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All right, we're getting the other one.

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A couple minutes past six apologies for the late start. Before I move into the agenda this evening, just a couple of things. I want to wish everyone a happy new year. And we're certainly looking forward to 2017 and Ms. Late Liston. If you could, don't be half of council pass on to our crews out there who I know have been working 24 hours shifts over the last couple of days to get to roads in our road system.

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up to, up to power with all of this snow, so thank them for us if you would, thanks very much.

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With that, if I could get a motion to adopt the amended agenda, it would be great.

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Councillor Puzzle, Councillor Scott, all those in favour?

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Please, Chair, unanimously, and we have the minutes Council of December 19.

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Thank you, seconder.

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Councillor Puzzle, all those in favour?

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Polescare unanimously.

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Our first delegation this evening is the 20th Avenue Victoria Street Business Improvement Area Society. Better known as the Gateway VA. Good evening.

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Do you want to go back to your seat?

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I'm going to go back to your seat.

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I'm going to miss something.

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Just a reminder that Councillor Everett is attending my phone.

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Thank you.

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Councillor Everett.

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Good evening.

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It's okay.

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Mr. Unmark.

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Feel free.

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I forgot Councillor Everett is in by phone.

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So the is the bar in front of you there?

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Yes.

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The microphone and the floor is yours.

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I'm Johnny Hemark. I've had the privilege of being the chair of the Labor Day for 22 years now.

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And it's pretty hard.

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All is our fifth merit, we've come and done it.

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And Council, Mr. Groves, your Council of Eric Groves, is on the first council that I made a presentation to all those years, but it seems so here.

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The fact is the gateway of the BIA was the first BIA in the city of Prince George.

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We are also the first BIA in Northern British London.

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And so with that, we've been very quiet through our years and not said very much, you're

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just growing.

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And there's a lot of people that don't know who made the improvements in the gateway.

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We started in 1995, we have 17 members of the BIA business owners, and we collect $100,000

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in a year to improve the city properties.

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We worked hard to keep up and changes.

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Today, we put $2.2 million of our own money into the gateway on city property.

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We started the Flower Bastic Program in the city.

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We installed underground water for the trees and the upper street lights for the flower baskets.

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We installed, we helped fund the, sorry, the mayoral on the Cannot Youth Center and helped fund that as well.

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Well, we were building the gateway park with the corner of 17th Victoria.

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We've created four and paid for the artwork that 20 of Victoria commotion.

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We've done that.

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And these are just a few things that our volunteers have done.

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And we can run a BIA in volunteers.

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You do not have any office or payton for it.

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It's all done by volunteers.

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First few people actually know,

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other than you people,

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that the BIA has done it.

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He can buy it.

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My business is like,

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Sun's done it.

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Is the city done it?

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Great job.

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Look at that.

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He's a neighbor.

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But the BIA is a small,

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is this a smaller area from 17th of Victoria to 20th?

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We go along Highway 16 or 20th Avenue up to the cross and the ground crossing to the school

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kids.

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And there's, as I say, 17 members of the B.I.A.

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We are here today to tell you about a few things we've done and I have to apologize, we

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We're not photographers, but in this picture, this is looking from the island across

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some of the key up, looking east, and this is before, the one on the left is before, we

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put in our trees, and the red light posts, and the brick sidewalks we've done that.

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And then we look here, looking directly the opposite way, and you notice on the left

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that there is no Northland, Chrysler, Northland, and this then, they came in after we started to be I8, and they joined us.

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Also joining us during the time is the gateway lodge.

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And now we have a new person coming in, the River Bend, the senior citizen's home, all coming into our district.

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So our work in growth is pretty done.

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This shot is from McDonald's, looking west down 20th Avenue again.

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We never thought we'd send a huge passage to the Council again,

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but this was a long time ago, there's a lot of changes.

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And this one shows the Gateway Park,

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which I mentioned earlier, commotion and the street vanners

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and the flower baskets on our trees, trying to beautify the area.

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Twenty-two years into the gateway, we are now coming to council and we're this year planning

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on putting new signage into the gateway and this is a mock-up of what the new sign for

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look like.

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We are also proposing for 2017,

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up lighting of our street trees. So far we've been

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putting streams of lights in the trees every second year. They come back down, so a bit of

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and Trim and Trim and Trim and Trim and Trim and Trim properly.

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We were losing a lot of the lights

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to the people in the district

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and wanted the copper out of them.

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And it was very, very expensive.

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So we developed the ways with working with the city,

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to put this underground base on the ground.

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Now these lights are the LED lights,

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which you're gonna cut the cost of electricity.

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They're also heated lenses,

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so they will be able to work during the winter.

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The second thing we're going to do is put in new street patterns this year and get that moving.

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Okay, we have some new other programs.

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I mentioned the new sign for putting in that we're spending $92,000 on goals.

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We're also enlarging and working with the city in the new gateway park between the River Bend Seniors Hall and Victoria Street.

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We want to uplight the park for safer at night for them.

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We're looking at maybe putting some pieces of art in there.

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We're not sure exactly we've got to work with the city's planning

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proper for that.

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And then we have $10,000 and $750 to give for repair and maintenance

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this year as to go along.

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We are proposing and asking for the city's help in putting in new land

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into the gateway. Our red ones keep turning pink, and the city has said that we can do this.

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We would be following the George Street example of putting in black holes.

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Which is not the sunlight does not affect them. It will stay black. And we're looking for $372,000 put in the new lightposts.

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In these lightposts will be LED lighting as well, which is a cost saving to the city of over the years that they're installed.

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So I guess there's any questions I'm rising now.

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Thank you Mr. Annemarka, I do have Councilor Kohler.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, John.

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And thank you for everybody who's working with you.

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I have something we have guests coming from other cities and even from other countries.

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And usually we drive into town from college highs because we live there.

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And then it certainly hit the gateway area.

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And the first comment is always, this is nice.

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This is really nice.

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So it's a gateway toward us.

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It's a gateway to our big city of Prince George.

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So it's great what you are doing.

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And each time every day, I drive in from there.

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I'm happy that it looks so nice all over the place.

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Thank you.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you.

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Councillor Fuzzell.

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Thank you, Mayor Hall, through the mystery and mark.

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And please pass on our gratitude to the whole the BIA, because I agree with Councillor

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Kohler.

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In particular, the art installation right at the corner has really added a feel to that

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community, and I don't want to

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we're talking earlier about the

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twoks that have suddenly shown up.

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It shows that the communities

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embraced and are interacting with the

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art as well.

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These plans that you've brought

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forward are really interesting.

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Look forward to looking at that in

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more detail.

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I hadn't realized the pulls had been

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turned in pink.

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I hadn't gotten that.

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We've had them painted once.

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And now it's just, they've come

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We've working with public works and they said the best thing to do is change them and put

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in black holes and that's why we're changing our signage and giving another new look to

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the gateway.

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Well, congratulations and keep up the good work.

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Thank you.

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Thank you very much.

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Councillor Cose.

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Well, thank you.

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Yes, it was a while ago and I'd like to thank the DBI as well for the reference over 20 years.

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certainly probably many people around the room would remember what it looked like 20 years ago

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and certainly there has been a vast improvement. So thank you very much for all your effort.

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I think Jonathan, excuse me, it probably would be appropriate if you introduce the fellow

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that works as tirelessly at this as you do, who's with us here this evening.

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Yes, Mr. Kent, leave over. Yes, we worked together since then. They actually brought me in Tom Griffiths

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And again, we're starting the idea, and then they, oh, here's a guy we can haul in.

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And we worked tirelessly over the years, just to beautify print storage and areas.

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And we spent a lot of money on our own buildings.

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You know, print storage motorsports is coming in, and they've read, damp, north and this end is,

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we've done the Chrysler building.

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So we're very proud.

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We're attracting businesses to our area.

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And we even have the ladies that's run from the wide coming through the gateway now, running

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and it's a peeling each of them.

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So that's what we tried to do,

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and we wanted to keep our businesses up from.

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Good, thank you.

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Councilor Nürick.

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Thank you, Richard, and thank you to Mr. Annemark

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for the presentation.

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Learned a lot today.

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Didn't know much about the Gateway Business

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Provinist Association, and the Commissioners

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probably wanted my favorite public art pieces,

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because it continues to take on new life every season,

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and continues to evolve.

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So thank you for that.

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I do have a couple questions this year on the history,

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and maybe precedent for the business association.

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You've earmarked about $329,000, almost $330,000 that the BIA proposes to spend in 2017.

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Is that an exceptional year for you or is that a part for the course?

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No, that's the exception.

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We've been waiting to get the Shuffle Lighting done, and we want to get a bunch of things

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now done together.

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We've been planning this for three or four years, and now we're just trying to get to everybody

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you'll, and we can get the city to move at the same time on the street lighting as

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granting us the $302,000, we're looking at possible cost savings by doing both the

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electrical jobs at the same time.

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This is what we're trying to do is tie with the city and work together.

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And we've been very successful in the past, really, that.

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But these are billing says individual items now.

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And if we have cost savings because part of our underground lighting and street lighting,

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we have to supply extras, this can't feel the number that you need some in public works for

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you know, accidents or repairs to the lighting that they stand at, but that's all involved

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as well, so it's just not a matter of just this project of that material for the new

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new projects. And thank you for that. And the second question I had is just around what looks like

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a bit of a branding change. So you're looking to do a new science, got new colors, new logos.

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So do you maybe want to provide some insight into where your members wanted to go with

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What was the impetus behind changing the look of what the gateway sign is?

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It is.

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It is.

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The thing that I found is we don't acknowledge ourselves a lot.

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We don't advertise who we are.

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We just quietly go around and do this and it looks good.

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And people do appreciate it.

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But they're not aware of who actually is to get the start of it all.

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And one of the new like commotion, we were talking, I still don't know the lady who built the tutors and make the tutors to put on the motion figures around Christmas night for people to pick up.

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I'm really thrilled.

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You know, that's the type of thing you'd like to see happen in the gateway, you know, lots of fun and people are safe.

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Great, thank you.

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Great, thanks very much, John, and Ken, thank you to the ability to view and the team that you have quite often.

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I know it's just the two of you that are out trying to get things done, so thank you.

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Council, what I'd like to do is I'd like to put a motion on the floor that we refer this

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back to administration.

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They're working closely with administration now, with Ms. late-Liston, I think, and others.

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So I think if there's a seconder for that, we'll see what we'll thank you, Councilor Scott.

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Is there any questions, all those in favour of referral?

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Opposed.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you, Councilor Robert.

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John, thank you very much.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you.

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So, Council, what I'd like to do now, if we could as take reports at D1 and D2 and meld them together a little bit, I'll start with off by a report that I have submitted 2016 interview and I look forward to 2017, and I'll just take a moment and highlight some of the areas that we've been through this year and some of the things we're looking for in 2017.

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at the back of the document is our strategic plan, strategic plan is 2016 to 2018 and we've gone

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through that earlier this year, a couple days of work not only with administration but also

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counsel in developing the strategic plan for the next couple years. So if I could, excuse me,

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for the last several years planning at the city has been in print storage has been based on the

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Community Sustainability Plan on us by PG was completed in 2010.

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We used that particular plan and incorporated into our strategic framework, and we've

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done that since, well, for a few years, but more specifically since this Council came in

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and, in the late 2014, early 2015, and we've developed the my PG plan into,

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want to go as a city and in this case I'm going to talk a little bit about where we've been

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and what kind of highlights we're going to see in 2017. Just to quickly give a snapshot around

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the 2016 highlights around social development, the reconciliation initiative and we had an application

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submitted to the Canada 150 Infrastructure Program for some funding around a picnic shelter

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likely to today. Work was done by a committee comprised of numerous community partners towards

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establishing the cities of background organization to provide support and complex social issues.

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I know Ms. Boone isn't here, but I want to thank her for the work that she's done since

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she's come on board back to the city and the social planning department. She has done great work.

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Smoke and VATE free bylaw was recently brought to council, a parent-mauristic international

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championships are a reality. We announced there was not long ago for 2019. A world

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event, environment around active modes of transportation, connected networks supported by investing

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about a quarter of a million dollars a sidewalk rehabilitation and a quarter of a million on

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new sidewalks, bicycle routes and of course, concert America was very involved in this.

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The downtown renewable energy system is brought on Plaza 400 and the courthouse.

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This is the city's water management program and a park strategy that we're going to talk about this evening.

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Economic development goes without saying that economic development is really tied as well

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with the remedial action that this council has embarked on.

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When we look at remedial action of the cannot,

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lumbarity, other locations throughout our city,

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a couple of locations in downtown Prince George.

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I think really lends to the economic viability of our community.

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Selected advisory committee on economic development that I'm going to have a moment to talk about.

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Shortly, city government facility condition assessments, which are an important piece of what we're doing in the next couple years.

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We've heard a lot of clear and about half of our facility assessments.

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The position that we're in and none are more highlighted than when you talk about the four seasons pool.

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and fire hall number one, standards of cover review is done for the fire department.

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That really is what's going to drive our look at fire hall number one,

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October, second year we've had talked to over 2015 and 16, about 230 people attended those events,

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and I think that we hear loud and clear from talk to over events about what people want to see in their city,

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what they want their city to be.

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And we take those, those away with us,

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and we meld them into our budget discussions

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that are going to happen in late January and early February.

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So many of the 2016 initiatives described

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the bubble of carry on to 2017.

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As I mentioned, there's a number of things,

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the hosting of the 2017 Tell Us Cup,

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celebrate Prince George Winter at Summer Festival's

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Procreation will continue for the 2019 Parinore to get our national games, the Park and Economic Development Strategies, if approved, will be implemented.

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In addition, these many other program initiatives during 2017, we're going to focus on infrastructure investment.

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That infrastructure investment we've heard loud and clear is going to be a huge topic of conversation for this council and administration.

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Massage Stadium Project will start their construction 4.2 million dollar project at Massage

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Place, and it will certainly give an opportunity for teams like UNBC men and women's

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soccer programs, a home, a much-needed home.

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So that's a huge project that will start in the spring of the year.

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So it's being funded by various categories from federal gas fund money from the city as well

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as $250,000, or Northern Development Initiative's trust.

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And as part of the aquatic services review,

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the four seasons pool received a facility evaluation.

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I've talked about it.

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And we've really taken a look at evaluating a number

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of our facilities within the community.

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And I can't stress it or not.

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That will be really a core part of the work

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that we do this year as a council.

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So during 2016 Council Administration

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accomplished many of the priorities identified

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in the city's 2016-2018 corporate plan and I certainly look forward to what I know council

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and administration do to be equally as positive and productive in 2017 as 2016. We have

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seen an unbelievable year. I don't want to steal anything from Ms. Barsalus, our manager of economic

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development, but we've seen record investment in our community. I got a number today of about

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$127 million in building permits for 2016, and we see 2017 the start of it being a very good year as well.

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Another few numbers that will throw out in a moment or two, but with that council, if there's any questions, I am the surface would certainly be happy to answer.

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Councillor Merrick. Thank you, Bishop, and I always appreciate sort of these one page

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as your plans because the reality is we get paid to sit here and read through long documents,

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but the rest of the public doesn't have time for that and they want to know exactly what we

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need to be held accountable for a year to year to a simple one-page strategy. And so this document

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is essentially I think the most important document of the year for the public in terms of knowing

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what city council's up to and what they've achieved in the last year.

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And I apologize because I missed the last council maybe a year, so I didn't get to talk

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about some of my favorite things, but even just looking at this list of accomplishments,

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there's a few things that, you know, there's many, many things that didn't make the list, but, you

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know, a couple, not only the bike lanes issue, but also transit this year, you know, we had

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a first statutory holiday transit service this year, and then we're looking at significant

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So, that was a big thing for me and the celebrate print storage function with all of the festivals and events and public fun that we're trying to do downtown.

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When this mayor program, I mean, that was one of my favorite days of the year was having young girls ages six months through to 36 years come and sit in the mayor's chair and talk about what was important to them in their communities.

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So lots of great stuff, but I just can't stress enough why

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it document like this is so important both for us

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to keep us on track, but also for the public

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to know exactly what it is that we're prioritizing

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and where they can lend their efforts to helping.

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So thank you.

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Thank you, thank you very much.

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And if I can just point out as well,

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the strategic planning doesn't just stop at one year.

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We had a strategic planning 2015 again in 2016.

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And certainly when we take a look at 2017, I know we'll have some strategic planning opportunities then but it was the idea of this

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Council to continue year after year with a strategic planning as opposed to setting one in 2015 and then not coming back to it.

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Things change in our city and it was really important for us to make sure that we were aware of that and that that strategic plan had an opportunity to move and make sure that we move it to fit the current needs of the community.

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And many of the things that we see visually as we drive around, whether it be John indicated,

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River Bend Housing Project, the Merriot,

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the Western, I'm going to get this wrong Mr.

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Wells Highway 97 South in Ann Kenworth.

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You see these big developments, you take a look at the Crossroads Brewing Company,

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But tell a burning restaurant, construction along Highway 16, the best Western hotel at Highway 16 and Westgate.

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You take a look at these are very large visual projects that it's easily identifiable.

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But there are things within this report and thank you, Councillor Merrick, for commenting on the fact

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that it's a simple one-page review.

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But there are things embedded in here that people may not recognize, may not see every day.

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and there are things that we as a council and administration have been working on for quite

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some time.

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So I don't have anybody else in the queue.

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I have a motion to receive all the, look for us.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Councillor Ebert, Councillor McConaughey, all those in favor of receipt of co-host

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carried unanimously.

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Thank you very much, everyone.

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I'm going to call his Barsala Stone, our manager of economic development, and also a few words, and then, as I like to do, turn it over to Ms. Barsala's to comment on where we're headed.

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Good evening.

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Are you?

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Good.

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So council, if you go to D2,

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I'm just going to comment a bit on this and then turn to Ms.

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Barcelona to give us an overview.

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But I just want to speak to the work that was done.

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As you know about a year and a few months ago, we established the economic development arm within

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city of Prince George from there. We created an economic development advisory committee. We've met a

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number of times over 2016 and I had the fortune of chairing that particular group and I want to

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thank the committee members that participated in that and there was a real cross section of people

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from our community that were involved in that and the intent was to get a good cross section of

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community to talk to us about what they felt about economic development.

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So we had an opportunity to talk about social planning about economic development.

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It was just a perpory of groups and individuals that we relied on to talk about our community.

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And from that we came up with the strategy that Ms. Varsales will speak to this evening.

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The thing that I want to point out is that the strategy that was really developed as a result

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of those meetings with the Advisory Committee, also forms part of the City Strategic Plan.

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These are not, even though there are two separate documents in the agenda, the two documents

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work side by side and they parallel and they intertwined with each other to set really

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our strategic plan and also our economic development strategic plan out of Ms. Marcelo's office.

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So those are two very important things to mention.

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The committee itself was really an opportunity for us, not only from an economic development

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perspective, because we had just moved that function into the city, but it was an opportunity

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for us to take a look at and learn about the major companies, major players in our community.

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And, for example, the airport was represented, the airport does unbelievable work in our community to try to attract economic development, and they have done this for a number of years.

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So to have them at the table really was a benefit for us. So again, I want to thank the committee for the work they've done. There's a recommendation here, but I think we'll get to that in a bit.

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And if I haven't left anything out, Ms. Bursalis, I would like to turn it over to you.

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And I have a release here that we're going to put out shortly that talks about private sector investments.

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So I'll give you an opportunity to talk to that as well as the building permit piece and what that means to our city.

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So Ms. Bursalis, welcome.

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Great, thank you.

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So as Mayor Hall mentioned, I'm going to present an overview on the economic development division and the work that we did over 2016.

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And then I'm going to go into a really brief overview of the strategy and leave some time for questions on that.

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So reading, since reading economic development in-house, a lot has been accomplished.

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So to start with, we hired four staff members, including myself.

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And we eliminated redundant positions, cutting the total staff in half compared to IPG.

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So this actually allowed us to say 500,000 dollars per year in the annual budget.

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And we found many ways to work closely with several divisions within the city and work

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very collaboratively with hiding in developments.

