[homeles_ot-l] FW: COME DOWN TO CITY HALL MONDAY JULY 9TH

[Lynne Browne]

FYI – second of two emails on community participation at Monday’s Council
meeting on the Draft City Strategic Directions.

Lynne Browne 
Coordinator, Alliance to End Homelessness 
147 Besserer Street, Ottawa ON  K1N 6A7 
613-241-7913 x 205, lbrowne at ysb.on.ca 
www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca 

From: Shellie Bird [mailto:cupe2204 at on.aibn.com] 

Greetings

Imagine Ottawa met last night to plan for a presence at City Hall Monday 
July 9th 12:45 as Council hears presentations from the public on the 
Draft Strategic Directions Report

We want to make our presence known and so have planned a fun and 
visually exciting press event and we hope you can come out.

At 12:45 p.m we want to hang the Open Letters (those collected so far) 
on a cloths line and deliver our key messages (see below) about the 
Strategic Directions and then we will have 5 people who will read the 
Open Letter as a "Lament to Ottawa 20/20" against the backdrop of 
drummers pounding out a lamentful beat! These folks will also get on the 
speakers list and will present together again each reading a small part 
of our Open Letter and the 7 principles of the Ottawa 20/20. We hope to 
place Council Chambers out and to send a message that citizens are 
paying attention to what is going on at City Hall. We also again want to 
encourage you to get on the speakers list by calling 613-580-2424 ext 
28136 - even if it is only to read from the Open Letter the more we 
raise our desire to return to the principles of the Ottawa 20/20 (see 
attached) the better for us, our city and the services we both deliver 
and use! See you there.

Key Messages to deliver:

Key messages:

Bad consultations
Inadequate process
Not a democratic process
Closed doors meetings, at first
No meaningful community input to our city's direction
Concerned about some of the proposed solutions to the city's needs
Concerned about the impacts of more privatization, contracting out and 
"public private partnerships"
Where is the environment?
Let's start with the positive vision of Ottawa 20/20? 
Where are the positive features of Ottawa 20/20?
We have to get the right tools for the job
Let's upload services to the province
Let's get some progressive tax reform in place
Let's grow our budget for a growing healthy city
   

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