible, and giving it as visible as possible

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by as many people. So we end up seeing like the image on the right, where it's just people's names

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with their molecules, basically throwing up quickly as possible, that they can gain notoriety

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within the graffiti sculpture. That's the only motivation behind it.

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The impact of graffiti

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is it's deep and it's quite interesting.

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The obvious is the economic cost to it.

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And just a statistic I'd love to throw out there

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is that the United States and we can use them as a tracking capacity

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because it's a lot more in depth that the United States

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spends in the neighborhood of $12 to $15 billion a year

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on graffiti remediation alone.

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Removal of graffiti and taking down graffiti.

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Obviously, this might be put to other things and social projects and programs, but that's where it goes.

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The one of the things that really never comes to the surface and to the horizon when we talk about graffiti is the social impact.

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And what we see, especially in my line of work, and increasingly we have got people reporting graffiti, which is a great thing, is the misunderstanding of graffiti, and a lot of times people will feel targeted. They'll feel like they're living in a neighborhood, this crime written, they'll feel like they're living in a neighborhood that's gang infiltrated. And it causes this discomfort and this feeling of retreat from community members and that obviously affects things like,

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involvement in community activities, social capital, and those types of things.

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One of the things that does hardly ever that hardly ever comes up is the danger of

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graffiti to the people who are involved in the graffiti subculture, not given to that

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a little bit later on.

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The city of Bernabey has been very successful with our program, the Antigraphity Program.

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It's been in place since 2008 and it was put in place because of a lot of graffiti running

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rampant and it's been addressed and it's been very successful and the how I attribute that

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00:38:37,750 --> 00:38:42,970
is through our strategies of understanding graffiti. We understand and we've spent a lot of time

445
00:38:42,970 --> 00:38:46,850
understanding who the vandals are. We've spent a lot of time understanding what the motivations

446
00:38:46,850 --> 00:38:53,310
are. What drives the industry and the subculture but we've also spent a significant amount of time

447
00:38:53,310 --> 00:38:59,550
understanding our communities and really looking into the nuances as to how and why certain areas

448
00:38:59,550 --> 00:39:05,890
give hit with graffiti in certain areas, don't. And all of this has come together for us to really

449
00:39:05,890 --> 00:39:11,330
put together what a lot of people don't understand is that there is a high degree of prevention

450
00:39:11,330 --> 00:39:16,550
that's capable and possible in graffiti. And so what we've been doing is putting together our

451
00:39:16,550 --> 00:39:20,310
programs, our systems for that purpose is to prevent graffiti and it has been very effective.

452
00:39:23,770 --> 00:39:32,310
One of the biggest and most substantial significant elements that we have in our program is our

453
00:39:32,310 --> 00:39:40,890
city in 2017, one of the most, the top priority for me was coming up for a way to really manage

454
00:39:40,890 --> 00:39:47,390
the graffiti portfolio. And so I contacted our GIS team and they were amazing in putting together

455
00:39:47,970 --> 00:39:54,130
our GIS we call it tag tractor. And this was originally composed and put together for the purpose of

456
00:39:55,670 --> 00:40:00,090
basically organizing becoming efficient with graffiti. We didn't want graffiti to go through the cracks,

457
00:40:00,090 --> 00:40:03,710
one of the way to make sure that graffiti was being dealt with and it could be delegated.

458
00:40:04,910 --> 00:40:13,910
Our system at our program has been benefited by being extremely nimble and having the ability to

459
00:40:14,830 --> 00:40:21,070
evolve and to identify issues and I give you know full compliments to our senior management and

460
00:40:21,070 --> 00:40:26,130
to the manager that I have in being able to do this that our systems are always continuing

461
00:40:26,130 --> 00:40:33,450
evolving. So we went from a system of tracking graffiti and looking for efficiencies to now collecting data

462
00:40:33,450 --> 00:40:39,330
and looking at the intricacies and nuances of graffiti and being able to put together data collection

463
00:40:39,330 --> 00:40:43,470
that we can help to identify the people who are doing graffiti, why they're doing graffiti,

464
00:40:43,590 --> 00:40:46,030
where they're doing graffiti and these types of things.

465
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,140
Through this, excuse me, through this,

466
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:57,420
we've been able to go and break down graffiti into multitude of categories,

467
00:40:57,420 --> 00:41:02,780
into the multitude of degrees and areas that we can focus on.

468
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:13,940
So what I'm showing up in the map right now in the screen right now is a sample of how we can break down and how we can understand the graffiti industry a little more thoroughly.

469
00:41:14,740 --> 00:41:22,700
And this year is a sample of us running filters and being able to understand who our most prolific offenders are.

470
00:41:22,700 --> 00:41:25,760
And this is a big deal, because as we are understanding

471
00:41:26,300 --> 00:41:30,640
that graffiti is engaged by a large amount of young

472
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:34,440
and not so young people, that there are certain group

473
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:36,140
of people who are reconsidered to be pillars

474
00:41:36,140 --> 00:41:37,680
of this graffiti industry.

475
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:39,360
And we call them a prolific offenders.

476
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,100
So one of our main objectives is to figure out

477
00:41:42,100 --> 00:41:43,840
who they are and figure out their patterns.

478
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,940
In doing this, we've been able to really isolate

479
00:41:48,940 --> 00:41:51,520
a lot of the prolific graffiti vandals

480
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:59,060
through our work in predictive analysis and our work in understanding their patterns is going

481
00:41:59,060 --> 00:42:05,220
in preemptively taking away the reward. And what I mean by that is the graffiti industry and

482
00:42:05,220 --> 00:42:11,400
the motivation behind graffiti is generally speaking a risk-need board system. So the vandals get

483
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:17,220
reward from having their work viewed by as many people as possible in us by going and understanding

484
00:42:17,220 --> 00:42:24,800
and preemptively going out and doing inspections and taking down the graffiti very very quickly

485
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:30,360
we're removing their reward for this. So what we find in by doing this is that the graffiti

486
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:35,640
vandals particularly the prolific ones are finding a reward in the city of Bernabey. That's

487
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:40,180
we're getting a reduction of the prolific vandal activity and a reduction of the amount of people

488
00:42:40,180 --> 00:42:41,740
who are actually participating in graffiti.

489
00:42:44,740 --> 00:42:48,180
Now talking about our understanding of vandals but we're

490
00:42:48,180 --> 00:42:50,700
also talking about the van, the understanding of our communities.

491
00:42:51,540 --> 00:42:56,220
And so when we're looking at this, one of the biggest challenges that we have in the graffiti

492
00:42:56,220 --> 00:42:58,400
portfolio is reporting,

493
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:03,940
and understanding and becoming aware of graffiti when it becomes

494
00:43:03,940 --> 00:43:04,900
visible in the community.

495
00:43:05,260 --> 00:43:08,740
And for a number of reasons, people don't report graffiti.

496
00:43:08,940 --> 00:43:09,680
It's getting better.

497
00:43:09,740 --> 00:43:13,600
People are becoming more informed, and graffiti reporting systems are becoming better, and

498
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:14,800
people are reporting it more.

499
00:43:15,980 --> 00:43:24,220
But without this, we rely heavily on our own proactive inspections of areas.

500
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:29,200
So we've identified areas within the city where we anticipate graffiti to be.

501
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:31,840
And we're proactively going and removing that.

502
00:43:35,570 --> 00:43:39,470
The other, I think, really great advantage that we've had with the city of Pernabee is the

503
00:43:39,470 --> 00:43:40,130
buy-in.

504
00:43:40,350 --> 00:43:45,850
And buy-in from top to bottom from senior management to all of our teams and the understanding

505
00:43:45,850 --> 00:43:52,170
of the importance of removing graffiti and its impact upon society and the reward for going and

506
00:43:52,170 --> 00:43:57,470
actually being active in this. So with this we've had a lot of engagement from our

507
00:43:58,370 --> 00:44:04,150
interdepartment groups and the cooperation has been tremendous and with this we were able to

508
00:44:04,150 --> 00:44:08,610
obviously work with our customer service teams. We keep on evolving our reporting systems

509
00:44:08,610 --> 00:44:12,510
and we're getting a lot more reporting, we're getting accurate reporting, we're getting reporting

510
00:44:12,510 --> 00:44:16,530
that's helpful that we don't have to go on to spend time but we're getting the information

511
00:44:16,530 --> 00:44:23,390
that we need. Our GIS teams continually updating our tracking software to whatever kind of specific

512
00:44:23,390 --> 00:44:28,570
because that we need as we keep on pushing our program forward. Our painting department has been

513
00:44:28,570 --> 00:44:35,050
amazing that when we have graffiti and a report graffiti to them, the graffiti basically I can just

514
00:44:35,050 --> 00:44:39,610
write it off and say the graffiti has been removed. They are the utmost reliable department. They can

515
00:44:39,610 --> 00:44:41,450
remove graffiti, if I report anything,

516
00:44:41,590 --> 00:44:44,050
they dropped everything and take it down within a few hours.

517
00:44:44,510 --> 00:44:46,750
Which I think is very exclusive to the city of Bernabey.

518
00:44:47,590 --> 00:44:49,430
And then of course, our engineering and our parks staff,

519
00:44:49,710 --> 00:44:51,730
they become more and more informed of graffiti.

520
00:44:52,230 --> 00:44:53,870
They are great as far as reporting it,

521
00:44:54,050 --> 00:44:56,150
but also as far as recording information

522
00:44:56,150 --> 00:44:57,390
and that kind of thing.

523
00:44:58,010 --> 00:44:59,970
One of the biggest things, especially in recent years.

524
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:07,920
This year has been the interaction and the participation of our CMP partners in this. And this has been crucial.

525
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:15,860
And I feel very, very blessed that they take graffiti seriously as they do. And this comes in mind with their investigation.

526
00:45:16,100 --> 00:45:20,000
That they put forward and your availability and their

527
00:45:21,460 --> 00:45:26,320
providing resources and support for when we're dealing with, for example, prolific graffiti cases.

528
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:28,480
when we're dealing with graffiti cases that are sensitive,

529
00:45:29,060 --> 00:45:30,700
we do get a lot of support from the RCMP.

530
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,400
As well as situations where there's active graffiti

531
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:37,620
where I can actually say within the last two months

532
00:45:37,620 --> 00:45:40,880
of witness myself, active graffiti taking place

533
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:42,520
and got RCMP response immediately,

534
00:45:42,820 --> 00:45:45,640
which resulted in arrests, which I don't think we could say

535
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:47,940
that about other departments or other municipalities.

536
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:58,000
Working with my team and Dunbridge in particular,

537
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:04,360
One of the things that we've really really highlighted on this program is our post-incident response.

538
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:13,480
And what this means is that we're always looking at efficiencies and areas and ways that we can make things run smoother.

539
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:19,200
How can we get graffiti-reported easier, how we can get other divisions of the city involved?

540
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:41,340
But also I think that it's been really important because it's taken the graffiti element which is primarily visually aesthetics and putting it into a humanistic form and understanding that the people who are reporting graffiti and people who are being victimized by graffiti, they have an emotional connection to what they're seeing and what they're feeling and what they're experiencing in their community.

541
00:46:41,340 --> 00:47:09,940
So our team, they're all trauma informed trained, personnel, make a habit, make a, make it our routine to reach out, particularly in the case of sensitive graffiti, and people who report who are who are concerned, and we're relaying the information to them that even though they see what they consider to be offensive or threatening graffiti that it is not the case, but also relaying to them that we're taking it very seriously as a city of Burnaby does.

542
00:47:09,940 --> 00:47:29,380
Our efficiency in removal is very good, and we feel very, very proud of the fact that we can get back to the people who are complaining, reporting graffiti, the people who are being victimized graffiti by graffiti that their concerns are being taken seriously, and the graffiti is being removed very, very quickly.

543
00:47:32,260 --> 00:47:43,820
This is important, and this is important because it sends messaging and how we act and how we behave and the service that we provide, it does send messaging in a couple of different ways.

544
00:47:44,300 --> 00:47:46,300
It sends messaging to the Vandals in particular.

545
00:47:47,140 --> 00:47:55,380
And when we see other municipalities whose graffiti rates are escalating and getting higher, the Bernabes are getting lower.

546
00:47:55,380 --> 00:48:03,280
and we're seeing less vandal activity, and this is telling me that the vandals are understanding

547
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:07,140
that graffiti is not being tolerated, but the city of Bernabey, that we're taking an actor

548
00:48:07,140 --> 00:48:12,840
for all, and we're removing their reward for doing graffiti, and we're acting very, very quickly and swiftly

549
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:18,740
and responsibly towards us. The other source of messaging, which I think is worth talking about

550
00:48:18,740 --> 00:48:25,360
is the messaging to the community. The community understanding that graffiti is being

551
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:29,960
can seriously buy the city of Bernabey that we're responding very quickly to their complaints

552
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:36,220
in the reports. But also it's sending a message of conditioning. And a lot of times we get

553
00:48:36,220 --> 00:48:40,200
a situation where people think graffiti is going to be dealt. There's nothing we can do about it.

