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Good afternoon, everyone. We are live from Council chambers, and before we begin, I will go over the emergency response plan for this room. In an emergency, everyone must evacuate through the nearest safe exit, though seated in the gallery will take direction from security and council will take direction from the meeting clerk. After evacuating the room, please proceed to a stairwell, take the stairs to ground level and evacuate the building through the door's marked emergency exit and go to the master point. Do not take an elevator or walk through the city room. Anyone with limited mobility should identify themselves to security or the meeting clerk, chairing and evacuation, and please speak with

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or the meeting clerk if you require first aid.

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Thank you and good afternoon everyone.

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I'd like to call this meeting to order and begin with land acknowledgment.

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At this time I'd like to acknowledge that we meet on the traditional land of Treaty 6 Territory

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and the Macy homeland and acknowledge the diverse indigenous peoples

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whose ancestors footsteps have marked this territory for centuries,

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such as Cree, Dene, Soto, Blackfoot, Nikotasu, as well as Macy and Inuit

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and now settlers from around the world.

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Hello, Councillor Carmel.

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Good afternoon.

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Good afternoon.

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Councillor Rice.

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Good afternoon.

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Good afternoon.

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Councillor Jams.

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Good afternoon.

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Good afternoon.

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All right.

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Adoffton of the agenda.

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Councillor Hamilton, would you like to do that?

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Yep.

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I'll move.

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Adoffton of the March 10th City Councillor non-regular agenda.

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Great.

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And that's just with the addition of five-pointed

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content transit services advisory report board and all report and work plan.

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Thank you. I haven't had the the changes. No problem.

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Great. Please vote.

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Yes.

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Council of Prince. It is yes.

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Thank you.

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Council of Prince Bay and yes.

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Yes.

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Thank you.

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Yes.

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Thank you.

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We have all the votes this way.

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The vote.

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That's carried.

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Thank you.

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Protocol items.

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None that I'm aware of.

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which means we can move on to selection of items for debate.

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Just for expediency, I will select all of the items on our agenda today.

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Okay, excellent. So that means there are no reports that have not been selected.

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Request to speak.

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I do see we have one.

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Just to the clerk, I'm understanding that we're hearing from the chair of each of the committees.

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Is this in addition to?

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that would be in addition. Yes. Okay.

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I'll move that to the council here from the following speaker.

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On item 5.1 David Ridley from the Edmonton Heritage Council.

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Look second.

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Just to the clerk.

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I see Councillor Tang on the board.

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Madam Clerk, can you clarify what we typically do as the council when I come to speakers?

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It is not usually your practice to hear from speakers, but of course it is your decision.

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Right, and I like my personal preference. I appreciate that you're you made it all the way here in person

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You're more than welcome to share what you have to say

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In writing and just so that we can come keep consistent with the practice

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Which typically deals speakers because given that this is not a committee. Sorry. I'm speaking to you. That's that's me

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I go with draw the motion that'd be great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Councilor Stevenson and yeah

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recognizing that this is a city council meeting as opposed to a committee setting, it is

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practiced not here from speakers, but would welcome any additional correspondence or thoughts

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to be sent over our way or to our inboxes to help inform the conversation, so thank you for that.

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In request for specific time on the agenda, we have none voting on by-laws not selected for debate, none which means we can move on to our public reports.

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And first up on the agenda is 5.1, the Edmonton Historical Board.

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And I believe we have Steve Rees, joining us online.

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Before we start, would you mind if I just give a brief overview?

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Oh, for sure. How the day will go?

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Absolutely. Go ahead. Thank you. So the purpose of today's meeting is to hear from the council committees, and each chair co chair will present their 2024 annual report information about administrative support and expenses provided to the committee and their 2025 work plan.

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We have today available for questions, the civic agencies team from the office of the city clerk, as well as representatives from the branches that provided administrative support to each committee.

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Those committees that require council approval for subcommittees have included that in the recommendation in the report and provided details on the number of subcommittees requested in the work they will do.

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And if there are no process questions on how the day will proceed then yes, let's move on to the Edmonton historical board.

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Excellent not seeing any process questions around the table.

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We can move on to the Edmonton historical board.

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Hi, Steve. How are you?

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I'm good. How are you?

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Good. Good. Thank you so much for joining us today.

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So, we will turn it over to you, and then we'll see if anyone has any questions.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Good afternoon, Honourable City Counselors.

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My name is Steve Reese, and I'm the chair of the Edmonton Historical Board.

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On behalf of the Board, I'm pleased to present our 2024 Annual Report.

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Our EHB Coordinator, Mitchell Norenberg, has provided you with the written report,

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and included in the report you'll find a summary of this past year's activities of the board and our work to deliver our mandate on our mandate to promote and advocate for the preservation of Edmonton's heritage.

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My presentation will just provide you with a summary of the report and our work plan going forward. There'll be some time for questions following my presentation.

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I am very proud of being the Chair of the Edmonton Historical Board and fortunate to have

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ten other passionate board members.

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The H.B. has a strong connection to the history of the city.

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The board's timeline stretches back to 1947 with the creation of the Archives and Landmarks

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Committee, then renamed the Edmonton Historical Board in 1966.

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In our 75 year history, we've been at the forefront of preserving the history and memories

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of our city.

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From the first registered historic resources in 1984 to the present, the city is now identified

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over a thousand historic properties, landmarks and features across the city, and has protected

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over a hundred and sixty municipal historic resources.

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I'm thankful to the work with our, to work with our talented staff at the city, of

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members and archives and the heritage planning team or conservation team.

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This past year we focused a lot on working with the Edmonton Heritage Council and the city

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of Edmonton in looking at ways we can work together more effectively.

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We look forward to working closer with the Edmonton Heritage Council and collaborating on specific

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initiatives next year.

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In this past year, our subcommittees have worked diligently to meet our mandate.

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We continue to build our relationship with council, administration, and heritage partners,

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including the Edmonds and Heritage Council, as I mentioned previously, and the Edmonds

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and District Historical Society.

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I'm particularly excited about our planning and policy committees work on a number of new ideas

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and our historical plaques committees work on our website rebuilt.

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In July 2024, we held the historical plaques presentation in Unison with the Edmonton and District Historical Society's historic festival and doors open about.

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The celebration was held at the newly designated St. Luke's Angle Concerts and highlighted the presentation of eight new plaques to newly designated buildings.

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Now, I'd like to provide you with a brief update of our goals and brief update of progress.

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Goal number one, which is advising the council on historic resources that should be added

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to inventory as well as building greater awareness of the city of Edmonton historical issues

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and civic heritage policies while communicating about emergent issues and priorities with the council.

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Included in this year's work on goal number one is our historical resources, review panel,

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the HRRP evaluated and then added six historic buildings and one landscape to the inventory.

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The board also advised Council on five other heritage preservation issues through letters to the council members and discussions with our council advisor.

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Goal number two is supporting the preservation and promotion of built heritage in Edmonton.

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The progress on goal number two included the hosting of the historical plaques presentation

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for the eight designated properties, as I've mentioned before.

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information session on the preservation of historic buildings and the designation process,

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which I think was very important and really well accepted by the good crowd at St. Luke's.

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Goal number three is supporting Edmonton's history. Work completed on this goal included

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adding content to the Board's website, detailing structures, neighborhoods, and architectural

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styles found in Edmonton historic resources. Our policy and planning committee has been working on

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two new projects, one to map the Edmonton's hidden histories, and another to build the network

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comparative to organizations to meet and share experiences. Work on these projects will continue

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this coming year. Goal number four is to support our historian Lorieette. We provide ongoing

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support for Donna, who is I think in the crowd, and she's going to do a short presentation after

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this. We provide her with she provides us with regular updates of her extremely busy work,

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And you can see her, she's sent in a report too.

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And now I'll give you a brief overview of the 2025 work plan of the Edmonton Historical Board.

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While the main goals of the board remain the same,

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here are some of the specific projects and work that we plan on conducting in the coming year.

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Continue to work on the collaboration with the Edmonton Heritage Council and other local historical groups.

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With the city of Edmonton's assistance, we have looked at the folks of both groups

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and will examine different ways to work together more closely in the future.

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Relationships are building, and I see this will conclude with both groups being stronger and more efficient.

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We will continue to add to the Edmonton Historical Properties inventory.

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I see this is one of the most important tasks that EHB does.

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In the past few years, the total number of properties on the inventory has decreased due to the amount of demolition of building on the inventory,

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compared to the newly added buildings.

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We must find new processes to add to this inventory.

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We also plan for this historical plaque presentation again on July 9th.

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2020, 25, so mark your calendars and we're going to complete phase 1 of our historical mapping project.

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And we will continue the update and revisions to our website.

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In conclusion, I'd like to thank all of city council, and especially our council advisor for the past few years and Stevenson,

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and also Sarah Hamilton, our new advisor for their work and dedication. Really appreciate their time. I understand how busy you guys are.

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I'd like to see the City of Edmonton continue their support in preserving bill

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heritage and especially in the designation of city owned buildings such as the

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Peter Hemingway Leisure Center that is just gone over in the midst of some

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heavy renovations and rehabilitation right now. Thanks for listening and I'm

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open for questions now.

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Thank you so much. Thank you Steve. And you just might need to mute. There we go.

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So any questions from committee members or council members?

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Councillor Stevenson.

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It's thank you very much and thanks for the presentation and the ongoing work that you and the board are undertaking.

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Just to quickly to clerks are we can we ask of the whole delegation so both staff and I guess everyone's.

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Okay. Perfect. Well, Steve, maybe just starting with you.

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What I, you have mentioned, and

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you know, really pleased to hear about the additional collaboration that you've been doing

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with Heritage Council. I see that there's sort of listed as a partner in stakeholder and

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goal. One, just wondering what, what has come of conversations to to work more closely as

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organization to the point of potentially sort of amalgamating into that organization or the

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two organizations kind of coming together in a more formal way.

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I think the latest was that we will meet together as a group and I believe that, I mean,

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I don't want to take anything away from David's presentation, but I believe that he's suggesting

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that we have, or he has a member on Edmonton Heritage Council, that would be a non-bullying

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member from EHB. We certainly could do the same for the Edmonton Heritage Board.

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Oh, interesting. Can you mute, sorry, there's some funny feedback.

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That's interesting, so the

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idea with that be sort of a precursor to, again, so I guess my question is, is this idea continuing to be pursued in a sort of formal way?

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Yeah, we, like I said, we had somebody from the city working with us in the little in the last few months, and so we're still working on it, but yeah, we're definitely looking at different ways to work closely together.

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Okay, well then maybe maybe just shifting to members of administration who maybe on the line I just want to understand the implications of having the

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The working groups with the subcommittees and so do the committees have to meet in public is that part of the like the subcommittees sorry

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Yes, yes, they do and and has administration done in analysis in terms of the the resource implications

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and you know, just thoughts on adding those

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committees from a capacity perspective.

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Roger, do you want to comment on that one?

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Roger, we can see if Catherine Ivoney, our city

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archivist, could probably provide more insight on

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the impacts of those committees.

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Yeah, the, um, the, um, the

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subcommittees are staffed by either Mitchell Laurenberg,

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who is the coordinator for the, for the

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eminent stroke aboard or myself.

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Um, it's certainly something that we

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can handle and I have

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continue to support the committees that meet prior to the board meeting monthly.

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Okay, thank you for that.

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And then Steve mentioned some staff who've been working with them and Heritage Council

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about that closer working relationship is who who was that and are you on the line?

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I don't think they are, but they are part of our community services partnership group and

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they are they work with the Heritage Council as well as the historical board on other matters

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as well, so this is just an added component of the work with those two agencies.

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Okay, and so just from your perspective, is there some of that active work being done

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in terms of, like is there going to be a report done looked at the opportunity for these two

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groups to eventually become one?

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Yeah, I believe there's an interim report in place and they are going to continue to work

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work with groups and this circle resources group as well around this circle resources plan

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that's coming out in the future.

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And then maybe Steve, I just heard you mention the Peter Hemingway pool.

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I think that's a really exciting project and obviously a really important city asset.

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It's also a heritage asset.

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Is that, am I understanding correctly that that building will get a heritage designation as the renovations are completing?

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No, right now that is not in the plan. We would like that of course, but as far as I know that is not in the plan.

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Okay, well, I'm just starting at a time, but I'll maybe come back to our admin team about that. Thank you.

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Thank you, Councillor Hamilton.

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Thank you.

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I just want to thank you for your presentation.

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And it's always a pleasure to, you know, interact with the historical board.

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One of the things I feel, and I was noting your correspondence, the meeting to council this year,

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You, the historical board, I think historically, has felt the need to take a position on certain

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demolitions.

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And I'm wondering, are you still feeling that pressure, are you, are you choosing to take

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those positions sort of strategically if you could, if you could speak to that a little bit

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I'm not sorry, I don't quite understand you.

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I noted that in the correspondence you submitted to Council, for instance, you've taken a position on the role of a museum.

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Which we don't own, but is I think a lot of people feel it's a building where the historical designation and would be a travesty to lose.

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and you've also taken positions on things that are with you.

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Then the municipal preview, I'm wondering how you're deciding to take your positions.

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I think those decisions are made at our main board meeting. You know, might come up through

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one of the committees, but then discuss it or board meeting and then there's basically a vote on whether

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not we should write a letter to the counselors yourself and show that, you know, we are

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recommending support from the council on it. So, yeah, and I feel very strongly about

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the Royal Board of Museum or the former Royal Board of Museum. And especially the fact that

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there have been some promises for discussions and it seems like the promises didn't happen

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But I think that referred to the latter, too,

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is just some discussions with the problems.

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But we know that we don't have authority,

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but we wanted to certainly voice our opinion about it.

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Maybe I'll switch positions a little bit,

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or switch, switch my line of questioning a little bit now.

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You think you brought up that the city needs

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do a better job in terms of designing our own buildings and I'm glad you mentioned the Peter

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Hemingway Pool. I think that leads into a longer, larger discussion about the next

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launch of buildings that aside from Wallinsit but that sort of mid-century architecture and

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wondering if you could tell us a little bit about what you see or what the historical board

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sees as a risk to the city in terms of losing our next launch of assets, historical assets.

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I just think the risk is showing the council and the city of Edmonton really do believe in

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preserving art historic buildings and art history. So is there a class or is there a

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a place you'd like a class of building or a place you'd like us to look or pay a particular

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attention to in terms of where we might lose those assets? I don't think there's a class of building

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right now. I mean there's a lot of assets in Hamilton that are definitely at risk. Now

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are they owned by the city of Hamilton? Not necessarily. I'm probably worried about other ones

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that are not owned by the city and but there are some by the city. I think that just showing that

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or designating city on properties shows that that intent and that the counselors are really

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concern about preservation of buildings or build heritage in the city of Hamilton.

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Great, thank you, my questions there, thank you.

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Thank you, Councillor Tang.

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Yeah, great, thank you.

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Thank you very much for all the work that the committee has undertaken.

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You've had a busy year, see all the motions past, et cetera.

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I think my question is more around the subcommittees that you are requesting.

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So your current status is you don't have any of those in the as a group, the entire board.

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Make some of those decisions and you feel a subcommittee approach might be more efficient.

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No, those communities have been around for as long as I've been part of the Hamilton historical board,

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but since the changes in the policies that we are asked to ask for,

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them so we have asked for them. So they're all very important and we are, I mean, our board meetings

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last from anywhere from two to three hours. I mean, the longest has been three hours. Usually

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it's a little over two hours. If we didn't have the subcommittees, I don't want to guess how long

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the board meetings would be, so, and I mean, they go from five to seven, more five to eight.

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Right. And then, but the subcommies, the historical plaques committee does me, you know, regularly, almost monthly,

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and planning or deciding on the plaques, and then, of course, doing the planning for the presentations,

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and then also the web page work that we've been doing, so that's been added.

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So that's been very important, it's a very busy meeting.

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The historical resources review panel, that is the panel that actually decides on which

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buildings go on the inventory and then gives recommendations to the board, which I think

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is extremely important and I don't think it could be done within the meeting.

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That can happen each month but depending on how many buildings or if we have buildings to review.

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And then...

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I appreciate it.

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It's okay.

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I think my question is more just around.

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Like essentially the request is to come and take that structure moving forward.

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Okay, maybe I just do a administration and wondering if you can just apologies because I feel like it's been a while since we talked about the subcommittee policy.

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Can you just remind me what that was?

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Yes, so I can for sure, so essentially what it was is the council has to approve the use of subcommittees and it's done annually.

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So these requests aren't necessarily new requests that could be continuing requests, but it's done in an analysis.

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Okay, and whereas in this case, this is an annual request, but it's just simply that each of the advisory body can just like strike one up on their own, because it does relate to resourcing, but if this is a structure that's being in place for a while, the resourcing stays the same.

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and it sounds like from earlier Q&A, the staff can manage it.

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Okay, that's good.

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I think that answers my question.

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I think similarly, I feel like this conversation

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throughout between the Historical Society and the Heritage Council

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has been in words for some times.

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I'm sorry, we're not hearing your presentation today,

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but I look forward to seeing that in the inbox

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and I also would like to echo Councillor Stevenson just to see that conversation a bit more

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formalized. I see references to it in your report, but I think the formalized conversation

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will be helpful. That's it. Thank you. Thank you, Councillor Tang. Not seeing any further questions

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on the board. I might go to Councillor Hamilton if you're interested in putting the recommendation on

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the floor. Yes, I'll move the recommendation that this be received for information.

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Maybe we could just...

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Is there another recommendation?

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What's the wording up on the board?

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There you go.

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Yep.

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The advantage of the struggles, right?

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What was in the report? Anyway, that the Ementon Historical Board's request to establish for a subcommence for the 2025 work plan has outlined the attachment three of the March 10, 2025 Office of the City Clerk Report. Be approved.

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Seconder? Second.

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We'll buy Councilor Hamilton, seconded by Councilor Stevenson.

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Councilor Hamilton, would you like to introduce it all?

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I mean, I think this reflects the discussion here today.

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And the establishment allowing the continuation of force of communities will allow

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the official report to make the best use of their time when they meet in every month.

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great. And I'm realizing just in terms of process going forward, we'll ensure that we're putting

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this on the floor at the outset because we're reminded that we're at Council. And then any one

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to speak to this, any questions, Councillor Stevenson to speak, I assume. Yeah, thank you so much.

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I just wanted to take a few moments to thank Steve and all members of the historical board for

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the work that they do. Preservation of our build form and community character is critically important

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and I appreciate the advice that they're able to offer, not only to council, but also to

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elevate the community members who are also actively involved in preserving homes and other

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historic buildings. The plaque presentation is always a really exciting evening where people

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get to celebrate their participation in our historic city. I think the ongoing conversations

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about the relationship between the historical board and heritage council are really important and I hope

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to continue to see those advancing. For me, it comes down to thinking through which structure

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best supports the work of the historical board. You know, I see huge opportunity with heritage

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council in terms of the resources, the staff resources they have to help strengthen the work

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of the historical board, which is largely driven by incredibly dedicated and hardworking

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volunteers, and also an opportunity to avoid some of the complications like having to get

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Council approval for subcommittees, you know, looking for ways that there can be more

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flexibility to support the great work that's happening.

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So look forward to those ongoing conversations and further discussions on that.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Councillor Piquette.

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Yeah, thank you.

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I just want to thank the board for all their hard work and I'm just a part of this motion

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understanding that, you know, as ever, we're going to be cautious of a scope creep, but having

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said that I actually do appreciate the way in on the old museum.

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I think that's integral, and something that Edmontonians are very, very clear about they

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would love to see that preserved.

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And last, there's really great neon sign up in my ward at the old Burger Baron that's being

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point down, man, if we could preserve that and put it in the museum, that'd be great.

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That's all I have to say. Thank you.

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Thanks, Councillor Forquette. Councillor Hamilton to close.

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I have nothing further to say. Just thanks again to the historical port for the presentation.

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And I'm sorry that we couldn't hear from the Heritage Council today. I had a great meeting

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with David last week and hopefully members of Council will be offered the opportunity to meet with them.

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We can too. Thank you.

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Excellent. Please vote.

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We have all the votes.

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Is this way the vote?

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That's carried. Great. Well thank you so much to you. Really appreciate you being with us today and and thanks again to the entire

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I've been into historical board for your dedication and commitment to our city.

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Thank you. Wonderful. So we'll move on to our next item which is the naming committee and I believe we have Matt dance with us.

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Hi Matt.

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All right, so we'll start it over to you for a brief presentation and then we'll like we have some questions for you.

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Please go ahead.

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Awesome.

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Thank you, Councillor Saludor.

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I'm glad there's a lot of social distancing here.

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Good afternoon.

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My name is Matthew Dance.

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I'm the chair of the naming committee.

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It is an honor to be here and to present the naming committees 2024 Annual Report and 2025 Work Plan.

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Before I get into the content of this report, I would like to first acknowledge the committee members and admins support that make the work of a committee possible.

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First and foremost, my amazing colleagues on the naming committee who are as interested in creating good policy and process and in building strong relationships as they are in place naming.

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It is a privilege to work with such smart and pathetic and motivated people, and certainly

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the support provided by Corey Souza and Ashley Rowan is under surpassed.

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Corey's understanding of the process and our responsibilities as we name Edmonton's civic

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assets guides each and every discussion and his memory of Edmonton's aiming history is remarkable.

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It is within this context that I am pleased to report on the accomplishments of the naming

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committee this past year.

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In my mind, the greatest achievement that we have as a committee has reflected in the relationships

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that we foster and support.

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Over the past year, we have collaborated with municipal officials, community organizations,

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indigenous leaders, and students in MQ and universities, arts, and cultural management

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program to ensure that Edmonton's public spaces tell the stories of those who have shaped

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and continue to shape our city.

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This is most evident in the renaming of the novel All-over Neighborhood.

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We are proud of the community-led renaming process that resulted in

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we claim to end a creename that reflects that means circle of friends.

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The process that led to this name is a model that we are closely looking at as we develop

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our own renaming process.

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In addition to Requanto End, the Menemic Committee approved 35 place names

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Reflective of the diversity and cultures, floor and fauna that comprise Edmonton's Irvine,

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Mosaic.

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Looking to the future, as a committee, we are committed to tackling some big projects in the coming year.

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We will continue to support administration as they complete a place-named data set to be published on the open data portal.

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As a side note, I started that data set over a decade ago as a grad student and it is extremely gratifying to see this massive piece of work being completed.

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We as a committee will begin work on the development of a culturally sensitive community

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involved renaming process based on the experience of the Equentuin Leadership Circle.

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When the government sent your LRT station, LRT station, renaming process launches, the

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naming committee will have representation at the table.

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We will continue to work on building the appropriate relationships so that we can discuss

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and develop an indigenous naming process or framework.

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And finally, the naming committee is working to incorporate recommendations made by

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McEwen University's A-Gad 301 policy project as we start thinking through revisions

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to the naming policy which is scheduled to be renewed in 2026.

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The naming committee remains committed to the principles reflected in the naming policy. Specifically, the principles of engagement and inclusion underpinned by robust process, ensuring that every decision is made through deliberation and community.

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As such, we are aligning our work with your vision for a city.

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Great. Thank you so much for the overview. I'll now go to questions from colleagues and just a reminder if there's anyone who would like to put the recommendation on the floor.

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We are at Council and that would be appreciated.

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Yeah, I'm happy to move, so I'm just pulling up the report for the actual wording as it just received from hermation.

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Yeah, okay.

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The March 10th Office of the City Clerk Report be received from information.

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Second.

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It's great, thank you.

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And I'm just trying to get myself on the Board for questions.

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Councillor, now could you be able to take the chair?

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Thank you for the presentation and really appreciate you being here with us today and for all the work that you're doing.

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I actually just had a bit of a process question and hoping you can provide some clarity.

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I have had some questions bubbling up from community members just around the process for having conversations about renaming of different forms of infrastructure in our city.

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And, yeah, wondering if you can just help me understand what that looks like and the best place for people to get more information.

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Great, thank you for the question, Councillor Savador.

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The process for renaming, I think at this point follows a pretty standard naming process where we're looking for someone to lead a community engagement session or multiple sessions as they did with

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We're going to win and to develop an engagement process that would include promoting names that the

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renaming could be switched to or renamed and then a process of name selection and then reporting through the naming

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committee and depending on the size of the asset and the nature of the asset it may come to city council.

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Okay, that's really helpful so I guess having having some form of a community entity or

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body that would initiate that work has to happen on the ground before it would make it

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any further conversation is that correct?

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Yeah, so for instance, the Oliver community league spearheaded the their renaming process

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and we're very inclusive in terms of who they had on their advisory board, it was an indigenous

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led circle that was looking to get all the voices that would be reflected in the community and

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impacted by the name change. And then through that process build some support for an option or

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a suite of options that they would be able to then choose through a vote or through consensus building

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as to what the new name would be. Great. Well thank you so much for helping me just better

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I'll return the chair.

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Thank you.

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And I'll go to Councillor Stevenson.

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Thank you very much.

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I appreciate the great work that the naming committee has done.

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The overview provided in terms of initiating those conversations.

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Just trying to think of, you know,

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I think that community based approach is a really important principle.

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I'm thinking about some larger city assets where there's maybe not a sort of a natural local community.

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Just wondering what something like that would look like in instance like that for a process.

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Could it still be just a broad community movement or is there a need for a sort of local tie?

437
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:48,980
I think that's a really pertinent question, Councillor Stevenson. I think I can think of several

438
00:56:48,980 --> 00:56:59,440
large city assets that are potentially at risk for a renaming process. If risk is the right word.

439
00:57:00,500 --> 00:57:11,000
I don't think that we have a clear picture of what that process looks like. What would it look like to have a

440
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:16,480
the citizens and I clearly don't have an answer, I don't have a clear answer for that right

441
00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:21,040
now, but it is something that is on the radar and the work plan of the naming committee,

442
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:26,800
and it's something that we're going to be tackling this year and probably into next year

443
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:31,320
as we try to figure out what that looks like. Great. Great. I think it's excellent to

444
00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:38,120
have some guide posts to help us along and appreciate that you're taking that on. Thanks.

445
00:57:42,900 --> 00:57:48,780
Thank you so much for the presentation and be here to answer our questions.

446
00:57:49,420 --> 00:57:50,800
So I have two questions.

447
00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:54,640
The first question is more related to the process.

448
00:57:56,440 --> 00:58:00,020
So, as the name of the community may know,

449
00:58:00,020 --> 00:58:07,000
and then my office reached out and then from 2002 to 2003 and before.

450
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:16,120
And as a reason for that, is our word name and then is a longest name, 21-nader's name.

451
00:58:16,540 --> 00:58:22,020
The meaning constitutes reach out to my office and to see the cannot even spell,

452
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:28,640
how to spell, remember how to spell and also the cannot pronounce any exact possible.

453
00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:37,820
to keep the name and at the same time to add a word like a longer and for them to really

454
00:58:37,820 --> 00:58:45,060
to clearly identify which words they are in. So I don't know what's that process is that

455
00:58:45,060 --> 00:58:52,360
at the blaming committee level is at the council level. So can you provide some

456
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:54,780
take them, you'll start on that.

457
00:58:57,930 --> 00:59:02,310
I counsel the race, thank you for the question, that's a very good question.

458
00:59:04,470 --> 00:59:12,630
The city has done a remarkable job at posting pronunciation guides and phonetic guides on

459
00:59:12,630 --> 00:59:13,430
their website.

460
00:59:15,270 --> 00:59:22,370
I think anything that would go over and above that in terms of supporting the name pronunciation

461
00:59:22,370 --> 00:59:28,830
is something that perhaps City Council would take on or it's something that we could probably

462
00:59:28,830 --> 00:59:32,470
work into our work plan. I'm not clear on what that would look like.

463
00:59:33,590 --> 00:59:40,670
Okay, so I think it's not about the assistance and how to pronounce and have been provided.

464
00:59:40,930 --> 00:59:46,330
The city did a great job to provide all those how we pronounce the word name there.

465
00:59:46,330 --> 00:59:51,250
And it is just what I heard from many constituents try to say,

466
00:59:51,390 --> 00:59:54,270
go ahead and add the number after the name.

467
00:59:55,070 --> 00:59:59,810
And so, there's their point is not to change, and then it's just add.

468
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:05,640
Number, afternoon, to make sure everybody know where we're from. I wouldn't, they have a difficult

469
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:13,420
problem. So I don't want to bring their voice, I heard, and from people I represent in that area,

470
01:00:13,520 --> 01:00:20,340
because that's long as the name 21, later it's done. To name a committee and I want to put that

471
01:00:20,340 --> 01:00:26,960
on the table and in front of us. So that's why I'm asking that question, but I'm happy to follow

472
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:30,460
see how we can work on that way.

473
01:00:33,300 --> 01:00:34,720
Yes, thank you, Councillor Rice.

474
01:00:34,820 --> 01:00:36,400
I think following up would be appropriate.

475
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:40,680
Just from a, I think, a naming process.

476
01:00:41,500 --> 01:00:44,700
The, um, I'm in award, uh, Cippy Winnie Wack.

477
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:47,860
And I know that the boundaries of award Cippy Winnie Wack

478
01:00:47,860 --> 01:00:51,160
don't overlay precisely with the boundaries of award five.

479
01:00:51,540 --> 01:00:55,460
So I don't know that recalling a previous award name would be appropriate.

480
01:00:55,460 --> 01:01:02,720
given that that word in its form doesn't exist anymore, but I think it's something that we should perhaps explore together

481
01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:05,380
to see what a good solution would be.

482
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:07,660
That's actually a very good point.

483
01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:11,420
Even for the word I represent, it's not only more than 10.

484
01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:15,920
And as some of the reference from word minus, as well as a boundary change,

485
01:01:16,660 --> 01:01:20,900
I just want to get to see the right curve and the people really from the word

486
01:01:20,900 --> 01:01:24,620
the Epico-Calipiol, say, can understand and then

487
01:01:24,620 --> 01:01:27,900
why certain factors needs to be conserved.

488
01:01:28,360 --> 01:01:29,560
But thank you for that answer.

489
01:01:31,340 --> 01:01:35,620
Also, the next question I look at is a 235 work plan

490
01:01:35,620 --> 01:01:37,420
and for the name committee.

491
01:01:37,980 --> 01:01:42,240
I did not see the ending plan regarding the two station,

492
01:01:42,420 --> 01:01:46,840
30 station, before the Capital Nine South Extension

493
01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:47,580
project.

494
01:01:47,580 --> 01:01:56,650
And it is that name or writing name for the two stations or they will be in the later work plan for the later year.

495
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:07,920
Is it fair for me to ask our admin support queries use for some direction on that question?

496
01:02:09,390 --> 01:02:12,530
Yeah, is a capital 9-cell extension project?

497
01:02:13,790 --> 01:02:16,730
There are two stations that will be included in this project.

498
01:02:17,070 --> 01:02:21,030
I'm not sure there are two stations, the name is already finished,

499
01:02:21,630 --> 01:02:25,790
and because I did not see in the 25 award plan.

500
01:02:26,930 --> 01:02:28,650
So thanks for the question, Councillor RISE.

501
01:02:29,750 --> 01:02:33,570
Those would be treated like a normal naming application.

502
01:02:33,910 --> 01:02:36,450
So they wouldn't be part of the naming committee's work plan.

503
01:02:36,790 --> 01:02:39,310
They would be treated like any other naming

504
01:02:39,310 --> 01:02:48,170
application. They have not been submitted to us yet if I'm understanding the stations I believe

505
01:02:48,170 --> 01:02:53,790
you're referring to. If that's in case those future names have not been submitted to the

506
01:02:53,790 --> 01:03:00,030
naming committee. Okay thank you. That's all my questions. Thank you again. Yeah what was it work?

507
01:03:00,030 --> 01:03:01,830
I think is the answer to the cat?

508
01:03:04,560 --> 01:03:06,040
Yeah, thank you very much.

509
01:03:09,080 --> 01:03:14,020
So does the naming committee worry about how many syllables

510
01:03:14,020 --> 01:03:16,480
are in a name when they name something?

511
01:03:22,510 --> 01:03:23,130
Not typically.

512
01:03:23,390 --> 01:03:26,110
It's not something that typically comes up in conversation.

513
01:03:28,330 --> 01:03:30,670
Because something like Sir Winston Churchill Square.

514
01:03:32,150 --> 01:03:35,450
I can be a lot of syllables, right?

515
01:03:36,290 --> 01:03:38,450
It certainly is.

516
01:03:40,710 --> 01:03:45,310
So are you aware when the next board boundary review is?

517
01:03:45,730 --> 01:03:46,870
No, I'm not.

518
01:03:47,510 --> 01:03:47,610
Okay.

519
01:03:48,530 --> 01:03:50,010
As far as I know, it's over two years.

520
01:03:51,330 --> 01:03:57,230
And so I could be over two years, two election cycles.

521
01:04:02,350 --> 01:04:17,250
But at that time, when word boundary shift, sometimes there's a recommendation to change the name of the award, which is what happened last time when I'm going to assume is probably what's going to happen next time is it?

522
01:04:17,430 --> 01:04:18,270
So you're understanding?

523
01:04:20,350 --> 01:04:24,910
As far as I understand that is what the process looks like, Councillor.

524
01:04:26,010 --> 01:04:26,490
Okay.

525
01:04:27,950 --> 01:04:28,330
All right.

526
01:04:33,300 --> 01:04:33,800
Thank you.

527
01:04:33,920 --> 01:04:34,440
That's it?

528
01:04:34,980 --> 01:04:35,520
Thank you.

529
01:04:35,620 --> 01:04:36,280
Councilor Tang?

530
01:04:37,300 --> 01:04:37,400
Yeah.

531
01:04:37,500 --> 01:04:39,140
Thank you for being here.

532
01:04:39,380 --> 01:04:42,080
Very, very interesting input with some of the questions.

533
01:04:42,220 --> 01:04:45,780
I want to follow up on some of the earlier questions around public infrastructure.

534
01:04:46,760 --> 01:04:47,240
Renaming.

535
01:04:47,820 --> 01:04:53,480
And, you know, I feel like every few years we get a big push from the public about certain assets.

536
01:04:53,480 --> 01:05:00,480
named at a certain time in history where naming after people is more the common practice.

537
01:05:01,760 --> 01:05:04,200
And now we have a kind of a very different direction.

538
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:08,000
And that, you know, I think York committee has been doing a lot of great work on.

539
01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:10,560
But I imagine those conversations come up.

540
01:05:11,280 --> 01:05:14,600
You know, and I think, like I say, every few years when those push comes forward,

541
01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:17,780
they often appear in the form of petitions and whatnot.

542
01:05:18,960 --> 01:05:26,980
I guess I'm wondering Matt, or even Corey, if you have any advice for those who are spearheading those.

543
01:05:28,240 --> 01:05:35,000
Because I think we try to direct folks to look at the current policy and look at some of the process that you've mentioned.

544
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:46,600
But I guess I'm curious about your internal dialogue amongst members, and you like just advice that you might have.

545
01:05:53,460 --> 01:05:57,720
I think first and foremost,

546
01:06:00,320 --> 01:06:20,420
the process of renaming and asset in my mind is a process of relationship building and community engagement that we're interested in reflecting the diversity of the effect of community, whether it be a specific neighborhood or the entire city.

547
01:06:20,420 --> 01:06:32,860
And really having those potentially very hard conversations to make sure that we are on the path to choosing a correct name.

548
01:06:33,820 --> 01:06:36,420
And in doing so, we're looking at community building.

549
01:06:38,160 --> 01:06:41,200
And we don't make policy by petition.

550
01:06:42,960 --> 01:06:48,420
And I think that's something that we need to keep first and foremost in our mind.

551
01:06:48,420 --> 01:06:57,200
and we are always happy and willing to reach out to the people who are starting a petition

552
01:06:57,200 --> 01:07:04,060
or who are interested in renaming assets to help guide them on what that process looks like.

553
01:07:04,840 --> 01:07:11,360
So one of my goals as the chair is to increase the profile of the naming committee

554
01:07:11,360 --> 01:07:17,940
and to really build an understanding of what it is, what we do, but also how we do it.

555
01:07:17,940 --> 01:07:22,660
Because that is almost more important than the outcome of the name, right?

556
01:07:22,880 --> 01:07:29,800
So, for instance, with the ward renaming that occurred when the ward boundaries changed.

557
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:37,380
We were gifted names. And those names are very important, and she'd be held in honor. But how do we support

558
01:07:37,380 --> 01:07:42,820
how do we support those names? How do we support people understanding where those names came from and the

559
01:07:42,820 --> 01:07:48,700
importance of those names? If we're going to be renaming a civic asset, how do we support that type of

560
01:07:48,700 --> 01:07:56,280
conversation? Yeah, thank you. That's very helpful and seeing renaming as a process of community buildings,

561
01:07:56,280 --> 01:08:00,980
it's easy to sign off on the petition but much harder to have some of those really tough

562
01:08:00,980 --> 01:08:06,700
conversations and if people are truly intent on that, they should participate and maybe

563
01:08:06,700 --> 01:08:10,040
leave some of those conversations to, right?

564
01:08:11,260 --> 01:08:15,860
And just further to that, we also don't want to be in a place where we're naming assets out of

565
01:08:15,860 --> 01:08:24,620
anger and we need viable options, you know, saying that we don't want a name isn't the positive

566
01:08:24,620 --> 01:08:26,060
about come that we're looking for.

567
01:08:26,180 --> 01:08:27,520
Yeah, really appreciate that.

568
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:29,100
Corrid, do you have anything you want to add?

569
01:08:32,580 --> 01:08:35,280
The one thing I would just add regarding renaming

570
01:08:35,280 --> 01:08:38,400
that isn't talked about as much,

571
01:08:38,680 --> 01:08:40,400
and this relates to roads.

572
01:08:41,280 --> 01:08:44,100
It's under section 10 in the naming policy.

573
01:08:44,820 --> 01:08:48,900
And it states that if there is a request to renaming a road

574
01:08:48,900 --> 01:08:52,440
that 75% of property owners and business owners

575
01:08:52,440 --> 01:08:56,580
directly affected and must support the renaming of that road,

576
01:08:56,580 --> 01:09:02,740
And that applicant's are responsible for the cost of associated with the approved re-name roadway.

577
01:09:03,580 --> 01:09:09,780
So that's important to also share that language when it comes to road names and change your road names.

578
01:09:09,940 --> 01:09:19,980
Because obviously the impact addresses and business names and all the different letter heads and paperwork that's related to that address.

579
01:09:19,980 --> 01:09:28,160
In addition to what Matt said, we're always happy to meet with people, organizations to discuss

580
01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:34,660
a potential renaming and we could also guide them on next steps if they are truly passionate

581
01:09:34,660 --> 01:09:40,580
about moving forward with renaming and as Matt mentioned regarding the other question that

582
01:09:40,580 --> 01:09:47,740
counselor and Stevenson asks about these larger assets, that's something that we're discussing

583
01:09:47,740 --> 01:09:58,900
in the next two years as we really look at enhancing our renaming policy, as well as working with our indigenous partners and developing those processes.

584
01:09:59,460 --> 01:10:01,620
Thank you so. Thank you both so much for that. It was very helpful.

585
01:10:02,180 --> 01:10:08,000
Great. Thank you so much. So, not seeing anyone else on the board for question. This is anyone who would like to speak to this.

586
01:10:15,430 --> 01:10:19,370
If not, Councillor Rutherford to close. Or, oh,

587
01:10:21,560 --> 01:10:22,280
Councillor Rutherford go ahead.

588
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:29,340
Yeah. Thank you. I feel like I say this every year about just how important the naming

589
01:10:29,340 --> 01:10:36,540
committee is in terms of place making and identity creating. And I love the shift to

590
01:10:36,540 --> 01:10:41,580
floor and fauna and names that are not related to people because people are flawed.

591
01:10:42,300 --> 01:10:47,140
Everybody has strengths and everybody has weaknesses, right? And so, and we sometimes history

592
01:10:47,140 --> 01:10:52,680
reveals those strengths and those weaknesses more and more. So I really like that that change,

593
01:10:52,840 --> 01:10:57,640
but I also really like the process and the things that we're doing to really think about renaming

594
01:10:57,640 --> 01:11:00,220
and how we create that place-based identity.

595
01:11:03,220 --> 01:11:05,700
I feel like I want to tell a story right now because

596
01:11:07,540 --> 01:11:12,140
I think it's pertinent to some of the questions that were raised. I've been asked by many in my

597
01:11:12,140 --> 01:11:18,760
to the same thing. Why can't we just put the numbers on the word names and I actually explain

598
01:11:18,760 --> 01:11:21,900
the thing. Well actually the boundaries are quite significantly different. So it would

599
01:11:21,900 --> 01:11:26,260
actually cause probably more confusion to put those on. But one of the things that I did recently

600
01:11:26,260 --> 01:11:34,140
my office is we worked with Elder Edna who gifted the name for Word and Elnic, the in New

601
01:11:34,140 --> 01:11:42,940
name and we made buttons and those buttons have word and elnic breath of life and then I actually

602
01:11:42,940 --> 01:11:49,300
has the full name of the city of Edmonton and Cree on those buttons as well and I have been going

603
01:11:49,300 --> 01:11:57,100
and handing them out whenever I'm out at community events and out in community and it has created

604
01:11:57,100 --> 01:12:04,540
such beautiful conversation with residents about the meaning of the name, about how to pronounce

605
01:12:04,540 --> 01:12:15,120
it, about why it was important for my reconciliation perspective to consider this. And it's so

606
01:12:15,120 --> 01:12:20,280
much so that they become so popular the request I was getting that I have to reorder more

607
01:12:21,660 --> 01:12:27,080
for our office because we've just been getting so much. So I think that it is incumbent on

608
01:12:27,080 --> 01:12:29,720
And this is an example where I was hearing that.

609
01:12:29,780 --> 01:12:32,260
And so I said, how do I address that?

610
01:12:32,600 --> 01:12:34,940
And so one of the things, for me, that I did,

611
01:12:35,100 --> 01:12:36,960
is I said, let's start to have those conversations.

612
01:12:37,380 --> 01:12:39,480
Let's start to share the message about this.

613
01:12:39,480 --> 01:12:43,140
And I've been privileged and honored to get to know

614
01:12:43,140 --> 01:12:47,380
and meet elder, edna, on many occasions.

615
01:12:50,440 --> 01:12:52,880
And to understand the true what you mentioned,

616
01:12:53,000 --> 01:12:54,360
I think, is really important around naming

617
01:12:54,360 --> 01:12:56,240
that they gifted those names,

618
01:12:56,240 --> 01:13:07,120
that there was a lot of ceremony and a lot of work in that circle of elders to really choose

619
01:13:07,120 --> 01:13:13,540
names that would represent the land and the history in a significant and meaningful way.

620
01:13:13,900 --> 01:13:20,820
And I worry about reverting to or this conversation of reverting to numbers and the undermining

621
01:13:20,820 --> 01:13:28,120
it does of the true gift that those names were, maybe, you know, the button for so popular

622
01:13:28,120 --> 01:13:32,780
with from our office, maybe this should be something that we should just have as a city

623
01:13:32,780 --> 01:13:34,820
for all the words, right?

624
01:13:34,860 --> 01:13:39,380
Maybe it doesn't have to be incumbent on one council or maybe we should have those word names,

625
01:13:40,280 --> 01:13:43,100
but I know we weren't here today to talk about word names, we were here to talk about

626
01:13:43,100 --> 01:13:49,040
the great work, the naming committee does and you do really great work hearing about just

627
01:13:49,040 --> 01:13:57,000
your volume of assets you are naming in your annual report and the work that you're doing

628
01:13:57,000 --> 01:14:02,100
is just outstanding. So please keep it up and continue to do the great place making work you're

629
01:14:02,100 --> 01:14:06,000
already doing. Thank you. Thank you, please vote.

