Vancouver’s mayor says he’s frustrated the province has yet to make legal changes that would permit the abolition of the city’s elected park board.
Ken Sim asked the provincial government to amend the Vancouver Charter in December 2023, a critical step in his plan to dissolve the Vancouver Park Board.
The following spring, Premier David Eby signalled the government was “committed” to making the changes after the 2024 provincial election, should he be re-elected.
Those changes haven’t happened fast enough, Sim said Wednesday.
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“We are frustrated right now, I just want to be very clear, we have done everything the province has asked of us,” he said.
“We have support from all three First Nations … when (the province) asked for a financial plan, we came back with it, the unions are on board.”
Eby, meanwhile, said he recognized the issue was a priority for the mayor and had been working with the city “to ensure all the ducks are in a row.”
However, he …