554
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:45,480
Why report it? Why be concerned about it? So what we're doing and what I think we're successfully

555
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:51,740
doing is we can see by the increased public participation is conditioning that this is not part

556
00:48:51,740 --> 00:48:56,900
society that we want to have and that graffiti is not something that should be tolerated and so people

557
00:48:56,900 --> 00:48:59,900
are becoming more involved as a result of this.

558
00:49:04,720 --> 00:49:09,800
So as we look at our program, we're proud of a number

559
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:17,960
of things. We're proud of the number of graffiti cases that we deal with on a yearly basis, the rate

560
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:24,980
that we take them down and respond to them. We're very proud of the amount of declining political

561
00:49:26,060 --> 00:49:31,140
where at one time, when I first came to the city, there was 15 prolific vandals that were

562
00:49:31,140 --> 00:49:36,260
actively involved in the city, which means they're doing graffiti on a daily basis within the city of Bernabey.

563
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:39,900
Now we're down to somewhere between two and three at any given time.

564
00:49:41,740 --> 00:49:48,260
Very proud as well, and I think this is a result of the interdepartmental cooperation is our communication

565
00:49:48,260 --> 00:49:53,780
and communicating with, again, to the people who are reporting and getting back with diligence

566
00:49:53,780 --> 00:49:57,800
and with sensitivity and providing them the feedback that we're taking care of

567
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:00,220
graffiti and we understand our concerns about them.

568
00:50:03,230 --> 00:50:03,830
Most of this I've talked

569
00:50:03,830 --> 00:50:11,270
about. A couple of points I haven't. Graffiti is a gateway to the crime. The

570
00:50:11,270 --> 00:50:15,230
people who do graffiti are not exclusive to graffiti. They steal the paints that

571
00:50:15,230 --> 00:50:20,950
they use. They're often involved with other crimes as far as theft, breaking

572
00:50:20,950 --> 00:50:25,090
and entering. Graffiti is a violent industry. There's violence that happens

573
00:50:25,090 --> 00:50:30,430
between different people, different members of the graffiti subculture, and graffiti is dangerous.

574
00:50:31,110 --> 00:50:35,850
And this is, I think, one of the biggest points I think is understated, and graffiti is very dangerous.

575
00:50:35,970 --> 00:50:41,250
And people get into graffiti, and even parents who see their kids getting into graffiti, and they think it's harmless.

576
00:50:41,390 --> 00:50:45,450
They even think it's cool. They even think it's a good thing. And they think it's just writing on a wall.

577
00:50:46,010 --> 00:50:50,990
Not understanding that the graffiti subculture is deep, and it's got a lot of messaging, and it's got a lot of influence.

578
00:50:50,990 --> 00:50:59,090
the influence of heavy substance abuse, the elements of heavy violence, and the elements

579
00:50:59,090 --> 00:51:05,490
of this ability or this necessity to go into prove oneself to up their anti-tap, their

580
00:51:05,490 --> 00:51:07,070
reputation within the graffiti subculture.

581
00:51:07,610 --> 00:51:13,690
So you can see the image here and it's called going to the heavens where people go and

582
00:51:13,690 --> 00:51:20,670
they want to be painting graffiti in the most audacious locations, taking high risk and people

583
00:51:20,670 --> 00:51:26,310
falling off of highway signs, people are falling off of overpasses, people being strangled

584
00:51:26,310 --> 00:51:31,070
because they're using ropes to repair on the sides of buildings, they're getting electrocuted

585
00:51:31,070 --> 00:51:36,070
on railway tracks and that's how to think. So the graffiti industry is very, very dangerous

586
00:51:36,070 --> 00:51:41,930
and it should be definitely promoted as one of those things to push young people away from doing

587
00:51:41,930 --> 00:51:43,610
and getting engaged in.

588
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:51,180
So I wrap this up to talk about the negativity that we have around graffiti

589
00:51:51,180 --> 00:51:54,460
and the messaging that it puts forward in our community.

590
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:59,560
But what we can look at is the other side of the spectrum as well.

591
00:51:59,820 --> 00:52:04,080
And we can look at this side of the spectrum saying that as negative as graffiti can be,

592
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:08,700
we have the ability to go into change and to make the communities more positive

593
00:52:08,700 --> 00:52:11,820
through our mural programs, through public art, through programs

594
00:52:11,820 --> 00:52:15,400
to go into promote young people to get involved in legal public arts.

595
00:52:15,860 --> 00:52:16,700
And that's the thing.

596
00:52:16,700 --> 00:52:21,520
And then going and putting forward the stewards through the environment and stewards through our community,

597
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:26,220
that we care for our environment, we care for our communities, and to promote this with other people.

598
00:52:27,100 --> 00:52:28,880
So this is the end of my presentation.

599
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,740
I'd like to offer to you a few of the questions you have.

600
00:52:35,420 --> 00:52:39,820
Thank you for your presentation. Now we have the committee member Mar.

601
00:52:41,930 --> 00:52:56,810
Thank you so much for your chair. I wanted to thank Mr. Pollidge for your presentation. I did a quick research on the number of graffiti's reported in Burnaby.

602
00:52:56,810 --> 00:53:02,530
And big shout-out to your work and your N.T. graffiti program.

603
00:53:03,190 --> 00:53:09,030
I've noticed in 2017 or every 2019 or 2016 there was 657 graffiti.

604
00:53:09,450 --> 00:53:12,150
And then down to 2019 with 170.

605
00:53:12,790 --> 00:53:15,390
So which is a huge and significant decrease.

606
00:53:15,990 --> 00:53:20,210
And as we all know in 2020 it was the year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

607
00:53:20,410 --> 00:53:24,970
And there was a big jump of over 1,000 graffiti.

608
00:53:24,970 --> 00:53:34,390
So, I have a quick question about what the numbers are looking like from 2021 to 2025.

609
00:53:34,970 --> 00:53:36,070
That's my first question.

610
00:53:37,450 --> 00:53:40,210
If it's okay if I ask a number of questions, answer one by one.

611
00:53:40,490 --> 00:53:41,630
So, that's number one.

612
00:53:41,770 --> 00:53:46,090
The other question I have is, I believe the city by law says,

613
00:53:46,750 --> 00:53:50,990
If the graffiti is on a private property, say in my fence,

614
00:53:51,190 --> 00:53:53,130
which is on the fence in my house,

615
00:53:53,130 --> 00:54:10,310
I'm required to remove it within 14 days in my own cost because it's in my house, but if it's hate related like if it's motivated by hate or cocaine language, I'm required to remove it within 48 hours.

616
00:54:10,310 --> 00:54:17,190
So, it's a little question about the 48 hours, is it, what is your recommendation?

617
00:54:17,670 --> 00:54:24,330
I'm a home owner, should I call the police first, if it's pay motivated, if it's 48 hours,

618
00:54:24,630 --> 00:54:29,130
is it including the weekend, if it happens on a Friday night, doesn't mean by Sunday,

619
00:54:29,270 --> 00:54:30,130
it has to be removed.

620
00:54:32,450 --> 00:54:38,490
Through the chair, there's a very good questions, and so we like to deal with our program

621
00:54:38,490 --> 00:54:44,690
with a high degree of compassion and where we have these bylaws that regulate exactly how things

622
00:54:44,690 --> 00:54:50,670
are supposed to be. We take a humanistic approach to it and we do what we can for the

623
00:54:50,670 --> 00:54:51,690
community members.

624
00:54:53,990 --> 00:54:57,130
The reporting should go through, especially particularly with hate graffiti,

625
00:54:57,170 --> 00:55:02,910
it should go through the RCMP 100%, but then also come through the city of Bernabes. We have an online

626
00:55:02,910 --> 00:55:06,890
We're reporting very important to do that.

627
00:55:07,330 --> 00:55:11,370
Now, when it comes to graffiti and I'll be honest with you,

628
00:55:11,490 --> 00:55:13,790
when it comes to hate-based graffiti,

629
00:55:15,990 --> 00:55:18,210
the objective is to take it down as soon as possible.

630
00:55:19,010 --> 00:55:21,070
We do the best that we can to take the burden away

631
00:55:21,070 --> 00:55:25,210
from the property owner, which usually means someone

632
00:55:25,210 --> 00:55:28,310
from our community is painting it out for them.

633
00:55:33,650 --> 00:55:33,730
Thank you.

634
00:55:34,170 --> 00:55:37,130
So the other question was, do you have the figures?

635
00:55:38,630 --> 00:55:50,550
I don't have exact figures, but we're averaging around 1,000, 1,000 locations of graffiti being removed every year.

636
00:55:54,650 --> 00:55:55,110
Thank you.

637
00:55:55,590 --> 00:55:58,870
The next one has a very fun CSAC statistic number on.

638
00:55:59,690 --> 00:56:01,170
Thank you through chair.

639
00:56:01,650 --> 00:56:04,790
I thought you're kind of a legend in the CSAC community.

640
00:56:06,230 --> 00:56:08,630
So I'm the district chair for district one.

641
00:56:08,630 --> 00:56:12,870
And you actually personally come to my house to remove graffiti before because I face a

642
00:56:12,870 --> 00:56:16,530
confederation park elementary so it was facing the school and it was very inappropriate

643
00:56:16,530 --> 00:56:20,030
for children to see the type of graffiti so I personally made a report.

644
00:56:20,430 --> 00:56:24,170
Very easy to do. You came. You personally came. This is many years ago.

645
00:56:24,470 --> 00:56:28,590
So you personally came many years ago and removed it yourself and we had a nice conversation.

646
00:56:29,590 --> 00:56:33,130
And so and in our district meetings, our monthly meetings,

647
00:56:33,130 --> 00:56:40,770
Your name comes up often because you're well respected and for the community members.

648
00:56:41,330 --> 00:56:46,070
And I do know, personally, that the RCMP take graffiti very seriously.

649
00:56:46,550 --> 00:56:49,950
It's a topic of conversation and affects the community.

650
00:56:50,210 --> 00:56:55,790
And we, as the community members in our council, we take it very seriously as well.

651
00:56:56,010 --> 00:56:57,210
So I just wanted to thank you, personally.

652
00:56:58,230 --> 00:57:01,430
I know the good work that your team is doing.

653
00:57:01,430 --> 00:57:06,450
I do actually have one question because something came up a couple of months ago when our

654
00:57:06,450 --> 00:57:12,070
committee about the acid etching graffiti that was starting to happen and along Hastings

655
00:57:12,070 --> 00:57:17,230
Street, the windows, there were some business owners that were getting acid etching and I know

656
00:57:17,230 --> 00:57:23,070
this is actually, I believe, as impossible to remove because it creates a ghosting effect.

657
00:57:23,290 --> 00:57:28,710
If it's cleaned, there's a ghost in the mirror, sorry, the glass and the glass has to be replaced.

658
00:57:28,710 --> 00:57:40,310
Obviously, that's an incredible cost to the business owner, and as we know business owners are dealing with an incredible amount of, you know, overhead and logistics and whatnot.

659
00:57:40,410 --> 00:57:47,750
So I just have a question about the specifically about the acidity, and I do know if anything specific is happening in your department of regarding that.

660
00:57:48,170 --> 00:57:58,690
Yeah. Thank you. Yes. Through the chair. That's, that was a very unfortunate situation, and acid etching is one of those forms of graffiti which is very, very important.

661
00:57:58,690 --> 00:58:03,750
difficult to deal with. Essentially it does burn holes in the glass. It burns

662
00:58:03,750 --> 00:58:07,750
lettering into the glass, which is very, very difficult to remove. There are ways of

663
00:58:07,750 --> 00:58:14,270
doing it, but generally speaking, the glass doesn't need to be replaced. As far as

664
00:58:14,270 --> 00:58:18,710
what we're doing in that circumstance, obviously trying to find a preparatory

665
00:58:18,710 --> 00:58:28,670
we would very closely with the RCMP on that, because it was one person who was

666
00:58:28,670 --> 00:58:30,990
Thankfully, it doesn't happen very often.

667
00:58:31,530 --> 00:58:36,790
It would be incredibly damaging, damaging, and there's not a lot we can do to help remediate

668
00:58:36,790 --> 00:58:37,450
that.

669
00:58:41,010 --> 00:58:42,010
Thank you.

670
00:58:43,630 --> 00:58:45,860
Thank you.

671
00:58:45,860 --> 00:58:46,140
Thank you.

672
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:47,140
Through the chair.

673
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:48,620
Todd, excellent presentations.

674
00:58:48,980 --> 00:58:49,880
Thank you for your presentation.

675
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:52,060
I'll start with some comments first.

676
00:58:53,460 --> 00:58:55,860
With our department there we have a paper partnership with yourself.

