The District of Squamish will engage local seniors on new programming at the Westwinds building in Downtown Squamish.
It also plans to create a steering group and talk to different stakeholders and community members on how to provide best possible programs for seniors.
“The introduction of the new Westwinds building presents a unique opportunity to evaluate the types of programs available to seniors, which locations these programs are best suited and to plan for new programs or to evaluate the current offerings,” the district says.
At a Committee of the Whole meeting today, the district will get council approval for the engagement plan and start working on it this month.
A steering group is expected to be established in May, with the conclusive report being presented to the council in July.
The goal, the district says, is to provide recreational programming that best considers the social and physical well-being of seniors.
Local seniors had last year stressed that they had not been adequately consulted as the district moved towards creating a seniors hub in the new downtown building.
Speaking in November last year for the Squamish Seniors Centre Society, Nelson Winterbure said seniors had not been consulted in a timely fashion regarding the Seniors Wellness Hub proposal. He had asked that all future work be tabled until the seniors had been adequately consulted.
As part of this engagement plan, the district will engage seniors and create programming for them throughout the municipal facilities including Brennan Park Recreation Centre and The 55+ Activity Centre.