630
01:14:13,180 --> 01:14:15,860
Yes, my your turn off. Thank you,

631
01:14:15,980 --> 01:14:16,800
you got to the riverford.

632
01:14:19,130 --> 01:14:21,390
We have all the votes. Please display the vote.

633
01:14:27,950 --> 01:14:29,230
That's carried. Thank you so

634
01:14:29,230 --> 01:14:33,770
much. And thank you for being with us, Mad. Really appreciate it. And I really appreciate

635
01:14:33,770 --> 01:14:36,330
it again. Your dedication to community building here in Edmonton.

636
01:14:39,190 --> 01:14:41,350
Okay. Next up is the Edmonton

637
01:14:41,350 --> 01:14:50,550
Slutes Committee. And Brian Hodgson is Brian online. He is. I'm here. Hi, Brian. How are you?

638
01:14:50,850 --> 01:14:56,610
I'm Wilson. Good. Okay. So we'll turn the floor over to you for a brief presentation.

639
01:14:59,510 --> 01:14:59,970
We're

640
01:15:02,620 --> 01:15:11,680
Okay. Well, to the acting mayor and council members present, it's a pleasure for me to speak to you again about what the evidence looks committee does.

641
01:15:12,500 --> 01:15:20,480
You have the report, and I could presume that all of you will have gone through it, so I'm not going to go into any great detail.

642
01:15:21,400 --> 01:15:29,160
I would remark to you that the budget of the Anderson's Committee is 0.0022 of the overall

643
01:15:29,160 --> 01:15:35,380
city budget, which amounts to some $62,000, so it is not a huge sum.

644
01:15:36,060 --> 01:15:44,840
The purpose and the mandate of the committee is to provide advice and advance the notion that

645
01:15:44,840 --> 01:15:49,040
city recognition initiatives for military veterans and their families, it's pretty important

646
01:15:49,640 --> 01:15:55,840
and to provide the leadership as champions with the military veterans and their families

647
01:15:55,840 --> 01:16:02,960
and give recognition to military members and veterans of their families through a variety

648
01:16:02,960 --> 01:16:06,900
of collaborations with public private and through non-profit organizations.

649
01:16:06,900 --> 01:16:16,860
So, to put the Edmonton Military in context, the Royal Edmonton Regiment, which is a reserve

650
01:16:16,860 --> 01:16:26,340
unit of the Canadian Army, has deployed a mortar platoon to lack the of some 40 or 50 soldiers.

651
01:16:26,660 --> 01:16:32,600
So, these are individuals who have taken time off their work or studies to further volunteer

652
01:16:32,600 --> 01:16:39,160
to serve their country, and you will know that Canada has an impressive presence in Latvia.

653
01:16:40,160 --> 01:16:45,960
A Canadian is heading up a multinational brigade, and in that brigade there is a battle group

654
01:16:45,960 --> 01:16:51,200
which is being led by Lieutenant Colonel Darin Gray, the large South-Coneous Horse,

655
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and that battle group comprises nine different national components.

656
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So, you are the events of the last couple of weeks internationally,

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bear upon the families, military families in this city.

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01:17:14,500 --> 01:17:20,120
Our folks in Latvia, it is difficult to predict how things would play out,

659
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given the current geopolitical situation.

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for any number of reasons, and I won't go into the details on this.

661
01:17:29,320 --> 01:17:35,480
But the Ukraine area is, to say it's unsettled,

662
01:17:36,560 --> 01:17:38,280
would be something of an understeak.

663
01:17:40,340 --> 01:17:44,360
So it's within that context that eminencellutes supports

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our military and their families.

665
01:17:47,180 --> 01:17:54,660
certainly the families of those who have military members who are serving abroad.

666
01:17:57,860 --> 01:18:03,260
You know, the committee very briefly has eight members appointed by City Council,

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01:18:03,360 --> 01:18:08,340
nine from very, are eight from various organizations and nine municipal members.

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And we're up one, we have a member from Warrenville.

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So we have, it's very much a regional entity and it's very collegial when it's discussions

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way we do the business.

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So some significant events that I would mention very briefly, and it's in the report last

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01:18:30,580 --> 01:18:35,540
year on the first of April, in fact, was a hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Royal

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01:18:35,540 --> 01:18:36,440
Canadian Air Force.

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and eminence, so it was very active in promoting recognition of that.

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We have supported any number of veterans organizations from the veterans' food bank to homes

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for veterans, to homes for herals, which is also housing, interim housing for veterans

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and through the committee members attended and supported many, many events and propagated

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the gospel, if I can use that expression amongst those who are at these various events.

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I would mention the excellent support we get from the city staff, in particular, Kate Macintosh,

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01:19:18,860 --> 01:19:20,280
who I know is listening in.

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01:19:20,520 --> 01:19:29,380
Julie Oford and Claire Morayette, I'm sorry, all of whom work very diligently on behalf

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of the Evans service committee.

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So, not funny, as I said, I'm not going to go any further details, but I'd be pleased to answer any questions that you may have learning what the Emerald Smoose Committee has done in 2024.

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01:19:49,560 --> 01:19:57,340
Great, thank you so much. Councillor Prinspe, and if you're interested in putting the recommendation on the floor as well.

685
01:19:57,340 --> 01:20:06,420
Certainly, I'll do that before we start. I would like to recommend that the March 10,

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2025 Office of the City Clerk Report, OCC-02866D received for information.

687
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That can.

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01:20:17,640 --> 01:20:18,700
Thank you.

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01:20:20,020 --> 01:20:21,700
Any have questions as well?

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01:20:22,540 --> 01:20:33,720
Yes, thank you very much, Chair Hodgson, for the presentation and you did discuss how we do have troops deployed currently in Latvia.

691
01:20:34,180 --> 01:20:38,040
Can you give Council an idea of how many have been deployed?

692
01:20:38,360 --> 01:20:43,060
Just a rough idea, how many over 2024?

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01:20:47,100 --> 01:20:54,800
I'm going to guess about a thousand, but what I will do, Councillor is, get the more precise

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figure from the military source and provide it to you and to members of Council.

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Right.

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And I would say that the normal rotation amongst the units who are deployed to Latvia

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is every six months.

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how some tours for specific individuals may be a little bit longer, but it's roughly every six

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01:21:15,820 --> 01:21:22,580
months and you know, as we know, the headquarters of one Canadian mechanized brigade group

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is in the Edmonton, and that comprises amongst other things, two battines of the Princess

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01:21:27,960 --> 01:21:33,440
Patricia's Canadian light of entry. And of course, the Lord Stratkona's horse, one field

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ambulance, one combat engineer, regiment and other supporting arms. So elements of those,

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would be deployed throughout, we're deployed throughout 2020, but I will get you the precise

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figures.

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01:21:46,280 --> 01:21:53,040
Okay, yeah, and I agree that I think it's probably around that number, I just wanted Council

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to have an idea that there are significant amount of people living in the Edmonton region,

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you know, representing our country and it's really a huge impact on the families that are

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and just how important this committee is to that that's that's the reason I asked that question.

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And I think I think that was really the only question I have for you.

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I'll have some remarks in closing. I'll let my colleagues ask some other questions. Thank you.

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01:22:25,480 --> 01:22:26,740
Thank you. Councillor Rutherford.

712
01:22:28,280 --> 01:22:29,340
Yeah, thank you.

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01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:38,880
I just wanted to ask the Edmonton Salute's committee. I know that you play a role in sort of the

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recognition, but I've been getting a lot of inquiries and flags from veterans in grease

715
01:22:46,140 --> 01:22:50,840
Bobo vandalism to some of the monuments. Have you been hearing anything about this?

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01:22:52,300 --> 01:22:57,360
Well, I've been reading about them, and certainly I hear from other sources because, you know,

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reasonably well connected in the veterans community and with other military organizations. Yes, I have.

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01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:13,260
It's very disappointing, difficult and why someone would remove a plaque honoring a veteran

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or in some other commemoration, important commemoration. Well, we know why they're doing it.

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So, and in some cases, we, the Ebonus loose committee has offset a partial expense related to the theft of a plaque.

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Have, have you offset that with, because I see that you have somebody from Canada lands represented on the Salute's committee.

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But not, not anybody from like the Greenspa Community League proper.

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Not that I'm aware of, but if we are aware and we're approached, you know, the funding

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is given, or the funding request is given, every earnest consideration.

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01:23:58,800 --> 01:24:07,160
So our governance model, we have a budget subcommittee that vets and examines every request

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for funding and it has to meet certain parameters, and this certainly would be given very earnest

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and ideal say favorable consideration.

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01:24:14,840 --> 01:24:25,820
Sure, so I'm just wondering if maybe post meeting, I can connect with Council Prince Pay and just even make that connection between Edmonton States and the Grisball community league.

729
01:24:25,940 --> 01:24:27,140
Yeah, absolutely.

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01:24:27,500 --> 01:24:29,300
That would be awesome. Thank you so much.

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And I agree, it's extremely disheartening and downright disrespectful, so I appreciate any work that we can do in collaboration on that one.

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01:24:46,590 --> 01:24:51,450
Yeah, I did have another question because veterans are so important.

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01:24:51,850 --> 01:24:57,630
I, there is also the veterans support of housing that's opening in the ward.

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01:24:57,910 --> 01:24:59,750
I represent as well with veterans Canada.

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01:25:01,210 --> 01:25:07,930
Is there a connection that's been made with Edmonton Salutes and that organization around that,

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01:25:07,930 --> 01:25:09,290
the opening of that building?

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01:25:10,190 --> 01:25:13,790
Are you speaking of homes for heroes or homes for veterans?

738
01:25:13,790 --> 01:25:17,430
So, the home surveillance is in the Northwest quarter, is that where you go?

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01:25:17,430 --> 01:25:18,990
Yeah, it's on Athlone.

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01:25:19,350 --> 01:25:19,970
Yeah, yeah.

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01:25:19,970 --> 01:25:21,210
And, like, then, it's done this area.

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01:25:22,830 --> 01:25:23,130
Yeah.

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01:25:23,130 --> 01:25:28,930
We invited the head of home surveillance to make a presentation of the Edmonton's

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01:25:28,930 --> 01:25:29,530
Loose Committee.

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01:25:30,350 --> 01:25:33,150
And thereafter, he did come out from Ottawa.

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And I arranged to have a meet, one or two individuals who are well connected and who have connections

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01:25:39,910 --> 01:25:42,990
into the philanthropic sector.

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01:25:42,990 --> 01:25:44,850
if you will in the city,

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and one or two other folks who don't live in the city, but who would

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01:25:50,510 --> 01:25:52,310
be supportive of what they're trying to do.

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01:25:52,650 --> 01:25:59,630
So basically for for council, as you may know, council was very, or the city of eminent

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01:25:59,630 --> 01:26:09,310
was very generous to find and providing some property for about 40 long-term small residences

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01:26:09,310 --> 01:26:28,710
housing for homeless veterans. So this will not duplicate the homes for heros, which there are their main purposes is basically bridging housing. So I think it's a year or less with them, but this is a longer term

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01:26:30,790 --> 01:26:37,710
solution to homeless veterans. And as I mentioned to the mayor, I think perhaps the last meeting or last time I presented

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Veterans are out of proportion as a sector within the homeless.

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In other words, they're proportionally more veterans

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01:26:50,230 --> 01:26:54,210
who are homeless than there are for many other groups,

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which some people might find surprising.

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And that's common certainly in the UK and in the United States.

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So as an advocate for veterans, I'm very appreciative

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about the work, the good work that Council does and the civic staff and in supporting these

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01:27:13,410 --> 01:27:14,090
kinds of initiatives.

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01:27:15,050 --> 01:27:15,110
Great.

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And I just think that the purpose is when we have these new veterans join our community

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01:27:20,010 --> 01:27:27,010
again, how is Edmonton Salutes, you know, making sure that they're successful in their

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transition to the community.

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But thank you so much.

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They're very welcome.

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01:27:32,390 --> 01:27:33,370
Thank you.

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01:27:33,370 --> 01:27:38,190
not seeing any other questions on the board, but anyone to speak to this before Councillor

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01:27:38,190 --> 01:27:39,810
Prince Bay closes.

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01:27:43,470 --> 01:27:44,730
Seeing none, Councillor Prince Bay, go ahead.

773
01:27:46,230 --> 01:27:50,090
Thank you, Chair, Salvador. I would just like to take this time to say thank you very much

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to our Chair, Brian Hodgson, for leading us and being a good example of how we can support

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01:27:56,370 --> 01:28:04,550
our military. And I just want to let people know that as we discuss, there are several people

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within the Edmonton region, deployed at any time, can be gone six months, or at least sometimes

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01:28:11,310 --> 01:28:18,970
longer, very impactful, you know, parents, spouses, caregivers being deployed, very impactful

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01:28:18,970 --> 01:28:34,530
on the families, this committee is crucial in helping support and I just wanted to give

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01:28:34,530 --> 01:28:44,290
I recently, one of our members on Edmonton SLU, it's recently passed away, Alex Singh.

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And I just wanted to give him recognition and appreciation for the work he's done on

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01:28:53,030 --> 01:28:53,630
our committee.

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01:28:54,890 --> 01:28:55,770
Thank you.

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01:28:57,010 --> 01:29:03,950
And if I may just take a moment in my recognitions, I did not

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mentioned a counselor, Prince of Bay, who has been on flagging in her support of the work that

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01:29:11,130 --> 01:29:21,590
evidence loots does, and she attends nearly every military function or event that in connection

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01:29:21,590 --> 01:29:28,910
with veterans causes in the military, she's everywhere, and she does excellent work, and I know

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01:29:28,910 --> 01:29:33,810
that she enjoys it, and she's highly respected, so she's an excellent representative of

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01:29:33,950 --> 01:29:39,810
I wouldn't say City Council in that, within that milieu that I'd just mention.

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01:29:40,770 --> 01:29:40,950
Great.

790
01:29:41,170 --> 01:29:44,270
Well, thank you for that Brian, and thank you for your thoughtful closing remarks.

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01:29:44,610 --> 01:29:45,290
Councillor principay.

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01:29:46,310 --> 01:29:47,010
Please vote.

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01:29:59,030 --> 01:29:59,590
We have a vote.

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01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:01,040
Please display the vote.

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01:30:08,600 --> 01:30:15,180
That's carried. Thank you so much, everyone, and Brian, thank you for being with us today for your dedication and service.

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01:30:16,500 --> 01:30:22,220
And yeah, our gratitude to the entire team at the Abentance Loots Committee for the important work that you're doing. Really appreciate it.

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01:30:22,520 --> 01:30:23,760
Thank you very much.

798
01:30:24,540 --> 01:30:35,320
Wonderful. Okay, so we're going to move on to our next committee, which is the Abentent Design Committee, and I believe Janice Mills is online.

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01:30:35,940 --> 01:30:42,120
Yes. Hi, Janice. All right. Well, thank you so much for being with us today. I appreciate

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01:30:42,120 --> 01:30:47,320
you taking a time. And I see that you do have a slide deck that goes along with your presentation.

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01:30:47,600 --> 01:30:52,300
So we'll get that up and ready. So we'll hand over the floor to you and we'll have some questions

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01:30:52,300 --> 01:30:58,420
to follow. Please go ahead. Okay. Good afternoon. Acting Mayor, counselors and member of

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01:30:58,420 --> 01:31:05,380
administration. I am Janice Mills, current chair of the Emmanton Design Committee. For simplicity,

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I may refer to the committee's EDC throughout my presentation. Second slide. EDC was established

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by City Council in 2005 with a mandate to improve the quality of urban design within the city of

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EDC continues to operate under by law 20673 and meets the mandate primarily through the review of private development applications and key city of emitting projects.

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Next slide please.

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This past year we have focused EDC efforts and resources on four main goals.

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Goal 1, reviewing development applications, this goal embraces the day-to-day efforts of the committee and actively involves all committee members.

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Goal 2, 3, and 4, updating the standards of procedures, updating the principles of urban design, and initiating the review of the EDC boundary, requires the continual support and effort of the EDC subcommittee.

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The present workload and composition of the committee does not allow for this work to be undertaken in an efficient manner with the broader committee.

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Establishing a subcommittee allows these actions to be undertaken in a much more focused and expedient manner. Next slide.

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The ongoing review of development applications, including rezoning development permits and city projects,

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is central to the mandate of EDC, a set out by Council.

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This past year, the committee has reviewed 27 development permit applications for rezoning

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and seven city projects.

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EDC's agenda and submission packages are circulated to its members and posted to the EDC

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website, two weeks prior to our meetings to allow members sufficient time to review and provide meaningful comments and questions during our meetings.

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Formal submissions coincide with development permit and rezoning applications.

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These are required of all projects which fall within the geographical boundary, as well as all city of Evident projects.

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applicants can also opt in for an informal pre-console, prior to a formal submission.

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These presentations which are not open to the public allow an applicant to come to EDC for

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01:33:37,560 --> 01:33:41,580
preliminary advice with respect to a development that is being considered.

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01:33:42,480 --> 01:33:48,240
These presentations are not part of the formal meeting and therefore no written record of

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01:33:48,240 --> 01:33:54,260
portion of the meeting is act. In the opinion of the committee then formal pre-consult process

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is extremely valuable. Next slide. EDC in collaboration with city administration,

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developed standards and procedures to provide clear direction on the day-to-day functions of EDC

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and clearly define the roles and responsibilities of administration committee members and applicants.

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This work was completed under EDC 2020 to 2022 work plans and the standards and procedures were approved by the City Manager in February of 2022.

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At the end of this project, EDC committed to future engagement with industry stakeholders to ensure the standards and procedures were meeting their intended function.

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The 2024-25 goal to updating the standards and procedures fulfilled this commitment to industry.

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The key revisions and takeaways are introducing a mission statement, exploring a new approach to informal submissions,

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and providing new guidance on committee recommendations to better focus the scope of review.

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Next slide.

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Updating the principles of urban design, the principles of urban design, guide the committee's ongoing review of DP approvals, and we're originally established during the formation of the committee in 2005.

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The review of these principles was identified by industry stakeholders as key action during the preparation of the standards and procedures in 2020 and 2022.

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After completing two phases of industry engagement, including online surveys and one-on-one interviews,

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EDC in collaboration with City Administration, developed new EDC principles of urban design,

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01:35:43,280 --> 01:35:51,360
which articulate six key principles that better reflect best practice and align with both Connect Edmonton and the City Plan.

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01:35:51,360 --> 01:36:04,240
To complement these new principles, the committee has also developed a new EDC submission guide, currently in its final draft form, that includes improved submission and evaluation processes.

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The updated principles of urban design were presented to urban planning committee on Mark 4th of 2025 and key feedback is being reviewed.

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01:36:14,260 --> 01:36:24,020
The intent is to implement these updated principles of urban design and the submission guide with the new EDC term beginning in May of 2025.

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Next slide.

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So an overview of the new principles of urban design.

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The first two authentic and meaningful celebrating people and place cultures and natural and built heritage will promoting the evolution of culture for generations to come.

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Healthy and inclusive, creating those safe and welcoming spaces for people of all cultures

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in comes ages and abilities in genders.

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Next slide.

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Attractive in human scales, creating comfortable, well-scaled public spaces that support

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walkability and create a memorable city image, connected and walkable, integrating the movement of people

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within sites and public spaces across the multitude of modes, systems, and scales with a focus

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on walking and wheeling.

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Next slide, resilient and sustainable, facilitating urbanization that supports energy transition

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and climate resilience, and reduces our ecological footprint.

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We've been providing enabling diverse activities, amenities, and uses that contribute to lively people, focus, places. Next slide.

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Review of the EDC boundary and scope of review. The EDC by law describes a geographical boundary, which is the key trigger for the review of development applications by EDC.

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Similar to the update to the principles of urban design, the review of this boundary was identified by industry during our engagement and preparation of the standards and procedures.

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The scope of work completed this past year is limited only to the review of the current boundary and identification of potential boundary changes or potential methodologies for triggering an EDC review or assumption.

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The committee has only identified four potential changes that show in on this slide, aligning the EDC boundary to nodes and corridors, reviewing projects adjacent to major transportation corridors, reviewing all large site resilience regardless of the proximity to transit centers and improving the project exemption process with clear principles for when existing criteria do not readily apply.

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Please note that the 2025-2026 Work Plan is scheduled to be finalized by the end of the current term and the intent to review these four items in further detail and recommends specific changes with an amendment to the EDC by law as appropriate.

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Next slide.

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Proposed 2025-2026 work plan. As to the proposed work plan, the committee

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requests that a subcommittee be established for the duration of the 2025-2026 term. These

864
01:39:23,640 --> 01:39:29,480
tasks are in addition to the ongoing goal of reviewing development applications. We would

865
01:39:29,480 --> 01:39:34,820
also like to note that this proposed work plan can be undertaken using existing administrative

866
01:39:34,820 --> 01:39:41,700
of resources and no additional budget will be required. Prior to concluding, I would like to acknowledge

867
01:39:41,700 --> 01:39:48,320
our city of Edmonton Administration liaison contributions. Peter Spirie, Ashley Rowan,

868
01:39:48,540 --> 01:39:54,900
and by extension West Sims, they are invaluable to the success of our committee and our subcommittees

869
01:39:54,900 --> 01:40:00,900
work. Their efforts go above and beyond just administrative support. I also want to thank our

870
01:40:00,900 --> 01:40:08,640
Councilor Liaison, Councillor Aaron Pachat, for his continued support. Next slide. And with

871
01:40:08,640 --> 01:40:13,420
that, I'd like to thank you for your time and welcome any questions of the committee.

872
01:40:14,480 --> 01:40:18,560
Great, thank you so much for the excellent presentation. Councillor Pachat, would you be interested

873
01:40:18,560 --> 01:40:20,440
in putting the recommendation on the floor?

874
01:40:23,040 --> 01:40:28,500
Well, I was considering my continuing support, but I consider it, and I think yes, absolutely.

875
01:40:28,500 --> 01:40:29,220
All

876
01:40:32,740 --> 01:40:37,220
right, we'll get that up on the screen just so you can read that in and we can get a seconder.

877
01:40:39,080 --> 01:40:45,020
Yeah, I move that the Edmonton Historical Board's request to establish for subcontinent.

878
01:40:45,700 --> 01:40:50,240
Oh, sorry. In the new morning, it's one subcommittee for the 2025 work plan.

879
01:40:50,380 --> 01:40:55,160
As outlined in attachment three of the March have 2025 offices in the City Clerk report.

880
01:40:56,260 --> 01:40:56,860
Be approved.

881
01:40:58,300 --> 01:40:58,780
Second.

882
01:40:59,600 --> 01:41:00,440
Thank you.

883
01:41:00,440 --> 01:41:02,320
Councillor Baked, do you also have questions?

884
01:41:03,220 --> 01:41:05,620
Just, yeah, a couple, please.

885
01:41:07,060 --> 01:41:12,780
And the first would just be, so there's, obviously,

886
01:41:13,040 --> 01:41:14,780
there's a clear need for this.

887
01:41:16,740 --> 01:41:19,640
But one of the concerns I sometimes hear

888
01:41:19,640 --> 01:41:24,840
is that while committee can make recommendations,

889
01:41:25,300 --> 01:41:28,780
they're not always followed through and how can

890
01:41:28,780 --> 01:41:30,580
council help with that?

891
01:41:34,260 --> 01:41:40,660
Well I think that lens itself to us being an advisory committee of council.

892
01:41:42,000 --> 01:41:48,520
I think that the committee always tries to provide enough information in our recommendations.

893
01:41:49,520 --> 01:41:56,900
One to any reports that go to council that there's enough information to read and understand the concerns of the

894
01:41:56,900 --> 01:42:02,880
committee and also we try and make sure that our motions have enough information so that

895
01:42:02,880 --> 01:42:11,800
city administration or development officers can take it. So I think the continued support

896
01:42:11,800 --> 01:42:17,060
of making sure that our recommendations are read would be really appreciated.

897
01:42:18,300 --> 01:42:23,760
Yeah and it's that follow through that I'm curious about and maybe this is a discussion for another

898
01:42:23,760 --> 01:42:26,540
time, just let me know.

899
01:42:27,600 --> 01:42:36,080
Hey, one of our work plan goals for 2025-2026 is actually to have an engagement session

900
01:42:36,080 --> 01:42:42,960
with Council, such as do a Councillor luncheon, one to just provide a greater overview

901
01:42:42,960 --> 01:42:49,260
to what the committee is about and what our day-to-day tasks is, and I think it would

902
01:42:49,260 --> 01:42:55,520
and a good opportunity for us to have that discussion of what we could do to help support council

903
01:42:55,520 --> 01:42:58,720
and potentially what council could do to support us.

904
01:42:59,080 --> 01:42:59,560
Great, perfect.

905
01:42:59,680 --> 01:43:00,400
Thank you so much.

906
01:43:00,620 --> 01:43:03,060
Thank you for all the hard work you will do.

907
01:43:03,720 --> 01:43:03,980
Great.

908
01:43:04,020 --> 01:43:04,940
Councillor Stevenson.

909
01:43:05,420 --> 01:43:06,200
Thank you very much.

910
01:43:06,300 --> 01:43:07,540
And thanks to the great work.

911
01:43:07,700 --> 01:43:11,060
It's awesome to see some of the moves that you see is making.

912
01:43:11,620 --> 01:43:19,080
I appreciate the realignment of boundaries and the geography that you're looking at for

913
01:43:19,080 --> 01:43:25,640
next year or this year, just when anything's been any conversation around potentially moving

914
01:43:25,640 --> 01:43:30,820
towards having rather than panels of the whole, sort of smaller panels, tell

915
01:43:30,820 --> 01:43:34,420
to get through more, more applications if needed.

916
01:43:35,680 --> 01:43:42,820
Yeah, so currently under the current kind of four bullet points that we had for the real

917
01:43:42,820 --> 01:43:51,860
at the boundary. Administration did review the number of permits in 2023 for both what they

918
01:43:51,860 --> 01:43:59,240
existing EDC area was, as well as kind of the areas that would correspond to that center

919
01:43:59,240 --> 01:44:06,060
node and primary corridors. We sort of anticipate the node and corridor geometry represents

920
01:44:06,060 --> 01:44:14,180
probably about a 25% increase in the project and write this second. We actually think

921
01:44:14,180 --> 01:44:21,060
that the committee feels that this increase could potentially be offset by additional

922
01:44:21,060 --> 01:44:25,260
project exemptions that we're currently also working through at the same time.

923
01:44:26,660 --> 01:44:32,200
In regards to having kind of sub breakout groups to get through more applications,

924
01:44:32,200 --> 01:44:40,400
One of the strongest assets to the committee is our diversity and having such a diverse background.

925
01:44:41,440 --> 01:44:45,160
So currently the committee is comprised of 12 members.

926
01:44:45,620 --> 01:44:52,980
There's a representation from architects, engineers, landscape architects, planners,

927
01:44:53,700 --> 01:44:58,220
post-secondary institutions, members at large, the development industry,

928
01:44:58,220 --> 01:44:59,520
Edmonton Arts Council.

929
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:15,520
Some of which only hold one position. So it would be very difficult to separate those diverse positions that only hold one seat into separate kind of breakout.

930
01:45:16,140 --> 01:45:16,160
Okay.

931
01:45:16,820 --> 01:45:27,640
Yeah, I appreciate that. I think something for us to sort of keep our eye on as we, again, hopefully continue to see a rise in development permits in the two de areas, but appreciate that reflection.

932
01:45:28,380 --> 01:45:33,520
You know, just going through the New Urban Design Principles, I think those are really exciting.

933
01:45:33,680 --> 01:45:36,900
I think, you know, really captures some some critical pieces there.

934
01:45:37,600 --> 01:45:42,780
I did just wonder if there was a conversation around the healthy and inclusive.

935
01:45:43,540 --> 01:45:47,380
I just know that it's immediately talked about safe communities.

936
01:45:47,560 --> 01:45:54,300
You just wondering why safe and inclusive wasn't taken as sort of the headline for that principle,

937
01:45:54,300 --> 01:45:59,320
recognizing that, you know, being a safe city as it is, is a key priority at council.

938
01:46:00,920 --> 01:46:06,220
Yeah, so I would say the committee sees safety as an integral element of the health and

939
01:46:06,220 --> 01:46:13,340
healthy and inclusive principle. However, as the principles are refined over the coming weeks,

940
01:46:13,520 --> 01:46:19,670
the committee will strive to provide more clarity regarding this. This is one of the items that

941
01:46:19,670 --> 01:46:27,810
came out of our presentation on March 4th, I went to UPC. So the subcommittee is going to

942
01:46:27,810 --> 01:46:36,690
work through those comments currently. Oh great. Yeah, and I think even some of the ways that

943
01:46:36,690 --> 01:46:42,050
buildings you contribute to safety in terms of overlook and those elements, I think could really

944
01:46:42,050 --> 01:46:44,490
really help strengthen that. Also, just wondering as well,

945
01:46:46,990 --> 01:46:48,370
I know that there's sort of the urban

946
01:46:48,370 --> 01:46:51,410
And then there's also the design priorities.

947
01:46:52,050 --> 01:46:53,590
Just wondering what the relationship was

948
01:46:53,590 --> 01:46:56,030
between those two pieces.

949
01:46:58,640 --> 01:47:01,130
Well, I would say that the principles represent

950
01:47:01,340 --> 01:47:03,640
the desired city building outcomes

951
01:47:03,640 --> 01:47:05,740
were kind of the why.

952
01:47:06,160 --> 01:47:09,020
Whereas the design priorities speak more

953
01:47:09,020 --> 01:47:12,900
to traditional design considerations and processes

954
01:47:12,900 --> 01:47:14,940
or the how.

955
01:47:15,660 --> 01:47:19,240
In this sense, they work in kind of a complimentary fashion.

956
01:47:19,240 --> 01:47:26,540
Okay, that's helpful, that, yeah, I really appreciate that, that lens to it.

957
01:47:27,520 --> 01:47:30,820
Great, thank you so much, I appreciate and appreciate the ongoing work.

958
01:47:31,980 --> 01:47:32,420
Councillor Tang?

959
01:47:33,940 --> 01:47:34,340
Yeah, great.

960
01:47:34,340 --> 01:47:36,160
Thank you very much, Jan, for the presentation.

961
01:47:37,380 --> 01:47:43,320
So just to help me better understand, having the six principles, and I'm assuming

962
01:47:43,320 --> 01:47:48,400
that's incorporating the submission guys, applicants can understand kind of what are

963
01:47:48,400 --> 01:47:55,080
committee typically looks for and then they can strive for that right. Correct. Yeah. As a prior

964
01:47:55,080 --> 01:47:59,740
to the six principles, there's no principle or is this like update?

965
01:48:01,980 --> 01:48:04,360
So currently there are

966
01:48:04,360 --> 01:48:12,640
principles of urban design, but as I noted during the presentation, they were created back in 2005.

967
01:48:12,640 --> 01:48:19,620
So, the committee felt that they were not just the committee, also industry felt that they were quite outdated.

968
01:48:20,920 --> 01:48:34,500
So, this update to the principles of urban design are to real line the principles with kind of current priorities and also in response to industry.

969
01:48:34,500 --> 01:48:41,240
Yeah, no, that's great. I like them and I'm sorry, miss that in your presentation. I guess something like as I look at these principles

970
01:48:42,580 --> 01:48:49,660
I think about, you know, some of our current trends and challenges the city is facing with growth

971
01:48:51,560 --> 01:49:02,700
With implementation of some of the lands use policies and some of the I think change management that's happening at the very local level

972
01:49:03,200 --> 01:49:10,020
one thing I do here comes up all the time is you know we're replacing homes that's been

973
01:49:10,020 --> 01:49:17,260
here for decades with new homes that just have really ugly design and you know this

974
01:49:17,260 --> 01:49:22,440
now we should build a city and you know but if I think about some of the you know the

975
01:49:22,440 --> 01:49:27,360
infield development it's it's really kind of I think about these principles that that

976
01:49:27,360 --> 01:49:31,900
you're talking about here I guess just like maybe in general what you know what's

977
01:49:31,900 --> 01:49:39,420
of advice on the things that you see and the conversations that the committee typically have

978
01:49:43,870 --> 01:49:52,350
with, with, I guess, conversations we may have with Emantonians. That's drive to a here

979
01:49:52,350 --> 01:49:58,430
to city policy, to face the challenge that we're facing, because I feel like design comes

980
01:49:58,430 --> 01:50:07,190
up as a crutch, and I, I don't know if I'm articulating this appropriately, but I struggle

981
01:50:07,190 --> 01:50:08,270
with that.

982
01:50:08,630 --> 01:50:09,750
So, just seeking some advice.

983
01:50:10,610 --> 01:50:17,830
Yeah, so I would say, if you, you know, listen to any meeting, especially where it's

984
01:50:17,830 --> 01:50:23,710
in kind of the, you know, existing development and that, the committee spends a lot of time

985
01:50:23,710 --> 01:50:33,130
looking at existing contacts, what's surrounding it, we kind of look at, you know, any existing

986
01:50:33,130 --> 01:50:39,650
setbacks on adjacent properties, not only the properties that are under review, so there's

987
01:50:39,650 --> 01:50:48,030
a lot of conversation on whether or not developments should be leaning towards more fitting

988
01:50:48,030 --> 01:50:55,130
in and integrating to existing context or whether or not the developments are kind of setting

989
01:50:55,130 --> 01:51:02,830
what we would say is the future context of the areas, especially areas where we see a lot of

990
01:51:02,830 --> 01:51:11,610
redevelopment going on. So I think just understanding that there is lots of conversation

991
01:51:11,610 --> 01:51:18,610
And in the deliberations and regards to what the existing context is.

992
01:51:21,490 --> 01:51:24,770
Okay. Yeah, thanks for that.

993
01:51:26,030 --> 01:51:28,290
That's it. That's all my questions. Thanks so much for your work.

994
01:51:29,430 --> 01:51:32,390
Thank you. Not seeing any further questions.

995
01:51:32,610 --> 01:51:34,090
Is there anyone who would like to speak to this item?

996
01:51:38,650 --> 01:51:40,230
If not, I'll go to Councillor Piquette.

997
01:51:41,990 --> 01:51:42,890
Great. Thank you.

998
01:51:42,890 --> 01:51:45,490
And again, thank you to Edmonton Design Committee.

999
01:51:46,750 --> 01:51:49,610
I'm always just absolutely fascinating meetings.

1000
01:51:50,910 --> 01:51:55,170
They're so interesting, and I've learned so much.

1001
01:51:55,730 --> 01:51:59,730
Just enough to potentially be dangerous if I didn't keep my nose out.

1002
01:52:00,890 --> 01:52:03,810
So thank you for all the work you do in the thoughtfulness

1003
01:52:03,810 --> 01:52:08,750
that the whole advisory brings to the work.

1004
01:52:08,750 --> 01:52:20,110
I've seen conversations occur in real time, the impact, how a structure can unfold and impact

1005
01:52:20,110 --> 01:52:25,090
to a community, and it's always going, you know, I find it fascinating to see the ways in

1006
01:52:25,090 --> 01:52:29,970
a common lay person like myself wouldn't

1007
01:52:30,000 --> 01:52:44,860
Not a lot of fun about those elements that ultimately become incredibly important. Not only to the structure, but to the quality of life and to the community extension, and even to the aesthetics, which is really interesting.

1008
01:52:45,000 --> 01:52:51,740
I mean, my only complaint is that there's not more color, but we'll leave it at that. And thank you very much for all your hard work.

1009
01:52:52,700 --> 01:52:53,180
Thank you.

1010
01:52:53,240 --> 01:52:53,500
Thank you.

1011
01:52:54,900 --> 01:52:56,160
Thanks so much.

1012
01:52:56,480 --> 01:52:57,040
Please vote.

1013
01:53:11,200 --> 01:53:11,860
We have a vote.

1014
01:53:12,160 --> 01:53:12,840
Just play the vote.

1015
01:53:16,720 --> 01:53:17,140
That's carried.

1016
01:53:17,840 --> 01:53:17,960
Great.

1017
01:53:18,020 --> 01:53:19,780
Well, thank you so much for joining us, Janice.

1018
01:53:20,160 --> 01:53:23,060
I really appreciate your time today and for answering all of our questions.

1019
01:53:23,720 --> 01:53:29,980
And of course, the entire Edmonton Design Committee really appreciate your dedication to helping shape our communities for generations to come.

1020
01:53:30,340 --> 01:53:31,260
Thank you.

1021
01:53:31,540 --> 01:53:32,020
Thank you.

1022
01:53:35,680 --> 01:53:36,100
All right.

1023
01:53:36,900 --> 01:53:38,800
Now we're a little ahead of schedule.

1024
01:53:38,800 --> 01:53:46,940
So I am just going to check in Jenny Elberg's is ready to go get nons. Yes, Jenny are you online with us?

1025
01:53:48,260 --> 01:53:50,160
Yes, I'm here ready to go. Awesome.

1026
01:53:51,520 --> 01:53:58,100
So next up is a community services advisory board with chair Jenny Elberg's and I believe there's a presentation up on the screen.

1027
01:53:58,400 --> 01:54:03,520
So we'll hand it over for every presentation and then to follow with questions. Go ahead Jenny.

1028
01:54:04,720 --> 01:54:05,820
Perfect. Thank you so much.

1029
01:54:06,600 --> 01:54:08,940
So thank you everyone for having

1030
01:54:08,940 --> 01:54:09,920
ceased up here today.

1031
01:54:10,280 --> 01:54:13,040
So my name is Jenny Albers and I'm the chair of the community services

1032
01:54:13,040 --> 01:54:14,120
advisory board.

1033
01:54:14,120 --> 01:54:16,120
Other known as CSAB.

1034
01:54:16,400 --> 01:54:20,220
And I'm excited to provide an overview of our 2022 annual report

1035
01:54:20,220 --> 01:54:23,180
and then upcoming work plan for this year.

1036
01:54:23,400 --> 01:54:24,460
Next slide, please.

1037
01:54:26,200 --> 01:54:28,360
So just as a reminder, the metadata

1038
01:54:28,360 --> 01:54:30,420
the community services advisory board,

1039
01:54:30,480 --> 01:54:33,780
so CSAB is to provide advice regarding grant funding

1040
01:54:33,780 --> 01:54:39,340
and have a key role in developing a long-term plan for community services and a city of

1041
01:54:39,340 --> 01:54:39,940
eminent.

1042
01:54:40,840 --> 01:54:46,860
These have been comprised of 13 board members, and last year we welcome three new board members

1043
01:54:46,860 --> 01:54:48,200
to the team.

1044
01:54:48,560 --> 01:54:54,180
Also last year we had one subcommittee, so the family and community support services subcommittee,

1045
01:54:54,860 --> 01:54:59,680
which was comprised of both C sub board members and community members, that's of course

1046
01:54:59,680 --> 01:55:09,520
SCSS grant program. Next slide please. So, in reviewing 2024, CSAP completed some great

1047
01:55:09,520 --> 01:55:15,020
accomplishments to support community services and emitting. Looking back at our work plan

1048
01:55:15,020 --> 01:55:21,600
from last year, we had four main priority areas, and I just wanted to share a few highlights.

1049
01:55:22,760 --> 01:55:27,900
So, under affordable housing and homeless prevention, the Board of Education was city administration

1050
01:55:27,900 --> 01:55:32,560
and increased understanding of priorities and current work of the city's affordable housing

1051
01:55:32,560 --> 01:55:37,820
and prevention of homelessness strategy. The board provided feedback on future strategies

1052
01:55:37,820 --> 01:55:43,340
and shared connections with local community. For the second goal, community safety and

1053
01:55:43,340 --> 01:55:49,260
well-being, the board engaged with city administration on priorities and her work in community safety

1054
01:55:49,260 --> 01:55:56,080
and well-being. So this included increasing understanding of the city's community safety and

1055
01:55:56,080 --> 01:56:02,280
strategy. The board also provided feedback to Council on the first iteration of the public

1056
01:56:02,280 --> 01:56:09,320
spaces by law. The board also engaged on the safe and inclusive spaces report. And then the

1057
01:56:09,320 --> 01:56:14,080
board also learned from community organizations such as Wall Street Community Services and

1058
01:56:14,080 --> 01:56:19,780
Emmeton H-Friendly Alliance about their parties for community safety and while being at Emmeton.

1059
01:56:21,240 --> 01:56:27,420
For the third party, it was about family and community support services or the FCSS program.

1060
01:56:28,320 --> 01:56:35,680
So the Board provided recommendations for the FCSS program to increase social inclusion and equity by finding programs and services

1061
01:56:35,680 --> 01:56:38,700
Community Development Initiatives and Social Infrastructure.

1062
01:56:39,960 --> 01:56:44,940
So a couple of highlights included a one-year extension of funding to seven organizations

1063
01:56:45,840 --> 01:56:50,580
who's funding within the social infrastructure and strong sectors stream

1064
01:56:50,580 --> 01:56:52,460
was inspiring at the end of 2024.

1065
01:56:54,080 --> 01:56:57,520
And then it was also supporting the funding of two organizations that approach

1066
01:56:57,520 --> 01:57:05,220
of CSS for funding in 2025, due to changes and funding from other community funder, so both programs

1067
01:57:05,220 --> 01:57:11,160
advance along inclusion as well as community development, which align to our FCSS priorities.

1068
01:57:12,560 --> 01:57:18,060
And then another exciting piece under the FCSS program is the board held its first eminent

1069
01:57:18,060 --> 01:57:26,120
FCSS board chair networking event in November as a principal's armory, it was a super successful event.

1070
01:57:26,120 --> 01:57:33,060
We have 39 board chairs from agencies funded to provide FCS programs and services in attendance.

1071
01:57:33,840 --> 01:57:39,260
So there's a great opportunity for board chairs, these have members and administration to connect.

1072
01:57:40,160 --> 01:57:48,260
Board chairs received an overview of FCS program along with current social services, research and current trends from one of our board members.

1073
01:57:48,260 --> 01:57:55,700
As well, they engaged an active discussion on current issues with their boards and community services in META.

1074
01:57:56,680 --> 01:58:05,180
We'd also like to thank the Edmonton Chamber of Honorary Organizations, who was in attendance and provided information and connections to the boardchairs.

1075
01:58:05,860 --> 01:58:11,000
And I will make a note to, because I know how this is really interesting in that CSS program.

1076
01:58:11,700 --> 01:58:21,740
So there will be a full sum of energy and SES report that will be shared in spring of this year with more information around the key results of the program coming soon.

1077
01:58:22,760 --> 01:58:26,440
And then the fourth priority was the Community Investment and Operating Grant.

1078
01:58:26,740 --> 01:58:33,980
So the Board provided recommendations about the grant, which provides operating assistance to not-for-profit organizations

1079
01:58:33,980 --> 01:58:38,020
to help them provide programs, services, and activities that are fitting the residents'

1080
01:58:38,660 --> 01:58:44,880
engine. The Board recommended a few changes surrounding the grant program, so it included

1081
01:58:44,880 --> 01:58:52,160
removing the appeal process starting this year in 2025. Also launching the grant earlier

1082
01:58:52,160 --> 01:58:59,240
in November 2024 and then closing at the end of January 2025, which results in organizations

1083
01:58:59,240 --> 01:59:06,020
receiving their funding earlier in the year to support with operations and then also the board

1084
01:59:06,020 --> 01:59:12,960
reviewed and updated the spring matrix and social service eligibility. So beyond the big four

1085
01:59:12,960 --> 01:59:18,100
priorities the board also had an opportunity to engage with a few other pieces of city administration.