677
00:58:56,520 --> 00:58:59,740
I think it's what's clear, I think it came through your presentation and the questions

678
00:58:59,740 --> 00:59:00,100
here.

679
00:59:00,380 --> 00:59:01,880
This is not a victimless crime.

680
00:59:02,260 --> 00:59:05,160
there's an economic cost, there is a societal cost.

681
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:07,520
We see that there's tons of literature that shows

682
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:09,120
the importance we're moving it,

683
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:11,840
because if it's on there, the sense is,

684
00:59:11,900 --> 00:59:12,800
you don't care about your community,

685
00:59:13,020 --> 00:59:15,100
so I will then do other crime and everything else.

686
00:59:15,660 --> 00:59:17,340
When we deal with the issue right away,

687
00:59:17,700 --> 00:59:19,800
people get someone's watching, someone's dealing with it,

688
00:59:19,820 --> 00:59:22,640
the community cares, and you see it, not progress.

689
00:59:22,980 --> 00:59:24,060
So I think that's really important.

690
00:59:24,860 --> 00:59:26,240
I represent them all to your comments,

691
00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:27,820
you report it, every thing should be reported,

692
00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:29,620
and we can actually track it.

693
00:59:29,740 --> 00:59:31,440
You know, no, we know that there's an issue going there,

694
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:35,660
So we can be to direct resources into those neighborhoods and so we'll prevent that from continuing

695
00:59:35,660 --> 00:59:36,540
escalating.

696
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:37,260
So that's important.

697
00:59:37,780 --> 00:59:43,460
And I'll leave one question, top of you, do you have representatives and other municipalities

698
00:59:43,460 --> 00:59:47,300
and other neighborhoods, municipalities that have your share of position and do you share intelligence?

699
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:51,580
The reason for that question is for my other jurisdictions I've worked in, where we

700
00:59:51,580 --> 00:59:55,540
see that is some of these graffiti artists, especially our prolific ones, have a certain

701
00:59:55,540 --> 00:59:56,020
signature.

702
00:59:56,020 --> 00:59:58,920
and when we're going to get the intelligence of certain people,

703
00:59:59,140 --> 00:59:59,980
we'll see their next to their...

704
01:00:00,740 --> 01:00:13,000
We're able to then track back and kind of hold them accountable and able to have been able to successfully prove that in court that this person is responsible for multiple jurisdictions and kind of hold them accountable and has been successful in court.

705
01:00:13,380 --> 01:00:14,920
So I got that question for you.

706
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:15,520
Yes.

707
01:00:15,980 --> 01:00:16,960
Through the chair, yes.

708
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:23,640
It, yep, very good point that these graffiti vandals are not localized. They do travel around a lot.

709
01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:45,780
And there have been circumstances as well, I have reached out to counter parts and there's a counterpart of mine in the city of Vancouver and trying to share information with that as well as I believe that your members have had to conversation with EPD as well, trying to share their information and also have communications with our neighboring Co-Quitland as well.

710
01:00:46,540 --> 01:00:51,360
Over, you know, what we consider to be prolific vandals that may be crossing over boundaries and borders and a type of thing.

711
01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:55,460
We try to foster and cultivate that as much as we can.

712
01:00:57,400 --> 01:00:58,060
Thank you.

713
01:00:58,580 --> 01:00:59,740
Come with your number four.

714
01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:06,760
You mentioned cost in the U.S.

715
01:01:06,780 --> 01:01:09,280
I'd like to know how much it costs for to be each year.

716
01:01:10,680 --> 01:01:12,380
Approximately each year to deal with this.

717
01:01:13,560 --> 01:01:14,240
It's a good question.

718
01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:15,560
Sorry, it's through the chair.

719
01:01:16,180 --> 01:01:17,640
I don't have the exact numbers.

720
01:01:19,860 --> 01:01:22,980
From the time that we started tracking graffiti, which is 2018,

721
01:01:22,980 --> 01:01:32,820
team to current, I myself have been in contact with 8,000 locations of graffiti vandalism

722
01:01:32,820 --> 01:01:35,320
at a cost of, well,

723
01:01:37,570 --> 01:01:44,170
the industry cost is $2 million for that. With the work that we do

724
01:01:44,170 --> 01:01:47,830
is substantially less, I don't have the numbers for you exactly right now, but that would

725
01:01:47,830 --> 01:01:53,470
be if we were, Bernabey sits in a good location where we're handling, we're handling all

726
01:01:53,470 --> 01:02:00,290
graffiti work internally. So our painting departments and community work, myself, apart

727
01:02:00,290 --> 01:02:07,230
departments. We don't hire externally and the cost obviously to go external to other private

728
01:02:07,230 --> 01:02:12,110
companies to do the graffiti removal is substantially higher. So the $2 million I mentioned

729
01:02:12,110 --> 01:02:17,490
that would be if we were using an external group, our cost is substantially less.

730
01:02:17,870 --> 01:02:21,870
It would be possible to get just a rough estimate at some point.

731
01:02:21,870 --> 01:02:24,370
I don't have those numbers right now, but I can definitely like it up for you.

732
01:02:24,650 --> 01:02:24,870
Thank you.

733
01:02:26,190 --> 01:02:26,850
Thank you.

734
01:02:27,250 --> 01:02:28,310
I'm a community member.

735
01:02:28,710 --> 01:02:29,370
If you're finished?

736
01:02:30,430 --> 01:02:30,570
Yes.

737
01:02:30,750 --> 01:02:31,330
Thank you.

738
01:02:31,690 --> 01:02:32,690
Community members and do.

739
01:02:33,510 --> 01:02:34,450
Thank you for the chair.

740
01:02:35,090 --> 01:02:36,230
Thanks talk for your presentation.

741
01:02:36,990 --> 01:02:39,210
Just a quick comment or even a question.

742
01:02:39,370 --> 01:02:44,090
One is the reporting actually in the Bernabey Connect app.

743
01:02:45,110 --> 01:02:47,190
I personally not a fan of filling up forms.

744
01:02:47,370 --> 01:02:50,690
But I'm just wondering if there is that piece just for increasing.

745
01:02:51,850 --> 01:02:54,990
reporting. The other piece and just interested is in the

746
01:02:54,990 --> 01:02:57,490
beautification. I've seen those lovely utility

747
01:02:57,490 --> 01:03:01,030
reps. Just wondering if you have any anecdotal, like what is the community

748
01:03:01,030 --> 01:03:07,150
saying about those, have they actually deterred folks? And so I wanted to hear

749
01:03:07,150 --> 01:03:15,870
about that. Yeah, great. Yeah, sure the chair. Yeah, the I can talk about the

750
01:03:15,870 --> 01:03:22,630
So, the RAPS program in the neural program is one that we've established as part of our

751
01:03:22,630 --> 01:03:29,530
beautification initiatives. And so, these programs have evolved as well. And so, we've gone

752
01:03:29,530 --> 01:03:37,990
from the RAPS program particular, we've gone from having kind of the vegetative type of visuals,

753
01:03:38,190 --> 01:03:43,670
not type of thing to using some of the material from our RAPS programs, but then we've also started

754
01:03:43,670 --> 01:03:49,030
using it more recently as part of our youth arts programs, which we've run as well, so we're

755
01:03:49,030 --> 01:03:53,210
basically taking photos of some of the work that we're doing with some of the youth that we

756
01:03:53,210 --> 01:03:56,970
work with and putting on some of the boxes and the responses that have been fantastic.

757
01:03:58,230 --> 01:04:02,430
People are like, and going to your point into your question about the graffiti deterrence

758
01:04:03,470 --> 01:04:11,950
twofold. Yes, I'd say those receive an encounter, probably about 90% less graffiti, and when

759
01:04:11,950 --> 01:04:15,390
And they are hit with graffiti, their removal is so much easier.

760
01:04:15,710 --> 01:04:19,350
Being on a vinyl surface, it's, they come off very, very quickly and easily.

761
01:04:20,850 --> 01:04:25,170
Then, dear, the question about our web form, our online reporting, it's been very effective.

762
01:04:25,950 --> 01:04:28,590
Maybe I'll, if I don't answer a question, you can ask it again.

763
01:04:28,890 --> 01:04:33,650
It's been very effective and it is a form-based and we do require certain information.

764
01:04:34,770 --> 01:04:40,170
And because of that, it makes our system and our process very streamlined where I can go out into

765
01:04:40,170 --> 01:04:45,430
community and be able to identify what the graffiti is. And also I think one of the things

766
01:04:45,430 --> 01:04:50,810
that I should mention is that our system in dealing with graffiti is we work on a

767
01:04:50,810 --> 01:04:56,730
tree-out system and we look at graffiti and depending upon the type of graffiti is where it is

768
01:04:57,410 --> 01:05:03,710
who the perpetrator is we prioritize things differently. So when we get a thorough intake form

769
01:05:04,550 --> 01:05:09,870
from our online reporting we're able to go into say this is a high category of graffiti whether it's

770
01:05:09,870 --> 01:05:20,430
One is socially sensitive, whether something that is from a prolific offender, where there's a high visibility area, we can prioritize based upon that.

771
01:05:20,470 --> 01:05:25,530
So the thinking means it might be to fill the forms as very helpful in the streamlines of our system and our program.

772
01:05:30,260 --> 01:05:31,020
Thank you.

773
01:05:31,540 --> 01:05:32,720
Councillor Lee.

774
01:05:33,180 --> 01:05:33,520
Thank you.

775
01:05:33,680 --> 01:05:34,540
Mr. Chair.

776
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:39,380
Thank you for the very detailed report and presentation.

777
01:05:39,380 --> 01:05:51,320
For the prolific windows, how many exercises for the case of first-class children in court?

778
01:05:51,700 --> 01:05:56,880
Do they have any statistics on this number of years?

779
01:05:57,620 --> 01:05:58,860
Seven years?

780
01:05:59,140 --> 01:05:59,580
Seven years?

781
01:06:01,160 --> 01:06:02,500
Sorry, your question again.

782
01:06:02,500 --> 01:06:13,420
Yes, that's full in court, okay, so through the chair, we don't have any convictions through the court system.

783
01:06:14,140 --> 01:06:21,380
We've recently made two arrests, as I mentioned earlier, that's very rare, that's extremely rare.

784
01:06:21,900 --> 01:06:30,240
And the nature of graffiti vandalism is it happens very late at night and it happens so quickly that it's very difficult to catch a graffiti vandal.

785
01:06:31,100 --> 01:06:36,040
For you chair, if this one is a couple of cases successful,

786
01:06:37,340 --> 01:06:42,240
post-curely content, I think that could have some deterrent effect

787
01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:45,100
to the frequent offenders.

788
01:06:46,440 --> 01:06:51,000
And also, you know, caught a water, some kind of penalty,

789
01:06:52,420 --> 01:06:58,680
and that could also, I mean, something preventing them to do that again.

790
01:06:58,680 --> 01:07:04,920
So, I don't know, it's just, I think the course is substantial, as you mentioned, is

791
01:07:04,920 --> 01:07:13,500
cost of millions of dollars to our system, to people, to the department, to, you know,

792
01:07:13,540 --> 01:07:19,320
all the incorporation that the course will be, would be less. But I, I think,

793
01:07:19,920 --> 01:07:27,860
yeah, just my, my thought that if this case could be established that could actually

794
01:07:27,860 --> 01:07:29,980
will reduce the number of open of open.

795
01:07:31,420 --> 01:07:34,320
Any comments? Yeah.

796
01:07:37,840 --> 01:07:43,220
Yeah, I'll comment from my previous experience in some of the other municipalities I've worked in.

797
01:07:43,460 --> 01:07:54,380
Well, some of these cases do get sometimes to alternative measures. Sometimes we get caught, so the statistics are a little bit skewed there, because sometimes it depends on who the defender is.

798
01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:57,980
And so you catch them, but then because it's they do community work.

799
01:07:57,980 --> 01:08:00,500
That's where we sort of adjust this program, everything else.

800
01:08:00,660 --> 01:08:02,780
So sometimes though, so when you look at both the metrics,

801
01:08:02,940 --> 01:08:04,900
sometimes you do not as accurate there on those ones.

802
01:08:05,240 --> 01:08:07,520
So you have to put that into context as well there.

803
01:08:08,200 --> 01:08:11,960
And, but I do, you know, there that deterrent factor there,

804
01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:14,260
that would be helpful there, you know, it's,

805
01:08:14,260 --> 01:08:16,080
it's those ones are difficult to prove sometimes,

806
01:08:16,320 --> 01:08:18,300
and then you know, the challenging on the elements of the offense

807
01:08:18,300 --> 01:08:19,520
and catching them in the act.

808
01:08:19,980 --> 01:08:21,600
And so, last way, the intelligence,

809
01:08:21,920 --> 01:08:24,460
and then try to kind of patrol those areas

810
01:08:24,460 --> 01:08:26,340
and see if we do catch them there.

