Beautification Program

Safety & Maintenance Committee

• Worked with Residents & Police
• Removed Potential Crime Areas
• Promoted cleanliness in the Quartier
• A second year of the Safety Patrol Program – Jun. to Oct.
• Results? A better place to be!

QV & La Cité collégiale in action!

• 514 hours
• Safety Patrol Program
• A safer commercial zone

3,260+ hours over & above municipal services!

• Additonal work provided by the QV Operations Team
• Result… a more pleasant atmosphere promoting economic development

How do we do it?

• 400 yard waste bags
• Storefronts revamped
• McArthur Ave. benches painted
• Tree program - 78 trees & hedges trimmed
• 10 old tree cages removed
• 14 New Trees!
• 25 grates repaired and maintained
• Beechwood Ave. 20 lamp posts painted
• We sent an additional 720 loads of waste to the landfill site
• Butt stops - 4 in high traffic locations
• Graffiti removal program - 40 tags removed every month - front, back & side

Graffiti may be on the rise but not in Vanier.

Constable Fernando Vieira

Marketing Program

Getting the word out on new QV events!

• 11 new event posters
• 11 press releases
• Advertising with newsprint and creative bus boards
• Wall-sized banner ads and road signs
• QV Scoop market newsletter
• Focus QV - 2nd October edition - 20,000 copies distributed
• Business awards gala

Economic Development Program

Pumpkin festival!

• Materials handed out to start Beechwood Pumpkin Festival
• Pumpkins, hay, cornstalks

McArthur Avenue clean sweep

• 100 brooms for merchants to beautify our sidewalks
• T-shirts to supporters & merchants for events

Quartier Outdoor Market

• 5500+ new customers for the QV!
• 22 Vendors Participated
• 500 reusable green shopping bags & aprons
• $30,000+ total sales & revenues!
• So you think you can carve?
• OC Transpo Busboards
• …Introducing Artsfest!!
  
  

We love having this market as part of our Saturday morning route! Thanks so much for bringing it to Vanier.

Kelly Carlson, Resident

Best thing to happen in this neighbourhood in 10 years.

Diana, Resident

Thanks Vanier for a wonderful market.

Diane Bradley, Kings Creek Garlic

What is in store for 2010?

Beautification

• Graffiti removal
• Security patrol
• Operations team
• Renovations & maintenance
• Waste collection
• 20 % of total budget

Economic Development

• Boundary expansion
• Business recruitment
• Quartier Outdoor Market
• Special events (ex. Pumpkin Festival, Artsfest)
• Memberships
• Conferences
• 20% of the budget

Marketing Program

• Focus QV
• Advertising & Promotion
• Promotional Video
• Website
• Networking Events
• Street Décor
• 20% of the budget

Donations

• Montfort Hospital
• Centre Pauline Charron
• Centre des services communautaires Vanier
• Hippy Ottawa
• Wabano Centre
• Together for Vanier
• Result… We are doing our part