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So over the course of 2016, we really worked in four main focus areas.

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So business development is really working

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to support existing businesses to grow and diversify

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the local economy.

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Workforce development, again, is to support existing businesses,

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but to focus on population retention and attraction of workers.

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So this focus area really move up

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from storage is what you would recognize the most from that area.

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And business attraction is trying to attract new businesses

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to set up infant storage and finally marketing and promotion which over encompasses all of the three focus areas that I mentioned.

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This could include keeping online content of today attending trade chosen events and spending the word about storage.

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So I'm going to go through each of those focus areas starting with business attractions.

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And the mayor had mentioned this, but we're really happy to announce today that we've achieved

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an all-time high of private sector investment, increased storage, so this graph shows the

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investment breakdown by which type of permits residential commercial industrial and institutional

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that highlights the private dollars that were spent in the community.

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And right now, we're working with external relations to promote these results, so there's

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news release going out on social media posts and tomorrow morning there will be a video.

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Day to day, we monitor inquiries from investors, site selectors, businesses that are looking

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for support in expansion of their existing businesses or to open a second business.

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And that takes a lot of time over the course of the year.

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So we measure everything that we do.

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And we chalk two different types of inquiries.

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So we receive cosmic increase and general inquiries

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and prospects are the ones that are most likely

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to results in new business in the shorter term.

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Generals could be anything from someone calling

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about general stocks.

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They're still looking at locations

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and don't even know if print storage is going to be considered

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thoroughly.

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But we do spend a lot of time with them.

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as well so we we measure that. In 2016, we saw an increase in the number of new inquiries

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over all we maintain relationships with 99 investors, 57 of those are new and 42 of them

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would have carried over from previous years.

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We keep track of the origin of the prospect

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inquiries and I think it's interesting to note that there was an increase in increase coming from

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print storage compared to 2015. And this is consistent with feedback that we got when we

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met with different businesses. And as well with those building permits that we just saw that

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there is a confidence in the local economy now and moving forward. Open costs that increase by industry

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are listed. You can see that manufacturing as well as real estate, excellent leasing are the two

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leading categories, residential kind of real estate kind of speaks for itself, but if we look at it.

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That manufacturing some examples of the ones we received were about LNG, chemical plants and breweries. Those are some examples.

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We keep track of the number of winds and losses. So the number of businesses that decide to locate here as well as those who don't.

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And we have about a 21% success rate.

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So that's pretty good, 12 out of 15.

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12 out of 57 inquiries were confirmed wins in 2016.

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And this is pretty consistent year over year.

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We first started tracking this in 2013.

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We host inbound delegations every year.

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In 2012, we hosted 12 versus 11 in 2015.

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So again, it's fairly consistent.

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And this is when a site's left

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their contact system is intending to visit Prince George, so we might host them, we'll give

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them a presentation on the economy, give them a tour of the city, set up meetings with

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potential partners or customers that need information from CNN, and put me with CNN.

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We customized it for everybody who contacts us.

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We also measure the length of relationships.

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Typically, we don't see winds or losses until 6 to 12 months.

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We call this the incubation period and we are continuing relationships with different

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site selectors have been for more than two years for some of them.

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Within this focus area of business attraction we compile a lot of statistics and do research.

452
00:34:20,382 --> 00:34:31,842
One of the reports that we worked on was with the conference board of Canada and it was the

453
00:34:31,842 --> 00:34:37,462
Prince George was the fastest growing economy in that report in terms of GDP and was actually

454
00:34:37,462 --> 00:34:41,882
recorded as growing a faster rate than both the provincial and national averages. So we were

455
00:34:41,882 --> 00:34:47,462
really happy with those results. We also produced monthly economic update reports that

456
00:34:48,542 --> 00:34:54,582
lists a variety of stats that investors and site sectors and local businesses are often

457
00:34:54,582 --> 00:35:00,922
interested in. We post those on social media and our website and we do an annual downtown

458
00:35:00,922 --> 00:35:02,842
occupancy study.

459
00:35:05,402 --> 00:35:11,082
In 2016, our biggest research report or project that we did was in this

460
00:35:11,082 --> 00:35:16,862
focus area was the business attraction strategy. And I was able to identify areas that we

461
00:35:16,862 --> 00:35:21,522
need to focus our efforts on in bringing new businesses to print storage. So through that report,

462
00:35:21,622 --> 00:35:27,762
we did a SWAT analysis, a situational analysis. We consulted with businesses and many sectors,

463
00:35:27,762 --> 00:35:33,662
industries, government, and as well as our advisory committee members.

464
00:35:33,942 --> 00:35:40,442
We had identified seven opportunities that we should could focus on, but we decided that

465
00:35:40,442 --> 00:35:45,062
the top three of the most worthwhile, and those are first re-innovation engineered with products

466
00:35:45,062 --> 00:35:46,522
and green goddess centers.

467
00:35:50,412 --> 00:35:53,692
The next focus area is business development, so again,

468
00:35:53,772 --> 00:35:59,712
focusing on the existing businesses. And we know that 80 to 90 percent of new investment

469
00:35:59,712 --> 00:36:04,212
development and a community comes from existing businesses so this is a major

470
00:36:04,212 --> 00:36:10,832
priority for us. In 2016 the biggest value of work within this focus was our

471
00:36:10,832 --> 00:36:16,092
business outreach program and we went out and met with 65 local businesses to

472
00:36:16,092 --> 00:36:22,232
get feedback about the business climate and identify opportunities or threats

473
00:36:22,232 --> 00:36:28,392
that they might be facing. So you can see that we interviewed businesses from a

474
00:36:28,392 --> 00:36:37,272
sectors and we've decided how many businesses in each sector based on employment representation.

475
00:36:40,662 --> 00:36:46,462
From immediate opportunities or redfigs were identified by some of the businesses that we

476
00:36:46,462 --> 00:36:52,502
met with. So that gave us the opportunity to set up follow-up meetings where we could address those

477
00:36:52,502 --> 00:36:58,742
concerns. So in addition to the 65 meetings we had 38 meetings where we were able to support those

478
00:36:58,742 --> 00:37:02,122
businesses in a variety of ways.

479
00:37:06,742 --> 00:37:10,382
One of the questions that we ask the businesses in the interview

480
00:37:10,382 --> 00:37:16,562
is around the local business climate and how they feel that it is at the time of the interview

481
00:37:16,562 --> 00:37:22,902
and it was rated high for, um, constituents by the participants and, again, it's consistent with

482
00:37:22,902 --> 00:37:27,762
feedback that we keep getting from the building permits,

483
00:37:28,202 --> 00:37:32,082
from the GDP results that continues to show

484
00:37:32,082 --> 00:37:33,762
that brings sort of things up.

485
00:37:35,992 --> 00:37:38,432
Through the interviews, we asked for suggestions

486
00:37:38,432 --> 00:37:42,372
for improvements, and we received quite a few.

487
00:37:42,632 --> 00:37:44,632
They're listed on the side.

488
00:37:45,232 --> 00:37:47,572
A lot of them aren't directly related to the city,

489
00:37:47,892 --> 00:37:51,432
so it is an opportunity for us to advocate

490
00:37:51,432 --> 00:37:58,372
to other organization or government to address these concerns, but some of them are improvements

491
00:37:58,372 --> 00:37:59,712
that we could make internally.

492
00:38:00,832 --> 00:38:06,352
And we always want to be able to generate results and make these interviews worthwhile for

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00:38:06,352 --> 00:38:06,972
the participants.

494
00:38:07,552 --> 00:38:12,652
So one of the programs that we're starting in 2017 or this year that you'll see in the strategy

495
00:38:12,652 --> 00:38:21,232
is a new Concierge service to support new businesses through the development process or building

496
00:38:21,232 --> 00:38:27,352
from its business licensing, new businesses specifically reported that if they're only doing

497
00:38:27,352 --> 00:38:32,052
this process, they're going through this process once, it can be intimidating and they

498
00:38:32,052 --> 00:38:35,892
like someone to go through it with them. So that's something that the economic development

499
00:38:35,892 --> 00:38:38,472
department will be assisting with.

500
00:38:42,442 --> 00:38:47,282
We also asked participants if they could pick one priority to make a storage of better place

501
00:38:47,282 --> 00:38:55,062
do business, what would it be on this side? It shows the top dancers and I think after

502
00:38:55,062 --> 00:39:00,482
hearing the report from Mayor Hall on the corporate plan, you can see that we are doing

503
00:39:00,482 --> 00:39:06,582
a lot of this and the city is really focusing a lot of these. So that was that's encouraging.

504
00:39:09,122 --> 00:39:15,142
Business Advisory Services is a new program that we started in 2016 and I briefly mentioned

505
00:39:15,142 --> 00:39:21,802
that if we hear of red flags or challenges or opportunities that businesses might need to

506
00:39:21,802 --> 00:39:26,822
public, they can come talk to us and we don't get directed by some what they should do for

507
00:39:26,822 --> 00:39:34,602
their business, but we do make referrals to experts who can. We did 64 advisory meetings in 2016,

508
00:39:35,462 --> 00:39:42,042
and that doesn't mean about half of the year, so about six months. With 34 unique businesses and

509
00:39:42,042 --> 00:39:49,442
were 40 referrals from that. So that shows that people were happy with the service that they were getting.

510
00:39:51,042 --> 00:39:58,142
Moving on to Workforce Development. In order to retain local business and attract new business,

511
00:39:58,702 --> 00:40:03,142
the city must maintain the current population as well as attract a diverse workforce that is

512
00:40:03,142 --> 00:40:08,882
able to support a growing economy. That's exactly what we do with Workforce Development and our means.

513
00:40:12,442 --> 00:40:22,622
So we have the website, social media, and advertising campaign. Obviously, if we spend dollars on a certain

514
00:40:22,622 --> 00:40:29,602
focus area, we're going to measure results to make sure that we're doing the best that we can. So these

515
00:40:29,602 --> 00:40:38,782
some of the metrics that we use. You can see that traffic to the website has increased in 2016,

516
00:40:39,342 --> 00:40:45,362
and that shows that continued advertising is working. You can see that a lot of the viewers

517
00:40:45,362 --> 00:40:52,442
to the site are local, and this is good because we're trying to use the site from local job opportunities

518
00:40:52,442 --> 00:40:57,442
as well as what is going on in and around for storage. When we initially started the site,

519
00:40:57,442 --> 00:41:01,162
we were focusing externally to other communities

520
00:41:01,162 --> 00:41:03,982
to get people to move to Prince George for work.

521
00:41:04,322 --> 00:41:05,342
But we're still doing that.

522
00:41:05,462 --> 00:41:07,582
We want locals to have the first opportunity.

523
00:41:11,442 --> 00:41:15,002
Our target audience for the website

524
00:41:15,002 --> 00:41:17,142
and to talk to people to Prince George

525
00:41:17,142 --> 00:41:21,602
is 25, 45 years old, young families

526
00:41:21,602 --> 00:41:24,322
are the most likely to stay in Prince George

527
00:41:25,002 --> 00:41:26,802
once they're set up here.

528
00:41:28,202 --> 00:41:34,142
We really promote quality of life and affordability to get them here, but we are expanding

529
00:41:34,142 --> 00:41:37,902
the content on the site to appeal to seniors and baby boomers.

530
00:41:38,422 --> 00:41:44,322
You can see the website traffic does show that we are getting those demographics to the

531
00:41:44,322 --> 00:41:47,742
site as well and we'll be acting that up in 2017.

532
00:41:50,622 --> 00:41:55,682
We count the number of jobs that are posted to the website, so there are two ways to post jobs.

533
00:41:55,682 --> 00:42:01,822
you inspire us to either post directly to the site, which is what we really encourage, and we

534
00:42:01,822 --> 00:42:07,382
post jobs from Indeed as well. So we can't measure the results of those jobs that are

535
00:42:07,382 --> 00:42:12,182
pulled from Indeed. We rely on the employers to give us feedback about whether or not the site

536
00:42:12,182 --> 00:42:19,822
is working for them. So currently there are 193 employers registered to post jobs to the site,

537
00:42:19,822 --> 00:42:26,702
and a hundred and twenty six jobs were posted in 2016. So you can see that there was a decrease.

538
00:42:28,082 --> 00:42:33,542
It could be due to a change in the number of available job force, but mostly we believe it's

539
00:42:33,542 --> 00:42:39,022
because the workforce development officer position was vacant for almost the entire year.

540
00:42:41,302 --> 00:42:46,862
So she does a lot of work to engage with employers and get them posting on the site and we've seen an

541
00:42:46,862 --> 00:42:51,142
increase since she's been in her position and we're expecting that was dropped

542
00:42:51,142 --> 00:42:52,822
post-instinct increase for 2017.

543
00:42:55,122 --> 00:42:58,242
We measure the results of the hiring process as

544
00:42:58,242 --> 00:43:02,462
well as we ask employers what the average salary that they paid to those

545
00:43:02,462 --> 00:43:06,062
positions that they felt. You can see that that's paid pretty consistent between

546
00:43:06,062 --> 00:43:14,642
2015 and 2016. We have about a 20% rate of employees who relocate to print

547
00:43:14,642 --> 00:43:21,642
for those positions and fund those employers that responded to us when we surveyed them.

548
00:43:23,442 --> 00:43:27,762
In the PowerPoint presentation, I included three testimonials.

549
00:43:29,062 --> 00:43:38,782
We have a hard time getting measuring the impact that the website has on people who are using it for their relocation research.

550
00:43:38,782 --> 00:43:47,422
The way that we have got feedback with them is directly contacting them and asking what they think of the site and we've got a few testimonials here.

551
00:43:47,742 --> 00:43:56,982
In 2017 we're going to add a survey to the websites we can get some better information and hopefully we can get people using the site to complete that.

552
00:44:02,482 --> 00:44:10,362
So the first focus area is marketing and promotion and as I mentioned this encompasses the previous three focus areas.

553
00:44:11,822 --> 00:44:17,622
We're currently managing content and driving traffic to three websites, who have up

554
00:44:17,622 --> 00:44:23,862
print storage, invest print storage, and a business directory. Currently we're migrating

555
00:44:23,862 --> 00:44:29,082
the invest QG website to the new city website, so they will be one and are adding a

556
00:44:29,082 --> 00:44:33,742
business directory model for module to the new website as well. So this will create

557
00:44:33,742 --> 00:44:39,002
efficiency and reduce some of the work that it takes for us to maintain and manage

558
00:44:39,002 --> 00:44:45,882
many of those sites. Move up print storage will remain a separate site. It has a different purpose

559
00:44:45,882 --> 00:44:51,762
with its own branding. It's meant to be separate from the city with the concept, get to

560
00:44:51,762 --> 00:44:53,942
no print storage from the locals perspective.

561
00:44:56,862 --> 00:44:59,722
The community members are selling a community

562
00:44:59,722 --> 00:45:01,322
to newcomers.

563
00:45:04,162 --> 00:45:10,422
This fraud shows the traffic to the invest print storage website, which we measure,

564
00:45:10,422 --> 00:45:20,142
in Google Analytics. This is from 2015 compared to 2016. So we've seen a slight decrease in traffic

565
00:45:20,902 --> 00:45:26,262
to the website in 2016, but it's been more of a cut in half since 2014.

566
00:45:27,442 --> 00:45:33,042
This is mostly likely due to not having social media platforms or a newsletter to direct traffic

567
00:45:33,042 --> 00:45:38,842
to the site as well. Search engine optimization may have been affected by the change in

568
00:45:38,842 --> 00:45:41,802
on sent on the website, following the transition from IQG.

569
00:45:41,942 --> 00:45:46,502
So the main URL that was previously

570
00:45:47,442 --> 00:45:51,122
initiative's QG that is not being used anymore.

571
00:45:51,542 --> 00:45:54,362
We're using investment storage, which had existed,

572
00:45:54,642 --> 00:45:57,142
but wasn't the one that people initially look for.

573
00:45:57,262 --> 00:45:58,722
So we're building that brand.

574
00:45:59,742 --> 00:46:01,782
And now that we have social media in place,

575
00:46:01,822 --> 00:46:03,662
we'll be able to drive more traffic to the site.

576
00:46:05,002 --> 00:46:13,062
This, these are some dots or a graph showing activity on the move up from George Facebook page.

577
00:46:13,062 --> 00:46:19,022
This is 2015 and this is 2016.

578
00:46:19,742 --> 00:46:25,542
So activity on the page increase significantly after we initiated an advertising campaign.

579
00:46:25,902 --> 00:46:33,202
You'll see there's one really tall spiked there that was as a result of this fun infographic

580
00:46:33,202 --> 00:46:39,102
that we put out and had a lot of engagement from people in Vancouver and Prince George.

581
00:46:39,682 --> 00:46:47,382
So that was probably our the highest reach that we've seen on one post on on this Facebook page.

582
00:46:47,562 --> 00:46:53,042
And it reached 30,000 people organically and about 12,000 paid.

583
00:46:55,542 --> 00:47:02,182
These are some more stops on the move that puts George social media. So it shows a number of Facebook likes and Twitter followers.

584
00:47:02,182 --> 00:47:08,522
as well as the male female ratios on the sites which are fairly equal.

585
00:47:10,662 --> 00:47:14,342
We also can monitor where people are visiting the website

586
00:47:14,342 --> 00:47:18,582
from by country and city, but this is my favorite graphic.

587
00:47:19,322 --> 00:47:23,702
This is a world map that shows that we're seeing traffic all across the world.

588
00:47:27,512 --> 00:47:34,452
We just launched investment storage social media pages on Facebook and Twitter,

589
00:47:35,032 --> 00:47:38,772
so like us and follow us and we'll be watching

590
00:47:38,902 --> 00:47:53,342
A new e-news letter when the new city website goes live, so we'll be able to communicate directly with businesses, potential investors, and do different advertising online as well.

591
00:47:55,582 --> 00:48:03,702
We do paid advertising. These are some examples of the move up print storage advertising that's done online in print.

592
00:48:03,702 --> 00:48:11,902
The top 10 ad appears in the top 40 under 40 magazine and in 27 it will be in a new relocation guide.

593
00:48:12,802 --> 00:48:17,762
The photo on the top left left of Jess and her family were printed in the BC business,

594
00:48:18,042 --> 00:48:23,382
best cities to work in BC magazine and the bottom left is an online ad.

595
00:48:23,482 --> 00:48:25,942
Let's face with Twitter and Google.

596
00:48:27,422 --> 00:48:32,422
This is an example of an ad targeting site selector that was printed in a program

597
00:48:32,422 --> 00:48:40,342
of the foreign-directed investment fund that we attended, an editorial, that was in the FBI Alliance

598
00:48:40,342 --> 00:48:41,062
magazine.

599
00:48:43,402 --> 00:48:48,402
And sometimes we partner with other organizations to share costs, so this is a joint

600
00:48:48,402 --> 00:48:52,022
ad in an editorial that was placed in the business in Vancouver Magazine.

601
00:48:52,702 --> 00:48:59,482
Crazy ads are a lot harder to measure the results of them, so we really try to spend more

602
00:49:01,102 --> 00:49:07,622
resources online. We attend quite a few trade shows and events over the course of the year and

603
00:49:07,622 --> 00:49:15,962
these are some examples of events that we went to in 2016. So that's the end of the year

604
00:49:15,962 --> 00:49:24,222
in review. And then I can, I'm going to go quite quickly over the 2017's and of 2019 economic

605
00:49:24,222 --> 00:49:27,902
development strategy and work thanks. I know you all have it in front of you and then we

606
00:49:27,902 --> 00:49:30,482
I can answer any questions you have.

607
00:49:31,942 --> 00:49:35,202
So, actually, Merrill Hall introduced the advisory committee pretty well.

608
00:49:35,322 --> 00:49:40,122
So, I'm not going to go into a kind of detail on that, but I will tell you that the mandate

609
00:49:40,122 --> 00:49:44,382
was to advise the development of the strategy.

