2015 DELEGATION

TO CITY COUNCILFebruary 16, 2015

GUIDING

PRINCIPLES

Leadership & Teamwork

Leadership & Teamwork

• set a clear direction and define the vision it intends to pursue for the City.

• Council needs to seek consensus with the community and collaborate with its partners to meet goals more efficiently and realize a common vision

MaximizeCore Efficiencies

MaximizeCore Efficiencies

• Don’t spend what you don’t need to!

• There are many models for program and service reviews that can help us ensure the city budget is delivering the greatest value for the goods and services demanded by the taxpayer.

Transparency &Community Input

Transparency &Community Input

• Council members needs to seek meaningful, ongoing input from residents in every format and through every medium.

• Council should be engaging in two-way communications and adopt strategies to reflect community input

Be Informed,Engaged andResponsible

Be Informed,Engaged andResponsible

• The community needs you to make informed decisions

• Focus on the value of a proposition, not the politics of it -- especially in the heat of the moment.

Strive forCommunity Prosperity

Strive forCommunity Prosperity

• Initiate policies that promote healthy private, public and not-for-profit business activity partnering with organizations that help obtain results.

• Jobs, and our community’s economic security, are premised on these sectors’ sustained health and growth.

Priority:

Update the 2012-2015

Corporate Strategic Plan

Priority:

Establish a

‘Green Tape’ Committee

Priority:

Review development &

building permit procedures

Priority:

Overhaul Nanaimo’s

Sign Bylaws

• Must be externally guided and

include broad community

and stakeholder participation

Priority:Core Review

Priority:Commercial Tax Rates

Freeze tax increases on

Commercial Rate Payers

until 2020

Thank You