City of Surrey 2017 - 2021 Financial Plan

City Manager

 Work with residents, property owners, and business operators to achieve compliance with City bylaws, and when necessary, utilizing the judicial process to do so; and  Continued successful management of many and often challenging bylaw prosecution files.

 Continue to support the development of the National Municipal Network (“NMN”) on Crime Prevention. In late 2015 the network received federal funding support and was renamed the Canadian Municipal Network on Crime Prevention (“CMNCP”);  Work with property owners to demolish abandoned and nuisance properties;

ECONOMIC PROSPERITY & LIVELIHOODS

 Promoted through the organization, an increased focus on data driven, evidence-based decision making.

 Innovation Boulevard Corporation created to provide a formal decision making, foundation funding and

governance structures between the City and Simon Fraser University to advance the social, economic and health science goals of Innovation Boulevard; and

HEALTH & WELLNESS

 Required that each department do a review of their Occupational Health and Safety Program, identifying opportunities and gaps in order to formulate a strategic OHS action plan by the end of the year.

CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY

 Implemented and launched a new Free- dom of Information (“FOI”) Portal for individuals to be able to efficiently make access requests; Five online train- ing modules were created for Email Management, FOI, Privacy, CASL (Anti- Spam Legislation), and General Aware- ness; 10 Privacy Training Sessions and 8 Records Training Sessions were con- ducted;  343 FOI requests have been received and processed in accordance with legislated timelines; and  Council minutes continue to be published publically on-line by noon the day after a Council meeting;

 Implemented digital delivery of Council mail, reducing the associated carbon footprint by eliminating the courier deliveries;  Managed and processed 249 Corporate Reports, 176 Public Hearing items and 140 Development Variance Permits, including the drafting of over 182 bylaws, and mail-out of 348 Public Hearing Notices to over 37,733 properties;  Continue with ongoing Privacy Awareness training to further imbed privacy management throughout the organization for 2016: 7 open training sessions and 105 staff trained;

2017-2021 FINANCIAL PLAN

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