610
00:49:45,402 --> 00:49:52,762
And we met over the course of the year, I think it was six times, and when we had our initial

611
00:49:52,762 --> 00:49:57,882
discussions about the strategy and the four missions or focus areas that we were going

612
00:49:57,882 --> 00:50:06,182
to really focus on. The committee didn't really want to change those areas, so you'll find

613
00:50:06,182 --> 00:50:13,202
that the four missions are similar to what they were previously. The committee was really interested

614
00:50:13,202 --> 00:50:17,802
in focusing on the action plan and the work plan for 2017 and how we could work together,

615
00:50:18,122 --> 00:50:22,602
which I thought was a really good opportunity because there are lots of organizations focusing

616
00:50:22,602 --> 00:50:25,742
on economic development, we can find ways to work together.

617
00:50:27,582 --> 00:50:35,322
So the first focus area is to facilitate current business retention and expansion.

618
00:50:36,182 --> 00:50:44,662
There are three goals and nine metrics that will use to report on this.

619
00:50:44,842 --> 00:50:49,022
The second is to attract business to expand and diversify the economy.

620
00:50:49,022 --> 00:50:56,382
In this area, we have three goals and five metrics that will be reporting on, grow the

621
00:50:56,382 --> 00:50:59,222
workforce by retaining and attracting residents.

622
00:51:00,122 --> 00:51:04,402
Again, they're eight metrics that we're going to be reporting on and I'm sure you'll

623
00:51:04,402 --> 00:51:06,062
have questions around that.

624
00:51:06,482 --> 00:51:11,022
And then finally, market pretty storage to facilitate the retention and attraction of business

625
00:51:11,022 --> 00:51:15,062
and population, both metrics on this one.

626
00:51:16,362 --> 00:51:18,102
And that brings me to the end.

627
00:51:18,102 --> 00:51:18,922
Good.

628
00:51:18,982 --> 00:51:20,102
Thanks very much.

629
00:51:21,162 --> 00:51:26,082
I was remissly and not introducing Colleen Dunmook who is from downtown Prince George and

630
00:51:26,082 --> 00:51:32,482
Colleen heads that organization and she was a big part of the advisory committee along

631
00:51:32,482 --> 00:51:34,602
with Owen Foley, who is a president of that organization.

632
00:51:35,082 --> 00:51:35,682
So welcome Colleen.

633
00:51:35,802 --> 00:51:37,422
Thanks very much for that.

634
00:51:38,242 --> 00:51:38,882
So, questions.

635
00:51:39,102 --> 00:51:41,482
I have a couple of counselors in the queue.

636
00:51:41,702 --> 00:51:47,362
I think I just want to add to what Ms. Barcell said when we talk about the four strategies

637
00:51:47,362 --> 00:51:52,802
in the metrics behind it are very important as well, but very important to tie this particular

638
00:51:52,802 --> 00:51:57,942
strategic plan from an economic development perspective to our council strategic plan as

639
00:51:57,942 --> 00:51:58,082
well.

640
00:51:58,122 --> 00:52:01,522
I know I've said it before, but I just want to reiterate that.

641
00:52:01,822 --> 00:52:03,002
So councilor Fresel.

642
00:52:06,862 --> 00:52:07,642
Thank you, Mayor Hall.

643
00:52:07,762 --> 00:52:08,482
And through to Ms. Barcelona.

644
00:52:09,642 --> 00:52:14,682
Thank you for the presentation and great to have that as a follow up at the first meeting

645
00:52:14,682 --> 00:52:17,802
of the year when we've heard such excellent results.

646
00:52:17,802 --> 00:52:29,382
You know, we're all aware that Article of Section 25 of the Community Charter prohibits us from giving any assistance to business in a wide variety of different ways.

647
00:52:30,142 --> 00:52:38,062
But on the opposite side, it's while it's not the express regulated goal of councils to encourage economic development.

648
00:52:38,742 --> 00:52:45,322
It's what we all want to be able to achieve, so by having your division doing the work that it does.

649
00:52:45,322 --> 00:52:51,382
that's fantastic. And I like that you started off by talking about the cost savings that you've

650
00:52:51,382 --> 00:52:57,562
been able to bring about just in the first, first, a whole year of being able to report.

651
00:52:58,202 --> 00:53:03,962
Very excited with it. Now, you're probably expecting I'm very pleased to hear about the

652
00:53:03,962 --> 00:53:08,782
direction on the Green Data Centers. Can you elaborate on that? That's that's really exciting to hear.

653
00:53:08,782 --> 00:53:16,262
Yeah, so the business attraction strategy identified as that is one of the opportunities

654
00:53:16,262 --> 00:53:22,582
in one of the areas that we should be focusing on because we do have a lot of requirements

655
00:53:22,582 --> 00:53:26,162
that companies that are setting up data centers require.

656
00:53:26,342 --> 00:53:31,862
So seismic stability, cold temperatures, cooling of data centers is very expensive.

657
00:53:31,862 --> 00:53:34,042
So, cold location is better.

658
00:53:35,342 --> 00:53:37,582
Fiver redundancy, which we have.

659
00:53:38,462 --> 00:53:42,442
So, we're able to attract to your one, two, and three data centers.

660
00:53:43,322 --> 00:53:47,142
And moving into 2017 will be promoting that more widely.

661
00:53:48,062 --> 00:53:50,182
And hopefully we'll get some results.

662
00:53:50,882 --> 00:53:51,602
That's great to hear.

663
00:53:51,642 --> 00:53:54,482
And I noticed in the survey that you presented tonight,

664
00:53:54,982 --> 00:53:59,562
when we were talking about favorable reasons for locating businesses here.

665
00:53:59,562 --> 00:54:12,562
The third one was the local business climate, but above that there was the university and then there was the low price of residential properties and I imagine the low price of industrial also figures into the opportunities for the data centers too.

666
00:54:13,462 --> 00:54:19,882
They take up a large land base, so having land available as well.

667
00:54:20,282 --> 00:54:26,402
Another advantage is green energy, so you see hydro counts, so that is good.

668
00:54:26,822 --> 00:54:27,262
Fantastic.

669
00:54:27,262 --> 00:54:44,662
And just to close off the Pulse glad you, you've focused a lot in the end of the report about metrics, because we're all economic development is so intangible and difficult to tie a result to a program that was done years before.

670
00:54:44,822 --> 00:54:54,262
So to hear that focus on the metrics that you're going to be collecting to show that what you're doing is generating the results in the future and helping make those business decisions, that's essential.

671
00:54:54,262 --> 00:54:57,622
So I'm looking forward to that as it rolls out.

672
00:54:57,882 --> 00:54:58,762
Thank you.

673
00:54:58,762 --> 00:55:00,642
Thank you, Councillor Fuzzell, Councilor McConaughey.

674
00:55:02,182 --> 00:55:03,362
Thank you very much, Mayor Hall.

675
00:55:04,622 --> 00:55:06,142
You know, I listened to your report.

676
00:55:06,602 --> 00:55:08,802
I was reminded that earlier on in this council.

677
00:55:08,902 --> 00:55:19,782
When we made that decision to bring economic development in-house, I really do see the results of the positive aspects of that.

678
00:55:19,782 --> 00:55:29,322
The factors of that ability for a corroboration, communication within key departments within city hall, I think, has absolutely been enormous.

679
00:55:29,322 --> 00:55:36,062
And just that opportunity, as Mayor Hall had touched on, that opportunity to closely align

680
00:55:36,062 --> 00:55:41,562
goals between economic development and council, I think it's been tremendously important.

681
00:55:42,662 --> 00:55:48,382
And I think we've achieved, you've done a lot of work this last year.

682
00:55:48,422 --> 00:55:49,542
It's really impressive.

683
00:55:50,402 --> 00:55:53,962
And no questions, just want to say thank you so very much.

684
00:55:54,302 --> 00:55:54,862
Great dog.

685
00:55:55,302 --> 00:55:57,482
And please share that with your team.

686
00:55:57,982 --> 00:56:00,762
Oh, well, I know they're all loving it here, so thank you.

687
00:56:01,822 --> 00:56:02,222
Thanks, folks.

688
00:56:02,342 --> 00:56:02,842
We've got a key.

689
00:56:03,102 --> 00:56:03,562
Councilor Mirick.

690
00:56:07,112 --> 00:56:11,572
And I think Councilor McKinney sent it up quite well, but I just have a couple questions.

691
00:56:11,752 --> 00:56:17,352
One was a question that I get asked fairly often was in the transition into the city,

692
00:56:17,572 --> 00:56:19,012
a lot of folks start getting the newsletters.

693
00:56:19,232 --> 00:56:20,112
They were used to.

694
00:56:20,232 --> 00:56:21,932
So how do they do that now?

695
00:56:22,692 --> 00:56:27,172
There was sort of an economic update, a newsletter that regularly came out to a lot of people

696
00:56:27,172 --> 00:56:27,792
in the community.

697
00:56:27,792 --> 00:56:30,432
and they never figured out how to get it again.

698
00:56:30,712 --> 00:56:32,472
So how do they do it now that transition is not bad?

699
00:56:32,532 --> 00:56:32,812
Yeah.

700
00:56:33,012 --> 00:56:36,492
So we have continued creating that newsletter

701
00:56:36,492 --> 00:56:38,492
and it's on our website.

702
00:56:38,832 --> 00:56:41,072
So every month we have one on the website.

703
00:56:41,132 --> 00:56:42,692
Sorry, the update report.

704
00:56:43,392 --> 00:56:45,312
I mean, I couldn't tell if it was one.

705
00:56:45,512 --> 00:56:47,632
I couldn't tell you which one they were asking about.

706
00:56:47,912 --> 00:56:49,612
But I think what you're talking about

707
00:56:49,612 --> 00:56:52,012
is economic update report that we did monthly

708
00:56:52,012 --> 00:56:53,632
and we sent it out with the newsletter.

709
00:56:54,052 --> 00:56:56,692
And that was probably one of the most popular

710
00:56:58,492 --> 00:57:01,532
statistical reporting documents that we put out,

711
00:57:01,532 --> 00:57:03,052
I think that's when you're referring to,

712
00:57:03,172 --> 00:57:05,312
we do have them all listed on the website,

713
00:57:05,972 --> 00:57:08,992
but because we didn't have an E-newsletter,

714
00:57:09,172 --> 00:57:11,892
over the course of last year, it was hard to get it to the people

715
00:57:11,892 --> 00:57:13,912
that were interested in it unless they went to the website.

716
00:57:14,272 --> 00:57:17,292
We did share it on the city social media pages,

717
00:57:17,392 --> 00:57:20,132
but you have to be looking at the right time in order to get it,

718
00:57:20,212 --> 00:57:21,672
doesn't go to the rest of two people.

719
00:57:22,312 --> 00:57:25,292
But moving forward, we're working on a new E-newsletter,

720
00:57:25,292 --> 00:57:28,132
that will be started with the new city website.

721
00:57:29,132 --> 00:57:32,992
And we'll be able to send those updates directly to the people

722
00:57:32,992 --> 00:57:34,292
who are interested again.

723
00:57:34,672 --> 00:57:35,612
Great, thank you very much.

724
00:57:35,932 --> 00:57:37,132
And I know I said I had a second question

725
00:57:37,132 --> 00:57:38,312
but now I've lost it.

726
00:57:39,012 --> 00:57:40,652
So, I'll pass it on to the next goal.

727
00:57:40,972 --> 00:57:41,892
Hey, thanks, House from America.

728
00:57:42,072 --> 00:57:43,692
I have anybody else in the queue.

729
00:57:43,952 --> 00:57:47,852
Ms. Barcelas, I want to take the opportunity as well to thank you

730
00:57:47,852 --> 00:57:50,492
for the work that you're doing and for the work

731
00:57:50,492 --> 00:57:52,592
that you did during the advisory committee meetings.

732
00:57:52,892 --> 00:57:55,272
It was exceptional and we're very, very pleased.

733
00:57:55,272 --> 00:58:00,012
that you hear where this will thank you so much for that, and with that council we have a

734
00:58:00,012 --> 00:58:05,632
recommendation at D2. Thank you, Councillor Scott, seconder, Councillor Colour, all those in

735
00:58:06,072 --> 00:58:08,992
favor. The poll is carried unanimously. Thank you very much.

736
00:58:12,722 --> 00:58:19,722
Okay, if we could move now to D3 and the Mr. Whitlam is microphone working or you've got a lot of enough voice.

737
00:58:47,922 --> 00:58:51,302
Thank you, Your Worship and Counselors.

738
00:58:54,002 --> 00:59:00,062
So yes, this will be an overview of some crime stats, calls for service, arts for

739
00:59:00,062 --> 00:59:06,162
teaching priorities, where we're at, and some of the highlights, and some of the challenges

740
00:59:06,162 --> 00:59:11,722
we've had, including a transition into some prospect for the upcoming year.

741
00:59:14,632 --> 00:59:22,272
The first slide here is a file count for 2016 in comparison to the previous eight years.

742
00:59:23,032 --> 00:59:31,032
You'll see that this year we've spiked and had far greater files than we've had in the past.

743
00:59:31,812 --> 00:59:36,292
It's too early at this time to suggest or analyze why that's been.

744
00:59:37,252 --> 00:59:39,652
We've had some grind types go up.

745
00:59:40,472 --> 00:59:42,932
I would suggest with some of the programs we have.

746
00:59:42,932 --> 00:59:47,592
We've encouraged people to call the police, and so I think that's positive.

747
00:59:48,652 --> 00:59:57,092
For instance, we've asked a neighborhood in the community of the Clean's Way neighborhood to report things and look out after each other.

748
00:59:57,292 --> 01:00:00,592
So we've had an increase in some calls for service in the area.

749
01:00:01,472 --> 01:00:04,672
So that could suggest why we've had an increase in calls tomorrow.

750
01:00:08,602 --> 01:00:13,722
Next you slide, I've just broken down some of the more significant files that we've had.

751
01:00:13,722 --> 01:00:17,242
Again, we've ranged from 2013 up to 2016.

752
01:00:18,342 --> 01:00:21,982
So this year we've had four homicides, four murders,

753
01:00:24,402 --> 01:00:28,942
and we have a missing person right now that we are concerned

754
01:00:28,942 --> 01:00:32,642
with, and we think that there's likely some sort of fall

755
01:00:32,642 --> 01:00:34,422
play attribute to that.

756
01:00:35,002 --> 01:00:37,422
We can see that robberies have gone up.

757
01:00:37,482 --> 01:00:40,882
Robberies would include anything from financial institutions,

758
01:00:40,882 --> 01:00:47,702
So stick them up type robberies to give me your cell phone at at a local convenience store.

759
01:00:47,982 --> 01:00:52,402
So it's a wide range of different offenses for the actual robbery.

760
01:00:53,842 --> 01:00:58,922
We see that sexual assault has increased but again because of some of the programs we have,

761
01:00:59,102 --> 01:01:05,982
including a more robust domestic violence program and a little bit better outreach

762
01:01:05,982 --> 01:01:06,562
in the community.

763
01:01:06,562 --> 01:01:09,822
differences are car 16 and mental health.

764
01:01:10,342 --> 01:01:14,762
We also say that we believe that we've built better relationships with the community partners,

765
01:01:15,182 --> 01:01:16,442
including urban, Aboriginal, Constable.

766
01:01:17,082 --> 01:01:21,862
So I'd like to think that people are coming more comfortable and trusting with the police

767
01:01:21,862 --> 01:01:24,702
and for that reason we've seen an increase in that regard.

768
01:01:26,782 --> 01:01:32,042
We've had a slight decrease in break and enters, but you can see that still high from previous

769
01:01:32,042 --> 01:01:32,882
years.

770
01:01:32,882 --> 01:01:39,122
We'll continue to focus on our priority and chronic and

771
01:01:39,122 --> 01:01:40,622
productivity offenders in that regard.

772
01:01:41,542 --> 01:01:45,842
And again, the vehicles, again, aren't significant

773
01:01:45,842 --> 01:01:47,282
rise of the increase.

774
01:01:50,602 --> 01:01:52,582
Just a different graph to show you now, just a

775
01:01:52,582 --> 01:01:55,242
color coat of graph from 2013 to 2016 for those

776
01:01:55,242 --> 01:01:56,062
defense types.

777
01:01:59,982 --> 01:02:03,422
These next group of the fences we have, these are

778
01:02:04,182 --> 01:02:07,122
high file drivers just because the volume of the numbers.

779
01:02:07,862 --> 01:02:13,382
So, a mischief that could be anything from spray painting to broken windows to kick down fences.

780
01:02:14,162 --> 01:02:16,662
Our theft under could include shoplifting.

781
01:02:17,782 --> 01:02:25,122
Our cause to servants is also mainly attributed to addictions, so folks who could be intoxicated

782
01:02:25,122 --> 01:02:32,942
and acting violently or disrupting people, and we see the majority of those coming from our downtown core.

783
01:02:33,622 --> 01:02:38,202
LCLA, that's provincial offense, that's liquor control, licensing act, so again, that deals with alcohol.

784
01:02:39,162 --> 01:02:48,142
That's a health act, you can see a route there, but again, I attribute that to a success or a car 60 working in conjunction with Northern Health.

785
01:02:48,762 --> 01:02:57,862
I'd like to think as well that the people who suffer from mental health issues that come to attention are getting a better quality service because of that program.

786
01:02:59,382 --> 01:03:07,282
I don't want to be confusing on that, so we don't have 315 missing people, missing people

787
01:03:07,902 --> 01:03:13,682
or those most significantly from high-risk group homes, who simply don't return or run away

788
01:03:13,682 --> 01:03:19,362
for a night and quite often those people just go missing for a short period of time, so that's

789
01:03:19,362 --> 01:03:21,042
what missing person follows the 40.

790
01:03:21,962 --> 01:03:27,442
Again, just a graph to show you from a color-coded perspective that looks over the number

791
01:03:27,442 --> 01:03:27,962
years.

792
01:03:32,552 --> 01:03:33,132
Prison account.

793
01:03:33,652 --> 01:03:36,892
So we still have a high volume of Prison account.

794
01:03:36,992 --> 01:03:41,772
Majority of the Prisoners, we house are there for alcohol related offenses.

795
01:03:42,072 --> 01:03:46,352
So again, those are your liquor control licensing act, those are your cause disturbances.

796
01:03:46,552 --> 01:03:48,732
So that's the majority of our Prisoner account.

797
01:03:49,312 --> 01:03:50,092
It's very high.

798
01:03:50,412 --> 01:03:53,912
I'll get into a social chronic offender program where we're working with stakeholders

799
01:03:53,912 --> 01:03:58,952
and hopefully have better alternatives to a place enforcement for those folks.

800
01:04:00,392 --> 01:04:03,352
So, that equates to roughly 12 prisoners a day.

801
01:04:06,192 --> 01:04:11,352
So, this next slide is our strategic initiative for the year or annual performance plan.

802
01:04:11,732 --> 01:04:14,992
So, in the very center, you'll see that we strive for excellence in policing,

803
01:04:15,632 --> 01:04:17,892
and we want to do that in a respectful way.

804
01:04:18,152 --> 01:04:23,532
So, we have our core values despite that we're busy and pressure detachment

805
01:04:23,532 --> 01:04:26,852
that face a high volume of violent offenses.

806
01:04:27,132 --> 01:04:30,292
I still expect that the men and women who serve the public

807
01:04:30,292 --> 01:04:36,512
do that in a respectful way. As we go around we have road safety so the previous years we've

808
01:04:36,512 --> 01:04:42,892
had a high volume of pedestrian fatalities. So this year we focused on ensuring safe roadways

809
01:04:42,892 --> 01:04:49,352
for people with quite a heavy accent component to impaired driving may recall just before Christmas

810
01:04:49,352 --> 01:04:57,912
we had this again roadblock a check stop program at highway 16 and 97. So again although we didn't

811
01:04:57,912 --> 01:04:59,732
I think we catch many people at that location.

812
01:05:00,072 --> 01:05:03,272
That time, it certainly did put out a good message to those.

813
01:05:03,272 --> 01:05:07,772
The police are out at about and we'd encourage folks to have alternatives

814
01:05:07,772 --> 01:05:09,732
to driving under the influence.

