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The Safe and Healthy Community Advisory Committee met this date May 9, 2019, commencing at 4:00
p.m.
Present: Ms. A. Monteith, Mr. W. Rahimi, Mr. D. Witmer
Ms. B. Wilson, Ms. J. Legg, Ms. G. Achim, Ms. L. Roberts
Staff: M. Hildebrand, Director, Neighbourhood Programs
F. Miller, Administrative Assistant, Neighbourhood Programs
1. Vice Chair Election
Vice chair position open. Alicia Monteith and Laura Roberts both put their names forward.
Committee members voted by ballot and due to a tie, the decision was made to appoint Laura
Roberts as Vice C
2. Inclusion and Belonging Grants
I.
On motion,
It was resolved:
That an Inclusion and Belonging Grant in the amount of $2000 be approved for the
, pending confirmation from staff that other
sources of funding, labelled as pending in the grant application have been secured and the
program is running.
II. Sex Workers Action Network (SWAN) of Waterloo Region Peer-Led Drop-In
Pilot Program
A decision was deferred to the June meeting to allow the applicant to answer questions from the
committee.
3. Work plan
The committee spent the remainder of the meeting discussing how to move the development of
the work plan forward. Given the number of agenda items coming forward at past meetings, it has
been hard to move this item forward.
The committee agreed to spend the full June meeting to concentrate on the work plan, increasing
the meeting time from 4:00 5:30pm to 4:00 6:00pm. In preparation for this meeting, the
committee agreed to review the work that has been done to date, investigate/research one thing
that is currently being done in each theme area, and put some thought into what safe and healthy
could possibly do in the theme area.
4. New Business
No new business
5. Adjournment
On motion, the meeting adjourned at 5:30 p.m.
J. McKenzie
Committee Administrator