HomeMy WebLinkAboutCSD-18-046 - Re-naming of Mike Wagner Heritage AwardREPORT TO: Heritage Kitchener
DATE OF MEETING: March 6, 2018
SUBMITTED BY: Brandon Sloan, Manager of Long Range & Policy Planning,
519-741-2200, ext. 7648
PREPARED BY: LeonBensason,Coordinator, Cultural Heritage Planning
519-741-2200, ext. 7306
WARD(S) INVOLVED: All
DATE OF REPORT: February 7, 2018
REPORT NO.: CSD-18-046
SUBJECT: Re-naming the Mike Wagner Heritage Award to the
Mike & Pat Wagner Heritage Award
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RECOMMENDATION:
That the Mike Wagner Heritage Award, forming part of the Kitchener Great Places
Awards, be re-named to the Mike & Pat Wagner Heritage Award.
BACKGROUND:
In 2015, Council endorsed the establishment of a new comprehensive planning awards program
celebrating a broad range of categories related to excellence in urban design and cultural
heritage conservation. Known as the Kitchener Great Places Awards, the new program
combines and updates two previous planning award programs: the Urban Design Awards
established in 1988, and the Mike Wagner Heritage Awards established in 1997. The Mike
Wagner Heritage Award is named after former City Councillor Mike Wagner, who served on City
Council from 1989 to 1997, and who was a strong advocate for heritage, culture and the arts.
At the inaugural Kitchener Great Places Awards ceremony held on November 2, 2016, Mr. Rych
Mills, recipient of the award for Individual Contributions to the Field of Heritage Conservation,
suggested in accepting his award, that the City should give consideration to updating the name
of the Mike Wagner Heritage Award to acknowledge the many significant contributions made in
the field of heritage conservation by Pat Wagner.
REPORT
Pat Wagner is a former long-
Committee, having served on two six-year terms between 1988 and 2002, including time as the
committee chair. Over her lifetime, Pat has devoted an incredible amount of time and energy to
heritage conservation efforts in the City of Kitchener and the Region of Waterloo. Her skills,
particularly in the field of research, have proven invaluable in unearthing historical information
and in building a better understanding of our local heritage.
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on a number of community-led heritage organizations including the following:
Past member of the Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation
Past member and vice-chair of the Region of Waterloo Heritage Planning Advisory
Committee
Past executive member of the North Waterloo Branch of the Architectural Conservancy
of Ontario
Long time Doors Open volunteer
Continuing
Waterloo County GAOL Garden.
In 2013, Pat Wagner was honoured with the distinction of receiving the
Ontario Heritage Award for Lifetime Achievement / 25 years.
proposed name change.
Both Mike and Pat Wagner have made significant contributions to local heritage conservation
efforts in Kitchener. Staff believe it is appropriate that the heritage award component of the
Kitchener Great Places Awards be updated to acknowledge and celebrate the significant
contributions of Pat Wagner, and accordingly that the award be renamed the Mike & Pat
Wagner Heritage Award. It is further recommended that the award name change come in
effect immediately and be introduced with the Kitchener Great Places Award program for 2018.
ALIGNMENT WITH CITY OF KITCHENER STRATEGIC PLAN:
through the delivery of core service.
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS:
N/A
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT:
INFORM - Members of the community will be informed via circulation of this report to Heritage
Kitchener and via formal consideration by Council.
website with the agenda in advance of the Heritage Kitchener committee meeting.
CONSULT Staff have consulted with members of the Wagner family. Heritage Kitchener will
be consulted via circulation and consideration of this report.
ACKNOWLEDGED BY: Alain Pinard, Director of Planning
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