1086
01:59:19,260 --> 01:59:26,640
So the board provided feedback to the 2025 Emmaton election around proposed accessibility and inclusion

1087
01:59:26,640 --> 01:59:32,220
strategy is to increase engagement as well the Board of Education and presentation with an

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01:59:32,220 --> 01:59:36,160
Hamilton Police Commission member to learn about the Hamilton Police Commission role and

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01:59:36,160 --> 01:59:42,600
responsibilities. And then of course we celebrated RC7, FCSS committee members and a volunteer

1090
01:59:42,600 --> 01:59:49,880
appreciation event while building board relations and community connections. Next slide please.

1091
01:59:50,940 --> 01:59:58,040
So, looking forward to our 2025 work plan, we've shifted a little bit to three

1092
01:59:58,040 --> 01:59:59,540
main goals for the year.

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02:00:00,110 --> 02:00:10,110
So, the first one is the FCS Program. So, this includes work for the next funding cycles. So, the 2026-2028 funding cycle.

1094
02:00:10,430 --> 02:00:20,730
As the board will learn about the process of reviewing funding cycle applications that review the applications for the first part of 2025 and provide recommendations.

1095
02:00:21,690 --> 02:00:27,530
As well, there's ongoing work where the board and our subcommittee will continue to support the visit

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02:00:27,530 --> 02:00:33,130
current funded programs, and as well as since our board chair event, the Social Successful

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02:00:33,130 --> 02:00:40,050
last year, we are looking at almost another event for board chairs with FCFS funded programs and

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02:00:40,050 --> 02:00:46,730
late spring. The second goal is around community services, so continuing to engage with city administration

1099
02:00:46,730 --> 02:00:53,070
on community services priorities. So this is included the new public spaces by law which we're

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02:00:53,070 --> 02:00:59,990
ready to engage on along with a coming engagement on equitable recreational programming and then

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02:00:59,990 --> 02:01:06,670
other priorities which will confirm more in the fall once SPS has been worked through.

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02:01:08,070 --> 02:01:13,930
And then the third goal is around the community investment operating grant programs. So that includes

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02:01:13,930 --> 02:01:19,110
support with review of implementation and grant applications for the 2025 cycle.

1104
02:01:20,810 --> 02:01:27,550
As part of our work plan, we are requesting that the current FCSS subcommittee continues this year

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02:01:27,550 --> 02:01:33,570
as it provides advice to CSAP on funding recommendations and is imperative to supporting

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02:01:33,570 --> 02:01:42,670
in that 2026 to 2028 funding cycle as we start to receive and review applications once the

1107
02:01:42,670 --> 02:01:50,150
application has been posted and closed. SESA subcommittee has been existed for the past 19 years

1108
02:01:50,150 --> 02:01:58,250
of CSAM, so I'm sure that ongoing support for the workflow of the SESA program. And then also included

1109
02:01:58,250 --> 02:02:02,150
is a bit about our budget and resource allocation for this year.

1110
02:02:03,310 --> 02:02:09,010
So around the budget piece, we did include our proposed budget from last year and then our

1111
02:02:09,010 --> 02:02:15,250
actuals. Our actuals were a bit lower than expected, just due to being able to use

1112
02:02:15,250 --> 02:02:21,610
the facilities, which have less hosting fees, and we have less in-person events than we thought

1113
02:02:21,610 --> 02:02:29,550
have. So it was a little bit of offstage on that end. However, our proposed budget for 2025 does

1114
02:02:29,550 --> 02:02:37,410
align with our proposed for 2024 due to providing that upcoming board-chir event in the spring.

1115
02:02:38,450 --> 02:02:46,450
Also providing specific recognition to both RC7 and SDSF members for their work in reviewing all of the

1116
02:02:46,450 --> 02:02:53,670
of SDSS applications coming up and then also providing learning opportunities for board members

1117
02:02:53,670 --> 02:02:56,930
as there is an annual SDSS conference as well.

1118
02:02:58,030 --> 02:03:02,070
On the city resources side we'd like to thank the community services department for their

1119
02:03:02,070 --> 02:03:06,390
ongoing administration support and we're excited to continue to work with them again this

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02:03:06,390 --> 02:03:07,070
year.

1121
02:03:07,650 --> 02:03:13,570
The administration support has been adjusted to reflect their current support level, which includes

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02:03:13,570 --> 02:03:20,650
changes in staff along with the upcoming 26 to 28 funding cycle which will take a bit more work on the

1123
02:03:20,650 --> 02:03:28,930
event side as well. Next slide please. As we wrap up, I just want to like to say a big thank you

1124
02:03:28,930 --> 02:03:35,650
to Councillor Wright for her leadership, education and continuous support to CSOW. We're very excited

1125
02:03:35,650 --> 02:03:41,190
and looking forward to 2022 and continuing to provide advice on long-term planning for community

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02:03:41,190 --> 02:03:48,530
services in Hamilton. So open it up to any questions and I also have Judy Smith from

1127
02:03:48,530 --> 02:03:51,990
Administration Community Services on the call as well.

1128
02:03:53,760 --> 02:03:58,220
Great, thank you so much for the presentation. We'll now go to questions, but first I'll go

1129
02:03:58,220 --> 02:04:00,880
to Councillor Wright if you're interested in putting the recommendation on the floor.

1130
02:04:01,220 --> 02:04:05,280
Very interested in putting the recommendation on the floor. So I recommend that the community

1131
02:04:05,280 --> 02:04:11,260
services advisory boards request to establish one subcommittee for the 2025 work plan as outlined

1132
02:04:11,260 --> 02:04:15,260
and in attachment three of the March 10, 2025 Office

1133
02:04:15,260 --> 02:04:19,640
of the City Clerk Report, OCC 02859, be approved.

1134
02:04:21,420 --> 02:04:21,540
Second.

1135
02:04:22,580 --> 02:04:23,460
Thank you.

1136
02:04:23,880 --> 02:04:27,220
And we'll just go back to the board here,

1137
02:04:27,220 --> 02:04:29,440
so I can see a list of folks who have questions.

1138
02:04:30,920 --> 02:04:32,100
Councillor Ray, do you want to start?

1139
02:04:32,420 --> 02:04:32,700
Sure.

1140
02:04:33,060 --> 02:04:34,120
Looks like I'll start in an.

1141
02:04:35,980 --> 02:04:36,420
Hi, Jenny.

1142
02:04:36,560 --> 02:04:37,940
Thanks very much for the presentation,

1143
02:04:38,740 --> 02:04:39,940
and for all the reporting.

1144
02:04:39,940 --> 02:04:48,400
I'm just, I see in the budget that the learning opportunities or the funding for the learning

1145
02:04:48,400 --> 02:04:53,860
opportunities has increased and that's so more members can attend is that right?

1146
02:04:54,860 --> 02:04:55,620
Yes, that's correct.

1147
02:04:55,780 --> 02:05:01,740
So specifically to attend that FCSS annual conference so that we have more ability for more

1148
02:05:01,740 --> 02:05:04,240
members to attend the conference coming up.

1149
02:05:04,240 --> 02:05:11,680
Okay. And that helps in them. I would assume that would help in them making their decisions on the

1150
02:05:11,680 --> 02:05:18,860
FCSF funding recommendations. Yeah, if it helps. So the conference itself is really helps to

1151
02:05:18,860 --> 02:05:24,580
connect with other municipalities, understand a bit more at the FCSF program in other municipalities

1152
02:05:24,580 --> 02:05:31,740
and in Alberta as well. So creating those connections within the community just helps in reviewing

1153
02:05:31,740 --> 02:05:38,320
the SSS funding cycle applications in the future, okay, perfect, because that's a pretty long

1154
02:05:38,320 --> 02:05:41,200
involved process and that's why we need the subcommittee, right?

1155
02:05:43,560 --> 02:05:45,040
Yes, the subcommittee is

1156
02:05:45,040 --> 02:05:50,400
definitely beneficial because there's a lot of work for the board to review the applications

1157
02:05:50,400 --> 02:05:55,780
and then the subcommittee does have community members, but the community members have been past these

1158
02:05:55,780 --> 02:06:00,780
submembers, so they come with a lot of experience in scale set as well. Okay, well that's good,

1159
02:06:00,780 --> 02:06:06,780
And then with the CIOG, because I think we took away the subcommittee last year for that.

1160
02:06:08,700 --> 02:06:14,960
How has that been managed with just the committee of the whole doing the decisioning?

1161
02:06:15,160 --> 02:06:20,200
Yeah. So without the subcommittee, we've moved the work to the Board of the CIOG committee,

1162
02:06:20,200 --> 02:06:26,480
which has been managed. So we aren't looking for a subcommittee specifically for CIOG again, moving forward.

1163
02:06:27,180 --> 02:06:31,640
So, the board is speaking on that work and it's definitely sustainable for the future.

1164
02:06:32,300 --> 02:06:33,760
Okay, good, good to hear.

1165
02:06:34,720 --> 02:06:39,440
Let's see what else did I have to ask you just two seconds.

1166
02:06:48,270 --> 02:06:54,730
Oh, I also noticed, in March, the March meeting.

1167
02:06:55,130 --> 02:07:00,550
I think we got a presentation on the Violence Prevention Plan, right?

1168
02:07:01,550 --> 02:07:07,590
And I'm just wondering what sort of, or is that one coming up? Sorry, just hang on.

1169
02:07:08,590 --> 02:07:13,290
Yeah, that's coming up. Yeah, okay, sorry. So from that, I'm just wondering how much,

1170
02:07:13,290 --> 02:07:18,670
sort of how much was your advice or recommendations incorporated into that?

1171
02:07:21,600 --> 02:07:28,260
So that one's coming up, I believe. Yeah, coming up in this work time. It was in last year.

1172
02:07:28,540 --> 02:07:29,960
So we'll have to review how.

1173
02:07:30,000 --> 02:07:33,940
The Board can engage with that and provide support and feedback on the boards.

1174
02:07:34,880 --> 02:07:42,120
But, and then, otherwise, with what you've provided to the different presentations that have come forward,

1175
02:07:42,200 --> 02:07:47,200
do you see that your feedbacks incorporated or taken into account?

1176
02:07:49,060 --> 02:07:53,520
Yeah, city administration overall is being really great. To work with on the engagement level,

1177
02:07:53,520 --> 02:08:00,680
So, we do ask that when City Amendment comes to see some that they are coming with an engagement opportunity.

1178
02:08:01,260 --> 02:08:13,800
So, providing information about what they're working on but then how can see that how to shape and form that or use community resources or connections to support with that initiative moving forward.

1179
02:08:14,680 --> 02:08:21,020
So, that was for 12 sort of have that service expectation piece from City Administration.

1180
02:08:21,580 --> 02:08:29,000
so that they get the most out of the board's feet apart. And that's the board can actually contribute as well to different

1181
02:08:29,000 --> 02:08:35,240
cany service initiatives and parties of the city. Okay, that's great because that's part of the mandate, isn't it?

1182
02:08:35,820 --> 02:08:43,480
Okay, I think that is all I have. Thank you. I think, yeah, the group there. Oh, one other question, sorry.

1183
02:08:44,260 --> 02:08:46,080
In regards to the new structure with administration,

1184
02:08:48,160 --> 02:08:49,180
how you found that?

1185
02:08:50,800 --> 02:08:52,180
It's been really great.

1186
02:08:52,760 --> 02:08:54,600
The new structure has provided more support.

1187
02:08:54,780 --> 02:08:57,320
I would say for CSF administrative wise.

1188
02:08:58,160 --> 02:08:59,580
So that's been really helpful.

1189
02:09:00,200 --> 02:09:03,320
It's only shifted over the last couple of months.

1190
02:09:04,040 --> 02:09:11,380
But I do think it helps in providing more information about upcoming reports and other connections with them in for CSF specifically.

1191
02:09:11,920 --> 02:09:16,220
So we do thank you that there's the additional support added so that is well.

1192
02:09:16,380 --> 02:09:17,780
Okay, that's great to hear.

1193
02:09:17,780 --> 02:09:22,620
Okay, that's all I have, so thank you again to you and the whole CSAT board.

1194
02:09:23,160 --> 02:09:24,500
Thank you, Councillor Ting.

1195
02:09:26,480 --> 02:09:31,940
Thank you, Jenny, for your presentation and to the whole committee. You have some

1196
02:09:31,940 --> 02:09:38,560
pretty big portfolios and you know, selection that that really is always very felt in the

1197
02:09:38,560 --> 02:09:44,820
community and I hear about these grants all the time. So just want to thank the committee for

1198
02:09:44,820 --> 02:09:52,120
that work. Earlier in your presentation, you have some engagement opportunities say with like

1199
02:09:52,120 --> 02:09:57,340
the 2025 election. You just clarify it like so the purpose of that is to inform Canada,

1200
02:09:57,480 --> 02:10:02,560
it's about the work of CSAP or yeah, can you just like, I was wondering if you can elaborate

1201
02:10:02,560 --> 02:10:10,440
on that. For sure. So that opportunity came to the board. So sometimes we do find that outside

1202
02:10:10,440 --> 02:10:18,160
In fact, community services around with the city, there's other engaged opportunities where the city has asked for these types of advice.

1203
02:10:18,820 --> 02:10:31,800
So, eminent elections came to see some with the opportunity to provide feedback on eminent elections proposed accessibility and inclusion strategies to increase engagement in that selection.

1204
02:10:31,800 --> 02:10:41,400
So they provided a bit of overview of the strategy they were working on for this election and then the board was able to provide some feedback on that.

1205
02:10:41,880 --> 02:10:58,000
So there's a great opportunity which isn't perfectly tire the community services lens, but definitely having the board with all of its different relationships and experience and community services helps to provide some feedback for future voter engagement.

1206
02:10:58,000 --> 02:11:10,400
Great, and then for the police commission, because I think I've seen that engagement with other committees as well, and it's just more familiar familiarity of committee members with that word that body as well, right?

1207
02:11:11,520 --> 02:11:19,100
Yes, and Councillor Wright provided that connection, so that was really great to provide a cross connection of sort of committees and boards.

1208
02:11:19,640 --> 02:11:25,700
It's great learning to, for the Board to understand sort of the EPSA's role and different

1209
02:11:25,700 --> 02:11:27,100
community safety pieces.

1210
02:11:27,500 --> 02:11:32,140
So having that cross-contsection will definitely something we'll have to look forward to in the future

1211
02:11:32,140 --> 02:11:35,120
as well to understand how other committees and boards are working.

1212
02:11:36,240 --> 02:11:49,020
And then things, and I wanted to ask sort of about FCSS as a whole, that funding from the

1213
02:11:49,020 --> 02:11:57,580
argue it's is actually a decrease, wondering if if the committee has conversations about you know

1214
02:11:57,580 --> 02:12:04,020
are you hearing some of the challenges or just some of the difficulty with that?

1215
02:12:06,460 --> 02:12:12,560
So I can't say so when we have that board chair event, back in November we did an activity to

1216
02:12:12,560 --> 02:12:17,960
understand what were sort of the big parties that board chairs were hearing and for their board

1217
02:12:17,960 --> 02:12:29,580
And one of the biggest pieces I came up with funding, funding, funding, sustainable funding and funding that they know sort of where to buy and to get the information.

1218
02:12:30,120 --> 02:12:36,960
So they definitely enjoy understanding more of the FCSS key. So that's why I wanted to run another board chair event in the future.

1219
02:12:37,920 --> 02:12:44,560
But they definitely just continue to mention the priority of sort of lack of funding or looking for more funding opportunities.

1220
02:12:45,460 --> 02:12:51,740
So for us as a board, that's one way we can support is providing more information about SDSS and the

1221
02:12:51,740 --> 02:12:57,720
CIOG programs and then being able to support to other connections in the community.

1222
02:12:58,600 --> 02:13:02,680
So similarly, they mentioned around volunteer and support to engage in opportunities.

1223
02:13:03,240 --> 02:13:06,400
So having ACDO, there was a great connection here as well.

1224
02:13:07,220 --> 02:13:13,740
Yeah, last week we had the gathering of municipalities for the Spring Municipal Leadership Caucus

1225
02:13:13,740 --> 02:13:17,120
and the question of FCSS comes up every single year and no fail.

1226
02:13:18,220 --> 02:13:22,800
And I, you know, premieres at that, you know, we encourage, you know, the, you know, the

1227
02:13:22,800 --> 02:13:27,800
provincial body of the FCSS to submit sort of an envelope approach for funding.

1228
02:13:28,040 --> 02:13:35,900
And I guess, like, I'm assuming like, they do that and I'm assuming M&T employees are pretty

1229
02:13:35,900 --> 02:13:41,260
strong role in demonstrating the outcomes achieved through FCSS.

1230
02:13:41,260 --> 02:13:47,680
I know we have very strong evaluation, so I just wanted to ask about a bit of perspective

1231
02:13:47,680 --> 02:13:49,140
from yourself or even Judy.

1232
02:13:52,940 --> 02:13:58,940
I'm happy to respond to that, Councillor Tanks, so there is lots of advocacy going on throughout

1233
02:13:58,940 --> 02:14:09,000
the province to try to get increases in FCSS, both the RMA and AM, I believe had positions

1234
02:14:09,000 --> 02:14:15,860
on not only increases the FCSSA, which is our provincial association, has been working hard and

1235
02:14:15,860 --> 02:14:16,500
Luke's step.

1236
02:14:16,640 --> 02:14:21,100
One of the C7 members and our FCSS chair is on that board now as a city representative

1237
02:14:21,100 --> 02:14:23,540
and hard on that.

1238
02:14:23,860 --> 02:14:32,020
So that continues to be an ongoing issue and yes, FCSS is showing our Edmonton program shows

1239
02:14:32,020 --> 02:14:38,460
great results from the program and great outcomes and we hope we can still keep pushing

1240
02:14:38,460 --> 02:14:43,040
on on that piece of work. Yeah, I just think if we make some progress there will might make the

1241
02:14:43,040 --> 02:14:48,280
CSS responsibility a little bit better. That's all. Thank you.

1242
02:14:50,360 --> 02:14:56,080
Great. Thank you so much. There's no further questions on the boards. Anyone speak to this?

1243
02:14:56,800 --> 02:14:58,740
I'll just briefly. Sounds great. Go ahead. If nobody else.

1244
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:14,380
I'll just briefly again say thank you very much for all the work that the committee does and for Judy and her team for helping to help us navigate the committee through it as well. Thank you.

1245
02:15:14,380 --> 02:15:15,700
Thank you, please vote.

1246
02:15:31,770 --> 02:15:33,790
Canals are jams are you with us one line by chance?

1247
02:15:39,640 --> 02:15:40,240
We have all the votes.

1248
02:15:40,440 --> 02:15:41,080
Just play the vote.

1249
02:15:45,050 --> 02:15:45,330
That's carried.

1250
02:15:45,930 --> 02:15:47,110
Great, thank you so much.

1251
02:15:47,530 --> 02:15:49,290
And Jenny really appreciate your time today.

1252
02:15:50,010 --> 02:15:52,750
And to the entire board, really appreciate all the work they do.

1253
02:15:52,870 --> 02:15:55,470
You have a significant body of work that touches so many aspects,

1254
02:15:55,670 --> 02:15:58,450
aspects of our community, and appreciate your dedication.

1255
02:16:01,860 --> 02:16:04,780
So looking at our agenda, we are at our 330 break.

1256
02:16:05,620 --> 02:16:12,480
So we can pause for 15 minutes and come back at 345 to the Accessibility Advisory Committee

1257
02:16:12,480 --> 02:16:17,960
with Tanya Le Revere, and following that we'll speak with the Energy Transition Climate Resilience

1258
02:16:17,960 --> 02:16:18,840
Committee of Council.

1259
02:16:19,760 --> 02:16:22,300
So we're on recess until 345, thanks everyone.

1260
02:31:46,740 --> 02:31:51,440
Councillor Prince Bay. Hello. Councillor Stevenson. Good afternoon. Councillor Perquett.

1261
02:31:55,140 --> 02:32:05,160
Councillor Tang. Good afternoon. Councillor Hamilton. Good afternoon. Councillor Rutherford. Hello. Councillor Carmel.

1262
02:32:06,220 --> 02:32:09,680
Good afternoon. Councillor Rice. Hello. Councillor Jans.

1263
02:32:12,140 --> 02:32:19,240
Good afternoon. Okay. So we're going to be moving on to accessibility advisory committee.

1264
02:32:19,240 --> 02:32:22,290
And I believe Tanya is online with us.

1265
02:32:25,020 --> 02:32:25,880
Tanya, are you there?

1266
02:32:26,300 --> 02:32:26,720
I am.

1267
02:32:27,020 --> 02:32:27,240
Yes, hello.

1268
02:32:27,740 --> 02:32:29,040
Awesome. Nice to see you.

1269
02:32:29,060 --> 02:32:31,000
Thank you so much for taking the time to be with us today.

1270
02:32:32,040 --> 02:32:35,780
So we have some time for presentation on your signs and some remarks,

1271
02:32:36,260 --> 02:32:38,930
followed by questions on our ends. So we'll turn the floor over to you.

1272
02:32:40,000 --> 02:32:40,850
Good. Thank you.

1273
02:32:41,500 --> 02:32:42,160
Good afternoon.

1274
02:32:43,020 --> 02:32:45,280
Those who don't know, my name is Tonya Lerivier.

1275
02:32:45,280 --> 02:32:52,740
On the current share of the accessibility advisory community, we're happy to be here to present a summary of the community's work and progress in 2024.

1276
02:32:54,000 --> 02:33:00,440
Reflecting the AAC's efforts to improve accessibility and inclusivity for individuals with disabilities in Ananton.

1277
02:33:01,520 --> 02:33:04,660
2024 works on goals and accomplishments.

1278
02:33:06,300 --> 02:33:12,140
Continue to align with our strategic planning session from 2022 and council priorities.

1279
02:33:13,340 --> 02:33:19,000
transportation. Our goal is to improve the rider experience and safety for people with disabilities.

1280
02:33:20,060 --> 02:33:24,740
We provided feedback on issues including the LRT communication tools on safety.

1281
02:33:25,460 --> 02:33:33,040
Snow removal on platforms, the assisted snow removal program, accessible parking and e-bike e-scooter regulations.

1282
02:33:33,040 --> 02:33:39,580
We saw increased enforcement of accessible parking violations with the rise in tickets from

1283
02:33:39,580 --> 02:33:45,540
3,000 in 6th in 2023 to 4,000 in 4,6th in 2024.

1284
02:33:46,000 --> 02:33:51,840
Engaged in consultations with Edmonton Transit and various accessibility initiatives, including

1285
02:33:51,840 --> 02:33:57,640
the art card, removed regular updates from, sorry, part of me, received regular updates,

1286
02:33:57,640 --> 02:34:03,740
or vehicle for higher, either in person or through their quarterly newsletter and express

1287
02:34:03,740 --> 02:34:09,440
concerns about transit services. I like to use blue curve paint as a visual indicator.

1288
02:34:11,280 --> 02:34:16,660
Accessible housing, we send a letter to council advocating for accessible and affordable housing

1289
02:34:16,660 --> 02:34:22,300
policies, including tax incentives for developers, promoting better definitions of accessibility

1290
02:34:22,300 --> 02:34:29,220
in housing and build access to resources, education, and prioritizing accessibility, construction,

1291
02:34:30,240 --> 02:34:37,540
grants, and advocates to the province for accessibility legislation to improve regulatory requirements.

1292
02:34:39,140 --> 02:34:45,040
He participated in affordable housing, plan discussions, and I spoke at an MSC International

1293
02:34:45,040 --> 02:34:52,640
housing is a human right panel. Policy C602, the corporate accessibility policy and corporate

1294
02:34:52,640 --> 02:34:58,020
actions. The AC continues its involvement in updates and engagements regarding policy

1295
02:34:58,020 --> 02:35:05,440
C602, where I'm proving accessibility within city operations. Community engagement. We

1296
02:35:05,440 --> 02:35:09,740
held meetings with disability advocacy groups attending key disability related events,

1297
02:35:09,740 --> 02:35:14,120
I mean, to maintain the strong presence of social media to connect with the disability community.

1298
02:35:15,020 --> 02:35:19,080
He meetings and discussions, including a range of meetings, cover topics, including

1299
02:35:19,670 --> 02:35:27,300
the LRG communication, affordable housing, corporate accessibility policies, and snow removal program.

1300
02:35:27,980 --> 02:35:33,060
Yeah, AC also participated in various community safety and disability advocacy initiatives.

1301
02:35:33,960 --> 02:35:42,380
Membership of the appointment, the AAPS-2024-25 membership list includes diverse members with terms

1302
02:35:42,380 --> 02:35:45,000
running until 2026 or 2031.

1303
02:35:46,060 --> 02:35:50,140
We will be recruiting for five positions this term.

1304
02:35:51,080 --> 02:35:55,380
This is five positions as in a couple of days ago before that it was four.

1305
02:35:56,080 --> 02:36:02,320
So, the exact, and we will be meeting this evening to go over that membership list, and

1306
02:36:02,320 --> 02:36:08,180
will have an update or you want recommendations for tomorrow morning's meeting for membership

1307
02:36:08,180 --> 02:36:09,340
report.

1308
02:36:09,500 --> 02:36:15,100
Reports and communications, the AAC submitted letters to council addressing topics, such

1309
02:36:15,100 --> 02:36:20,580
as accessible housing, that's why they're support and single use by-laws, we also presented

1310
02:36:20,580 --> 02:36:25,100
the public hearings regarding accessible public spaces.

1311
02:36:36,420 --> 02:36:43,240
We have the capacity to respond to concerns that come up as they relate to council priorities.

1312
02:36:44,560 --> 02:36:52,780
However, the committee expresses concerns about reduced administrative support on a lower social media budget following structural changes.

1313
02:36:52,780 --> 02:36:57,800
This is all very new and positions are still being filled.

1314
02:36:58,580 --> 02:37:01,180
We want to emphasize the need for continued strong support

1315
02:37:01,180 --> 02:37:04,380
to ensure effective representation of the disability community.

1316
02:37:05,640 --> 02:37:08,600
We are about to let the news bear of the AAC tonight.

1317
02:37:09,420 --> 02:37:10,780
I've fulfilled my three-year term.

1318
02:37:11,380 --> 02:37:15,780
I wanted to genuinely thank admin, council, community and council for their support,

1319
02:37:16,520 --> 02:37:18,280
representation in the vastness and accessibility.

1320
02:37:19,020 --> 02:37:19,580
Thank you.

1321
02:37:19,580 --> 02:37:21,360
Thank you for 24 council representatives.

1322
02:37:22,060 --> 02:37:22,700
That's all right.

1323
02:37:23,020 --> 02:37:23,080
Thank you.

1324
02:37:24,100 --> 02:37:24,380
Thank you.

1325
02:37:26,600 --> 02:37:28,260
Thank you so much.

1326
02:37:28,600 --> 02:37:29,200
Councillor Ting.

1327
02:37:29,340 --> 02:37:29,960
I'll go to you.

1328
02:37:30,000 --> 02:37:35,000
If you're interested in putting the recommendation on the floor, and asking questions.

1329
02:37:35,740 --> 02:37:42,520
Sure, yeah. I'll move the Accessibility Advisory Committee's request to establish two subcommittees for the 2025 Work Plan,

1330
02:37:42,700 --> 02:37:51,240
as outlined in Attachment 3 of the March 10, 2025 Office of the City Clerk Report, OCC-02857, be approved.

1331
02:37:52,120 --> 02:37:52,120
Second.

1332
02:37:56,560 --> 02:37:58,440
Thank you very much for the presentation, Tanya.

1333
02:38:00,180 --> 02:38:06,960
And thank you for your service for all these years, given that you're kind of passing on the torch.

1334
02:38:07,200 --> 02:38:15,600
Maybe I'll start there, I'm sure there's lots in my shirt tonight at the meeting, but do you have any advice for the new chair?

1335
02:38:16,960 --> 02:38:20,860
For the new chair, to be honest,

1336
02:38:23,020 --> 02:38:26,580
so the new chair is going to be Dana and Tia Moore.

1337
02:38:26,920 --> 02:38:33,200
She is joining us just listening to this session this afternoon, assuming there are going

1338
02:38:33,200 --> 02:38:41,740
any mass objections. It will be by joining the Board at this moment.

1339
02:38:46,120 --> 02:38:49,760
I think she is probably one

1340
02:38:49,760 --> 02:38:55,220
of the most the best chairs that this community has seen. If you want to say I think I should be the

1341
02:38:55,220 --> 02:39:02,680
I'm asking her for advice when it comes to sharing an actual committee.

1342
02:39:05,300 --> 02:39:12,340
But basically it comes down to listening to the diverse voices and making sure everybody

1343
02:39:12,340 --> 02:39:21,320
has a chance to express their concerns, being often to everybody's experiences, and I have

1344
02:39:21,320 --> 02:39:23,900
absolutely no qualms that she's going to be doing.

1345
02:39:23,900 --> 02:39:31,220
That's awesome. Well, I think you've been very excellent as well and really enjoyed working with you.

1346
02:39:32,540 --> 02:39:37,880
I, I was, I have no doubt that will be kind of having more of these conversations this evening.

1347
02:39:39,020 --> 02:39:48,760
I wanted to get yours and so throughout the year you have lots of presentations from administration who come forward to seeking kind of feedback from the committee.

1348
02:39:49,480 --> 02:39:59,960
Do you feel that Mr. Jones responsive to the feedback are you seeing those feedback incorporated in the next iteration of those reports or policies?

1349
02:40:03,320 --> 02:40:06,260
It's been a really rewarding time to be a part of this community.

1350
02:40:07,020 --> 02:40:11,760
Especially with this new council because we're seeing most advance wills in accessibility being made.

1351
02:40:12,340 --> 02:40:15,280
And it is, I feel like I said this before.

1352
02:40:15,280 --> 02:40:19,120
I feel like the committee used to take on more of an advocacy position.

1353
02:40:19,700 --> 02:40:25,480
Now we're taking on more of that advisory position because there are those advancements being made up of the city.

1354
02:40:27,140 --> 02:40:27,980
Well, great.

1355
02:40:29,160 --> 02:40:31,300
That's great to hear.

1356
02:40:31,900 --> 02:40:39,340
On, you know, in your activity, you've also reported on a number of presentation from some of the provincial bodies,

1357
02:40:39,420 --> 02:40:42,260
similar to AAC, but with other orders of government.

1358
02:40:43,860 --> 02:40:48,840
What's your, I guess, ideal, you know, obviously AAC

1359
02:40:48,840 --> 02:40:55,200
applies a lot of city related policies, programs, infrastructure projects, et cetera.

1360
02:40:55,660 --> 02:41:00,600
How do you see that overlap with some of the provincial bodies and how can we work together

1361
02:41:00,600 --> 02:41:06,620
to further amplify the work to better the accessibility community?

1362
02:41:08,260 --> 02:41:16,880
It's really important that Alberta has accessibility legislation and we don't, we're one of two provinces in Canada that doesn't.

1363
02:41:17,920 --> 02:41:34,360
So, you know, organizing and being able to present the need for that, for the municipality to do that with the provincial government, I think, is really key, but I think it also means to be an organized effort amongst the other municipalities in Alberta.

1364
02:41:34,360 --> 02:41:40,440
But that is a really, really important legislation that we need to see in place.

1365
02:41:40,760 --> 02:41:49,260
And so you feel with something like that, it would kind of make AAC's work not easier,

1366
02:41:49,800 --> 02:41:50,780
but certainly amplify.

1367
02:41:52,260 --> 02:41:52,980
Yeah, I don't look at that.

1368
02:41:53,000 --> 02:41:57,700
Because there's a lot of concerns that come to us in the community that we isn't in our jurisdiction.

1369
02:41:58,420 --> 02:41:59,020
Right, exactly.

1370
02:42:00,080 --> 02:42:05,140
And then, you know, you have, you know, the committee has a strategic plan and priorities.

1371
02:42:06,320 --> 02:42:12,160
But periodically, you know, as council members, we receive feedback from residents about accessibility issues,

1372
02:42:12,720 --> 02:42:17,560
whether it's related to public transportation or sidewalk maintenance or snow removal, et cetera.

1373
02:42:19,160 --> 02:42:23,300
You know, I, you know, I typically kind of flag it for the committee, so for your awareness.

1374
02:42:23,300 --> 02:42:33,300
And when you have issues that doesn't neatly fit into some of those priority buckets, what do you advise residents like what do you like what's your advice for the best process

1375
02:42:36,080 --> 02:42:38,260
For for those kinds of feedback

1376
02:42:42,430 --> 02:42:44,310
So even as a

1377
02:42:44,310 --> 02:42:48,790
Remember the community has that accessibility concern how to address that

1378
02:42:48,790 --> 02:42:52,250
Hmm, three, one, one.

1379
02:42:52,870 --> 02:42:55,410
And I think a lot of people feel like, you know, they call

1380
02:42:55,410 --> 02:42:56,710
three, one, one, or they leave a message,

1381
02:42:56,970 --> 02:42:59,630
and it's not being responded to you.

1382
02:42:59,630 --> 02:42:59,870
Sorry.

1383
02:43:00,230 --> 02:43:00,890
We're iterating.

1384
02:43:01,430 --> 02:43:06,630
Yeah, or do you see AAC have a role in hearing those?

1385
02:43:06,630 --> 02:43:09,750
Because you have a, like, engagement committee, right?

1386
02:43:10,870 --> 02:43:14,730
Is that a place where maybe you can kind of hear some

1387
02:43:14,730 --> 02:43:16,630
of those feedback, but I'm also running out of time.

1388
02:43:16,630 --> 02:43:24,950
So, oh, yes, absolutely, you know, we represent the community and I'm like, so it's an open little policy.

1389
02:43:25,450 --> 02:43:25,650
Thank you.

1390
02:43:26,070 --> 02:43:26,550
Thank you.

1391
02:43:26,730 --> 02:43:27,850
Councillor Neck, can you take the chair, please?

1392
02:43:28,630 --> 02:43:29,310
I've got the chair.

1393
02:43:29,490 --> 02:43:30,290
Thank you.

1394
02:43:31,270 --> 02:43:37,070
I really appreciate your overview today, and I wanted to just ask a few questions about,

1395
02:43:37,070 --> 02:43:44,130
I just wrote accessible housing and how things are evolving or if they're evolving and what major gaps still exist.

1396
02:43:44,130 --> 02:43:52,990
I guess I'm reflecting on, or just over a year into having the new zoning by-law, I know there's some incentives in there around accessible properties.

1397
02:43:53,650 --> 02:44:02,410
I'm thinking about the points that can be gained for programs like, like, a hit or through CMHC lending.

1398
02:44:04,270 --> 02:44:08,070
What are you hearing or seeing in terms of the product that's out there?

1399
02:44:08,210 --> 02:44:13,710
Are we starting to see a difference in accessible homes that are being provided?

1400
02:44:13,710 --> 02:44:16,270
or even customer units that are being included in projects.

1401
02:44:19,000 --> 02:44:24,860
When we spoke with some of the city-owned facilities, we are seeing an improvement in accessibility within those.

1402
02:44:25,740 --> 02:44:28,100
But we need to go beyond that into market housing.

1403
02:44:28,600 --> 02:44:34,880
And we need to have our developers build accessible because they're building barriers into the system.

1404
02:44:35,620 --> 02:44:38,120
And we do not see any improvement in that at all.

1405
02:44:38,380 --> 02:44:40,600
And this is a big concern for all of us.

1406
02:44:40,600 --> 02:44:48,600
Yeah, absolutely. Okay, and and I was just pulling up the correspondence that you sent us.

1407
02:44:49,560 --> 02:44:54,420
Related to accessible housing and there was sort of a longer list of recommendations or suggestions.

1408
02:44:56,040 --> 02:44:59,240
Where would you suggest we really focus our efforts?

1409
02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:06,660
This point, when it comes to moving the needle, I'm moving the dial on accessible units, accessible housing.

1410
02:45:10,520 --> 02:45:19,760
Probably, well, a big part of it is education, but more direct, it could be tax incentives for developers to build it possible.

1411
02:45:21,300 --> 02:45:29,830
I will be the most direct approach that you built.

1412
02:45:31,210 --> 02:45:38,270
Yeah, and can you elaborate on that a little bit, like that doesn't exist today, does it?

1413
02:45:39,250 --> 02:45:39,670
No.

1414
02:45:40,890 --> 02:45:44,010
Okay, but there are other jurisdictions that have explored that.

1415
02:45:44,850 --> 02:45:48,770
And it sounds like that is a model that is functioning in other jurisdictions.

1416
02:45:50,530 --> 02:45:51,110
Interesting.

1417
02:45:51,110 --> 02:45:57,730
Okay. Well, I might follow up on that, friends, just to gain a better understanding of what tools and levers we have

1418
02:45:57,730 --> 02:46:04,190
municipally, what might be a better fit, provincially, and beyond. So, thank you for that. I'll take the chair of us.

1419
02:46:04,230 --> 02:46:06,350
I'll return the chair. I'll go to Councillor Stevenson.

1420
02:46:06,910 --> 02:46:11,710
Yeah, thank you so much and really appreciate all the work that you've provided over the past

1421
02:46:11,710 --> 02:46:15,130
number of years and the great successes have happened under your leadership.

1422
02:46:15,910 --> 02:46:26,050
You know earlier today we were speaking with the design committee and you know they obviously play a very important role in ensuring urban design on private properties is inclusive.

1423
02:46:27,250 --> 02:46:32,790
Can you tell me about any relationship that you have with that committee and the work that they've done on their urban design principles?

1424
02:46:34,590 --> 02:46:45,850
We've never met with them directly, but that doesn't need to say that, I mean, like the city

1425
02:46:45,850 --> 02:46:46,450
departments,

1426
02:46:48,950 --> 02:46:50,530
I've been in charge of our community not directly.

1427
02:46:51,170 --> 02:46:55,250
Yeah, okay, that's really interesting. I don't know if there is someone from administration

1428
02:46:55,250 --> 02:47:05,450
on line who could speak to any opportunities to sort of link or have some dialogue between EDC and the

1429
02:47:05,450 --> 02:47:06,170
AAC.

1430
02:47:08,240 --> 02:47:17,640
Hi, it's Judy Smith, the Director of Community Investment, where all of our support for the advisory boards and community services are in that social developments that right now.

1431
02:47:17,640 --> 02:47:25,300
and we'll be happy to look into that link, and make sure the accessibility board gets an opportunity

1432
02:47:25,300 --> 02:47:30,500
to meet the right people. Great. That's so exciting and I think great timing just as the EDC is finishing

1433
02:47:30,500 --> 02:47:38,000
up some of their new guidance. And maybe even as we're looking into the future in terms of having

1434
02:47:38,000 --> 02:47:45,520
specified people on EDC, just think about the wealth of expertise that exists in the AAC to support

1435
02:47:45,520 --> 02:47:50,280
that work. But that was it. Thank you so much. Thank you, Councillor Wright.

1436
02:47:51,300 --> 02:47:55,540
Thanks very much, Tonya. So you're stepping down as chair, but are you staying on the committee?

1437
02:47:56,140 --> 02:48:03,680
Yes, I have one more year. Okay, okay. So we won't be losing that knowledge and everything.

1438
02:48:04,500 --> 02:48:13,360
So thank you very much. And I'm just wondering, with the change from advisory, sorry, from an advocacy role to more of an advisory role.

1439
02:48:13,360 --> 02:48:18,420
How have you managed that change in any tips for any other committees?

1440
02:48:22,640 --> 02:48:29,500
I don't think it was really so much a matter of managing that change because that's sort

1441
02:48:29,500 --> 02:48:44,580
of what we've been trying to do or the whole time that I've been on the committee which is

1442
02:48:44,580 --> 02:48:52,460
the accessibility. Okay so this so there I mean I think even even sort of acting as an advocate

1443
02:48:52,460 --> 02:48:59,500
as well you were still doing that advisory role to counsel it all along right? Yeah and I do have

1444
02:48:59,500 --> 02:49:06,120
to say our committee right now is fantastic. We have really robust really excellent conversations

1445
02:49:06,120 --> 02:49:12,180
and meetings and they really provide a whole lot of insight and guidance. That probably

1446
02:49:12,180 --> 02:49:18,120
goes to somebody's leadership of that committee too. Okay. Thank you very much.

1447
02:49:18,640 --> 02:49:25,040
Great. Thank you so much. So if there's no further questions, is there anyone who would like to speak to this item?

1448
02:49:31,080 --> 02:49:33,460
Uh, we'll go to, oh, Councillor Nakh, go ahead.

1449
02:49:33,780 --> 02:49:40,120
Yeah, sorry. I think just I wanted to briefly, I always great work from all of our Board's agencies.

1450
02:49:40,140 --> 02:49:43,640
Of course, I didn't have questions on a lot of them, but in particular, John, you just wanted to.

1451
02:49:43,640 --> 02:49:48,300
And I know this is probably like less formal, but I just say thank you, you've been doing

1452
02:49:48,300 --> 02:49:52,320
incredible work over AAC for such a long time.

1453
02:49:52,460 --> 02:49:55,160
So glad that you're there still for another year.

1454
02:49:55,360 --> 02:50:00,200
Since this is like, you know, my farewell to her, I wanted to just say thank you and say really

1455
02:50:00,200 --> 02:50:04,660
appreciate all of your work, all of the advocacy and we've seen such a dramatic shift in

1456
02:50:04,660 --> 02:50:05,560
the city.

1457
02:50:06,260 --> 02:50:10,680
And that's a direct result of the work you've done and the many others who are on that

1458
02:50:10,680 --> 02:50:12,180
committee each and every day.

1459
02:50:12,180 --> 02:50:21,060
So, just my appreciation for all that you've done over the years and glad to know you'll be there for a year longer, but even when that ends, I know you'll be greatly missed.

1460
02:50:21,220 --> 02:50:23,100
So, thank you.

1461
02:50:23,340 --> 02:50:24,160
Thank you.

1462
02:50:24,560 --> 02:50:28,320
And the most rewarding, repasional experience, I'm going to like,

1463
02:50:30,820 --> 02:50:31,660
Councillor Tang.

1464
02:50:33,460 --> 02:50:41,580
Well, I don't know if I'd much to add to that, but you know, when I echo my gratitude, you know,

1465
02:50:41,580 --> 02:50:49,080
when I sent on to for the AAC committee, I didn't know what to expect, but certainly I've learned

1466
02:50:49,080 --> 02:50:55,680
so much from every single committee members and every year, you know, with new members being

1467
02:50:55,680 --> 02:51:02,540
added, I find, you know, the conversation as Tanya has said very rich, opening up new perspective

1468
02:51:02,540 --> 02:51:07,920
for me and, you know, every day I'm thinking about, you know, accessibility all around me,

1469
02:51:07,920 --> 02:51:09,800
sometimes in ways I didn't expect.

1470
02:51:11,440 --> 02:51:13,580
You know, I think that goes to show the leadership

1471
02:51:13,580 --> 02:51:16,940
of, you know, Tanya's a chair as a long-sandy member,

1472
02:51:17,180 --> 02:51:21,220
but also too many to all the members there,

1473
02:51:22,200 --> 02:51:25,180
and the expertise they bring through their lived experience.

