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[email protected]> Subject: Metro Vancouver's Chair Update ‐ July 2019 Metro Vancouver Chair Update ‐ July 2019 In this Issue ISSUE 79, July 2019 1. Metro Vancouver celebrates National Indigenous Peoples Day Councillor Ander, 2. Metro Vancouver builds new water main in Surrey Welcome to our summer update, the last before we break for a month. A lot has been happening lately at Metro 3. Urban forests key to Vancouver, including a celebration of National Indigenous combating climate Peoples Day, in which we hosted a visit of Squamish Nation’s change in our Spakwus Slolem (Eagle Song Dancers) to head office, and a communities booth at Vancouver’s Trout Lake. 4. Odour solutions: Highbury Interceptor Air We have also started a carpet recycling pilot program at the Management Facility Coquitlam Transfer Station and are building several new water mains in the City of Surrey and an air management 5. BCIT students conduct facility in Musqueam Park in South Vancouver. A fresh water habitat comprehensive update of Metro 2040, the regional growth studies in Minnekhada studies in Minnekhada strategy, is also underway, while we work to build a better Regional Park understanding and inventory of the natural resources within 6. Metro Vancouver Metro Vancouver’s Regional Parks. approves 2019‐2022 With climate change upon us, our air quality division teamed Board Strategic Plan up with Vancouver Coastal Health to help the media get a 7.