AGENDA

COMMUNITY VITALITY COMMITTEE MEETING

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Board Room, Service and Resource Centre,
411 Dunsmuir Street, Nanaimo, BC

Minutes of the Open Meeting of the Community Vitality Committee held in the Board Room, Service and Resource Centre, 411 Dunsmuir Street, Nanaimo, BC, on Wednesday, 2018-MAY-02 at 4:30 pm.

[Note:  Council referred this item to the Community Vitality Committee during the 2018-MAY-14 Special Council Meeting.]

John Horn, Social Planner, to provide a presentation regarding a homeless count being conducted by the federal government’s Homeless Partnering Strategy with communities locally and across Canada.

On 2018-MAY-14, Council approved two new at-large members (James Bowen and Julia Stevens) to the Community Vitality Committee, for a term ending 2018-DEC-31.

The winners of the High School Poetry competition and Nanaimo's Youth Poet Laureate Kailey DeFehr will attend the 2018-JUN-11 Council Meeting to read their poems.

  • 1st Place: “Untitled” by Jesse Nicholas Brittain
  • 2nd Place: “Open Curtains; She is My Moon” by Isabella Cooper
  • 3rd Place: “Ocean of Jubilation” by Rachel Ward

During Public Art Week, eleven new pieces of temporary public art were installed in City parks and public spaces.