MERGED AGENDA
HEALTH AND HOUSING TASK FORCE

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

[Note:  This meeting will be video recorded for the public.]

Minutes of the Health and Housing Task Force Meeting held in the Boardroom, Service and Resource Centre, 411 Dunsmuir Street, Nanaimo, BC, on Wednesday, 2020-JUN-24, at 3:00 p.m.

Minutes of the Special Health and Housing Task Force Meeting held in the Boardroom, Service and Resource Centre, 411 Dunsmuir Street, Nanaimo, BC, on Wednesday, 2020-JUL-13, at 8:49 a.m.

To be introduced by Lisa Bhopalsingh, Manager, Community Planning.

Sue Wheeler, Social Development Manager, City of Kelowna, and Stephanie Ball, Executive Director, Central Okanagan Journey Home Society, to provide a presentation.

To be introduced by Lisa Bhopalsingh, Manager, Community Planning.

To be introduced by David Stewart, Social Planner.

Purpose:  To provide the Health and Housing Task Force with an update regarding the work to establish a rent bank in Nanaimo and request direction to provide funding from the Housing Legacy Reserve to support the proposed rent bank pilot project to be operated by the Nanaimo Region John Howard Society.

Recommendation:  That the Health and Housing Task Force recommend that Council provide $90,603 from the Housing Legacy Reserve funds received through the Online Accommodation Tax (OAP) to the Nanaimo Region John Howard Society in order to operate a local rent bank as a temporary pilot project.

The following motion was made during the 2020-JUL-06 Regular Council Meeting:

"It was moved and seconded that Council refer the correspondence from Dr. Bonnie Henry, dated 2020-JUN-08, to the Health and Housing Task Force to make recommendations, if any, to Council."