PFC2020-0802

That with respect to Notice of Motion PFC2020-0802, the following be approved: NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that City Council directs City Administration, through the Tomorrow’s Chinatown project and with support from Arts and Culture, to engage the Chinatown community to discuss the history of the Short site, the roles of James Short and the Anti-Chinese League in Chinatown’s history, the relocation of Chinatown, and the resiliency of the Chinese community in Calgary; AND FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED that City Council directs City Administration to report back with new names for the Short Site that are recommended by the community through Tomorrow’s Chinatown, with particular consideration of names recognizing historical Chinese Canadian contributions to Calgary, as well as with an action plan for further programming and/or physical installations that interpret the historical learnings from the community discussions; AND FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED that City Council requests that the Mayor write to the Calgary Board of Education to encourage the name change of the James Short Memorial School, and interpretation of Short’s past, for the same reasons as detailed above.