Delivering a New Public Works Operations Center achieves many of the current policy and strategic planning goals of the City of Vancouver, which have been previously identified by City Council. This is an opportunity to build a project that addresses a holistic set of Council and community goals, with the project policy charter serving as the overarching framework.

Goal 1, Objective 1.2: Ensure our infrastructure, including buildings and utilities, is safe, environmentally responsible and well maintained.

The City of Vancouver Public Works Operations Center is the maintenance hub for providing these essential public services for the City of Vancouver and the surrounding urban area. Existing facilities are inadequate to serve the current and forecasted population, are vulnerable to moderate seismic events and do not meet current minimum building code standards. The existing Operations site at Fourth Plain Blvd and General Andersen cannot be efficiently or economically restructured to meet present and future needs.

The purpose of the New Operations Center Project is to meet service levels for public works, provide efficiency of operations, modernization of services, and serve as an Emergency Operations Center (EOC).

1. This Charter establishes and memorializes the project policy expectations for the City of Vancouver Public Works Department’s New Operations Center.
2. The project policy charter serves to define the visions and values as well as governance structures that will synchronize key City of Vancouver (City) strategic policies and goals across project development.
3. Memorialization of these expectations provides for continuity over a multiple year large capital project.