Year 2006 Number I1 Metropolis News · General Secretariat www.metropolis.org English Version

 Conclusions of the last Metropolis Board of Directors  New appointments Meeting  Metropolis website upgrade  Summary of Standing Commissions and training  Calendar of meetings activities Summary

Metropolis to elect a new Board of Directors Meeting President on December 16 Summary Toronto 2006

Joan.Clos The Board of Directors meeting in Toronto was held on will step down June 16 under the presidency of Gérald Tremblay, Mayor of a f t e r .. e i g h t Montreal and Executive Vice-President North America and years as head Treasurer of Metropolis. President Joan Clos was unable to of Metropolis travel to Toronto due to an important referendum taking place f o l l o w i n g in . appointment Board of Directors participation was high, with over 80% a s . M i n i s t e r of the metropolises represented at the meeting. o f . I n d u s t r y , At the beginning of the meeting two new active members T r a d e .. a n d were unanimously voted in: Frankfurt and Manchester. Tourism..for With regard to the Activity Reports, a detailed assess- the..Spanish ment was made of the period since the last Board of Directors Government. meeting in Berlin in 2005. The six Metropolis Standing Commissions for The President of the 2006-2008 period (C1 on Eco-Regions, C2 on Joan Clos has been President of Metropolis between 1998 and 2006. Metropolis, Joan Financing of Services and Urban Infrastructures, C3 on Clos, has called Comprehensive Neighbourhood Regeneration, C4 on Urban an extraordinary meeting of the Board of Directors to Mobility Management, C5 on Metropolitan Performance select his successor as head of the World Association of Measurement, and C6 on Water Management) warran- Major Metropolises. ted special attention, and each of their respective coor- The 22 members of the Metropolis Board of Directors dinators (Michel Vampouille, Paris Ile-de-France; Amara will meet in Paris on December 16 to hold this important Ouerghi, Montreal; Helena Maria Gasparian, Sao Paulo; meeting. Ingeborg Junge-Reyer, Berlin; Julien Hill, Melbourne-Victoria, Joan Clos, who has been President of Metropolis since and Marcela Velasco, State of Mexico) made a presentation. 1998 and Mayor of Barcelona since 1997, was appointed Three of these groups (C1, C2 and C4) held their first Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism by the Spanish meetings in Toronto. C3 held it first meeting in Sao Paulo Government on September 9, 2006. (March 2006) and C5 within the framework of the World has replaced Joan Clos as Mayor of Urban Forum in Vancouver, which took place just a few days Barcelona and has reconfirmed Barcelona’s strong after the Toronto Board of Directors meeting. commitment to Metropolis. The Board of Directors first approved the 2005-2006 The presentation of the C5 re- Activity Report and then the 2005 Financial Report, port was chosen as the moment presented by Amara Ouerghi, Treasurer of Metropolis. to pay a warm tribute to Tanzib Debate then got underway on the 2006-2008 Action Chowdhury, who together with Mary Plan. In the first place, Janine Haddad and Jacques Bailet Lewin, served as joint Coordinator made recommendations on the Bank of the Cities project Tanzib Chowdhury of the Metropolis Commission On headed by Paris-Ile de France. (1968-2006) Performance Measurement. Tanzib Secondly, Josep Roig explained the project to create a Chowdhury, who worked with UN-Habitat, died on April study group on the Trends in Metropolises Development, 11th in a fatal car accident near Mombassa, Kenya. already included in the 2006-2008 Action Plan approved at the Berlin Congress. However, the Board of Directors decided to suspend the 2007 budget allocation for this With regard to training activities, the Board approved project. the proposal put forth by Amara Ouerghi, Director of the Metropolis International Training Institute, to work with the Training Center for Local Authorities and Civil Society Leaders (CIFAL Atlanta). Following this, Vice-President of the World Bank Institute, Frannie Leautier, reported good prospects for the work developed between the two institutions in the area of metropolitan governance. Lastly, Amara Ouerghi presented the distance learning pilot project, a strategic commitment aimed at significantly increasing the number of students at the Institute. The Board approved the proposal. In the area of technical assistance, Josep Roig, Secretary General of Metropolis, reported on the waste management assistance programme for Puebla. The Mayor of Antananarivo, Patrick Ramiaramanana, requested technical assistance for cleaning up the Andriantany Canal. The Board of Directors gave its support to both projects. Francine Senécal, Coordinator of the Women’s Network of David Miller, Mayor of Toronto, Patrick Ramiaramanana, Mayor of Antananarivo, Gérald Tremblay, Mayor of Montreal, Chris Metropolis, gave a very positive assessment of the network’s Johnson, Director of Sydney 2008, after the press conference. progress and expressed her desire to see it become a permanent commission. As for international activities, Josep Roig underscored Thus, the Board passed the 2007 Budget and the collaborative efforts between Metropolis and UN-Habitat, Membership Fees. The only change made was to shift the UNACLA, ICLEI and the US Conference of Mayors. resources originally earmarked for analysing the evolution of the metropolises to the area of Technical Assistance. Lastly, the Board members were notified about pre-candidates for hosting the 2009 Board of Directors meeting. The final decision, however, will not be taken until the Antananarivo meeting in 2007. Following this last item, Acting President of Metropolis, Gérald Tremblay, thanked all of the Board members for their participation and congratulated himself on the success of the Toronto meetings.

