Current COPE News

See COPE School Trustee Jane Bouey's op-ed on private school funding and human rights here: http://www.straight.com/article-323178/vancouver/jane-bouey-rethinking-private-school-funding-especially-when-rights-not-respected

Yesterday, elected trustees of the Vancouver Board of Education met with the provincially-appointed Special Auditor who has been tasked with reviewing the board's finances.

“A heavy handed attempt to directly silence the Vancouver Board of Education’s education advocacy and to frighten other Boards into silence,” declared COPE Trustees Wong, Bouey and Blakey about the government’s appointment of a special advisor to examine the Vancouver Board of Education’s financial performance.

At Vancouver Park Board's Planning & Environment committee meeting tonight (April 8), COPE Park Board Commissioner Loretta Woodcock will be asking staff to report back on the ecological condition of Beaver Lake in Stanley Park as a result of a report presented by the Stanley Park Ecology Society.

COPE school trustees, Allen Blakey, Allan Wong and Jane Bouey, announced tonight that, as it stands, they would not and could not vote for the preliminary school board budget presented by the Board of Education's senior management.  "The provincial government's deliberate under funding and cutbacks are responsible for this budget that does not meet the needs of the children and youth of Vancouver," said Board vice-chair Jane Bouey. “Districts right across the province, even those with growing enrollment, are facing similar cuts”, she added.



 

COPE Councilor Ellen Woodsworth is bringing a motion to council this week, asking that staff report back on a process and a timeline for a West End community visioning process. The West End, while the densest neighbourhood in the city, has not had a community visioning process to determine community amenity needs and priorities in over 20 years.

COPE Councillor David Cadman will be bringing a motion to council this week asking staff to prepare a report on the possibility of closure of Robson Street,
as during the Olympics, on Saturdays and Sundays during the summer months.

Immediate Release: March 17, 2010

The result of COPE Councillor Woodsworth’s motion on campaign finance and electoral reform is coming to council next week, with recommendations to the BC Local Governments Election Task Force.

The report includes the following recommendations submitted by the City and developed by a cross-party committee initiated by Woodsworth:

Immediate Release: March 17, 2010

At the close of the Paralympic Games, COPE Park Board Commissioner Loretta Woodcock and City Councillor Ellen Woodsworth are bringing forward  “True Sport” motions to the March 22 Park Board meeting, and March 25 City Council standing committee meeting.

The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation will be celebrating International Women’s Day March 8 with a public reception from 7-9pm at Heritage Hall, 3102 Main Street.

The reception will honour the women athletes recognized through this year’s Remarkable Women poster series, published by the Park Board. The public are invited to this free celebration to meet some of the women featured and create their own remarkable woman poster.