Category: Champlain Park Community Association (CPCA)

CPCA Executive Meeting Agenda – June 8

Agenda

Champlain Park Community Association (CPCA) Executive Meeting

Thursday June 8, 7:30 pm, at CoChair1’s house.

Exec meetings will have an open session for community residents to observe exec business discussions. Non exec community members will also be invited to participate at certain times by the chair and there will be “in camera” topics for the executive only.

We will start the meeting promptly at 7:30 as there is a lot to cover.

As space is limited at CoChair1’s house, guests should write to champlainpark@gmail.com
to let her know they are coming, so she can organize chairs.

Open session (Approx 1 hour)

  1. Approval of previous minutes of executive meeting Jan 11, 2017, and review of action items – All
  2. Report of interim executive motions – All
  3. Open versus Closed Agenda Items – CoChair1
  4. Decision-Making Protocol – Roland
  5. “Housekeeping” items – Brief- CoChair1
    • Presenting CPCA position to external parties Protocol
    • Template for CPCA Correspondence
    • Signature lines in CPCA Correspondence:
      1. Name, Exec Position. Champlain Park Community Association (CPCA)
      2. On Behalf of the Executive or On Behalf of the XXX Committee
  6. Assigning one point person to co-ordinate internal discussion and to communicate conclusions/requests to external parties – CoChair1
  7. Membership Risk Management Committee – can be deferred – CoChair1
  8. Project for 150th Perennial Flower Garden outside the field house – Laurie

CPCA Executive Meeting – April 11

Champlain Park Community Association (CPCA) Executive Meeting Open Session
Tuesday April 11, 2017
7:30 PM at Heather’s House

Exec meetings will have an open session for community residents to observe exec business discussions. Non exec community members will also be invited to participate at certain times by the chair and there will be “in camera” topics for the executive only.

Heather’s house is at 251 Keyworth, check the web site (this post) for last minute location changes.

Agenda

Open session (Approx 1.25 hours)

  1. Approval of previous minutes of executive meeting Jan 11, 2017, and review of action items – All
  2. Report of interim executive motions – All
  3. Decision-making process re: what issues CPCA will address as a board vs. inform community via website – Duncan, Roland, all
  4. Suggestion to have CPCA Agenda and Minutes posted on the CP website for providing more transparency to our community at large – Adrian
  5. Information Management practices for CPCA – Liz
  6. Environment Committee report – Daniel
  7. LRT Phase 2 Bus Detour – Roland
  8. Community Projects for Approval – Adrian

New Event Calendar System

We’re experimenting with using a Google calendar as our list of events, in hopes that it will be easier for you to use and for us to update. Please let us know if it doesn’t work for you.

Here is the event listing in embedded format, which you can also find on our front page at https://champlainpark.org/

There is also an ICS calendar file at https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/4mdn2hhapkr1aj0889luvqgips%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics and the web page equivalent is at https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=4mdn2hhapkr1aj0889luvqgips%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Toronto, though those may change once we stop experimenting.

Champlain Park Community Offers Support to Ottawa Mosque

From: Carol Arnason <carol.arnason@ocsb.ca>
Date: Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 5:25 PM
Subject: Champlain Park Community Offers Support to Ottawa Mosque.

Dear Imam Samy and Naeem Malik: In light of the sad news of a terrorist attack on the Islamic Centre in Quebec City we feel the need to offer our support to you, the Ottawa Muslim Community,at this time. Unfortunately, it is only a couple of months since we joined in a solidarity walk through Hintonburg after the vandalism of places of worship in November in Ottawa.

Once again, we will ask all of the residents in the Champlain Park Community to be vigilant and report quickly to police any suspicious activity in the area of the Ottawa Mosque.

At our Champlain Park Winter Carnival 2017, last Saturday, January 28, 2017, I was heartened to see neighbours of a variety of cultures drinking hot chocolate, taking sleigh rides, and listening to fiddle music. I could hear English, French, Arabic, and Chinese being spoken along with a lot of laughter. As we discussed in November, we should plan more of these multicultural family events.

Please contact us if you have ideas of how we can show support. The Champlain Park Community Association is ready to join with you to build a warm, welcoming community.

Sincerely,
Carol Arnason (613-729-6639)
Social Coordinator and Communications
Champlain Park Community Association

CPCA Executive Meeting Agenda – January 11

Agenda

Champlain Park Community Association (CPCA) Executive Meeting

Wednesday January 11, 2017
7:30 PM at 251 Keyworth (Heather Pearl’s house)

Exec meetings will have an open session for community residents to observe exec business discussions. Non exec community members will also be invited to participate at certain times by the chair and there will be “in camera” topics for the executive only.

Open session (Approx 1.25 hours)

  1. Approval of previous minutes of executive meeting Oct 6, 2016, and review of action items, attached – All
  2. Report of interim executive motions – All
  3. Round table introductions – All
  4. Introduction to roles and responsibilities of non-profit board – CoChair1
  5. Treasurer role/responsibilities – CoChair1, Heather, Joan
  6. Constitution – review of legislative requirements and sample constitutions from the legislation – CoChair1
  7. Decision-making process re: what issues CPCA will address as a board vs. inform community via website – Duncan, Roland, all
  8. Risk management committee to review NCC access agreement, CPCA and urban greenspaces group relationship re insurance and risk management – All
  9. Project Process – Adrian, Nick, all
  10. Comments function on website – clarification – CoChair1, Adrian, Alex, all
  11. Suggestion to have CPCA Agenda and Minutes posted on the CP website for providing more transparency to our community at large (Adrian)

Survey on Neighbourhood Safety

Roland, our civic engagement person has a request:

The Federation of Community Associations (FCA) is kindly requesting you fill out a short 3 minute online survey on Community Safety and Security. We ask that you fill out the survey by December 6th.

