Early last fall, the Coalition Leadership Council initiated a Governance Review in order to ensure that the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness Society is optimally structured to fulfill its mission of ending homelessness in the region by 2018. The Leadership Council engaged a volunteer Community Review Team, chaired by original Coalition Community Co-Chair Ted Hughes and along with members Bernie Pauly, Margaret Lucas and Brenda Eaton.

 

At the Leadership Council meeting on December 15th the Leadership Council received the report, in confidence and for information only and tasked the LC's Governance Review Committee with developing a framework for decision making with regards to the recommendations. Once a framework for decision making is developed, the LC will meet again to consider the recommendations and work through how to best put them into action. Affected stakeholders such as Coalition staff, partners, funders and interested community members will be fully informed about the decision making process once the Leadership Council has had an opportunity to discuss the Community Review Team's report more fully.

 

While the contents of the report remain confidential at this time, we wanted to stress that the Community Review Team pointed to the value of the Coalition and the need for the Coalition to remain a strong coordinating body to work to reduce homelessness in the region.

 

Thanks to all for your ongoing support of the Coalition.

 

Gordon Gunn and Lisa Helps

Coalition Co-Chairs