Vancouver City Council

COUNCIL MEETING FOLLOWING
STANDING COMMITTEE ON CITY SERVICES AND BUDGETS
MEETING

JULY 8, 2004

DECISIONS

For information, please contact Denise Salmon, Meeting Coordinator, at 604-873-7269 or
e-mail denise_salmon@city.vancouver.bc.ca.

At its meeting following the Standing Committee on City Services and Budgets meeting on Thursday, July 8, 2004, Vancouver City Council approved the following:

1. City of Vancouver Advertising Policy

THAT Council approve an updated Advertising Policy as outlined in the Policy Report dated June 11, 2004, entitled "City of Vancouver Advertising Policy", with amendment to Point 5 on Page 8 of the report to add the words "and public processes", to read as follows:

5. The Corporate Communications Division will consider diverse communities in decisions regarding City communications and outreach that concern requests for public involvement and public processes. These will include groups such as ethno-cultural, aboriginal, and gay/lesbian bisexual/ trans-gendered communities, people with disabilities, and faith-based organizations that serve targeted communities;

FURTHER THAT staff be requested to provide a memorandum back in six months on:

- how these new guidelines have affected advertising in various areas across the city; and
- ways to encourage various departments to either put aside certain funds, and/or ways to target minority communities so that when advertisements come to the Communications Division they will be able to reach out to these various communities.

2. Mayor and Council Members' Expenses By-law

A. THAT Council approve enactment of the Mayor and Council Members' Expenses By-law, generally in accordance with Appendix A of the Administrative Report dated June 7, 2004, entitled "Mayor and Council Members' Expenses By-law", as amended this day and set out below, and authorize the Director of Legal Services to bring the By-law forward for Council's consideration and to repeal By-laws 7254 and 7466.

Remove Section 3.1 (c) (iii) as follows:

(iii) laundry and dry-cleaning;

Insert the following words in Section 3.1 (c) (vii): "for Council purposes", to read as follows:

(vii) educational purposes, for Council purposes,

Remove from Section 4.1 (b) the words "for owning and operating a motor vehicle" to read as follows:

4.1 (b) a transportation allowance, in the conduct of city business, of $600.00 each month.

Remove from Section 4.2 the words "for owning and operating a motor vehicle" to read as follows:

4.2 A council member may elect to receive for a calendar year, or portion of it, a transportation allowance, in the conduct of City business, in an amount each month equal to 5% of an amount equal to 10% of that council member's remuneration for the same calendar year.

B. THAT Council authorize the proposed amendments to current Council policy on Business Travel regarding approval of the Mayor's and Council members' reimbursement of expenses as set out in Appendix B of the Administrative Report dated June 7, 2004, entitled "Mayor and Council Members' Expenses By-law".

3. Community Social Services Funding

WHEREAS community social services are vital to the health and well-being of thousands of British Columbians, especially women, people with disabilities, children and families in need, and the most vulnerable people in our society; and

WHEREAS these critical services are dependent on adequate funding by the provincial government; and

WHEREAS the provincial government has already cut $100 million from the community social services sector since 2001, and plans to cut at least $70 million more before March 31 of this year; and

WHEREAS these cuts are having a devastating impact on families and communities;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED council send a letter to the BC government calling on Premier Gordon Campbell, Finance Minister Gary Collins, and Minister of Children and Family Development Christy Clark to put on hold any further cuts to community social service funding, and to make every effort to restore program funding to the pre-2001 level, and refer this matter to the UBCM and LMMA.

4. Vancouver Museum - Annual Review & 2004 Operating Grant Request

THAT Council approve an operating grant of $676,200 to the Vancouver Museum Commission; source of funds to be the 2004 "Other" Grants budget.

5. Vancouver Maritime Museum Society - Annual Review & 2004 Operating Grant Request

THAT Council approve an operating grant in the amount of $371,900 to the Vancouver Maritime Museum Society; source of funds to be the 2004 "Other" Grants budget.

6. Olympic Youth Legacy for Physical Activity, Sport, Culture and the Arts

A. THAT Council approve the Olympic Youth Legacy Framework as outlined in the Administrative Report dated June 22, 2004, entitled "Olympic Youth Legacy for Physical Activity, Sport, Culture and the Arts", with amendment to extend the program to age 24.

B. THAT Council approve $200,000 for the implementation of Phase One of the Legacy Action Plan presented in this report, source of funds to be the Special Projects component of the 2004 General Government budget.

C. THAT Council approve the designation of $200,000 in the Special Projects component of the 2005 General Government budget for Phase Two of the Legacy Action Plan, subject to a report back on Phase One.

D. THAT Council encourage other levels of government, the Vancouver School Board and other community organizations to adopt the Youth Legacy Framework and to consider similar initiatives for increased youth involvement.

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