Agenda Package - City of Vernon

THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF VERNON
¡NTERNAL MEMORANDUM
TO:
PG:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
Leon Gous, Chief Administration Officer
Kim Flick, Manager Planning and Building
Wendy Majewski, TDM Coordinator
School Travel Plan Follow-up Report
DATE: January 14,2011
FILE: 8330-20-01
This memo provides an update on the results of the first three School Travel Plans (STP) undertaken at
Ellison, Harwood and Okanagan Landing elementary schools,
The STP program began in the fall of 2009 when, at its Regular Meeting of September L4,2009, Council
passed the following resolution:
"That Council endorse the partnership with HASTE-BC and Green
Communities Canada (GCC) to be the pilot test community for British
Columbia for the School Travel model framework lor 2OQ9-2OLO."
Vernon was subsequently indentified as a national and provincial community for the 2009-2010
STP with Haste-BC and Green Communities Canada.
Travel data was collected at each school to establish a starting point for student travel patterns
through the use of a variety of strategies, including:
o A classroom hands-up surveys for five consecutive days,
o A take home parent survey,
o A site visit with a walkabout, traffic observations and bus tour (provided by School District
22).The STP Steering Committee, volunteer representatives and students from each School
STP Committee participated and,
o Meetings were held to discuss, provide feedback and explain results.
At its Regular Meeting of January 26, 2OL0, Council received an interim memo outlining the results of
the surveys, traffic counts, observations and walkabouts that reviewed pertinent issues for each of the
three schools: Ellison, Harwood and Okanagan Landing Elementary schools.
The Transportation Demand Management Coordinator worked closely with the School Travel Plan
school committee and the Parent Advisory Council at each school, as well as the Municipal Steering
Committee, to develop School Travel Plan (STP) reports adopted by each school in September 20L0.
Both council representatives (Councillors Gilroy and O'Keefe) for the STP received these reports in
September of 2010.
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