CityConnect We welcome your thoughts on the 2022 ANNUAL MUNICIPAL REPORT

Burnaby City Council will receive the City’s 2022 Annual Municipal Report, which includes the City’s Financial Statements for the year ended December 31, 2022 on:

Monday, May 8, 2023, 5 pm Council Chamber (City Hall) 4949 Canada Way, Burnaby, BC

You can view the report on the City’s website: Burnaby.ca/MunicipalReport

Copies are also available in the Legislative Services Department at Burnaby City Hall during regular business hours, Monday-Wednesday and Friday, 8 am-4:45 pm, Thursdays, 8 am-8 pm.

Please submit your questions or comments by Friday, April 21, 2023 at Burnaby.ca/MunicipalReport

Applicant: CINEPLEX VIP CINEMAS BRENTWOOD

Subject: Proposed change to permanently extend the hours of liquor service at the subject establishment

Location: 3106-1920 Willingdon Avenue

Public Input Deadline: April 19, 2023

Cineplex VIP Cinemas Brentwood has made an application to amend its liquor primary liquor licence, to permanently extend the hours of liquor service inside the establishment from 3 pm-2 am to 11 am-2 am, on Saturdays and Sundays. The hours of liquor service from Monday to Friday are to remain unchanged, which are from 11 am-2 am.

For further information on this Liquor Licence Application, contact the Planning Department at 604-294-7400

Public input on this application is invited prior to Burnaby City Council submitting a resolution regarding the application to the Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch.

Please note, all submissions must contain the name and address of the writer which will become part of the public record. Written comments may be sent to the Planning and Development Department by:

Letter: 4949 Canada Way, Burnaby, BC, V5G 1M2; or email: planning@burnaby ca

Deadline for written submissions is 4:45 pm April 19, 2023

TAKE NOTICE THAT the City of Burnaby intends to grant a lease for a term of five (5) years (the “Term”) to CURL BC over City-owned property located at Suite 2001A – 3713 Kensington Avenue, Burnaby, BC and legally described as PID: 027-414-892, Lot 1 District Lot 77 Group 1 New Westminster District Plan BCP35150, in consideration for $26,400.00 for each of the first and second years of the Term, and $27,500.00 for each of the third, fourth and fifth years of the Term.

TAKE NOTICE THAT the City of Burnaby intends to grant a lease for a term of five (5) years (the “Term”) to British Columbia Amateur Athletics Association over City-owned property located at Suite 2001B – 3713 Kensington Avenue, Burnaby, BC and legally described as PID: 027-414-892, Lot 1 District Lot 77 Group 1 New Westminster District Plan BCP35150, in consideration for $28,440.00 for each of the first and second years of the Term, and $29,625.00 for each of the third, fourth and fifth years of the Term.

TAKE NOTICE THAT the City of Burnaby intends to grant a lease for a term of sixty (60) years to S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Affordable Housing Society (“S.U.C.C.E.S.S.”) over City-owned property located at 3802 Hastings Street, Burnaby, BC and legally described as PID: No PID Number, Lot A District Lot 116 Group 1 New Westminster District Plan EPP114076, in consideration for $10.00, and to provide assistance to S.U.C.C.E.S.S. by granting such lease for less than market value The estimated market value of the lease is $8,265,000

LaurenVanderdeen lvanderdeen@burnabynow com

The City of Burnaby is trying to combat significant staffing shortages and outdated registration software which make it difficult for residents to sign up for city-run programs

Last month, hundreds of Burnaby residents lined up at community centres across the city, some as early as 6 a.m., just for the chance to get registered for swimming lessons and other programs.

The city’s general manager of parks and recreation, Mary MorrisonClark, told council the city has seen about a 46 per cent decline in spaces offered for swimming lessons

In 2018, the city offered 11,800 swimming lesson spots, she said Now, it offers 6,380.

“That is a significant decline in available spots that are attributed to our lack of staff,” Morrison-Clark said at a council meeting on March 27.

She said the parks and recreation department currently has about 44 aquatic vacancies and 298 vacancies across the department

“We are still struggling to fill positions post-pandemic,” Morrison-Clark told council.

According to a staff report, the COVID-19 pandemic “created a significant gap of training for lifeguards and instructors, which resulted in a Canada-wide lifeguard/ instructor shortage and pent-up demand for swim lessons and other aquatic programs ”

And more staff are needed: Burnaby’s planned swimming pools will “double the numbers of lifeguards needed by 2026, growing from the current 375 to over 750 staff,” according to the report.

Burnaby council has approved a new staff position, manager of aquatics, and more than $144,600 for the role’s salary and benefits, to speed up the launch of a new registration software which could reduce some of the signup frustrations.

Morrison-Clark told council the aquatics manager position was necessary to move the software launch date from November of this year up to July.

Full use of the software by July isn’t expected, but staff are planning to launch it partially “in time for fall registration (the busiest) to ensure it is not a repeat of the recent registration experience,” staff wrote in a March 27 report to council.

“Staff had implemented a variety of measures to improve the registration experience (in March), but ultimately recognized the urgency of retiring the existing CLASS software and transitioning to the new software as soon as possible,” according to the report

The current CLASS software is almost 30 years old

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