815
01:05:10,512 --> 01:05:12,632
And we can say that this is the first year in a number of years

816
01:05:12,632 --> 01:05:14,852
that we actually didn't experience any significant

817
01:05:16,172 --> 01:05:19,352
serious motor vehicle accidents or facilities of the holiday.

818
01:05:20,672 --> 01:05:22,412
Going to the bottom, we have harm reduction.

819
01:05:23,572 --> 01:05:25,772
So that's working with our domestic violence program.

820
01:05:25,772 --> 01:05:31,192
We have a new section that I'll get into a little bit further to give a better rapper on

821
01:05:31,192 --> 01:05:35,332
care for not only victims and families of the messing bonds, but also some follow up and

822
01:05:35,332 --> 01:05:38,632
support for those who are before the courts.

823
01:05:40,652 --> 01:05:41,392
I touch on our social media.

824
01:05:41,422 --> 01:05:45,122
Well, chronic offenders, so we actually have individuals that are coming, that will come into ourselves

825
01:05:45,122 --> 01:05:49,702
on about 150 times a year. So there has to be a better way to work with these individuals. So again,

826
01:05:49,982 --> 01:05:57,722
that's influencing other stakeholders in the community who have some contact with these folks,

827
01:05:58,342 --> 01:06:04,802
and hopefully changing environment and encouraging them to provide a healthy lifestyle. So we work

828
01:06:04,802 --> 01:06:11,222
with none of the courts and that but a number of other stakeholders. At the top of the list,

829
01:06:11,422 --> 01:06:24,902
We should have crime reduction, so yes, we in Prince George have a number of people who are simply just bad bad people who continue to commit criminal offenses, break an enters to law and auto's robberies.

830
01:06:25,402 --> 01:06:35,862
And those focus, the focus on those focuses to target them, provide them opportunity to change an environment through a politically offender management program and if they don't choose that support.

831
01:06:35,862 --> 01:06:43,162
And it's hard core enforcement and at least we can give our community a reprieve from those individuals while they're in jail.

832
01:06:45,702 --> 01:06:51,042
Some of the human safety programs, some of these, we started a couple of years ago, but again, the downtown safety unit.

833
01:06:51,522 --> 01:07:01,982
You recall that we took members off our general duty watches to devote three people downtown for police presence to ensure the safety of everybody who uses downtown area.

834
01:07:01,982 --> 01:07:08,862
And we continue that program and enhancing it with our general duty patrol during some of the warmer months on bikes.

835
01:07:09,422 --> 01:07:16,582
You know, a car 60 program in the center there, you'll see our Northern Health nurse flanked by our two police officers at work together.

836
01:07:19,012 --> 01:07:22,932
We have the integrated domestic violence units, so I touched on that.

837
01:07:23,152 --> 01:07:27,512
That's a collaborative response with Ministry of Child and Family Development.

838
01:07:28,092 --> 01:07:32,512
Any fresh society where we have victims service worker working with the police officer.

839
01:07:32,512 --> 01:07:48,852
Again, that's to provide better wraparound care and safety for a vulnerable victim, women, families and again to ensure that the offenders have that support and ensure that they're complying with whatever conditions they're imposed upon them.

840
01:07:51,462 --> 01:08:04,862
We have a high-risk use session, so under a community policing, we have a session that work with the group homes to ensure that some of the chronic runaways have our support.

841
01:08:04,862 --> 01:08:09,722
as well as working with them to make sure there's alternatives for high risk behavior.

842
01:08:10,802 --> 01:08:18,142
I touch upon a social chronic offender program, so we have dedicated employees and members who work with those who come to attention.

843
01:08:18,522 --> 01:08:23,862
Most of the chronic users, not only of the criminal justice system, but also the health system.

844
01:08:24,262 --> 01:08:27,662
They are chronic users of social services, whatnot.

845
01:08:27,662 --> 01:08:30,102
So what we try and do is provide them

846
01:08:30,102 --> 01:08:34,642
wrap around support to those alternatives to what

847
01:08:34,642 --> 01:08:37,582
alesum and then brings them to our attention.

848
01:08:38,522 --> 01:08:39,662
We created a new position.

849
01:08:39,922 --> 01:08:41,482
You see a missing person session.

850
01:08:41,722 --> 01:08:44,962
So that's not only to revisit the files from the past

851
01:08:44,962 --> 01:08:48,602
where we continue to have people outstanding,

852
01:08:48,922 --> 01:08:50,882
where we don't know the whereabouts,

853
01:08:51,062 --> 01:08:55,222
but ensure that we provide the adequate first attention

854
01:08:55,222 --> 01:09:02,222
those folks so we continue to leave with family and then make best effort not only for a robust

855
01:09:02,222 --> 01:09:08,762
and thorough investigation but to ensure that we can assist these people and their families.

856
01:09:09,382 --> 01:09:14,042
We have an Aboriginal council program again. We have a police officer who works with

857
01:09:14,042 --> 01:09:19,922
Aboriginal people in the in the core area downtown, often who are lost within their city for a

858
01:09:19,922 --> 01:09:26,102
reasons to build trust with the police and ensure that they are able to live in our community

859
01:09:26,102 --> 01:09:30,602
safely. And due to the high volume of bicycle thefts we have here in the warmer months

860
01:09:30,602 --> 01:09:37,822
we've come up with a bike program through garage 529 to ensure not only are we tracking bikes

861
01:09:37,822 --> 01:09:42,422
that are stolen but also working with the city and a nonprofit right now to ensure that when we

862
01:09:42,422 --> 01:09:45,162
come across bikes we can get them back to the owners.

863
01:09:47,512 --> 01:09:49,432
We had a number of significant incidents

864
01:09:49,432 --> 01:09:57,612
over the year. I'm going to touch on a few of them. Here we go back in June. We had a number

865
01:09:57,612 --> 01:10:03,592
of drive-by shooting. So these were targeted offenses. We say that they are related to the drug

866
01:10:03,592 --> 01:10:09,632
trade in our community and people buying for power as a result on June 15th. We had homicide

867
01:10:10,472 --> 01:10:18,312
and we have very good direction on that file. So we anticipate that in the near future we could perhaps

868
01:10:18,312 --> 01:10:25,112
begin to make some arrests on that file, and hopefully deter and prevent this from happening in the future.

869
01:10:25,872 --> 01:10:31,192
So again, UNI or SAFE where it concerns me is when people are caught the crossfire, when

870
01:10:31,192 --> 01:10:35,712
incident last year, and one of these shootings that very innocent people, children at home,

871
01:10:35,832 --> 01:10:40,532
at a boat go through the window. So that's why it's important for us not to lose sight.

872
01:10:40,832 --> 01:10:46,032
I've not only working with the folks down town who are vulnerable and addicted to drugs,

873
01:10:46,032 --> 01:10:51,252
because there are users of this system but as well to ensure that offenders are brought

874
01:10:51,252 --> 01:10:52,392
to before the courts.

875
01:10:55,022 --> 01:10:58,942
Again, I remember showing you in presentations of the past. This is just

876
01:10:58,942 --> 01:11:03,642
a picture we took a couple weeks ago. This is just one of our gun storage lockers. We see

877
01:11:03,642 --> 01:11:09,642
thousands of guns a year in our community and these guns are often possessed for illegal purposes.

878
01:11:12,852 --> 01:11:16,972
Once you have an event, we have this year as a neighborhood group in Queensbury,

879
01:11:16,972 --> 01:11:24,292
came to us and asked for help and support. We heard stories from people saying that it was

880
01:11:24,292 --> 01:11:29,512
a high crime area. They were afraid to walk at night. They had items stolen. There was heavy

881
01:11:29,512 --> 01:11:34,472
prostitution. There was drug trafficking. There was needles. So we met a couple of times over the

882
01:11:34,472 --> 01:11:40,632
course of the year with these folks. We listened to the concerns. We used data from analyst. We then

883
01:11:40,632 --> 01:11:47,332
strategized on how to combat that. So what you can see from 2013 to years end is the significant

884
01:11:47,332 --> 01:11:53,952
drop in crime in that area because of some folks getting together and then coming to our attention

885
01:11:53,952 --> 01:12:01,492
as a community and then collaborating with us and finding solutions. So what's interesting about that,

886
01:12:02,792 --> 01:12:06,132
despite we've had a decrease in crime, we actually encourage people to fall in the police

887
01:12:06,132 --> 01:12:09,492
will often so that it contributed to higher calls for service.

888
01:12:12,112 --> 01:12:17,172
Again, this is just a statement of mission and values to increase safety through consultation

889
01:12:17,172 --> 01:12:17,992
the collaboration.

890
01:12:19,272 --> 01:12:22,232
So, and with our stakeholders, it wasn't police parachuted problems.

891
01:12:22,452 --> 01:12:27,072
We met with the committee, both business and home orders and the area and came up with

892
01:12:27,072 --> 01:12:27,432
solutions.

893
01:12:31,662 --> 01:12:37,642
Again, earlier, we did a press release this year about the cannot, but again, I bring this

894
01:12:37,642 --> 01:12:41,982
to your attention because I say this has to be one of the better highlights of the year.

895
01:12:42,122 --> 01:12:48,662
So we have a location here and over a number of years we were overrepresented for calls

896
01:12:48,662 --> 01:12:52,142
for service to that because of some delinquent behavior.

897
01:12:52,922 --> 01:12:58,782
The police together with Bailaus and the city looked at some of the issues and inspections were

898
01:12:58,782 --> 01:13:06,162
done and as a result that business license was suspended and the residents in the area

899
01:13:06,162 --> 01:13:10,122
the businesses now enjoy a quieter, more tranquil community.

900
01:13:11,422 --> 01:13:32,002
I'll say that with certainty that we have not displaced the problem, we have not seen a spike in crime in other areas, because of this. So it was just, it was just good attention and again, good leadership from the city and this regard to, to hold people accountable. And that's what, first time we've done this, but I'll just say from 2016 it was one of the victories that we had.

901
01:13:35,022 --> 01:13:41,922
This is an area, again, a small area in the community third in George, that is again on our

902
01:13:41,922 --> 01:13:42,302
sites.

903
01:13:42,742 --> 01:13:44,202
It's overrepresented for crime.

904
01:13:44,382 --> 01:13:49,062
We spend far too much time there, dealing with a host of criminal element.

905
01:13:50,222 --> 01:13:55,402
This is a breakdown here of some of the crime types that we see.

906
01:13:56,102 --> 01:14:04,002
A lot of these crime types are resolved because of very vulnerable people who need to

907
01:14:04,002 --> 01:14:12,302
for court and for other support, including homeless shelters, unfortunately because vulnerable

908
01:14:12,302 --> 01:14:19,742
people with addictions required to attend this area for those services, we also find

909
01:14:19,742 --> 01:14:23,802
individuals who prep on those folks, we have a higher volume of drug trafficking in that

910
01:14:23,802 --> 01:14:29,902
area, a higher volume of violence, a drug collecting and dead collecting, we have a

911
01:14:29,902 --> 01:14:37,602
volume of theft and a higher volume of crime over all. So there's an area where I think

912
01:14:37,602 --> 01:14:42,302
there's room for improvement with collaboration and more innovative ways to police all

913
01:14:42,302 --> 01:14:47,542
while ensuring that people who need the services can continue to do that and in a safe

914
01:14:47,542 --> 01:14:48,302
fashion.

915
01:14:51,532 --> 01:14:56,182
Success, you recall back in November there was a cell phone repair business that was

916
01:14:56,182 --> 01:15:03,282
the city of Third and George. Again after concern from some of the people who use the area

917
01:15:03,282 --> 01:15:04,802
including business owners,

918
01:15:06,942 --> 01:15:09,582
we conducted a search warrant under the control drugs and substances

919
01:15:09,582 --> 01:15:15,282
act and a result of the investigation and working with the city that business license was removed

920
01:15:15,282 --> 01:15:26,102
and it now provides a safer environment for individuals who use the area. And I say that again

921
01:15:26,102 --> 01:15:34,582
not from a threatening gesture, but I said in the past that if individuals feel as though that

922
01:15:34,582 --> 01:15:43,362
they can work in our community and deal drugs, illicitly, and make a living from that, the

923
01:15:43,362 --> 01:15:46,222
police are going to find you, and your door is going to get kicked out, and you're going to

924
01:15:46,222 --> 01:15:47,182
go to jail.

925
01:15:49,762 --> 01:15:56,422
Now, lots on, I say that's a significant occurrence in our community as a result of fentanyl,

926
01:15:56,422 --> 01:16:03,742
the significant opioid overdose, where we've seen a high volume overdoses and deaths in our

927
01:16:03,742 --> 01:16:12,302
community across PC. We now as the police carry an aloxone, it's an anecdote for for that drug

928
01:16:12,302 --> 01:16:16,722
and there's been a couple of occasions where we've actually brought people back to life in the last few

929
01:16:16,722 --> 01:16:24,522
weeks as a result of an overdose. So again, I bring this to your attention because the police are just

930
01:16:24,522 --> 01:16:27,362
there to enforce the law, but it's to work with people and

931
01:16:27,362 --> 01:16:28,942
sure can when you say to you overall.

932
01:16:31,882 --> 01:16:33,422
Other high risk investigations,

933
01:16:35,502 --> 01:16:37,522
we, albeit we,

934
01:16:37,522 --> 01:16:39,682
feel we have a good thumb of the Paul's here in the community.

935
01:16:39,842 --> 01:16:43,982
We had a couple coming to our community back in October.

936
01:16:45,762 --> 01:16:48,842
And as a result of a crime, three of these are two people who are

937
01:16:48,842 --> 01:16:52,282
before the courts, one just recently was convicted, received five years in

938
01:16:52,282 --> 01:16:52,942
jail.

939
01:16:53,062 --> 01:16:55,042
Two is actually out on parole at the time and hey,

940
01:16:55,042 --> 01:17:00,002
from our parole and committed a number of break-in enters and enough to the vehicle on a high speed

941
01:17:00,002 --> 01:17:05,522
pursuit here. The other co-ocuse, the Mr. Lard, he's before the courts right now. But again,

942
01:17:06,142 --> 01:17:11,662
we're seeing a high transient population, many people from Alberta coming here right now in Prince

943
01:17:11,662 --> 01:17:16,502
George. So not only do we have our own home-grown criminals here, we're seeing a high volume of criminals

944
01:17:16,502 --> 01:17:23,582
from outside the community come in and really influence our crime stats. So that was quite a key victory

945
01:17:23,582 --> 01:17:28,642
in a solid investigation, as well we did an undercover drug operation this year.

946
01:17:29,802 --> 01:17:35,722
We've not made that public yet to the media, however, as a result of a deliberate

947
01:17:37,162 --> 01:17:42,542
targeting effort against some of the known drug traffickers in the downtown core in the

948
01:17:42,542 --> 01:17:48,222
Queensland area, we're able to successfully apprehend approximately 30 people for that

949
01:17:48,222 --> 01:17:48,942
operation.

950
01:17:52,952 --> 01:18:01,632
I would say again, one of the better initiatives we had this year was through our

951
01:18:01,632 --> 01:18:05,752
community policing and victim service effort to hold the trauma and form practice conference.

952
01:18:06,572 --> 01:18:11,852
So again, that was a three-day conference where we had over three hundred attendees. We had some

953
01:18:11,852 --> 01:18:19,752
very high-end keynote speakers, Kamal Dylan, who suffered extreme domestic violence in her life shared

954
01:18:19,752 --> 01:18:26,112
story we had feel flurry the hockey player come and many other keynote speakers. But at the

955
01:18:26,112 --> 01:18:33,612
end of the day it was best to see other stakeholders and network those individuals to listen

956
01:18:33,612 --> 01:18:42,572
to better practices and ensure that we're meeting the needs of the public from a more strategic

957
01:18:42,572 --> 01:18:43,812
perspective than reacted.

958
01:18:47,292 --> 01:18:51,852
And not always doom and gloom, we occasionally get to have a

959
01:18:51,852 --> 01:18:57,732
good time as police officers and insert our influence. And so this year we got to a second

960
01:18:57,732 --> 01:19:03,852
in a row work with our special Olympic athletes here in BC, Prince George. And we did the

961
01:19:03,852 --> 01:19:08,772
law enforcement towards skate. We worked with the Prince George Cougars and raised awareness

962
01:19:08,772 --> 01:19:11,572
and had a good time back in October.

963
01:19:11,732 --> 01:19:16,732
We raised just over $6,000 for the special Olympic athletes here in our community, so

964
01:19:16,732 --> 01:19:18,672
and that money comes back to Prince George.

965
01:19:19,012 --> 01:19:23,412
So that was a win-win, not only for the young men who play on the coupers, but also

966
01:19:23,412 --> 01:19:28,372
for those athletes who aspire to compete at a high level.

967
01:19:31,322 --> 01:19:32,222
Pack a PC.

968
01:19:32,682 --> 01:19:36,462
So we parked a number of police carers in front of Savon Foods, a very good community partner

969
01:19:36,462 --> 01:19:37,582
just before Christmas.

970
01:19:37,582 --> 01:19:44,822
And we feel over 20 police cars, it's filled two secure bays that are detachment and raise

971
01:19:44,822 --> 01:19:52,962
over $3600 in cash, and that went to the senior folks in our community who need that

972
01:19:52,962 --> 01:19:53,582
help and support.

973
01:19:53,842 --> 01:20:00,542
So again, we're very appreciative that we work in a community that allow us to engage and

974
01:20:00,542 --> 01:20:05,022
connect with our community stakeholders outside of a traditional enforcement matters.

975
01:20:08,072 --> 01:20:19,012
This is a membership strength, so you can see over the years, we usually average anywhere from about 110 up to the most 117 police officers.

976
01:20:20,592 --> 01:20:30,712
That's actually the members we're billing for. However, our roster is up to 135 over last year you put us to 1.38.

977
01:20:31,452 --> 01:20:38,852
Due to attrition, we're just simply not able to meet that roster.

978
01:20:39,452 --> 01:20:41,312
We've had a number of people promote out.

979
01:20:41,422 --> 01:20:49,642
So the good work that police officers do in Prince George bodes well for them, unfortunately, not for us as a detachment, because they're

980
01:20:49,642 --> 01:20:56,702
talents are recognized. So we've had a number of very senior police officers who really, the backbone of our detachment from a leadership perspective,

981
01:20:57,502 --> 01:21:05,102
get rewarded for their good work and move on through promotion. We also see that at lower ranks as well, moving on into other areas, the province.

982
01:21:05,102 --> 01:21:12,562
And those people are getting replaced many times with cadets and internal promotion throughout.

983
01:21:14,682 --> 01:21:23,222
So the bad news I have is albeit counsel was gracious enough to give us an increase for roster last year.

984
01:21:23,542 --> 01:21:30,262
We weren't able to meet that through attrition and we're seeing that in other communities in the RCMP and that's attrition nationally.

985
01:21:30,262 --> 01:21:36,922
the difficult we're having retaining members. We're retiring at earlier ages. We're a pressure

986
01:21:36,922 --> 01:21:44,682
detachment, so we're not a desirable place to come for transfer. However, we're certainly

987
01:21:45,982 --> 01:21:53,782
a very good detachment for gaining skills and abilities. Unfortunately, both well for other detassments

988
01:21:53,782 --> 01:21:59,922
because again folks get recognized for their skills and talents and they move on. So we're in a

989
01:21:59,922 --> 01:22:05,282
good place right now we do have bodies here marked we've got a majority of cadets coming to fill

990
01:22:05,282 --> 01:22:11,122
these positions so anticipate if all goes well in the status quo that we don't lose any more

991
01:22:11,122 --> 01:22:15,422
people through promotion I anticipate will be up to full Roth to come springtime.

992
01:22:18,562 --> 01:22:19,162
Those are the

993
01:22:19,162 --> 01:22:28,422
highs and lows if I can just go back if there's two areas of focus that I see for the upcoming

994
01:22:28,422 --> 01:22:32,802
year. Again, it's to engage with our community stakeholders around social chronic offenders

995
01:22:32,802 --> 01:22:38,142
and provide other methods and traditional law enforcement. And again, the third and

996
01:22:38,142 --> 01:22:46,382
Georgia area, I hear from not only tenants and business owners, visitors who come to the

997
01:22:46,382 --> 01:22:52,122
city that visit downtown core, that's simply an area that's overrepresented with crime and

998
01:22:52,122 --> 01:22:54,842
a focus point for the upcoming year. So thank you.