811
01:08:26,340 --> 01:08:28,760
So that would be my experience on that.

812
01:08:29,240 --> 01:08:35,020
Yeah, since this mentioned that there's some special signatures on some of those

813
01:08:35,020 --> 01:08:36,220
activities.

814
01:08:37,180 --> 01:08:42,260
And so if this is the same group of people, some type of organization, whoever,

815
01:08:42,720 --> 01:08:44,680
so that could be easily identified.

816
01:08:47,080 --> 01:08:48,440
Thank you.

817
01:08:49,140 --> 01:08:49,820
Thank you.

818
01:08:52,540 --> 01:08:55,200
I actually have a retired prosecutor.

819
01:08:56,380 --> 01:09:01,880
A tag, a signature wouldn't be enough to take to court because anybody can put a signature on.

820
01:09:02,420 --> 01:09:11,660
So the cases that I saw were police were just fortunately driving by and actually caught the person in the act.

821
01:09:12,540 --> 01:09:21,100
If they did not have any record or prior history then the first step is to take them through diversion and often they don't like that they have to do community work service.

822
01:09:21,100 --> 01:09:27,440
And often does the trick for a new offender, especially if they're younger and they're parents find out, and the police being involved.

823
01:09:28,680 --> 01:09:37,220
So, but a signature is not enough. Unfortunately, exactly. That's called forgery. Don't do it.

824
01:09:38,520 --> 01:09:39,560
Thank you.

825
01:09:39,880 --> 01:09:40,360
Thank you.

826
01:09:40,820 --> 01:09:42,820
Thank you. Now we have a concert in the city, I go.

827
01:09:43,380 --> 01:09:47,100
I think you chair through you. I think you as well, Todd, for the presentation.

828
01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:52,860
And I would like to just add my appreciation as well to you, your team, my staff, for their

829
01:09:52,860 --> 01:09:56,380
work, in this issue on this issue.

830
01:09:57,100 --> 01:10:01,580
I think that it's one of those things where, you know, like as a city, it might be something

831
01:10:01,580 --> 01:10:06,560
that many residents might not notice or take for granted, but I think it's important work

832
01:10:06,560 --> 01:10:11,300
when we talk about how residents feel in general, right?

833
01:10:11,480 --> 01:10:16,960
And if it wasn't being done, I think it would be felt, right, that it would impact it would

834
01:10:16,960 --> 01:10:21,600
like a negative impact on one sense of safety and well-being so I think it's

835
01:10:21,600 --> 01:10:27,500
incredibly important work that you all do and I'm very impressed by all of the data

836
01:10:27,500 --> 01:10:33,420
tracking analysis that goes into it and I also appreciate what you spoke of

837
01:10:33,420 --> 01:10:38,520
earlier about having like that human centered you know understanding about what's

838
01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:43,240
involved with graffiti because I do recall working at one time at a business and

839
01:10:43,240 --> 01:10:52,340
I mean, I work one morning and there was graffiti on the door and yeah, I remember feeling like very, you know, violated it and and unsafe.

840
01:10:53,100 --> 01:11:03,240
So it's so good to hear that our team and you bring that type of perspective, right, when we deal with residents who are reporting or who experienced it.

841
01:11:03,240 --> 01:11:14,160
Yeah, and also good to hear about how, you know, this is something that, you know, Bernabey's doing well and, you know, I was left to hear it when there are things like that.

842
01:11:14,460 --> 01:11:17,080
So, thank you for highlighting that also.

843
01:11:17,560 --> 01:11:17,680
Thank you.

844
01:11:17,860 --> 01:11:18,600
Thank you for the compliment.

845
01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:20,280
Thank you.

846
01:11:20,660 --> 01:11:21,300
Thank you.

847
01:11:21,300 --> 01:11:23,840
I'll be very brief here.

848
01:11:24,260 --> 01:11:26,320
I just thank you very much for the presentation.

849
01:11:26,780 --> 01:11:30,520
I thought this would be impactful for this group to hear what you do.

850
01:11:30,520 --> 01:11:39,280
For the committee, Todd is he's the guy, he runs this program on his own, although he does work with other partners.

851
01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:44,460
He's at the center of all of it, so it runs very lean this program here.

852
01:11:45,240 --> 01:11:56,960
But the impact, and I think we're lucky enough to have a retired crown council here to talk about the evidence required to push these matters through to charge approval.

853
01:11:56,960 --> 01:12:03,540
And in the first stages that have to occur prior to that, so thank you, committee member Ford.

854
01:12:04,260 --> 01:12:13,080
But I think, which shouldn't be lost on anybody on the committee here is the impact on the people that are being victimized by the graffiti.

855
01:12:13,680 --> 01:12:24,600
So often we find, and it's not all the time, but we define the racist, offensive graffiti that has an impact on school children or different groups.

856
01:12:24,600 --> 01:12:29,200
and even if it's not in those categories and it's on your business or on your

857
01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:36,000
residents it still has an impact so I think a quick response it shows the

858
01:12:36,000 --> 01:12:42,160
city cares and it shows that we're all in here to support each other so you know

859
01:12:42,160 --> 01:12:47,480
the successful program like this really comes from you know how much you put

860
01:12:47,480 --> 01:12:53,460
into this program and not just your knowledge of it but how much you care so

861
01:12:53,460 --> 01:12:56,400
Thank you and really appreciate presentation.

862
01:12:57,120 --> 01:12:57,620
Thank you.

863
01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:00,900
Thank you. Thank you for your presentations.

864
01:13:01,340 --> 01:13:03,200
Thank you very much.

865
01:13:04,220 --> 01:13:04,460
Thank you.

866
01:13:07,230 --> 01:13:12,170
Then the next we have a little report from

867
01:13:12,170 --> 01:13:17,790
Corporal Haller Harris who was the MP for worried information.

868
01:13:18,190 --> 01:13:22,670
Who will be the MP Detachment FIFA Respons 2016.

869
01:13:22,670 --> 01:13:23,030
Thank

870
01:13:28,730 --> 01:13:41,170
you. I have brought with me my colleague, Louis Dawson from the City of Burnaby, who also works on with us in special events and our best committee.

871
01:13:42,230 --> 01:13:50,390
So I am on the emergency operations and social events planning committee are planning off section in Burnaby.

872
01:13:51,030 --> 01:13:55,270
I'm just going to give you a little highlight of what we do before we get into what our

873
01:13:55,270 --> 01:13:57,850
FIFA support look like during the FIFA tournament.

874
01:14:04,110 --> 01:14:08,550
So kind of what we do, some of the things that we're responsible for is operational readiness

875
01:14:08,550 --> 01:14:14,730
of members, business continuity, of the detachment, disaster response, evacuation plans.

876
01:14:15,230 --> 01:14:18,750
We develop operational plans for a special event to take place in Bernabey.

877
01:14:18,970 --> 01:14:23,950
We all know that Bernabey is a very vibrant community that celebrates a lot of cultural events

878
01:14:23,950 --> 01:14:25,730
and has great events like Canada Day,

879
01:14:25,970 --> 01:14:28,630
hats off day, we develop operational plans

880
01:14:28,630 --> 01:14:29,670
for those events.

881
01:14:29,870 --> 01:14:32,710
So we deploy officers to that to make sure

882
01:14:32,710 --> 01:14:34,890
that public safety is first and foremost.

883
01:14:36,130 --> 01:14:38,850
We also review many special event permits

884
01:14:38,850 --> 01:14:42,010
that come in for any potential approval.

885
01:14:44,900 --> 01:14:46,980
We monitor environmental protest groups.

886
01:14:47,020 --> 01:14:50,020
So we work with provincial units within BC

887
01:14:50,020 --> 01:14:52,720
that we monitor any kind of planned events

888
01:14:52,720 --> 01:14:54,240
that might be impactful to burn away.

889
01:14:54,760 --> 01:14:55,820
And if that were the case,

890
01:14:55,820 --> 01:14:59,980
We'd also develop a operational plan and response plan for police too.

891
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:08,620
Respond to that and to manage it. A new thing that we've started is we've taken over any kind of requests

892
01:15:08,620 --> 01:15:13,940
for over time for our officers to support filming within the burnt city of Barnaby. So kind

893
01:15:13,940 --> 01:15:19,200
of what that we get information from the city of Barnaby. Filming department and then we

894
01:15:19,200 --> 01:15:23,680
create joining instructions so our officers know kind of what's being asked, what the approval was from

895
01:15:23,680 --> 01:15:28,660
the city side and any, if there's any street closures, we ensure that public safety is foremost

896
01:15:28,660 --> 01:15:32,920
and a lot of some of the film that's been happening lately has had people in

897
01:15:32,920 --> 01:15:37,300
police uniforms, so we're there also for public safety. We also support the

898
01:15:37,300 --> 01:15:41,280
divisional emergency operations centers, so we're a de-occus what we call it

899
01:15:41,280 --> 01:15:45,860
for any request for provincial emergency response, such as wildfires flooding

900
01:15:45,860 --> 01:15:52,380
that type of event. This year in 2026, we also supported and worked on

901
01:15:56,040 --> 01:16:22,360
So planning started way back, I started in on EOPS, I think it was the end of March, so this planning started before I came over to the section and we worked with the city of Raby's best community, actually a subcommittee was created, and we met weekly best for those who don't know meets by weekly, but because FIFA was fast approaching and we wanted to make sure we were on top of any weekday,

902
01:16:22,360 --> 01:16:28,600
requests that might come in from businesses to extend their license or to host any kind of

903
01:16:28,600 --> 01:16:33,260
FIFA events that we were on top of that and support public safety if that were the case.

904
01:16:33,960 --> 01:16:38,980
So we also worked in partnership with our senior leadership team within the detachment, the

905
01:16:38,980 --> 01:16:45,400
RCMP score team, other local detachment, neighboring RCMP detachment to kind of see what their response

906
01:16:45,400 --> 01:16:50,440
was, any kind of impactful events that they might be hosting that maybe there would be an overflow

907
01:16:50,440 --> 01:16:56,060
into Burnaby, and obviously VPD, which is where most of the events took the actual events

908
01:16:56,060 --> 01:17:01,180
to place. And we are actually we're able to participate in some special training with VPD.

909
01:17:02,460 --> 01:17:06,740
And as I said, we were very closely with our best community partners.

910
01:17:07,860 --> 01:17:13,680
One of the things that we actually did in anticipation of FIFA was we went over to the Burnaby Board

911
01:17:13,680 --> 01:17:20,420
of Trade, and we did presentations to businesses so we can talk to them on the city side and both

912
01:17:20,420 --> 01:17:25,840
are the same piece side of what we could see as a potential impact but they may anticipate so maybe

913
01:17:25,840 --> 01:17:29,640
it be an impact to traffic, your employees may have a hard time getting to work depending on where

914
01:17:29,640 --> 01:17:34,560
they are. There could be an impact on just having more people in the area like tourism,

915
01:17:35,200 --> 01:17:39,200
people maybe wanting to leave Vancouver. There's no game day kind of what that might look like for

916
01:17:39,200 --> 01:17:45,780
Burnaby. When we also discussed, it is an opportunity a world event in a world stage such as FIFA,

917
01:17:45,780 --> 01:17:53,280
is an opportunity for public interest groups to now come in to showcase their costs.

918
01:17:53,400 --> 01:18:00,200
So we also worked with the businesses to talk about any kind of how we could mitigate

919
01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:01,700
some of that.

920
01:18:02,300 --> 01:18:08,800
Over the tournament, Timeline, our goal was to support first and foremost frontline operations

921
01:18:08,800 --> 01:18:15,460
within the city, and to ensure our frontline officers had enough support, and also to address

922
01:18:15,460 --> 01:18:18,260
any overflow on non-game days or even game days

923
01:18:18,260 --> 01:18:19,820
because we're close to fan fest

924
01:18:20,400 --> 01:18:22,940
to support that total tourism overflow.

925
01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:25,740
Any potential impact on the public safety,

926
01:18:26,060 --> 01:18:28,960
let me overflow into Bernabey and to sure that also,

927
01:18:29,300 --> 01:18:30,800
because there were still community events

928
01:18:30,800 --> 01:18:31,900
happening within the city,

929
01:18:32,200 --> 01:18:33,860
that we were able to deploy enough officers

930
01:18:33,860 --> 01:18:35,360
to support those events

931
01:18:35,360 --> 01:18:38,820
and so they could run in a safe manner.

932
01:18:39,260 --> 01:18:42,020
So our first was to support frontline

933
01:18:42,020 --> 01:18:48,640
And many, many months in planning to have

934
01:18:48,640 --> 01:18:50,240
been sure that frontline was supported.

935
01:18:50,520 --> 01:18:53,760
So supported by some of our specialized units such

936
01:18:53,760 --> 01:18:56,540
as BGAD, our KSO team, our post team, just to

937
01:18:56,540 --> 01:18:58,460
name a few other teams, those are the same.

