LATEN: Lamest Action Team Ever Named

What happened to the days when Lower Mainland mayors would use snappy, copyrighted new buzzwords to name their pet projects?

Port Coquitlam Mayor Greg Moore is the latest mayor to go acronym happy. The name for Moore's new action team on homelessness? MATH (Mayor's Action Team on Homelessness). That's right: The lamest action team ever.

Gregor Robertson has HEAT, MAGOV and now, the hip hop inspired GCAT.

PoCo's Moore, on the other hand, can only offer up an acronym for every kid's least favourite subject.

CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM MEDIA ADVISORY

February 26, 2009

Attention Assignment Editors

WHAT: Port Coquitlam Mayor, Greg Moore, will launch his new Mayor’s Action Team on Homelessness (MATH), a group tasked with creating and implementing a strategy to end homelessness in Port Coquitlam.
WHEN: Monday, March 2, 2009, 9:30 am
WHERE: Heritage Room, 3rd Floor, Port Coquitlam City Hall, 2580 Shaughnessy Street, Port Coquitlam
WHO: Members of the Mayor’s Action Team on Homelessness:
· Greg Moore – City of Port Coquitlam, Team Chair
· Sandy Burpee and Dave Teixeira – Tri-Cities Homelessness Task Group, Chair and Deputy Chair
· William Hue – Hue Mobile, Owner
· Peter Kobayashi – G & F Financial Group, Branch Manager
· Alison Ferguson – Every Little Bit, Co-Founder and Soroptimist International, Member
· Rolof Veld -– Sutton Group-1st West Realty, Managing Broker
· Ali Syndergy – SAMZ Pub, Owner
· Ravi Panwar – Park Georgia Realty Ltd., Realtor
· Chris Seppelt – Archbishop Carney High School, Teacher of Social Justice Class
· Harris Kidd – Archbishop Carney High School, student
· Erin Ireland – REACH (Realizing Empowerment and Community Help), Program Facilitator
· Doug Stead – Tri-M Systems, Owner
· Four homeless Port Coquitlam residents

Homelessness is one of the most significant social problems in Port Coquitlam.

The members of the Mayor's Action Team on Homelessness (MATH) represent a range of backgrounds, ages, perspectives and experiences. They include representatives from the Tri-Cities Homelessness Task Group, the business community, schools, community agencies and the homeless population.

The Mayor’s Action Team on Homelessness (MATH) will hold its first meeting at Port Coquitlam City Hall from 8:30 to 9:30 am on Monday, March 2, 2009. Following the meeting, Mayor Moore and members of the Action Team will be available to the media to provide an overview of MATH’s mandate and objectives for the coming year.

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