Healthy Sanich Advisory Committee Summary

The main issue that are discuss in this Healthy Sannich Advisory Committees meeting are affordable housing strategy and older adult parks and recreation strategy. According to presentation given by Hale Harlen, the people who are living in the Sannich cannot afford to buy or rent the house. The data she gives in this presentation shows that although Sannich is doing a little better than other municipality; however, people are still facing issue with the payment to live in their houses in Sannich which cost over half of their salary. Hale Harlen also gives presentation how they can build more affordable housing by encouraging developer to consider affordable housing and what community needs. She also points out that Sannich does not really have the exact model or mandatory percentage on affordable housing. The committees are discussing about recommendation and advice to the council about the affordable housing
and creation of homeless task force which came from past meeting.
According to presentation given by Julie Wallace about older adult parks and recreations strategy, they talk about how many older people not aware of the activity and event that provide by the older adult parks and recreations strategy.
They did a lot of base line survey that they did about their programs and provide their result to the committees meeting. They also mention about providing help to the older adult with their problem, concerns (60 or 70+), and events. They talk about how to get older adult to think that parks and recreations are not only a place to exercise but also a place to socializing or community space. They also thinking about how to spread the information for different generation such as paper and internet. They also mention how to consider the difficulty of older adult and meet their needs by translation, or more people to help them navigate about where they want to go such as reception when the building is big or more sign in park trail. This presentation is mainly about informative rather than pushing council to do something about
it.
The tone of the meeting is informative, and pragmatic. The guest who did the presentation are very informative and provide with the research data to prove their points. Colin Plant states that “we properly could sent along the line to the council to consider strategic planning rather than say do this now […]” which has tone of pragmatic.