1474
02:51:26,160 --> 02:51:28,460
You know, I know you have, you've expressed a little bit

1475
02:51:28,460 --> 02:51:31,200
of the concern with the administrative support

1476
02:51:31,200 --> 02:51:32,360
in your letter.

1477
02:51:32,860 --> 02:51:36,460
You know, I know the transitions just happening

1478
02:51:36,460 --> 02:51:42,520
And no, certainly I'm very committed to kind of see how we can make that transition as smooth as possible.

1479
02:51:44,040 --> 02:51:55,300
And always welcome feedback from the chair, the next chair, you know, and committee members about how I can play a better role in supporting all of you in your work.

1480
02:51:55,520 --> 02:51:59,840
So thank you for being here and for your presentation. I look forward to seeing you tonight.

1481
02:51:59,840 --> 02:52:00,040
Thanks.

1482
02:52:00,840 --> 02:52:01,180
Thanks.

1483
02:52:01,540 --> 02:52:02,100
Thank you.

1484
02:52:02,440 --> 02:52:02,620
Thank you.

1485
02:52:03,620 --> 02:52:04,300
Please vote.

1486
02:52:10,920 --> 02:52:11,500
Now, it's your principal.

1487
02:52:11,840 --> 02:52:11,860
Yes.

1488
02:52:12,960 --> 02:52:13,560
Thank you, principal.

1489
02:52:14,680 --> 02:52:15,860
We have all the votes.

1490
02:52:16,120 --> 02:52:16,880
Just play the vote.

1491
02:52:20,820 --> 02:52:21,280
That's carried.

1492
02:52:21,760 --> 02:52:22,020
Excellent.

1493
02:52:22,560 --> 02:52:26,300
Well, thank you so much for the discussion and Tonya, you know, echoing echoing the

1494
02:52:26,300 --> 02:52:29,280
thanks and gratitude from my colleagues around the table for your years of dedication.

1495
02:52:30,000 --> 02:52:37,120
Service, and everyone on the Accessibility Advisory Committee for helping build a city that's good for all of us. Thank you.

1496
02:52:38,700 --> 02:52:57,310
All right. So, moving, moving along to our next committee. It's the Energy Transition Climate Resilience Committee. And we have both co-chairs, I believe, with us. We have Melanie Hoffman and Jacob Comar, who are both online.

1497
02:52:58,790 --> 02:53:01,590
Jacob and Melanie are you there?

1498
02:53:02,190 --> 02:53:03,030
Yes, fellow councillors.

1499
02:53:03,890 --> 02:53:04,090
Excellent.

1500
02:53:05,070 --> 02:53:06,290
Well, thank you both for joining us today.

1501
02:53:06,370 --> 02:53:07,810
Nice to see you.

1502
02:53:08,750 --> 02:53:12,810
We'll give you some time to do a bit of an overview and share some words

1503
02:53:12,810 --> 02:53:14,970
and then we'll go into some questions from colleagues.

1504
02:53:15,890 --> 02:53:17,110
So, take it away.

1505
02:53:19,120 --> 02:53:19,540
Fantastic.

1506
02:53:19,800 --> 02:53:21,980
Thank you so much for being here.

1507
02:53:22,920 --> 02:53:25,100
Hopefully my daughter recognizes that I'm in a meeting.

1508
02:53:25,280 --> 02:53:26,780
I was not expecting her home right now.

1509
02:53:28,260 --> 02:53:30,820
I'm presenting to Council, do you need anything?

1510
02:53:32,120 --> 02:53:35,160
Okay. I'm sorry. She is on her way to karate.

1511
02:53:36,740 --> 02:53:42,220
All right, so we are really grateful to Council

1512
02:53:42,220 --> 02:53:46,080
that you have the Energy Transition Climate Resilience Committee

1513
02:53:46,080 --> 02:53:50,340
of an Advisory Committee to Council and Administration.

1514
02:53:51,220 --> 02:53:54,580
It's been another really good year of collaboration

1515
02:53:54,580 --> 02:54:03,480
and learning together as we have been living through once again another hottest year on record,

1516
02:54:04,380 --> 02:54:10,640
which for us locally of course really culminated with the wildfires which in Jasper in the summer

1517
02:54:10,640 --> 02:54:18,890
and at Benton being home to many families as they were evacuated here. We know that that is not

1518
02:54:18,890 --> 02:54:27,630
a situation that is going to improve in the next decades but the work that you are doing

1519
02:54:27,630 --> 02:54:36,130
and that the city is leading is going to help with our support continue to do as much as it

1520
02:54:36,130 --> 02:54:43,690
can so that in her lifetime things get better. Oh, Julia, no, I need to be alone.

1521
02:54:46,560 --> 02:54:48,140
And so we're continuing

1522
02:54:48,140 --> 02:54:55,740
to see really strong action with City Council taking steps forward on substantial completion

1523
02:54:55,740 --> 02:55:06,100
and priority growth areas, noting pushback that may be happening at other orders of government.

1524
02:55:07,040 --> 02:55:14,160
We are really excited about the zoning by-law that you passed last year and the success that

1525
02:55:14,160 --> 02:55:21,460
housing starts and increase in fill are giving in order to continue to lower our emissions

1526
02:55:21,460 --> 02:55:22,220
overall.

1527
02:55:23,180 --> 02:55:31,420
It is really important for you to continue the leadership that you are providing and where

1528
02:55:31,420 --> 02:55:38,320
really excited for what administration is working on and continuing to bring forward.

1529
02:55:38,320 --> 02:55:48,340
and so in 2024, we provided for our memos to council and spoke at six committee meetings.

1530
02:55:48,360 --> 02:55:57,460
We've got the list of details in our report, but of course really important for us in that context

1531
02:55:57,460 --> 02:56:07,680
was taking a clear position on city investments in hydrogen and the realities of the science

1532
02:56:07,680 --> 02:56:15,900
of science and engineering of hydrogen being able to engage in disciplines and substantial

1533
02:56:15,900 --> 02:56:21,600
completion and the same importance of limiting growth, of course, both for affordability,

1534
02:56:22,600 --> 02:56:25,880
livability of communities and also for our mission schools.

1535
02:56:28,710 --> 02:56:33,530
We are glad to continue to be

1536
02:56:33,530 --> 02:56:38,890
able to support culture change and have had some good meetings with the climate task force,

1537
02:56:38,890 --> 02:56:46,850
continue to have really strong collaboration with our like to say our team at the team that

1538
02:56:46,850 --> 02:56:55,630
supports us on administration's side. And we also had an opportunity to meet with the city manager

1539
02:56:55,630 --> 02:57:03,630
and the interim city manager at the time, the deputy city manager to communicate about our

1540
02:57:03,630 --> 02:57:13,330
hopes then priorities. This is something that we really want to see more of yet. I think for us,

1541
02:57:13,330 --> 02:57:19,430
you know, one place where that really became clear again, recently was in the 12-0 vote to

1542
02:57:19,430 --> 02:57:27,330
approve the Nordic spa that the culture change across Council and Administration is not where we would

1543
02:57:27,330 --> 02:57:36,730
to see it from my perspective for all the Edmonton businesses that are engaged in the

1544
02:57:36,730 --> 02:57:41,470
corporate climate leaders, program, and or working hard and investing to bring down their

1545
02:57:41,470 --> 02:57:47,930
emissions to approve without further requirements, a project that's going to have incredible

1546
02:57:47,930 --> 02:57:54,450
emissions intensity per square foot as much as I love myself with it's on it, is very troubling.

1547
02:57:56,070 --> 02:58:01,710
And so looking forward to continue to do that work, and would really like to see a chief

1548
02:58:01,710 --> 02:58:09,830
climate officer hired as was announced some years ago now, to continue to lead that culture

1549
02:58:09,830 --> 02:58:18,810
change and support a true emergency response as we find ourselves in a marathon in that context.

1550
02:58:19,690 --> 02:58:26,270
We are really happy to continue to hear presentations from administration in our regular meetings.

1551
02:58:26,410 --> 02:58:34,870
Next one is coming up on Thursday and so really seeing good discussion there on input on how the

1552
02:58:34,870 --> 02:58:41,530
climate resilience planning and development framework is being developed and other ways in which

1553
02:58:41,530 --> 02:58:47,250
our resilience strategy and our energy transition strategy are being brought forward.

1554
02:58:48,770 --> 02:59:01,150
So with that, we are very much looking forward to your questions and any conversations that

1555
02:59:01,150 --> 02:59:11,390
we can have today where, yeah, just want to say, a big thank you for the support we have

1556
02:59:11,390 --> 02:59:20,990
from staff, in particular, of course, from our liaison Heather, very helpful and doing this

1557
02:59:20,990 --> 02:59:29,770
work as a volunteer, and we are looking forward to continuing to contribute so that every

1558
02:59:29,770 --> 02:59:41,370
decision is a climate decision and is taking care of our health and well-being in that

1559
02:59:41,370 --> 02:59:47,170
With that, I will see if Jacob has anything that he wants to add before we hand it over.

1560
02:59:48,850 --> 02:59:57,370
Maybe just that this year, we already set one memo and we're looking forward to further discussion.

1561
02:59:57,650 --> 02:59:59,790
If you have any questions, or again, you've been on that.

1562
03:00:00,000 --> 03:00:08,940
To see what happens on the energy utilities, and we also preparing another big memo, the theme of our

1563
03:00:08,940 --> 03:00:14,520
memos is trying to be big climate action without any costs or very minimal costs from the city,

1564
03:00:14,760 --> 03:00:18,960
because I realize that these are pastime. So, that's it.

1565
03:00:19,940 --> 03:00:25,240
Thank you both. I really appreciate you being with us, so we'll turn to colleagues for questions.

1566
03:00:25,600 --> 03:00:29,580
I'll go to Councilor Jan, if you're keen to put the motion forward.

1567
03:00:29,580 --> 03:00:30,680
So moved.

1568
03:00:33,080 --> 03:00:33,480
Second.

1569
03:00:34,540 --> 03:00:34,800
Great.

1570
03:00:36,240 --> 03:00:36,780
Thank you for that.

1571
03:00:36,980 --> 03:00:37,780
And do you have questions as well?

1572
03:00:37,920 --> 03:00:38,560
I do.

1573
03:00:38,700 --> 03:00:38,900
Go ahead.

1574
03:00:40,360 --> 03:00:40,380
Yeah.

1575
03:00:40,700 --> 03:00:41,280
Thank you both.

1576
03:00:42,820 --> 03:00:45,720
It's an incredible learning opportunity to work with both of you.

1577
03:00:45,980 --> 03:00:52,540
I wanted to ask you to kind of share maybe if you, it's not a fair question to the committee, but maybe both could speak personally as coach.

1578
03:00:52,540 --> 03:01:02,800
but you're kind of being asked to take on this enormous job of providing feedback to the

1579
03:01:02,800 --> 03:01:09,140
fifth-largest city in Canada on the on this massive existential threat to the human life around

1580
03:01:09,140 --> 03:01:16,180
the planet and you're being told to have, you know, a meeting a month and provide provides some

1581
03:01:16,180 --> 03:01:22,520
feedback and maybe come and speak and share notes and stuff. And I wanted to unpack for

1582
03:01:22,520 --> 03:01:27,980
kind of like, is this a fair ask to put on an ordinary human being kind of to say, you know,

1583
03:01:28,260 --> 03:01:35,800
here is the enormous emergency that we've declared and we don't take that word emergency

1584
03:01:35,800 --> 03:01:42,100
lightly, but then, you know, as you highlight, there's still the machinations of life that

1585
03:01:42,100 --> 03:01:49,360
continue and how do you kind of hold that tension and how do you either balance community members

1586
03:01:49,360 --> 03:01:57,380
and committee members who just get frustrated and burn out or turn off within still running

1587
03:01:58,040 --> 03:02:04,960
a functional committee and how do we how do we pay ourselves in like what's what's

1588
03:02:04,960 --> 03:02:06,580
are are we being fair to you.

1589
03:02:11,660 --> 03:02:13,880
Thanks for that question, Councillor Jens.

1590
03:02:14,220 --> 03:02:23,980
I think from my perspective, being able to have this opportunity to more deeply understand

1591
03:02:23,980 --> 03:02:53,340
understand how decisions are made at the municipal level, what decisions are made at the municipal level and being able to provide feedback in a context where there's a possibility that your feedback is taken seriously on that face value is something that feels incredibly worthy of my time and energy because

1592
03:02:53,340 --> 03:03:00,360
I am going to be continuing to be aware of the progression of the climate and ecological

1593
03:03:00,360 --> 03:03:04,160
emergency globally, whether I do this work or not.

1594
03:03:04,700 --> 03:03:11,600
So I might as well be engaged in this conversation as long as it is a conversation that

1595
03:03:11,600 --> 03:03:22,980
feels like it is leading to some version of the transformative change that I believe most

1596
03:03:22,980 --> 03:03:33,480
not all of us understand. We need. And so I look for those opportunities for impactful engagement

1597
03:03:33,480 --> 03:03:44,810
and this has felt more often than not like it is one. Although every now and again things happen

1598
03:03:44,810 --> 03:03:50,470
that make you question whether this is where you should be investing your time. So I really appreciate

1599
03:03:50,470 --> 03:03:57,170
each and every one of the individuals working in administration and working on council

1600
03:03:57,170 --> 03:04:07,630
who are contributing to the public's ability to move forward together on this transition.

1601
03:04:11,640 --> 03:04:14,060
Jacob, do you want to take a crack of that or?

1602
03:04:14,060 --> 03:04:25,100
I mean, that was a big question, Councillor Jans, I think I could spend an hour talking about

1603
03:04:25,100 --> 03:04:31,100
this question. I think we definitely see it in some committee members feeling hopeless

1604
03:04:31,100 --> 03:04:39,040
and burnt out feeling like some of the things we're doing, don't matter or aren't having

1605
03:04:39,040 --> 03:04:44,940
an impact, which at the same time is it fair to you? I think this council has done more than

1606
03:04:44,940 --> 03:04:51,280
any other council, let alone any other council and probably Canada to advance some of this work

1607
03:04:51,280 --> 03:04:58,620
and yet your hands are tied because these decisions need to be discussed at a global and

1608
03:04:59,680 --> 03:05:04,880
provincial and at a federal level and they just aren't. The system is not set up for that.

1609
03:05:06,200 --> 03:05:12,060
So without going down to rabbit hole, I think for me, it's some of the most rewarding work

1610
03:05:12,060 --> 03:05:19,560
and also frustrating work because I realize the limits that are imposed on us and yourselves

1611
03:05:20,180 --> 03:05:25,740
are doing this work in the fact that even if you were to go faster and harder like we say,

1612
03:05:25,980 --> 03:05:31,880
you're going to hit roadblocks with public discourse and everything else. So I'll leave it at that.

1613
03:05:32,320 --> 03:05:36,200
But now, thank you. Thank you. Well, thank you for how that you do.

1614
03:05:37,620 --> 03:05:41,740
Thank you. Councilor Nack, can you take the chair, please? I've got the chair. Thank you.

1615
03:05:43,120 --> 03:05:49,180
Yeah, I, I just wanted to get a little bit of additional clarity around the establishment

1616
03:05:49,180 --> 03:05:56,360
of the additional subcommittee, and maybe just if you could, could explain, or what's

1617
03:05:56,360 --> 03:06:00,780
happening now and how this might help things function a little bit better.

1618
03:06:03,960 --> 03:06:04,360
Yeah, absolutely.

1619
03:06:04,520 --> 03:06:05,800
Thank you so much, Consolas Salvador.

1620
03:06:06,680 --> 03:06:12,860
So, what we're finding is, and I guess actually, Consolar, Jan's question kind of gets

1621
03:06:12,860 --> 03:06:21,940
at that too. We meet every couple or three months for a few hours on an emergency.

1622
03:06:24,060 --> 03:06:24,900
And we spend

1623
03:06:24,900 --> 03:06:33,880
most of that time discussing some updates and reports from Council, sorry not from from administration,

1624
03:06:34,640 --> 03:06:41,040
which is of course the majority of what we want to be able to engage with. However, what that often

1625
03:06:41,040 --> 03:06:53,320
means is that we cannot be easily responsive to emergent items as well as that structure

1626
03:06:53,320 --> 03:06:58,860
really limiting our ability to allow the

1627
03:07:01,000 --> 03:07:04,580
knowledge and experience in the committee to

1628
03:07:04,580 --> 03:07:18,580
merge and do the work that we see as our opportunity to contribute to the city's efforts and so those are some of the things that

1629
03:07:18,580 --> 03:07:21,180
So community really helps us be able to advance.

1630
03:07:22,680 --> 03:07:23,840
OK, that's helpful.

1631
03:07:25,800 --> 03:07:29,960
And I guess just on that note, thinking about...

1632
03:07:31,490 --> 03:07:37,670
I was reading the description here at talks about the subcommittee. We'll be able to focus on matters that require more quick actions and response.

1633
03:07:40,730 --> 03:07:48,050
How do you plan on prioritizing within the long list of priorities? Would those emergent items or the ones that require quick actions?

1634
03:07:48,190 --> 03:07:50,930
They would still be aligned to the overall priorities of the committee, correct?

1635
03:07:52,330 --> 03:07:57,410
Yes, absolutely. Okay. Amazing. Cool. Well, that's really helpful. I will take the chair back.

1636
03:07:57,410 --> 03:07:59,310
I'll return the chair.

1637
03:08:00,390 --> 03:08:01,290
Any other questions?

1638
03:08:05,510 --> 03:08:06,230
Councillor Francis?

1639
03:08:06,630 --> 03:08:06,930
No way.

1640
03:08:08,850 --> 03:08:10,770
But Councillor Rayty have a question?

1641
03:08:13,280 --> 03:08:13,860
Go ahead.

1642
03:08:16,970 --> 03:08:17,270
Okay.

1643
03:08:17,490 --> 03:08:18,290
I'm on the board now.

1644
03:08:20,590 --> 03:08:23,250
You mentioned the Chief Climate Officer.

1645
03:08:23,810 --> 03:08:24,890
Why is that important?

1646
03:08:26,590 --> 03:08:28,050
Because I've been waiting for it too.

1647
03:08:30,430 --> 03:08:31,730
Thank you, Councillor Ray.

1648
03:08:32,410 --> 03:08:34,670
We've had some interesting discussions about this

1649
03:08:34,670 --> 03:09:04,650
Because in some ways, there's maybe the thought that hanging climate on one position is not setting the city up for success because what we need is the climate lens to be present for everyone, but who is that individual, who has the capacity, the knowledge to support an organization as a large as the city of Edmonton, to be able to center.

1650
03:09:04,670 --> 03:09:11,410
climate lens in all decisions and everything that's happening to help everyone be able to understand

1651
03:09:11,410 --> 03:09:16,850
how their job is the climate job and how the work that they do have the potential to be

1652
03:09:16,850 --> 03:09:22,390
transformational towards the future city that we're all wanting to build together.

1653
03:09:23,330 --> 03:09:34,570
And so having one person whose primary responsibility is that work is the big, the big benefit

1654
03:09:34,570 --> 03:09:49,390
that we see there. You know, it's really, really foundational that our city manager has a strong mandate and that our city manager is able to support all of that through his position.

1655
03:09:50,230 --> 03:10:00,270
But to not put all of that on the shoulders of people who already have many other things that are going to be their priorities.

1656
03:10:00,270 --> 03:10:06,450
It's this difficulty of leaving a topic in my that's I mean accessibility is directly relates to all of us too

1657
03:10:06,450 --> 03:10:13,690
So I'm thinking back to our previous community that yeah having having a designated person when we have a declared climate emergency

1658
03:10:13,690 --> 03:10:24,570
And we do not have clarity of like when we're not going to have a declared climate emergency anymore and how the administration overall is is really thoroughly responding to that

1659
03:10:24,570 --> 03:10:28,590
That's why we're excited about that position from my perspective. Maybe Jake

1660
03:10:28,590 --> 03:10:39,750
So it's more someone to sort of lead the charge across the organization, not just putting an environmental lens on a report that we receive.

1661
03:10:40,450 --> 03:10:43,970
It's about having a climate voice at the executive leadership table.

1662
03:10:44,610 --> 03:10:44,630
Okay.

1663
03:10:46,610 --> 03:10:47,310
Okay, thank you.

1664
03:10:47,550 --> 03:10:48,610
That answers my question.

1665
03:10:49,010 --> 03:10:49,170
Great.

1666
03:10:49,270 --> 03:10:49,990
Thank you.

1667
03:10:50,250 --> 03:10:51,930
Continue to advocate.

1668
03:10:54,130 --> 03:10:54,370
Excellent.

1669
03:10:55,050 --> 03:10:56,850
So I'm not seeing any further questions on the board.

1670
03:10:56,970 --> 03:10:59,150
Is there anyone who would like to speak to this?

1671
03:11:01,870 --> 03:11:14,590
Councillor Hamilton, I appreciate the report today, I just want to click on, because I

1672
03:11:16,170 --> 03:11:23,330
flagged in my notes that ETCRC has been highly critical of Council's decisions,

1673
03:11:25,350 --> 03:11:26,110
and I

1674
03:11:26,110 --> 03:11:33,210
don't think it is helpful for us, not from a climate lens, but I appreciate so much of this

1675
03:11:33,210 --> 03:11:37,810
discussion today from your perspective or from the perspective of the board has been

1676
03:11:37,810 --> 03:11:45,910
about understanding where council ends up in terms of our, our, our how our decisions are being made,

1677
03:11:46,530 --> 03:11:54,870
but I, I just want to flag that it is making the work you're trying to do really hard to defend

1678
03:11:54,870 --> 03:12:02,510
And I don't think that's your intention, but that is nonetheless the consequence of it.

1679
03:12:03,490 --> 03:12:07,970
And I appreciate that Council declared an emergency, which I supported.

1680
03:12:08,670 --> 03:12:15,530
I appreciate that Council has made this a high priority, which I also supported.

1681
03:12:15,530 --> 03:12:45,510
But I calling out both counseling administration is not having absorbed or not being champions of climate change as I think not fair to our city staff, including the planning department who worked really hard to incorporate that and also not fair to this council, which I agree with you, Jay Cupsa, is the

1682
03:12:45,510 --> 03:12:54,970
It is a council that is put a lot of its political capital on the line and if I'm being honest

1683
03:12:54,970 --> 03:13:00,090
about where polling is, this council has worn it more than any other council and makes

1684
03:13:01,310 --> 03:13:05,110
it incredibly, it puts council in a really precarious position.

1685
03:13:06,530 --> 03:13:11,630
As you know, when it comes to planning decisions, there's a myriad of things that this council

1686
03:13:11,630 --> 03:13:20,450
take into account, but it's also quasi-judicial process and I recognize that we'll never be able

1687
03:13:20,450 --> 03:13:28,210
to do enough to satisfy what needs to be done on climate and municipal level, but I'm somewhat

1688
03:13:28,210 --> 03:13:37,890
personally offended that this council and so many of the champions around this table don't get

1689
03:13:38,810 --> 03:13:50,270
like a lot of people have really gone to that on this file and it's really hard to carry

1690
03:13:50,270 --> 03:13:56,070
on that work if the people who are supposed to be helping you are backbiting you in

1691
03:13:56,070 --> 03:14:00,870
that process. So that's all I have to say about that. Thank you.

1692
03:14:03,880 --> 03:14:05,400
Thank you. Councillor

1693
03:14:07,660 --> 03:14:13,560
I want to thank the committee members, again, it's a fantastic opportunity and I really appreciate their contributions.

1694
03:14:15,380 --> 03:14:32,300
The term moral injury comes to mind that, you know, you're asking people to be a part of such an enormous task and such complex work in an area that's increasingly frustrating and limiting in terms of even with the best policy advice and decisions at the local level.

1695
03:14:32,300 --> 03:14:39,400
we can still be subject to override from a provincial government and federal government and

1696
03:14:39,400 --> 03:14:43,380
you know other international bodies based on consequences around the world, etc.

1697
03:14:44,440 --> 03:14:50,620
So that being said, I think I found the work in particular some of the work around substantial

1698
03:14:50,620 --> 03:14:55,400
completion or the tree by all of these questions that I myself wouldn't necessarily have

1699
03:14:55,400 --> 03:14:59,680
the time to research and answer, having these thoughtful conversations with the committee.

1700
03:15:00,000 --> 03:15:22,980
I think of the wild fire preparedness conversation we had where experts came in and engaged with the committee and our fire department got to have this opportunity to have a, you know, a friend conversation with, with your leadership and I think that was, I think that was much appreciated. So again, I just want to thank all of you for your time and I look forward to continuing to work with you.

1701
03:15:22,980 --> 03:15:26,660
Thank you. Please vote.

1702
03:15:33,470 --> 03:15:34,330
Thank you, Councilor Jans.

1703
03:15:46,510 --> 03:15:47,730
Just need your vote, Councilor Salvador.

1704
03:15:50,340 --> 03:15:53,620
I'm at yes. Thank you. We have all the votes to display the vote.

1705
03:15:58,430 --> 03:16:01,010
That is carried. Thank you.

1706
03:16:02,470 --> 03:16:07,210
And thank you to Jacob and Melanie for being with us today and for really ongoing work at the committee,

1707
03:16:07,490 --> 03:16:13,270
which is, as we heard, incredibly difficult and challenging, but deeply appreciate your dedication.

1708
03:16:19,700 --> 03:16:32,880
Alright, so we're moving on to our next committee, which is actually going to be after the dinner break, but I think we're, we have Emily Badie Online.

1709
03:16:33,180 --> 03:16:39,600
That's how it's ready to go, yes. Amazing. Amazing. Okay, so the Edmonton Transit Service Advisory Board is up next. Hi, Emily.

1710
03:16:40,740 --> 03:16:46,100
Hello. How are you doing? Good, thank you. Good, good. Well, happy to have you with us today.

1711
03:16:46,900 --> 03:16:53,400
We will take some time to hear from you. I see you have a presentation as well, and then we'll follow that up with some questions from committee members.

1712
03:16:54,040 --> 03:16:59,640
Please go ahead. First, right council members. Keep, we're at council. Please go ahead.

1713
03:17:00,680 --> 03:17:08,320
All right. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for having me. My name is Emily Baddy. I'm the chair of the Edmisture Transit Service Advisory Board.

1714
03:17:10,820 --> 03:17:15,820
I'd like to start by acknowledging my fellow board members, our ETS, the AISON, and administrative

1715
03:17:15,820 --> 03:17:20,140
support, and Councillor Rutherford, all of whom are instrumental in our work and help

1716
03:17:20,140 --> 03:17:21,040
keep our board running.

1717
03:17:22,880 --> 03:17:27,820
Our mandate at ETSA is to provide advice to Council for a stakeholder perspective on issues

1718
03:17:27,820 --> 03:17:32,380
relating to transit, including ridership, mix of vehicles, relationships between city projects

1719
03:17:32,380 --> 03:17:33,160
and transit.

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03:17:33,160 --> 03:17:39,260
You're being initiatives of other levels of government or surrounding municipalities that could affect transit.

1721
03:17:40,320 --> 03:17:44,180
Repair maintenance accessibility issues, servicing issues and transit policies.

1722
03:17:45,840 --> 03:17:46,600
Next slide, please.

1723
03:17:50,230 --> 03:17:55,030
In 2024, we identified three broad goals to guide our work.

1724
03:17:55,590 --> 03:18:00,430
First, we wanted to apply timely follow-up on key transit issues scheduled to be presented to council.

1725
03:18:01,390 --> 03:18:07,010
In order to effectively leave the school, we established and refined our processes around identifying

1726
03:18:07,010 --> 03:18:10,990
which issues we wanted to provide feedback on, so at every board meeting, we review what

1727
03:18:10,990 --> 03:18:16,470
transit related reports will be coming to council in the next few months to determine what

1728
03:18:16,470 --> 03:18:21,710
requires the response from that'sab. We call this our rapid response process, so we assign

1729
03:18:21,710 --> 03:18:27,070
a board member to help collect and compile the feedback and put it into a form that we can

1730
03:18:27,070 --> 03:18:31,930
provide to council. So some of the topics that we've provided feedback on for the last year are

1731
03:18:31,930 --> 03:18:37,810
the public spaces by law, the bus network service plan and transit needs to meet population growth.

1732
03:18:39,410 --> 03:18:43,250
Some of the challenges that we faced around the school were its own consistency and clarity

1733
03:18:44,370 --> 03:18:50,390
in collecting the feedback and just improving our transparency around submissions like the format

1734
03:18:50,390 --> 03:18:56,210
of the submission, who actually makes the submission and those types of details. So this is going

1735
03:18:56,210 --> 03:18:58,470
into our goals for the upcoming year.

1736
03:19:00,550 --> 03:19:02,990
Our second goal was we wanted to complete reports

1737
03:19:02,990 --> 03:19:08,470
developed by our subcommittees to proactively provide information to council about transit issues.

1738
03:19:09,450 --> 03:19:13,050
This year we worked on our report related to the perception of safety on the LRT,

1739
03:19:13,410 --> 03:19:18,370
which was recently presented to the urban planning committee and a letter to council regarding

1740
03:19:18,370 --> 03:19:23,390
fair evasion, which was in relation to the sessions around the fair gates of LRT stations.

1741
03:19:26,050 --> 03:19:38,330
In previous years, we've done more reports and had more subcommittees, but this year was a little challenging in sort of developing our processes around administrative support and ensuring that subcommittees could be live-screened in public.

1742
03:19:39,010 --> 03:19:45,830
But those challenges are largely resolved, so we'll to really focus on these proactive subcommittees and reports in the upcoming year.

1743
03:19:47,890 --> 03:19:53,850
Third, our board strive to maintain and improve collaborative relationships with the boards and agencies.

1744
03:19:54,650 --> 03:19:58,770
So this year we nominated a new liaison to work with the Accessibility Advisor committee.

1745
03:19:59,630 --> 03:20:03,750
Because transit issues and accessibility issues can often be closely related or intertwined.

1746
03:20:05,870 --> 03:20:06,890
Next slide please.

1747
03:20:11,520 --> 03:20:17,200
So on the activities we completed in 2024, we had our monthly board meetings and received presentations on

1748
03:20:17,200 --> 03:20:22,500
I'm trying to measure implementation plan, the bus network plan,

1749
03:20:22,760 --> 03:20:25,860
rezoning of priority growth areas, mass transit implementation,

1750
03:20:26,820 --> 03:20:30,620
the LRT seeding options and features, infrastructure and

1751
03:20:30,620 --> 03:20:33,540
enhancements for transit facilities, and the ride transit

1752
03:20:33,540 --> 03:20:35,240
funding gap.

1753
03:20:36,300 --> 03:20:38,360
We provided feedback on a variety of subjects,

1754
03:20:39,400 --> 03:20:41,280
and many of which I covered in the previous slide.

1755
03:20:43,570 --> 03:20:44,450
Next slide, please.

1756
03:20:48,420 --> 03:20:55,200
Looking forward to the 2025-2026 year, our goals are quite similar to what we had last year.

1757
03:20:55,720 --> 03:21:00,240
So first, we want to complete and present reports to Council related to work conducted by our subcommittees.

1758
03:21:00,900 --> 03:21:09,320
This is really our main priority since this is our chance to be proactive and provide information about transit issues that are important to us at SM and to add mental needs.

1759
03:21:09,860 --> 03:21:13,820
And really focus on that stakeholder perspective of transit issues.

1760
03:21:14,980 --> 03:21:19,520
Second, we want to continue to provide timely advice on transit related issues coming to council.

1761
03:21:20,480 --> 03:21:23,540
This is a more reactive school, but it is fully important.

1762
03:21:25,060 --> 03:21:28,840
And third, we'd like to improve our board processes and address some of the challenges

1763
03:21:28,840 --> 03:21:30,840
had over the last year.

1764
03:21:32,060 --> 03:21:36,260
This is really just our chance to be self-reflective to continue to improve.

1765
03:21:37,140 --> 03:21:42,260
And the specific areas that we'd like to refine our processes going forward are around new member orientation

1766
03:21:42,260 --> 03:21:47,760
and submission of feedback, such as creating templates or ensuring up-to-date contact lists.

1767
03:21:50,400 --> 03:21:50,860
Next slide,

1768
03:21:55,540 --> 03:21:59,200
oops, sorry, one back to the 2025 subcommittees.

1769
03:22:04,620 --> 03:22:08,400
So for 2025, 2026, we're proposing four subcommittees.

1770
03:22:09,060 --> 03:22:12,760
We have administrative support to contact two concurrent subcommittees.

1771
03:22:13,280 --> 03:22:18,760
So we would begin work on the first two topics immediately and then start up those other topics once we finish those first two.

1772
03:22:18,760 --> 03:22:21,520
So just an information on how we selected these topics.

1773
03:22:22,160 --> 03:22:28,120
It recently held our annual retreat to brainstorm, develop ideas, and discuss upcoming and ongoing transit issues.

1774
03:22:28,940 --> 03:22:29,980
Based on our brainstorming results.

1775
03:22:30,000 --> 03:22:36,100
We did a prioritization exercise to categorize the impact and the amount of work involved with each idea.

1776
03:22:36,780 --> 03:22:39,160
And then from that we selected the ideas that we would be.

1777
03:22:39,220 --> 03:22:44,780
But we believed would be high impact topics and selected topics that would be reasonable for the amount of work load.

1778
03:22:46,080 --> 03:22:49,620
So the first two topics we're proposing are sort of a higher workload.

1779
03:22:50,120 --> 03:22:52,440
So we're prioritizing those to start first.

1780
03:22:52,900 --> 03:22:56,300
And then as we get through those we can start on those lower effort topics.

1781
03:22:57,930 --> 03:23:05,970
So the topics we are proposing for our subcommittees are the fair funding gap, so outlining

1782
03:23:05,970 --> 03:23:12,130
at SABS position on the discrepancy between target and actual revenue to cost ratio of transit service.

1783
03:23:13,210 --> 03:23:16,170
Secondly, an art card review of the user experience.

1784
03:23:17,070 --> 03:23:22,230
So identifying misconceptions, shortcomings, opportunities related to the user experience of the art card.

1785
03:23:23,530 --> 03:23:31,310
Our third topic, mapping and navigation at bus stops, so providing options for improving visual appeal and

1786
03:23:31,310 --> 03:23:40,410
we finding at bus stops and forth reviewing pet friendly transit, so looking at best practices around how we can

1787
03:23:40,410 --> 03:23:46,250
create pet friendly transit while respecting the needs of all the transit users.

1788
03:23:48,740 --> 03:23:52,420
You can go to the next slide, and thank you, and I'm happy to answer questions.

1789
03:23:53,360 --> 03:23:55,420
Thank you so much for the presentation.

1790
03:23:56,600 --> 03:23:58,620
We'll now go to questions from Councillors.

1791
03:23:59,020 --> 03:24:00,420
Councillor Beatherford, go ahead.

1792
03:24:01,560 --> 03:24:04,420
Yeah, and I'll start by putting the motion on the floor.

1793
03:24:05,000 --> 03:24:07,540
The Edmonton Transit Service Advisory Board request

1794
03:24:07,540 --> 03:24:10,940
to establish for some committees for the 2025 Work Plan

1795
03:24:10,940 --> 03:24:14,660
as outlined in Attachment 3 of the City Clerk Report.

1796
03:24:14,820 --> 03:24:15,860
Be approved.

1797
03:24:16,920 --> 03:24:17,080
Second.

1798
03:24:17,080 --> 03:24:20,420
Okay, that was moved by Councilor Rutherford,

1799
03:24:20,560 --> 03:24:22,980
second by Councilor Ketang, go ahead with questions?

1800
03:24:23,740 --> 03:24:25,840
Yeah, so I just wanted to go back,

1801
03:24:26,020 --> 03:24:28,060
first of all, thanks for being here, great presentation.

1802
03:24:30,260 --> 03:24:33,040
I really like your slide that talked about,

1803
03:24:33,040 --> 03:24:35,320
some of the goals, and then also some of the challenges

1804
03:24:36,000 --> 03:24:37,660
with achieving that goals, and that's something

1805
03:24:38,100 --> 03:24:40,160
we haven't heard other committees saying today

1806
03:24:40,160 --> 03:24:44,220
and I know we've had lots of conversations about it.

1807
03:24:44,220 --> 03:24:44,600
Um,

1808
03:24:47,800 --> 03:24:54,280
I wanted to dig into the thing around like the rapid, the rapid response, uh, and some

1809
03:24:54,280 --> 03:24:58,780
of the sequencing, because this is something I've noticed just around committees in general,

1810
03:24:58,800 --> 03:25:03,940
is like, they're only, and I, I think I brought this up to council at the last time that

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03:25:03,940 --> 03:25:09,260
these, these, this was here is like, if their, if committees are only getting a report when

1812
03:25:09,260 --> 03:25:15,240
it's published, and then we want, they want to give feedback on it, they don't have a board meeting

1813
03:25:15,240 --> 03:25:22,840
time for it to be necessarily a board position or an advisory board position. So that's why

1814
03:25:22,840 --> 03:25:29,500
you've done the rapid response where it's more a collection of individual committee members thoughts

1815
03:25:29,500 --> 03:25:36,040
as opposed to that board. But would your preference be to continue that? Do you think that is

1816
03:25:36,040 --> 03:25:42,320
is a good way forward or would you like to see how we as council could be better sequencing for

1817
03:25:42,320 --> 03:25:50,920
advisory committees to give us that more unified perspective on items that are topical to

1818
03:25:50,920 --> 03:25:54,680
whatever area advisory we're dealing with.

1819
03:25:57,450 --> 03:26:04,070
That's a great question. Thank you. The whole question to answer I think too. I would say in an

1820
03:26:04,070 --> 03:26:09,270
ideal world we'd be able to get those reports further and so we could come up with a more unified

1821
03:26:10,670 --> 03:26:18,570
Board perspective, but equally, we're often not, we don't always have a unified perspective.

1822
03:26:19,550 --> 03:26:25,050
We are 12 different voices. We don't always agree on the same things.

1823
03:26:25,930 --> 03:26:31,150
And I also would like to respect that administration puts a lot of work into these reports,

1824
03:26:31,250 --> 03:26:35,290
and sometimes it's hard for them to get them sort of more than that we can advance.

1825
03:26:36,950 --> 03:26:41,670
So, yeah, like I said, ideally it would be nice to get them in advance, so we can create

1826
03:26:41,670 --> 03:26:49,790
sort of a more unified perspective, but we are happy working within the constraints that

1827
03:26:49,790 --> 03:26:50,570
we have as well.

1828
03:26:51,070 --> 03:26:56,090
Yeah, and while it's not in this report, because it was 2025, I really appreciated the public

1829
03:26:56,090 --> 03:27:00,130
species, a rapid response that ETS advisory board also did.

1830
03:27:00,770 --> 03:27:04,350
When you talk about goal one, though, you talk about challenges around clarity and transparency

1831
03:27:04,350 --> 03:27:06,510
and see around submission process.

1832
03:27:06,830 --> 03:27:08,750
Can you elaborate on what you meant by that?

1833
03:27:11,060 --> 03:27:14,060
Yeah, that's sort of taking some of our internal

1834
03:27:14,060 --> 03:27:20,700
board feedback just when we start collecting that feedback.

1835
03:27:21,320 --> 03:27:23,880
Sometimes the board member in charge might not be sure

1836
03:27:23,880 --> 03:27:27,320
how to format it or how to sort of get it all together.

1837
03:27:28,260 --> 03:27:31,780
So it'd be nice to just internally sort of refine that process.

1838
03:27:32,120 --> 03:27:35,220
Maybe have a template that makes it easier for the board member

1839
03:27:35,220 --> 03:27:38,740
in charge to sort of plot things in me.

1840
03:27:39,320 --> 03:27:43,000
And then in terms of submitting it, making sure

1841
03:27:43,000 --> 03:27:47,020
that everyone that thinks or that everyone

1842
03:27:47,020 --> 03:27:50,320
is ccd on those submissions and not just the people that

1843
03:27:50,320 --> 03:27:53,980
responded, so we all have a clear understanding

1844
03:27:53,980 --> 03:27:55,320
of what has been presented.

1845
03:27:57,120 --> 03:27:59,700
So it's really just sort of an internal process thing.

1846
03:27:59,700 --> 03:28:10,040
Okay, now that helps and I really like the pet friendly transit. Can you tell you more about how that one got selected?

1847
03:28:13,180 --> 03:28:17,400
Yeah, absolutely. That came out of discussion at our annual retreat.

1848
03:28:19,260 --> 03:28:28,520
I think that's something we're all enthusiastic about is making sure that all Edmontonians can use transit effectively.

1849
03:28:28,520 --> 03:28:35,760
And for people with pets that might include bringing their pet to the vet, for example, or just getting through

1850
03:28:35,760 --> 03:28:41,680
Edmonton with their pet, which is not always feasible within the current restrictions.

1851
03:28:43,080 --> 03:28:51,880
So we'd like to just do that sort of jurisdictional scan, find out what some best practices are for allowing pets on transit.

1852
03:28:51,880 --> 03:28:58,880
But also respecting that we need to make space for, for example, people with allergies or

1853
03:29:02,140 --> 03:29:06,100
phobias that may not want to see those paths around as well.

1854
03:29:06,260 --> 03:29:09,760
So we need to respect all users, all in transit.

1855
03:29:10,840 --> 03:29:11,680
I look forward to that.

1856
03:29:11,860 --> 03:29:12,840
Thank you.

1857
03:29:13,660 --> 03:29:14,420
Thanks so much.

1858
03:29:14,540 --> 03:29:15,300
Councillor Stevenson.

1859
03:29:16,720 --> 03:29:17,540
Yeah, thank you very much.

1860
03:29:17,540 --> 03:29:23,440
really appreciate the work they are doing in your presentation to us today. I just wanted

1861
03:29:23,440 --> 03:29:30,900
to follow up on the planned actions for this year. So I think the idea of pets on transit,

1862
03:29:31,020 --> 03:29:37,320
I think is a really wonderful example of a user, writer, driven approach, just noticing

1863
03:29:37,320 --> 03:29:43,320
this gap in our community and maybe initiating some first thoughts and steps around this topic.

1864
03:29:43,320 --> 03:29:52,660
I think maybe where, so a couple of the other ones, looking at our card implementation and also the funding gap.

1865
03:29:53,080 --> 03:29:59,520
You know those, those seem like areas of work that our city staff are maybe already looking at and undertaking.

1866
03:30:00,000 --> 03:30:08,320
And with significantly more and more resources, as to undertake those. So wondering how the committee sees themselves

1867
03:30:08,320 --> 03:30:16,000
sort of complementing and supporting, maybe that work that's already happening with city staff, rather than

1868
03:30:16,620 --> 03:30:22,860
taking or duplicating or sort of doing this, not in collaboration.

1869
03:30:26,080 --> 03:30:27,180
Yeah, absolutely.

1870
03:30:30,940 --> 03:30:36,100
So with the, for example, if we get the fair funding gap, that one we

1871
03:30:36,100 --> 03:30:44,520
thought was very important coming into an election year in that we recognize that the transit

1872
03:30:44,520 --> 03:30:52,380
goals for fair recovery are not enough, which is actually being recovered. So we felt it

1873
03:30:53,160 --> 03:30:59,920
important to make sure we get that user perspective or the admin told me in perspective how

1874
03:30:59,920 --> 03:31:07,120
important it is to have affordable transit. So even if we aren't meeting those targets ensuring

1875
03:31:07,120 --> 03:31:14,300
that we have laid out our position of why affordable transit is so important. And we do really

1876
03:31:14,300 --> 03:31:21,360
appreciate the work that this council has supported in keeping transit affordable. But again,

1877
03:31:21,360 --> 03:31:25,000
going into the election here, we want to make sure our position is very clearly about.

