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THE CITY & OTHER GOVERNMENTAL BODIES

CITY OF VANCOUVER VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY The City is responsible for overseeing the The Vancouver Public Library (VPL) is separate legal implementation of strategic policies to create a better Q entity from the City and is governed by the provincial ' !" "! ' •_ J. city. We do this by working day-to-day on projects that Library Act. The VPL Board is made up of 13 trustees help keep Vancouver operating, such as coordinating 'W' appointed by City Council and develops library policy and planning for the development of housing, and service strategy, provides financial oversight and funding social and community services, undertaking works with the Chief Librarian to oversee the provision maintenance and improvements of the city’s public of services. works and licensing businesses. VANCOUVER PARK BOARD METRO VANCOUVER The Vancouver Park Board is the only elected body Metro Vancouver is a federation of 21 municipalities, of its kind in Canada and has jurisdiction, and control one Electoral Area and one Treaty First Nation. Their over more than 240 public parks in Vancouver and a core services are drinking water, wastewater treatment large public recreation system of community centres, and solid waste management. Metro Vancouver also pools, rinks, fitness centres, golf courses, street trees, regulates air quality, plans for urban growth, manages marinas, playing fields, and more. a regional parks system and provides affordable housing. The regional district is governed by a Board of TRANSLINK Directors of elected officials from each local authority. Translink delivers and plan the region’s transportation system through its subsidiaries: Coast Mountain Bus VANCOUVER POLICE DEPARTMENT Company Ltd., BC Rapid Transit Company (SkyTrain) The Vancouver Police Board is the employer and and West Coast Express Limited, and its contractors. governing body of the Vancouver Police Department, Translink is governed by the Board of Directors and and a separate legal entity from the City. City Council Mayor Council, which Vancouver Mayor Kennedy provides funding for the VPD through the annual Stewarts sits on, and they approve transportation budget, under the BC Police Act which mandates how plans and strategies – including pricing and routes municipal police departments are funded. The Act is - for the region. currently undergoing review with the Province. BC EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICES BC Emergency Health Services provides emergency VANCOUVER COASTAL HEALTH services and patient transfers and oversees the BC Vancouver Coastal Health is a regional health authority Ambulance Services and BC Patient Transfer Services.

A■■ ■■■ ■■ that provides healthcare through hospitals, primary e The BCEHS is part of the Provincial Health Authority .. ■ ■ .. ■ ._. ■ care clinics, community health centres and long-term and works closely with Vancouver’s Fire and Rescue care and is provincially mandated. The City works Services calls. closely with VCH on the Healthy City Strategy which includes responding to the opioid crisis, enhancing our BC HOUSING collaborative efforts around a healthy environment, and BC Housing develops, manages and administers a food security. wide range of subsidized housing options across BC. They are accountable to the Minister of Municipal VANCOUVER SCHOOL BOARD Services and Housing and are governed by a Board of The Vancouver School Board is the school district Commissioners appointed by the Lieutenant Governor. that Vancouver’s K-12 schools and is governed by the The City works to advocate for Vancouver residents, Vancouver Board of Education of nine-elected trustees advance housing priorities, and partner with them on and one student trustee. The VSB curriculum is set by the development of affordable housing in Vancouver, the Ministry of Education. but cannot intervene in their decision-making.

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