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 live streamed and 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-SEP-16, at 3:02 p.m.

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

Purpose:  To provide the Health and Housing Task Force with the Emergency Food and Nutrition Strategy along with implementation actions for the Task Force to consider recommending to Council.

Presentation:

  1. Karin Kronstal, Social Planner.

Recommendation:  That the Health and Housing Task Force recommend that Council:

  1. endorse the Emergency Food and Nutrition Strategy as formal stakeholder input into the REIMAGINE NANAIMO process; and,
  2. support the creation of a Nanaimo Food Policy Council as an independent, arms-length body that would continue collaborative work to strengthen the local food system and request that Staff bring forward a report on how the City can facilitate this work.