1878
03:31:27,440 --> 03:31:34,920
And with the art card, for example, that one is really more about providing that stakeholder

1879
03:31:34,920 --> 03:31:35,520
perspective.

1880
03:31:35,900 --> 03:31:43,360
So we know that ETS does a lot of work in evaluating the art card, but this would be really

1881
03:31:44,820 --> 03:31:55,220
specific to that user perspective, as well as sort of looking at not only the problems with it,

1882
03:31:55,440 --> 03:32:00,420
but that sort of step forward as we move into open payment. How is this rolling out?

1883
03:32:02,840 --> 03:32:04,660
How is it easy for users?

1884
03:32:05,560 --> 03:32:07,180
Where are the opportunities for improvement?

1885
03:32:08,060 --> 03:32:15,020
Okay, no, that's really helpful, so I think what I'm hearing from you is the way that this work kind of compliments.

1886
03:32:15,560 --> 03:32:23,120
Because you know, recognizing that I think city administration is doing detailed surveys of our users.

1887
03:32:23,380 --> 03:32:30,940
I think what I'm hearing is that you're really bringing in sort of that qualitative or storytelling side of the picture.

1888
03:32:30,940 --> 03:32:37,640
So, it's not necessarily quantitative, statistically valid surveys necessarily, but again,

1889
03:32:37,840 --> 03:32:45,160
sort of that personal side, you know, representing those perspectives.

1890
03:32:47,060 --> 03:32:47,960
Is that kind of the idea?

1891
03:32:48,500 --> 03:32:55,620
We really want to focus on that user perspective and bring sort of our expertise to the table as transit users.

1892
03:32:55,620 --> 03:33:00,620
Mm-hmm. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Well, thank you. Thank you so much for that and thanks for the work that you do.

1893
03:33:02,420 --> 03:33:03,220
Thank you.

1894
03:33:03,680 --> 03:33:04,820
Thank you so much.

1895
03:33:05,560 --> 03:33:09,220
Not seeing further questions. Is there anyone who would like to speak to this item?

1896
03:33:14,490 --> 03:33:15,050
Councillor Rutherford.

1897
03:33:16,050 --> 03:33:19,230
Yeah, I just want to end with some gratitude.

1898
03:33:21,010 --> 03:33:28,590
I think many might recall. There's been like a quite a huge change in the composition of ETS advisory board in the last little while

1899
03:33:28,590 --> 03:33:34,130
and new leadership and Emily's done amazing work in that capacity.

1900
03:33:35,010 --> 03:33:39,790
But I think Councillor Stevenson touched on something that is, I think this committee

1901
03:33:39,790 --> 03:33:44,330
is particularly grappled with, which is, ETS does have a lot of data.

1902
03:33:44,910 --> 03:33:46,770
They do collect a lot of information.

1903
03:33:47,730 --> 03:33:55,450
And so where does the advisory board fit into that to both augment, but also provide a different

1904
03:33:55,450 --> 03:34:07,770
valued expertise lens for council decision-making, and so they really grappled with that at the last retreat that Emily was mentioning here.

1905
03:34:07,970 --> 03:34:11,290
And I think art card is perfect example of last time it came forward.

1906
03:34:11,330 --> 03:34:17,650
It was more of an analysis of the art card. This year they're really focused on that user experience.

1907
03:34:17,650 --> 03:34:25,770
What are some of those things that that might be worth considering for council as we move far forward with the art card roll out?

1908
03:34:26,230 --> 03:34:30,510
The funding fair gap was one that I would have the pleasure to drop in for a part portion of

1909
03:34:31,390 --> 03:34:34,750
That retreat and I did highlight to them. You know

1910
03:34:34,750 --> 03:34:40,670
Council is making so many decisions now in 2025 and into

1911
03:34:40,670 --> 03:34:47,790
twenty twenty six related to transit related to fair amounts at that point we didn't know

1912
03:34:47,790 --> 03:34:53,330
if the province was going to come to the table with the the funding for the low income

1913
03:34:53,330 --> 03:34:59,430
transit pass and if we were going to have to fill that gap further. So I was just providing

1914
03:34:59,430 --> 03:35:04,990
that context of that when we're talking about advisory committees we are making a lot of decisions

1915
03:35:04,990 --> 03:35:11,170
about funding and transit. So that's, I think, the intent that working with ETS advisory board

1916
03:35:11,170 --> 03:35:15,350
they came up with around the funding gap, not doing the work of necessarily addressing the

1917
03:35:15,350 --> 03:35:22,110
funding gap but also why the choices we make on transit to expand transit to invest in more

1918
03:35:22,110 --> 03:35:30,870
buses, to invest in more service hours, to make our debts and our on demand more reliable and

1919
03:35:30,870 --> 03:35:38,190
every day was the key there. Obviously, I didn't have any influence on this one, but I love the

1920
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prep friendly transit one and I can't wait and I think Emily really talked about it a lot in

1921
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terms of there is other things to consider. There's so much it seems so easy and so straightforward

1922
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of course like dogs on trains, woo, but then it's like phobias and allergies and so many other layers

1923
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and so I think it's going to be a really interesting report and I'm so excited for for that and then

1924
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mapping and the navigation. The more we can make our systems more

1925
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navigate to navigate for the user and from a user perspective, the

1926
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better we can build the systems that that actually do create that

1927
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reliability. And so I think that this work plan that ETS Advisory Board

1928
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has come forward with is really topical, really focused on their expertise and

1929
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knowledge that they bring as active and avid transit users and individuals that are just plainly

1930
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passionate about transit. They love transit, they believe in it, they use it and they see the

1931
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the overall benefit. And so I'm so honored and humbled every time I get to go to an ETS advisory board

1932
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meeting and here they're brilliant perspectives and learn from them each and every day that I've

1933
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been able to do that. So thank you so much for this awesome presentation and for the great

1934
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work you did in 2024 and I'm looking forward to seeing what ETS Advisory Board does in 2025.

1935
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Thank you. Thank you, please vote. Yes.

1936
03:37:16,310 --> 03:37:16,990
Thank you, Councillor Gents.

1937
03:37:21,220 --> 03:37:22,600
I'm yes. Thank you, Councillor

1938
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price.

1939
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We have all the votes displayed in the vote.

1940
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That is care.

1941
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Great. Great. Well, thank you so much, Emily. Really appreciate you being with us today and all the work that you and the rest of the committee put into making our transit system as good as it can be and your dedication to continual improvement. It's really appreciated. I'm looking forward to the work ahead too. All right. So, I think we're just going to pause for a moment for a little bit of a gender management. Just to make sure we're all on the same page, before we break for dinner. And I'll just look to the city clerk.

1942
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We have three more committees left and my understanding is just based on timing and scheduling for those folks that will be coming back at 6 p.m.

1943
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to connect with wave followed by youth council and then the Edmonton Combat of Sports Commission.

1944
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That makes sense.

1945
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Okay.

1946
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Fantastic.

1947
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And nothing else that we were good?

1948
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Okay.

1949
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It was a lot of great.

1950
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Wonderful.

1951
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Okay.

1952
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We'll take a recess.

1953
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Tell 6pm.

1954
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Thank you so much everyone.

1955
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And I'll start with

1956
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Nothing Councilor Wright is here yet unless she's online.

1957
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Councillor Wright.

1958
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No, Councillor now.

1959
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Good evening.

1960
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Councillor Stevenson.

1961
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Sorry, Councillor Prince Pay.

1962
04:45:43,820 --> 04:45:44,260
Hello.

1963
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Hello, Councillor Stevenson.

1964
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Good evening.

1965
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Councillor for cat.

1966
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Councillor Tang.

1967
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I believe it's on her way.

1968
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Councillor Hamilton.

1969
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Good evening.

1970
04:46:02,580 --> 04:46:03,180
Good evening.

1971
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Councillor rather thanford.

1972
04:46:07,140 --> 04:46:07,780
Hello.

1973
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Counselor Carmel.

1974
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Counselor Rice.

1975
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Hello.

1976
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Counselor Jans.

1977
04:46:15,940 --> 04:46:16,140
Hello.

1978
04:46:17,620 --> 04:46:17,940
All right.

1979
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Okay.

1980
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So our next item is...

1981
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Uh...

1982
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Wave.

1983
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Wonderful.

1984
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Okay.

1985
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So we have both echo, Kaiser,

1986
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and JC Manine with us this evening from Wave.

1987
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And thank you both so much for being here.

1988
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We have some time for you to offer a bit of presentation in opening remarks, and then we'll go around to see if anyone has questions

1989
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So we'll turn things over to you. Please go ahead.

1990
04:46:49,880 --> 04:46:53,340
Hi, good evening everybody. I don't know why that's not it's so

1991
04:46:53,340 --> 04:47:01,020
Texan for a second, but yeah, really great good evening. Hi, man. I keep the gal. My name is JC Veneen. I am a

1992
04:47:01,020 --> 04:47:09,820
One of the two co-chairs newly elected back in November, 2024, and we're going to be presenting for you guys the animal report for 2024, really exciting.

1993
04:47:10,700 --> 04:47:12,220
So yeah, that's why we're all here.

1994
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But the animal report has been developed to meet the requirements of bylaw 18156 council committees bylaw, which sets out the animal reporting requirements for council committees, such as that we report to council at least once annually along with the approval of a work plan that lines with council strategic objectives.

1995
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and the Council Committee mandate, including a reporting of resources where provided in the previous year and the anticipated resource requirements for the upcoming year.

1996
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Cool, and the next slide. There you go. Thank you. Waves mandate is as followed.

1997
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Provide recommendations to Council about women's and gender-based issues and opportunities in relation to Council policies, priorities, and decisions.

1998
04:47:55,320 --> 04:48:08,360
promote leadership development, to empower administrative women to fully participate in civic life and research and provide information and resources about women's gender-based issues and opportunities to Edmontonians.

1999
04:48:08,840 --> 04:48:23,920
Below, we have strategic goals, not number one, advocate to Edmonton City Council on critical issues affecting women and gender-diverse people to improve quality of life for women and gender-diverse people and a misquite what the Hygan, what the Hygan, sorry.

2000
04:48:23,920 --> 04:48:30,540
And power, women, and gender diverse people to get involved in different ways with municipal government.

2001
04:48:35,100 --> 04:48:36,080
Next slide, please.

2002
04:48:36,840 --> 04:48:37,540
Thank you.

2003
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All right.

2004
04:48:39,120 --> 04:48:43,460
So this is a bit of a summary of the progress that we made in 2024.

2005
04:48:44,260 --> 04:48:49,980
So some of that was we successfully rallied for the creation of A2S LGBTQIA plus action plan for

2006
04:48:49,980 --> 04:48:55,340
single one of our mandate. We also successfully finished equity and motion strongly with

2007
04:48:55,340 --> 04:48:59,660
excellent community turnout for filling goal three of our mandate. We also completed engagement

2008
04:48:59,660 --> 04:49:03,900
with the vehicle for higher team enabling proper training to be mandated for drivers and the

2009
04:49:03,900 --> 04:49:09,260
fling goal two of our mandate. And we also increased overall community engagement through the expansion

2010
04:49:09,260 --> 04:49:14,000
of our social media following across all platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn

2011
04:49:14,000 --> 04:49:17,960
allowing for more efficient methods of communication with Edmontonians.

2012
04:49:19,000 --> 04:49:19,940
Next slide please.

2013
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So summary for goal 2.

2014
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Just a overview of this.

2015
04:49:26,560 --> 04:49:30,840
We had diligent engagement with the community safety and well-being strategy team.

2016
04:49:31,160 --> 04:49:34,500
And it's going to be a plus lens was taken in all aspects of the initiative.

2017
04:49:35,380 --> 04:49:39,780
And input resulted in missing aspects of the project being identified and adjusted accordingly.

2018
04:49:39,780 --> 04:49:46,420
We also required training and acted to decrease incidents of discrimination or negative

2019
04:49:46,420 --> 04:49:51,060
writer experience based on gender, religion, ability and sexuality, engagement with the

2020
04:49:51,060 --> 04:49:56,500
transit safety initiative resulted in perspective taken into account that we're not previously

2021
04:49:56,500 --> 04:50:00,960
considered and increased social media following has allowed for greater community engagement

2022
04:50:00,960 --> 04:50:03,420
which is a key tenant of our work.

2023
04:50:05,280 --> 04:50:11,580
And for goal 3, summary of our progress for this, we increased our social meeting engagement,

2024
04:50:11,800 --> 04:50:13,600
following the equity and motion speaker series.

2025
04:50:14,080 --> 04:50:18,160
As was previously mentioned, this increased our community engagement and empowerment strategy.

2026
04:50:19,100 --> 04:50:23,500
We're starting on the creation of a more online content to further empower women and

2027
04:50:23,500 --> 04:50:24,280
generators people.

2028
04:50:25,000 --> 04:50:28,600
We also did a lot of work in magnifying the work of existing organizations,

2029
04:50:29,280 --> 04:50:31,740
which resulted in excellent turnout engagement with their programs.

2030
04:50:31,740 --> 04:50:40,580
further in their mission and the mandate of wave intern and we also had a vast reduction in chair burn out following the implementation of the co-chair model

2031
04:50:40,580 --> 04:50:43,270
Demonstrating the success of this leadership model

2032
04:50:44,240 --> 04:50:51,820
So no co-chair has needed to take a leave of absence contrary to the prior trend of chairs or vice chairs needing to take a leave that was consistent

2033
04:50:51,820 --> 04:50:57,150
Issue that we had noticed and implementing the co-chair model did effectively deal with that problem and

2034
04:50:57,150 --> 04:51:03,330
And we have continued advocacy to reduce burnout among women and gender diverse volunteers and counselors.

2035
04:51:07,650 --> 04:51:08,390
Next slide.

2036
04:51:08,610 --> 04:51:10,630
There we go, thank you.

2037
04:51:11,070 --> 04:51:11,430
Here we go.

2038
04:51:11,510 --> 04:51:16,950
In addition to the aforementioned, we also took on website management, social media management,

2039
04:51:17,110 --> 04:51:20,850
and we met with Edmonton Youth Council, Accessibility Advisory Committee,

2040
04:51:21,410 --> 04:51:26,410
and Energy Transition Climate Resilience Committee to speak with the mayor about the fall budget adjustment.

2041
04:51:26,410 --> 04:51:35,170
We also attended City Hall School events on multiple occasions and attended J. Percy Page High School to teach leadership class about wave.

2042
04:51:35,930 --> 04:51:38,710
We also, I believe, next slide.

2043
04:51:39,970 --> 04:51:47,890
Yes, the things to note for topics and motions for the first quarter are the ongoing discussion to include gender diverse people in the mandate.

2044
04:51:47,890 --> 04:52:01,530
The approval of the Strategic Plan and Work Plan for 2024-2026 involvement with the LRT Infrastructure Planning and Mass Transit Discussion and having a handed approval of the Queer Specific Advisory Committee.

2045
04:52:01,970 --> 04:52:04,930
Number eight also for the second and third quarter.

2046
04:52:05,190 --> 04:52:14,350
We were also involved in priority growth area, rezoning project, approved projects like the active citizen series and a continuation of equity and motion.

2047
04:52:14,350 --> 04:52:19,910
We're also involved in the CSWB strategy in the Violence Prevention Action Plan.

2048
04:52:20,570 --> 04:52:27,510
And finally, for the last quarter, the Co-Chair Model Pilot was a success and was amended into our bylaw.

2049
04:52:28,030 --> 04:52:29,970
We're involved in the fall budget discussion.

2050
04:52:30,000 --> 04:52:48,900
We had co-chair nominations and liais with the eminent police commission. New policy, subcommittee co-chairs, and we also had discussions about what our social media presence was going to look like after Paredo's contract ended. Also, we were involved in the Affordable Housing Investment Policy.

2051
04:52:51,360 --> 04:53:00,240
Oh, we're a couple of slides behind. Sorry. There we go. Okay, next one more slide and then one more.

2052
04:53:00,900 --> 04:53:08,940
There we go. Now we're here. For a communication, we sent many, but the highlights are the public spaces by law briefing.

2053
04:53:09,240 --> 04:53:17,660
The briefing on safe and inclusive public spaces related to the queer advisory committee, a letter regarding the corporate homelessness plan.

2054
04:53:17,660 --> 04:53:20,940
and the letter regarding the fall budget adjustment.

2055
04:53:22,180 --> 04:53:26,020
Our current membership is as follows on the screen, and that's next slide.

2056
04:53:26,840 --> 04:53:29,140
Sorry, I talk very fast. Sorry.

2057
04:53:30,640 --> 04:53:32,980
Our current membership is as follows on the screen.

2058
04:53:33,200 --> 04:53:37,460
We have a couple people leaving, but we're just finishing up our recruitment cycle.

2059
04:53:45,390 --> 04:53:49,990
So for the work plan for the incoming year,

2060
04:53:50,290 --> 04:53:53,290
I'm going to talk a little bit about that next slide, please.

2061
04:53:53,290 --> 04:54:01,670
So some of the outcomes is developing a framework and process developed to streamline the process.

2062
04:54:02,190 --> 04:54:05,570
Subject matter, expert network developed and consulted as needed.

2063
04:54:06,010 --> 04:54:12,430
Brief submitted to council on areas of concern and engage with council on critical issues related to the wave mandate.

2064
04:54:12,510 --> 04:54:16,830
You can see the action items outlined here for that for goal 1.

2065
04:54:16,830 --> 04:54:21,490
for goal 2. If you can go to the next slide, please.

2066
04:54:23,370 --> 04:54:28,050
So, again, for this one, we have relevant city of Edmonton branches, are informed

2067
04:54:28,050 --> 04:54:29,850
and engaged on waves area of interest.

2068
04:54:30,590 --> 04:54:34,050
Waves impact is measured through a tracking framework that was previously mentioned.

2069
04:54:34,590 --> 04:54:38,770
Research sharing is implemented into the social media strategy, as well as encouraging feedback

2070
04:54:38,770 --> 04:54:43,970
from community. An input section will be added to the website to allow for direct communication

2071
04:54:43,970 --> 04:54:48,590
with community on key issues that directly affect them, and implementation of the financial

2072
04:54:48,590 --> 04:54:52,590
Friday's project in the Indigenous Learning Series on social media and the Wave website.

2073
04:54:59,820 --> 04:55:04,660
So, also part of our empower women and digital diverse people get involved with different ways.

2074
04:55:04,840 --> 04:55:09,680
We also have help women and gender diverse people learn about how to engage with council on critical

2075
04:55:09,680 --> 04:55:15,060
issues, identifying support groups that help promote gender diversity on council, civic engagement,

2076
04:55:15,060 --> 04:55:21,100
Identify areas to reduce burnout with women and gender-diverse people on council and on with.

2077
04:55:21,540 --> 04:55:28,560
Identify and advocate for the removal of barriers to civic engagement that would disproportionately affect women and gender-diverse people.

2078
04:55:28,900 --> 04:55:35,000
We also have equity in motion, the podcast will act as a continuation of original equity in motion speaker series.

2079
04:55:35,400 --> 04:55:40,560
But the podcast format will make the project more accessible and allow for a wider reach.

2080
04:55:40,560 --> 04:55:46,960
This project continues the work of the original speaker series by educating and empowering women to get

2081
04:55:46,960 --> 04:55:51,640
and gendered diverse people to get involved in municipal governments through various areas of impact.

2082
04:55:52,600 --> 04:55:58,900
The active citizenship social media and website project will further act as an education and empowerment tool

2083
04:55:59,160 --> 04:56:03,900
and then the continued with the involvement with City Health School.

2084
04:56:06,970 --> 04:56:15,130
So, in line with goal one, we would like to request the policy subcommittee to be continued as it was from last year.

2085
04:56:15,270 --> 04:56:23,510
This subcommittee will continue to be tasked with drafting briefing notes, letters, and conducting additional research all to be deliberated during main committee meetings.

2086
04:56:24,070 --> 04:56:33,130
While the committee as a whole will contribute to thought leadership, the actual drafting, editing, and gathering of information will be undertaken within the policy subcommittee.

2087
04:56:33,130 --> 04:56:38,890
So, motions pertinent to this endeavor will be proposed by the committee as a whole during the

2088
04:56:38,890 --> 04:56:41,310
regular meetings for the subcommittee to address.

2089
04:56:41,870 --> 04:56:46,970
Transfine this workload to the subcommittee will allow for the main monthly meetings to

2090
04:56:46,970 --> 04:56:52,810
prioritize delegation actions and discussions given the time intensive nature of drafting

2091
04:56:52,810 --> 04:56:57,950
and compiling involving the entire committee is more or less unnecessary for that.

2092
04:56:57,950 --> 04:57:02,950
Moreover, Swift Action is often required when submitting letters and correspondences to

2093
04:57:02,950 --> 04:57:08,050
Edmonton City Council and a dedicated subcommittee can ensure accountability and proactive

2094
04:57:08,050 --> 04:57:13,190
engagements among its members facilitating timely research and initial drafts.

2095
04:57:13,590 --> 04:57:18,150
Administrative supports to run the subcommittee will be required with respect to attending the

2096
04:57:18,150 --> 04:57:21,590
monthly meetings, live streaming and subcommittee agendas and meeting minutes.

2097
04:57:22,470 --> 04:57:26,450
A co-chair model will be maintained for the subcommittee to ensure accountability and

2098
04:57:26,450 --> 04:57:30,230
work in the work and to for the reduced burnouts

2099
04:57:32,790 --> 04:57:36,570
and that's it. I don't have any questions for us.

2100
04:57:37,690 --> 04:57:43,230
Great, well thank you so much for the presentation and thorough overview. I'll go to

2101
04:57:44,410 --> 04:57:48,550
Councillor Rutherford if you'd like to put the motion on the floor and if you have any questions.

2102
04:57:49,890 --> 04:57:54,070
Yeah, I'll move that the women's advisory voice of Edmonton's committee request to establish

2103
04:57:54,070 --> 04:58:01,370
one subcommittee for the 2025 Work Plan as LINE and Attachment 3, be approved.

2104
04:58:04,270 --> 04:58:04,450
Great.

2105
04:58:04,650 --> 04:58:05,470
And do you have any questions?

2106
04:58:07,270 --> 04:58:08,010
Yes,

2107
04:58:11,650 --> 04:58:19,630
you mentioned the podcast as one of the actions for 2025, when is the first

2108
04:58:19,630 --> 04:58:20,430
one going to drop?

2109
04:58:21,770 --> 04:58:24,690
It is currently slated for the end of March.

2110
04:58:25,410 --> 04:58:25,890
Amazing.

2111
04:58:26,670 --> 04:58:27,870
I mean, and what's that topic on?

2112
04:58:27,890 --> 04:58:29,550
Can you just give, give, give,

2113
04:58:30,050 --> 04:58:32,970
the many end-mentonians that are listening today.

2114
04:58:34,710 --> 04:58:36,430
A teaser in what they,

2115
04:58:37,590 --> 04:58:40,170
Sure, so the first episode is going to be talking about

2116
04:58:40,170 --> 04:58:43,110
the world of women and gender diverse people in sports

2117
04:58:43,110 --> 04:58:45,410
and how that relates to municipal governance.

2118
04:58:46,090 --> 04:58:48,670
We're also going to be having another episode on law

2119
04:58:48,670 --> 04:58:51,070
and then the last one will be a social activism.

2120
04:58:52,570 --> 04:58:54,570
Great, very cool.

2121
04:58:55,210 --> 04:58:55,990
So anybody listening?

2122
04:58:56,930 --> 04:58:58,230
Watch for it to drop.

2123
04:59:03,310 --> 04:59:07,770
I asked the same question to the ETS advisor board as the council appointed member there.

2124
04:59:08,510 --> 04:59:18,570
I think that there is just a challenge around some of the sequencing, and I know because you're wanting to give the women in gender diverse perspective on things that affect

2125
04:59:18,570 --> 04:59:27,530
decisions of council and then sometimes again I mentioned if the report's not coming out and then by the time the report comes out

2126
04:59:27,530 --> 04:59:31,850
You don't have another committee of the whole in which to approve it. Is it really challenging?

2127
04:59:31,970 --> 04:59:39,050
So I just wanted to give you space to sort of talk a bit about that and how council can support

2128
04:59:39,610 --> 04:59:44,350
That like sequencing for you for you for way to be able to successfully share their voice

2129
04:59:50,330 --> 04:59:56,650
That is something that we've had a fair bit of difficulty with in the past that we've had very quick turnaround

2130
04:59:56,650 --> 04:59:59,970
We're talking like a few days to we hear about an issue and then

2131
05:00:00,000 --> 05:00:09,220
And then we have to very quickly draft a letter or some kind of briefing, which is very difficult when you have people that work full-time day jobs.

2132
05:00:09,580 --> 05:00:16,100
That's part of what the policies of committee will help with, but having a little bit more warning when things are coming out.

2133
05:00:16,240 --> 05:00:23,460
So we have time to discuss as a committee. So we're not having to scramble via email to figure out what position we're going to take on certain things.

2134
05:00:23,460 --> 05:00:29,300
Does having a little bit more worrying for things would be appreciated?

2135
05:00:30,880 --> 05:00:30,960
Yes.

2136
05:00:31,720 --> 05:00:32,300
Thank you.

2137
05:00:32,300 --> 05:00:38,460
And I'm going to ask each of you what is one thing that you want to highlight is a pressing

2138
05:00:40,420 --> 05:00:43,200
thing that as a woman or gender diverse person.

2139
05:00:44,480 --> 05:00:50,260
What is a pressing thing that council needs to be thinking about with regards to making decisions

2140
05:00:50,260 --> 05:00:53,080
for women and gender diverse folks.

2141
05:00:56,690 --> 05:01:01,010
I think one of the biggest things just because things are getting so expensive right now

2142
05:01:01,010 --> 05:01:08,230
is just considering that budget and then also considering just, I feel like as someone

2143
05:01:08,230 --> 05:01:13,430
that is a woman that, you know, is taking care of my family and everything, it's getting so

2144
05:01:13,430 --> 05:01:15,490
expensive out there times are really tough.

2145
05:01:15,830 --> 05:01:20,830
I live downtown, I see a lot of people that are, that are helpless, that are really struggling

2146
05:01:20,830 --> 05:01:26,110
out there as well and it's just a matter of one looking at her budget, looking at all the expenses

2147
05:01:26,110 --> 05:01:31,690
that are just going to be increasing because we're heading into a horrible, horrible year when

2148
05:01:31,690 --> 05:01:35,950
it comes to money issues but if that's something that can be considered that would be awesome

2149
05:01:35,950 --> 05:01:41,730
but also if we can also add just a lot more consideration we're thinking about our houseless neighbors

2150
05:01:41,730 --> 05:01:45,730
as well. You know these are people that I'm on but I see every morning when I'm going to work

2151
05:01:45,730 --> 05:01:50,530
and they're my neighbors too and so thinking about them I think that would be really awesome as well.

2152
05:01:54,010 --> 05:02:03,330
For me, as a gender diverse person, somebody that's very visibly a trans person, there are many places in the city that I do not go.

2153
05:02:03,470 --> 05:02:10,070
There are places that I avoid. When I'm in public, I don't use the public washrooms. I don't belong in the men's washroom,

2154
05:02:10,290 --> 05:02:16,530
because I'm scared of being harassed or hate-crimeed, and I don't want to go into the women's washroom because I don't want to make women uncomfortable.

2155
05:02:16,530 --> 05:02:21,670
This is something that affects me and pretty much any other generous person that you ask.

2156
05:02:21,930 --> 05:02:29,570
I can guarantee we all have at least one story of getting nasty looks or being approached in the washrooms.

2157
05:02:30,010 --> 05:02:33,670
Or just like being in public and not feeling like I am welcome.

2158
05:02:34,310 --> 05:02:38,850
Or for those of us that have not had the money or the time to legally change our name.

2159
05:02:39,070 --> 05:02:46,130
They're often a lot of spaces that force you to use your legal name and don't give you a space to put a preferred name

2160
05:02:46,130 --> 05:02:48,710
or to put pronouns, things like that.

2161
05:02:48,710 --> 05:02:50,630
These are things that I think about every single day.

2162
05:02:50,690 --> 05:02:53,250
These are things that all trans people think about every single day.

2163
05:02:53,370 --> 05:02:55,290
So I would strongly encourage everybody on council

2164
05:02:55,750 --> 05:02:57,390
to consider that at the very least,

2165
05:02:57,470 --> 05:02:59,190
when we're thinking about washrooms and public spaces,

2166
05:02:59,350 --> 05:03:00,430
we all need to use the washroom.

2167
05:03:00,690 --> 05:03:02,390
And I want to be able to use the washroom,

2168
05:03:02,550 --> 05:03:04,270
safety, safely, and in comfort.

2169
05:03:05,610 --> 05:03:06,890
Great, thank you so much.

2170
05:03:07,330 --> 05:03:07,970
Thank you.

2171
05:03:08,530 --> 05:03:09,130
It comes to a rate.

2172
05:03:10,350 --> 05:03:11,390
Thank you very much.

2173
05:03:11,550 --> 05:03:15,250
I'm just wondering about with peridose contract,

2174
05:03:15,250 --> 05:03:23,110
Running out? How are you going to manage those communications do you have like specific people on

2175
05:03:23,110 --> 05:03:30,410
committee or? Yes, so when we found out about that we very quickly created a social media

2176
05:03:31,090 --> 05:03:37,410
kind of ad hoc workforce to deal with that. So it's not an official subcommittee by any means and

2177
05:03:37,410 --> 05:03:44,730
the capacity is reduced compared to when we had formal social media support but we do have a few

2178
05:03:44,730 --> 05:03:48,850
people that handle a lot of our social media and our website.

2179
05:03:49,410 --> 05:03:50,770
OK, so that spread out as well.

2180
05:03:50,970 --> 05:03:53,590
So you're not going to get burnout of those volunteers, either.

2181
05:03:54,430 --> 05:03:57,690
Yeah, we actually reached out to the Edmonton Youth Council

2182
05:03:57,690 --> 05:03:59,490
because they managed their own social media.

2183
05:03:59,530 --> 05:04:02,610
So we asked them how they do it, and they gave us a very comprehensive

2184
05:04:02,610 --> 05:04:05,130
overview of how they managed the social media

2185
05:04:05,130 --> 05:04:07,910
while also considering burnout and the stress of the volunteers.

2186
05:04:08,290 --> 05:04:10,890
That's awesome to hear that you are reaching out to others.

2187
05:04:11,290 --> 05:04:11,930
OK, great to hear.

2188
05:04:11,930 --> 05:04:19,170
Um, because JC, you were kind of, you weren't looking as comfortable or as confident as echo was in that response.

2189
05:04:19,790 --> 05:04:21,770
You, you got a little more hesitation on that?

2190
05:04:22,430 --> 05:04:28,530
No, I think, uh, with wave, I've, they've done nothing but an awesome job when it came to social media.

2191
05:04:28,610 --> 05:04:33,930
I think, um, when we're looking at, I think, I feel like with wave we're still in those,

2192
05:04:34,730 --> 05:04:37,790
and think those building block stages where we're looking at, you know,

2193
05:04:38,330 --> 05:04:46,790
how much do we want to speak and how much do we want to say on certain topics, what can we say on certain topics and stuff like that and so it's

2194
05:04:47,330 --> 05:04:54,770
but I have full trust in wave and I think social media thus far if you've checked out our pages then really actually really really nice

2195
05:04:54,770 --> 05:04:57,710
yeah it's been really clean and professional so it's looked really good.

2196
05:04:58,030 --> 05:05:02,790
okay awesome okay and actually then that just sort of made me think of something else too

2197
05:05:05,990 --> 05:05:18,270
How have you, and I asked this of the Accessibility Advisory Committee as well, how have you moved from an advocacy role into an advisory role

2198
05:05:20,640 --> 05:05:22,400
and how difficult was that?

2199
05:05:23,000 --> 05:05:26,220
That was something that took place over time.

2200
05:05:27,140 --> 05:05:31,720
It came about, I believe that changed happened a year or so ago at this point.

2201
05:05:31,720 --> 05:05:38,180
So just a matter of having that open discussion with the committee and refocusing what we were

2202
05:05:38,180 --> 05:05:42,600
doing, so that reflected in our strategic plan and our work plan, refocusing and making sure

2203
05:05:42,600 --> 05:05:49,440
that we are keeping in mind council's priorities and focusing on advising, instead of advocating

2204
05:05:49,440 --> 05:05:56,140
per se, which to me is sort of a tomato tomato issue, but for us it was more of a refocusing of

2205
05:05:56,140 --> 05:05:56,580
our work.

2206
05:05:56,580 --> 05:06:02,920
Okay, rather than sort of public advocacy, you were advocating to counsel in an advisory role?

2207
05:06:03,640 --> 05:06:04,140
Yes, that's okay.

2208
05:06:05,780 --> 05:06:13,160
And then in order to, the conflict, as Councillor Rutherford was talking about in the short

2209
05:06:13,160 --> 05:06:18,840
turnaround time for reports and that would it be your preference that maybe admin

2210
05:06:18,840 --> 05:06:23,440
connect with you prior to those reports even actually being printed?

2211
05:06:27,180 --> 05:06:39,700
And then one last question in regards to the speaker series and that with the law, one, do you have someone with that law background?

2212
05:06:39,920 --> 05:06:52,440
I don't want to see, all right, I'd hate to see as far as a sort of a liability against way for maybe providing inaccurate advice or

2213
05:06:53,600 --> 05:06:57,000
I can assure you that we reached out to subject matter experts.

2214
05:06:57,260 --> 05:07:00,520
We did not speak to things that I wouldn't speak to law.

2215
05:07:00,660 --> 05:07:05,040
I don't know about law, but we reached out to some lawyers that we knew.

2216
05:07:05,240 --> 05:07:08,680
So we had speakers come and speak with us.

2217
05:07:08,780 --> 05:07:09,460
We asked them questions.

2218
05:07:09,620 --> 05:07:10,900
They gave really amazing information.

2219
05:07:11,080 --> 05:07:12,580
That goes for all three of the episodes.

2220
05:07:12,820 --> 05:07:17,340
We had subject matter experts come in and talk with us and answer our questions.

2221
05:07:17,500 --> 05:07:17,700
Okay.

2222
05:07:18,600 --> 05:07:19,140
So you're covered.

2223
05:07:19,280 --> 05:07:19,880
We're covered.

2224
05:07:20,400 --> 05:07:22,500
I did my due diligence, sorry.

2225
05:07:23,940 --> 05:07:25,560
I wouldn't have doubted less than that.

2226
05:07:25,900 --> 05:07:26,400
Thank you.

2227
05:07:27,240 --> 05:07:27,420
Great.

2228
05:07:30,000 --> 05:07:52,000
Thank you very much. And for the, for the, for the report and also the work plan for the 2025. I really appreciate the last of work projects and actions were taking any of the past year and then move forward to the future. So the few,

2229
05:07:52,000 --> 05:07:59,660
question here, and for the question one, because we have, yes, we have, we have like

2230
05:07:59,660 --> 05:08:06,180
woman, woman voice, and a specific woman voice, I just want to get a sense of diversity

2231
05:08:06,180 --> 05:08:07,100
site.

2232
05:08:07,880 --> 05:08:15,000
And by looking at, by looking at the activities or the events or project finished, and how

2233
05:08:15,000 --> 05:08:22,440
that diversity he refracts across like the or state or city has like over over 70

2234
05:08:22,440 --> 05:08:31,480
as a bit like the minority communities. How you balance that to get the representatives

2235
05:08:31,480 --> 05:08:39,360
of voice from different minority communities. So I would like to say a little bit more on

2236
05:08:39,360 --> 05:08:46,460
piece to really reflect that's equitable and then equality values there.

2237
05:08:50,880 --> 05:08:55,760
Yeah, with wave, a lot of our members are very diverse and we come from a lot of different

2238
05:08:56,440 --> 05:09:01,120
communities and backgrounds. Part of our recruitment actually is looking at a lot of our

2239
05:09:01,120 --> 05:09:10,480
different, I think we wanted to, we look at the gaps that we're missing, that we

2240
05:09:10,480 --> 05:09:16,000
actually didn't have a lot of members that were, that were her job, but we're Muslim.

2241
05:09:16,440 --> 05:09:20,380
And so we actually went, and that was something that we looked for when it came to recruitment

2242
05:09:20,380 --> 05:09:25,660
to come and have that representation as well. And I think in our recruitment, it'll definitely

2243
05:09:25,660 --> 05:09:31,460
reflect a wider range of different community members as well. When it comes to diverse folks from

2244
05:09:31,460 --> 05:09:36,840
across Edmonton, which is really nice. But yeah, we have a lot of different members that are

2245
05:09:36,840 --> 05:09:42,520
that have that really firm voice at the table, which is awesome.

2246
05:09:45,050 --> 05:09:46,270
Okay, thank you.

2247
05:09:46,970 --> 05:09:50,110
In terms of Tucson 25 work plan,

2248
05:09:50,450 --> 05:09:52,830
and then I'm so glad you see,

2249
05:09:53,150 --> 05:09:54,330
you have different goals,

2250
05:09:54,770 --> 05:09:56,170
and it's a really clear,

2251
05:09:56,170 --> 05:09:58,550
alt-mines and a new work plan.

2252
05:09:59,770 --> 05:10:01,550
Because Tucson 25 is easy,

2253
05:10:01,750 --> 05:10:02,650
like she is.

2254
05:10:03,490 --> 05:10:04,910
It's my understanding,

2255
05:10:04,910 --> 05:10:06,450
and we've got to change

2256
05:10:06,450 --> 05:10:15,310
from like advocacy role to advisor role. So, is there any specific, specific appoint or specific

2257
05:10:15,310 --> 05:10:24,790
thinking and how you separate your certain plan or your action and in a 2025 really

2258
05:10:24,790 --> 05:10:32,550
created that distance between the election and then our waves voice and activities?

2259
05:10:32,550 --> 05:10:33,810
When

2260
05:10:36,310 --> 05:10:41,550
you say election, are you referring to the municipal election or the culture?

2261
05:10:41,970 --> 05:10:45,890
Yes, the municipal, municipal election, because you talk about, I heard the presentation,

2262
05:10:46,290 --> 05:10:51,610
talk about some kind of election, with the city council or something, so how that distance

2263
05:10:51,610 --> 05:11:00,390
will be created and between that election, all the municipal elections and then, so also weaves

2264
05:11:00,390 --> 05:11:10,610
work and then, well, that dispense. I don't think that it's possible for us as a municipal

2265
05:11:10,610 --> 05:11:15,470
advisory committee to have distance from the election, because it directly affects both

2266
05:11:15,470 --> 05:11:22,470
of us in turn, us as a committee, and you as a counselor. So I'm not entirely sure what

2267
05:11:22,470 --> 05:11:27,210
you're asking because we are a product of council.

2268
05:11:31,920 --> 05:11:49,440
So, what I mean is for election, election years are so many activities going on, there's so many campaigns going on and what do you face with role and create that distance between you

2269
05:11:49,440 --> 05:11:57,140
actual projects and then between your projects, your actions and then all, and even when

2270
05:11:57,140 --> 05:12:04,440
you are doing the social media and the media and the campaign and a full certain candidates

2271
05:12:04,440 --> 05:12:10,940
and doing. So, is there any, any, any way to look at this other distance there?

2272
05:12:12,420 --> 05:12:17,760
Yeah, I think with Wave, something that we've done that is we're going to follow through for the

2273
05:12:17,760 --> 05:12:24,580
years actually reducing our scope quite a bit. So we'll be focusing a lot more on that advisory

2274
05:12:24,580 --> 05:12:30,120
piece with Council, so we'll be having a lot more of our boys be hopefully heard a lot more

2275
05:12:30,120 --> 05:12:34,000
with Council and we'll be working with Erin Rutherford as well, Councillor Erin Rutherford

2276
05:12:34,000 --> 05:12:39,060
Rutherford Rutherford is awesome. So that's something we'll be moving forward with as far as

2277
05:12:39,060 --> 05:12:45,020
projects are going again with their reduction in social media and a reduction in just um well

2278
05:12:45,020 --> 05:12:51,960
Our budget is fairly the same, which is great, but that's something we're looking at, especially for this new year,

2279
05:12:52,140 --> 05:12:56,200
and with this team that we have as well. So it's just that reducing that scope quite a bit,

2280
05:12:56,760 --> 05:12:59,900
by primarily focusing our efforts instead of being more outwardly,

2281
05:13:00,520 --> 05:13:04,360
we're, is that make sense? We're being a bit more inwardly and working directly with Council,

2282
05:13:04,620 --> 05:13:08,220
as we can. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. My time is out.

2283
05:13:08,800 --> 05:13:15,960
Councillor Tain. Yeah, great. Thank you. Yeah, that goal number three also really intrigued me as well.

2284
05:13:16,180 --> 05:13:21,160
And I think it's excellent that that you're making that one of your central work.

2285
05:13:22,540 --> 05:13:26,640
I mean, when I think about how we've started, it was by Councillor Bev, as ginger,

2286
05:13:26,800 --> 05:13:32,960
when there was only one woman on council. And then two. And so I think it's really important.

2287
05:13:32,960 --> 05:13:38,320
I guess my question is, you know, I do see there's a lot of organizations, groups in

2288
05:13:38,320 --> 05:13:41,520
eminent, kind of supporting similar efforts in civic engagement.

2289
05:13:41,900 --> 05:13:46,680
I know you're just mentioned that you're trying to work more internally, but are you aware

2290
05:13:46,680 --> 05:13:49,280
of them, are you connecting with them, are you partnering?

2291
05:13:50,960 --> 05:13:56,080
Definitely, for sure, we did get a fair few presentations from these organizations because part

2292
05:13:56,080 --> 05:13:59,940
of what we want to do is elevate the organizations that are already existing, that are doing

2293
05:13:59,940 --> 05:14:17,000
a fantastic work for women and gender diverse people in Edmonton, our scope as a council advisory committee is of course limited so we do we can in elevating the work of these organizations because it's falls within our area, but it does fall outside of our scope so in that way we're

2294
05:14:17,000 --> 05:14:23,740
support word sort of artificially inflating our scope by supporting these other organizations as well.

2295
05:14:23,740 --> 05:14:30,720
Yeah, I think because I do see a lot of parallels in seeing greater gender parity in municipal councils,

2296
05:14:30,940 --> 05:14:33,100
which I think is a real risk.

2297
05:14:33,940 --> 05:14:35,700
We may even lose the momentum we have.

2298
05:14:36,180 --> 05:14:38,740
That's certainly the conversation I'm hearing from.

2299
05:14:39,280 --> 05:14:42,660
Sorry, not in this room, but certainly a lot of colleagues across the province.

2300
05:14:44,420 --> 05:14:48,340
I think this group has reached out to myself and Councilor Rutherford,

2301
05:14:48,400 --> 05:14:53,020
but I just want to make sure you're aware about some of the research that came out a couple years ago.

2302
05:14:53,020 --> 05:14:59,140
with the barriers project that highlighted the challenges that women and gender diverse local

2303
05:14:59,140 --> 05:14:59,980
I'd like to finish all the things.

2304
05:15:01,100 --> 05:15:11,360
And is there a way to kind of build on that work, you know, are you connecting with them? And just want to make sure that they're on your way to her.

