Vote Vancouver on public services: arts, addiction care, childcare and safety
Public Services is Vote Vancouver's section on what City Hall delivers. It proposes an Independent Arts Council, more Recovery Community Centres, non-profit childcare in all new public housing, a Community Safety and Wellbeing Strategy, more public washrooms and a 10-day reply promise for City Hall.
CITY COUNCIL · PAGES 20 TO 32
The aim of Public Services, in the party's words
Vancouver should serve everyone.
Public Services covers pages 20 to 32 of Vote Vancouver's Policy Priorities, the longest part of the document. The party says the city should work for all of its residents, with a City Hall that listens and public services people can rely on. The council chapters here cover the arts, addiction and mental health, childcare, public safety, community spaces and the way City Hall answers residents. The section's lists on schools and parks have their own pages on this site.
The party would move City arts grants to an Independent Arts Council, with at least 90% of its money going directly to the arts. It would build more Recovery Community Centres and support the Road to Recovery program at St. Paul's. On childcare, it would require non-profit childcare in all new public housing. It would also write a Community Safety and Wellbeing Strategy, reply to every City Hall inquiry within 10 days and restart the Energize Vancouver emissions-reporting program.
Council controls city grants, permits, city buildings and the capital plan. Other parts need other bodies. The Province runs health and addiction services and funds childcare operations, and the Vancouver Police Board directs the police department.
6 CHAPTERS
Every chapter in Public Services
Create an Independent Arts Council
Vote Vancouver: an arts navigator in six months, then an Independent Arts Council
- Arts, Culture and Creative City Navigator within six months
- Independent Arts Council to run City arts grants
- Arts Council to advocate and remove barriers
Addiction and Mental Health Supports
Vote Vancouver on addiction: Recovery Community Centres and Road to Recovery
- Advocating for more provincial support
- Supporting St. Paul's Road to Recovery program
- More Recovery Community Centres
Affordable Childcare
Vote Vancouver on childcare: capital plan money, public housing, school sites
- More childcare money in the 2027 to 2030 capital plan
- Non-profit childcare in all new public housing
- Advocating for $10aDay childcare funding
Public Safety
Vote Vancouver on safety: a wellbeing strategy, restorative justice, policing hubs
- Community Safety and Wellbeing Strategy
- Ending gender-based violence
- A Restorative Justice System
Community Spaces, Arts and Festivals
Vote Vancouver: public washrooms, dog-friendly spaces and a Festivals Vancouver Fund
- More public washrooms
- Small outdoor music and performance spaces
- Dog-friendly patios and park spaces
Effectiveness of City Hall
Vote Vancouver on City Hall: 10-day replies, concierge desks, faster services
- Relationships with the Coast Salish Nations
- 10-day response commitment
- Concierge desks for businesses, events and community groups
WHO WOULD HAVE TO ACT
Who holds the power for these 34 commitments
Each chapter page names the body for every commitment and gives the reason in one sentence.
ON THE BALLOT
The Vote Vancouver candidates behind this
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Questions about Public Services
What is Vote Vancouver's plan for arts funding?
Vote Vancouver would set up an Arts, Culture and Creative City Navigator at City Hall within six months, then an Independent Arts Council to hand out City arts grants. At least 90% of the council's yearly money would go to the arts sector and no more than 10% to running costs (Policy Priorities, pages 22 to 23).
What would Vote Vancouver do about addiction and mental health?
The party would press the Province for more mental health services and treatment beds, build more Recovery Community Centres, support St. Paul's Road to Recovery program with more supportive housing, and improve coordination so police are not the only response to a crisis (Policy Priorities, page 24).
What is Vote Vancouver's childcare plan?
Vote Vancouver would require non-profit childcare in all new public housing, put more childcare money in the city's 2027 to 2030 capital plan, audit underused public land for new spaces and press the Province to fund $10aDay childcare (Policy Priorities, page 25).
What does Vote Vancouver promise on public safety?
The party would write a Community Safety and Wellbeing Strategy with police, health providers and community groups, expand work against gender-based violence, set up a restorative justice system and turn Community Policing Centres into neighbourhood hubs (Policy Priorities, page 28).
What is Vote Vancouver's 10-day response promise?
Vote Vancouver would commit City Hall to answering inquiries within 10 days. The party says this means you hear within 10 days what the city plans to do, and that the problem may not be fixed by then (Policy Priorities, page 32).
Who would have to act on Vote Vancouver's public services plan?
City Council can act on arts grants, city service desks, permits and the capital plan. The Province runs health and addiction services and sets childcare funding, so on those the party says it would advocate. The Vancouver Police Board directs the police (Policy Priorities, pages 20 to 32).
Sources
Every commitment on this page comes from the party's own material, marked SAYS SO ITSELF. It proves what the party says it would do. Who holds each power is our own addition, from the sources listed after it.
- Vote Vancouver Policy Priorities SAYS SO ITSELFVote Vancouver · pages 20 to 32 · checked