Spotted on Frances Bula’s State of Vancouver blog this morning:
Vancouver city hall to strike a new task force to improve connections city-to-resident and neighbour-to-neighbour
(Vancouver) – Vision Vancouver Councillor Andrea Reimer will introduce a motion at the next City Council meeting to create an Engaged City Mayor’s Task Force, which will identify ways to increase neighbourhood engagement and improve the ways in which the City interacts and connects with its residents, as well as meet a key election campaign commitment.
“We’ve seen from both the Vancouver Foundation’s research on social isolation and the success of last week’s SFU Community Summit that there is a big appetite for people to be better connected, whether it’s on an individual level with their neighbours or how they engage with City Hall,” said Councillor Reimer. “Vancouver is a city that leads the world in many ways, and we can do more when it comes to building a more engaged city.”
The Mayor’s Task Force would be comprised of people with particular experience in citizen engagement and community building. Members will be chosen from an open call for applications, with the goal to have the Task Force up and running by December, and to complete its work by next June. The creation of a task force to improve citizen engagement was a campaign commitment made by Vision Vancouver in the 2011 civic election.
The Engaged City Task Force will focus on the following areas:
- increasing neighbour-to-neighbour engagement and cultural interconnectedness
- increasing literacy on, and engagement with, municipal government processes and budgeting
- identifing ways to enhance how the city engages with citizens, and vice versa
2 comments
A positive step and a welcome one.
So Andrea and VV are going to..
“improve the ways in which the City interacts and connects with its residents”
Sounds like a way to have Vision indoctrinate and propaganize residents on the taxpayers dime.
Typical of Reimer though.