While some of the recommendations are focused on what the city can do within its own operations, others are focused on advocating for additional supports from the provincial and federal governments, Coun. Murry Krause said. Krause was the chairperson of the select committee, and represented city council on the committee along with Coun. Cori Ramsay. The City of Prince George can t take on the whole challenge of poverty reduction alone, Krause said. In addition to an online survey, running Feb. 11 to March 19, the community engagement process will include efforts to engage with people currently accessing shelters in the city or who otherwise have barriers to participating in an online survey, Brown said.
City to hire four new bylaw officers, open downtown safety office
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Prince George will be hiring four new bylaw officers this year, as well as opening a new downtown safety office.
This would enable the hiring of the officers, with a view on improving management of social issues in the downtown area.
According to Acting City Manager Walter Babicz, the officers would be deployed seven days a week from 7 to 11 pm, from the forthcoming downtown public safety office.
The office will be located at Second Avenue and George Street, and is planned to open between March and April, with full capacity to begin in May.
Whether the tax increase to fix roads was sufficient or not, I can’t say, because I don’t know exactly how the money was spent. What I can say is that the roads are not fixed!
Potholes, cracks, and crumbling shoulders/sidewalks are visible all over the city. We need to look at what other jurisdictions with similar winter conditions (eg: Edmonton, Calgary) do for their roads, what percentage of tax dollars they spend on them, what technologies they’re using. Our roads and sidewalks are unsafe, and result in injury from falls for cyclists, pedestrians, and seniors in scooters. Our roads are too rough, causing damage to vehicle suspensions, and result in tremendous costs to automobile owners in repairs. Our roads need more than just surface repaving or patching. They need to be reconsidered in terms of use, types of traffic, routing, and engineering issues (base and sub-grades).