2305
05:15:11,580 --> 05:15:27,580
Interestingly, that you mentioned that a wave member had an idea for a project that has not been yet brought up at a wave meeting. So I can't actually say anything yet because it hasn't been discussed or approved just yet, but it is something that's on a rate of yes.

2306
05:15:27,580 --> 05:15:38,040
Thank you. I don't have any more questions, but I will say just really value, you know, you have a long history of doing very nonpartisan

2307
05:15:38,580 --> 05:15:47,000
Excellent community work and bowel raising the profile of a women in policy and politics, and so I just encourage you continue on that path. Thank you.

2308
05:15:48,630 --> 05:15:51,050
Councilor Roy, are you on for a second round?

2309
05:15:51,970 --> 05:15:52,810
Something like to move that?

2310
05:15:52,910 --> 05:15:53,370
It's all moved.

2311
05:15:54,790 --> 05:15:55,510
Please vote.

2312
05:16:01,670 --> 05:16:01,830
Yes.

2313
05:16:02,830 --> 05:16:03,490
Thank you, Councilor Roy.

2314
05:16:06,860 --> 05:16:07,100
Yes.

2315
05:16:07,760 --> 05:16:08,580
Thank you, Councillor Hartmel.

2316
05:16:08,720 --> 05:16:09,600
We have all the votes.

2317
05:16:09,740 --> 05:16:10,540
Just leave the vote.

2318
05:16:12,990 --> 05:16:13,210
That's carried.

2319
05:16:13,390 --> 05:16:13,830
Go ahead.

2320
05:16:14,830 --> 05:16:15,210
Thank you.

2321
05:16:15,810 --> 05:16:17,930
I just serve, I guess, following up, maybe,

2322
05:16:18,050 --> 05:16:19,950
from Councilor Roy's questions,

2323
05:16:22,110 --> 05:16:25,710
like you're not wave itself

2324
05:16:25,710 --> 05:16:26,890
being a product council.

2325
05:16:26,890 --> 05:16:30,250
you're not campaigning or endorsing any candidates?

2326
05:16:32,510 --> 05:16:33,390
No, because we cannot.

2327
05:16:33,970 --> 05:16:34,750
OK, OK.

2328
05:16:35,510 --> 05:16:38,870
I just wanted to make sure of that.

2329
05:16:39,450 --> 05:16:44,610
And then, but you are able to, well, no, maybe you can't either.

2330
05:16:45,250 --> 05:16:49,610
I'm about encouraging people to vote in the municipal election

2331
05:16:49,610 --> 05:16:52,250
is or is that more of an advocacy role?

2332
05:16:54,780 --> 05:17:00,160
That is something that we're going to be discussing actually relating to the upcoming

2333
05:17:00,160 --> 05:17:03,480
municipal election in our meeting tomorrow.

2334
05:17:04,020 --> 05:17:04,340
Okay.

2335
05:17:04,680 --> 05:17:06,800
Actually, so a lot of this is quite timely.

2336
05:17:07,040 --> 05:17:11,580
It's something that we are thinking about as a committee, as we come up to the municipal

2337
05:17:11,580 --> 05:17:11,960
elections.

2338
05:17:12,140 --> 05:17:15,020
We want to make sure that we're seeing continued gender parity.

2339
05:17:15,080 --> 05:17:20,120
That's part of our mandate is to empower women and gender diverse people to participate

2340
05:17:20,120 --> 05:17:21,120
in municipal governance.

2341
05:17:21,380 --> 05:17:22,540
So it's something that we do discuss.

2342
05:17:22,800 --> 05:17:22,860
Yes.

2343
05:17:22,960 --> 05:17:23,080
Okay.

2344
05:17:23,080 --> 05:17:30,060
Perfect. Awesome. And just thank you for continuing your presentations at City Hall School as well.

2345
05:17:30,200 --> 05:17:31,600
For God about that. Thank you.

2346
05:17:33,160 --> 05:17:36,660
Great. Thank you so much. Not seeing anyone else on for questions.

2347
05:17:37,180 --> 05:17:39,620
If there's anyone who would like to speak, you can sign up now.

2348
05:17:45,630 --> 05:17:47,290
Not but go to Councillor Rutherford.

2349
05:17:48,690 --> 05:17:51,290
Just clicking on to say to speak.

2350
05:17:51,290 --> 05:17:58,650
Well, first and foremost, you know, this is a 2024 report. I want to take a moment to think

2351
05:17:58,650 --> 05:18:07,690
the outgoing co-chairs that did an amazing job in 2024, so we had Julianne through fall,

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05:18:08,110 --> 05:18:18,510
and we had Arisa Jua that were on the co-chairs until November 2024, so a big part of last year,

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05:18:18,510 --> 05:18:48,430
And so, a lot of the credit for what has happened in 2024 is a result of them and every other member of Wave, of course, but I do want to just give them and then I want to say a big thank you to JC and Echo for stepping up and co-chairing together and jumping into that with your hearts and with the passion that I've seen you bringing every day, I have no doubt that 2025 will be amazing with the two of you at the helm.

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05:18:48,510 --> 05:18:54,310
And I want to thank Councillor Wright because Councillor Wright and I are also were co-appointed

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05:18:54,310 --> 05:18:57,950
in 2024 to—

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05:18:59,730 --> 05:19:02,290
So we had two Councillors appointed to WAVE.

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05:19:02,610 --> 05:19:07,870
We decided just from capacity and other things that it just made sense to just have one.

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05:19:08,630 --> 05:19:14,230
I was lucky enough to win the arm wrestle with Councillor Wright and not just kidding.

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05:19:15,250 --> 05:19:21,270
She's busy with commission work and I have really been passionate about this so I just want

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05:19:21,270 --> 05:19:26,910
to say thank you for her being there for when we first both got appointed and all of the

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05:19:26,910 --> 05:19:34,210
collective we work we did I think it's helped me to take that baton and keep running.

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05:19:37,340 --> 05:19:43,660
When it comes to advisory I think that that transition has been hard for many of our committees

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05:19:43,660 --> 05:19:52,680
And the wave is no doubt I think Councillor Tang really highlighted it well of the birth

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05:19:52,680 --> 05:19:59,300
of this committee was from a very different space in a very different time when there was

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05:19:59,300 --> 05:20:06,480
a lone woman on council and there was many women issues facing our city that still exists

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05:20:06,480 --> 05:20:11,640
today, but there wasn't the same voice on council to represent that.

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05:20:11,640 --> 05:20:17,920
But that being said, I think Councillor Rice brings up a very good point around, that there's still

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barriers for by-pock folks to have a seat at this table.

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05:20:23,620 --> 05:20:29,840
I still think about how we've never had a black representative on city council in our history as

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05:20:29,840 --> 05:20:30,660
Edmontonians.

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05:20:31,440 --> 05:20:36,100
And so it is still a comment upon us, even though we have reached parity and I hope we

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05:20:36,100 --> 05:20:43,240
pain parity for in 2021 around women and men.

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05:20:44,220 --> 05:20:50,040
I would love to see some gender-diverse folks, or trans folks at the table.

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05:20:50,060 --> 05:20:55,160
I'd like to see some more BIPOC folks at the table, so there's still more work to be done.

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05:20:55,320 --> 05:21:00,320
And I think Wave has a big role in making sure that that intersectionality is always at

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05:21:00,320 --> 05:21:05,440
the forefront of our minds and our thoughts and continues to keep pushing us and challenging

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05:21:05,440 --> 05:21:12,220
us to make safe and inclusive spaces that we're pushing for and I want to thank my council

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05:21:12,220 --> 05:21:16,800
colleagues for you know everything that wave is brought forward from the vehicle for higher

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05:21:16,800 --> 05:21:23,500
to the safe and inclusive spaces have been resoundedly supported by this council and so I

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05:21:23,500 --> 05:21:27,880
thank my colleagues for that too. Look forward to working with you more in 2025.

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05:21:30,280 --> 05:21:31,480
Please vote. Thank you.

2382
05:21:42,820 --> 05:21:44,140
Yes. Thank you guys for coming.

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05:21:50,070 --> 05:21:52,150
Councilor Rutherford, which is waiting for your vote.

2384
05:21:52,650 --> 05:21:55,250
Yes. Thank you. We have all the votes.

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05:21:55,510 --> 05:21:56,130
Display the vote.

2386
05:21:59,540 --> 05:22:00,840
That's carried. Excellent.

2387
05:22:01,500 --> 05:22:02,860
Thanks so much for this discussion everyone.

2388
05:22:03,480 --> 05:22:05,060
And thank you both for being with us today.

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05:22:06,440 --> 05:22:10,620
Yeah, I really appreciate everything that you're doing as part of Wave.

2390
05:22:11,440 --> 05:22:13,260
And looking forward to the podcast too.

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05:22:14,620 --> 05:22:15,680
I'll add to my list.

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05:22:15,820 --> 05:22:18,400
I edited that myself. So hopefully it's good.

2393
05:22:18,880 --> 05:22:24,360
Amazing! Amazing! Okay, well well well well, well at it. Thank you both so much. All right, we're gonna

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05:22:24,360 --> 05:22:29,020
move on to our next item. You can feel free to stick around, but it's up to you!

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Next up, we're going to go to City Department to Newt Council. And I believe Ali and Angelina are joining us online, they are joining us online, you know, fantastic.

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All right. Ali and Angelina, are you on with us?

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05:22:52,190 --> 05:23:00,370
Yes, are you animals? Yes, there we go. Very nice to see both of you. We have your slide deck up and ready to go.

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So we're going to give you a bit of time to walk us through that and then we'll transition over to some questions from counselors.

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Have you had the floor?

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Yes.

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05:23:10,650 --> 05:23:11,610
Okay, awesome.

2402
05:23:13,730 --> 05:23:14,210
Yeah, sorry.

2403
05:23:14,630 --> 05:23:18,510
Just before we get started, should I just call out like slide for this slide?

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05:23:18,890 --> 05:23:19,290
Yes.

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05:23:19,310 --> 05:23:20,070
That would be great.

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05:23:20,590 --> 05:23:21,170
Okay, awesome.

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05:23:22,430 --> 05:23:22,530
Yeah.

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05:23:22,910 --> 05:23:23,370
Good evening.

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05:23:23,410 --> 05:23:24,130
Good evening.

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05:23:24,550 --> 05:23:24,610
Everyone.

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05:23:24,970 --> 05:23:26,030
My name is Ali Ahmed.

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and I am the COVID or one of the coaches for this

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05:23:28,390 --> 05:23:29,950
adjournance in Youth Council this term.

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05:23:30,710 --> 05:23:33,670
And I'm Angelina Reina, the other co-chair for this term.

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05:23:34,210 --> 05:23:35,010
Slide please.

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05:23:37,030 --> 05:23:37,610
Thank you.

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05:23:37,950 --> 05:23:40,930
Yeah, this year actually marks CUC's 30th anniversary,

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05:23:41,370 --> 05:23:44,470
so we are especially excited to be presenting to you this evening.

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05:23:46,830 --> 05:23:48,750
Our agenda for today is as follows.

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05:23:49,170 --> 05:23:52,990
First we'll talk about what is CUC then where did these starts

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05:23:52,990 --> 05:23:54,330
at the beginning of the term.

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05:23:54,330 --> 05:23:58,270
then where are we now and finally where are we heading?

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05:23:59,010 --> 05:23:59,250
Slide.

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05:24:02,780 --> 05:24:12,220
So our mission as the City of Edmonton Youth Council is to educate and empower youth to provide meaningful input and to take action on local issues and useful politics.

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05:24:12,920 --> 05:24:17,880
We do so through our mandate of providing information advice to the Council according by law.

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05:24:19,980 --> 05:24:26,600
And we do this by in relation to issues involving or affecting youth by empowering our members through leadership,

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05:24:26,600 --> 05:24:28,520
training and service opportunities.

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05:24:29,380 --> 05:24:33,060
See you, I see membership is composed of young people aged 13 to 23.

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05:24:33,920 --> 05:24:38,820
Now, this demographic tends to be the most engaged on local issues, but has the least power

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05:24:38,820 --> 05:24:41,060
on paper, at least in affecting them.

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05:24:41,100 --> 05:24:46,100
As people under 18 can't vote, and most youth up to 23 are self and actually dependent.

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05:24:46,520 --> 05:24:50,940
So, USC is so important because it provides youth and avenue for real action on local issues.

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05:24:50,940 --> 05:24:56,000
And this does truly contribute to the personal development and political education of young

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05:24:56,000 --> 05:24:56,540
people.

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05:24:56,780 --> 05:25:01,900
A lot of CYC members come on to work in council offices, their schools, unions, and they

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05:25:01,900 --> 05:25:05,900
continue to develop skills that they began to first nurture in CYC.

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05:25:08,300 --> 05:25:13,320
In there are over 180,000 people between the ages of 10 and 24 living in Edmonton, according

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05:25:13,320 --> 05:25:17,300
to the 2021 census, and that number is certainly much higher now.

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05:25:17,300 --> 05:25:21,460
This goes to show how critical a user presentation is and will continue to be particularly

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05:25:21,460 --> 05:25:22,320
in this event.

2441
05:25:23,900 --> 05:25:24,860
Like please.

2442
05:25:26,900 --> 05:25:28,820
Okay, now where did we start?

2443
05:25:30,040 --> 05:25:31,320
Um, do one more slide please.

2444
05:25:32,580 --> 05:25:32,720
Sorry.

2445
05:25:33,600 --> 05:25:37,680
Um, now this slide is somewhat misleading because we actually carried over our strategic planning

2446
05:25:37,680 --> 05:25:41,320
from last year, um, which took over, which took place in December 23.

2447
05:25:42,300 --> 05:25:46,720
Um, this is then mainly because our members were still quite happy with this strategic plan

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05:25:46,720 --> 05:25:50,840
from last year and it was just the same time in this term.

2449
05:25:51,240 --> 05:25:55,620
I mean, overarching values for this term are community safety and wellbeing, governance and

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05:25:55,620 --> 05:25:59,180
indigenous awareness, and we incorporate this into all of the work that we do.

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05:25:59,540 --> 05:25:59,580
Plan.

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05:26:05,120 --> 05:26:10,100
So now we'll talk a bit about where we are going over a subcommittees and their relevance to

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05:26:10,100 --> 05:26:10,920
CYC.

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05:26:11,280 --> 05:26:14,600
The initiatives they're involved in and how they contribute to our mandate.

2455
05:26:14,840 --> 05:26:20,040
Currently, as far as stats are concerned, we have 86 members working with CYC to say

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05:26:20,040 --> 05:26:25,480
20 VCMs and then use the large members files, which is a position that allows as many

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05:26:25,480 --> 05:26:30,000
used to get involved as possible with this council in our take center outreach and give

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05:26:30,000 --> 05:26:33,320
young people a lower stake opportunities to join.

2459
05:26:34,180 --> 05:26:34,700
Slide,

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05:26:37,500 --> 05:26:39,420
fun visual, slide again.

2461
05:26:43,710 --> 05:26:44,370
Is that one more slide?

2462
05:26:45,670 --> 05:26:46,590
Thank you.

2463
05:26:47,410 --> 05:26:49,010
So firstly, the policy subcommittee.

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05:26:49,130 --> 05:26:54,070
This is the most straightforward and obvious one, as it allows young people to become more

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05:26:54,070 --> 05:26:59,150
who's been involved by looking at policies that focus or interest in and also keeping up with

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05:26:59,150 --> 05:27:03,830
what city council is currently working on. So this committee makes recommendations to council

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05:27:03,830 --> 05:27:07,370
through reports they write, through meetings with council liaison and other means.

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05:27:09,070 --> 05:27:13,150
The policies of committee is headed by two chairs and is made up of members who are on different

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05:27:13,150 --> 05:27:18,170
initiatives. The following initiatives are the ones that we chose for this year. First is community

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05:27:18,170 --> 05:27:23,830
safety and well-being, which is working on its outreach to use through various channels of getting

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05:27:23,830 --> 05:27:27,770
survey out together data on how young people think of community and interact with community

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05:27:27,770 --> 05:27:32,230
along with their impressions of safety and the city. They will also be looking at already

2473
05:27:32,230 --> 05:27:36,890
collected data along with their own and hopefully present a comprehensive or presented comprehensive

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05:27:36,890 --> 05:27:43,530
report to council within the upcoming year. Our second initiative is Addictions, which is

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05:27:43,530 --> 05:27:48,390
working to release. It was working to release a survey to gauge youth engaged with Addictions in order

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05:27:48,390 --> 05:27:52,550
to write a report but has since re-directed itself to working more closely in administration

2477
05:27:52,550 --> 05:27:58,030
on the city's upcoming drug strategy so that COAC and the city's future plans are closely

2478
05:27:58,030 --> 05:27:58,490
aligned.

2479
05:27:59,310 --> 05:28:01,470
We also have the anti-racism initiative.

2480
05:28:01,690 --> 05:28:07,010
This is based on connecting with schools to provide anti-racism education, conducting focus

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05:28:07,010 --> 05:28:11,910
groups to report to council and encourage more schools to be involved in this education campaign.

2482
05:28:13,010 --> 05:28:18,030
And last on least, engagement, more so and ad hoc initiative that involves engaging

2483
05:28:18,030 --> 05:28:22,690
the City Council policies as they're being discussed by responding to them in real time,

2484
05:28:22,970 --> 05:28:27,630
just through the public spaces by law, and we're continuing to encourage young people through

2485
05:28:27,630 --> 05:28:33,110
this initiative to become more comfortable with policy as a poll by encouraging them to attend

2486
05:28:33,110 --> 05:28:37,670
public hearings and person, but something that's difficult to do with school schedules.

2487
05:28:40,500 --> 05:28:44,680
Yeah, and this committee fulfills sections A, F, K, and H of a mandate.

2488
05:28:44,880 --> 05:28:48,820
Just a name of you, which is to say that the policy subcommittee is many times use

2489
05:28:48,820 --> 05:28:52,020
really first foray into reading and analyzing policy.

2490
05:28:52,560 --> 05:29:01,300
The current structure allows them the freedom to research issues at the intersection of youth and municipalities by having an incredibly direct and straightforward connection with the city and registration

2491
05:29:01,300 --> 05:29:04,860
who are always there to support us and counsel through our two council liaison.

2492
05:29:06,000 --> 05:29:14,460
It's incredibly important that young people are given the opportunity to do this policy work and secondly can do so with community and support.

2493
05:29:14,940 --> 05:29:15,880
Slide please.

2494
05:29:17,260 --> 05:29:26,340
Okay, projects of committee is CYC's largest subcommittee and it allows young people to act on policy recommendations and policies through projects.

2495
05:29:27,000 --> 05:29:36,080
Young people have the opportunity to put on events that align the values of our mandate and the city to build community and belonging while also working on project management skills.

2496
05:29:36,820 --> 05:29:39,700
The subcommittee has led by two chairs and has the following initiatives.

2497
05:29:40,580 --> 05:29:50,980
Firstly, the youth summit, which aims to bring youth from diverse backgrounds together in a safe and inclusive space to discuss their experiences of racism, mental health and steward typing.

2498
05:29:51,620 --> 05:29:56,980
This will be a flow-day event which will include collaborative sessions and guest speakers and a set to be in May.

2499
05:29:57,960 --> 05:29:59,980
The second initiative is on the suit.

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05:30:01,500 --> 05:30:08,840
This is an initiative partnering with the Alberta Health Services Community Helpers Program to provide the suicide prevention training for Edmonton Union.

2501
05:30:10,540 --> 05:30:20,740
This subcommittee fulfills sections, B. D. E. F. In each of our mandates, once again name a few, as this is subcommittee that is our largest and therefore more visible to use.

2502
05:30:20,740 --> 05:30:25,860
It's incredibly important, as far as actualizing the policies that youths work on is concerned,

2503
05:30:26,300 --> 05:30:31,040
so young people have the opportunity to practice interpreting policy, and then putting it into action.

2504
05:30:31,560 --> 05:30:36,640
A much growth occurs here as people have different interpretations and understandings of municipal services,

2505
05:30:37,080 --> 05:30:39,740
and what sort of projects they can actually work on.

2506
05:30:40,200 --> 05:30:48,400
And at the end, everyone leaves having more concrete event management skills and the ability to more effectively actualize abstract values and policies.

2507
05:30:48,400 --> 05:30:48,400
Next

2508
05:30:51,570 --> 05:30:53,450
slide please.

2509
05:30:56,920 --> 05:30:57,700
Thank you.

2510
05:30:57,960 --> 05:31:02,340
The internal subcommittee works to organize CYC internally, and is made up of the following

2511
05:31:02,340 --> 05:31:03,580
initiatives currently.

2512
05:31:04,060 --> 05:31:05,420
Firstly, we have networking.

2513
05:31:06,140 --> 05:31:09,620
This initiative is created to allow young people to network with one another, so different

2514
05:31:09,620 --> 05:31:14,280
schools, grades, while also involving some industry professionals to share their career

2515
05:31:14,280 --> 05:31:14,960
paths.

2516
05:31:15,720 --> 05:31:17,180
Secondly, public relations.

2517
05:31:17,560 --> 05:31:23,580
This initiative works to organize and create CYC's image, such as running our

2518
05:31:23,580 --> 05:31:29,780
Instagram, share, info, better initiatives, educating young people on city policy and is working

2519
05:31:29,780 --> 05:31:31,360
to also update our website.

2520
05:31:31,960 --> 05:31:37,180
This committee currently fulfills sections EF and GE of our mandate as it works to organize

2521
05:31:37,180 --> 05:31:40,860
members, provide networking opportunities and overall promote balance.

2522
05:31:41,740 --> 05:31:46,120
And as we already know, CYC had three subcommittees that each oversee a number of initiatives.

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05:31:46,700 --> 05:31:51,800
This subcommittee structure has a whole allows CYC to accomplish a greater scope of work

2524
05:31:51,800 --> 05:31:55,560
and provides meaningful opportunities for civic engagement

2525
05:31:55,560 --> 05:31:58,360
to the 20 council appointed PCMs,

2526
05:31:58,560 --> 05:32:00,720
so go to committee members and 60,

2527
05:32:01,180 --> 05:32:03,040
approximately 60 as the number of fluctuates

2528
05:32:03,040 --> 05:32:05,420
throughout the year, use a large members.

2529
05:32:05,840 --> 05:32:07,680
So the internal subcommittee is mainly tasked

2530
05:32:07,680 --> 05:32:11,200
with the administration of organizing CYC as a whole

2531
05:32:11,200 --> 05:32:12,660
and is responsible for its image.

2532
05:32:13,900 --> 05:32:15,700
We are currently planning on changing the structure

2533
05:32:15,700 --> 05:32:17,740
of this subcommittee as it has historically

2534
05:32:17,740 --> 05:32:20,220
held low attendance from the current initiative

2535
05:32:20,220 --> 05:32:23,900
to be a structure that it has now to something that will more easily allow the administrative

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05:32:23,900 --> 05:32:28,360
tasks of COSc to be done. Now, this is currently still being deliberated with FAN

2537
05:32:28,360 --> 05:32:33,060
Council for this term. As you may know, we don't currently have an external body

2538
05:32:33,060 --> 05:32:37,300
maintaining our board's image, so things like social media. So, communicating, so

2539
05:32:37,300 --> 05:32:41,160
communicating with youth through the internal subcommittee is an important tool for us

2540
05:32:41,160 --> 05:32:45,200
that comes a little, or a no-cost to council while it allows us to organize ourselves

2541
05:32:45,200 --> 05:32:50,080
more meaningfully. And we will continue to re-structure with the support of our members

2542
05:32:50,080 --> 05:32:54,480
so that we have a more efficient and effective internal subcommittee.

2543
05:32:55,640 --> 05:32:56,240
Slide please.

2544
05:32:57,420 --> 05:32:58,280
Thank you.

2545
05:32:58,660 --> 05:33:02,020
Yeah, this is just to slide that gives like a visual representation

2546
05:33:02,020 --> 05:33:06,080
of the different initiatives on these subcommittees that they belong to.

2547
05:33:07,380 --> 05:33:08,040
Slide please.

2548
05:33:09,420 --> 05:33:11,840
And lastly, where are we going?

2549
05:33:12,300 --> 05:33:12,900
One more slide.

2550
05:33:15,480 --> 05:33:19,280
So we wanted to propose the following recommendations to Council.

2551
05:33:20,560 --> 05:33:30,420
We'd like to request City Council to allow us to change our terms, which are currently September 1st to August 31st to the proposed August 1st to July 30th,

2552
05:33:30,560 --> 05:33:33,160
essentially just pushing the timeline back a month.

2553
05:33:33,640 --> 05:33:40,060
Reasoning for this is that even if CYC technically functions on a 12 month annual term, like all the other committees,

2554
05:33:40,920 --> 05:33:46,360
other boards, because we work with a largely student population, exam months and summer months

2555
05:33:46,360 --> 05:33:52,180
are incredibly slow times. So, December to January, along with April June, are exam times,

2556
05:33:52,320 --> 05:33:58,600
and July August is vacation time for EPSB students. Currently, we have our orientation meeting

2557
05:33:58,600 --> 05:34:03,760
in September. We hold our main elections in October, and our initiatives usually presents in November,

2558
05:34:03,960 --> 05:34:09,160
with many coming back for edits in December for re-approval. Therefore, initiatives don't start an

2559
05:34:09,160 --> 05:34:17,820
and until December, January, which is already a slow time for them and realistically only gives them four to five months to work on their initiative.

2560
05:34:19,200 --> 05:34:28,660
Our proposed timeline would allow us to hold our orientation meeting in the later half of August, keeping in mind still vacation time so the later half of August,

2561
05:34:29,460 --> 05:34:34,460
and we can complete election duties in September so that initiatives can be proposed and October.

2562
05:34:34,460 --> 05:34:38,580
This is a fruitful one that students are able to invest more time in their initiatives,

2563
05:34:39,120 --> 05:34:44,400
be extremely productive if they were able to make a meaningful start at this time before

2564
05:34:44,400 --> 05:34:48,480
they were bogged down by exams, and then initiatives will be able to keep their momentum

2565
05:34:48,480 --> 05:34:52,560
as they would be supplemented by the fact that they already made a start at this point in the year.

2566
05:34:54,000 --> 05:34:54,140
Awesome.

2567
05:34:55,400 --> 05:35:00,320
The second major recommendation that we'd like to make is to permanently shift the timing of this report to

2568
05:35:00,320 --> 05:35:03,600
in the A, so that it aligns with the timing of the membership report.

2569
05:35:04,440 --> 05:35:08,540
Now providing an annual report in February as we are currently required to do, limits

2570
05:35:08,540 --> 05:35:13,440
our ability to accurately report on the work of COIC and just provide an accurate work

2571
05:35:13,440 --> 05:35:13,780
plan.

2572
05:35:14,440 --> 05:35:18,560
Moving this time on is crucial for us to get to accurately depict the comprehensive work

2573
05:35:18,560 --> 05:35:23,700
that is being completed by our board and presented a more thorough report to you, City Council.

2574
05:35:24,340 --> 05:35:28,320
Another concern with the reporting time lane, as it is right now, in regards to the subcommittee

2575
05:35:28,320 --> 05:35:30,440
is in regards to the subcommittee approval process.

2576
05:35:31,380 --> 05:35:33,600
Now, the subcommittees for this term were formed in October

2577
05:35:33,600 --> 05:35:35,600
and are already formed into their work.

2578
05:35:36,000 --> 05:35:38,500
If CUSC remains on the same reporting timeline

2579
05:35:38,500 --> 05:35:40,780
as other advisory boards, it will cause challenges

2580
05:35:40,780 --> 05:35:43,420
in each term's planning phase when we seek

2581
05:35:43,420 --> 05:35:45,720
to request the continuation of our subcommittee model.

2582
05:35:46,820 --> 05:35:48,180
Additionally, we're also concerned

2583
05:35:48,180 --> 05:35:50,840
about maintaining the progress of each subcommittees work

2584
05:35:50,840 --> 05:35:52,340
while allowing for the incorporation

2585
05:35:52,340 --> 05:35:54,440
of any recommended changes from council.

2586
05:35:55,040 --> 05:35:56,840
The current reporting timeline and requirement

2587
05:35:56,840 --> 05:36:01,060
for Council approval on subcommittees that are midway through their term could potentially end

2588
05:36:01,060 --> 05:36:06,780
work that is already underway, putting both Council and our boards in a challenging position.

2589
05:36:08,100 --> 05:36:11,800
So for all those reasons, we'd like to propose a new timeline where COIC would report

2590
05:36:11,800 --> 05:36:16,580
to Council in May, just to ensure that we are aligned with COIC's work calendar, as well

2591
05:36:16,580 --> 05:36:22,400
as being able to contribute a more informed and meaningful report to City Council at your slide.

2592
05:36:24,580 --> 05:36:29,560
Here's a list of some upcoming events that are worth sharing your constituents, any young

2593
05:36:29,560 --> 05:36:30,940
people that might be interested.

2594
05:36:31,820 --> 05:36:38,160
We have GA General Assembly happening on April 2nd, the use summit on social justice sometime

2595
05:36:38,160 --> 05:36:44,540
in early May, as well as BCM applications will open in early May and the CYC working event

2596
05:36:44,540 --> 05:36:47,160
will happen on June 4th.

2597
05:36:47,180 --> 05:36:51,580
This list only includes dates and events for people of strong to CYC, so we'll continue

2598
05:36:51,580 --> 05:36:56,600
to work on initiatives like those in policy and internal in the background, as well.

2599
05:36:57,780 --> 05:36:58,420
One more slide.

2600
05:37:00,080 --> 05:37:00,260
Okay.

2601
05:37:00,740 --> 05:37:02,080
Lastly, just how to get involved.

2602
05:37:02,640 --> 05:37:09,800
So we strongly encourage you to attend and support our events to consult CYC on matters of discussion.

2603
05:37:10,360 --> 05:37:15,080
To invite CYC to be part of collaborations with other groups and invite youth in your words to apply.

2604
05:37:15,900 --> 05:37:20,780
We've been very happy to see a more consultation with CYC this term on things like the full budget adjustment

2605
05:37:20,780 --> 05:37:26,100
and public spaces by law. And when we're very eager to see more of that in the future.

2606
05:37:26,980 --> 05:37:27,460
Slide, please.

2607
05:37:29,750 --> 05:37:29,970
Yes.

2608
05:37:30,000 --> 05:37:35,400
So with that, we've reached the end of this presentation. Thank you so much for listening and we'll be happy to take any questions.

2609
05:37:36,200 --> 05:37:36,880
Thank you.

2610
05:37:36,920 --> 05:37:46,300
Great, thank you so much for the presentation. We'll now go to questions from colleagues. Councilor Jans, would you like to put a recommendation on the phone?

2611
05:37:46,300 --> 05:37:47,980
I'll move the recommendation, yes.

2612
05:37:52,400 --> 05:37:52,760
Second,

2613
05:37:56,040 --> 05:37:58,520
Michael, are you concerned Jans, go ahead if you have any questions?

2614
05:37:58,520 --> 05:38:08,640
I just wanted to ask a little bit more about that upcoming event and how you're going to promote it to other youths across the city of Edmonton.

2615
05:38:08,820 --> 05:38:11,400
I believe you said me, right?

2616
05:38:12,080 --> 05:38:12,500
The Symposium.

2617
05:38:14,710 --> 05:38:18,450
Yes, so I guess I can like start.

2618
05:38:19,050 --> 05:38:25,170
So typically the way that we get most of our engagement in terms of like youth coming to events just by word of mouth.

2619
05:38:25,170 --> 05:38:33,330
I'm just because we have views from all of the city all kinds of different schools, but we are also, like I think I think we've actually just talked about this too

2620
05:38:33,330 --> 05:38:41,950
We do have a new social media plan going happening with our internal security and so that's another way that we reach out to you

2621
05:38:41,950 --> 05:38:46,170
We'll also again like we've come here, you know, like one of the reasons

2622
05:38:46,170 --> 05:38:52,210
There's something that I think I try to do a lot is also just reach out to our own personal connections with other organizations

2623
05:38:52,890 --> 05:38:56,350
As you know, we used to tend to be involved in like as many things as possible

2624
05:38:56,350 --> 05:39:02,570
So yeah, it's a lot of sort of networking to try to get as much engagement as possible

2625
05:39:02,570 --> 05:39:06,190
Also to add on to that for this particular initiative

2626
05:39:06,190 --> 05:39:07,590
I believe

2627
05:39:08,190 --> 05:39:14,490
One network that they would tap into is the student senate system, so that's within EPSB contacting

2628
05:39:14,490 --> 05:39:18,670
students senators, so they can then pass the information down into their catchments schools

2629
05:39:18,670 --> 05:39:20,630
as they are appointed to do.

2630
05:39:21,050 --> 05:39:26,510
So that's one network that we try to tap into when it comes to sharing information, and then also emailing

2631
05:39:26,510 --> 05:39:28,610
high schools as need be.

2632
05:39:28,910 --> 05:39:34,690
Yeah, actually that was my next question was, is the student senate at the Edmonton Public Schools

2633
05:39:34,690 --> 05:39:40,310
still functioning and are you connected to them and you've already answered that. So that's that's excellent. That that's

2634
05:39:40,310 --> 05:39:48,990
it certainly gives you a wide a wide amplification. Well, keep up the great work and yeah, I'll yield my time. Thank you.

2635
05:39:49,810 --> 05:39:52,090
Thank you. Councillor Neckon, can you take the chair please?

2636
05:39:52,490 --> 05:39:58,330
I've got the chair. Thank you. Yeah, once again, thank you for the thorough presentation and for all the

2637
05:39:58,330 --> 05:40:06,450
to see why she's been doing. Maybe I'll just pick up on a few things. So the request

2638
05:40:06,450 --> 05:40:11,790
around changing the term, and actually this might be better directed towards administration,

2639
05:40:12,630 --> 05:40:20,750
just trying to understand is it difficult to have variability in what those term timelines look

2640
05:40:20,750 --> 05:40:24,250
like, what would the implications be of making that kind of change?

2641
05:40:26,430 --> 05:40:27,870
So in terms of this meeting

2642
05:40:27,870 --> 05:40:31,390
particular would mean that if those timelines are shifted, they're not coming with all the other

2643
05:40:31,390 --> 05:40:35,990
annual reports, they'd come to a regular council meeting, which is something the implemented

2644
05:40:35,990 --> 05:40:38,690
a few years ago to bring them all together, but it doesn't mean it can't be changed.

2645
05:40:39,870 --> 05:40:44,310
Okay, so I have a bit of the history here, so they used to be more dispersed, and then there was an

2646
05:40:44,310 --> 05:40:49,010
intentional move to bring them all together, so we're dealing with them as we are today.

2647
05:40:49,490 --> 05:40:53,010
Yeah, for both recruitment and annual reports, I'd say there certainly is value in having one

2648
05:40:53,010 --> 05:40:56,850
cycle and doing it all at one time, so you have a holistic look, but it can be split.

2649
05:40:57,390 --> 05:41:18,650
Okay, okay, yeah, and I mean, I can, I definitely, I definitely can hear some of the challenges with timing and just how that lines up with school and exam season at the same time, being able to do this in one go, makes a lot of sense on R&D administratively,

2650
05:41:20,730 --> 05:41:25,170
okay, and then I will just jump over to a question around the subcommittee.

2651
05:41:25,170 --> 05:41:31,050
So right now there's recommendation on the floor to establish three subcommittees.

2652
05:41:32,070 --> 05:41:34,130
Again, I just wanted to check in with administration.

2653
05:41:34,210 --> 05:41:40,010
I know in the report it does mention that see here.

2654
05:41:41,210 --> 05:41:44,950
Yeah, then administration would support establishing two subcommittees as opposed to three.

2655
05:41:45,190 --> 05:41:50,870
I'm just looking for a little bit of additional information there around some of the limitations or why

2656
05:41:50,870 --> 05:41:51,290
Thank you.

2657
05:41:51,790 --> 05:41:52,610
Thank you.

2658
05:41:52,610 --> 05:41:52,970
Sure.

2659
05:41:53,190 --> 05:41:53,270
Hi.

2660
05:41:53,470 --> 05:41:56,490
This is Judy Smith Director of Community Investment and Social Development.

2661
05:41:57,850 --> 05:42:03,070
We just find that if we have that many subcommittees because our team is supporting

2662
05:42:03,070 --> 05:42:09,350
all of the forward advisory boards in our area and having three subcommittees just puts a bit

2663
05:42:09,350 --> 05:42:10,710
of a strain on our staff.

2664
05:42:11,470 --> 05:42:17,590
And because the youth council is so uniquely formed, they have lots of events and things

2665
05:42:17,590 --> 05:42:23,190
And because they're part of the city, we need to have representatives from administration there.

2666
05:42:23,830 --> 05:42:28,690
So it just having an extra committee just puts extra burden upon a small team.

2667
05:42:29,930 --> 05:42:35,940
Yeah, okay. And help me help me understand,

2668
05:42:37,980 --> 05:42:40,680
so today, like that's quote today.

2669
05:42:42,740 --> 05:42:46,920
There are three subcommittees, yes, not in heads.

2670
05:42:48,200 --> 05:42:51,840
So is there, again, to administration, is there, is there a change in

2671
05:42:51,840 --> 05:42:59,320
resourcing or is there currently some tension there already, I guess, in terms of that

2672
05:42:59,320 --> 05:42:59,780
workload?

2673
05:43:00,980 --> 05:43:04,900
Yeah, I think there's always been some tension, but we have restructured to have a team

2674
05:43:04,900 --> 05:43:07,060
of people to support the advisory boards.

2675
05:43:07,060 --> 05:43:20,920
And I think it's always been a bit difficult with me saying, again, about these council having so many events and other things than just their normal meeting and subcommittee meetings.

2676
05:43:21,880 --> 05:43:29,000
Okay, and when would be the next opportunity to revisit that? Like if we were to move ahead with the three subcommittees today.

2677
05:43:29,860 --> 05:43:39,800
One would that next check-in point be just to see what that work load is feeling like and looking like and whether we do need to reevaluate and go down to the two.

2678
05:43:40,320 --> 05:43:48,440
There would be next year and last year we asked last year when the group had asked for three subcommittees we had asked at that time that it be two.

2679
05:43:48,740 --> 05:43:55,140
And we thought this would be a better time because the group is already talking about integrating two of their subcommittees.

2680
05:43:55,140 --> 05:44:02,160
Okay, and then maybe just to, um, to Angelina and Ellie, thoughts around two versus three.

2681
05:44:04,200 --> 05:44:04,840
I'm proud of it.

2682
05:44:04,860 --> 05:44:05,960
Thank you for that question.

2683
05:44:06,820 --> 05:44:10,460
So, once again, I get to summarize.

2684
05:44:10,840 --> 05:44:16,260
For policy, it's really about looking at policies, writing reports, some of that formal work,

2685
05:44:17,020 --> 05:44:21,100
projects being actualizing those policies, making them more concrete for youth,

2686
05:44:21,100 --> 05:44:27,740
and then internal being us organizing ourselves because of our large population with why

2687
05:44:27,740 --> 05:44:35,560
L members. Yes, we have talked with administration in a theory that we did have was to because

2688
05:44:35,560 --> 05:44:44,260
of collaboration again between subcommittees, consolidating them. The consensus or the best option

2689
05:44:44,260 --> 05:44:50,760
that we're currently at and mind you still being liberated within Council within our board is

2690
05:44:50,760 --> 05:44:57,780
just restructuring internal to make it a more efficient subcommittee, but we can definitely

2691
05:44:57,780 --> 05:44:59,760
take this advice back to our word.

2692
05:45:00,000 --> 05:45:15,860
And discussing more in-depth, but we'd have to like more meaningfully think about how we consolidate things. So the, so the different initiatives aren't lost and are still meaningfully given the attention within their specific subcommittee.

2693
05:45:16,560 --> 05:45:18,180
I'm out of time.

2694
05:45:18,880 --> 05:45:19,920
I'll come with you.

2695
05:45:20,220 --> 05:45:22,560
Thank you. I'll go to Councillor Wright.

2696
05:45:23,280 --> 05:45:24,200
Thank you very much.

2697
05:45:25,900 --> 05:45:28,720
Maybe first, Judy,

2698
05:45:30,740 --> 05:45:37,460
how many committee, or sorry, how many boards have more than one subcommittee?

2699
05:45:41,720 --> 05:45:51,380
I don't think, I think, with the four that we have in social development, I think the youth council is the only one that has more than one, okay?

2700
05:45:51,380 --> 05:46:00,760
Okay, that's, and yeah, I mean, the ones that we've gone through today too, I think, even the ones outside of your area of responsibility, I think only had it the most one.

2701
05:46:01,560 --> 05:46:02,700
So, thank you.

2702
05:46:02,940 --> 05:46:07,580
And so, I guess then, I

2703
05:46:09,980 --> 05:46:22,040
guess my, my question is, yeah, can you, I'm looking at side number 14 and you've got, as part of your internal subcommittee is public relations and networking.

2704
05:46:22,900 --> 05:46:37,340
So is it networking maybe part of your projects and then I'm thinking public relations, is that more just communications and you're already doing that on social media and that?

2705
05:46:37,940 --> 05:46:39,760
Yeah, I can begin to take this question.

2706
05:46:39,760 --> 05:46:43,040
So the idea of the reasoning like the networking event

2707
05:46:43,040 --> 05:46:47,460
does fall under, because the way

2708
05:46:47,460 --> 05:46:49,320
the internal structure that originally is,

2709
05:46:49,320 --> 05:46:52,220
I was more focused on sort of events

2710
05:46:52,220 --> 05:46:55,160
that promote member while being member sort of training

2711
05:46:55,960 --> 05:46:58,080
and opportunities for personal development.

2712
05:46:59,000 --> 05:47:00,960
And so, again, like we said,

2713
05:47:01,100 --> 05:47:02,980
I think we are looking at restructuring that.

2714
05:47:03,240 --> 05:47:04,340
So I guess in future terms,

2715
05:47:04,520 --> 05:47:06,720
networking will probably move to something like projects.

2716
05:47:06,720 --> 05:47:11,160
But that's kind of the reason why it's in there.

2717
05:47:11,600 --> 05:47:12,560
And then as for public relations,

2718
05:47:12,900 --> 05:47:14,580
this is kind of what we're getting at as well.

2719
05:47:14,900 --> 05:47:18,920
I'm in regards to sort of like what we need,

2720
05:47:19,080 --> 05:47:22,200
what kind of need from the internal subcommittee moving forward.

2721
05:47:22,700 --> 05:47:26,720
We do still need some sort of mechanism to look after things like

2722
05:47:27,320 --> 05:47:29,000
public relations, how we connect to,

2723
05:47:30,000 --> 05:47:32,220
how we engage with our actual,

2724
05:47:33,200 --> 05:47:34,360
the population that we're serving.

2725
05:47:34,360 --> 05:47:42,520
And so the way that we're looking to restructure in like making internalist smaller subcommittee would address that.

2726
05:47:44,320 --> 05:47:58,000
Okay, I guess all good. I'll just add one more point. So with public relations, it's still about establishing that administrative body for the entire board because of our large population with why I'll members.

2727
05:47:58,940 --> 05:48:07,580
And that's a large group to just for us as co-chairs to handle, which is why we need the internal or the public relations piece.