999
01:22:54,842 --> 01:22:58,542
Thank you Superintendent, Councillor Crosse.

1000
01:22:58,762 --> 01:22:59,402
Thank you.

1001
01:23:00,382 --> 01:23:02,942
Superintendent, I just want to acknowledge the urban

1002
01:23:02,942 --> 01:23:04,722
Aboriginal Constable Program.

1003
01:23:06,182 --> 01:23:08,062
Thank you to Constable Gillis.

1004
01:23:08,482 --> 01:23:10,302
He's very responsive in his work.

1005
01:23:11,702 --> 01:23:13,882
His efforts are of great assistance.

1006
01:23:14,342 --> 01:23:15,882
He's absolutely perfect for the job.

1007
01:23:16,662 --> 01:23:19,982
So again, thank you to the detachment for creating that position

1008
01:23:19,982 --> 01:23:23,582
and I guess some recognition to Constable Gillis.

1009
01:23:23,582 --> 01:23:30,422
Thank you. Thank you. Councilor Ever, did you want him to kill? Go ahead.

1010
01:23:31,422 --> 01:23:32,362
Well, thank you, Superintendent,

1011
01:23:43,132 --> 01:23:43,812
for the job that they

1012
01:23:49,542 --> 01:23:49,662
do.

1013
01:23:49,842 --> 01:23:52,442
Thank you. Thank you, Councilor Everett. Councilor Kohler.

1014
01:23:54,082 --> 01:23:59,602
Thank you, Bishop. Thank you. Thank you for the wonderful report.

1015
01:23:59,842 --> 01:24:03,902
As always, numbers that are certainly very informative.

1016
01:24:03,902 --> 01:24:05,942
of some of them would like others.

1017
01:24:06,502 --> 01:24:07,222
We don't.

1018
01:24:07,222 --> 01:24:12,622
You mentioned, again, the corner of the area of third

1019
01:24:12,622 --> 01:24:16,742
and a judge, the street, and many discussions,

1020
01:24:17,382 --> 01:24:20,162
certain organizations, and the crosshairs

1021
01:24:20,162 --> 01:24:22,002
when it comes to these discussions,

1022
01:24:22,762 --> 01:24:25,422
we know there's a fire pit, we know there's a need like change,

1023
01:24:26,502 --> 01:24:29,102
and some people think, you know, something could be done.

1024
01:24:29,442 --> 01:24:33,022
And I do not know that, but my question to you now,

1025
01:24:33,022 --> 01:24:34,942
and so I'm going to put you on the spot.

1026
01:24:35,442 --> 01:24:39,982
We know the media is here and to be listening to your answer.

1027
01:24:40,462 --> 01:24:43,602
So I'm quite sure you will have a balanced answer to that.

1028
01:24:43,782 --> 01:24:49,762
What would be your recommendation the city could do to have with this issue?

1029
01:24:54,422 --> 01:25:00,282
Well, I think the city's demonstrated over the last year and previous years that

1030
01:25:00,282 --> 01:25:10,462
bylaws through action that we have, repatriated some locations in the community that have fallen victim

1031
01:25:10,462 --> 01:25:18,782
to high crime, rate and volume. So again that would be your canot, your lombardies,

1032
01:25:19,282 --> 01:25:25,762
some other businesses and all their like buildings downtown. So I think the city continues to

1033
01:25:25,762 --> 01:25:37,702
support by ensuring that by-laws are adhered to, ensuring that landlords are responsible

1034
01:25:37,702 --> 01:25:47,562
to their tenants through applicable by-laws. The third injury, that's a challenge, although

1035
01:25:47,562 --> 01:25:49,962
we can recognize that it's a high-crime area.

1036
01:25:52,222 --> 01:25:54,462
We have to balance traditional law enforcement.

1037
01:25:54,462 --> 01:25:59,422
It's very easy. I could put police officers at the corner and hammer everybody for every

1038
01:25:59,422 --> 01:26:04,382
every infection they do. But there's also a need for folks to come to that location because

1039
01:26:04,382 --> 01:26:12,402
services are offered. And we have to be mindful and respectful of that. These are our most

1040
01:26:12,402 --> 01:26:16,982
marginalized vulnerable people in the community who suffer from addictions mental health issues.

1041
01:26:17,362 --> 01:26:23,642
So again, we have to work and collaborate more efficiently and innovative with our stakeholders.

1042
01:26:24,462 --> 01:26:30,022
However, having saying that, having said that, we can't tolerate crime, I cannot tolerate

1043
01:26:30,022 --> 01:26:35,882
people dying from drug overdose because that's where drug traffickers can come and find

1044
01:26:35,882 --> 01:26:41,702
their victims. I can't tolerate vulnerable people who are drug dealers money and then get beat up

1045
01:26:41,702 --> 01:26:46,162
because they can't pay their drug gets in a location. I cannot tolerate people getting their businesses

1046
01:26:46,162 --> 01:26:54,742
broken into and feeling unsafe in the area. So that's a fine line. So there'll be

1047
01:26:54,742 --> 01:26:58,682
opportunity and I'll continue to continue to engage the city and locations where I

1048
01:26:58,682 --> 01:27:03,682
think there's some ownership. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

1049
01:27:03,682 --> 01:27:06,502
Thank you. Councillor Merrick. Thank you.

1050
01:27:06,582 --> 01:27:10,102
Thank you. I just wanted to add for one final thank you to Superintendent Brown and

1051
01:27:10,102 --> 01:27:13,822
the whole team. Especially just because of the transparency I think and the

1052
01:27:14,562 --> 01:27:20,242
I'm sure you've got 14 levels of filter on what you're saying, but I think for the community some of it is pretty out there.

1053
01:27:20,722 --> 01:27:24,682
And from what I've heard from police chiefs all over Canada is that transparency is the best.

1054
01:27:24,802 --> 01:27:28,582
Even though it makes easy pickings for the media, especially we've had lots of Vancouver papers,

1055
01:27:28,962 --> 01:27:31,042
loved her report on French George crime statistics.

1056
01:27:31,962 --> 01:27:35,822
Putting the numbers out there gets the community involved in understanding what's going on.

1057
01:27:36,422 --> 01:27:42,082
And enables them to spot behavior that might not be normal and start to think about it more,

1058
01:27:42,082 --> 01:27:45,822
to understand some of the dangers that might be out there for their kids, if they get into

1059
01:27:45,822 --> 01:27:46,462
some trouble.

1060
01:27:46,902 --> 01:27:50,202
Some of the really bad stuff that does happen in our community and engages the community

1061
01:27:50,202 --> 01:27:56,622
more and everybody kind of doing their part to, you know, observe, report, witness, and

1062
01:27:56,622 --> 01:27:58,282
protect and serve the people that are vulnerable.

1063
01:27:59,302 --> 01:28:02,062
So I'm not suggesting I'd be able to go there and do the vigilantes job.

1064
01:28:02,202 --> 01:28:03,082
That's the police job.

1065
01:28:04,042 --> 01:28:09,162
But ultimately, I think shocking statistics like this do us all a favor in terms of reading

1066
01:28:09,162 --> 01:28:10,702
them and understanding them.

1067
01:28:10,702 --> 01:28:11,382
and uh

1068
01:28:11,422 --> 01:28:15,522
While we hope that they go down, the reality is we need to know that they're there. So always appreciate

1069
01:28:15,522 --> 01:28:18,542
how candid you are, and I think the community does as well.

1070
01:28:19,142 --> 01:28:22,862
Well, thank you. And if the media was asking me why our crime rates high and overrepresented,

1071
01:28:23,182 --> 01:28:28,042
I would tell them that we're a very safe community overall. Whoever a very small percentage

1072
01:28:28,042 --> 01:28:33,382
of people in our community continue to be victimized by a very small people in our community. So again,

1073
01:28:33,542 --> 01:28:37,822
we have segments, and we have a very small population, like, you know, that really misrepresented.

1074
01:28:37,822 --> 01:28:41,842
I would say, overall, we're a very safe community.

1075
01:28:45,142 --> 01:28:45,382
Thank you.

1076
01:28:45,682 --> 01:28:46,802
Thank you.

1077
01:28:46,802 --> 01:28:53,282
Thank you very much, Mayor Hall, and Exon comments on Councillor Merrick, thank you for

1078
01:28:53,282 --> 01:28:53,582
those.

1079
01:28:54,042 --> 01:28:58,582
And thank you for posing the question, Councillor Coor, and to you Superintendent for your

1080
01:28:58,582 --> 01:28:59,442
very frank answer.

1081
01:29:00,282 --> 01:29:04,622
So, there was a filter there, but you know, was very well delivered, so I appreciate it.

1082
01:29:04,762 --> 01:29:09,202
And I think it's just important for folks who are listening to know that we do hear from

1083
01:29:09,202 --> 01:29:14,842
businesses downtown, and that we do hear from folks that care about our downtown, and what

1084
01:29:14,842 --> 01:29:20,722
they need to know is that Council is working on this. We recognize that we do have an

1085
01:29:20,722 --> 01:29:24,882
issue. There's no doubt about it. And as Councillor Merrick said, the only way to solve something

1086
01:29:24,882 --> 01:29:40,882
is to talk about it, get the community involved and find these solutions. I would probably have

1087
01:29:41,602 --> 01:29:57,622
So I realize those steps would be taken, but wouldn't it be great to be part of a council that actually really move forward with some of these concrete issues and getting these, these, some of these things actually moving forward.

1088
01:29:58,402 --> 01:30:15,302
So, to wrap up, a very long sermon, is to say that I think folks need to know that we do work very closely with the RCMP and our community partners and with our administration and that we talk amongst ourselves and that we do recognize that this is something that we need to move forward.

1089
01:30:15,302 --> 01:30:21,342
is our issues downtown. Otherwise it's been said before, but it's going to keep chasing hotspots and

1090
01:30:21,342 --> 01:30:24,942
one thing. It just closes here and just keeps, it's like, whack them all. You know, things

1091
01:30:24,942 --> 01:30:30,242
just keep popping up. So in closing, I just want to thank you very much for everything that

1092
01:30:30,242 --> 01:30:36,582
you do. You do a lot of work for us in our community. And please share our appreciation, sincere

1093
01:30:36,582 --> 01:30:43,102
appreciation with your force, with your team. You do all the work that none of us want to.

1094
01:30:43,102 --> 01:30:47,682
and but we're just grateful that somebody's doing it so thank you.

1095
01:30:48,202 --> 01:30:50,242
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for coming from

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01:30:50,242 --> 01:30:54,422
Bacadak and Celsar Scott. Thank you, worship and through to

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01:30:54,422 --> 01:31:00,942
Superintendent Brown. As has been said by everyone, thank you. I had a question

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when you mentioned an influx of people perhaps from Alberta. When we spoke a

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go you were flagging people that were coming our way from the west part of British Columbia.

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01:31:14,942 --> 01:31:18,802
And I'm wondering where things are at in that regard this year.

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01:31:20,122 --> 01:31:23,882
Well, I'd have to say the trend that we've seen

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01:31:26,222 --> 01:31:31,022
is people out of the peace area.

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01:31:31,522 --> 01:31:39,762
So Northeastern BC and Alberta, we've seen certainly a higher volume of people involved in

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01:31:39,762 --> 01:31:43,742
and that regards, well, I'm not suggesting for one minute if you're from Alberta or the

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01:31:43,742 --> 01:31:48,582
piece you're going to commit crime in print storage, but certainly we've seen a higher

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01:31:48,582 --> 01:31:53,442
volume of a folks from that area committing some of the war of serious criminal offenses.

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01:31:54,602 --> 01:32:00,462
We've had a real increase in stone vehicles and break an entered over the last month and we've

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01:32:00,462 --> 01:32:04,902
apprehended a number of people and many of those people are from that region. We had a counter

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01:32:04,902 --> 01:32:11,342
fitting spree again people operating in the Western Alberta and the peace area. So for whatever

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01:32:11,342 --> 01:32:17,902
reason that we seem to be attracting that criminal material. And perhaps we can find a way

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01:32:17,902 --> 01:32:23,262
to work more collaboratively with you to get the message out that that's not tolerated in our

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01:32:23,262 --> 01:32:29,122
community. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Councillor Scott. Superintendent, thanks very much,

1113
01:32:29,122 --> 01:32:36,642
I've got a couple of comments, and thank you for your candor, has been set around the table.

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01:32:37,342 --> 01:32:38,542
We've got work to do.

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01:32:38,902 --> 01:32:44,242
One of the reasons we embarked on this remedial action program is to take care of some of these hot spots.

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01:32:44,802 --> 01:32:49,902
And in collaboration with our Biola Services Department, you, with your team,

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01:32:50,562 --> 01:32:55,442
we've managed to look at places like the Willow, the Cannot, the Lombardy, and other locations throughout our community.

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01:32:55,442 --> 01:32:59,602
And thank you for talking about downtown.

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01:33:00,702 --> 01:33:04,262
We're seeing a redevelopment and a resurgence in our downtown.

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01:33:04,882 --> 01:33:07,102
People are interested in building downtown.

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01:33:07,282 --> 01:33:08,722
People are interested in developing.

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01:33:09,322 --> 01:33:12,282
We're going to see more of it over the next four or five months.

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01:33:13,082 --> 01:33:19,042
And we need to ensure from a city and an RCMP's perspective that it's a safe location.

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01:33:19,682 --> 01:33:22,322
But people can commend a print storage and do business downtown.

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01:33:22,322 --> 01:33:28,702
They can shop downtown, they can invest downtown, and when you identify locations throughout the city,

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01:33:29,202 --> 01:33:32,702
particularly when we talk about downtown, you talk about third and third in George.

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01:33:33,742 --> 01:33:39,602
We need to work with you, and it is not just the city of Prince George and the RCMP.

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01:33:39,682 --> 01:33:47,522
There are either stakeholders, and we have met. There's a lot of work being done, so that work needs to continue.

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01:33:48,402 --> 01:33:54,002
But we, I think, as Councilor McConaughey and others have said, we need to leave the charge.

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01:33:54,862 --> 01:33:55,702
And we need to be there.

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01:33:55,702 --> 01:33:59,782
We need to be there with the other organizations that are working diligently trying to resolve some of the issues.

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Appreciate your comments.

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01:34:02,922 --> 01:34:08,342
As always, as Councilor McConaughey has said, thank your team for us and we hope in the spring.

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01:34:09,042 --> 01:34:11,502
You see another dozen boots or so on the ground.

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01:34:12,342 --> 01:34:13,242
Thank you. Thank you.

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01:34:13,242 --> 01:34:14,102
So,

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01:34:25,612 --> 01:34:31,812
Council, we have the recommendation, the presentation provided by Officer and Charge.

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01:34:32,632 --> 01:34:33,652
We receive information.

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01:34:34,472 --> 01:34:35,112
Thank you, Secretary.

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01:34:35,992 --> 01:34:37,792
Councilor Kohler, I will always in favor of receipt.

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01:34:38,052 --> 01:34:39,212
The post-charid unanimously.

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01:34:39,392 --> 01:34:40,152
Thanks very much.

1143
01:34:41,226 --> 01:34:55,306
If we can go to D4, Mr. Wells. Thank you, Your Worship. The purpose of this report is to introduce the solar removal deposit by law number 8772.

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01:34:55,706 --> 01:35:02,726
His file I would replace the existing by law, existing solar removal and deposit by law from 1999.

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01:35:02,726 --> 01:35:14,786
The intent of this bylaw is to regulate the removal and deposit of large quantities of soil in the city in a manner that will not create an administrative burden be

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01:35:14,786 --> 01:35:27,506
enforceable in the courts and in the field. Protect the interests of surrounding land uses and the natural environment and not place unreasonable financial demands and conditions on the persons removing or depositing soil.

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01:35:27,506 --> 01:35:37,226
It's the best practice by all your worship, schedule the areas that are defined, will be updated at a later date and that will be through a public process and hearing your worship.

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01:35:37,706 --> 01:35:39,326
Thank you very much.

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01:35:39,786 --> 01:35:40,406
Councillor Merrick.

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01:35:41,286 --> 01:35:48,826
Thank you, worship, and may have been concluded already, but there was recently a city application for an amendment for a specific site.

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01:35:48,986 --> 01:35:50,366
Has that gone through the full four readings?

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01:35:50,546 --> 01:35:52,446
We have any active applications on the table?

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01:35:52,866 --> 01:35:53,366
No, you worship.

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01:35:53,706 --> 01:35:54,506
Okay, thank you.

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01:35:55,146 --> 01:36:01,326
We'll have anybody else in the queue and if we can deal with recommendations one and two separately, I'd appreciate that.

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01:36:02,026 --> 01:36:08,946
So, thank you. Second on one is Councillor McConaughey, all those in favor, recommendation one, opposed, carried unanimously.

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01:36:10,246 --> 01:36:11,006
Very Councillor Merrick.

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01:36:11,766 --> 01:36:20,826
Good, thank you. And recommendation two. Councillor Scott, Councillor Fresel, all those in favor of recommendation two, opposed carried unanimously. Thank you, Councillor.

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01:36:23,282 --> 01:36:38,342
27. Additions to the City of Constraught Heritage Register. Good evening. I wasn't quite sure who to introduce from the staff group there, but Sheryl and Hillary, and I see you two more.

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01:36:41,022 --> 01:36:43,642
I see you've got some help in the audience this evening.

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01:36:48,642 --> 01:36:58,502
Before we, or I turn the microphone over and I should have done this early on this evening because I try to do it all the time and Councillor Fizzell give me a bit of a nod.

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We have freedom of the city recipient with a this evening and pass council member and has spent numerous hours in the chambers and we see here at every event.

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01:37:10,682 --> 01:37:14,082
doesn't surprise me that we're seeing her here this evening and that's

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01:37:14,722 --> 01:37:17,482
Council Shirley Gratt and Shirley very nice to see you once again here at

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01:37:17,482 --> 01:37:19,862
Council Chambers. Thank you.

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01:37:21,262 --> 01:37:24,502
Okay, did I turn this over to you or Cheryl or

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01:37:26,742 --> 01:37:28,162
Good evening, New worship.

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01:37:28,342 --> 01:37:30,682
I felt so many members and I didn't have to.

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01:37:31,582 --> 01:37:33,822
My name is Cheryl. I mean, it's still leaving and I just

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01:37:33,822 --> 01:37:36,282
happily a song for the fifth or eighth of commission.

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01:37:36,882 --> 01:37:39,122
Cheryl, if I could just interrupt if you could just move the

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01:37:39,122 --> 01:37:41,622
microphone over a bit. We're having a little bit of difficulty.

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01:37:43,162 --> 01:37:45,262
That one does work, there we go.

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01:37:46,762 --> 01:37:47,722
Thank you.

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01:37:48,282 --> 01:37:49,282
Well, good evening, Your Worship.

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01:37:50,122 --> 01:37:51,842
Council members and senior administration.

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01:37:52,442 --> 01:37:53,962
My name is Cheryl Livingston Lehman,

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and I'm the staff liaison for the Prince George Heritage Commission.

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01:37:58,262 --> 01:38:00,022
It's exciting to be back here tonight.

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01:38:00,782 --> 01:38:03,062
You may remember, back in June of 2016,

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we are here to provide you with an update of our work

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01:38:06,502 --> 01:38:10,002
around the education and awareness of the heritage register

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01:38:10,002 --> 01:38:13,562
With our goal to add properties to the heritage register,

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well tonight we have great news.

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With two properties we would like to add to the register,

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01:38:20,262 --> 01:38:23,862
the Monroe Muffet House and the Pittman House.

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01:38:24,962 --> 01:38:27,922
Before I go any further, I'd like to introduce the two people to my right.

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On my far right is Hillary Morgan, she's a city planner,

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and Caroline Ross is the chair of the Heritage Commission.

