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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCompass Kitchener - 2005-11-22 COMPASS KITCHENER COMMITTEE MINUTES November 22, 2005CITY OF KITCHENER The Compass Kitchener Committee met on this date, commencing at 4:00 p.m. Present: Don Bourgeois, Glen Woolner, Trudy Beaulne, Pat Doherty, John Hall Staff: Michael May, Kate Sullivan, Glynis Martin Regrets: Douglas Parker, Paul Royston 1. Citizen engagement process – identity exercise Michael asked the committee to approve the identity exercise. There was a lot of discussion with the final analysis being that Michael would take the committee’s suggestions and e-mail the changes for final approval. The trick with this exercise is to keep it parallel with the Environics survey, it is easy to deviate from the survey. Don reminded the committee that our mandate is to confirm the vision, help council set priorities in a more focused way, see if council was successful in achieving their objectives and look at the social values of citizens which will inform priorities for future councils. The following are the changes requested by the committee: ? Question1 was approved ? Question 2 change “core services” to “basic services” as core could be read as downtown ? Question 3 replace the question with one from the survey ? Question 4 was approved ? Question 5 change “all” to “any” ? Question 6 was approved ? Question 7 was approved. 2. Citizen engagement process – workbook Michael asked the committee to look at the likes and dislikes section of the workbook. He reminded us that the summary of what Environics said about each issue is missing and will be done. The committee approved this section. In the vision and value section: ? Section 1 – governance and community engagement – approved ? Section 2 – downtown – approved ? Section 3 – development – Michael will be input from the city’s development staff ? Section 4 – quality of life – difficult section as quality of life could be healthy environment, walkability, balance between taxes and services, access to resources and so on. A big intangible is level of volunteers. How important is the level of volunteers to our community? The city does budgets from year to year, should they do multiyear strategic financial plan? Is long-term planning appropriate? One suggestion was to have a separate section that covers finances. Taxes should be included in quality of life section. COMPASS KITCHENER COMMITTEE MINUTES November 22, 2005CITY OF KITCHENER - 2 - ? Section 5 – diversity – Kitchener economy is fuelled by immigration is an important point to make. What does multiculturalism and diversity mean to you - inclusive services to be added to accommodate other groups or ignored by city? ? According to the survey 60% wanted to be multicultural but 58% want to stay same; this is a ambivalent message, we need to it flesh out more. Ask citizens to take a stand where multiculturalism is concerned. ? Section 6 – environment – was approved. 3. Citizen engagement process – self identify survey Michael will get the cost for the self identify piece from Environics. This section needs more work as it is very confusing for the participant. There are five questions asked and the participant self scores to figure out what segment of the population they belong to. This exercise is a teaser to get people involved in the citizen engagement process. 4. Action Items Michael will work on changes suggested and e-mail committee members for approval * Michael will work with Environics on the self-identify survey * 5. Adjournment Meeting adjourned 5:15 p.m.