o   UBC Landscape Architecture Studio Partnership

o  Five-Year Financial Plan Bylaw: three readings! (ignore this title camouflage -- it's really the draft ~$80M BUDGET 2009; May 15th is deadline; since just released, give us more time pls?  It's ~3% rate increase, more than inflation and resident incomes are decreasing)

o   Special Ccl Mtg March 30th!  (heck, and we thought we cd skip that one.....bit more holiday.....)

o  Strategic Planning Update

o   DVP Applications: Rodgers Crk Area 2, 2600 Chippendale; Mulgrave School

o   Delegation Bylaw (whazzup? The establishment of a WV 2010 Olympic Fundraising Subcmte)

o   (Some) Apptmts to WGs; Correspondence including: a letter quoting figures showing NV RCMP cheaper per capita than WVPD; lack of dogwalking bylaw enforcement; Earth Hour Mar 28; Homeless Count; Family Place Society Agreement and funding

 - Head of the Commonwealth -- Queen Elizabeth II (since 6 Feb. 1952)

 - Secretary-General -- Kamalesh Sharma (since 1 Apr. 2008)

 - Chairperson-in-Office -- Yoweri Museveni (since 23 Nov. 2007)

Questions:  This is from the DWV Calendar but why is no address given for this and why meeting before appointed by Ccl Mar 23?

Hugh Johnston, Past VP and Director, West Vancouver Historical Society

Mona Carlile, Co-founder of the Creek Conservation  Society

Rob Bell -Irving, Community Adviser, Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Ray Fung, Director of Engineering, The District of West Vancouver

Stephen Jenkins, Manager, Environment and Sustainability, The District of WV

John Barker, Director, West Vancouver Streamkeeper Society

• =B7        Garden Preparation:  Waking up your Garden for Spring:  Saturday, March 7
• =B7        Home-Grown Veggies:  No-Fail Foods for First-Time Urban Farmers:  Wednesday, March 25
• =B7        Patio Veggies:  Growing Food in Small Spaces:  Saturday, April 4
• =B7        Seed Starting:  Sowing for Your Summer Veggie Garden:  Saturday, April 4
• =B7        Backyard Composting:  Making Black Gold for Your Garden:  Saturday, April 18

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- for Event Calendar: http://www.westvanlibrary.ca/event/calendar.php

- for Booktopia: http://www.booktopia.ca/

FLOW

"But, listen, let's review the rules. Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know - fiction!"

1. Reduce Crime and the Fear of Crime

2. Engage All Stakeholders

3. Develop and Manage Resources for Effectiveness

4. Manage Accountability and Risk

1.  Council receive for information the report dated February 24, 2009 from the Manager of Environment and Sustainability and presentation material regarding the findings of the UBC graduate students;

2.  Council request staff to consider the findings and recommendations of the studio for implementation where feasible; and

3.  Council support similar partnerships with academic institutions.

1.  Extend the existing Lock Block wall into the northwest corner of the excavation and backfill with excavated soil. The soil backfill should extend from the top of the Lock Block wall to the top of the scarp at a slope angle not greater than 1V:1H(45=BA);

2.  Remove the remnant piece of rock and concrete wall resting on the gas line. Provide protection to the exposed portion of the gas line as recommended by Terasen Gas;

3.  Extend existing portions of the soil backfill up to the base of the concrete staircase;

4.  On the north wall of the excavation, cut back the slope in the soil above the very dense, grey till-like soil horizon to not greater than 1V:1H (45=BA);

5.  Completely cover the west, north and east walls of the excavation with polyethylene sheeting;

6.  Install suitable works to intercept and collect surface water flowing down the driveway at 866 Anderson Crescent such that it cannot flow into the excavation;

7.  Position the existing steel fence such that it is setback a minimum of 1 metre from the crest (top of scarp) of the excavation;

8.  Maintain the existing lighting and signage;

9.  Block pedestrian access to the concrete staircase;

10.   [Hire a] registered professional geotechnical engineer [to monitor] the stability of the excavation on a biweekly basis.

{Important for residents to read this.}

1.  The development of a Terms of Reference for the Social Action Plan Working Group be deferred to 2010 pending completion of the District's Strategic Planning process in 2009;

2.  The "Blueprint for Social Responsibility and Change" be included as background in the District's Strategic Planning Process.

1.  The North Shore Advisory Committee on Disability Issues 2009 Workplan be approved; and

2.  The budget request for a one third share ($4,200) of the total budget ($12,600) be approved utilizing existing funds within the Grants in Aid budget (the funds of which have already been provisionally allocated in the draft 2009 Budget).

1.  Council informs the Ministry of Environment and Metro Vancouver that the District of West Vancouver supports an Extended Producer Responsibility program for the management of disposable shopping bags; and

2.  whereas the Retail industry has voluntarily committed to a 50% reduction in the use of disposable shopping bags over the next 5 years, Council supports Metro Vancouver's education and outreach initiatives designed to encourage this goal.

1.  Design Review Committee - October 9, 2008

2.  West Vancouver Memorial Library Board - January 21, 2009

{Interesting reply.}

{Is it correct bylaws not being enforced?}

Available at most of the local bookstores (but not the Book Warehouse) and also the West Vancouver Museum and Cypress Lodge (and from the author $25); at the Vancouver libraries and West Vancouver Library also.

Celebrating Seventy Years of Ministry 1933-2003

A History of the Parish of St. Christopher, West Vancouver B.C.

Can be purchased for $15 in the office of St. Christopher's Church, corner of 11th and Inglewood, any weekday from 9am to 1:00 p.m., or at 11am on Sundays after the morning service.  The WV Memorial Library has two copies; the Museum has one copy.

                night's black sky drains, fades

                                to pale oyster grey

                                        then dawn glows mother of pearl