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The work that we'll be discussing tonight

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has been carried out by the Heritage Commission's Heritage Register Working Group, a not-working

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01:38:46,042 --> 01:38:53,742
group consists of Caroline Ross, Deaf Adder, who's in the audience, Kurt Gable, Traumelo,

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01:38:53,942 --> 01:38:59,182
who's also in the audience, and that working group has been supported by Hillary Morgan.

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All of the decisions made by the Working Group were brought forward to the broader Heritage

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commission for discussion and approvals.

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Before I pass the microphone over to Hillary, I have a very special announcement

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tonight.

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Back in October, the Heritage Commission nominated Hillary for a Heritage BC Award for

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her outstanding work on the Heritage Register.

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We found out today that Hillary has won this for 30 prestigious provincial award in the

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So this is already so well deserved.

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01:39:47,032 --> 01:39:49,632
The Heritage Register work has truly taken off

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01:39:49,632 --> 01:39:51,732
under Hillary's guidance and leadership.

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01:39:53,012 --> 01:39:56,072
And it's been a great honor to work with her

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01:39:56,072 --> 01:39:59,052
and work with the whole commission on this initiative.

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And it's a privilege to be able to share this news

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with you tonight.

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So congratulations, Hillary, and thanks for all

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the work you've done on this initiative.

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Thank you.

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Thank you for the men of applause. Your worship and counsel. Yeah, totally did not expect that. I had no idea that the commission was up to nominating me for that

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01:40:26,262 --> 01:40:28,622
So thanks very much to Cheryl and the commission

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They've been very supportive and patient over the past year that we've been working on this and we've come a really long way and

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01:40:36,302 --> 01:40:42,502
Yeah, I'm really proud of the work that this group has done and I'm excited to share the rest of this presentation to you. So

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I want to start by providing a reminder of sort of what the heritage register is and what its purpose is.

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01:40:49,762 --> 01:40:57,822
So it is an official list of properties with heritage value and any additions to the heritage register need to be approved to the Council of Resolution.

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01:40:58,762 --> 01:41:10,642
It's really a great tool for raising awareness about the history of Prince George and building civic pride in the history that has contributed to making Prince George wood this today.

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It also allows the city to flag properties so that the planning department is aware that

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property has heritage value if someone is proposing alterations or in case they want to

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01:41:23,162 --> 01:41:29,962
demolish the building. However, it does not allow the city to withhold or reject demolition permits

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or have a lot of control over the alteration of the building. That's achieved through higher levels

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01:41:35,082 --> 01:41:44,282
protections such as heritage designation and this table, which is included in the council package,

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sort of lays out the different tools that local governments can use to protect their heritage

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resources and highlights that the heritage register is relatively low on the spectrum of tools that

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are available, whereas designation is a really firm level of protection that allows cities to

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control any alterations and reject demolition permits to

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encourage buildings.

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In terms of how properties are added to the register, as I mentioned, the council of

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Resolution is required.

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01:42:17,912 --> 01:42:22,212
Another requirement is that municipalities justify why the building has a

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01:42:22,212 --> 01:42:25,012
historical value, and this is done through a statement of significance,

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01:42:26,072 --> 01:42:28,332
which we will refer to all the time as an SOS.

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So the SOS is a document that tells the story of the building why

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significant what architectural features should be retained, who was involved in building it,

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who was in the building, and for the Pittman House and the Monroe Muffet House, there are

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SLS documents in the Council package. In order to add a property, the municipalities are not

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required to get a property owner's consent, however, for the properties that we're proposing

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01:42:57,312 --> 01:43:00,132
to add tonight, we did get the property owner's consent.

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And just to provide a bit of a review

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what we have done in 2016 since we were here last year.

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The first thing that we did with the working group

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was prioritize a list of historical properties.

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01:43:18,272 --> 01:43:20,532
So, the commission had been sort of compiling a list

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based on the context study that was done in 2009

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01:43:24,532 --> 01:43:28,352
to Heritage BC, as well as a lot of other work

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01:43:28,352 --> 01:43:30,632
that's been done over the years going back into the 90s

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and even before then.

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And we put that all into a database

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that is easily sorted and managed, and we looked at properties that were built before

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01:43:39,272 --> 01:43:44,712
1960, and then we worked as a group to narrow it down to properties that the Commission

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01:43:44,712 --> 01:43:47,012
had information on,

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01:43:49,372 --> 01:43:52,272
and then we used this past years a bit of a pile.

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01:43:52,302 --> 01:44:20,862
The project to develop a procedure for managing the register. And the procedure is still in the works, but it lays out the process for the commission to nominate or accept nominations to add properties to the register, as well as lays out how the commission will go about evaluating the heritage value of a property. And it lays out the steps required to add a property to the register. We're also working on a procedure that will help planning and development manage records for properties that are on the heritage register.

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We also developed the Heritage Register brochure, which is in front of all of you, and created a web page so that there's information out there for people to learn more.

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Myself and Caroline did a CKPG interview, and the Commission and Cheryl played a huge role in consultation with property owners to make sure that the property owners consented to be added to the register.

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01:44:48,432 --> 01:44:53,132
So we do already have a heritage register that was adopted by a State of Prince George

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01:44:53,132 --> 01:44:59,392
Council in 2007, and it has four properties, so the two additions were proposing tonight

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01:44:59,392 --> 01:45:04,532
will bring it up to six properties, and now I'm going to pass it over to Caroline to give

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01:45:04,532 --> 01:45:09,132
you more details on the history of the two buildings that we're proposing to add tonight.

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Thank you, Philery.

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01:45:14,172 --> 01:45:18,452
The first property that we're proposing to be added to the heritage register is the Pitman

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House and that's located at 2 3 8 7 McBride Crescent at the northeast corner of the intersection with 10th Avenue.

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01:45:27,092 --> 01:45:33,352
This house was built in 1926 and is called the Pittman House after its original owner.

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01:45:33,852 --> 01:45:41,132
W. Pittman, a pioneer citizen who established and operated the Pittman music store on 3rd Avenue until 1940.

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Pitman was also a city alderman, a school trustee, and a long-serving organist for Knox United Church.

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01:45:49,132 --> 01:45:52,132
The Pitman House looks today much as it did in the 1920s.

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01:45:53,272 --> 01:45:57,452
The house is built according to the Dutch colonial style that was popular at the time.

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In some of its character defining elements include its gambrel or barn style roof,

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01:46:03,912 --> 01:46:06,532
Georgian style entry with a porch and columns,

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01:46:07,352 --> 01:46:13,912
The medical window pattern on the front facade and beveled exterior sighting typical of the period.

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01:46:15,712 --> 01:46:22,292
The Pittman House is a pioneer home and it remains a well-tended example of the type of architecture that characterized the early crescent neighborhood.

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And that's the reasons why we were putting this property forward as our first proposed addition to the heritage register.

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01:46:29,032 --> 01:46:30,132
The

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second property we're proposing be added to the register is the Monroe Mothet House and that's a log home located at 1-5-3 Mothet Street North at the intersection with Hammond Avenue.

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This home is steeped in Pioneer History and is associated with two prominent individuals who helped shape the development of our city.

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01:46:54,242 --> 01:47:01,062
The House was built in 1914 by John Monroe, who had traveled to South Fort George in 1910

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01:47:01,062 --> 01:47:03,282
to open the Bank of British North America.

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01:47:04,682 --> 01:47:09,882
In 1920 Monroe sold the House to Alex Moffitt, co-founder of Northern Hardware, who lived

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01:47:09,882 --> 01:47:11,502
in it until 1968.

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The House itself is a log structure built in the prairie style of architecture associated

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01:47:18,102 --> 01:47:19,682
with Frank Lloyd Wright.

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01:47:19,682 --> 01:47:33,062
Some of its character defining features include the unadorned logit exterior, the original diamond shape pattern on the windows, which you can see in the row of tech of second story windows in the photo.

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It has a large veranda and overhangs and rich interior with detailing and decor dating from the original construction, some of which you can see in the photos on page 2 of the SOS document.

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01:47:46,562 --> 01:47:51,222
This level of detailing actually far exceeded the standard of the day.

1285
01:47:51,842 --> 01:47:56,742
So, with the exception of a wood frame extension that was later added to the rear of the house,

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01:47:57,082 --> 01:48:00,962
the exterior of this home remains much as it did when it was built.

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01:48:01,702 --> 01:48:05,522
In several aspects of the original interior detailing are also intact.

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01:48:07,602 --> 01:48:12,682
And we are putting this property forward as our second recommended addition to the register tonight.

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01:48:12,682 --> 01:48:16,722
and I'll pass the microphone over to Cheryl to summarize our recommendations.

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01:48:21,442 --> 01:48:25,682
Your leadership tonight, we are recommending that council pass a resolution to have the

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01:48:25,682 --> 01:48:30,782
Pippman House and the Monroe Muffet House to the city of French George Heritage Register.

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01:48:31,982 --> 01:48:35,622
The Heritage Commission has passed a motion to support the addition of these buildings to the

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01:48:35,622 --> 01:48:38,662
Register and we also have property owner consent.

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01:48:42,302 --> 01:48:48,082
In conclusion, I would like to once again thank Hillary and Caroline and the rest of the

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01:48:48,082 --> 01:48:50,702
registered working group for this outstanding work.

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01:48:52,162 --> 01:48:56,982
On behalf of the Heritage Commission, we shout out a very special thank you to Troll Moro

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for his vast knowledge of the history of our community.

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01:49:00,962 --> 01:49:05,622
Troll has played a key role in preparing and researching the statements of significance for

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01:49:05,622 --> 01:49:07,162
many of our heritage properties.

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01:49:08,362 --> 01:49:12,462
Last but not least, we would like to excuse me to thank the property owners of the Monroe

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off at House and the Pitman House for their consent and enthusiasm moving this initiative forward.

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And this concludes our presentation.

1303
01:49:21,922 --> 01:49:22,122
Great.

1304
01:49:22,122 --> 01:49:23,542
Thank you very much.

1305
01:49:23,922 --> 01:49:24,922
I turn to Councillor Crosse.

1306
01:49:25,782 --> 01:49:26,262
Well, thank you.

1307
01:49:26,562 --> 01:49:31,502
I really appreciate the effort to have the committee and the staff on bringing this forward.

1308
01:49:31,542 --> 01:49:35,642
And I certainly will support the recommendation that comes forward.

1309
01:49:36,082 --> 01:49:39,782
And I think that we, I just had a visitor from out of town today, we had a long conversation

1310
01:49:39,782 --> 01:49:46,562
about heritage values, some print storage, and how we need to preserve what we have. And especially

1311
01:49:46,562 --> 01:49:51,662
whilst still as a historical merit, because we know that many of the buildings in our community

1312
01:49:51,662 --> 01:49:56,842
have been changed so dramatically, they don't hold the same value that they used to have, but

1313
01:49:56,842 --> 01:50:02,002
certainly these two houses are being brought forward today, certainly due. So thank you.

1314
01:50:02,142 --> 01:50:06,302
Thank you, Councillor Crosse. Councillor McColnicky. Thank you very much, Mayor Hall,

1315
01:50:06,302 --> 01:50:12,542
And just to build on Council across, I do want to thank the presenters and the entire Heritage Commission.

1316
01:50:12,562 --> 01:50:14,002
I know how hard you work.

1317
01:50:14,362 --> 01:50:21,982
It was such an honor to sit with you folks and I see how hard everybody does work and they have a heck of a lot of fun at the same time.

1318
01:50:22,782 --> 01:50:25,902
So I know Jeff Elder did. He was always having fun.

1319
01:50:26,722 --> 01:50:28,762
So I have a very quick question though.

1320
01:50:29,162 --> 01:50:32,382
Just please explain to me, I should know this.

1321
01:50:32,382 --> 01:50:36,722
But what is the difference between these two homes now being put on the heritage register?

1322
01:50:37,162 --> 01:50:44,242
What does it designate the other homes at the Gores Street, how houses and so the other heritage homes?

1323
01:50:44,862 --> 01:50:51,682
What in what manner are those homes recognized and is this stepping out from that, to some clarity?

1324
01:50:52,402 --> 01:50:59,582
Well, as far as I'm aware, the only legally protected recognized buildings are those four that are on the register.

1325
01:51:00,582 --> 01:51:07,882
So, other houses in Miller edition and the Crescent's aren't actually recognized or protected formally.

1326
01:51:08,982 --> 01:51:11,442
Okay, so it's more of an informal, I think, recognition.

1327
01:51:12,042 --> 01:51:13,822
I see Mr. Elder nodding in the back there.

1328
01:51:13,982 --> 01:51:15,062
Thank you, Mr. Elder.

1329
01:51:15,322 --> 01:51:16,482
Yeah, no, just teasing.

1330
01:51:16,842 --> 01:51:19,262
Thank you very much for once again for all the work.

1331
01:51:19,322 --> 01:51:22,262
I know Shirley is die hard, she doesn't.

1332
01:51:22,302 --> 01:51:28,362
Great amount of a work for that commission as well. So thank you very much. Keep on trucking, keep it up.

1333
01:51:28,962 --> 01:51:30,942
Thank you, Councillor Fuzell. Followed by Merrick.

1334
01:51:31,922 --> 01:51:39,302
Thank you, Mayor Hall. And congratulations on the award tonight. It's great to hear a nice, nice timing for that to come out right now.

1335
01:51:40,042 --> 01:51:49,062
Also nice timing for this whole agenda because as the, as the evening's gone on, we've heard about how this is a record year for construction and for new changes and new directions.

1336
01:51:49,062 --> 01:51:55,722
And so it was nice to get a small dose of what you live in that's reconstructing the history

1337
01:51:55,722 --> 01:52:00,782
and getting pieces of that put down on a paper, make it accessible on the web.

1338
01:52:01,142 --> 01:52:06,362
I mean, by protecting these, by putting these on the registers and recognizing what they are,

1339
01:52:06,682 --> 01:52:11,322
we're great retaining a piece of our history and a really valuable that we're doing that.

1340
01:52:11,322 --> 01:52:20,562
At some point, does the commission look forward to coming back with proposals on increased

1341
01:52:20,562 --> 01:52:26,942
protection, like we've seen in the documentation tonight, our covenants or beyond something

1342
01:52:26,942 --> 01:52:27,622
that's on the radar?

1343
01:52:33,162 --> 01:52:38,482
Your worship through the counselor for Zell, right now they're pretty focused on the register.

1344
01:52:38,682 --> 01:52:42,942
I think if somebody approached us instead, I'm interested in designating my property or putting

1345
01:52:42,942 --> 01:52:46,462
and covenant on title, then we would be happy to facilitate that.

1346
01:52:46,722 --> 01:52:49,042
But right now that you're focused on building the register.

1347
01:52:49,682 --> 01:52:51,222
Yeah, and that's good work.

1348
01:52:51,482 --> 01:52:53,622
Well, thanks for bringing this forward, and I'll be supporting it too.

1349
01:52:53,962 --> 01:52:54,422
Thank you.

1350
01:52:54,442 --> 01:52:55,362
Thank you, Councillor Merrick.

1351
01:52:56,222 --> 01:52:56,922
Thank you, we're shipping it.

1352
01:52:56,922 --> 01:53:00,822
And I just want to see if my understanding is correct here in terms of the register.

1353
01:53:01,082 --> 01:53:02,922
And I'm trying to wait the pros and cons.

1354
01:53:03,122 --> 01:53:05,242
And to my mind, there really are no cons for the register.

1355
01:53:05,422 --> 01:53:06,782
You're not required to do anything.

1356
01:53:07,562 --> 01:53:11,542
But by putting your house on the register, you get access to potentially alternative

1357
01:53:11,542 --> 01:53:14,022
building code standards, the BC building code,

1358
01:53:14,362 --> 01:53:17,222
there are potentially grants for non-profit building owners.

1359
01:53:18,202 --> 01:53:20,262
And of course, you have that extra little spark

1360
01:53:20,262 --> 01:53:22,722
on your house that you get to have a little bit of history

1361
01:53:22,722 --> 01:53:24,322
in public knowledge about where you live.

1362
01:53:25,142 --> 01:53:27,562
So I just want to make sure I reiterate that to the public

1363
01:53:27,562 --> 01:53:29,562
that there really is no con to getting your house

1364
01:53:29,562 --> 01:53:31,162
on the register, and there's nothing but benefit

1365
01:53:31,162 --> 01:53:33,982
to be had, so I'm hoping you'll have the work.

1366
01:53:34,262 --> 01:53:36,022
I'm hoping that we'll get more people to come forward

1367
01:53:36,562 --> 01:53:39,322
and look at whether they're home or commercial building

1368
01:53:39,322 --> 01:53:40,342
fits their registries.

1369
01:53:40,342 --> 01:53:45,462
So thank you very much for bringing this to and the pressure is great, so thank you very much for bringing this to our awareness.

1370
01:53:46,202 --> 01:53:46,262
Great.

1371
01:53:46,342 --> 01:53:46,662
Thank you.

1372
01:53:46,782 --> 01:53:48,042
I don't have anybody else in the queue.

1373
01:53:48,162 --> 01:53:53,542
We have a recommendation the following properties identified by the Monroe Moffat House and

1374
01:53:53,542 --> 01:53:54,682
Pittman House.

1375
01:53:55,142 --> 01:53:57,482
You added to the Prince George Heritage Register.

1376
01:53:58,722 --> 01:53:59,522
Council across.

1377
01:53:59,842 --> 01:54:00,382
Councilor Scott.

1378
01:54:00,622 --> 01:54:01,022
Seconds.

1379
01:54:01,062 --> 01:54:01,842
All those in favor.

1380
01:54:02,562 --> 01:54:02,742
Post.

1381
01:54:02,902 --> 01:54:03,082
Carol.

1382
01:54:03,422 --> 01:54:04,002
Thank you.

1383
01:54:04,002 --> 01:54:06,262
Thank you very much.

1384
01:54:06,262 --> 01:54:07,302
Thank you very much.

1385
01:54:10,580 --> 01:54:23,700
Move to DEA, Mr. Dyer, 2017 Park Strategy. Your worship, we have a park staff here tonight to present the park strategy.

1386
01:54:23,940 --> 01:54:28,360
And I'm going to pass this over to our director, public works, this late.

1387
01:54:29,980 --> 01:54:31,460
Good evening, your worship.

1388
01:54:35,100 --> 01:54:36,480
I would like to introduce.

1389
01:54:40,230 --> 01:54:41,250
Maybe we'll just wait a minute.

1390
01:54:41,250 --> 01:54:43,770
I'll start

1391
01:54:49,880 --> 01:54:50,740
that again.

1392
01:54:51,200 --> 01:54:52,040
Good evening, Your Worship.

1393
01:54:52,520 --> 01:54:58,280
I would like to introduce Sean LeBron, Manager of Parks and Solid Ways, L'Oriant,

1394
01:54:58,380 --> 01:55:06,400
Kosek, Strategic Parks, Planner, and Robin Maconkey Community Coordinator, who will be presenting

1395
01:55:06,400 --> 01:55:09,740
the Parks Strategy and Action Plan to Council this evening.

1396
01:55:10,420 --> 01:55:15,500
I'd like to take a moment to thank all the staff for the hard work on this important project,

1397
01:55:15,500 --> 01:55:21,140
especially Laurie and Robin, who's hard to work has created this final product.

1398
01:55:22,360 --> 01:55:24,620
Thank you, Gina, and good evening your worship.

1399
01:55:25,200 --> 01:55:27,760
On behalf of my colleague, Sean LeBron and Walden McConke,

1400
01:55:28,120 --> 01:55:30,800
we're pleased to provide you with an overview of the park strategy

1401
01:55:30,800 --> 01:55:33,900
and its potential implementation through an action plan.

1402
01:55:54,410 --> 01:55:57,610
The 2017 park strategy is a tool that provides direction

1403
01:55:57,610 --> 01:55:59,590
for the strategic investment of parks.

1404
01:56:00,030 --> 01:56:02,850
The strategy was developed in house by city staff

1405
01:56:02,850 --> 01:56:07,930
by assessing what we currently have, working with residents to identify potential priorities

1406
01:56:07,930 --> 01:56:12,490
of what should be improved, and finding ways to pursue the potential investment.

