Neighbourhood Group

May 31, 2011

Another great KVS success in Vancouver Mountain View!

Jackie and Amber

MOUNTAIN VIEW NEIGHBOURHOOD GROUP "KEEP VANCOUVER SPECTACULAR" – 2011 REPORT

Just a little background for those of you who don’t know what’s involved in being the KVS Event Coordinator. KVS has been an ongoing project for MV since 2001 and this will be my 4th year as the Coordinator. The City sends an email in April and I set up the date and arrange for the supplies such as pickers, bags and gloves to be dropped off at my home the day before the event. Afterwards a City vehicle will come to pick up the supplies plus the garbage that was collected.

About the beginning of May I send an email to our communications person, Alain F, and he sends it out to our MV list plus a reminder goes out the week before the event. As well, Mike K. puts it on the MV website (see footer for web address.)

I’d like to thank Catherine C. once again for doing up the posters and running off 40 copies so that about 10 days prior to the event I can go out and put them up on poles from 25th to 32nd and from Fraser to St. Catherines.

KVS is about picking up the neighbourhood - paper cups, bottles, cans, paper, cigarette butts, bits & pieces of small debris and scraps of what-have-you – it’s really about taking pride in your neighbourhood.

The day of the event the Coordinator’s job is to make sure that all areas, as described above, are assigned to people for pick up. Ideally we want to assign one person on each side of the street (or Avenue.) What we don’t want is too many people covering one section of our area, or groups going over an area that has already been assigned to other people, while others get missed entirely. Obviously for Fraser and the West lane groups of two per side is preferable.

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January 27, 2008

Minutes from Mountain View 8th Annual General Meeting

Date: January 26, 2008 Time: 10am to 12 noon
Location: Grays Park Community House, 4850 St. Catherines, 24 Present

Mike Klassen introduced himself as the MV Chair and Jackie Larson as the Secretary and called the meeting to order at 10:10am. He asked if there were any additional agenda items and thanked Kensington Community Center for the use of the meeting space.

MINUTES: Motion: to accept the Jan. 20 '07 AGM minutes as circulated. Sharole Tyler/Lilli Wong - Carried.

TREASURER'S REPORT: In Bryan King's absence Jackie presented his report. $329.87 in expenses and $1300.00 in revenue for a balance on hand of $5429.98. There is also a community bench looking for a location.

Motion: to accept the Treasurer's report. Jackie Larson/Alain Franchi - Carried.

Introduction of participants and Brent Toderian COV Director of Planning invited to speak on EcoDensity. Mike gave a brief description of the start of MV in 2000 and how the community residents have improved the neighbourhood and that it's an ongoing process.

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January 21, 2007

Minutes from Annual General Meeting, Jan. 20th

38 present at Ruth Morton Annex including guests COV Councillor, Suzanne Anton, COV Planning Analyst Visions Implementation, Kirsten Baillie and COV Sr. Planner City Plans, Michael White.

The meeting was called to order by Chair, Michael Klassen, at 10:10. He introduced the guests and thanked Nike, Michelle, Tom and Jackie for their combined effort in organizing the meeting. The attendees introduced themselves.

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June 23, 2006

Mountain View group wants city to go country (Vancouver Courier)

Read Article about Mountain View's Country Lane featured in the Vancouver Courier.

A neighbourhood group believes Vancouverites can live steps away from green space if it can convince the city to transform the city's back lanes into "thin parks."

"Especially in light of the mayor's new 'ecodensity' plan," said Michael Klassen of the Mountain View Neighbourhood Association, referring to Sam Sullivan's recent proposal to increase the city's housing density while reducing its impact on the environment. "If that proposal means more housing, we need to think about where we can find more park space."

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January 29, 2006

Vancouver Mountain View annual meeting minutes

MOUNTAIN VIEW NEIGHBOURHOOD GROUP

January 28, 2006 – General meeting held at Ruth Morton Annex, 27th & Prince Albert.

Guests: Adrien Balazs, SV Community Policing, Harry Rumley, NIS (Trout Lake CC.)

Present: Gwyneth Bowen, Diego Brambilla, Alain Franchi, Niki Inglis, Marie Jones, Mike Klassen, Jackie Larson, Tom Little, Linda Sanche, Michelle Sangster, Lionel Trudel, Nike Vatsal, Lilli Wong.

Mike Klassen, acting as Chair, brought the meeting to order at 10:07AM. He mentioned the group’s involvement with past Keep Vancouver Spectacular and Anniversary BBQ events and hopes that we might come up with some creative ideas, along the way, to make our neighbourhood better and increasingly more attractive. He introduced our guests and asked everyone to say approximately where they live and how long they’ve been there.

Harry Rumley thanked MV for their letter of support for the Trout Lake Olympic rink proposal which has led to the re-development of the Trout Lake Community Center where he is the Community Recreation Coordinator.

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