2728
05:48:08,260 --> 05:48:12,920
Also with internal, another thing that they organize and usually have in the past,

2729
05:48:13,100 --> 05:48:23,960
we just haven't this particular year, is training opportunities like we've done workshops around tech, indigenous awareness,

2730
05:48:30,700 --> 05:48:51,210
I don't know, it might serve you well to look at how some of the other committees that we've heard from today, sort of structure there's your just wave that was just here was talking about like they've got a couple people doing communications because they no longer have

2731
05:48:51,210 --> 05:48:55,350
of peridose contract doing that,

2732
05:49:00,590 --> 05:49:03,390
and I'm just, you know, and the same thing with accessibility

2733
05:49:03,390 --> 05:49:10,710
advisory committee as well. Again, you know, they lost that contract so that, yeah, they're

2734
05:49:10,710 --> 05:49:19,590
just having people within, and okay, so I kind of want to get off the subcommittee track

2735
05:49:19,590 --> 05:49:27,190
because I really, I think you've been provided some guidance to from Judy Smith and her department

2736
05:49:27,190 --> 05:49:33,290
as far as what might be possible with the two committees, but I, I do just have another

2737
05:49:33,290 --> 05:49:40,690
question in regards to Angel, where you said you've tapped into EPSB, and I'm just wondering

2738
05:49:40,690 --> 05:49:46,550
about what about evidence in Catholic and Frank, Frank, a phone, is school boards.

2739
05:49:47,950 --> 05:49:54,170
That is something we're still figuring out connections to because unfortunately with our current

2740
05:49:54,170 --> 05:49:59,890
member basis we don't have explicit connections to that so we're in the process of forming

2741
05:49:59,890 --> 05:50:05,110
those connections because for certain communities of certain initiatives might have information

2742
05:50:05,110 --> 05:50:11,190
to send out and invites so those are connections that are being established but with EPSB with

2743
05:50:11,190 --> 05:50:15,250
our member population we just we already have those mates so it's a little more convenient

2744
05:50:15,250 --> 05:50:24,740
but the others are in the works so you only have members from EPSB for the most part yes yes and also like a higher

2745
05:50:25,370 --> 05:50:31,970
no EPSB as far as high school population and like 13 to 18 is concerned and then we have

2746
05:50:31,970 --> 05:50:38,020
university students like 18 to 23 from U of A and McEwen okay okay my time's up sorry

2747
05:50:38,020 --> 05:50:40,120
Councillor Tain?

2748
05:50:41,080 --> 05:51:02,220
Yeah, great. Thank you for the presentation and the report. If I look at your work plan and some of your goals, I guess I'm curious, like your go number one, mobilize youth on local issues through community events and projects, go number two, empower youth through education, skill building and experience to be active citizens.

2749
05:51:03,680 --> 05:51:08,260
They're all, you know, excellent goals, but they also feel very service delivery to me.

2750
05:51:09,920 --> 05:51:19,260
I guess I'm wondering if you can distinguish a little bit of that versus sort of the advisory role you should be playing.

2751
05:51:20,600 --> 05:51:26,260
Let's give us a second to pull up our workpoints so we can answer that particular one.

2752
05:51:27,000 --> 05:51:28,780
You can take that first.

2753
05:51:29,800 --> 05:51:31,820
First goal and second.

2754
05:51:35,520 --> 05:51:43,380
I can see you're concerned with it, but it still balances out in accordance to our mandate.

2755
05:51:43,380 --> 05:51:52,820
school for as first of first of mobilizing youth on local issues, informing youth in order to engage

2756
05:51:52,820 --> 05:51:57,260
the meaningfully as an important part of our mandate. So it's kind of setting that ground up

2757
05:51:57,260 --> 05:52:04,400
for them to then comment meaningfully on policy and then be capable of inviting in the first place.

2758
05:52:05,040 --> 05:52:10,220
So that's I've said the goal one is that's it might seem surface level but it's important

2759
05:52:10,220 --> 05:52:16,340
foundational work, so then students and young people in general can then go on to advice

2760
05:52:16,340 --> 05:52:22,160
folks, so it's that empowering and educational aspect, whereas goal to empowering you through

2761
05:52:22,160 --> 05:52:27,660
education, that's where we have our networking initiative. That one's more so to promote

2762
05:52:27,660 --> 05:52:29,980
member well-being, and then once again, too.

2763
05:52:30,000 --> 05:52:36,160
Making the time to create the space and community. So students can lend those project management skills.

2764
05:52:36,880 --> 05:52:49,500
And it's also in CYC and in our outreach. It's also important for us to give young people a safe space to first come try new things related to policy, fail.

2765
05:52:49,800 --> 05:52:53,900
And then we're also there to support them to and keep them committed to the policy.

2766
05:52:53,900 --> 05:53:01,120
But I wouldn't say surface level, I'd say more so foundational, so they're able to come back and get more meaningful critiques.

2767
05:53:01,760 --> 05:53:02,840
I hope that kind of answers it.

2768
05:53:03,740 --> 05:53:13,120
Yeah, and although it also sounds like you're outreach largely, you know, in for those who are still in the public,

2769
05:53:13,120 --> 05:53:21,220
or sorry, I guess pre-University are largely EPSB, for example,

2770
05:53:23,440 --> 05:53:25,920
yeah, I guess I appreciate your

2771
05:53:25,920 --> 05:53:31,640
point about setting the foundation. I think this has been like worry with the use of council

2772
05:53:31,640 --> 05:53:38,640
all along, as you know, does it get unwieldy with 89 members, with various subcommittees,

2773
05:53:43,100 --> 05:53:43,100
with

2774
05:53:45,400 --> 05:53:54,180
One thing I can comment on that or two things is with CLIC, I must say the demographics change quite a bit year to year.

2775
05:53:54,840 --> 05:53:59,680
I think in the last few terms we were more a high school age demographic.

2776
05:54:00,180 --> 05:54:04,160
But right now we've aged to be late high school early university.

2777
05:54:04,460 --> 05:54:06,120
That's majority of her demographic.

2778
05:54:06,780 --> 05:54:10,340
So it's kind of difficult to comment because it does cycle to it.

2779
05:54:11,240 --> 05:54:19,900
But I must say, once again, for the subcommittee structure, it's really just meaningful for us as far as personal organization goes.

2780
05:54:20,380 --> 05:54:39,840
And even though we have 60 to 80 members, once again, if fluctuates throughout the year, because Wiles have less commitment to the more versus or 20 BCM, which are more committed, but we have lots of Wiles that will spend a year to gain those foundational skills and then come to the BCM.

2781
05:54:39,840 --> 05:54:47,000
So it is important for us to organize ourselves that way and it aids us as chairs to

2782
05:54:47,000 --> 05:54:51,120
have a list population and then also for folks to move comfortably around the council.

2783
05:54:52,080 --> 05:54:57,620
And I have just my full of my last minute, just on this question of, you know, three

2784
05:54:57,620 --> 05:55:02,540
concept committees or less so that it's more manageable for administration support.

2785
05:55:04,560 --> 05:55:12,560
I like to move to amend the three to two, and if I were to do that, I guess which two would you keep?

2786
05:55:14,060 --> 05:55:15,180
Can I ask a quick question?

2787
05:55:15,460 --> 05:55:16,720
There's only 30 seconds.

2788
05:55:17,480 --> 05:55:23,760
Would it folks be more comfortable with the fact if we didn't call the internal subcommittee a subcommittee

2789
05:55:23,760 --> 05:55:25,560
and like a working group?

2790
05:55:25,560 --> 05:55:31,220
because it's really, like, is that the tension rates, it's more so the meeting support in all that.

2791
05:55:32,020 --> 05:55:32,280
Right?

2792
05:55:33,360 --> 05:55:33,620
Administration.

2793
05:55:34,680 --> 05:55:38,100
I have, like, 10 seconds. I guess maybe

2794
05:55:39,340 --> 05:55:42,620
Judy, if you want to respond to that question.

2795
05:55:44,040 --> 05:55:49,780
So in the structure and probably the office of the city clerk would be better to answer this,

2796
05:55:49,780 --> 05:55:56,320
But in the structure, it is supposed to be a main advisory board and subcommittees working groups

2797
05:55:56,320 --> 05:56:02,560
are not kind of part of the structure of the advisory boards, because all of it has to

2798
05:56:02,560 --> 05:56:05,420
be transparent and live-streamed in all those pieces.

2799
05:56:06,100 --> 05:56:13,000
So I think it's a bit of the workload and making sure that the actions as Councilor Tang

2800
05:56:13,000 --> 05:56:17,020
was saying align with the mandate of the advisory board.

2801
05:56:18,680 --> 05:56:23,210
Thank you. Thank you, Councillor Rice.

2802
05:56:25,310 --> 05:56:31,690
Thank you for the presentation report and also the work plan for the TIS-25. I actually

2803
05:56:31,690 --> 05:56:37,830
have really like your answer and to look at is data of look at the surface and actually

2804
05:56:37,830 --> 05:56:45,670
is refract the your mandate, the alignment with your mandate and also fundamental pieces

2805
05:56:45,670 --> 05:56:52,570
there. So I think that's actually just my question, and then I appreciate that answer.

2806
05:56:54,330 --> 05:56:59,950
I do have another question, and from previous waves reports, talk about the collaboration.

2807
05:57:00,690 --> 05:57:07,170
So it's great to say those advisory boards to work together and collaborate who would be

2808
05:57:07,170 --> 05:57:09,970
you achieve some goals together.

2809
05:57:10,470 --> 05:57:14,630
So can you describe a little bit more about

2810
05:57:14,630 --> 05:57:17,610
how you collaborate really to really work with,

2811
05:57:17,610 --> 05:57:19,450
like wave, so for example.

2812
05:57:20,070 --> 05:57:22,150
And then because right now we're talking about

2813
05:57:22,150 --> 05:57:24,010
the street subcommittees, maybe you can

2814
05:57:24,010 --> 05:57:27,150
from that functionality perspective, and it's

2815
05:57:27,150 --> 05:57:30,110
talk about, and as you're collaborating, work

2816
05:57:30,110 --> 05:57:32,610
and it was different at a advisory group.

2817
05:57:35,290 --> 05:57:38,730
Yeah, I can, I guess we'll begin the response to that.

2818
05:57:39,530 --> 05:57:42,410
So in regards to collaboration, we typically,

2819
05:57:42,550 --> 05:57:45,610
I think I deal with what we do is reach out to our liaisons

2820
05:57:45,610 --> 05:57:48,170
and use that to connect with other boards.

2821
05:57:48,730 --> 05:57:50,370
So there are one of the challenges that we've been facing,

2822
05:57:50,670 --> 05:57:53,930
especially in the previous couple of recent terms,

2823
05:57:54,330 --> 05:57:56,030
that we'd have a lot of administrative turnover.

2824
05:57:56,990 --> 05:57:59,230
And so that has been, that has certainly been a challenge.

2825
05:57:59,230 --> 05:58:09,790
Both in terms of collaboration and also with, I guess, with some of the structural things and like what sort of admin or strain looks like as well, which we'll probably get into later.

2826
05:58:10,610 --> 05:58:17,990
But in terms of, like, I guess the concrete things that we have done recently, we have been in contact with wave in particular

2827
05:58:20,200 --> 05:58:22,420
and jump things like social media internally.

2828
05:58:22,460 --> 05:58:25,740
I think we've talked about that at the end of the prison for questions as well.

2829
05:58:25,740 --> 05:58:33,240
And so that's one sort of avenue that we've gone down, and then we're also like we've also had internally

2830
05:58:33,240 --> 05:58:38,900
been discussing a lot around bringing up some of the things that we're both particularly

2831
05:58:38,900 --> 05:58:39,600
passionate about.

2832
05:58:39,760 --> 05:58:46,140
So one of the, one of the, we're considering connecting with wave on their sort of perspective

2833
05:58:46,140 --> 05:58:47,600
on the public spaces by law.

2834
05:58:48,060 --> 05:58:51,800
That ultimately didn't happen just because of time restraints, but all of these things

2835
05:58:51,800 --> 05:58:59,480
do so often at the background. So I guess, yeah, another quick detail apart from, so yes, there's

2836
05:58:59,480 --> 05:59:05,860
been administrative turnover, so it's been difficult to establish and continue the connection

2837
05:59:05,860 --> 05:59:11,360
with other councils, but it's that's been considerably better this year. Secondly, just

2838
05:59:11,360 --> 05:59:17,480
slow details on what we have done. So I think our first touch point with the other committees was

2839
05:59:17,480 --> 05:59:20,140
when we were talking about the budget, fall budget.

2840
05:59:20,700 --> 05:59:22,940
So when we met with the mayor, all the chairs did.

2841
05:59:23,200 --> 05:59:25,460
And that was great conversations there,

2842
05:59:25,580 --> 05:59:26,640
learned a lot for folks.

2843
05:59:27,440 --> 05:59:29,720
And since then, there've been some emails back and forth.

2844
05:59:29,780 --> 05:59:31,780
It's just kind of continuing that connection.

2845
05:59:32,720 --> 05:59:35,360
A lot of conversations about how people are handling

2846
05:59:35,360 --> 05:59:36,680
their social media.

2847
05:59:37,920 --> 05:59:40,380
We've, you know, on and off, casually discuss,

2848
05:59:40,680 --> 05:59:44,540
like, maybe we can do a crossover monthly meeting

2849
05:59:44,540 --> 05:59:45,500
or something like that.

2850
05:59:45,500 --> 05:59:47,860
that's just hasn't come to fruition yet,

2851
05:59:48,520 --> 05:59:50,820
but now that we have established this connection,

2852
05:59:50,980 --> 05:59:52,720
I think the chairs from all councils

2853
05:59:53,180 --> 05:59:55,680
are going to continue to work to make it

2854
05:59:55,680 --> 05:59:58,960
a more meaningful collaboration than it has been.

2855
05:59:59,580 --> 05:59:59,800
Yes.

2856
06:00:00,270 --> 06:00:07,170
Okay, thank you for that answer. And based on that information provided, I'm going to ask an administration,

2857
06:00:09,410 --> 06:00:27,890
if the infuser is collaboration between the different itemizer committees. Does that mean, and from efficiency perspective for certain subcommittee and is there, is there any, like, functionality over the app?

2858
06:00:27,890 --> 06:00:31,690
or you still say they're still separate,

2859
06:00:31,970 --> 06:00:34,190
they do need their own subcommittees.

2860
06:00:34,810 --> 06:00:36,770
So I just want to look at it from that perspective.

2861
06:00:37,890 --> 06:00:39,750
And I know my question is a little longer, Judy,

2862
06:00:40,170 --> 06:00:41,990
and I want to finish, like give you a slide.

2863
06:00:42,070 --> 06:00:43,390
A lot of related ones,

2864
06:00:43,670 --> 06:00:45,650
because the term change for this student,

2865
06:00:45,930 --> 06:00:47,290
and I actually, I support that.

2866
06:00:47,350 --> 06:00:49,810
I do understand how school work impact

2867
06:00:49,810 --> 06:00:53,830
is their capacity to involve more effectively.

2868
06:00:53,830 --> 06:01:03,430
So, how that link to this three or two subcommittees, so maybe you can explain a little more about that piece?

2869
06:01:04,550 --> 06:01:19,210
Sure, I think we have an opportunity with our new advisory board coordination team to really create some connections between all of the boards, because it's the same team that will be supporting them all, so it won't be a different individual, it will be a team working together.

2870
06:01:19,210 --> 06:01:24,350
So I think there's an opportunity to look, I can't speak without us having some real conversations

2871
06:01:24,350 --> 06:01:29,430
about it, whether that'll diminish the number of subcommittees, because they're each unique.

2872
06:01:30,010 --> 06:01:34,790
They're each unique advisory boards, as you've seen throughout today, all with different levels

2873
06:01:34,790 --> 06:01:39,770
of compassion and enthusiasm and hard work and dedication.

2874
06:01:40,270 --> 06:01:45,890
But I think we've already talked numerous times as a team about finding opportunities to

2875
06:01:45,890 --> 06:01:51,690
folks together. So you can count on that happening. Okay, thank you. My time is up.

2876
06:01:51,810 --> 06:01:54,450
Councillor Nat? Thank. Thanks, Councillor Selvedor.

2877
06:01:56,690 --> 06:01:58,310
Sorry, it's been a few years since I've been

2878
06:01:58,310 --> 06:02:05,390
on youth council. So I just, I wanted to, I feel like I'm, maybe I'll ask our team from youth

2879
06:02:05,390 --> 06:02:08,930
council and then I'll go to administration after, because I feel like we're getting caught up

2880
06:02:08,930 --> 06:02:13,650
on the internal subcommittee piece. But like, the way I understood the internal subcommittee and I

2881
06:02:13,650 --> 06:02:17,950
I think you described it, but I'm going to just, like, it is truly just, like, internal

2882
06:02:17,950 --> 06:02:19,190
governance stuff.

2883
06:02:19,690 --> 06:02:27,250
Like, I'm not sure why that requires a public streaming of a meeting or resources.

2884
06:02:27,970 --> 06:02:30,510
Like, that just feels like stuff that almost every community does.

2885
06:02:30,630 --> 06:02:34,970
You happen to formalize it a little bit more and make sure you can document that and report

2886
06:02:34,970 --> 06:02:35,310
back.

2887
06:02:35,930 --> 06:02:39,190
Like, is that still sort of how it operates?

2888
06:02:39,190 --> 06:02:51,190
So my from the youth council perspective or am I missing something to do to do share something that I mean, I just want to understand because I feel like maybe what you've written on your slide is a little different side.

2889
06:02:53,170 --> 06:03:07,250
I think you summarized it pretty accurately. It's about internal governance organizing ourselves and the subcommittee structure just allows us to formalize and keep members accountable for tasks.

2890
06:03:07,250 --> 06:03:15,450
Okay, and so maybe the confusion is the slide because again, like it's talking about public relations and networking, but like that's actually falls within

2891
06:03:16,230 --> 06:03:18,610
I mean more of the

2892
06:03:18,610 --> 06:03:27,650
I would guess the the projects right if you're doing a networking event on a topic. You're you're probably doing that more through projects versus the internal right

2893
06:03:27,650 --> 06:03:29,610
Currently, it's through the internal

2894
06:03:29,610 --> 06:03:30,450
Is it okay?

2895
06:03:30,750 --> 06:03:34,510
Is networking it's okay. It's also geared around member wellness.

2896
06:03:35,510 --> 06:03:35,670
Okay

2897
06:03:35,670 --> 06:03:36,590
Okay

2898
06:03:38,170 --> 06:03:43,350
So maybe okay so now I see maybe where the confusion is because like I mean I guess to me

2899
06:03:43,350 --> 06:03:47,090
it's just sort of like 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 the other you're going to do that anyways

2900
06:03:47,630 --> 06:03:52,530
and if that's what it takes let's throw those categories of a networking event in the

2901
06:03:52,530 --> 06:03:56,910
project and then I would ask and so I'm maybe this is going to be a question to the

2902
06:03:56,910 --> 06:04:01,230
administration like they're going to be doing that whether they throw it in the internal

2903
06:04:01,230 --> 06:04:04,090
or whether they throw it in the project one.

2904
06:04:05,170 --> 06:04:08,250
So should be just formally shift that over

2905
06:04:08,250 --> 06:04:10,630
and then you don't have to worry about sending staff resources

2906
06:04:10,630 --> 06:04:12,050
to an internal committee meeting.

2907
06:04:12,250 --> 06:04:15,250
Like, that feels like an inefficient use of resources,

2908
06:04:15,790 --> 06:04:17,990
but like they should still do that work as a committee.

2909
06:04:18,350 --> 06:04:20,430
That's what I think every committee still does.

2910
06:04:21,490 --> 06:04:23,370
My understanding counts are an act.

2911
06:04:23,590 --> 06:04:29,150
It's duty SNF is that we are responsible to be at any committee

2912
06:04:29,150 --> 06:04:35,590
or subcommittee, just excuse me, just like council and council committees to be there to take

2913
06:04:36,270 --> 06:04:36,750
minutes.

2914
06:04:36,890 --> 06:04:37,070
Yeah.

2915
06:04:37,070 --> 06:04:42,050
And to live stream that no matter what the purpose is, so how do you get started?

2916
06:04:42,650 --> 06:04:45,050
Yeah, so I guess the question is, how do we fix that?

2917
06:04:45,090 --> 06:04:51,210
Because that feels a little like a waste of your time to live stream an internal governance

2918
06:04:51,210 --> 06:04:58,490
meeting for a committee, so can we just like give you a direction to say, hey, don't, don't,

2919
06:04:58,490 --> 06:05:03,350
Maybe you don't have to be at like every single little thing because some of those things might just not make sense.

2920
06:05:03,930 --> 06:05:10,130
Well, I think we're aligned with all the rules that Council has to follow, too. So that's why that's why I think we're willing.

2921
06:05:10,470 --> 06:05:15,590
We would work with the, with the youth council to figure it out whatever your decision is.

2922
06:05:16,190 --> 06:05:20,410
Okay. Yeah, because I don't know. I guess, and like I heard the MGA piece, I understand that I guess.

2923
06:05:20,410 --> 06:05:26,850
just like nothing's going to change whether there's three or two because they're just going to

2924
06:05:26,850 --> 06:05:32,070
do the same work, maybe it changes the frequency of the number of meetings but it might change

2925
06:05:32,070 --> 06:05:35,730
the length of another meeting and so I'm just trying to figure out what's the cleanest way to get

2926
06:05:35,730 --> 06:05:40,250
there but I haven't helped myself by any of the questions so I'm going to leave it there thank you.

2927
06:05:41,030 --> 06:05:45,830
Councillor Stevenson. Yeah I just want to dig into that a little bit for there as well and

2928
06:05:46,770 --> 06:05:50,830
And my correct and understanding that the requirements for live streaming is through the MGA

2929
06:05:51,590 --> 06:05:53,430
for advisory boards of council.

2930
06:05:53,830 --> 06:05:54,850
It's that they have to be in public.

2931
06:05:55,370 --> 06:05:58,350
So perhaps try to help this a little bit.

2932
06:05:58,730 --> 06:06:03,050
If members of a committee are going to do work and tasks just as you prepare for meetings, that's fine.

2933
06:06:03,230 --> 06:06:07,550
It's when they gather as a group and make decisions and something that looks like a meeting, but that has to be a public.

2934
06:06:08,830 --> 06:06:12,710
So maybe just to the representatives in those internal organizing meetings,

2935
06:06:12,710 --> 06:06:16,230
do pass motions or resolutions?

2936
06:06:19,570 --> 06:06:25,970
Yes. And yes, in those meetings, like for example, for

2937
06:06:25,970 --> 06:06:31,710
it internal, they would work on like their initiative proposals because currently we still

2938
06:06:31,710 --> 06:06:36,710
do have that initiative proposals structure so they'd work on it and then they'd bring it to

2939
06:06:36,710 --> 06:06:42,690
our general assembly, our monthly meeting, to have it officially passed there. And then other than

2940
06:06:42,690 --> 06:06:45,410
that it would be like, any Instagram posts they made,

2941
06:06:45,570 --> 06:06:46,890
they'd work through it,

2942
06:06:47,050 --> 06:06:49,690
but they would quote unquote approve it internally

2943
06:06:49,690 --> 06:06:52,490
in that group and that initiative

2944
06:06:52,960 --> 06:06:54,890
and then formally pass it at GA.

2945
06:06:55,530 --> 06:07:00,010
But not every single Instagram post needs to be passed at GA.

2946
06:07:00,570 --> 06:07:04,410
It can be passed in that internal subcommittee, right, me.

2947
06:07:04,610 --> 06:07:09,410
Yeah, so I mean, those don't seem like governance decisions.

2948
06:07:11,890 --> 06:07:24,430
Yeah, so I'm just wondering, again, maybe the interpretation of that subcommittee, if we can just remove the design, like I think it was suggested earlier.

2949
06:07:24,970 --> 06:07:29,970
I mean, it's just a function of the group. They're not doing anything that sounds like...

2950
06:07:30,000 --> 06:07:35,400
I think it needs to be minuteed because the things that need to be minuteed for formal approval happen at the General Assembly.

2951
06:07:37,260 --> 06:07:39,140
Is that fair, maybe to?

2952
06:07:40,220 --> 06:07:41,660
Yeah, we would say that's fair.

2953
06:07:42,000 --> 06:07:52,840
I guess the reason why we've been pushy on this is just because we do, our current understanding is that we won't be able to continue this work unless we have this sort of subcommittee like roll there.

2954
06:07:53,300 --> 06:07:55,980
Just so that we are able to come together and meet and do it together.

2955
06:07:55,980 --> 06:08:01,780
But if there is like a way forward where that isn't a concern, then we'd be more than happy with that.

2956
06:08:02,180 --> 06:08:04,040
Yeah, so it's a labeling issue.

2957
06:08:04,300 --> 06:08:05,960
We're happy to call it something else.

2958
06:08:06,360 --> 06:08:07,260
Yeah, well, maybe to Judy.

2959
06:08:07,500 --> 06:08:22,720
So if we had a commitment that this subcommittee was, or sorry, this function of internal organization was not passing formal motions that weren't subsequently brought towards the general assembly.

2960
06:08:22,720 --> 06:08:30,160
Does that then follow outside of the criteria that that's needed or you know that's outlined in the MGA?

2961
06:08:30,820 --> 06:08:39,220
I would have to defer to the Office of the City Clerk because we just provide the support that we're directed through through them.

2962
06:08:39,680 --> 06:08:41,140
So I'd ask one of them to respond.

2963
06:08:41,780 --> 06:08:51,080
Okay, and if we can't respond right now, I'll like that's fair, but I think the path forward might be that if we're hearing from administration that they have the resources to support

2964
06:08:51,080 --> 06:08:56,060
two subcommittees, truly having meetings with those associated governance requirements that

2965
06:08:56,060 --> 06:09:00,240
not as a path forward and as an offline action item between the youth council and the

2966
06:09:00,240 --> 06:09:03,700
civic agencies team and administration, we can look at them as what are functions that

2967
06:09:03,700 --> 06:09:07,380
are being performed and what actually needs to be done at a meeting, because you know what

2968
06:09:07,380 --> 06:09:13,780
I'm even thinking of, you know, council will occasionally have lunch and learns and we're

2969
06:09:13,780 --> 06:09:21,060
all together, but we're not making decisions, there's nothing formal, so okay, so in that

2970
06:09:21,060 --> 06:09:28,400
then I think just for clarity I would move that we strike three subcommittees and replace that

2971
06:09:28,400 --> 06:09:38,380
with two second and as a great please introduce introduction so so just to to the youth council

2972
06:09:38,380 --> 06:09:42,960
of our representatives you know absolutely really support what you're saying I think the way you

2973
06:09:42,960 --> 06:09:47,200
have structured your workflow makes a lot of sense we're just wanting to ensure that we're managing

2974
06:09:47,200 --> 06:09:53,760
resources on our staff side, but I think you've heard there's a commitment to working to ensure

2975
06:09:53,760 --> 06:10:01,180
that you can still meet to have those functions perform those functions, but that it can reduce

2976
06:10:01,180 --> 06:10:06,880
the demand on staff. I think that's probably best for everyone because there's probably probably

2977
06:10:06,880 --> 06:10:12,320
probably don't love being live streamed for whatever reason for some of those more bread and butter

2978
06:10:12,320 --> 06:10:17,420
type conversations, so that would be the intent of this that you would still be able to continue

2979
06:10:17,420 --> 06:10:23,100
to do that work that you would have the space and abilities to do that, while we're

2980
06:10:23,100 --> 06:10:25,720
also sort of reducing that work load on our staff.

2981
06:10:26,160 --> 06:10:27,140
Thank you.

2982
06:10:27,380 --> 06:10:28,680
Can we ask a question?

2983
06:10:29,700 --> 06:10:35,180
I could ask you if you wished to add any thoughts?

2984
06:10:36,460 --> 06:10:39,380
Yes, I comment, I suppose.

2985
06:10:39,380 --> 06:10:53,020
With the internal subject, the only issue that I foresee coming to changing this structure is as far as like formal approval of Post's concern.

2986
06:10:53,240 --> 06:11:08,580
I guess we would appreciate a commitment from administration going forward that things like informative posts on work that our initiatives are doing, which is just sharing information, which is approved at GA.

2987
06:11:08,580 --> 06:11:15,080
but then will there be, I guess, like bureaucratic delays and getting posts and information

2988
06:11:15,080 --> 06:11:19,700
out through our Instagram because would we have to like work the whole month to make Instagram

2989
06:11:19,700 --> 06:11:24,840
posts and then approve it at that one meeting or could the working group just go ahead because

2990
06:11:24,840 --> 06:11:28,800
that if we have to wait monthly that would be an issue. But that's the only thing.

2991
06:11:28,820 --> 06:11:34,160
And I think we could look to other boards and agencies about how they manage their social

2992
06:11:34,160 --> 06:11:41,940
I don't believe that social posts necessarily have to have full formal approval, so it could

2993
06:11:41,940 --> 06:11:47,120
be that you develop a social media policy that, you know, X number, people have to sign

2994
06:11:47,120 --> 06:11:51,280
off an approval post before it's posted, but it's not necessarily a formal action of the

2995
06:11:51,280 --> 06:11:52,720
body would be a thought.

2996
06:11:53,200 --> 06:11:53,620
I'll stop.

2997
06:11:53,800 --> 06:11:54,440
Thank you, Chair.

2998
06:11:54,820 --> 06:11:55,940
Yeah, I appreciate that point.

2999
06:11:56,360 --> 06:11:56,760
Councillor Rutherford?

3000
06:11:59,460 --> 06:12:04,280
I just, yeah, I just went on the board because I could see that the youth council looked

3001
06:12:04,280 --> 06:12:08,800
they had some comments or questions, so I was just going to ask them about their thoughts on

3002
06:12:08,800 --> 06:12:16,920
this motion, then in responding to Councillor Stevens, and I think there is a bigger

3003
06:12:16,920 --> 06:12:23,480
conversation here, and I guess how much social media is youth council doing,

3004
06:12:26,850 --> 06:12:27,130
because I

3005
06:12:27,130 --> 06:12:31,630
really like a lot of work, and I don't know if that actually meets your mandate.

3006
06:12:34,030 --> 06:12:38,530
Okay, we're a good chance of apologies for the early intreption.

3007
06:12:39,650 --> 06:12:43,970
Currently, a lot of it is about educating and sharing information.

3008
06:12:44,910 --> 06:12:49,350
And in the past two to three terms, with governance restriction and administrative turnover,

3009
06:12:49,990 --> 06:12:52,490
it has been slower than we'd like it to be.

3010
06:12:53,530 --> 06:12:55,510
But we would like to do more.

3011
06:12:55,530 --> 06:12:59,290
We'd like to update, use, on what city council is doing.

3012
06:12:59,850 --> 06:13:02,190
They might not always be watching these public hearings

3013
06:13:02,190 --> 06:13:06,810
and, you know, attending these online meetings, but we can make quick info lights to keep

3014
06:13:06,810 --> 06:13:12,590
folks up with things. I think that would very much be, you know, excuse me, my, my, my, my

3015
06:13:12,590 --> 06:13:18,770
that, um, meeting our mandate of educating young people and also, secondly, our own presence,

3016
06:13:19,230 --> 06:13:24,030
which is, once again, administrative stuff like just updating our website. We'd like to make

3017
06:13:24,030 --> 06:13:30,110
our website a more useful resource. This was done a few terms ago, um, because the website contains

3018
06:13:30,110 --> 06:13:36,750
will information of us, but also external opportunities for students, and we are that liaison

3019
06:13:36,750 --> 06:13:42,790
that connects students and young people to scholarships, internships, and some information

3020
06:13:42,790 --> 06:13:43,570
around that.

3021
06:13:43,630 --> 06:13:49,470
So we'd like to breathe out that of it, but it really comes down to being a resource for young

3022
06:13:49,470 --> 06:13:52,350
people and which with that encouraged them to join youth council.

3023
06:13:52,810 --> 06:13:57,290
So we'd like to do a little more than we are currently doing, we're just restructuring

3024
06:13:57,290 --> 06:13:59,510
should do it in a effective and efficient way?

3025
06:14:02,800 --> 06:14:10,950
Yeah, and I guess my background, my history is that I actually

3026
06:14:10,950 --> 06:14:17,130
surrendered the youth council in Strathcona County for years, as the

3027
06:14:17,130 --> 06:14:18,390
admin supports.

3028
06:14:18,610 --> 06:14:19,190
I'm very familiar.

3029
06:14:19,310 --> 06:14:22,390
And actually it was much younger than Edmonton Youth Council

3030
06:14:22,390 --> 06:14:26,090
because that youth council was 12 to 17 year olds.

3031
06:14:26,090 --> 06:14:30,530
And so that was the age group of it,

3032
06:14:34,080 --> 06:14:37,900
and they did a lot of really effective advocacy work.

3033
06:14:38,040 --> 06:14:47,420
They did a lot of things, but I mean, I might be dating myself, but like at that time, it was like when I did that was from 2008 to 2013.

3034
06:14:48,520 --> 06:14:54,880
There was Facebook, but it wasn't really used by youth, really, at that point. They didn't use it a lot.

3035
06:15:00,910 --> 06:15:14,890
And they still got education out. They still look at all of those things. So I guess I'm just trying to understand if you're seeing you have capacity issues or you need these three subcommittees, you know, per what's on the floor before us as amendment.

3036
06:15:16,050 --> 06:15:21,910
I know like other other committees had to think about scaling back what that looks like.

3037
06:15:21,910 --> 06:15:24,110
Yes, advisory board has done that.

3038
06:15:24,150 --> 06:15:25,850
Wave has done that.

3039
06:15:27,170 --> 06:15:33,830
I'm sure others that I'm not as accessibility advisory, I think, has scaled back to.

3040
06:15:34,670 --> 06:15:38,590
Has the youth council looked at scaling back or focusing?

3041
06:15:39,550 --> 06:15:48,150
Is there a platform that really youth are engaged in, and that's where you should be focusing your energy and effort on, as opposed to all the platforms?

3042
06:15:49,850 --> 06:15:55,110
Yeah, so I guess, like, I guess, first addressing the broader question of, like, scaling back.

3043
06:15:55,890 --> 06:16:02,830
I think in 2021, or 2020, we did actually move down from four so communities down to three.

3044
06:16:03,050 --> 06:16:04,770
That's how we have this infrastructure.

3045
06:16:05,350 --> 06:16:10,690
And it's kind of dated, but the other thing, the other, like, I guess, we're response.

3046
06:16:10,850 --> 06:16:17,510
So this is that youth council is also one of the only ones that has such a huge membership, if you include it.

3047
06:16:17,510 --> 06:16:28,750
not just the voting community members, but also the youth of large. And also just if you look at like the individuals that make up or committee, they're often very experienced. This is often very first time doing anything governance related.

3048
06:16:29,270 --> 06:16:36,010
To be honest, it might be the first time doing anything outside of school. And so because of all of that, like we do have a lot more I guess burden to sort of like.

3049
06:16:36,230 --> 06:16:41,370
There's more capacity building and development that happens on a youth council. Is that fair to say?

3050
06:16:42,110 --> 06:16:43,170
Yeah, for sure.

3051
06:16:44,790 --> 06:16:46,230
Okay, I'll leave it there.

3052
06:16:46,290 --> 06:16:48,490
I'll think about this amendment on the floor.

3053
06:16:48,630 --> 06:16:50,170
I'll move a second round.

3054
06:16:51,730 --> 06:16:51,950
Second.

3055
06:16:53,070 --> 06:16:53,400
Please vote.

3056
06:16:57,870 --> 06:16:58,150
Yes.

3057
06:16:58,950 --> 06:16:59,670
Thank you, Councillor Gents.

3058
06:17:03,160 --> 06:17:04,680
We have all the votes displayed about.

3059
06:17:14,400 --> 06:17:14,640
That's carried.

3060
06:17:14,880 --> 06:17:15,700
That's all right.

3061
06:17:16,980 --> 06:17:17,380
Thank you.

3062
06:17:17,900 --> 06:17:21,710
So you mentioned the subcommittees have less experience.

3063
06:17:22,440 --> 06:17:28,320
I'm wondering if it would be better for them to get the guidance of the broader

3064
06:17:28,320 --> 06:17:35,480
committee at working on some of these internal governance situations rather than them

3065
06:17:35,480 --> 06:17:39,460
just sort of being left on their own without that guidance.

3066
06:17:40,980 --> 06:17:42,740
And so not having it in a subcommittee.

3067
06:17:45,970 --> 06:17:47,930
Not sure if I understand the question.

3068
06:17:48,190 --> 06:17:53,270
So are you asking if like the things that happen inside of subcommittees to be done with

3069
06:17:53,270 --> 06:17:54,130
the entire board?

3070
06:17:54,550 --> 06:17:54,750
Yes.

3071
06:17:55,930 --> 06:18:02,390
So that rather than leaving those with less experience in the subcommittees working on things

3072
06:18:02,390 --> 06:18:06,810
that they can have the guidance of the larger broader committee.

3073
06:18:08,010 --> 06:18:13,410
Okay, so a couple of things to address, I think I may have maybe I just didn't explain this correctly,

3074
06:18:14,350 --> 06:18:22,490
but it's not like we do still have the use of large people who aren't just like formally part of the voting members of the board

3075
06:18:22,490 --> 06:18:25,810
coming to the larger committee, General Assembly as well.

3076
06:18:26,170 --> 06:18:28,530
And so that issue is sort of symmetrical in that sense,

3077
06:18:28,830 --> 06:18:30,530
so that happens on both ends.

3078
06:18:30,650 --> 06:18:31,950
And we do have voted committee members

3079
06:18:31,950 --> 06:18:33,990
at all the subcommittee meetings anyway.

3080
06:18:34,270 --> 06:18:35,350
So that's not really concerned.

3081
06:18:37,210 --> 06:18:40,030
Yeah, I think is there anything else like you want to say?

3082
06:18:41,050 --> 06:18:46,770
So point that I could add is support that we're under the impression

3083
06:18:48,250 --> 06:18:51,770
the entire, the entire board needs.

3084
06:18:51,770 --> 06:18:58,050
we do provide by discussing it at General Assembly, and then perhaps formally passing a motion for

3085
06:18:58,050 --> 06:19:04,590
everyone, like certain trainings, etc. encouraging people. But as far as initiating that work,

3086
06:19:05,010 --> 06:19:09,110
that will come out of the subcommittee and then it may or may not be applied to everyone.

3087
06:19:09,810 --> 06:19:18,030
So it's really the mechanism and the tool that we use to help, you know, a niche group or the whole

3088
06:19:18,030 --> 06:19:23,010
board, it still comes through that subcommittee structure because of the way it's organized.

3089
06:19:23,430 --> 06:19:32,130
But okay, but that's what I'm like, can you not reorganize it? Did you see guidance from either

3090
06:19:32,130 --> 06:19:39,390
your council advisors or administration or the clerk's office in regards to setting up this

3091
06:19:39,390 --> 06:19:42,950
three subcommittee proposal.

3092
06:19:44,390 --> 06:19:44,910
Yes.

3093
06:19:45,510 --> 06:19:47,270
And what advice did you receive?

3094
06:19:48,810 --> 06:19:48,830
Yeah.

3095
06:19:49,410 --> 06:19:52,170
This has been in, I think we've talked about this as well.

3096
06:19:52,650 --> 06:19:55,650
But we've been discussing this for like since last term at least.

3097
06:19:56,070 --> 06:19:57,230
Whereas far as I'm aware.

3098
06:19:58,150 --> 06:19:58,370
Yes.

3099
06:19:58,630 --> 06:20:02,030
And like we have heard the suggestion to bring it down to two securities.

3100
06:20:02,350 --> 06:20:08,110
That's why we've, like we came in here on talking about reducing the internal

3101
06:20:08,110 --> 06:20:12,570
are like shrinking the, I guess, couple of the internal subcommittee. And again, we are still

3102
06:20:12,570 --> 06:20:17,590
open to like, to shifting that to something else. If it, if it doesn't really require like the,

3103
06:20:17,590 --> 06:20:24,110
I guess the, the same things that a subcommittee would in terms of like, uh, streaming and having to

3104
06:20:24,110 --> 06:20:29,450
have someone there to take minutes. Um, but at the same time, we do still need that work to be done.

3105
06:20:29,610 --> 06:20:33,870
And currently, the understanding that we have is that in order to do so, we need this subcommittee model.

3106
06:20:33,870 --> 06:20:42,850
If that's not true, again, we're very open to changing that, but that's the reason why it's been like we've kept the structure that we have up to this point.

3107
06:20:43,570 --> 06:20:54,170
But that's, I think that's what sort of all of us are trying to get at is if you do it within the broader committee, you don't need all these subcommittees.

3108
06:20:55,250 --> 06:20:57,690
So you're willing to do that then.

3109
06:20:58,430 --> 06:21:05,210
No, because we don't have, we wouldn't have the time to be able to do all of this stuff in, like within the broader community out of things.

3110
06:21:06,170 --> 06:21:14,390
So, have you thought, have you considered then, as Councilor Rutherford, I think, is suggested in sort of reducing what you are doing.

3111
06:21:14,970 --> 06:21:18,670
And I guess, maybe being tighter with what your mandate is.

3112
06:21:20,090 --> 06:21:23,390
So to go back to a few earlier things, let's make a quick comment.

3113
06:21:24,290 --> 06:21:28,550
As far as interacting with admin liaison, it was a discussed.

3114
06:21:28,890 --> 06:21:33,870
We brought it to GA, we had our discussions, and rather than consolidating something

3115
06:21:33,870 --> 06:21:40,170
like projects in policy or projects in internal, it was, we really came up with restructuring

3116
06:21:40,170 --> 06:21:41,850
internal to make it more effective.

3117
06:21:41,850 --> 06:21:50,950
If this is really just a linguistic tip of the community, we're okay not calling the internal subcommittee a subcommittee, we could call it a working group.

3118
06:21:51,230 --> 06:21:58,270
And that would cut down at many times, but we would just like the formal commitment from administration that this would not cause bureaucratic delays.

3119
06:21:58,610 --> 06:22:12,670
But I think Judy has already said that working groups, there is no such thing as a working group because if it was a working group, then it would actually have to be a subcommittee and live stream.

3120
06:22:12,670 --> 06:22:20,970
And if it's work that can be done in the sort of the whole committee, then you've got

3121
06:22:20,970 --> 06:22:23,330
that admin support behind you.

3122
06:22:23,830 --> 06:22:24,970
And my time is up.

3123
06:22:27,380 --> 06:22:27,800
Councillor Stroud.

3124
06:22:28,760 --> 06:22:29,780
Councillor Stroud.

3125
06:22:29,780 --> 06:22:29,820
Councillor Stroud.

3126
06:22:32,180 --> 06:22:47,940
Thank you. Thank you. And two of you answered many questions and you did a great job. So I give you a little bit of break. I'm going, I'm going to say the administration first for the question and I come back to you. And then just take a brief.

3127
06:22:50,020 --> 06:22:57,740
So my question to Judy, Judy, you provide a lot of clarification here, thank you for that.

3128
06:22:58,360 --> 06:23:15,780
So my question is about for all of those advisory committees, like how many of them actually in their budget expenditure and hired outside consultants or communication company to support their social media, how many don't.

3129
06:23:15,780 --> 06:23:21,260
and basically for the youth council. So youth council, I assume in and based on what's information

3130
06:23:21,260 --> 06:23:25,860
the providers, they are not have any assistance from social media. They are doing their

3131
06:23:25,860 --> 06:23:27,720
social media by themselves, right?

