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Steve Box, gave
a brief overview of the Section of the Term of Council Priorities for the
Community and Protective Services Committee. His PowerPoint presentation is
held on file with the City Clerk’s office.
Following the
presentation the Committee heard from the following delegations:
1)
*Dr. Lilly Koltun - Former Chair of the Committee for the City’s
2013-18 Renewed Action Plan for Culture – Concerned that the 2013 to 2018
Action Plan that she was so heavily involved with is flailing and urges the
councillors to find room to keep the plan as an integral part of your plans
and priorities for Ottawa.
2)
Heather Stecher – Feels there is injustice and discrimination in the
entire process. People on ODSP cannot afford bus passes and this needs to be
fixed. A top up is required by Community and Social Services and is a
priority.
3)
Mike Bulthuis - Executive Director Alliance to End
Homelessness Ottawa – Stated that the momentum needs to be continued to end
homelessness and requires to be more ambitious. It requires to be a top
priority and feels we are not building as much housing as before the
homelessness plan.
4)
*Catherine Lindquist, Executive Director The Council of
Heritage Organizations in Ottawa – Spoke on the need to protect the Arts,
Heritage and Culture Plan and implement the action plan. There appears to be
inconsistent investment and Term of Council Priorities not in keeping with
the promises made.
5)
*Kathy MacLellan, Chair, Board of Directors, Victoria Steele,
Executive Director, and Anik Bouvrette, Member, Tara Luz Danse, AOE Arts
Council - The Term of Council Priority #41 on Page 110 proposes to add
$106,000 in 2015 over the Base of $1 million invested by the previous Council
and then make no additional investments in 2016 through 2018. If so, the
investment in the Action Plan over the 6 years would be $3.85 million short
of its stated goal.
6)
*Diana Carter, Executive Director Ottawa Museum Network – Spoke to the
importance of the Renewed Action Plan For Arts, Heritage and Culture in
Ottawa (2013-‐2018).
It was unanimously approved by the City Council in 2012. The OMN was one of
the many cultural organization involved in its development. They believe in
and support the plan and agree that it should be (as it is) one of Council’s
strategic priorities.
7)
Carole Anne Piccinin - Executive Director Ottawa Festivals – Also
urged to complete the Arts Action Plan and keep it as a high priority in the
Term of Council. Feels the City is falling behind in its promise.
8)
*Michele Penney and Lisa Quesnel - Making Votes Count Where We Live
(CAWI) - spoke to two strategic priorities: Create new affordable housing
options, and advance equity and inclusion for the city’s diverse population.
They say that building150 affordable units, and creating 300 new housing
subsidies is not enough. They ask that the City increase this number.
9)
*Peter Beninger for Loretto Beninger – Asks that the Committee
withhold their approval of Appendix A, Section 7, Strategic Initiatives HC2
and HC4, of the proposed 2015 – 2018 Term of Council Priorities, because that
neither HC2 nor HC4 are reflective of contemporary contexts. Instead, fund
100% of HC4 initiatives for culture, and decrease the funding for the HC2
sports initiatives.
10) Luc
Ouellette Coalition of Community Health and Resource Centres of
Ottawa – Feels that there has been a shortfall on any programs and priorities
for the vulnerable. Need for increased concerns, priorities and budget on
affordable housing, food plans and transportation.
11) *Ray
Sullivan - Executive Director Centretown Citizens Ottawa
Corporation – Happy to see affordable housing as a priority of the City but
feels more can be done. There has been a decrease in affordable rental
housing stock in Ottawa. This can’t rest only on City and more is needed to
push the Provincial and Federal governments to do more and carry their share.
12) *David
Jeanes - Heritage Ottawa - Would like to register its support for the
Strategic Objective HC4-‐A:
Complete development of new Heritage Reference List with online accessibility
by end of 2018, (Appendix A, Section 7, p. 106). The updating of this list
will go a long way towards supporting good heritage conservation in Ottawa.
Heritage Ottawa is a member of the Ottawa Cultural Alliance and they support
the communication that has been submitted by the Alliance on investment in
Arts, Culture and Heritage.
13) Doug
Yonson – Spoke on the need for more money and rehabilitation of the community
rinks of which there are about 200. Many of these are manned by volunteers.
[ * All
individuals marked with an asterisk either provided their comments in writing
or by email; all such comments are held on file with the City Clerk. ]
Following the delegations the Committee
members had various questions of staff mainly dealing with Items 31 to 35 on
revitalization of recreation services.
- On pages 102 and 103 dealing with
Recreational Services and harmonization of fees for consistency and
revitalization of recreation centres and structures. Chair Deans introduced
a motion on this item through Councillor Egli.
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