November 9 e-news: Local Area Plan Zoom call (tonight!), Pop-Up Farmer's Market, and AGM

Local Area Plan: Zoom Info Session + Invitation to provide input
Tonight: Monday, November 9, 5-6pm on Zoom

Marc Cittone from the City of Victoria will be providing an update on the Local Area Plan (LAP) process to date, and letting us know about opportunities to provide input. Beginning in November, 2020 there will be a month long public input opportunity. During this hour long call, you can learn what the LAP is, how it affects you as a resident or business owner, and how you can provide your input! Marc Cittone is a Senior Community Planner with the City of Victoria, and is leading the Local Area Plan process.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9333505704
Meeting ID: 933 350 5704
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcVYowMaFo

Upcoming Public Meeting: Monday, December 7, 2020: 6:00-8:00pm

Please join us for the December public meeting in the sanctuary of the First Metropolitan Church at 932 Balmoral, at the corner of Quadra and Balmoral on Monday, December 7 from 6-8pm. A Zoom in option will be made available. Please look for the link on our website closer to the meeting date. You can view the draft meeting notes to the November 6, 2020 meeting here.

Agenda:
6:00pm - welcome and territorial acknowledgement
6:05-6:35pm - update from BC Housing (Murray Langdon), and Q&A
6:35-7:00pm - update on sheltering in parks, questions
7:00-7:15pm - update from SOLID Outreach Society
7:15-7:30pm - new business

Covid safety precautions:

Enter through door at 932 Balmoral (off parking lot)
Wash your hands for 20 seconds
Provide your contact information (name and phone number)
You are required to wear a mask
You are required to maintain a 2 m / 6 foot distance from all individuals not in your “bubble.
Attendance will be strictly limited to 50 (including board members, presenters)

SAVE THE DATE: 2020 Annual General Meeting
Monday, December 14, 2020: 6:00-8:00pm
First Metropolitan Church, 932 Balmoral + Zoom

Update on Sheltering in Parks

You can find all of this information and more on the NPNA's website.

Bylaw meeting update from Monday, November 9, 2020 with Shannon Perkins

Structure count in Central Park is in flux.
There are currently 73 structures, up from 62 Monday of last week
- It is unclear if perhaps some of these new structures are people displaced by the Capital City Hotel fire (85 individuals displaced by that fire)
- Shannon Perkins is reaching out to BC Housing to see what options were provided to those displaced by this fire
This week’ priorities:
- Bylaw is continuing to work on identifying who is in the park, and for what reason?
- Beginning this week, a team has been formed to have conversations with each individual in Central Park to identify their specific needs
- The team will include BC Housing (update and complete applications), Ministry of Poverty & Social Development (update and complete funding/disability applications and ensure folks are receiving what they are supposed to be), Bylaw, and NPNA (respond to specific needs for supplies: tents, tarps, sleeping bags, cots, etc).
Neighbourhood Liaisons (Mike Hill, Gary Pemberton, and Kimberly Stratford) will begin to act as point of contact between neighbourhoods and City. No further details at this point on what that will look like or include yet.

Weekly Meetings in Central Park

Central Park Healing Circle, Wednesdays @ 4pm between the baseball diamonds. Led by Rose Henry. Open to all.

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