Fraser Region Budget 2009/10 Mobilization

Meeting Notes - August 20, 2009

Present: Ian Mass, Laurie Birdsall, Joanne Granek, Lynda Edmonds, Sandra Gebhardt,
Shiarose Jinnah, Merlyn Horton, David Young, Joanne Fike, Dale Cuthbertson
Regrets: Tim Agg, Jim McLaughlin

1. Feedback on Budget 2009: Making ourselves heard - A toolkit for effective

community engagement
• Lots of good background
a) Toolkit needs to reflect a much broader context - effects of lessened
foundation, gaming, social enterprise and other incomes - not all about
government funding. There is a significant increase in poverty and the
relief of poverty beyond EI and income assistance is only supported by
community
b) Concern about messaging – need a provincially consistent and tighter
level of messaging – local Fed members will tailor community messages
c) Need, as part of analysis, the impact on our agencies as community
businesses, renters, staff, suppliers, etc.
d) If major cuts happen the expertise loss and ultimately the rebuilding cost
e) One member talked about having 4 MLA’s in their community - 2 Liberal,
2 NDP. The same message to NDP and Liberals doesn’t work. If you want
it to move an issue forward give it to Liberals. If you want the issue on the
floor of the Legislature give it to the NDP. Visits to MLA’s should have
clarity of purpose.
f) Template development on what the children, youth and families we work
with can say.
g) Where is Board Voice in this?

2. Overview of plan to mobilize Fraser members discussed.

a) Each mobilizer calls 4 - 5 other Fed members and asks them to develop a
plan collectively. The attached matrix outlines who is calling who.
b) See every MLA in their area (see attached matrix). The MLA will ask what
you want them to do. Be prepared (see e above).
c) Support resolutions to individual City Councils. Federation is being asked
to draft a city council resolution which has a basic message of 1) support
services for citizens in economic downturn 2) don’t download.
 Some councils may not be interested, others could be

d) Letter writing by the people we serve, staff and Board

e) Media stories about the value of the work we do (at least 1 story per
agency)

f) Speaking at service club meetings, community events etc. Seek out allies
and spokespeople in the community who can take our messages to
tables and organizations that we don’t have access to. Family Resource
Programs, I.S.S., Success, BIA’s etc.

The mobilizer then develops a support and feedback mechanism to themselves that
documents what the 4 - 5 agencies are doing so that Lynda and Ian can report back
to the Federation.

Next Steps (beyond doing all of the above)

1. Ian to call Tim and Jim with the above info

2. The strategy will either be a crisis strategy (if the September budget hits us hard)
or a strategy working towards the March 2010 budget. The Federation Board is
meeting on September 2 (the day after the budget) to discuss and recommend
strategy to its members.

3. Merlyn will do an on line repository http://budgetmobilization.posterous.com. This

site is private. The password is "fcssbc". We can now post to our shared group
blog, Federation Mobilization Site. Merlyn has added your email address to the
site so anytime you email post@budgetmobilization.posterous.com, you'll see it
online at http://budgetmobilization.posterous.com. The subject of your email
becomes the title of your post, and the body and attachments of the email
become the content of your post. You can post text, photos, music, video,
documents and all kinds of files, emailing it to
post@budgetmobilization.posterous.com.

4. Review progress at Fraser Fed meeting on September 17.

Telephone Tree Assignments

TREE CAPTAIN Contact Name AGENCY AREA MLA’s

Laurie Birdsall Christine Mohr Options Surrey - Jagrup Brar, Surrey-
Fleetwood - NDP - 604-501-
David Young Darlene SOS Surrey 8227
Straarup - Harry Bains, Surrey-
Newton - NDP - 604-597-
8248
- Stephanie Cadieux, Surrey-
Panorama, Lib - 250-952-
7653
 - Sue Hammell, Surrey-
Green Timbers - NDP- 604-
586-2791
- Dave Hayer, Surrey-
Tinehead, Lib -604-501-3201
Bruce Ralston, Surrey-
Whalley NDP -604-586-2740
- Gordon Hogg, Surrey-
White Rock - Lib -604-542-
3930
- Kevin Falcon, Surrey-
Cloverdale - Health Services
-604-576-3792

Jeanne Fike Cheryl Mixon FSGV New West - Raj Chouhan, Burnaby-
Burnaby + Edmonds - NDP -604-520-
Derek Pollock St Leonards Burnaby 2756
Noreen Janus Burnaby - Kathy Corrigan, Burnaby-
Boudreau Deer Lake, Lib - 250-387-
Shawn Bayes E Fry New West 3655
Linda Fletcher - PUPOSE New West - Richard Lee, Burnaby
Gordon North, Lib -604-775-0778
- Harry Bloy, Burquitlam, Lib
-604-933-2077
- Dawn Black, New
Westminster, NDP - 250-
387-3655

Joanne Ann Kutcher Westcoast Tri-Cities - Iain Black, Port Moody-

Granek/Lynda + Westwood, Small Business -
Edmonds Brad Watson Act 2 604-933-2312
Tri-Cities - Mike Farnworth, Port
+ Coquitlam-Burke Mountain -
NDP -604-927-2088
- Douglas Horne, Coquitlam-
Burke Mountain, Lib - 1 800
691-9185
- Diane Thorne, Coquitlam-
Maillardville, NDP -604-933-
2001

Sandra Doug Sabourin Delta Assist Delta - Guy Gentner, Delta North -
Gebhardt NDP - 604-597-1488
- Vicki Huntington, Delta
South, Independent - 604
940-7924

Shairose Maclin Hope Hope - Mike de Jong, Abbotsford-

Jinnah Bourquin Community Mt Lehman - Attorney
Dale Services General -604-870-5486
Cuthbertson Heidi - John Les, Chilliwack-
Tractmann Agassiz- Agassiz Sumas, Lib - 604-702-5214
Harrison Harrison - Barry Penner, Chilliwack-
Community Kent - Environment -604-
Services 858-6202
Toni Lapointe Mission - John van Dongen,
Mission Abbotsford-Clayburn - 604-
Comm 870-5945
Services

Jim Val London FAYSS Langley Rich Coleman, Fort

McLaughlin Langley-Aldergrove,
Bill Dartnell Langley Housing and Social
Development -604- 607-
6200
Mary Polak, Langley, MCFD
-604-514-8206

Tim Agg Peter Farnden WJ Maple - Marc Dalton, Maple Ridge-

Stelmaschuk Ridge Mission, Lib - 1 866 370-
& 6203
Vicki Kipps Associaties - Randy Hawes, Maple
Ridge-Mission, Lib -604-
Maple Ridge Maple 820-6203
Comm Ridge - Michael Sather, Maple
Services Ridge-Pitt Meadows - NDP
-604-476-9823

Merlyn Horton Jocelyn Helland Youth in Provincial

Care
Karen Madeiros Adoptive Burnaby
Family
Assoc
Bonnie Roy Orenda Burnaby
Services to
Children