1407
01:56:15,260 --> 01:56:19,180
There are essentially three reasons why parks strategies needed at this time.

1408
01:56:19,740 --> 01:56:22,540
Residents value parks and would like to see a number of improvements.

1409
01:56:23,520 --> 01:56:27,800
The prioritization of infrastructure has been identified as a key focus area of council,

1410
01:56:28,640 --> 01:56:32,660
and administration has challenged to keep up with the increasing demands for park resources.

1411
01:56:32,660 --> 01:56:38,120
Due to a continued growth and unstructured recreation, with demands for infrastructure such

1412
01:56:38,120 --> 01:56:43,980
as trail, skate parks, and bike parks, existing park infrastructure that is near or at the end

1413
01:56:43,980 --> 01:56:45,540
of its life's service life.

1414
01:56:46,280 --> 01:56:50,860
A number of deficiencies in park lines such as a limited supply of larger destination parks

1415
01:56:50,860 --> 01:56:56,580
and a growing inventory of undeveloped parks, as well as a service delivery program that

1416
01:56:56,580 --> 01:56:57,420
is app capacity.

1417
01:57:03,050 --> 01:57:07,130
The development of the park strategy began with an assessment of parks, and the determination

1418
01:57:07,130 --> 01:57:12,530
of potential priorities that were presented to the community for feedback during the spring of 2016.

1419
01:57:13,550 --> 01:57:18,710
Residents were also invited to review and comment on a draft park strategy during the 2016

1420
01:57:18,710 --> 01:57:24,350
Tauktober sessions in October. The feedback from these sessions was considered in the ultimate

1421
01:57:24,350 --> 01:57:29,450
development of the final park strategy that is being presented today for your consideration.

1422
01:57:30,850 --> 01:57:34,030
At this point I'd like to hand off the presentation to Sean LeBren,

1423
01:57:34,030 --> 01:57:37,070
Cool provide you with a brief overview of carc separations

1424
01:57:42,900 --> 01:57:48,700
Good evening, so no only gave me two slides to speak to so I got a really make a with my two slides here

1425
01:57:49,640 --> 01:57:57,000
The graphic in this slide. I think is great because it really does illustrate the distribution of carc operational expenses

1426
01:57:57,000 --> 01:58:03,480
Which store of close to $4 million and represent approximately 2.8% of the cities overall operating budget

1427
01:58:04,380 --> 01:58:06,120
as you can see

1428
01:58:06,120 --> 01:58:15,240
on the list of the right-hand side of some of our more specific sites and the costs of maintaining those parks and sites.

1429
01:58:16,820 --> 01:58:23,960
The high profile sites, such as the major parks, sports fields and boulevard's come for close to half of the overall operating expense.

1430
01:58:24,620 --> 01:58:32,760
With the city's premier parks cost in an average of $140,000 annually to maintain, so it's a big expense for sure.

1431
01:58:32,760 --> 01:58:38,480
Around 11% of these expenses include the operations within nature parks, urban forestry and trails,

1432
01:58:38,760 --> 01:58:43,320
about 7% of the operational expenses are dedicated to this smaller neighborhood parks

1433
01:58:43,320 --> 01:58:46,780
that are in large quantity and dispersed throughout the community.

1434
01:58:47,520 --> 01:58:53,840
You know, things like mosquito control, we can try or combine it for only a total of 2% of these expenses.

1435
01:58:54,400 --> 01:58:59,220
So the pie chart is quite tall and I think it's a great graphic of where the money is.

1436
01:58:59,320 --> 01:59:00,420
They spent the parts of the apartment.

1437
01:59:08,620 --> 01:59:12,140
And I go, Lori, let me do all the good stuff here.

1438
01:59:12,540 --> 01:59:21,900
This is another great slide that represents, basically, this past year, we took part in a bench-marking exercise.

1439
01:59:22,720 --> 01:59:24,040
It's a company called Yard Sticks.

1440
01:59:24,820 --> 01:59:30,880
And what it does is we enter in our information and it compares us to other municipalities in Western Canada.

1441
01:59:30,880 --> 01:59:39,180
And you can see in this slide, Parks and Prince George, we have a large inventory of

1442
01:59:39,180 --> 01:59:46,260
maintain parks, comparatively our operational cost per hectare are very low, but our annual

1443
01:59:46,260 --> 01:59:52,080
budget for construction upgrades is also low comparatively across the board from municipalities

1444
01:59:52,080 --> 01:59:53,740
like Camlubes and Lathbridge.

1445
01:59:57,580 --> 02:00:01,880
That's it, that's my two slides, so at this point I'm going to hand out the lab with

1446
02:00:01,880 --> 02:00:05,240
McCarthy who's going to finish law first.

1447
02:00:06,060 --> 02:00:06,800
Thanks, Sean.

1448
02:00:07,560 --> 02:00:10,500
I get the really great stuff because I get to talk about the great work we did.

1449
02:00:11,580 --> 02:00:16,200
So I just wanted to talk to you about the assessment, so we did do an extensive research

1450
02:00:16,200 --> 02:00:20,600
in analysis of our parts, so we were looking for potential priorities for investment,

1451
02:00:21,040 --> 02:00:24,980
so we looked at about 109 with a primary focus on our neighborhood parts.

1452
02:00:24,980 --> 02:00:29,840
So given the large number of smaller neighborhood parks and deficiencies in some of our park line provision.

1453
02:00:30,660 --> 02:00:33,720
So when you did this assessment, we evaluated first of all inventory.

1454
02:00:34,040 --> 02:00:34,900
So what do we have?

1455
02:00:35,220 --> 02:00:36,140
We looked at standards.

1456
02:00:36,480 --> 02:00:38,200
So how our parks measure up to standards.

1457
02:00:39,080 --> 02:00:40,220
We looked at community demand.

1458
02:00:40,380 --> 02:00:44,200
We're always hearing about emerging community demands and then challenges.

1459
02:00:44,500 --> 02:00:47,580
So trying to identify any challenges or opportunities for investment.

1460
02:00:47,580 --> 02:00:54,900
Each park was scored based on location, infrastructure, neighborhood context, safety and security.

1461
02:00:55,580 --> 02:01:01,540
And this was really a cooperative work we had, a GIS spatial analysis done on each park,

1462
02:01:01,600 --> 02:01:04,800
to assist with the scoring, to give us other detailed information.

1463
02:01:05,740 --> 02:01:10,300
So we were able to get a really good idea and an inventory each park.

1464
02:01:10,620 --> 02:01:16,440
And we were able to visually represent that through our individual park score cards in our neighborhood assessment cards,

1465
02:01:16,440 --> 02:01:21,300
which residents could be online and we also presented during our community consultations.

1466
02:01:22,360 --> 02:01:30,380
We did find, we did do and need for, there was a need for reclassification of some of our city district and neighborhood parks.

1467
02:01:30,720 --> 02:01:37,380
It emerged from the assessment with a girl to clearly represent the, to identify the vision and operation of parks.

1468
02:01:37,780 --> 02:01:38,900
So after talking to the public,

1469
02:01:39,120 --> 02:01:51,820
Talking internally to staff, we realized that we just wanted to make it really clear, simple language, so we had some reclassifications into major parks, athletic parks, nature parks, downtown parks and community parks.

1470
02:01:52,360 --> 02:02:02,040
Just to make it clear, this reclassification is a simplification of terms, recognizes our priorities that we heard, as I mentioned from the public and just provides that consistency.

1471
02:02:04,680 --> 02:02:09,000
So the community engagement was actually, it was a really critical piece of the park strategy.

1472
02:02:09,260 --> 02:02:12,940
We proceeded in two phases over the spring in the fall of 2016.

1473
02:02:13,580 --> 02:02:17,560
We were really excited from all of our assessment work to get out to the public.

1474
02:02:18,240 --> 02:02:22,020
We went, we held out six public open houses in the spring.

1475
02:02:22,320 --> 02:02:27,060
In addition to various stakeholder meetings, we had feedback forms and information

1476
02:02:27,060 --> 02:02:33,280
at our civic facilities and we just really tried to get our message out there that we wanted to hear from the people on our assessment.

1477
02:02:34,280 --> 02:02:39,080
We then brought the draft, we worked on a draft strategy over the summer, and we were able

1478
02:02:39,080 --> 02:02:42,680
to bring that to our five talk to our community meetings this fall.

1479
02:02:43,400 --> 02:02:49,360
So we had over 700 residents and stakeholders, participated in the engagement, we had

1480
02:02:49,360 --> 02:02:56,520
almost 300 people through our feedback forms, and then we had 1500 people visit our online

1481
02:02:56,520 --> 02:03:01,320
part strategy apps. So, overwhelmingly, we heard how valuable

1482
02:03:01,320 --> 02:03:05,260
Pinstorch parts are to people. Residents were supportive of our strategy and

1483
02:03:05,260 --> 02:03:10,620
our goal to improve parks. The feedback identified residents generally agree with

1484
02:03:10,620 --> 02:03:14,820
our most part parties. That part see the number of improvements and the

1485
02:03:14,820 --> 02:03:18,220
understand limitation of resources and the reason that we were doing the part

1486
02:03:18,220 --> 02:03:18,620
strategy.

1487
02:03:21,340 --> 02:03:25,300
So, we had a number of key themes that really came through

1488
02:03:25,300 --> 02:03:30,940
out and clear when we're talking to people through our feedback forms and our stakeholder meetings.

1489
02:03:31,600 --> 02:03:35,740
The themes were supported and lined with a feedback received through our past engagement

1490
02:03:35,740 --> 02:03:36,220
sessions.

1491
02:03:36,640 --> 02:03:40,660
We didn't want to lose that feedback that we had done through our community service community

1492
02:03:40,660 --> 02:03:42,320
recreation master's time.

1493
02:03:43,020 --> 02:03:47,940
In 2014, where we heard from 2,000 people also, so we kind of tried to pull that all forward.

1494
02:03:48,640 --> 02:03:52,640
The feedback and comments made in the past, we coincided perfectly with this plan.

1495
02:03:52,640 --> 02:03:57,540
So we heard these four key themes, and they include more riverfront parks and trails,

1496
02:03:57,900 --> 02:04:02,160
improvement to a number of neighborhood parks, the development of destination parks in

1497
02:04:02,160 --> 02:04:06,440
every community area of the city, and its connected city-wide trail system.

1498
02:04:08,300 --> 02:04:13,040
So if any move down to our priority setting, so once our analysis was done, and our

1499
02:04:13,040 --> 02:04:18,440
community engagement was summarized, the priority setting began, so we didn't exercise

1500
02:04:18,440 --> 02:04:23,680
where we scored each part's ability to meet the key themes expressed by our residents and stakeholders,

1501
02:04:24,820 --> 02:04:27,060
while also considering our policy direction,

1502
02:04:28,040 --> 02:04:31,280
conditions, service gaps, and then our potential resource allocation.

1503
02:04:32,080 --> 02:04:36,040
So with the diagram in this slide, it illustrates that strategic priority investment,

1504
02:04:36,220 --> 02:04:41,020
by part classification, with the highest investment at large destination parks,

1505
02:04:41,080 --> 02:04:43,880
such as major parks of letter parks and riverfront parks.

1506
02:04:44,220 --> 02:04:46,920
In addition to our high profile downtown parks,

1507
02:04:46,920 --> 02:04:54,020
are well-used trails. So the specific investment priorities for these parks are listed and actually

1508
02:04:54,020 --> 02:04:59,120
mapped in the park strategy for ease of reference. So in all your spare time you can read

1509
02:04:59,120 --> 02:05:05,820
our park strategy and it's really well laid out and listed in that. So it's easy to kind of see

1510
02:05:05,820 --> 02:05:12,980
where those are. So after a number of months of research and associations scoring and identifying

1511
02:05:12,980 --> 02:05:17,800
priorities we are ready to put together some potential options. So I'll let Larry finish with

1512
02:05:17,800 --> 02:05:19,900
our potential focus area's next one.

1513
02:05:21,620 --> 02:05:23,280
All right, thank you Robin and Sean.

1514
02:05:26,730 --> 02:05:29,810
The park strategy identifies 10 key focus areas to help

1515
02:05:29,810 --> 02:05:35,550
advance prioritized park investment. These focus areas provide direction to help meet a number

1516
02:05:35,550 --> 02:05:41,650
of the emerging community demands, fill gaps in service delivery, consider creative options

1517
02:05:41,650 --> 02:05:45,190
scenarios and to invest strategically in parks.

1518
02:05:51,270 --> 02:05:53,350
The implementation of the park strategy is being

1519
02:05:53,350 --> 02:05:57,750
proposed within the framework of an action plan that builds upon the direction provided

1520
02:05:57,750 --> 02:06:03,030
through the 10 key focus areas. This includes six options that were being initiated through a

1521
02:06:03,030 --> 02:06:09,210
number of tasks over a two-year period following the potential adoption of the park strategy.

1522
02:06:10,350 --> 02:06:14,690
A playground plan is proposed and is based on the priorities identified in the park strategy,

1523
02:06:14,690 --> 02:06:24,250
which included an audit of playgrounds against the Canadian Standards Association and an assessment of the distribution of playgrounds against an 800 meter radius of residents.

1524
02:06:25,190 --> 02:06:37,690
The five year investment program proposes the replacement or addition of 25 playgrounds, the retention of 23 newer playgrounds, and the complete removal of 20 playgrounds for provision of 48 total playgrounds.

1525
02:06:37,690 --> 02:06:42,870
between four to five neighborhood playgrounds would be replaced or added every year.

1526
02:06:43,070 --> 02:06:47,410
In addition to major projects such as the replacement of the rainbow park playground.

1527
02:06:48,510 --> 02:06:53,910
The plan also includes the development of the CSA compliance maintenance and inspection program

1528
02:06:53,910 --> 02:06:57,370
as well as a tiered level of investment based on the park classification.

1529
02:06:59,130 --> 02:07:02,810
Park service delivery would also be formalized through a service level program

1530
02:07:02,810 --> 02:07:14,630
With the ultimate development of a Parks operational plan that will explore efficiencies and fine potential opportunities to fill gaps in service delivery, such as trail maintenance, weed control and urban forestry.

1531
02:07:21,030 --> 02:07:28,610
The Parks Investment Program would begin with an inventory update followed by capital budget planning for the investment priorities identified in the Parks Strategy.

1532
02:07:29,310 --> 02:07:38,550
This would be followed by the development of a ten-year park asset management plan that would strategically advance service delivery and the investment parks of parks.

1533
02:07:38,550 --> 02:07:40,470
over a long term.

1534
02:07:41,250 --> 02:07:46,230
Park partnerships would continue to be explored on an ongoing basis to advance park investments,

1535
02:07:46,990 --> 02:07:52,490
such as the collaboration with the Clayton A. First Nation for enhancements to Clayton A. Memorial Park.

1536
02:07:53,110 --> 02:07:58,010
A bad time in a sport field strategy is proposed to review the delivery of these facilities

1537
02:07:58,010 --> 02:08:03,070
and to find potential efficiencies that would benefit both users and the city of Constorge.

1538
02:08:04,030 --> 02:08:07,410
Additional partnerships such as those with school district 57,

1539
02:08:07,410 --> 02:08:22,670
Community associations and committees of council, such as the Heritage Commission, an accessible advisory committee, would be explored further to help advance a number of objectives such as inclusivity, accessibility, heritage and beautification of parks.

1540
02:08:23,490 --> 02:08:29,150
Enhancedments to park visitor services and communications would be advanced through initiatives such as

1541
02:08:29,150 --> 02:08:34,970
improved signage programs, promotions, and external communications in addition to potential

1542
02:08:34,970 --> 02:08:38,610
accommodations for event hosting and age friendly parks.

1543
02:08:39,410 --> 02:08:44,970
Parkland Disbursement Ever Purposing would be considered by first developing a formal parkland

1544
02:08:44,970 --> 02:08:47,290
disbursement policy for potential adoption.

1545
02:08:48,110 --> 02:08:52,490
The policy will consider the guidelines provided through the park strategy, which includes

1546
02:08:52,490 --> 02:08:58,630
criteria to determine potential disbursement sites, the incorporation of a public consultation

1547
02:08:58,630 --> 02:09:04,170
and rezoning process, and the redistribution of money is from the sale of land back into

1548
02:09:04,170 --> 02:09:04,750
parks.

1549
02:09:04,750 --> 02:09:09,090
Once the policy has been developed and approved, lower-

1550
02:09:09,120 --> 02:09:16,360
Priority sites such as underutilized areas, smaller parks, and playground removal sites would be considered

1551
02:09:16,360 --> 02:09:21,840
for repurposing. This repurposing could take a number of forms, such as maintaining open

1552
02:09:21,840 --> 02:09:28,220
lawn areas for informal recreation, plan to naturalization of sites with wrapping roofs to provide

1553
02:09:28,220 --> 02:09:33,340
access to natural areas within neighborhoods, as well as the consideration of potential

1554
02:09:33,340 --> 02:09:35,820
their disbursement sites with resources

1555
02:09:35,820 --> 02:09:38,080
reallocated to higher priority parks.

1556
02:09:39,160 --> 02:09:42,200
To conclude the monitoring of the six proposed actions

1557
02:09:42,200 --> 02:09:45,080
is suggested in the form of an annual report to council

1558
02:09:45,080 --> 02:09:48,080
with updates on progress and revisions is required.

1559
02:09:49,360 --> 02:09:51,820
The website will be used as the primary communication

1560
02:09:51,820 --> 02:09:54,400
tool with detailed information for residents

1561
02:09:54,400 --> 02:09:57,100
and stakeholders on the various initiatives

1562
02:09:57,100 --> 02:10:00,400
and potential investment programs such as the playground plan.

1563
02:10:01,280 --> 02:10:06,240
The policy direction within the parks strategy will also continue to inform other city

1564
02:10:06,240 --> 02:10:11,180
strategies that are currently under development, such as the age-friendly plan and community

1565
02:10:11,180 --> 02:10:12,220
collective impact.

1566
02:10:16,360 --> 02:10:17,680
This concludes our presentation.

1567
02:10:18,280 --> 02:10:22,060
We thank you for your consideration of the parks strategy and welcome to the questions.

1568
02:10:23,140 --> 02:10:23,280
Great.

1569
02:10:23,280 --> 02:10:24,220
Thanks very much, Lauren.

1570
02:10:24,620 --> 02:10:27,500
I'm going to call on Councillor Merrick, followed by Councillor Forzell.

1571
02:10:28,240 --> 02:10:33,420
Thank you, Worship, and I think it's worth acknowledging that this is perhaps a tier process

1572
02:10:33,420 --> 02:10:37,840
in the making, maybe your presenters could clarify when this process actually started.

1573
02:10:38,780 --> 02:10:41,560
We began with a presentation at Council in July of 2015.

1574
02:10:42,980 --> 02:10:48,100
So here we are in 2017 and I think a lot of us have been waiting eagerly for this and there's

1575
02:10:48,100 --> 02:10:52,440
no shortage of words I could just describe how much work and creativity and effort has

1576
02:10:52,440 --> 02:10:54,840
been put into this and how many great things have come out of it.

1577
02:10:54,840 --> 02:11:11,280
One just the data, I mean I love data and there's a great deal of it, but to the app that was made available that allows residents to go and check out all the different neighborhood parks and what amenities they have through the app and just being able to inform a major public function of the city in terms of better planning.

1578
02:11:11,280 --> 02:11:24,340
And if you've been to talktober in the last year, you know, the residents are talking about parks and got to hear Mr. Librun's very plaintiff cry for better investment in this sector.

1579
02:11:25,000 --> 02:11:35,060
And I'm really proud of a strategy that's coming forward. It's gone through the finance audit committees coming to budget to reallocate, I think, a million dollars more to parks capital this year or in 2017.

1580
02:11:35,060 --> 02:11:41,720
so exciting for me. A couple of high notes I think are nature parks. So in that

1581
02:11:41,720 --> 02:11:45,400
pie graph that was shown to us, I think they were only 3% of the budget, but I did a

1582
02:11:45,400 --> 02:11:50,920
little calculation here, 77% of the actual land mass of parks, and certainly the ones that

1583
02:11:50,920 --> 02:11:55,080
provide access to our riverfront in many cases. So a very high value to our community.

