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Inter Office Memo

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PRESIDENT'S REPORT TO COLLEGE BOARD

 

EXTERNAL MATVERS - MUNICIPAL

Dr. Terry Clement is working with New Westminster School District
personnel on bilateral arrangements for long-term use of school
district playground space on weekends, that we hope will enable
us to reach a complementary agreement with the City, and allow
the final signout of the College claims to use of river front
land.

On September 28, the Planning Institute of British Columbia held
its bi-annual conference at Douglas College. New Westminster
was the featured city for the two day conference, and the entire
second day of the conference was devoted to the community-based
economic planning activities of the Royal City Development Groun,
As the Board knows, Douglas Colieae is a major partner in this
enterprise. There was a great deal of interest in this approach
fo economic planning and development and more than thirty infor-
mation kits have been provided to municipalities and cities
throughout the province, at their request. The values to the
College resulting from our involvement are manifold - student
projects, some of them paid; direct faculty professional con-
tribution to community decision making; use of the College as 4
resource centre for community wide activities; a greatly expanded
range of working relationships with the business and industrial
community adjacent to the College.

On October 10, the senior management group from Andres Wines
in Port Moody, spent a half day at the College - partly for
purposes of a management seminar and partly on a tour of the
facilities and an explanation of our resources and long-term
planning. The Management Group at Andres has invited us to
set up a formal visit to Andres, in order to better understand
the nature of their operation, and possible training needs.

On October 15, I attended the Board meeting of the Downtown
New Westminster Association, as a Board Member. During that
meeting, I was asked by the Board to see if the College could
organize a major community-wide educational event, dealing
with the steeply rising rate of theft and vandalism ia the
New Westminster area.

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