29 Jul 2024 Special Council meeting Governance

Councillor Thorpe Motion re: Systems Planning Organization and the Nanaimo Prosperity Corporation

Motion
That, beginning in September 2024, the Systems Planning Organization, the Nanaimo Prosperity Corporation, and Tourism Nanaimo , provide quarterly reports to City Council on their activities.
Minutes, page 8
Sources
Agenda itemCity agenda, whole meeting
Put forward by Ian Thorpe Source

Ian Thorpe Yes

Prosperity Corporation. Councillor Thorpe, please. Thank you very much. Last meeting, this would be a notice of motion, so I'm bringing it forward as a motion today. And that reads that beginning in September 2024, the system's planning organization and the Nanimal Prosperity Corporation provide quarterly reports to city Councillor on their activities. If there's a second, or I'll speak briefly to it. Seconded. Councillor Prino, please. Thank you. Your worship. This is simply. About Councillor oversight and accountability. We have hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in these two arms link organizations, and I hope they are successful. I believe in them, and I think they will be doing good work. As the coming months will prove. But I think that Councillor deserves updates on just what exactly they are doing, and I believe. This probably should have been incorporated into. Their original terms of reference. And maybe Mr. Lindsay can correct me, but I don't believe any such accountability was incorporated. Mr. Lindsay. You, worship? Through the Councillor regularly than that, so I think quarterly. Is quite fair. My intent would be a written report.

Leonard Krog Yes

And Mr. Lindsay around? The different funding for these three organizations. But frankly, it's not harmful. And I think from the public perspective, it would enhance the credibility of all three with the community. They are in receipt of taxpayers dollars. I think it's. Quite useful.

Erin Hemmens Yes

I'm thinking of last term. We kind of set the wheels in motion for these three. Different organizations. Tourism spo. And the Prosperity corporation. And if we're going to ask for regular updates from two of them. We should ask for all three. So curious. If we can wrap tourism into this. I would propose that amendment.