1584
02:11:56,940 --> 02:12:02,680
And just I guess the volume of neighborhood 66 major neighborhood parks all over the city and in

1585
02:12:06,380 --> 02:12:11,620
So I think there's probably a few more, there is at the total, there's a few more parks in that.

1586
02:12:12,140 --> 02:12:17,700
Okay, so there's a lot of parks and there's just so much in this report.

1587
02:12:18,640 --> 02:12:24,460
One of the things that we've dealt with this past week has been a large volume of letters from some folks concerned about

1588
02:12:24,460 --> 02:12:27,760
the specifically the future of North College Park and College Heights.

1589
02:12:27,760 --> 02:12:32,520
And I think unfortunately there's been a bit of misinformation there and that they're directly

1590
02:12:32,520 --> 02:12:35,020
tying the strategy to the future of that park.

1591
02:12:35,520 --> 02:12:36,780
And this is not that at all.

1592
02:12:36,900 --> 02:12:42,240
The reality is there's no proposal on the table for Nurse College Park and the strategy

1593
02:12:42,240 --> 02:12:46,220
gives us no more or less legal tools to do anything to the college park.

1594
02:12:46,420 --> 02:12:51,000
If we don't pass the park strategy, Council still has the same tools that it's disposal

1595
02:12:52,120 --> 02:12:54,420
to sell or retain that park piece.

1596
02:12:54,520 --> 02:12:56,260
But the reality is there's no proposal on the table.

1597
02:12:56,260 --> 02:13:02,040
And so, I know some of the residents who are very concerned and I apologize that it was

1598
02:13:02,040 --> 02:13:04,740
confused with the strategy because the strategy itself is actually very good.

1599
02:13:05,000 --> 02:13:08,400
And what you've done is presented us with a number of options of how we move forward with

1600
02:13:08,400 --> 02:13:09,180
funding our parks.

1601
02:13:09,340 --> 02:13:11,580
And we're not going to take an option off the table for you.

1602
02:13:11,880 --> 02:13:16,480
We want to know that administration has the leeway to look at all the options moving forward

1603
02:13:16,480 --> 02:13:19,040
and present that council for their decision in the end.

1604
02:13:19,760 --> 02:13:25,120
So, thank you for a comprehensive body of work and looking forward to great new parks investments

1605
02:13:25,120 --> 02:13:25,940
in 2017.

1606
02:13:27,220 --> 02:13:27,680
Thank you.

1607
02:13:27,880 --> 02:13:28,480
Councillor Forzell.

1608
02:13:30,020 --> 02:13:33,120
Thank you, Mayor Hall, and following up on Councillor

1609
02:13:33,120 --> 02:13:33,980
Merrick's comments.

1610
02:13:34,340 --> 02:13:36,700
I just wanted to ask a first of all,

1611
02:13:36,820 --> 02:13:40,740
great work to see and thorough and methodical,

1612
02:13:42,640 --> 02:13:45,180
But can you comment on the dispersion policy?

1613
02:13:45,440 --> 02:13:46,440
What does it look like?

1614
02:13:46,620 --> 02:13:51,800
What are the steps that happen when a park is identified

1615
02:13:51,800 --> 02:13:53,240
as potentially being served

1616
02:13:54,180 --> 02:13:59,080
What goes on from that point forward and how many time would we see it back at Council

1617
02:13:59,080 --> 02:13:59,420
Friends?

1618
02:13:59,640 --> 02:14:01,200
Can you just walk through that for us?

1619
02:14:01,480 --> 02:14:03,040
You're worshiped to Council for Zell.

1620
02:14:03,320 --> 02:14:08,180
So at this time we only have Parkland as person in guidelines and so that has been used

1621
02:14:08,180 --> 02:14:13,160
most recently with the Ron Brent portion of land that was subdivided.

1622
02:14:13,400 --> 02:14:17,380
And so what happened in a process very similar was start with community consultation where

1623
02:14:17,380 --> 02:14:21,240
we'd host a meeting and talked to residents about what is being proposed.

1624
02:14:21,240 --> 02:14:29,220
Part of that, we'd even make sure that the lands in question would align with the criteria

1625
02:14:29,220 --> 02:14:33,020
for a potential disbursement site that is in our guidelines as well.

1626
02:14:33,560 --> 02:14:38,120
Once a community consultation has occurred and it appears favorable to move forward,

1627
02:14:38,640 --> 02:14:43,140
at that point it would enter into a formal rezoning process where again there would be an

1628
02:14:43,140 --> 02:14:48,080
opportunity to comment through a public hearing and after such time should have passed, it

1629
02:14:48,080 --> 02:14:49,860
would move on to a public land sale.

1630
02:14:49,860 --> 02:14:56,720
So there are multiple times that Council would be involved in those processes, but at this time we only have guidelines.

1631
02:14:56,980 --> 02:15:04,140
We do not have a formal policy, and so the goal is to, as if I would come, and the action line is to create a policy for adoption.

1632
02:15:05,300 --> 02:15:13,700
Well, thank you for that, and in addition to coming back to Council, I'd like to hearing about the community consultation that would take place through each one of those steps as well.

1633
02:15:13,700 --> 02:15:22,480
Thank you. I also wanted to acknowledge that the peace on the riverfront nature parks and the

1634
02:15:22,480 --> 02:15:28,540
wake of the rezoning back in April of this year. One of the things Council did was asked to ask

1635
02:15:28,540 --> 02:15:35,760
administration to look at protection of the riverfront and similar note seeing it in the park strategy was

1636
02:15:35,760 --> 02:15:42,720
reassuring and especially seeing that it was among the high priority items. So glad to see that and looking

1637
02:15:42,720 --> 02:15:46,960
forward to outcomes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Councilor Fuzzell.

1638
02:15:47,240 --> 02:15:52,700
Councilor McConaughey. Thank you, Mayor Hall. And I just want to thank Councilor

1639
02:15:52,700 --> 02:15:57,800
Merrick once again for bringing up that part about the concerns that are

1640
02:15:57,800 --> 02:16:01,800
come forward with the eating park. I think it's important. Folks know that they've

1641
02:16:01,800 --> 02:16:05,780
been heard and that we all recognize they're up to need to reach out. But I think

1642
02:16:06,280 --> 02:16:11,060
Councilor Merrick lay that out very clearly that the strategy is not tied to any

1643
02:16:11,060 --> 02:16:17,240
to development. That's a whole other process and to itself which consists of public hearings. There's

1644
02:16:17,240 --> 02:16:24,140
a whole other public process that would go with that. Lastly, and more importantly, to, I think,

1645
02:16:24,180 --> 02:16:30,180
the three presenters. This is an enormous body of work. This is really a lot of, a lot of heavy

1646
02:16:30,180 --> 02:16:39,100
lifting's been done, and just show my appreciation. You guys just do a great job. And it's

1647
02:16:42,040 --> 02:16:54,460
Thank you. Thank you, Councillor Scott. Thank you, worship and thank you to all those who emailed us and extended their questions, comments, concerns.

1648
02:16:55,720 --> 02:17:04,360
I found the report to be quite comprehensive and it clarified a great many issues for me. I'm very grateful for all the work that went into it.

1649
02:17:04,360 --> 02:17:08,760
and I look forward to the continuing unfolding of it all.

1650
02:17:08,960 --> 02:17:09,720
Thank you.

1651
02:17:11,040 --> 02:17:12,060
Thank you, folks, across.

1652
02:17:12,720 --> 02:17:15,100
Sure, we're ship, and I too would like to acknowledge

1653
02:17:15,100 --> 02:17:17,540
the great report that we had in front of us

1654
02:17:17,540 --> 02:17:19,860
long, long time in coming, and we know a lot of effort

1655
02:17:19,860 --> 02:17:20,660
went into it.

1656
02:17:20,800 --> 02:17:22,040
So thank you for that.

1657
02:17:24,400 --> 02:17:26,100
I commented in an earlier meeting,

1658
02:17:26,340 --> 02:17:27,720
and maybe this is the time for the place,

1659
02:17:28,200 --> 02:17:31,520
but just how the comments I got from visitors

1660
02:17:31,520 --> 02:17:33,160
from at a town this last summer,

1661
02:17:33,160 --> 02:17:39,740
Just how great our parks looked and really lots of people thinking that we are on the right track and so I guess

1662
02:17:39,740 --> 02:17:43,760
I'm it's great to see the report because it's broader than just the neighborhood parks

1663
02:17:43,760 --> 02:17:49,300
It's all of all of our parks and all the work that needs to be done and I guess for me

1664
02:17:49,300 --> 02:17:54,200
It's it's yes, they look wonderful, but how do we sustain that and how do we make them even better?

1665
02:17:54,340 --> 02:17:56,040
So I'm looking forward to

1666
02:17:56,040 --> 02:18:01,600
To that future discussions about that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

1667
02:18:01,600 --> 02:18:09,360
Thank you, Bishop. I can pretty much copy everything that has been said already, and thank you for the tremendous work that went into this paper.

1668
02:18:10,500 --> 02:18:23,600
And yeah, two years, and a current report that was for me, and not just comprehensive, very educational. I didn't know what we had there, and it's good to know.

1669
02:18:23,600 --> 02:18:28,940
I love it as being said already, which I want to say, but I would like to pull up on who's

1670
02:18:28,940 --> 02:18:35,860
me with Council of Council said, many visitors come visit all family here from other cities

1671
02:18:35,860 --> 02:18:42,120
and we see and also in Canada, and even from overseas, and they actually, just like you

1672
02:18:42,120 --> 02:18:47,040
say, you know, this is a clean city, you have really a nice city here, everything is

1673
02:18:47,780 --> 02:18:54,300
orderly, and when you think about it, it comes not necessarily down to cast a pack orderly.

1674
02:18:55,260 --> 02:18:57,060
It comes down that we have a clean city.

1675
02:18:57,080 --> 02:19:00,740
It comes down to our green space and comes down to our parks.

1676
02:19:01,680 --> 02:19:03,800
So, it good to know, good to have these numbers.

1677
02:19:04,420 --> 02:19:11,140
And also certainly, a wake-up call that we have to look at this into the future and maintain it.

1678
02:19:12,180 --> 02:19:13,220
Thank you.

1679
02:19:14,040 --> 02:19:14,820
Great. Thanks very much.

1680
02:19:14,820 --> 02:19:23,320
I just got a couple of comments, I saw the park strategy as something very similar to what we're doing and thank you to administration for doing it.

1681
02:19:23,340 --> 02:19:28,980
That's the work that we're doing around the standards of coverage, which involve our fire coverage, rotor community.

1682
02:19:29,660 --> 02:19:37,280
So the health and safety matter, we're going to a better idea, particularly with all one, and a facility assessment.

1683
02:19:37,280 --> 02:19:41,960
But we've talked a lot about infrastructure and infrastructure is not just as I said a few

1684
02:19:41,960 --> 02:19:46,920
times the pipes underground, it's our buildings, it's our parks, it's everything really

1685
02:19:46,920 --> 02:19:47,620
that we own.

1686
02:19:48,300 --> 02:19:52,360
And so when we take a look at the park strategy, the standards of coverage, the facility

1687
02:19:52,360 --> 02:19:57,820
assessment, those are all really mainstays of what we're going to be dealing with as an

1688
02:19:57,820 --> 02:20:00,740
administration and council over the next couple of years.

1689
02:20:00,780 --> 02:20:05,640
It's important work to be done so that we can identify where shortfalls are, what work

1690
02:20:05,640 --> 02:20:12,980
we have to put into it and has, as Sean has asked many times, more money, and that's just

1691
02:20:12,980 --> 02:20:13,840
the way it is.

1692
02:20:14,340 --> 02:20:20,220
That's the way it is, so I think that I've had a couple of things that I wanted to touch

1693
02:20:20,220 --> 02:20:21,560
on, but I think they've been covered off.

1694
02:20:21,620 --> 02:20:23,980
I want to recognize the folks that are in the gallery this evening.

1695
02:20:24,520 --> 02:20:30,440
These are folks that contacted us regarding eating place, I'm assuming, and I recognize some

1696
02:20:30,440 --> 02:20:31,460
that are from that neighborhood.

1697
02:20:32,280 --> 02:20:48,380
But for me it was a boat, Lori, you talked about it, I think it was you, Lori, or Robin that talked about 20 playgrounds who talked about in the document that I read, it looked, take a look at the surplus land that we have.

1698
02:20:48,820 --> 02:20:55,260
But I'm pleased to hear that there is an absolute process in place that we will deal with and you set it yourself, you've got guidelines.

1699
02:20:55,260 --> 02:21:00,700
And now you're going to start to work and move into that policy piece where that will come back to council.

1700
02:21:01,360 --> 02:21:09,700
And when we're looking at the, if we're looking at anything to do with surplus or playgrounds, whatever it might be,

1701
02:21:09,820 --> 02:21:12,300
that's going to come back to council for us to deal with.

1702
02:21:12,660 --> 02:21:15,000
And I think that's the safety net piece that I like.

1703
02:21:15,480 --> 02:21:22,380
It's no different than what we did a few years ago with tennis courts, tennis courts that were really in bad repair.

1704
02:21:22,380 --> 02:21:27,880
The Asheville was heaved, it was cracked, yet we were attempting to try to maintain them.

1705
02:21:28,000 --> 02:21:31,300
And so Council had an opportunity to participate in that process.

1706
02:21:31,580 --> 02:21:35,860
Also, please, that in Council of America indicated, and Council of Council of McConaughey,

1707
02:21:36,080 --> 02:21:39,540
that this process is separate from anything else that we're talking about tonight.

1708
02:21:40,480 --> 02:21:41,420
So, appreciate that.

1709
02:21:42,060 --> 02:21:49,600
So, with that, I have nobody else in the queue, and I just want to thank you for a great work you've done on this for the last year and a half.

1710
02:21:49,600 --> 02:21:55,940
We have four recommendations and I'll do each one of those separately.

1711
02:21:56,100 --> 02:22:03,020
If I could, and recommendation one is to receive for information, the report, December 28th,

1712
02:22:03,540 --> 02:22:07,560
2016, Councilor Everett, moves that, secondary councilor, color levels and favorite.

1713
02:22:08,100 --> 02:22:09,860
Opposed, that's carried unanimously.

1714
02:22:10,720 --> 02:22:15,740
The second recommendation is approved of the 2017 Park Strategy as attached to the report,

1715
02:22:15,880 --> 02:22:17,580
dated December 28th, 2016.

1716
02:22:17,580 --> 02:22:20,520
for the General Manager of Engineering and Public Works.

1717
02:22:21,420 --> 02:22:23,920
Councillor Conecky, Councillor Crosse, all those in favor.

1718
02:22:24,460 --> 02:22:25,980
A closed, carried unanimously.

1719
02:22:26,940 --> 02:22:29,180
And the third one is approved of Park Strategy Action Plan

1720
02:22:29,180 --> 02:22:32,440
as attached to report data December 28, 2016.

1721
02:22:33,520 --> 02:22:36,920
From the General Manager of Engineering and Public Works.

1722
02:22:37,760 --> 02:22:40,060
Thank you, second on three.

1723
02:22:40,380 --> 02:22:42,580
Councillor Coneck, all those in favor of three.

1724
02:22:43,280 --> 02:22:44,800
A closed, carried unanimously.

1725
02:22:44,800 --> 02:22:56,740
and to direct staff to completed amendment to the City of Prince George's official community plan by law number 8383-2011 in alignment with the reclassification of parks within the 2017 park strategy.

1726
02:22:58,280 --> 02:23:01,380
Thank you, Councillor Frasal, Councillor Crosse, all those in favour?

1727
02:23:02,080 --> 02:23:03,500
Pollosed, carried unanimously.

1728
02:23:04,300 --> 02:23:04,880
Thank you very much.

1729
02:23:05,000 --> 02:23:06,420
Folks, for that greatly appreciate it.

1730
02:23:06,480 --> 02:23:07,580
Thank you, Councillor Robert.

1731
02:23:08,502 --> 02:23:23,182
So if we can move now to D9, and I'll turn to Mr. Value. Thank you. We're ship in December of 2016, we updated our comprehensive fees and charges by laws in quite a few different areas, but predominantly community services.

1732
02:23:24,222 --> 02:23:38,482
And doing so, we realize there are the clerical errors specifically in the Civic Center fee schedule. And so this report is strictly to continue the December 2016 work and ask that council approve what they're basically doing.

1733
02:23:38,482 --> 02:23:44,982
and in concept already have a 3% increase to the existing 2016 Civic Center fee rates.

1734
02:23:45,642 --> 02:23:46,682
Great. Thank you, Councillor Fuzell.

1735
02:23:48,062 --> 02:23:52,222
Thank you, Mayor Hall, and through to Mr. Dalio, it just generally did the rates that we

1736
02:23:52,222 --> 02:23:56,582
have fallen in. We're pretty competitive with other facilities in the city.

1737
02:23:59,612 --> 02:24:04,612
You're speaking specifically to the Civic Center, compared to other facilities.

1738
02:24:04,612 --> 02:24:09,152
to others. Ladies, perhaps Mr. Whitball may be able to answer that part better.

1739
02:24:15,132 --> 02:24:21,792
Ladies, so we have a group of care communities that we jack out of all of our facilities.

1740
02:24:22,992 --> 02:24:24,752
Okay, this is back. Thank you.

1741
02:24:24,912 --> 02:24:25,652
Thank you.

1742
02:24:25,792 --> 02:24:29,492
Now, there's speakers. We have the recommendation that Council Grant Fristler

1743
02:24:29,492 --> 02:24:34,012
meetings comprehensive fees and charges by the number 755-72004 amendment by

1744
02:24:34,012 --> 02:24:36,252
the number 8-839-2017.

1745
02:24:37,512 --> 02:24:39,372
Thank you, Councillor Forzaile, Councillor Scott.

1746
02:24:39,432 --> 02:24:40,672
Seconds, all those in favor.

1747
02:24:41,452 --> 02:24:42,672
Close, carried unanimously.

1748
02:24:44,352 --> 02:24:46,132
Well, I'm sorry, Councillor Colour, opposed.

1749
02:24:46,492 --> 02:24:47,632
My apologies, still passes.

1750
02:24:48,232 --> 02:24:48,572
Thank you.

1751
02:24:53,918 --> 02:25:01,958
Section E, by law, spinal reading, introduction E1. Thank you, seconder on file, Councillor Crosse, all those in favour?

1752
02:25:02,638 --> 02:25:06,198
Coz, care unanimously, and E2, final reading.

1753
02:25:07,478 --> 02:25:10,278
Make it Councillor Scott, Councillor Mary, call those in favour?

1754
02:25:11,158 --> 02:25:13,578
Poes, care unanimously, and we move to correspondence.

1755
02:25:16,118 --> 02:25:18,538
Yes, for responses was the amendment.

1756
02:25:18,538 --> 02:25:21,038
Thank you, second on receipt.

1757
02:25:22,778 --> 02:25:24,698
Councillor Cows, Salas and Favor of receipt.

1758
02:25:25,558 --> 02:25:26,718
Opposed, carried unanimously.

1759
02:25:27,558 --> 02:25:28,538
Motion to adjourn.

1760
02:25:29,818 --> 02:25:30,938
Thank you, seconder.

1761
02:25:31,278 --> 02:25:32,158
Councillor Scott.

1762
02:25:32,598 --> 02:25:33,698
Opposed and Favor.

1763
02:25:34,258 --> 02:25:35,498
Opposed, carried unanimously.

1764
02:25:35,678 --> 02:25:37,418
Thank you very much, Councillor Levitt.

1765
02:25:38,918 --> 02:25:41,078
Greatly appreciate you're connecting with us this evening.

1766
02:25:41,418 --> 02:25:41,718
Take care.

1767
02:25:43,198 --> 02:25:43,598
Good evening.

1768
02:25:44,758 --> 02:25:45,638
Thank you very much, Councillor.