Call for Volunteers for Smoking Policy Task Group

Submitted by Andrea Bergen

February 11, 2019

Dear Members:

At its February 5th meeting, the Board discussed progress, to date, in developing a smoking policy for Sunnyhill. We concluded that we currently have a busy agenda: we are in budget season, we are transitioning to a new Board at the Spring AGM, we are in the middle of lease discussions with the City and developing financing scenarios and applications with CMHC, and we are refreshing our Member Handbook and Policies. With all this going on right now, we are not sure that we are adequately prepared to stage a fulsome member discussion on the topic.

Our intention, then, is to pick this discussion up at the June Board meeting. If you are interested in being part of a small task group to bring this policy to completion please contact the office.

Cooperatively:

Sunnyhill Board of Directors

Smoke free at SHC??

Submitted by Andrea Bergen for the SHC Board of Directors

The Board of Directors has been faced with the question “Does Sunnyhill want to go smoke free” and would like Member’s feedback on this topic.

The below information has come to us from The Canadian Cancer Society…

“The Canadian Cancer Society has created a guidebook and a website to help multi-unit housing providers to implement smoke-free policies.  The website is: http://smokefreehousingab.ca/”

Please submit any questions/concerns/feedback to Andrea at the SHC office.