938
01:18:58,660 --> 01:19:03,120
Our youth section provided some officers from those teams

939
01:19:03,120 --> 01:19:06,060
to frontline, so that might mean frontline response,

940
01:19:06,480 --> 01:19:09,200
responding to files, but also they supported our

941
01:19:09,200 --> 01:19:10,720
investigative services team.

942
01:19:10,720 --> 01:19:13,080
So there will be more like some detachments

943
01:19:13,080 --> 01:19:16,060
call it like a GI, so more serious kind of support.

944
01:19:16,980 --> 01:19:20,500
And what that did was it allowed our more senior officers

945
01:19:20,500 --> 01:19:22,520
who have been working in these specialized units

946
01:19:22,520 --> 01:19:25,860
to come and mentor some of the junior officers

947
01:19:25,860 --> 01:19:29,380
who were still in front line, and also to boost the numbers

948
01:19:29,380 --> 01:19:31,960
that were on the road at that time.

949
01:19:33,240 --> 01:19:34,940
And just great to share that information.

950
01:19:35,260 --> 01:19:36,640
That's a great mentorship opportunity.

951
01:19:36,640 --> 01:19:45,560
And we also received support from FIFA, so over the duration of the tournament, we would receive,

952
01:19:45,580 --> 01:19:52,300
so we, sorry, we supported FIFA by providing over the tournament timeline, 26 of our officers,

953
01:19:53,380 --> 01:20:06,600
two various different tasks and duties, which, on average, worked out to be between five to six,

954
01:20:06,600 --> 01:20:13,780
language training, who are our tactical members, who are in Vancouver, some of them were also

955
01:20:13,780 --> 01:20:19,240
just supporting more like fine line policing traffic control within the city of Burnie,

956
01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:26,760
I'm sorry, the city of Vancouver. And so that's what we did to support. So we gave 26 officers

957
01:20:26,760 --> 01:20:33,980
over that duration. And then what we got in return was on a probably a pretty regular basis,

958
01:20:33,980 --> 01:20:44,200
The most we ever saw was about 26 officers who came and then there was some extras who kind of just saw my signs and thought they would just come and see what going to be all about.

959
01:20:45,260 --> 01:20:51,100
So we had about 26 officers a day. Their shifts would be from about noon until midnight.

960
01:20:52,040 --> 01:21:00,760
And they worked on a six day rotation and they would come in and burn me and they would we would deploy them. I would meet them and I would deploy them to different.

961
01:21:02,480 --> 01:21:03,840
events that were taking place.

962
01:21:04,420 --> 01:21:08,400
So we gave 24 and we received on average about 26.

963
01:21:08,900 --> 01:21:12,520
I think the least we ever got was one day we got eight.

964
01:21:13,360 --> 01:21:15,720
Just because sometimes what would happen is those officers,

965
01:21:15,920 --> 01:21:19,300
if there was a candidate game day specifically,

966
01:21:19,600 --> 01:21:21,200
or there was a big game day in Vancouver,

967
01:21:21,740 --> 01:21:25,140
they would be used as additional resources in Vancouver,

968
01:21:25,280 --> 01:21:26,940
so sometimes we didn't see those numbers.

969
01:21:32,760 --> 01:21:34,340
So kind of how we managed that,

970
01:21:34,340 --> 01:21:40,460
is one of our two. This is the first team that we got. One of the two teams, so they would

971
01:21:40,460 --> 01:21:45,340
break up into two teams. They would come in their own, please cars or non-mart cars and sometimes

972
01:21:45,340 --> 01:21:50,120
there'd be four to six in a vehicle and they would be in a van and we would deploy them. So when

973
01:21:50,120 --> 01:21:56,360
they would come to the detachment, I would, I was their deployment coordinator and I would

974
01:21:56,360 --> 01:22:04,320
provide them with an oversight of like some pretty important information if you're going to be

975
01:22:04,320 --> 01:22:10,380
never been to Vancouver, BC, let alone Burnaby, and a lot of them have worked in only small

976
01:22:10,380 --> 01:22:14,940
detachments, so Burnaby being the largest detachments that it is, a lot of people had

977
01:22:14,940 --> 01:22:20,580
not experienced that, so it was very interesting for them to see. And so they would come and

978
01:22:20,580 --> 01:22:26,740
we would provide them with information about where to go and what kind of deployments. I also

979
01:22:26,740 --> 01:22:29,980
I've used a great tool that low assist team had to play.

980
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:38,180
I developed, which was all the events lists. So, most of the events lists would include some of the watch parties,

981
01:22:38,960 --> 01:22:46,460
some of the establishments within Berneby, who maybe had their patio expanded, and there's going to be more people,

982
01:22:46,700 --> 01:22:50,700
or they're just going to be showing the event that they came and supported Canada Day.

983
01:22:51,040 --> 01:22:59,960
So, we had additional resources on Canada Day, the Panoi Festival, things like that, which was great because they got to also just support our

984
01:22:59,960 --> 01:23:02,220
officers who were already working those events.

985
01:23:04,220 --> 01:23:10,120
The good thing to you is that this is a really great recruitment opportunity for Burnaby.

986
01:23:10,620 --> 01:23:15,220
A lot of these officers, again, they may be this is their first, they were only coming from

987
01:23:15,220 --> 01:23:15,940
their first attachment.

988
01:23:16,040 --> 01:23:21,320
They had minimal experience working outside of the province that they were in, and they

989
01:23:21,320 --> 01:23:24,200
were a lot of them had actually expressed interesting coming here.

990
01:23:24,200 --> 01:23:28,280
So it was great for our officers to engage and kind of share what it's like to police

991
01:23:28,280 --> 01:23:32,280
in the big city and they kind of opened their eyes and they're like, hey, this is kind

992
01:23:32,280 --> 01:23:32,560
of cool.

993
01:23:32,680 --> 01:23:33,900
I actually want to come here.

994
01:23:34,120 --> 01:23:41,420
So it was very rewarding for us to see the fruits of that labor and be able to kind

995
01:23:41,420 --> 01:23:44,080
of showcase what a great city, what it is.

996
01:23:45,120 --> 01:23:51,700
So yes, we used the sheet that Lois gave us with all the events on it.

997
01:23:51,940 --> 01:23:54,420
Some of the things that they supported was one of the things.

998
01:23:54,420 --> 01:24:01,420
So Bartwood had a great viewing plaza, it was amazing, it had a great energy, what we did

999
01:24:01,420 --> 01:24:05,740
was we had our officers go for example the first day and we're like just kind of just

1000
01:24:05,740 --> 01:24:09,460
take a look at the crowd, how's the flow because it's important, there are still users

1001
01:24:09,460 --> 01:24:13,620
of these facilities and we want to make sure that not only are the people going to watch

1002
01:24:13,620 --> 01:24:24,180
the games, filling safe and knowing that everything is okay but it's also the users of these

1003
01:24:24,180 --> 01:24:27,980
train making sure the egress is available. So we wanted to that throw out and

1004
01:24:27,980 --> 01:24:32,120
working with Louis's team, we were able to say, okay well this particular game was quite large

1005
01:24:32,120 --> 01:24:38,180
and maybe the crowd was too much for what was there to manage the security team. We were able to

1006
01:24:38,180 --> 01:24:45,720
provide that feedback and within the next day, they were able to respond to that and prepare a

1007
01:24:45,720 --> 01:24:51,380
more thorough plan for like game days that they knew would have more viewing. So obviously the

1008
01:24:51,380 --> 01:24:56,180
at games were a big one, but we were able to bring that information back and so working in partnership

1009
01:24:56,180 --> 01:25:02,660
was really important during that time frame. We also insured, so I kind of mentioned it earlier,

1010
01:25:03,680 --> 01:25:10,460
that one of the things we monitor is any kind of, you know, protest activity or anything like that.

1011
01:25:10,460 --> 01:25:17,340
So, another part of what our FIFA officers did was just drive around and their unmarked

1012
01:25:17,340 --> 01:25:22,360
art cars, whatever they had, and to our critical infrastructures, because that would have

1013
01:25:22,360 --> 01:25:27,320
been, we just wanted to ensure that we were more than sharing any kind of things that

1014
01:25:27,320 --> 01:25:30,580
may pop up, that we weren't aware of. We do monitor, but things, if you're not looking,

1015
01:25:31,000 --> 01:25:35,880
you don't see it. So we just wanted to have more product of patrols in that regard, as well

1016
01:25:35,880 --> 01:25:46,640
as to other city areas that we deploy them to. So Central Park, we'd like to use some

1017
01:25:48,200 --> 01:26:02,820
Some of them worked within the province, so they were actually from British Columbia, so they could be in a car and have access to our computer systems, other provinces don't use the same, so they were deployed specifically to events.

1018
01:26:03,780 --> 01:26:10,400
So, the officers who were from BC were used also to support frontline and they were paired up with frontline officers,

1019
01:26:11,040 --> 01:26:14,000
and they got to respond to files.

1020
01:26:14,660 --> 01:26:15,740
They were part of scene security.

1021
01:26:16,140 --> 01:26:21,180
So, what that data is that allowed our officers to do the investigations and not get tied out in some of the scene security.

1022
01:26:21,740 --> 01:26:23,120
So, it was great traffic.

1023
01:26:23,220 --> 01:26:26,660
They also did some traffic while they were here.

1024
01:26:30,240 --> 01:26:34,100
And they also participated in a lot of foot patrols and when they were doing their foot patrols

1025
01:26:34,100 --> 01:26:37,840
a lot of the feedback that I would get the next day or even I would get a text message later

1026
01:26:37,840 --> 01:26:43,160
at that night, was how much positive feedback they got from the community and just seeing,

1027
01:26:43,420 --> 01:26:47,060
you know, they weren't there for anything other than just to be a presence, they were,

1028
01:26:47,060 --> 01:26:51,780
you know, they were part of the energy of what FIFA was, which is a great opportunity for

1029
01:26:51,780 --> 01:26:56,700
to be to showcase what they have to offer, so it was very, they were much, they were really

1030
01:26:56,700 --> 01:27:00,320
receive by the public and have a very positive impact.

1031
01:27:01,920 --> 01:27:06,280
Yeah, as well as our community partners, our community partners also said, you know, they really appreciate it.

1032
01:27:06,720 --> 01:27:14,920
You know, the extra patrols or the food patrols in certain areas that would help them address any concerns that might come up.

1033
01:27:15,780 --> 01:27:24,180
And then I will kind of end my part of the presentation and if you will need to answer any questions you may have.

1034
01:27:27,060 --> 01:27:28,000
Thank you.

1035
01:27:28,280 --> 01:27:28,460
I see.

1036
01:27:28,660 --> 01:27:29,700
There's no any questions.

1037
01:27:30,020 --> 01:27:30,440
Come in.

1038
01:27:30,640 --> 01:27:32,000
So thank you for your presentations.

1039
01:27:32,600 --> 01:27:33,680
Thank you.

1040
01:27:37,090 --> 01:27:37,730
The other comments?

1041
01:27:37,890 --> 01:27:38,150
Yeah.

1042
01:27:38,310 --> 01:27:38,710
To the chair.

1043
01:27:38,970 --> 01:27:40,170
Laura, I just want to thank you.

1044
01:27:40,270 --> 01:27:41,050
The most fair presentation.

1045
01:27:41,590 --> 01:27:45,950
What I want to highlight here for the committee as well is this was a perfect, you know,

1046
01:27:45,970 --> 01:27:46,230
FIFA.

1047
01:27:46,510 --> 01:27:49,210
There was a lot of, uh, uh, nervousness.

1048
01:27:49,410 --> 01:27:50,370
A lot of concern.

1049
01:27:50,790 --> 01:27:52,270
The entire, it's a world event.

1050
01:27:52,690 --> 01:27:55,490
And nothing, uh, this magnitude has happened in this country.

1051
01:27:55,830 --> 01:27:57,670
And they, uh, share them on a planning, you know,

1052
01:27:57,670 --> 01:28:02,770
We take the bigger planning, which is the Yers MP, the Vancouver Police Department, and all the

1053
01:28:02,770 --> 01:28:04,470
police agencies did a fantastic job.

1054
01:28:04,910 --> 01:28:09,290
But here in Burtby, one of the things that we had to do was to look at our city to make

1055
01:28:09,290 --> 01:28:10,350
sure our city was safe.

1056
01:28:11,110 --> 01:28:15,930
And with the best as a new creation, the partnership, the best the Yers MP and the Bailad

1057
01:28:15,930 --> 01:28:20,030
Department, and that planning, you know, we're the template going forward on these events.

