ÿþ Oct 14/2011 To: All Candidates running for Mayor/Council in the District of North Vancouver From: FONVCA (Federation of North Vancouver Community Associations) Dear Candidate, As you may be aware, a number of community associations in the District of North Vancouver regularly meet to discuss common concerns and communicate information with each other. At our FONVCA meeting of September 15/2011 a list of 10 questions was drafted by members of community associations for prospective members of Council, including the Mayor, to which we kindly request a written reply. We ask that these replies be emailed to fonvca@fonvca.org All replies will be collated and subsequently: § redistributed to FONVCA members § displayed at subsequent all-candidates meetings § placed on our web site www.fonvca.org Knowing your position on these important ISSUES & PRINCIPLES will enable our communities to make more informed decisions at the polls on November 19th. We ask that you return your answers as soon as possible but no later than Friday Oct 28/2011. When appropriate, please feel free to keep your responses brief! The 10 questions... 1. What practical experience and accomplishments qualify you for local governance? 2. What three major issues are you most concerned about in the DNV, and how can they be addressed? 3. How would you encourage greater civic involvement by the public? 4. What role should community associations play? 5. What can be done to reduce the three largest municipal costs: policing, the fire department and NS Recreation Commission? 6. Will you commit to the removal, during the next term of Council, of all encroachments which block access to widely-used public lands such as the waterfront? 7. Aside from mandatory legislated requirements, do you believe DNV should undertake  green initiatives which are uneconomic in a commercial sense? Why? 8. Under what circumstances do you believe ratepayers should subsidize those who realistically cannot afford to live in the DNV? 9. Will you push for and support doing a published review of DNV salaries, wages and especially benefits as compared to the private sector? 10. Which of the complex DNV by-laws and regulations governing our lives do you commit to simplifying or eliminating within the next term of Council? Yours truly, John Hunter (FONVCA Chair pro-tem)