3132
06:23:30,060 --> 06:23:33,360
Yes, that's correct. They're doing it by themselves. So how many

3133
06:23:34,740 --> 06:23:42,380
advisory committee has that budget spending on higher upside resources to support service social media?

3134
06:23:42,380 --> 06:23:53,040
I can only speak to the four advisory committees that are in social development and currently none of them have contracts to do social media through consultant.

3135
06:23:53,660 --> 06:24:04,240
We did have a consultant agreement previously that wasn't part of the advisory board budget. It was part of our branch budget and when that ended at the end of last year, we are not renewing that.

3136
06:24:04,240 --> 06:24:22,680
So we are trying to work within the corporation to figure out what kind of supports can be built in to support social media, as much as it's needed, but as Councillor Rutherford said, I think we're still unclear on how much social media is actually needed for advisory boards when the job is to advise council.

3137
06:24:22,680 --> 06:24:25,740
Okay, wonderful. Thank you for that answer.

3138
06:24:27,440 --> 06:24:29,800
So then my question come back.

3139
06:24:29,920 --> 06:24:34,400
Come back to the youth come so and thank you for both of you.

3140
06:24:34,580 --> 06:24:36,920
So I do not want to you feel so much pressure.

3141
06:24:37,640 --> 06:24:38,680
To answer my questions.

3142
06:24:39,080 --> 06:24:40,740
My question is in for this.

3143
06:24:40,820 --> 06:24:44,720
I understand the words this intention from my colleague put this

3144
06:24:44,720 --> 06:24:46,800
street and to the two.

3145
06:24:48,280 --> 06:24:56,620
So what's the key specific impact could be if we change from stress up communities to choose up communities?

3146
06:24:57,300 --> 06:25:02,660
Could you tell us a little bit what's the impact there?

3147
06:25:03,180 --> 06:25:05,280
And because I do not want you lose capacity.

3148
06:25:05,780 --> 06:25:13,660
I do not want you lose that motivation and to do some of the wonderful work and the title mandate.

3149
06:25:13,660 --> 06:25:18,720
but I do want to understand from your perspective what impact it could be.

3150
06:25:23,240 --> 06:25:31,320
Yeah, so I guess the way that I'll interpret like this scenario is that as that we'd lose,

3151
06:25:31,460 --> 06:25:36,600
like let's say the internal subcommittee, and then we'd also have nothing to replace it.

3152
06:25:37,420 --> 06:25:40,740
And I guess some of the tangible impacts of this is that we'd lose.

3153
06:25:40,980 --> 06:25:45,480
Again, one is just like directing engagement with like the actual people that were supposed to be representing.

3154
06:25:45,480 --> 06:25:50,580
So, like our connections for our, yeah, I get a direct engagement with the youth is just

3155
06:25:50,580 --> 06:25:51,400
to really impact it.

3156
06:25:51,660 --> 06:25:57,340
If we have like no mechanism to do so within our structure.

3157
06:25:58,680 --> 06:26:02,920
And then also just in terms of like an internal governance administrative work that like

3158
06:26:02,920 --> 06:26:07,740
we do within within the group, we just have far less control there.

3159
06:26:08,200 --> 06:26:13,640
And so, but like in terms of like tangible impacts, we probably see like either general assemblies

3160
06:26:13,640 --> 06:26:17,720
a lot more time is going into, of course, things like, oh, like, what does

3161
06:26:17,720 --> 06:26:21,560
member want? Well, being like, what sort of training should we, um, should

3162
06:26:21,560 --> 06:26:26,600
we be organizing, um, like what, like, all of these things that are

3163
06:26:26,600 --> 06:26:32,460
typically, um, delegated to, um, to a committee where there's, or to a, to

3164
06:26:32,460 --> 06:26:37,460
a subcommittee that, like, of people who don't, um, or away from

3165
06:26:37,460 --> 06:26:40,680
people who don't really need to be like involved in all this stuff would, would

3166
06:26:40,680 --> 06:26:45,840
to come into sort of the general discussion for everyone. And the fear with that is that it

3167
06:26:45,840 --> 06:26:51,700
cutting to our time for a lot of other things that we think are more important for our

3168
06:26:51,700 --> 06:26:52,060
institution.

3169
06:26:53,240 --> 06:26:58,400
Susan, thank you for that. My question, then my question, because there are two points

3170
06:26:58,400 --> 06:27:06,260
here, it's different. One is an administrative functionality. So a lot of peace is a governance

3171
06:27:06,260 --> 06:27:13,260
And so you need to make the same motion, you need to ask questions or ask by my colleagues.

3172
06:27:13,680 --> 06:27:22,700
So now you say tangible impacts on the capacity is on the administration side or is on the governance side.

3173
06:27:23,640 --> 06:27:26,080
Sorry, yeah, I guess I should have been more specific with my language.

3174
06:27:26,880 --> 06:27:30,380
But by administrative, I mean administrative within the fancy OSU.

3175
06:27:30,380 --> 06:27:37,260
are not things like not like the liaison but more just how do like we as like executive

3176
06:27:37,260 --> 06:27:43,900
like chairs and some community coach how co-chairs how we organize the way that you.

3177
06:27:45,020 --> 06:27:51,920
Okay so I I know my time is up thank you councilor now thanks councilor senator sorry I'm going

3178
06:27:51,920 --> 06:27:56,780
to give this one more try sorry and I'll go to an administration on this so I've heard the caution

3179
06:27:56,780 --> 06:28:00,980
And from youth council about what they're worried they're going to lose, say the ability

3180
06:28:00,980 --> 06:28:06,260
to engage in my mind, that's going to be part of their ongoing work, whether there's

3181
06:28:06,260 --> 06:28:10,420
an internal subcommittee or not, to me, that's just that, that is something every committee

3182
06:28:10,420 --> 06:28:14,160
does, they do engage with it, they connect, they use that information to help inform.

3183
06:28:15,580 --> 06:28:21,480
So to me, nothing's changing, whether there's an internal subcommittee or not, the minutes

3184
06:28:21,480 --> 06:28:25,320
are going to support other than you might not have to have somebody at an internal subcommittee

3185
06:28:25,320 --> 06:28:28,260
because it doesn't exist, is that it means perspective?

3186
06:28:30,200 --> 06:28:33,800
Yeah, I think there's an opportunity to support support this group

3187
06:28:33,800 --> 06:28:36,120
to look at what needs to be done,

3188
06:28:36,360 --> 06:28:38,300
what maybe they don't need to do

3189
06:28:38,300 --> 06:28:41,440
and maybe develop into two subcommittees.

3190
06:28:42,240 --> 06:28:45,300
We haven't had those in-depth discussions yet,

3191
06:28:45,380 --> 06:28:46,180
so it's hard.

3192
06:28:46,440 --> 06:28:49,420
I know our staff have had some initial conversations,

3193
06:28:49,940 --> 06:28:52,040
but we haven't had the time to really look at it,

3194
06:28:52,100 --> 06:28:54,200
but I think there's opportunities to find ways

3195
06:28:54,200 --> 06:28:57,560
that nothing gets lost, that having one last group

3196
06:28:57,560 --> 06:28:58,180
happened to them.

3197
06:28:58,400 --> 06:28:59,320
That's where I'm going.

3198
06:29:00,200 --> 06:29:03,700
So they're, we're not going to name Smith at today.

3199
06:29:03,880 --> 06:29:06,760
There might be an internal random gathering of events

3200
06:29:06,760 --> 06:29:09,600
that they want to talk about things that have nothing to do

3201
06:29:09,600 --> 06:29:11,800
that require an in time, and they can figure out a time.

3202
06:29:11,880 --> 06:29:14,260
Like, because I do, having sat through some of that stuff,

3203
06:29:14,340 --> 06:29:16,400
like I get, they want to do it.

3204
06:29:16,880 --> 06:29:18,660
You're okay with them going to do that stuff,

3205
06:29:18,840 --> 06:29:22,520
as long as it's not a decision and would have fallen under

3206
06:29:22,520 --> 06:29:27,240
the requirements of having to live stream. Correct? Well, I think that's something we

3207
06:29:27,240 --> 06:29:32,320
have to discuss with them too because I just want to say like this is a group of young

3208
06:29:32,320 --> 06:29:39,660
people. Yeah. They're from ages 13 to 23. That's a broad range. And so, you know, they're

3209
06:29:39,660 --> 06:29:44,540
part of the city and we have to make sure that everyone's protected and safe. Yeah, I guess

3210
06:29:44,540 --> 06:29:48,660
I think we have to be careful with some of that. Because I think back to when I started though,

3211
06:29:48,660 --> 06:29:53,160
There were, there were, I don't know what I'm going to call them now, but I'm going to use the

3212
06:29:53,160 --> 06:29:54,580
term subcommittee in this case.

3213
06:29:54,980 --> 06:29:59,800
There were subcommittee gatherings at U of A students union building that did not have

3214
06:29:59,800 --> 06:29:59,960
members.

3215
06:30:01,100 --> 06:30:15,720
Because they were just working through a project, they were working through something. So clearly something was permitted then to allow them to connect to work on things without having to trigger some sort of mechanism on our end on the cities and to have to do that.

3216
06:30:15,720 --> 06:30:19,880
right like that that's that ran for years and that ran but from before I was on council

3217
06:30:19,880 --> 06:30:25,640
since I was on youth council and I think to this day it's like I that that's why I feel

3218
06:30:25,640 --> 06:30:32,640
like this is just a naming exercise less a or am I missing something I would say we would

3219
06:30:32,640 --> 06:30:37,780
not be encouraging those sorts of things going forward okay again ensure the safety of our young

3220
06:30:37,780 --> 06:30:43,620
people they're they're part of our structure and we need to ensure what we do keeps everyone safe

3221
06:30:43,620 --> 06:30:48,820
And so I would be wanting to have more formalized systems.

3222
06:30:48,820 --> 06:30:50,140
Okay. Okay.

3223
06:30:51,300 --> 06:30:55,060
All right, but what I'm taking away is that we're not going to lose the work.

3224
06:30:55,280 --> 06:30:59,360
We might not have an internal subcommittee, but we're not going to lose that work.

3225
06:30:59,460 --> 06:31:01,960
It might move into a different committee.

3226
06:31:02,760 --> 06:31:04,300
Nobody's losing out here.

3227
06:31:04,560 --> 06:31:07,180
This is what I'm, I guess, what I'm trying to sort of resolve.

3228
06:31:08,120 --> 06:31:12,660
Because it feels like this feels like a long council debate that I don't know.

3229
06:31:13,100 --> 06:31:16,200
It needed to be a council debate, but I guess I'm just trying to see like.

3230
06:31:16,760 --> 06:31:20,820
So administration, if this, if this passes, we've heard the desire to keep doing work,

3231
06:31:21,240 --> 06:31:22,200
that work is going to happen.

3232
06:31:22,800 --> 06:31:24,260
We're just going to figure out a way to make a work.

3233
06:31:24,680 --> 06:31:28,980
From my perspective, our team will work with the youth council and make sure it happens.

3234
06:31:29,020 --> 06:31:30,440
Then, there we go.

3235
06:31:31,120 --> 06:31:31,680
I'm good now.

3236
06:31:32,640 --> 06:31:37,160
Thank you, Councillor Anak, so I'm not seeing any additional questions.

3237
06:31:37,160 --> 06:31:41,480
on the board for this amendment, anyone to speak to it,

3238
06:31:44,320 --> 06:31:46,320
or Councillor Stevenson to close?

3239
06:31:52,290 --> 06:31:52,730
Councillor Tain?

3240
06:31:53,250 --> 06:31:59,530
Maybe just very briefly, you know, thank you for kind of very valiantly defending your

3241
06:31:59,530 --> 06:32:01,150
case to the two co-chairs.

3242
06:32:02,310 --> 06:32:07,390
No, I appreciate some of the intricacy that I think maybe we got too much a little bit into

3243
06:32:07,390 --> 06:32:10,890
the weeds today, but appreciate that there's something you can see that makes you a little

3244
06:32:10,890 --> 06:32:13,730
different than perhaps some of the other committees.

3245
06:32:15,130 --> 06:32:16,130
No, I will be supporting this.

3246
06:32:16,190 --> 06:32:22,790
I think part of this is understanding that the team that's supporting use also supporting

3247
06:32:22,790 --> 06:32:23,910
three other committees.

3248
06:32:24,370 --> 06:32:29,710
And earlier today, we just got a report from one of the committee chairs who is genuinely

3249
06:32:29,710 --> 06:32:31,590
concerned about administrative support.

3250
06:32:31,930 --> 06:32:37,870
And I just think in the interest of fairness and equity, equitable resource, I would be

3251
06:32:37,870 --> 06:32:42,230
supporting this. And I think there's a lot of conversations to be had about what would be the best

3252
06:32:42,230 --> 06:32:48,730
structure that will work for you. I can absolutely appreciate that capacity, you know, as of interest

3253
06:32:48,730 --> 06:32:54,350
here, but I would just, you know, really encourage, you know, your team and the general assembly,

3254
06:32:54,550 --> 06:33:00,730
do you think about, like, what would be the best structure for that? And, you know, I understand that

3255
06:33:00,730 --> 06:33:07,350
internal committee thing is a longstanding practice, but, you know, given kind of the advisory role,

3256
06:33:07,350 --> 06:33:14,010
given kind of, you know, the current landscape and with some of the other committee structures,

3257
06:33:14,290 --> 06:33:22,830
you know, really encourage you to focus and to be more, you know, effective in that role.

3258
06:33:23,610 --> 06:33:27,790
So, you know, appreciate the conversation. Thank you for, thank you to the mover.

3259
06:33:28,670 --> 06:33:30,510
All right. Thank you. Councillor Neckon, can you take the chair, please?

3260
06:33:31,330 --> 06:33:35,470
I've got the chair. Thank you so much. I'll speak very briefly to this one as well,

3261
06:33:35,470 --> 06:33:41,350
and appreciate both of you taking on so many questions this evening and responding

3262
06:33:41,350 --> 06:33:47,610
with a lot of thoughtfulness and grace. Thank you. So, I think I got the clarity I needed

3263
06:33:47,610 --> 06:33:53,090
through Councilor Nax. Most recently, I have questions. It was very clear to me and those answers

3264
06:33:53,090 --> 06:33:59,430
that there really nothing, nothing gets lost with this change, which is I think the important

3265
06:33:59,430 --> 06:34:03,490
point that I'm taking away from this, I think Councilor Tang brought up a number of really excellent

3266
06:34:03,490 --> 06:34:10,250
points as well and would just want to reiterate, you know, as as as those conversations unfold

3267
06:34:10,250 --> 06:34:18,970
and unroll, you know, not just on the administrative side, but myself as well as, I'll speak

3268
06:34:18,970 --> 06:34:23,350
for Councillor Jazz, you know, we're here as well to help navigate some of those changes.

3269
06:34:23,930 --> 06:34:26,950
So I'll just I'll leave it there, but I will be supporting this as well.

3270
06:34:27,150 --> 06:34:27,550
Thank you.

3271
06:34:27,730 --> 06:34:28,930
I'll return the chair.

3272
06:34:29,710 --> 06:34:30,330
Councillor Piquette.

3273
06:34:31,830 --> 06:34:41,410
Thank you, and I just want to thank the representatives here who came out to share your thoughts with us.

3274
06:34:41,530 --> 06:34:48,310
You know, I was never never a young person who bent the rules and sometimes ignored them, so I hope you aren't either.

3275
06:34:48,730 --> 06:34:50,250
Point of order, the Councillor is lying.

3276
06:34:53,930 --> 06:35:02,990
Speaking of lines, let's read between the lines, and look, I never did anything that adults told

3277
06:35:02,990 --> 06:35:10,370
me not to do, not once in my life, and I guess what I'm trying to say is, I'm not sure

3278
06:35:10,370 --> 06:35:15,570
if I'm going to support this motion, I think that there's some latitude here that we could

3279
06:35:15,570 --> 06:35:24,130
potentially offer, and I think that we should probably be a little bit more relaxed with

3280
06:35:24,130 --> 06:35:28,890
the roles a little bit, if they're not actually causing any problems by relaxing those

3281
06:35:29,410 --> 06:35:29,930
roles.

3282
06:35:31,450 --> 06:35:33,650
These things happen very successfully in the past.

3283
06:35:33,810 --> 06:35:38,170
I haven't heard anything that said that they couldn't continue to happen successfully

3284
06:35:39,430 --> 06:35:43,150
under a more lenient model, so I'll just leave it at that.

3285
06:35:43,250 --> 06:35:43,870
Thank you.

3286
06:35:43,870 --> 06:35:47,690
Thank you. Councillor Stevenson. Please vote.

3287
06:35:58,720 --> 06:36:01,120
Yes. Thank you, Councillor Giants. We have all the votes.

3288
06:36:01,260 --> 06:36:01,940
This is the vote.

3289
06:36:05,060 --> 06:36:13,220
That is carried. Excellent. Thank you. So the motion as amended is now on the floor.

3290
06:36:13,380 --> 06:36:18,480
We're there any further questions. We've asked a fair number of them. So we should be.

3291
06:36:18,560 --> 06:36:21,760
Should be good. If there's anyone to speak to this, please sign up.

3292
06:36:25,580 --> 06:36:26,180
Councillor Giants.

3293
06:36:35,360 --> 06:36:38,340
Councillor Neck, would you take the chair then? I am actually going to speak.

3294
06:36:38,800 --> 06:36:39,280
I'll go the chair.

3295
06:36:39,680 --> 06:36:40,380
Thank you.

3296
06:36:41,200 --> 06:36:47,660
Yeah, no, again, just wanted to take a moment to express my gratitude for all the work that

3297
06:36:47,660 --> 06:36:48,620
Youth Council does.

3298
06:36:49,960 --> 06:36:54,200
I reflect on some of the conversations that I've been able to listen to around the Youth Council table.

3299
06:36:56,840 --> 06:36:57,600
And they truly are.

3300
06:36:57,660 --> 06:37:01,720
Some of the most thoughtful, thoughtful conversations that I get to be a part of.

3301
06:37:01,720 --> 06:37:06,480
and I hear questions asked, and conversations have that sometimes I don't even think of.

3302
06:37:06,600 --> 06:37:11,320
And I think that is a clear indicator that youth council is bringing different perspectives

3303
06:37:11,320 --> 06:37:15,600
to the table that we really need to hear as part of our decision-making process.

3304
06:37:17,040 --> 06:37:19,940
So yeah, my thanks and gratitude,

3305
06:37:22,300 --> 06:37:24,540
and if I look like I said to the amendment,

3306
06:37:24,540 --> 06:37:29,620
and if there are further conversations that need to be had, as we adapt to.

3307
06:37:30,740 --> 06:37:36,280
The two verses three formal subcommittees very happy to walk alongside you in that.

3308
06:37:36,740 --> 06:37:38,000
So thank you.

3309
06:37:39,660 --> 06:37:40,460
All right, turn to chair.

3310
06:37:40,860 --> 06:37:42,740
Thanks so much. Please vote.

3311
06:37:54,610 --> 06:37:54,810
Yes.

3312
06:37:55,190 --> 06:37:57,410
Thank you, Councillor Jones. We have all the votes.

3313
06:37:57,870 --> 06:37:58,690
Just play the vote.

3314
06:38:04,450 --> 06:38:05,050
That's carried.

3315
06:38:07,230 --> 06:38:07,270
Great.

3316
06:38:09,170 --> 06:38:10,330
Well, thank you so much.

3317
06:38:10,430 --> 06:38:12,370
I'm showing an alley for being with us this evening.

3318
06:38:13,230 --> 06:38:17,470
Probably a little bit longer than you expected, but I appreciate the conversation in dialogue.

3319
06:38:17,990 --> 06:38:21,910
So we're going to move on to our last item of the evening, but thanks again for joining.

3320
06:38:25,320 --> 06:38:28,960
All right. So, very last item of the evening, everyone.

3321
06:38:29,640 --> 06:38:32,120
We're going to be moving to the Edmonton Combat of Sports Commission.

3322
06:38:32,620 --> 06:38:37,060
And we have Chair Trevor Kelly, as well as Vice Chair Andrew Soto,

3323
06:38:37,720 --> 06:38:38,360
joining online.

3324
06:38:39,520 --> 06:38:41,220
Andrew and Trevor are you here?

3325
06:38:42,200 --> 06:38:42,440
Yes.

3326
06:38:43,260 --> 06:38:48,040
Excellent. Thank you so much and thank you for your patience as we got to the end of our agenda here.

3327
06:38:48,040 --> 06:38:54,900
But we have some time allocated for you to provide a bit of an overview or presentation before we ask some questions.

3328
06:38:55,300 --> 06:38:57,040
So I'll turn the floor over to you.

3329
06:38:58,160 --> 06:38:59,260
Good evening, Councillors.

3330
06:38:59,580 --> 06:39:05,220
I will be presenting the Edmonton Combative Sports Commission report and work plan and answering any questions you may have.

3331
06:39:06,120 --> 06:39:08,720
I'll begin with speaking about the Commission's mandate.

3332
06:39:09,660 --> 06:39:14,220
There are three parties responsible for the regulation of combative sports in Edmonton.

3333
06:39:14,220 --> 06:39:18,800
First, of course, is the city council, which passes the bylaws, which permit professional

3334
06:39:18,800 --> 06:39:23,180
combatant sports within the city, and further more set out the duties for both the commission

3335
06:39:23,180 --> 06:39:24,760
and its executive director.

3336
06:39:25,680 --> 06:39:30,380
The executive director is a city of Edmonton Employee who is responsible for all operational

3337
06:39:30,380 --> 06:39:35,500
matters concerning combatant sports, including employing and training of officials, approval

3338
06:39:35,500 --> 06:39:41,460
of applications for promoter licenses, and event permits, and general operational oversight

3339
06:39:41,460 --> 06:39:42,480
of sanction events.

3340
06:39:42,480 --> 06:39:53,160
The Commission is a committee established by Baila 15638 and since 1920 the Commission has been responsible for the regulation of combat of sports within the city.

3341
06:39:54,160 --> 06:40:01,880
The Commission has composed of seven volunteer members and for the 2025 year there will be a need to fill two or three vacant seats.

3342
06:40:02,300 --> 06:40:08,720
One member is at the end of his third and final turn while another is at the end of his second turn but is not seeking a third turn.

3343
06:40:08,720 --> 06:40:13,680
I am also approaching the young of my third term next month, but the Commission adopted

3344
06:40:13,680 --> 06:40:19,180
a motion for City Council to extend my appointment by one additional year to my third

3345
06:40:20,300 --> 06:40:25,060
term, purely for successors of planning as no one on the Commission currently has the

3346
06:40:25,060 --> 06:40:28,640
interest or capacity to assume the role of chair after my term ends.

3347
06:40:30,220 --> 06:40:34,120
The Commission does not take an operational role of respect to combative sports, rather

3348
06:40:34,120 --> 06:40:39,360
Our mandate is strictly to function as a regulator and to provide governance by supplementing

3349
06:40:39,360 --> 06:40:44,340
the by-laws with regulations and policies which apply to promoters, athletes, officials,

3350
06:40:45,020 --> 06:40:47,480
and to the operation of combative sports within the city.

3351
06:40:48,640 --> 06:40:53,180
The Commission also serves as an appeal body with respect to decisions made by the executive

3352
06:40:53,180 --> 06:40:57,720
director concerning applications for Vempermer permits and promoter licenses.

3353
06:41:00,620 --> 06:41:05,700
2024 was a very significant year for the Commission, as Edmonton hosted its first professional

3354
06:41:05,700 --> 06:41:11,180
combative sports events since 2019, when the UFC held an event at the Rogers Place on

3355
06:41:11,180 --> 06:41:11,880
November 2.

3356
06:41:12,840 --> 06:41:18,940
From 2020 to early 2022, public health restrictions connected to the COVID-19 pandemic,

3357
06:41:19,480 --> 06:41:22,940
prevented the holding of any combative sports events during that period of time.

3358
06:41:23,740 --> 06:41:28,200
That pause on events for public health reasons was immediately followed by the pause that

3359
06:41:28,200 --> 06:41:32,600
was put in place by city administration for the acceptance of any applications for promoter

3360
06:41:32,600 --> 06:41:39,240
licenses and event permits that was in place from August of 2022 to May of 2023, while

3361
06:41:39,240 --> 06:41:43,340
administration conducted a full-son review of the Commission's policies and regulations.

3362
06:41:44,580 --> 06:41:49,320
After that pause was lifted, it was merely a matter of waiting for a promoter to take

3363
06:41:49,320 --> 06:41:53,700
the first step in holding an event in Edmonton in the hopes that it would lead to other events

3364
06:41:53,700 --> 06:41:54,660
also being scheduled.

3365
06:41:55,620 --> 06:42:00,800
The USC event in November was a success, setting a record for the largest gate, and by

3366
06:42:00,800 --> 06:42:06,940
I mean, revenue generated from ticket sales, for an enemy invented North America for a non-paper

3367
06:42:06,940 --> 06:42:07,980
view event.

3368
06:42:08,980 --> 06:42:13,500
Furthermore, as I mentioned, the hope was that once an event was finally held that it would

3369
06:42:13,500 --> 06:42:18,160
encourage further events, which seems to be the case as another enemy event has been scheduled

3370
06:42:18,160 --> 06:42:23,460
for April 12th by a promoter known as Unified M.A. to be held in the Ice District

3371
06:42:23,460 --> 06:42:24,140
Fan Park.

3372
06:42:25,080 --> 06:42:29,700
The last thing that was sporting event prior to the pandemic was a KO boxing event held

3373
06:42:29,700 --> 06:42:32,060
shot conference center in December of 2019.

3374
06:42:32,580 --> 06:42:36,420
So after nearly five years with no events, it is good to finally see a return in combat

3375
06:42:36,420 --> 06:42:37,520
of sports to Edmonton.

3376
06:42:39,100 --> 06:42:41,560
2024 was another productive year for the commission.

3377
06:42:42,120 --> 06:42:45,860
The commission has continued its work on the policy review project that it commenced

3378
06:42:45,860 --> 06:42:46,840
in 2018.

3379
06:42:47,960 --> 06:42:51,520
The aim of the project has been to have the commission go through each of the commission's

3380
06:42:51,520 --> 06:42:56,540
14 policies and regulations and review and revise them as necessary to make them both

3381
06:42:56,540 --> 06:42:57,860
more efficient and effective.

3382
06:42:57,860 --> 06:43:07,520
This work is largely done by way of a gap analysis, comparing the Commission's policies and regulations to those of other jurisdictions in Canada and the U.S.

3383
06:43:08,440 --> 06:43:18,980
In 2024, the Commission reviewed and revised its policies concerning fighter debut criteria, medical suspensions and rest periods for athletes, as well as drug testing.

3384
06:43:19,560 --> 06:43:27,960
Looking forward into 2025 and 2026, the Commission hopes to complete its work on the six remaining policies that the yet to be reviewed as part of the project.

3385
06:43:29,040 --> 06:43:42,960
In addition to its work on the policy review, the Commission was also able to send a delegation of Commission members along with the executive director to the annual conference for the Association of Boxing Commission, which was held in Louisville, Kentucky this past July.

3386
06:43:42,960 --> 06:43:47,840
The conference is an opportunity for the Commission to network with other commissions and

3387
06:43:47,840 --> 06:43:52,240
learn about important new developments in the regulation of combative sports across North America.

3388
06:43:53,880 --> 06:44:00,460
2024 was also a significant year as in November saw the release of the report for the Tim Hague's

3389
06:44:00,460 --> 06:44:04,040
Natality and Quiry which went to hearing in May of 2023.

3390
06:44:05,220 --> 06:44:11,180
The report came with 14 recommendations from Justice Sharp who presided over the inquiry and

3391
06:44:11,180 --> 06:44:14,740
The Commission has been working closely with its partner-seed in the city of administration

3392
06:44:14,740 --> 06:44:19,360
in revealing and implementing those recommendations as appropriate for the purpose of

3393
06:44:19,360 --> 06:44:21,020
enhancing athlete safety.

3394
06:44:21,880 --> 06:44:25,700
I'd like to use this opportunity to, for the Commission to extend its sincere condolences

3395
06:44:25,700 --> 06:44:27,360
to the family of Tim Hague.

3396
06:44:28,700 --> 06:44:33,100
Lastly, in December, the Commission was contacted by officials from the province, concerning

3397
06:44:33,100 --> 06:44:35,620
the future regulation of combat of sports in Alberta.

3398
06:44:35,620 --> 06:44:41,340
On December 17th, the Executive Director and myself met with the Minister of Sport and

3399
06:44:41,340 --> 06:44:46,380
Tourism as well as the Minister of Municipal Affairs, alongside the chairs and executive

3400
06:44:46,380 --> 06:44:50,320
directors of all the other municipal combatant sports commissions in the province.

3401
06:44:51,400 --> 06:44:55,480
The Commission and the City have both won advocate for the establishment of a provincial

3402
06:44:55,480 --> 06:44:58,660
and that of sports commission to oversee combat of sports in Alberta.

3403
06:44:59,860 --> 06:44:59,980
All of it.

3404
06:45:00,000 --> 06:45:05,700
Other provinces and the states in the U.S., regulate combat of sports at the provincial or state level.

3405
06:45:06,180 --> 06:45:10,460
Alberta is the last jurisdiction of maintaining municipal oversight of combat of sports.

3406
06:45:12,400 --> 06:45:17,180
The province is engaging in various municipal commissions in a consultation process.

3407
06:45:17,880 --> 06:45:22,820
And while I believe it is too early to tell if this will result in the establishment of a provincial commission.

3408
06:45:22,820 --> 06:45:28,060
I am nonetheless cautiously optimistic that the province may finally be looking at taking

3409
06:45:28,060 --> 06:45:30,580
steps towards establishment of one.

3410
06:45:32,440 --> 06:45:35,080
The Commission is an excellent financial standing currently.

3411
06:45:35,600 --> 06:45:40,680
The Commission does not receive any tax revenue from the city, and instead is self-funded

3412
06:45:40,680 --> 06:45:45,280
through the holding of combat of sports, with revenue generated from the fees and connection

3413
06:45:45,280 --> 06:45:50,820
with permit and license applications, but also receives revenue through the portion of

3414
06:45:50,820 --> 06:45:56,000
and ticket sales. As I mentioned earlier, the USC event in November had the highest grossing

3415
06:45:56,000 --> 06:46:00,620
ticket sales of any non-paper view event in North America to date. And as a result, the

3416
06:46:00,620 --> 06:46:09,160
Commission's revenue for 2024 was $190,893. The significant influx of revenue, when added to

3417
06:46:09,160 --> 06:46:15,720
the revenue received from past two of the events in 2017 and 2019, brings the total amount of funds

3418
06:46:15,720 --> 06:46:21,160
the Commission has in its account two 373,886 dollars.

3419
06:46:22,080 --> 06:46:25,060
These funds give plenty of flexibility for the Commission and we did

3420
06:46:25,060 --> 06:46:30,000
budgeted expenditures, including officials training, Commission member training,

3421
06:46:30,300 --> 06:46:35,860
and hopefully sending a delegation to the 2025 Association of Boxing Commission conference,

3422
06:46:36,360 --> 06:46:39,860
which is scheduled to be in New Orleans in August.

3423
06:46:40,760 --> 06:46:55,240
So, subject to any questions that concludes my report, I would like to take this opportunity to extend my gratitude and appreciation to all my fellow commission members and to our executive director, Forest Gavin's, for all their hard work and dedication towards achieving the commission's mandate.

3424
06:46:56,820 --> 06:46:59,160
Great. Well, thank you so much for the presentation.

3425
06:47:00,340 --> 06:47:06,300
And I'll see if there are any questions from colleagues or if there's someone who might want to move a recommendation in the report.

3426
06:47:10,470 --> 06:47:13,190
I'm happy to move. That was excellent report.

3427
06:47:16,050 --> 06:47:16,130
Second.

3428
06:47:17,490 --> 06:47:20,610
Great. Thank you so much so much to move by Councillor Ting. Second by Councillor Wright.

3429
06:47:22,310 --> 06:47:27,110
That was a very thorough presentation and I know I enjoyed reading through the report.

3430
06:47:28,670 --> 06:47:32,690
So I don't have any questions. Councillor Ting, did you?

3431
06:47:32,690 --> 06:47:46,190
Sure, I'm happy to just, a few things that you, you mentioned, really flag some interest just in terms of your conversation with the province and kind of the potential direction that they may take.

3432
06:47:48,230 --> 06:47:54,230
So following perhaps other jurisdictions, that would mean kind of a municipal level commission.

3433
06:47:55,810 --> 06:47:58,830
That would effectively replace the municipal level commission.

3434
06:47:59,390 --> 06:48:01,710
Is that kind of what I'm hearing you?

3435
06:48:01,710 --> 06:48:17,410
Yeah, as I said, it's a little early to tell, if the province is going to commit to the establishment of a provincial commission, some of these preliminary discussions that the provinces had with the various municipal commissions.

3436
06:48:17,410 --> 06:48:21,750
as explore that option of or alternatively being

3437
06:48:21,750 --> 06:48:25,730
teamed municipal regulation with some higher level

3438
06:48:25,730 --> 06:48:27,670
of oversight from the province.

3439
06:48:29,430 --> 06:48:32,130
You know, alternatively there's always the possibility

3440
06:48:32,130 --> 06:48:35,470
that nothing might happen and that the status

3441
06:48:35,470 --> 06:48:36,350
full will remain.

3442
06:48:37,570 --> 06:48:41,030
But as I said, you know, it's one been the commission,

3443
06:48:41,590 --> 06:48:43,690
the Edmonds in Combat of Sports Commission's position,

3444
06:48:43,690 --> 06:48:48,090
that a provincial commission would be preferred.

3445
06:48:49,070 --> 06:48:51,550
Yeah. Great. Thank you. Thank you for that clarity.

3446
06:48:51,850 --> 06:48:54,390
And then your work plans also really thorough.

3447
06:48:54,670 --> 06:48:55,950
I guess I'm wondering,

3448
06:48:58,330 --> 06:49:01,970
you know, I think I've heard about a few events just even this year.

3449
06:49:02,490 --> 06:49:08,550
Although I think maybe outside of the city is the commission seeing some of those opportunities coming up.

3450
06:49:08,710 --> 06:49:11,890
Given how active 2024 was?

3451
06:49:14,960 --> 06:49:26,020
Yeah, I mean, as I said, it was kind of a case of waiting for, you know, someone to make the first step to bring, you know, the sport back to Edmonton.

3452
06:49:26,560 --> 06:49:37,440
Obviously, the river Cree casino hosts a number of combatant sporting events. However, that is outside the jurisdiction of the commission because it's not within the city of Edmonton.

3453
06:49:39,850 --> 06:49:52,270
Yeah, and then I guess just a final one, just on your budget, I mean, you're at your in very healthy position, like, what do you, I guess, typically do with that kind of.

3454
06:49:54,520 --> 06:50:07,660
So, so as I said, you know, one of our things that we like to fund is, is officials training and for women's sectors, referees judges.

3455
06:50:07,660 --> 06:50:14,300
you know, either by bringing in individuals to the city for the purpose of putting

3456
06:50:14,300 --> 06:50:22,680
on instruction, that anyone interested can attend, alternatively, you know, we have subsidized

3457
06:50:22,680 --> 06:50:32,140
or funded attendance outside the city for some of our local officials, for example, one

3458
06:50:32,140 --> 06:50:40,240
our referees in 2023 attended the conference that I mentioned in the Association of

3459
06:50:40,240 --> 06:50:46,460
Ox and Commissions Conference by coming to us with a proposed plan for the his attendance

3460
06:50:46,460 --> 06:50:53,340
and enrollment in some further officials training. I also mentioned Commission Member

3461
06:50:53,340 --> 06:51:01,500
Training specifically as an example of what that might entail. As I mentioned, the

3462
06:51:01,500 --> 06:51:11,320
mission serves as an appeal body from decisions of the executive director, so in 2021 that was

3463
06:51:11,320 --> 06:51:20,380
the year we established our former appeal policy and we had to hear an appeal and at that point in

3464
06:51:20,380 --> 06:51:26,960
time nobody had an administrative tribunal training. It just happens by coincidence at the time

3465
06:51:26,960 --> 06:51:29,800
three of our seven members, including myself,

3466
06:51:30,580 --> 06:51:31,780
were practicing lawyers.

3467
06:51:32,620 --> 06:51:35,220
So we kind of thought through the process

3468
06:51:35,220 --> 06:51:37,740
by establishing a panel of three lawyers

3469
06:51:37,740 --> 06:51:38,840
to hear this appeal.

3470
06:51:40,340 --> 06:51:43,160
But after that, we took it upon ourselves

3471
06:51:43,160 --> 06:51:46,780
to actually enroll the rest of the commission

3472
06:51:46,780 --> 06:51:50,260
into formal administrative tribunal training.

3473
06:51:51,300 --> 06:51:54,580
So that is something that I would like to probably

3474
06:51:54,580 --> 06:51:59,140
have happened again, if not in 2025 and perhaps in 2026,

3475
06:52:01,480 --> 06:52:03,300
primarily due to the fact that I think

3476
06:52:03,300 --> 06:52:09,800
every member of the commission other than myself who went through that training in 2021 is no

3477
06:52:09,800 --> 06:52:16,140
longer going to be on the commission as at the end of this term, which would be the end of people.

3478
06:52:17,360 --> 06:52:23,700
Yeah, no, that's great. Glad to hear some of those plans too. I guess further improve, you know,

3479
06:52:23,700 --> 06:52:28,080
some of the safety work that you've been carrying on.

3480
06:52:28,240 --> 06:52:29,320
So thank you for that.

3481
06:52:29,780 --> 06:52:29,960
Nothing more.

3482
06:52:34,290 --> 06:52:42,670
I'm just looking at in attachment to talks about the administrative support, is funded from community standards.

3483
06:52:44,250 --> 06:52:55,470
You've indicated that there's no sort of, there's no, besides the administrative support that you receive, there's no other tax supported city tax supported support.

3484
06:52:56,930 --> 06:53:08,470
Yes. Yes. Okay. And I guess how often do you rely on community standards branch to support you in your meetings in that?

3485
06:53:10,230 --> 06:53:13,530
Typically, in terms of an in support, just term on fee meeting.

3486
06:53:13,810 --> 06:53:18,130
Okay. Okay. So, and that's live streamed as well, just like all of our other.

3487
06:53:18,130 --> 06:53:26,090
Okay, and I thought I had a question about the license fees, but I see that does come under revenue that you get for that.

3488
06:53:26,470 --> 06:53:35,210
I was just wondering, is your projected going to be more this year as well, because you might be getting more events?

3489
06:53:39,290 --> 06:53:48,030
Yeah, I mean, the budget that we had put together in 2024, which we've more or less, you know,

3490
06:53:48,030 --> 06:54:06,650
adopted for 2025. It was predicated upon the possibility of two to three events that would not obviously be to the same scale as a UFC event because the revenue is I believe it's 5% of ticket sales.

3491
06:54:06,650 --> 06:54:15,910
So, the USC event that took place in November, January, I believe, $2.6 million in ticket sales.

3492
06:54:16,350 --> 06:54:21,250
So, 5% of that is, you know, that are revenue came from in 2024.

3493
06:54:23,230 --> 06:54:30,950
But, you know, a significantly more modest number is what would be expected from non-USC,

3494
06:54:30,950 --> 06:54:39,650
see boxing and MMA events, where I think the realistic amount of revenue that we would see

3495
06:54:39,650 --> 06:54:48,790
from ticket sales and license fees would be anywhere from 5 to 10,000, so at this point,

3496
06:54:48,950 --> 06:54:55,350
as I said, we have one event scheduled for people 12, whether or not there are more than that

3497
06:54:55,350 --> 06:55:00,050
remains to be seen. I think it's highly unlikely,

3498
06:55:02,150 --> 06:55:04,590
if not a variable certainty that the UFC

3499
06:55:04,590 --> 06:55:14,510
wouldn't return to Evanton very soon. I mean, they came in 2017, 2019 and now, 2024.

3500
06:55:16,430 --> 06:55:23,590
You know, I think realistically they'll be back potentially in two to three years, but for 2025

3501
06:55:24,390 --> 06:55:31,610
not likely twenty twenty six eight. Okay, okay, so we're not, yeah, not the, not the

3502
06:55:31,610 --> 06:55:35,310
big revenue that, or the smaller ones wouldn't provide the same revenue as

3503
06:55:35,310 --> 06:55:41,490
what we saw there. Okay, basically the probably ordered magnitude, if not two.

3504
06:55:41,850 --> 06:55:46,130
Okay, order something in the two difference. Okay, perfect, thank you very much to

3505
06:55:46,130 --> 06:55:50,350
the fellow. Thank you, not seeing further questions, if there's anyone to speak please sign up

3506
06:55:50,350 --> 06:55:55,430
Now, if not, we'll go to Councillor Tang to close.

3507
06:55:56,910 --> 06:56:01,510
Not much, but just want to appreciate the work you're all doing.

3508
06:56:01,690 --> 06:56:05,010
And thank you for thinking about succession.

3509
06:56:05,870 --> 06:56:06,590
All really valuable.

3510
06:56:08,030 --> 06:56:10,030
And yeah, appreciate every year.

3511
06:56:10,270 --> 06:56:11,590
Appreciate your report back.

3512
06:56:11,830 --> 06:56:12,350
Thank you.

3513
06:56:13,410 --> 06:56:13,650
Great.

3514
06:56:13,730 --> 06:56:14,350
Please vote.

3515
06:56:17,160 --> 06:56:17,440
Yes.

3516
06:56:18,120 --> 06:56:18,600
Thank you.

3517
06:56:18,700 --> 06:56:19,000
Councillor Jones.

3518
06:56:20,100 --> 06:56:20,320
Yes.

3519
06:56:21,060 --> 06:56:21,340
Thank you.

3520
06:56:21,340 --> 06:56:22,500
with a rather good

3521
06:56:27,040 --> 06:56:28,940
counselor for cat or you still with us?

3522
06:56:37,280 --> 06:56:38,000
My apologies.

3523
06:56:42,030 --> 06:56:42,790
We have all the votes.

3524
06:56:42,930 --> 06:56:43,210
This way,

3525
06:56:47,700 --> 06:56:48,240
that's carried.

3526
06:56:49,340 --> 06:56:49,600
Excellent.

3527
06:56:49,900 --> 06:56:51,700
Well, thank you so much for sticking with us.

3528
06:56:51,820 --> 06:56:53,160
This evening, Trevor, and again,

3529
06:56:53,260 --> 06:56:56,040
just want to really appreciate the important regulatory role

3530
06:56:56,040 --> 06:56:56,960
that the commission plays.

3531
06:56:58,020 --> 06:57:01,040
And look forward to ongoing conversations

3532
06:57:01,040 --> 06:57:03,200
and future reports and subsequent years.

3533
06:57:03,400 --> 06:57:04,240
Thank you so much.

3534
06:57:05,280 --> 06:57:05,720
Thank you.

3535
06:57:05,980 --> 06:57:06,200
Have a good night.

3536
06:57:06,960 --> 06:57:07,460
You too.

3537
06:57:07,640 --> 06:57:10,400
All right, everyone, we've made it.

3538
06:57:10,400 --> 06:57:15,300
and to the agenda, so by last private reports, motions pending, none, notices a motion,

3539
06:57:15,660 --> 06:57:18,280
motions without customer notice none, which means we're adjourned.

3540
06:57:18,700 --> 06:57:19,460
Thank you so much.