Ambassador Services expansion with Strathcona BIA to go before council

A Project Civil City report is recommending that the Committee on City Services and Budgets negotiate and enter into a one-year sole-source contract with the Strathcona and Chinatown BIA associations. These contracts recommended to council are for the expansion of the Ambassador Program with BIAs that also include Kerrisdale and Robson Street.

The recommendation and contractual delivery of the ambassador services would use trained professional service providers for the Chinatown and Strathcona Programs. Key elements in the programs involve street patrol duty, safe-walk services, criminal activity monitoring and data collection and tracking, and appropriate action taken under the Trespass Act. The Strathcona BIA program will also employ a unique combination of foot and bicycle patrols with some limited vehicle use (in occasional instances where patrol-personnel safety might be a concern) their program has significant on-street community interaction.

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