AGENDA
SPECIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON ACCESSIBILITY AND INCLUSIVENESS

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Virtual Meeting

To be introduced by Richard Harding, General Manager, Parks, Recreation and Culture.

Purpose:  To provide the Advisory Committee on Accessibility and Inclusiveness with the results of Phase 3 of the Leisure Economic Access Pass (LEAP) Program Review as well as recommendations for program revisions for consideration.

Recommendation:  That the Advisory Committee on Accessibility and Inclusiveness approve the recommendations outlined in Phase 3 of the LEAP Program Review and recommend Staff forward them to Council for consideration.

To be introduced by Jamie Rose, Manager, Transportation.

Purpose:  To provide the Advisory Committee on Accessibility and Inclusiveness with options for a portion of the 2021 Pedestrian Unallocated Budget, and to receive the Committee’s feedback on preferred options for Council’s consideration.

Recommendation:  That the Advisory Committee on Accessibility and Inclusiveness recommend the following allocations of Pedestrian Unallocated Funds for Council’s consideration:

  • $200,000 for transit stop accessibility improvements
  • $250,000 for traffic signal accessibility improvements
  • $45,000 for miscellaneous accessibility improvements allocated to the Small Scale Road Improvement budget.

[Note:  List of references are attached]

  1. That Council and municipal staff adopt the use of pronouns in all written and electronic communications.
  2. That the City of Nanaimo use gender-inclusive and gender-neutral language, including communications, and print and electronic materials.
  3. That the City of Nanaimo update and revise all print and electronic materials to include the use gender-inclusive and gender-neutral language.
  4. That the City of Nanaimo arrange for the availability of diversity and inclusion training for council members and city staff. This would include both LGBTQIA2+ and gender competency training, either online or in-person workshops, or both.

To be introduced by Richard Harding, General Manager, Parks, Recreation and Culture.