1058
01:28:20,250 --> 01:28:24,170
And it's not, for all public safety standpoint, it's not just a police response, that whole

1059
01:28:24,170 --> 01:28:30,870
realistic approach. I think we've done a lot of really good templates for that moving forward and

1060
01:28:30,870 --> 01:28:35,990
what that looks like. Our goal here was to ensure that these are citizens in this city felt

1061
01:28:35,990 --> 01:28:40,890
nothing had changed, right, that they can continue normal. And I think our markets success,

1062
01:28:41,250 --> 01:28:45,630
what I think success was when I was in engagement, when I talked to our citizens, they felt that

1063
01:28:45,630 --> 01:28:50,410
way. They felt that they can go to our community events and they felt safe. And it was the number

1064
01:28:50,410 --> 01:28:55,550
people, we have them outside of our country, that we are continuing our city that I saw at

1065
01:28:55,550 --> 01:29:01,010
our events, commenting about how safe they felt and how the city is running, and you

1066
01:29:01,010 --> 01:29:05,250
know from our members I came to lowest point there, we had officers from all over the country

1067
01:29:05,250 --> 01:29:09,050
here, and they were the comments they made were just know how the members treated them,

1068
01:29:09,170 --> 01:29:13,810
but how they felt the clean the city was, what the city provided them, and how they would

1069
01:29:13,810 --> 01:29:17,550
ask the reason they wanted to like, we're interested in coming here. So there's a couple of comments

1070
01:29:17,550 --> 01:29:21,690
want to make on that there. And you know, then the other comment about the officers. I just want

1071
01:29:21,690 --> 01:29:26,390
clarification, it might be a question that's raised. Why do you give up 24 and get 26 back? What was

1072
01:29:26,390 --> 01:29:31,130
the logic back there? So that was from a strategic standpoint. So our some of our officers are

1073
01:29:31,130 --> 01:29:35,690
especially trained, whether it's in tactical training, Laura mentioned in the language skills or

1074
01:29:35,690 --> 01:29:41,310
different skillsets. So the, from the police response is they needed that skill set for various jobs.

1075
01:29:41,470 --> 01:29:46,130
And so it changed the understanding of public safety standpoint. We got officers that were frontline

1076
01:29:46,130 --> 01:29:51,190
officers that were specialised in that field, we were able to deploy them, and then we

1077
01:29:51,190 --> 01:29:55,830
augmented them with redirecting some of our internal resources so we had a search capacity.

1078
01:29:56,870 --> 01:29:59,970
And just to highlight, you saw the screen where Laura was the introduction of...

1079
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:05,020
The information sessions. That was to ensure that any officer that came to our city understood our city.

1080
01:30:05,300 --> 01:30:10,280
I understood what our community was about. And so we did spend a lot of time about our session before they would hit the road.

1081
01:30:10,500 --> 01:30:18,340
To ensure that we understand what our expectations were of them as officers in our community, in our critical infrastructure, in somewhere, and lower our key points.

1082
01:30:18,580 --> 01:30:25,380
There's so from a public safety standpoint. So I just wanted to highlight that as part of that presentation as well. So thank you.

1083
01:30:25,380 --> 01:30:28,140
Thank you, Councilor Senegal.

1084
01:30:28,840 --> 01:30:29,920
Thank you chair to you.

1085
01:30:30,340 --> 01:30:33,540
Yeah, I also laid express my appreciation for the work.

1086
01:30:33,820 --> 01:30:37,180
I was at some of these community festivals over the summer.

1087
01:30:37,900 --> 01:30:43,180
Some, you know, that had like the community festival that had a FIFA watch party as well as the one at Brentwood.

1088
01:30:43,720 --> 01:30:47,000
And yeah, I know folks also expressed to me like how they felt safe.

1089
01:30:47,440 --> 01:30:49,760
And I did, you know, see a notable presence.

1090
01:30:50,320 --> 01:30:54,400
You know, of our RCMP officers, you know, at those events.

1091
01:30:54,400 --> 01:30:56,200
And so yeah, I thought that was great.

1092
01:30:57,220 --> 01:30:59,100
And yeah, again, I'm reflecting back

1093
01:30:59,100 --> 01:31:01,640
like a few months before FIFA sitting here at the Council

1094
01:31:01,640 --> 01:31:02,120
Chambers.

1095
01:31:02,560 --> 01:31:06,080
And I do recall, there was a bit of a sense of trepidation

1096
01:31:06,080 --> 01:31:08,460
because we weren't sure quite what to expect.

1097
01:31:09,280 --> 01:31:10,840
So yeah, I think it's fantastic

1098
01:31:10,840 --> 01:31:13,600
because I mentioned earlier, it seemed like a fairly fun,

1099
01:31:13,620 --> 01:31:15,100
but uneventful summer.

1100
01:31:15,620 --> 01:31:16,660
So that was great.

1101
01:31:16,720 --> 01:31:17,400
Thank you so much.

1102
01:31:18,260 --> 01:31:18,780
Thank you.

1103
01:31:18,880 --> 01:31:19,500
Thank you.

1104
01:31:20,100 --> 01:31:20,860
Excuse me.

1105
01:31:22,180 --> 01:31:25,040
Thank you. Thanks very much for the presentation for her status.

1106
01:31:25,040 --> 01:31:29,080
Just a quick comment. We've been involved in many events with

1107
01:31:29,080 --> 01:31:32,860
Your organization and we appreciate the professionalism

1108
01:31:32,860 --> 01:31:37,200
The RCMP do have at these events and we value our partnership.

1109
01:31:37,380 --> 01:31:40,600
We look forward to working at the future. Thank you.

1110
01:31:41,260 --> 01:31:41,840
Thank you. Thank you.

1111
01:31:42,280 --> 01:31:45,720
Thank you.

1112
01:31:48,340 --> 01:31:51,180
So next, why is RCMP a status report?

1113
01:31:52,080 --> 01:31:53,640
So, choose the point on this.

1114
01:31:53,660 --> 01:31:57,500
Some of it are report providing the RCMP status update.

1115
01:31:58,420 --> 01:32:03,240
I'm placing operations covering a report to July 226

1116
01:32:03,240 --> 01:32:10,960
and in a performance plan, quarterly report covering a report to 226.

1117
01:32:11,960 --> 01:32:16,240
So, to choose the point on it, I'd like to add ACs at this time.

1118
01:32:19,210 --> 01:32:20,070
Yes, through the chair.

1119
01:32:22,390 --> 01:32:29,190
As mentioned, this report covers the period from April to July of 2026, and as is highlighted

1120
01:32:29,190 --> 01:32:34,570
by the previous presentation, two of those months where we'll break the involving fee

1121
01:32:34,570 --> 01:32:35,490
that the same time.

1122
01:32:36,010 --> 01:32:40,250
So, I just want to comment down, I'll start first on just highlighting some kind of statistics

1123
01:32:40,750 --> 01:32:45,150
and then just cover off some of the activities from the units of our detachment.

1124
01:32:45,150 --> 01:32:52,910
Starting with our crime stats, this was comparing a year to date from 2026 compared to the same period in 2025.

1125
01:32:54,230 --> 01:32:57,150
Residential break-and-enter showed an increase of 6%.

1126
01:32:58,130 --> 01:33:01,930
In particular, we saw in District 1 and 2, sure, a dramatic spike.

1127
01:33:03,190 --> 01:33:03,970
It's one of highlight here.

1128
01:33:04,070 --> 01:33:07,470
So in District 1, we saw from 11 files to 21 files.

1129
01:33:08,230 --> 01:33:10,270
And then in District 2, 9027.

1130
01:33:10,270 --> 01:33:18,290
I want to present context to this, our obligations from our reporting of crime statistics from

1131
01:33:18,290 --> 01:33:25,830
the national perspective and how files are scored. In this case, the two districts we had a spike

1132
01:33:25,830 --> 01:33:31,690
in buildings that were broken into where their mailboxes were broken into and each of those mailboxes

1133
01:33:31,690 --> 01:33:36,870
because their separate victims are scored as a separate break-in enter. So that's the kind of context

1134
01:33:36,870 --> 01:33:41,790
there. So we saw some of that rise there. I don't want to discount that because each of those

1135
01:33:41,790 --> 01:33:47,210
mailboxes, there's a victim associated to it. But to an important context, there wasn't 21

1136
01:33:47,210 --> 01:33:52,790
suffered residences that were caused by some concern, there were 27 residences.

1137
01:33:54,170 --> 01:33:58,990
Shifting over to a break in enter our business, we saw an increase by 19% in Burnaby.

1138
01:33:58,990 --> 01:34:09,150
of note there we saw districts 2, we saw 50% increase from 48 files to 72 files in the district 4,

1139
01:34:09,230 --> 01:34:13,990
a 65% increase from 79 to 135 files.

1140
01:34:15,150 --> 01:34:21,910
We did see a decrease of 47% from 68 files to 36 files in district 1.

1141
01:34:21,910 --> 01:34:33,410
Part of that, I'm sorry, increase of 5%, we went from 733,000, 2025, 2073 files during this period in 2026.

1142
01:34:36,510 --> 01:34:40,090
Part of that decreased by 3%.

1143
01:34:40,090 --> 01:34:50,570
We went from 144 files to 144 files, and a warberry decreased by 31% from 91 files to 63 files.

1144
01:34:51,250 --> 01:34:57,690
And there is a decrease in all the districts except for district one, which saw a slight increase from nine falls to 13 files.

1145
01:34:59,010 --> 01:35:05,910
Shifting over to you as some of the work from our units, from a traffic section, our traffic officers continue their enforcement efforts,

1146
01:35:06,230 --> 01:35:10,450
and conducting various initiatives to support the animal performance plan.

1147
01:35:10,450 --> 01:35:16,690
The officers focus their efforts on enforcing speed and excess speed during the month of May,

1148
01:35:17,190 --> 01:35:24,050
as this initiative was in line with the British Columbia Association of Chiefs of Police directive.

1149
01:35:25,590 --> 01:35:32,570
And so, and speeding enforcement, 133 enforcement operations were done, including several operations in playground and school zones.

1150
01:35:33,350 --> 01:35:39,230
66 operations were done during May, which resulted in 170 violation tickets for excesses speeding alone.

1151
01:35:39,990 --> 01:35:46,590
In total, our officers issued over 500 biolation tickets for speeding and excesses speeding during this reporting period.

1152
01:35:48,770 --> 01:35:53,030
In during this period, we skipped off our E-Sketter education campaign.

1153
01:35:53,610 --> 01:35:58,910
So our traffic officers conducted several educational sessions on E-Sketters and E-Bike by-laws.

1154
01:35:59,830 --> 01:36:04,950
Also, the officers conducted some important operations during which the issued several written warnings for writers

1155
01:36:04,950 --> 01:36:07,790
for writing on sidewalk, writing on crosswalk,

1156
01:36:07,910 --> 01:36:09,430
you know, helmet, and other offenses.

1157
01:36:10,150 --> 01:36:12,690
This was strategically done to start an education campaign,

1158
01:36:12,790 --> 01:36:15,750
which then in this quarter, which I'll report on next period,

1159
01:36:16,070 --> 01:36:18,930
resulted in an enforcement campaign.

1160
01:36:19,550 --> 01:36:22,030
So we did a measured approach in our community.

1161
01:36:23,750 --> 01:36:25,630
From a commercial vehicle enforcement,

1162
01:36:26,310 --> 01:36:28,470
the number of commercial vehicle enforcement operations

1163
01:36:28,470 --> 01:36:32,510
were lower than usual as are certified officer

1164
01:36:32,510 --> 01:36:38,250
was a way of an extended period on parental leave and he's now returned to duty so we should see

1165
01:36:38,630 --> 01:36:44,890
that back in operation it is quarter coming up here. For operations word have been

1166
01:36:44,890 --> 01:36:51,670
were conducted including two multi agency joint operations. A hundred vehicles were inspecting

1167
01:36:51,670 --> 01:36:57,130
resulting in 48 trucks being placed out of service and a hundred 45 violation tickets being issued to

1168
01:36:58,550 --> 01:37:01,690
Our traffic section also conducted subriding enforcement.

1169
01:37:02,410 --> 01:37:05,130
Nine operations were conducted from April to July.

1170
01:37:05,850 --> 01:37:07,870
Thirty-nine drivers were found to be impaired,

1171
01:37:08,190 --> 01:37:11,370
which were grabbing provisions when notices to drivers.

1172
01:37:12,810 --> 01:37:14,970
We did also do some distracted driving enforcement,

1173
01:37:15,210 --> 01:37:18,130
where the total of 24 enforcement operations were conducted,

1174
01:37:18,870 --> 01:37:21,310
and where 160 violation tickets were issued,

1175
01:37:21,310 --> 01:37:23,730
mostly for cell phone use while driving.

1176
01:37:26,590 --> 01:37:29,810
I'm going to be getting first in team, continue with the proactive project.

1177
01:37:30,000 --> 01:37:31,760
Rejoice and investee of operations.

