City Employees Are City Residents
If unable to mandate that city employees reside in the City of Vancouver, create incentives for its employees to live in the City that they get paid to make better. Including teachers, police and firefighters. Besides recyling tax dollars, it will encourage employee buy-in to the health and vitality of Vancouver, and shrink the collective footprint of City staff commuters.
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The City of Vancouver is working toward creating complete communities throughout the city so that all residents can work, live and play within walking distance of each other, and that people can afford to live in the community in which they work. The City can’t mandate where staff choose to live.
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NOTE: Maggie's idea "Hiring Policy for City Employees to Live in the City" has been merged with this one
Living within the city of Vancouver should be a job pre-requisite for all City employees, and a requirement to be maintained throughout one's employment. This would encourage shorter vehicle trips and shorter commutes overall, and set a good example of live where you work / work where you live. It would encourage hiring locally, and if a City employee must move to another municipality, perhaps a reciprocal agreement could be made with other municipal governments to give hiring priority to x-employees from other municipalities.
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Janine Brossard
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Perhaps change the City hiring policy to give 'points' to a job candidates who live in the City.
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KiwiGandalf
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Yeah... but you need to be able to make enough to be able to afford to live in the city. Maybe many city employees are residing outside of the city because of the cost of inner city housing.