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NOTICE OF MOTION
At the Regular Council meeting held July 20, 2004, the following Motion was submitted by Councillor Bass. Councillor Ladner called Notice under Section 5.4 (c) of the Procedure By-law. The Motion was placed on the Agenda for the next Regular Council meeting to be held July 22, 2004, immediately following the Standing Committee on City Services and Budgets meeting. The motion was then postponed to the Regular Council meeting to be held July 22, 2004, immediately following the Standing Committee on Planning and Environment meeting.
Implementation of Front-line Transit Operators Advisory Committee
MOVER: Councillor Bass
SECONDER: Councillor Louis
WHEREAS Council adapted on June 8, 2004, in relation to the Vancouver/UBC Area Transit Plan, "c. THAT a front-line transit operators committee be established to give ongoing comments and suggestions to both the Public Advisory Committee and the ATP Project Team";
BE IT RESOLVED THAT:
1. Council appoint up to nine front-line transit operators (including bus-drivers, SkyTrain security and attendants, and, if possible, SeaBus staff) who are willing to volunteer to serve on an advisory committee to Council to offer comment and present ideas in relation to the Vancouver/UBC Area Transit Plan, with the overall goal of improving transit services.
2. Council approve the role, composition, operations, selection process and deliverables for the Front-Line Transit Operators Advisory Committee as outlined in the Appendix.
3. Council ask the City Clerk to provide clerical support, meeting space and a light meal for approximately 15 people (advisory committee and staff) at a cost not to exceed $1500 (10-12 meetings of the group would be the maximum expected during the Area Transit Plan work).
APPENDIX
Role
Vancouver City council is asking the Front-Line Transit Operators Advisory Committee (FLTOAC) to offer comment and suggestions in response to draft reports of the Vancouver/UBC Area Transit Plan (ATP) and on related issues. Because front-line operators have a unique perspective of transportation and traffic, they are in a special position to offer commentary which might improve transit services and consequently reduce the stress inherent in the transit operators' own work.Composition
The committee's nine members should include bus operators (regular Vancouver buses, commuter buses, rapid buses, and trolley buses); TransLink security and attendants; SeaBus workers (if feasible). They should be drawn from the relevant unions (Canadian AutoWorkers, OPIEU, CUPE) and from transit operating centres. In addition to the nine operators, Helen Cook, ATP Coordinator; Scott Edwards, CoV Staff person with the ATP, and Fred Bass, Council liaison to the ATP may also attend.Operations
The meetings should occur every four to eight weeks at or near City Hall and be scheduled in advance at a convenient time. This committee (FLTOAC) would report to Council on the Area Transit Plan and may seek to meet with the ATP's Public Advisory Committee and/or City Council.
FLTOAC should produce an agenda in advance of every meeting. Timely minutes that reflect the major issues discussed at each meeting should be circulated. Members should have at least three years' experience in Vancouver and a knowledge of many Vancouver routes. Two co-chairs should be selected at the first meeting by the operators themselves.Selection process
The unions noted above will be asked to nominate members and postings should go up at each transit operating centre whose drivers work in Vancouver. Committee members should include all of the categories of operators noted under Composition. Names of persons who have been nominated or who have volunteered from the operating Centres will be submitted to Council for final selection of the (up-to) nine members.Deliverables
The minutes of each meeting should accurately reflect the comments and suggestions made at that meeting.
On occasion, the FLTOAC may ask or be asked to provide commentary to the ATP's public advisory committee or City Council.* * * * *