property management operations co-ordinator

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Janitor Deszo Bogdanyi; co-ordinator of technical operations, Patrice Bouvette; and maintenance man, Robert Gadbois, all members of the maintenance staff of Canada Lands Corporation, were able to guide everyone to safety.

As the deputy minister responsible for emergency planning and management, I know that should we have another ice storm, municipalities, through their ongoing emergency management programs, will have an experienced community emergency management coordinator; an emergency information officer; a committee responsible for the development of their municipal program; a control group that will convene when an emergency befalls their municipality; an operations centre from which they will coordinate their response; a ...[+++]nd a plan on which they will base their efforts.

This initiative to outsource most of PWGSC's property management activity is consistent with the Government's desire to “get government right” - which means letting the private sector do what they do best so that we can focus on essential government operations.

9. In this context, takes note that at its meeting on 1 April 2009, the Bureau unanimously approved the re-structuring plan for DG INLO in relation to the maintenance and management of the Parliament's buildings and the creation of specialised central services to improve the quality of budgetary control and of public procurement procedures; stresses that the final decisions concerning the appropriate level of resources, for DG INLO as well as for other services, are part of the first reading of the budget in the autumn according to the normal procedures; stresses that the choice to be made, from a budgetary point of view, relates to th ...[+++]e level of property expertise Parliament needs to have in-house so as to ensure that the maintenance tasks entrusted to external suppliers will be properly defined and their performance adequately controlled; in this context, notes that the single external report cited deals mainly with building security, but also maintenance and management issues and how they can be improved;