City Notebook: Long talked about issues come to a head Monday
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Do you agree with the city’s decision to collapse certain advisory boards into one, nine-member Community Vibrancy Board?
Yes
Two heavyweight issues both appear on Monday night’s council agenda.
Haven’t we been talking about the City Centre Development Agency and the Veiner Centre non stop for about 10 years now?
When council last met, the annual matter of approving the business investment area’s budget became a wide-ranging discussion about how to reform the agency that for years has been dogged by detractors and held responsible for downtown’s fortunes.
Posted: Jan 26, 2021 5:15 PM MT | Last Updated: January 27
Allan Singleton-Wood, 88, has a number of serious health problems including COPD. He s also had two strokes and a recent heart attack requiring surgery. Singleton-Wood, who lives on his own and has been unable to visit with his family in-person for nine months, calls the vaccine delay stressful and frustrating.(Mike Symington/CBC)
Only bid for Veiner Centre off to council
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Yes
City Hall officials are recommending that operations at the Veiner Centre and municipal seniors’ programming be run by a Calgary-based not-for-profit society – a state of affairs they say would cut city costs and potentially increase offerings and membership.
The Kerby Centre Society was the only group to complete a request for proposal process launched last year as the city looked to cut costs at the seniors centre.
At the same time as that was launched, councillors questioned how to best boost flagging membership figures at the centre that reopened three years ago following the 2013 flood.