COS Financial Plan 2018 - 2022

ENGINEERING

 Solicited input from select contractors on their safety procedures to establish certified safety training program(s) for every contractor working on City roads or statutory rights-of-way.

 Reduced illegal dumping costs by over 42% through implementing various initiatives;  Increased annual lease and rental revenues by more than $900,000 over 2016 levels;  Increased, through appraisal review and negotiation, the cash-in-lieu contribution of park dedication payments to the City by more than $6 million over and above the original amounts tendered as part of development applications;  Completed 375 appraisal requests. The Appraisal Section also provided land valuation estimates for 311 properties for the proposed DCC budget analysis for the Parks program;  Registered 507 statutory rights-of-way for the Land Development division, including liaison with the development community, which is on par with Land Development statutory rights-of-way registered during 2016;  Successfully integrated the operation of Dogwood Campground into the City’s Realty management portfolio;  Enhanced CityWorks counter-related  Developed draft document for a Land Development Contractor Violation (CRV) to gather details of an incident, guide process to determine whether the incident constitutes a severe or minor violation, and determine appropriate actions based on the severity of violation; and ECONOMIC PROSPERITY & LIVELIHOODS

 Expedited the following “Nexus” projects:  SFU Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering Building (Servicing Agreement and Building Permit issued);  Kekinow Native Housing (Servicing Agreement issued); and  Anthem Properties in City Centre (reviewing servicing design ahead of 1st reading).  Piloted the use of surety bond instead of cash or letter of credit as an alternate form of security for Servicing Agreements with two development files;  Completed final templates for new Servicing Agreement, Servicing Agreement Extension, Short-Form Servicing Agreement, Short-Form Servicing Agreement Amendment, Servicing Agreement for School District, DCC Front-Ending Agreement and Development Works Agreement; and  Presented the use of Bluebeam for Digital Plan Reviews at the 2017 Bluebeam eXtreme Conference in Los Angeles.

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2018-2022 Financial Plan

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