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COMPASS KITCHENER MINUTES
January 18, 2012 – 4:00-6:00
Adams Seymour Room, KITCHENER CITY HALL
Present: Theron Kramer Kim Knowles Holly Duff Tristan Wilkin
Sarah Marsh Chris Kopar David Yoon Diana Bumstead
James HoweSue MorganHanan Mohamed
Staff: Shelley Adams Jenn Grein Sue Weare Heather McColman
Regrets: Chris Hyde
The Compass Kitchener Advisory Committee met on this date, commencing at 4:00 p.m. Theron welcomed all
members to the meeting. David Yoon introduced himself to the group.
1. Approval of Minutes
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The minutes from December 7th were approved.
Moved by Sue Morgan, Second by Diana Bumstead.
2. Advisory Committee Gathering
Due to a number of circumstances, the Advisory Committee Gathering will be postponed to a date in
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March. The committee agreed to March 24, if this date is not available, March 31 will be the backup.
Jenn to confirm room availability.
3. Strategic Plan Update
The committee took a few minutes to review the provided draft Strategic Plan community priority areas
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before discussing each section. Beginning with the drivers, and moving through the 6 pillars, the group
provided comments and feedback on this initial draft Strategic Plan update.
Discussion:
Drivers
Reference to car keys is strong, could instead suggest residents are increasing looking for other viable
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options for transportation.
Numbers of people aging affects the increase in people with disabilities – not certain on this reference.
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Should any other groups be included here? Shelley clarified, aging and increase in disabilities go hand in
hand. We could also include ‘an increasing recognition of other diverse groups in our community’.
It was suggested the document be reviewed for consistency, to ensure each area ends on a similar note,
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as well as ‘we’ and ‘us’ usage – staff or residents, make reference consistent throughout document.
Perhaps a more concise phrase could be used for the title of the Drivers section.
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Consider changing ‘Looking for assistance with Local Democracy’ to ‘Enhancing Local Democracy’.
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A possible gap was identified, the suburbs are not mentioned anywhere in this section. Perhaps mention
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relationship between the suburbs and the heart of the city.
It was suggested to call democracy, engagement, and call engagement, core.
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Quality of Life
‘…what improvements were made.’ may raise questions, perhaps include examples here.
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‘Own best kept secret’ – the committee discussed the use of this phrase, and ultimately it was suggested
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to use quotes around this phrase and ‘hidden jems’ since these were phrases pulled directly from resident
feedback and mirror themes throughout feedback.
Period after community. Fourth paragraph, second sentence may need review for plain language.
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Leadership and Community Engagement
Second paragraph, include ‘and events’ as reinforces the hidden jems revealed idea.
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Remove ‘in a timely manner’ and second ‘ahead’.
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Reference importance of many forms of multimedia here – newspapers, tv, radio, internet, etc. in balance
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Leverage – plain language check. And singular/plural – effective communications.
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‘Important information is just a few clicks away’ – could instead simply refer to info being easy to access.
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Data from 1 page should be parallel to 2 page.
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Environment
Simply use ‘to carry out green initiatives’ in the last sentence, remove walking the walk.
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Important to indicate in this section that results from residents indicated Environment as the top priority.
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Include suburban connections with the transit piece.
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How we built this strategic plan diagram should also indicate community feedback was used to develop
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this full community section. The intro indicates ‘our residents told us…’ however it doesn’t indicate where.
Diversity
When referencing barriers – use financial instead of economic.
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Third paragraph, ‘integration’ – plain language check.
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Second and Third paragraphs, remove ‘And’ at beginning.
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Second paragraph, consider phrasing this in a more positive manner.
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Remove capitalization on Human Resources.
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Provide definition of diversity.
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The fourth paragraph over laps with community engagement, Sue to rejig wording.
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Development
Clarification on ‘mature neighbourhood’ possible plain language check, as well as Fifth Paragraph.
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Run on sentences to be corrected.
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Media is plural.
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Dynamic Downtown
Second paragraph, include playing as activity.
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Run on sentences to be corrected.
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Isolated events listed, could also include information on cities role with increasing business.
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Plain language check - equation.
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Last paragraph, reference to enforcement, consider using ‘policing’ instead.
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Theron, and members of the committee thanked Shelley, Sue and Andrea (not in attendance), for the
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great work in pulling this draft together, and condensing all of the ‘Who Are You, Kitchener?’ community
feedback into one page for each pillar.
4. General Business
No general business at this time.
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Meeting adjourned at 5:55.
Next meeting: February 1, 2012
Conestoga Room – Kitchener City Hall
Attendance:
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