1178
01:37:33,660 --> 01:37:40,580
June is period. A number of vehicle staffs were conducted, resulting in seizure of illegal drugs, firearms,

1179
01:37:40,800 --> 01:37:45,740
immoral crime, related items. To highlight this, in one of the cases that occurred in April,

1180
01:37:46,260 --> 01:37:50,060
are being investigated, investigators, executed multiple search warrant, had various

1181
01:37:50,060 --> 01:37:56,940
locations resulting in the seizure of five firearms, close to 30,000 dollars in cash, radio

1182
01:37:56,940 --> 01:38:05,560
jammers, 170 liters of precursor drugs, 200 liters of finished G-H-B, which is also

1183
01:38:05,560 --> 01:38:07,520
commonly referred to as a D-ray drug.

1184
01:38:08,280 --> 01:38:14,120
And over 4,000 kilograms of precursor for NDMA, as well as extensive amounts of all of

1185
01:38:14,120 --> 01:38:15,700
it, can have tobacco and cannabis.

1186
01:38:16,500 --> 01:38:24,080
So a great execution search once there, and taking some people accountable there, that

1187
01:38:24,080 --> 01:38:26,240
are quite involved in the drug trade.

1188
01:38:26,980 --> 01:38:30,340
Our political founder of Suppression Team, our post,

1189
01:38:31,080 --> 01:38:33,060
we're going to explain the busy journey is prepared.

1190
01:38:33,600 --> 01:38:35,560
In the conducting several complex investigations,

1191
01:38:36,280 --> 01:38:39,140
just a higher example, our investigators took over

1192
01:38:39,140 --> 01:38:41,800
a file involved in the series of destruction thefts

1193
01:38:41,800 --> 01:38:43,400
committed by organized crime and groups.

1194
01:38:43,760 --> 01:38:46,520
The SSF still persists well, it's from victims

1195
01:38:46,520 --> 01:38:49,260
and subsequent sophisticated communities

1196
01:38:49,260 --> 01:38:51,320
who have stayed frauds using stolen credit cards,

1197
01:38:51,580 --> 01:38:52,620
personal identification.

1198
01:38:53,540 --> 01:38:58,560
These offenses spend local jurisdictions and provinces resulted in losses of total

1199
01:38:58,560 --> 01:39:05,040
100 to thousands of dollars. Our team and posting will successfully identify the suspects

1200
01:39:05,040 --> 01:39:10,620
and have now worked with our Navy and jurisdictions across the country as well to support

1201
01:39:10,620 --> 01:39:15,240
getting evidence and enforcement action there and so there's that continues to the state.

1202
01:39:15,500 --> 01:39:16,760
They're on a collaborative approach.

1203
01:39:19,360 --> 01:39:23,540
Our strike force numbers continue their investigation during this period,

1204
01:39:24,080 --> 01:39:31,900
investigating a series of robberies. In one of these cases, a MLS aspect had entered the euro bank branch on Kingsway and presented a note to the tower.

1205
01:39:32,540 --> 01:39:37,780
stating that he had a gun involved demanding money. The suspect fled with a couple of hundred dollars there.

1206
01:39:38,620 --> 01:39:43,760
Police average resulting in the defamation with suspect and criminal charges have now been approved against that individual.

1207
01:39:44,720 --> 01:39:51,480
Our community response team invites unit, where we're kept on demanding mandates in April

1208
01:39:51,480 --> 01:39:57,720
and May, and then we're slightly adjusted for June and July to support fee preparations

1209
01:39:57,720 --> 01:39:59,480
as well as special events.

1210
01:40:00,360 --> 01:40:06,040
In April, our CRT and bike officers conducted targeted patrols around Hurl and Carriac Avenue

1211
01:40:06,040 --> 01:40:11,380
in response to concerns from residents, concerns of increased crime in those neighborhoods.

1212
01:40:11,960 --> 01:40:17,460
Also in April, the teams conducted over patrols in Central Park following a report of a

1213
01:40:17,460 --> 01:40:18,960
sexual assault at the park.

1214
01:40:19,640 --> 01:40:24,720
In May, our bike officers teamed up with crime prevention and ICBC to interact with

1215
01:40:24,720 --> 01:40:28,300
e-scuter riders and provide them awareness from safety tips that part of our education

1216
01:40:28,300 --> 01:40:31,340
can point a campaign and multi-faceted approach.

1217
01:40:32,900 --> 01:40:38,220
Our policemen to help our team continue their work through our most vulnerable citizens,

1218
01:40:38,220 --> 01:40:44,620
and they're working with our intervention teams with our in-capments throughout the city.

1219
01:40:44,820 --> 01:40:46,200
June is reporting period.

1220
01:40:46,940 --> 01:40:49,880
The placement of our reach team respond to numerous falls.

1221
01:40:50,740 --> 01:40:54,460
In one of the examples here in June are often collaborated with Fraser Health

1222
01:40:55,240 --> 01:41:00,680
to assist in older, or sorry, assisted for your health older,

1223
01:41:00,760 --> 01:41:04,920
a dose community meant to help team as well as the intervention team

1224
01:41:04,920 --> 01:41:09,160
from the city to provide support to a 72-year-old male living at BC Housing

1225
01:41:09,160 --> 01:41:13,220
Complex. The male's primary was determined to be on healthy condition to live

1226
01:41:13,220 --> 01:41:16,840
our officers in working collaboration with Fraser Health and the intervention team.

1227
01:41:17,940 --> 01:41:23,120
We're able to support this individual with an alternate housing as well. So again,

1228
01:41:23,140 --> 01:41:27,400
another example of a success story for our assistant at individual.

1229
01:41:28,140 --> 01:41:32,660
Our mobile-intervated crisis response team responded to all over 350

1230
01:41:32,660 --> 01:41:38,090
call service service training reporting period demonstrating the increasing need for their service.

1231
01:41:39,300 --> 01:41:41,510
Our youth section officers were busy throughout this repair rate,

1232
01:41:42,060 --> 01:41:48,050
supporting our schools as we were on the final junior period or final months of the school year.

1233
01:41:48,920 --> 01:41:54,320
The strong emphasis was placed on community safety, youth engagement, school-based policing initiatives

1234
01:41:54,320 --> 01:41:59,760
and support for frontline operations during the April and May. It made the youth section

1235
01:41:59,760 --> 01:42:06,300
continues proactive outreach by hosting events of choose your ride. This initiative was

1236
01:42:06,300 --> 01:42:10,720
connected several secondary schools throughout the city. This impactful program was designed

1237
01:42:10,720 --> 01:42:14,480
to raise the awareness from among graduating students of all the potential consequences of

1238
01:42:14,480 --> 01:42:21,320
impaired driving as well received by the students in the schools. It's an important initiative.

1239
01:42:22,080 --> 01:42:25,880
During June and July, our use sectional adjusted, it's operational priorities,

1240
01:42:26,520 --> 01:42:32,240
And then we'll redeploy to bolster our farm operations for FIFA as mentioned in the last presentation.

1241
01:42:34,860 --> 01:42:40,900
You know, despite the other operational pressures, our EU section was actively engaged in all the schools,

1242
01:42:41,120 --> 01:42:45,440
supporting our local schools, and a youth in planning for the upcoming year as well.

1243
01:42:45,620 --> 01:42:52,000
There's the laying the groundwork for the upcoming year and our programs, which we'll ready to deliver here in a few weeks.

1244
01:42:52,000 --> 01:42:56,700
Crime Prevention Victims Services continue with their outreach work and 10-in-community events

1245
01:42:56,700 --> 01:42:59,520
and providing educational sessions to community groups.

1246
01:43:00,120 --> 01:43:05,840
I want to highlight a few things, May 2nd and 3rd, Crime Prevention and Victims Services

1247
01:43:05,840 --> 01:43:11,800
Dean participated in the T.J. Fest, Kwon Kwon Cultural Base, held at the 3400 Block of Smith

1248
01:43:11,800 --> 01:43:16,660
Avenue, officer set a boost at the event to interact with attendees, celebrate the occasion

1249
01:43:16,660 --> 01:43:23,940
of the community members on June 20th and 21st of two officers attended the Panwarf Festival

1250
01:43:23,940 --> 01:43:29,480
as Juan Carlos Stadium to represent, to represent the event, interact with our community

1251
01:43:29,480 --> 01:43:33,360
and build trust in the community and they were augmented by other officers as well there.

1252
01:43:34,320 --> 01:43:40,580
So in then July 4th, the team organized a community program with, we set up a candidate celebration

1253
01:43:40,580 --> 01:43:57,740
how that the Israeli Center, several members including two members in Red Surge, and their members of our senior management team, including myself, attended each of the county events in our city as well, which again was a great turnout and a great time to engage with our citizens.

1254
01:43:57,740 --> 01:44:03,860
And I also highlight the fact that myself and one of my officers, Staff Sergeant Major

1255
01:44:03,860 --> 01:44:09,120
doing change, were personally invited to attend the Agacon, he's visit there and just

1256
01:44:09,120 --> 01:44:13,960
in, it was a demonstration of the partnership we've developed with the community there to have

1257
01:44:13,960 --> 01:44:14,740
an operational invite.

1258
01:44:14,980 --> 01:44:20,260
And it was an honor and a privilege to attend that event there and representing the city of

1259
01:44:20,260 --> 01:44:24,240
Burnby as well there in that relationship, so I sworn to share that with the community as

1260
01:44:24,240 --> 01:44:25,060
well.

1261
01:44:26,650 --> 01:44:27,270
I'll put any questions.

1262
01:44:27,270 --> 01:44:36,070
Okay. Thank you very much. Could I please have a motion to receive your report for information?

1263
01:44:38,340 --> 01:44:46,360
And a seconder. Thank you. And if you want any questions or comments about your report from members.

1264
01:44:50,580 --> 01:44:57,220
I represent my representative mom. Thank you. Thank you chair. Thank you so much Chief Superintendent for your report.

1265
01:44:57,220 --> 01:44:59,900
I'll just look quick question about the East Gooder.

1266
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:07,860
Legislative New Regulation by law that came out, I believe, in August 17, it's a correct, because

1267
01:45:07,860 --> 01:45:15,100
it was following after the very serious accident happened. Near edge of my house, Hastings

1268
01:45:15,100 --> 01:45:21,720
and Delta, I think it was like 11 year old, and an eight year old guy hit by a car and they were

1269
01:45:21,720 --> 01:45:29,220
like belly injured. And thank you so much for acting so quickly. It's just to ensure I just have

1270
01:45:29,220 --> 01:45:35,340
question, I mean, it's too early to see if the really fact of that. And I think right now there's

1271
01:45:35,340 --> 01:45:41,180
really a real lack of education even among parents. And until you're honest, like we're

1272
01:45:41,180 --> 01:45:48,400
dull looking at just today, I didn't even know, like if my 14-year-old decided to be going to

1273
01:45:48,400 --> 01:45:54,900
East Guter, I could be fine as a parent. So, I'm just wondering in terms of the education piece,

1274
01:45:57,440 --> 01:46:01,240
for schools and things like that and whether or not they have been

1275
01:46:01,240 --> 01:46:07,640
discussion about places like Costco or Walmart, they sell like East

1276
01:46:07,640 --> 01:46:11,800
scooter, whether or not there should be some sort of like a labelling on a

1277
01:46:11,800 --> 01:46:17,820
box they like give you under 16 you know you're not you're not allowed to use this

1278
01:46:17,820 --> 01:46:24,040
and things like that yeah I'm through which I agree with the labelling here

1279
01:46:24,040 --> 01:46:26,880
I think this is a relatively new and just for clarification.

1280
01:46:27,840 --> 01:46:30,320
There are the provincial laws regarding

1281
01:46:30,320 --> 01:46:33,520
exclusion, however, and I think, for the previous year.

1282
01:46:33,880 --> 01:46:35,940
And the city of Burnaby took the staffs on the pilot program

1283
01:46:35,940 --> 01:46:37,840
to introduce a by-law before those dated.

1284
01:46:38,180 --> 01:46:40,120
And I think it was the education piece

1285
01:46:40,120 --> 01:46:42,700
that we started back in the previous quarter.

1286
01:46:42,820 --> 01:46:44,680
Just to start as there is relatively new

1287
01:46:44,680 --> 01:46:49,700
and we saw the pending issues that we're going to be arising.

1288
01:46:50,140 --> 01:46:52,000
And we want to take a measure of approach

1289
01:46:52,000 --> 01:46:58,440
with our community because of the lack of education on there, so we did the education through our community engagement sessions,

1290
01:46:59,240 --> 01:47:04,760
through our social media channels, our web pages, and trying to take a measure to approach,

1291
01:47:05,220 --> 01:47:08,660
and then because of the rising and it's not just our community, we've seen it on the news,

1292
01:47:08,780 --> 01:47:11,320
and all of the communities, we've seen the injuries rise.

