1. One City Councillor’s Experience Mary Beil – City of Parksville
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One City Councillor’s Experience
Mary Beil – City of Parksville

2. Prior to making the motion
Community interest-group involvement
Connecting with Mayor & Councillors
Delegation to council
Education / community awareness event
Local media coverage
Local interest groups have done their own planning and outreach to inform the larger community. Also spoke with larger retailers (Thrifty’s, Save On)
Prior to the delegation, community members met with the Mayor and made contact with individual Councillors

3. BRINGING IT FORWARD City staff can be a big help Survey the community
Include businesses
Gather feedback & summarizing data
Report to Council
Ongoing local media coverage
Staff can help foresee the necessary steps to bring this forward. Anticipating possible pushback from some stakeholder groups informed the survey questions. The Communications Officer was key. As it turns out the response from businesses was overall neutral. The Chamber of Commerce also conducted a survey.

4. Making the motion Be strategic Consider possible obstacles
Work with staff to get the wording right
Allow for an implementation process
Allow for a timeline
The legal challenged faced by Victoria influenced the wording of our motion. Once that came through, staff was able to start on implementation proposals. Other priority situations have an impact on the speed with which this is done. Our communications office is working on this at present. I share any pertinent information that I may come across.

5. Steps to implementation
Consider outstanding obstacles
Plan for outreach communication
Timeline & stages for full implementation
Enforcement considerations
A bylaw needs to be drafted and approved

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