The Board of Directors Meeting.

Secretary General of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), Elisabeth Gateau, invited Metropolis members to the UCLG World Congress to be held in October 2007 in Jeju, South Korea. Next, the Mayor of Antananarivo gave a rundown of the provisional programme for the 2007 Board of Directors. Chris Johnson, Director of Sydney 2008, revealed a few details on the 9th Metropolis Congress. The Secretary General of Metropolis provided a general assessment of the main activities dealing with the exchange of information, transfer of knowledge and member communi- cation and campaign. He also took the occasion to present the “Study on Metropolitan Regions”, which analyses 52 View of Toronto metropolises around the world. Comission 2: Financing of Urban Comission 1: Eco-regions Services and Infrastructures Meeting Meeting

The Commission 2 on Badoulaye Traore, Mayor of Financing Infrastructures and Bamako, Enrique Peña Nieto, Services, led by Montreal, held Governor of the State of Mexico, its work from June 14 to 16 Frannie Léautier, Vice-President, 2006 in Toronto. Approximately World Bank Institute and William 120 people representing Spurr, President, Bombardier 22 metropolises took part -Transport), according to their in this work. On June 15, the different points of view, recalled delegates of member metro- the importance of the private polises attended the presenta- investment in the public tions of 12 case studies of cities infrastructures. It was stated (Toronto, Abidjan, Guangzhou, on several occasions that the Brampton, Halifax, Barcelona, public-private partnerships were Bamako, Vancouver, Brussels, not the solution to all manage- Montréal, Buenos Aires and ment and financing problems, Commission 1 Meeting. Teheran), and of the project of that each project is unique and Bank of Cities. On June 16, the specific to a given context and On June 15, 2006 the During the meeting the mem- representatives of multilateral that the PPP formula cannot first meeting of Commission ber cities had the opportu- and international institutions meet all types of needs. 1 on Eco-regions was held nity to present, compare and (World Bank and Inter-American In the closing session, in Toronto with some 40 analyse their experiences. Development Bank) and of Mayor Tremblay pointed out the delegates present. 17 cities Commission 1 continues the private sector made their importance of the Millennium were represented from 12 implementing the exchange presentations. A round table Development Goals, insisting different countries. of experiences and technical joining together represen- on the urgency to fight against Michel Vampouille, training among Metropolis tatives of various financing the poverty in cities and thus to Vice-President of the Île-de- member cities with related domainsconcluded preserve the human dignity. France Region, responsible regard to the concept of these days of exchanges. For further information, for Environment, Sustainable “eco-region” and its main The participants to the please contact Amara Ouerghi, Development and Eco-regions, themes: governance, manage- roundtable (Gérald Tremblay, Coordinator of Commission 2: chaired the meeting. The ment of green spaces Mayor of Montréal, Moussa [email protected] city of Toronto, the Secretariat and sustainable tourism. G e n e r a l . o f . M e t r o p o l i s The second meeting of Barcelona, representatives Commission 1 will take place from international organiza- in Paris in September 2007. tions, UNESCO, ICLEI-Local For further information, please Governments for Sustainability contact Marie Giorgi, Project and experts from different Manager of Commission 1: countries were also present. [email protected]

Commission 2 Meeting. Foreground, Georgina Pozo, State of Mexico.

