APPLY NOW FOR VANCOUVER ADVISORY COMMITTEES

Are you passionate about civic engagement, addressing local issues and supporting your community?

Do you want to help convey community perspectives to Vancouver City Council and staff while advising on City priorities, projects and initiatives?

We invite you to apply to join one of the City of Vancouver’s Advisory Committees

FOR MORE INFORMATION: vancouver.ca/volunteer

Advisory committee meetings typically take place monthly, and members may be eligible for certain expense reimbursements related to attendance. Meetings are usually held in-person at City Hall, with meals provided, and there is often also a virtual attendance option. The City of Vancouver has been working to ensure effectiveness, accessibility and equity in advisory committees and to decolonize advisory committee practices wherever possible.

The specific committees with vacancies are as follows:

Type A (advisory to Council)

• 2SLGBTQ+ Advisory Committee

• Arts and Culture Advisory Committee

• Children, Youth, and Families Advisory Committee

• Older Persons and Elders Advisory Committee (formerly Seniors’ Advisory Committee)

• Persons with Disabilities Advisory Committee

• Racial and Ethno-Cultural Equity Advisory Committee

• Renters Advisory Committee

• Transportation Advisory Committee

• Urban Indigenous Peoples’ Advisory Committee

• Vancouver Food Policy Council

• Women’s Advisory Committee

Type B (advisory to staff)

• Chinatown Historic Area Planning Committee

• First Shaughnessy Advisory Design Panel

• Gastown Historic Area Planning Committee

• Street Planning Committee (formerly Civic Asset Naming Committee)

The following is a paid advertisement by Adrian Dix, MLA for Vancouver/Kingsway

Dear Neighbours, Artist Enhancement

Grant

Artist Enhancement Grant recognizes artists in the South Vancouver community who has the capacity to enhance community art projects with their skills, talent and can work with community members in the creative process.

An Artist Enhancement NSG offers $500 for the project expenses and an additional $500 to pay an artist. To learn more and submit an Artist Enhancement NSG, contact the Neighbourhood Small Grants Project Coordinator, Sheri: sparke01@shaw.ca

B.C. Family Benefit

Recognizing people are being pinched by price surges, the B.C. government has boosted the monthly BC Family Benefit payments for low- and moderate-income families for three months, January through March. A family with two children can receive up to $350 more than usual over the three months.

Eligibility is based on income and number of children. People can expect to see their family benefit and the bonus cost-of-living payment as a deposit or cheque through the Canada Revenue Agency alongside the federal Canada Child Benefit program. Eligible families are automatically determined when someone registers for the Canada Child Benefit.

ClimateReadyBC

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ClimateReadyBC is a newly launched onestop online hub to help communities and people mitigate and prepare for disaster and climate risks, including wildfire, floods, extreme weather, tsunamis and earthquakes. The hub includes hazard and mapping tools, risk data and resources such as funding programs available to communities to mitigate and prepare for disaster risks. Find out more at: https://climatereadybc.gov.bc.ca/

My community office, at 5022 Joyce St. Vancouver, is open to provide services for constituents in person with appointments and via phone and email. Please give us a call at 604-660-0314 or email us at adrian.dix.mla@ leg.bc.ca, and we will get in touch with you as soon as we can. 聯絡本辦事處請電郵 adrian.dix.mla@leg.bc.ca 或致電 604-6600314. 如欲親臨敬請預約。

Thank you very much for all that you’re doing and take care.

Sincerely,

Adrian Dix MLA for Vancouver-Kingsway