Mission

(Strategically, how will get get from today's culture of Council Centric -  Elite Few decision making to Silent Majority decision making... Civix Vision).

• Civix needs Resources, Processes and a Focus to achieve its mission:

• Resources: Volunteers, Money, software, dedicated supporters
• Processes: How we make decisions and how we treat visitors to our site and members.  
• Focus: What is our obsession?  Elect the next Council in West Vanocuver.

• Create a new local political party that will, with input from residents, develop a draft  Platform which will evolve by facilitating input from the community by way of  electronic polling,  comments and suggestions documented in a transparent manner.  On this site a Civix Blog is used to record all comments and suggestions

• Require all candidates that Civix endorses and supports to endorse the Civix platform.  

• Collectively, create the job description and qualifications of the ideal candidates who will run in the next municipal election in 2022 taking into account:

• life experiences
• knowledge, skills and abilities
• diversity
• Expertise (like finance, planning, budgeting ..)

• Based on this ‘job description’, canvass potential candidates and evaluate and select those candidates who believe in the Civix Platform and are committed to converting WestVan to a semi-direct democracy governance model.

• Support each candidate with the objective of electing at least 5 candidates in 2022 who have endorsed the Civix Platform (as it evolves with community input)

Words describing special interest group and elite decision making



(Why are we doing this or where on the road to our vision are we now)?  

We believe that some of the DWV staff, and council members seem to make decisions based mostly on their own political agendas, their immediate friends or supporters and special interest group. Collectively we refer to them as the Elite Few decision makers.

Hence our Purpose is to change how significant decisions will be made by council in WestVan by modifying a current WestVan bylaw  (Council procedure bylaw 5005) to incorporate the following rules for council:

• All significant community decisions must be voted on (by referendum or electronic voting) by the residents of West Vancouver.
• 'Also this bylaw would be changed to include the statement that each council member is encouraged to poll 'residents about how residents feel about a possible decision
• Significant Community  Decision includes  all ‘spot zoning’, re-zoning generally, changes to the official community plan, annual budget, capital expenditures in excess of $5,000,000 (including the present value of future operating expenses).
• Committee selection should firstly be based on Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA).  Collect all residents interested and evaluate for KSA.  Then from this group, select committee members by random number generator to prevent ‘stacking’ of committees by, mostly, the Mayor.

Hence our Purpose is to change how decisions are made by WestVan council to in the future be made by the Silent Majority voting on all Significant Decisions.  A hybrid, and a bit more practical, model of direct democracy called semi-direct democracy