Training on Urban Infrastructure Maintenance

The Metropolis Inter- elaborate infrastructure national Institute organi- maintenance strategies. sed from June 14 to 17, 19 participants represen- in Toronto, a seminar on ting nine metropolises maintenance of infrastruc- (Abidjan, Abomey, Bamako, ture. This seminar had the Cotonou, Kinshasa, Mexico, following main objectives: Montreal, Moscow, Toronto) provide practical infor- benefited from this forma- mation; refresh knowledge; tion which related to the master techniques; get to following elements: planning, know new innovative design, maintenance, reha- Participants during the Study Tour to Toronto approaches; link with bilitation, costs, cycles of life Union Station. professional experts and and optimization methods. Comission 4: Urban Mobility The President of the Commission, discussion, exchange opinions Inge-borg Junge-Reyer, Senator and learn from each other’s Management Meeting for Urban Development in Berlin, experiences. On the day opened the meeting by out- following the Commission’s lining the importance of the meeting, participants were chosen subject. She stated also able to attend the that in order to participate in ssion of Commission 2 and urban life, people need to be consider the possibility of creating mobile, and enabling mobility of further synergies between the all people in the city is therefore a work of the two Commissions. prerequisite for an active, The conference documentation cohesive society. These will soon be made available on Commission 4 Meeting. opening remarks were the Metropolis homepage, followed by a number of and a CD-Rom containing This year’s annual mee- based on the Berlin Declaration on keynote speeches that all presentations and further ting of Commission 4 “Urban Sustainable Urban Mobility adop- explored the subject further important information can Mobility Management” was held ted in 2005 and further discussions and gave detailed information also be oredered from in Toronto on June 15, 2006. The between the members of the on the kind and extent of the Commission 4. main topic of the meeting referred Commission. The conference various issues related to the For further information, to “Mobility and Social Cohesion” was attended by representatives overall topic in the cities. please contact Cornelia Poczka, with a strong emphasis put on from 16 cities and also inclu- Furthermore, two panel Coordinator of Commission 4: gender issues in transporta- ded members of the Metropolis discussions allowed for all cornelia.poczka@senstadt. tion. This choice of topic was International Women Network participants to share in the verwalt-berlin.de.

New appointments

From Metropolis we would like to congralulate Theodoros Bechrakis, Mayor of Athens; Seoung-hyo Park, Mayor of Daejeon; Hussain Nasser Lootah, Director General for Planning of Dubai Municipality; Kim Moon Soo, Governor of Gyeonggi Province; Oh Se-Hoon, Mayor of Seoul, and Kristina Axén Olin, Mayor of Stockholm.

METROPOLIS WEBSITE UPGRADE: We are pleased to inform you that the Metropolis website has been upgraded. We invite you to visit it at: www.metropolis.org

CALENDAR OF MEETINGS

NOVEMBER 2006

Date Name Venue Organized by Further information

22-25 21st Annual General Meeting Manchester Eurocities http://www.eurocities.org/ main.php

29-1 Dec. Cities Alliance Meeting Washington DC Cities Alliance www.citiesalliance.org

29-1 Dec. Forum “Higher Education, Research and Knowledge” Paris UNESCO www.unesco.org/education/ researchforum

29-1 Dec. 12th Mercociudades Summit Morón Mercociudades http://www.mercociudades. org

DECEMBER 2006

1-3 Megacities International Conference 2006 Guangzhou Megacities www.megacities.nl

4-6 Cityscape 2006: The 5th International Property Investment & Dubai Cityscape www.cityscape-online.com Development Event

5-7 International Forum on NEPAD and African Municipalities (FINEM 2006) Yaoundé Hearafryca [email protected]

5-9 83rd Congress of Cities and Exposition of the National League of Cities Reno National League of www.nlc.org Cities

15-16 Metropolis Extraordinary Board of Directors Meeting Paris Metropolis www.metropolis.org

JANUARY 2007

20-25 World Social Forum 2007 Nairobi World Social Forum www.forumsocialmundial. org/ve/Ingles

24-28 World Economic Forum Davos World Economic Forum www.weforum.org

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