The Mayor’s Engaged City Task Force released its first report yesterday! What is this task force, you ask? It’s a volunteer citizen advisory group made up of 22 Vancouver citizens who represent a broad cross-section of ages, backgrounds and professions. What they have in common is knowledge, experience and commitment to community public engagement in Vancouver. They aim to collaborate on “improving the way the City communicates with citizens, engages immigrants and youth, consults on policy, increases voter turnout and enables community connection at a neighbourhood level”. Essentially they’re working to make your Vancouver a better place to live.

The first Engaged City Task Force report

The report outlines 16 recommendations that the task force hope to be implemented in the next 6 months. “Quick Starts” as they’re dubbing them. Their next task is to work on recommendations that have a broader scope and timeline, but for now chomp into THIS 40 page document that outlines what this whole thing is about, who is involved, and what they recommend.

If you only read one of the 16 recommendations (or none at all, and only read this blog post) let it be this one:

Here’s to a more engaged Vancouver, with the help from this team made up of some of Vancouver’s finest, many of whom we’ve collaborated with and/or featured here on V.I.A..