Survey Link:
FCA Policing and Community Safety Survey

Many thanks,

Roland Dorsay

Notice of Change in Agenda for Tomorrow’s AGM

Catherine McKenna has sent her regrets, as she will not be able to attend tomorrow’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Champlain Park Community Association (CPCA).

However, we will still be welcoming Councillor Jeff Leiper and a representative of the Ottawa Mosque.

Please join us at 7:15 for refreshments; 7:30 for the meeting.

More details here:

Champlain Park – Parkland Expansion project – moving forward

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November 20, 2016  Jeff Leiper -Kitchissippi Ward Newsletter #72

pontiac-park-expansion

Moving forward with next steps on potential Pontiac closure

 

 

Over the past couple of months, we’ve heard a lot of feedback on whether to press ahead with a proposal I originally heard from community members to close a portion of Pontiac in order to join Champlain Park with the NCC property to the north. That idea captured my and others’ imagination, and we’ve had a rich consultation on it.

As we go into the Champlain Park Community Association annual general meeting next week, I’m preparing to let folks know I’ve decided to proceed with next steps toward achieving that. There’s no guarantee we can accomplish it, but I’ve had enough discussions with the City to be confident that the plan is achievable.

Clearly, it would have pros and cons. Our consultation has raised a number of separate but notionally-related issues on which we’ll also have to work. But, I’ve heard the overwhelming support, counted the traffic, listened to the concerns, and am feeling very comfortable that this step would be to the overall benefit of the quality of life year-round in Champlain Park. Read more here.

Champlain Park Community Association AGM

The Champlain Park Community Association is holding its AGM on Tuesday, November 22 in the field house at 149 Cowley Avenue. I’ll be on hand to provide an update about potential next steps for the Pontiac closure.

How we got here!

22-Nov-2016 CPCA – AGM Meeting Jeff Leiper to provide update
20-Nov-2016 Jeff Leiper -Kitchissippi Ward Newsletter #72
21-Oct-2016 Update: Champlain Park – Park Land Expansion Proposal
01-Oct-2016 Jeff Leiper – Kitchissippi Ward Newsletter #65
27-Sept-2016 Friendly Reminder: Park Expansion Opportunity, We need your support!
25-Sept-2016 Jeff Leiper – Kitchissippi Ward Newsletter #64
20-Sept-2016 Park Expansion Opportunity, We need your support!
28-April-2016 The Park Extension was first proposed to Jeff by Carol Arnason on behalf of Adrian Bradley, who was unable to attend this meeting with Jeff. Adrian later met with Jeff at one of his pop-up meetings held at the Van Lang Fieldhouse to follow up on the status of this proposal. Where Jeff indicated he was looking into it, and would be setting up meeting with community to discuss further.

Traffic Counts along Pontiac

Traffic counts September 22 and 23, 2016 (snippet source: from Jeff’s Newsletter #65)

I want to understand the traffic implications better, so did some quick counts on Thursday and Friday.

On Friday, I was out from 3:15-5:05 and counted on Pontiac in the stretch we’re floating closing:

  • 15 cars westbound that came from Northwestern
  • 4 cars westbound that came from Carleton
  • 17 cars eastbound from Cowley. My impression is that these were almost all Tunney’s parkers.
  • 17 cars eastbound from Keyworth, including 7 that had a child visible in the car (my assumption is that these are pick-ups from the school), and 3 buses
  • 10 cars eastbound from Patricia, including 6 that had a child visible in the car (again, I’m making an assumption of pick-ups)
  • 2 bikes eastbound, and 15 bikes westbound
  • 14 pedestrians eastbound, and 25 pedestrians westbound. As you might imagine, a very large number of these westbound pedestrians looked like they were headed to their car from Tunney’s Pasture.

As an observation, the school rush lasts for about 10 minutes immediately after the bell. Traffic is extremely light outside of that period.

On Thursday morning, I did a count from 7:30 to 9:15 am.

On Pontiac westbound I observed:

  • From Northwestern: 9 vehicles, of which 8 had kids visible
  • From Carleton: 14 vehicles, of which 10 had kids visible and one bus
  • 4 bikes
  • 10 pedestrians

On Pontiac eastbound I observed:

  • One vehicle – a resident of the Keyworth/Cowley block
  • One vehicle from Cowley
  • 12 vehicles from Keyworth, of which 4 were buses
  • 7 vehicles from Patricia, of which 1 was a bus
  • 33 bikes
  • 6 pedestrians

Ottawa Mosque – Champlain Park Neighbour

The Champlain Park Community Association (CPCA) was shocked and deeply concerned to learn of the vandalism and hate-filled messages that targeted the Ottawa Central Mosque in our small community last night.

We are deeply honoured that the Ottawa Muslim Association calls our neighbourhood home. And to our neighbours and friends we say: you are welcome here. We stand with you today, and we offer you our support, help, and vigilance to prevent future acts of hatred.

To our residents, please keep an eye out for any suspicious activity around the Mosque.

And if you have any information that could help with the current investigation, please contact Ottawa Police at 613-230-6211.