1293
01:47:11,560 --> 01:47:17,300
Medical professionals have come out to highlight the significant injuries that are resulting in that.

1294
01:47:17,300 --> 01:47:27,760
And so I believe it was important for us to take a step on now and increasing that to an enforcement level there and we did an operation here just a few weeks ago.

1295
01:47:27,760 --> 01:47:29,800
And then he was highlighting,

1296
01:47:30,040 --> 01:47:32,980
we knew he was, or there's some of the people he stopped.

1297
01:47:33,680 --> 01:47:35,740
You know, highlight one example was a parent doubling

1298
01:47:35,740 --> 01:47:37,820
a child with no helmets, right?

1299
01:47:37,860 --> 01:47:41,020
And it was, I didn't know that it was wrong, right?

1300
01:47:41,060 --> 01:47:43,740
And so there was, so there was a lot of education there

1301
01:47:43,740 --> 01:47:44,900
and taken a measure report for them.

1302
01:47:44,900 --> 01:47:46,520
There was also some enforcement action.

1303
01:47:47,380 --> 01:47:50,100
And we'll continue with that, where we can.

1304
01:47:50,520 --> 01:47:54,920
The schools, I know, to, some of the letters

1305
01:47:54,920 --> 01:47:56,680
are coming out through the schools right now,

1306
01:47:56,680 --> 01:47:58,940
or highlighting that knowledge, scooters and schools.

1307
01:47:59,380 --> 01:48:00,820
And I think that they're taking a approach

1308
01:48:00,820 --> 01:48:03,180
now to start educating students as well

1309
01:48:03,180 --> 01:48:05,620
on the dangers of that and the liability of that.

1310
01:48:05,820 --> 01:48:08,600
We're hoping that the message will start to resonate there

1311
01:48:08,600 --> 01:48:10,520
and it's up to the manufacturers and the stores

1312
01:48:10,520 --> 01:48:12,680
and the labeling, but I welcome that.

1313
01:48:13,480 --> 01:48:16,080
And I think that's at a more than a provincial level

1314
01:48:16,740 --> 01:48:19,200
to kind of change those laws there.

1315
01:48:21,580 --> 01:48:23,120
Okay, thank you very much.

1316
01:48:24,660 --> 01:48:27,240
Okay, thank you Chief Superintendent Palmer.

1317
01:48:27,240 --> 01:48:30,540
The report has been moved in second aid.

1318
01:48:30,620 --> 01:48:31,840
I'll call it to question.

1319
01:48:32,360 --> 01:48:33,520
Although it's approved.

1320
01:48:34,780 --> 01:48:35,280
Opposed.

1321
01:48:36,480 --> 01:48:37,260
Thank you.

1322
01:48:37,940 --> 01:48:40,180
And so next we have a 7.4.

1323
01:48:41,220 --> 01:48:45,280
This report is providing the Bernabey Fire Department status update.

1324
01:48:45,320 --> 01:48:48,440
Available to the end of July 2026.

1325
01:48:48,980 --> 01:48:51,400
This is the fire chief of anything out of this time.

1326
01:48:52,260 --> 01:48:52,800
Thank you, Chair.

1327
01:48:52,800 --> 01:48:59,020
This is a report on the Burry Fire Department from August 25, July 26,

1328
01:48:59,260 --> 01:49:00,460
I'll be half of the fire chief.

1329
01:49:01,840 --> 01:49:03,480
You have the report, what is to a few highlights.

1330
01:49:04,560 --> 01:49:08,200
Major incidences through the period recently.

1331
01:49:08,880 --> 01:49:14,320
We've seen a few structure fires, bushing grass fire, we also provided mutual aid to

1332
01:49:14,320 --> 01:49:17,260
a new west who had a significant fire in their city.

1333
01:49:17,260 --> 01:49:26,560
I can report that our new Fire Detection camera system did detect all these fires.

1334
01:49:27,180 --> 01:49:28,620
Oh, sure, sure, sure again.

1335
01:49:30,720 --> 01:49:33,620
Another highlight is our suppression division statistics.

1336
01:49:34,660 --> 01:49:41,640
Currently, we are experiencing about 400 more calls annually than we did last year.

1337
01:49:41,640 --> 01:49:48,440
And this trend is slowly creeping up throughout the months as we reach the end of the year for 2026.

1338
01:49:50,580 --> 01:49:55,120
We've seen an increase in building fires as the density of the city increases.

1339
01:49:55,960 --> 01:49:59,920
And the number multi residential unit and commercial buildings increase.

1340
01:50:01,320 --> 01:50:09,320
Increase and fire events typically experience through our holiday season and with our winter months as residents are often home.

1341
01:50:09,320 --> 01:50:11,520
more often in the fallow winter.

1342
01:50:14,020 --> 01:50:17,820
We've also seen an increase in bushing grass fires and wild

1343
01:50:17,820 --> 01:50:25,680
land fires recently due to the dry effects of climate change. And our city spaces have been notable

1344
01:50:25,680 --> 01:50:32,660
within our parklands. The dry wildlands season now begins earlier in April and extends usually

1345
01:50:32,660 --> 01:50:33,380
to October.

1346
01:50:37,420 --> 01:50:43,460
That is for the report. The fire chief would like me to also highlight the

1347
01:50:43,460 --> 01:50:52,140
that we are coming up to Halloween soon and anyone using fireworks must understand that it is prohibited

1348
01:50:52,140 --> 01:50:59,700
within city property and the use of firecrackers are also prohibited. For children it's a busy time

1349
01:50:59,700 --> 01:51:04,780
for our firefighters and we want to make sure that everyone is safe so if you are wearing a mask

1350
01:51:04,780 --> 01:51:17,920
make sure that you are able to see the landscape and without it being blocked. Also be mindful of any

1351
01:51:17,920 --> 01:51:22,420
Halloween candy we asked parents to definitely keep an eye on children if they're using

1352
01:51:22,420 --> 01:51:29,600
Halloween candy for obvious choking hazards. So please be aware around that time here.

1353
01:51:29,600 --> 01:51:31,420
Thank you very much.

1354
01:51:31,880 --> 01:51:33,340
Okay, thank you very much.

1355
01:51:33,740 --> 01:51:37,280
Will someone please move a motion to receive the report for information?

1356
01:51:38,440 --> 01:51:39,000
Thank you.

1357
01:51:39,320 --> 01:51:40,460
And do I have a seconder?

1358
01:51:41,840 --> 01:51:42,360
Thank you.

1359
01:51:43,020 --> 01:51:44,440
And I see Councillor Lee.

1360
01:51:46,530 --> 01:51:47,570
Thank you, Chair.

1361
01:51:48,430 --> 01:51:52,850
Through you and my question is on the increase of course over the last year.

1362
01:51:53,730 --> 01:51:58,050
How many are we related and how many are we health related?

1363
01:51:59,830 --> 01:52:06,010
We have the increase in far-laden calls and our emergency, our medical emergency calls are

1364
01:52:06,010 --> 01:52:14,550
seem to be steady throughout the year, but we could get this to Texas for you to have that

1365
01:52:14,550 --> 01:52:17,370
per incident or per event if you like.

1366
01:52:17,750 --> 01:52:17,970
Yeah, okay.

1367
01:52:19,030 --> 01:52:20,010
Yeah, that would be interesting.

1368
01:52:20,350 --> 01:52:20,650
Thanks.

1369
01:52:22,950 --> 01:52:24,350
Thank you very much.

1370
01:52:26,720 --> 01:52:28,360
Okay, so it's been moved and seconded.

1371
01:52:28,380 --> 01:52:29,220
All those in favor?

1372
01:52:30,020 --> 01:52:45,520
Any opposed? Thank you. So, next, we have a 7.5. So, we have received C-sacrote ports from district 1 for information. Does the district have anything added this time?

1373
01:52:48,230 --> 01:52:53,890
Okay, thank you. We'll someone please move a motion to receive the C-sacrote port.

1374
01:52:56,000 --> 01:53:00,800
Thank you, and seconder. Great. All those in favour? Any opposed, carried?

1375
01:53:00,800 --> 01:53:07,580
E number eight is correspondence. So we have this following item of course

1376
01:53:07,580 --> 01:53:14,140
bondage, which appeared in the August 25, 2026 council correspondence in public

1377
01:53:14,140 --> 01:53:18,660
notice submission package and it is advocating for safer streets in North

1378
01:53:18,660 --> 01:53:23,040
Bernabey neighborhoods, Albert Street Hastings Street and Pender Street.

1379
01:53:23,600 --> 01:53:25,680
Does staff have anything to add at this time?

1380
01:53:28,840 --> 01:53:36,800
So, through the chair, we at the RCPA become aware of the concerns there.

1381
01:53:37,280 --> 01:53:41,480
I'm just the concerns here is because of constructions that's happening on Hastings Street,

1382
01:53:42,020 --> 01:53:46,140
while the traffic is being diverted through either through Google Maps or directions,

1383
01:53:46,580 --> 01:53:50,240
or signage to go to the Ancillary Streets, so Pender, Union,

1384
01:53:50,860 --> 01:53:54,060
and so there's seen an increase volume of traffic in those areas.

1385
01:53:54,060 --> 01:54:02,980
And then, and because of that, we're seeing, there's a concern about rising speed of traffic in there and some collisions and stuff.

1386
01:54:03,560 --> 01:54:12,920
So, as a result of that, we draw traffic services, has been doing some enforcement action in the area, just to assess the traffic volume and the concerns there.

1387
01:54:13,040 --> 01:54:18,180
And so, the last two weeks, we've run some operations in that area, they're just to slow drivers down.

1388
01:54:18,180 --> 01:54:23,420
We've been a communication with the General Manager and a public safety as well as engineering

1389
01:54:23,420 --> 01:54:30,800
and to look at other hardening measures there, whether it's viable for tree calming measures

1390
01:54:30,800 --> 01:54:48,160
or that so. But yeah, I can understand the concerns of the community there and so we're going to

1391
01:54:50,880 --> 01:54:57,720
So thank you and yes so we're fully aware of the requested area here and we're working closely

1392
01:54:57,720 --> 01:55:02,860
with RCMP as has been mentioned already to develop some strategies to mitigate these issues.

1393
01:55:03,120 --> 01:55:06,780
I understand there's still following some active investigation for the most recent incident.

1394
01:55:07,200 --> 01:55:10,840
So once those are available then we'll definitely be working with them on those.

1395
01:55:11,180 --> 01:55:18,280
Following that we are also aware of the recent motion from council to help us look into this entire northburner be area.

1396
01:55:18,280 --> 01:55:22,780
and so we'll be following up with our findings from there as well.

1397
01:55:23,960 --> 01:55:26,700
Definitely we'll connect with the writer on the findings once we have that available.

1398
01:55:27,620 --> 01:55:29,140
Okay, great. Yeah, thank you so much.

1399
01:55:29,700 --> 01:55:31,000
Thank you for mentioning the motion.

1400
01:55:31,900 --> 01:55:35,000
I believe by Councillor Tetro, our last Councillor Neese,

1401
01:55:35,200 --> 01:55:37,580
certainly it is something that we're looking at.

1402
01:55:37,780 --> 01:55:39,920
And thank you to staff for the added information.

1403
01:55:40,720 --> 01:55:43,640
I see you representative for it.

1404
01:55:43,640 --> 01:55:54,340
I'm going to contact the writer about both prongs of that, but it appears that that's happening.

1405
01:55:55,160 --> 01:56:02,400
Okay, great. Thank you so much. Okay, and so with that, we're at 9 other business.

1406
01:56:03,020 --> 01:56:10,360
I just want to make like a short comment, so I appreciate the delegations that we had earlier,

1407
01:56:10,360 --> 01:56:20,160
and the action system and we'll be taking in which you out to the three that presented.

1408
01:56:21,000 --> 01:56:30,120
I also wanted to mention that some of the issues that are brought to us for consideration are complex.

1409
01:56:30,120 --> 01:56:37,460
And, you know, they hadn't deployed, for example, the last one that was raised, concerning the red problem.

1410
01:56:37,940 --> 01:56:49,020
And I just wanted to say that I think that those are, again, very complex issues and not necessarily ones that can be attributed to a particular community or to a particular place.

1411
01:56:49,680 --> 01:56:56,400
So I appreciate that a staff will reach out and continue to dialogue with residents as they come forward with that in mind.

1412
01:56:57,400 --> 01:56:57,860
Thank you.

1413
01:56:57,860 --> 01:57:08,260
And so number 10, can I have a motion to join the September 3rd, 2026 public safety committee meeting at 655 p.m.

1414
01:57:09,820 --> 01:57:11,200
Do I have a seconder?

1415
01:57:12,140 --> 01:57:14,060
Okay, and all those in favor.

1416
01:57:15,140 --> 01:57:15,740
Any opposed?

1417
01:57:16,920 --> 01:57:21,260
Okay, thank you very much to the committee members, staff and public core watching life.