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Kingston commission debates restructuring to link focus teams to commissioners and clarify roles
Summary
Commissioners discussed a proposal to refocus the Kingston Health and Wellness Commission around two primary buckets (healthy food environments and active transportation/accessible environments), to formalize focus-team leads as liaisons, create an onboarding packet, and clarify letters-of-support procedures.
At a Kingston Health and Wellness Commission meeting, commissioners discussed a restructuring proposal intended to tighten connections between the commission and the volunteer focus teams that run programs such as EatWell, PlayWell and active-transportation efforts. Katrina Lake, chair and food-systems lead, described a proposal that would align the commission more deliberately with focus-team leads and clarified roles for the department staff who provide backbone support.
Why it matters: Commission members said the change aims to reduce siloed work, make it easier to translate focus-team activity into city policy or funding…
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