A Valuable Centre for Community Outreach
The DTES Street Market has been operating continuously at Pigeon Park for over three years now, with a steady compliment of vendors (now regularly over 150) and hundreds of customers walking through each Sunday. It also is strategically situated between Gastown and Chinatown and allows friendly community mixing in a way that is impossible in other areas of the City and in other neighbourhoods.
What better place exists if an organization would want to poll the opinions of DTES residents on a subject?
None is the opinion of the board of the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood Council.
For the past 6 weeks, the DNC has appointed a representative from the board to sit at the outreach table of the Street Market and listen to neighbourhood concerns. For a modest volunteer stipend, a rotating board member has sat between 11am and 3pm to take complaints, listen to concerns and generally learn from the residents of our community. The results have been incredible. We have received a number of housing complaints from residents which have been delivered to PIVOT, and we have conducted a number of informal surveys.
This Sunday, Tina and Hendrik walked around the market and asked DTES residents what they thought of the DTES LAP process and whether they had even heard of it. The results were as expected. Out of 53 people total that were surveyed, only three people had even heard that there was a DTES LAP process. This represents less than 6% of respondents that had any knowledge that their entire neighbourhood was about undergo a possibly massive re-zoning. This, coupled with the input of many other neighbourhood organizations, is primarily why the DNC is convinced that major changes are necessary in the current DTES LAP process.
{The binomial errors on a sample this small are 1.7, so our population proportion estimate could be as high as 6 out of 53, or 11% on a 95% confidence limit, but this is still a fairly pathetic level of knowledge in the community}
These numbers agree with the data from the April general meeting of the DNC where very few members had any opinion or information on the DTES LAPP.
It was a nice day, some sun but generally cloudy. There was again no rain, which allowed the market to cruise on forward into the winter season.
Financial Report
1) Tents and Table Rental = $106.75
2) 50/50 Raffle = $54.75
3) Coffee/Pop Sales = $112.10
4) Donation Sales = $3.00
Total Revenue for the day = $276.60
Total spending for the week = $86.14
(Major expenses were cigarettes for volunteers and cream and hot chocolate mix from Costco)
Marginal profit = $190.46
Petty Cash now = $1,403.50
Vendor Count = 178 @ noon
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The DTES Street Market has been operating continuously at Pigeon Park for over three years now, with a steady compliment of vendors (now regularly over 150) and hundreds of customers walking through each Sunday. It also is strategically situated between Gastown and Chinatown and allows friendly community mixing in a way that is impossible in other areas of the City and in other neighbourhoods.
What better place exists if an organization would want to poll the opinions of DTES residents on a subject?
None is the opinion of the board of the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood Council.
For the past 6 weeks, the DNC has appointed a representative from the board to sit at the outreach table of the Street Market and listen to neighbourhood concerns. For a modest volunteer stipend, a rotating board member has sat between 11am and 3pm to take complaints, listen to concerns and generally learn from the residents of our community. The results have been incredible. We have received a number of housing complaints from residents which have been delivered to PIVOT, and we have conducted a number of informal surveys.
This Sunday, Tina and Hendrik walked around the market and asked DTES residents what they thought of the DTES LAP process and whether they had even heard of it. The results were as expected. Out of 53 people total that were surveyed, only three people had even heard that there was a DTES LAP process. This represents less than 6% of respondents that had any knowledge that their entire neighbourhood was about undergo a possibly massive re-zoning. This, coupled with the input of many other neighbourhood organizations, is primarily why the DNC is convinced that major changes are necessary in the current DTES LAP process.
{The binomial errors on a sample this small are 1.7, so our population proportion estimate could be as high as 6 out of 53, or 11% on a 95% confidence limit, but this is still a fairly pathetic level of knowledge in the community}
These numbers agree with the data from the April general meeting of the DNC where very few members had any opinion or information on the DTES LAPP.
It was a nice day, some sun but generally cloudy. There was again no rain, which allowed the market to cruise on forward into the winter season.
Financial Report
1) Tents and Table Rental = $106.75
2) 50/50 Raffle = $54.75
3) Coffee/Pop Sales = $112.10
4) Donation Sales = $3.00
Total Revenue for the day = $276.60
Total spending for the week = $86.14
(Major expenses were cigarettes for volunteers and cream and hot chocolate mix from Costco)
Marginal profit = $190.46
Petty Cash now = $1,403.50
Vendor Count = 178 @ noon
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