Implementation & Governance.
Who owns each measure, what happens in the first 100 days, and what publishes every quarter. A plan is a promise about a clock as much as about a policy.
← Back to the frameworkHow the framework gets delivered, by whom, and on what clock. Every instrument on this page already exists as a costed measure — the mandate letters (M79c, $0), the quarterly dashboard (M67, $120–180K/yr inside the M68 envelope), the material-change rule (M78b, $0) and the 12 Commitments scorecard.
This page adds no measure and books no cost. It packages commitments the framework has already made, so a reader can see who owns what, what happens in the first 100 days, and what publishes every quarter.
The ownership rule
Every measure has one named, accountable owner, published in a mandate letter within the first 30 days (M79c). A measure with two owners has none.
Where delivery depends on a body council does not control — the police board, the transit commission, the CRD — the letter names the City's position and its contribution, not an outcome the City cannot lawfully order. That distinction is the spine of the Legal Defensibility Annex.
Who owns what
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Mayor & CouncilTax glide path and the 6-of-9 supermajority family (M66, M66b, M66c, M66d, M50b) · material-change rule M78b · remuneration deferral M79f · mandate letters M79cInstrument · Public votes, on the record
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City ManagerWhole-of-organization delivery · zero-based reviews M65 · attrition and technology M68 · simplification charter M72bInstrument · Quarterly variance report, signed
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FinanceM66b refund calculation · M66c debt metrics · M66d Household Bill · M67 dashboard · variance against Savings & Revenue Analysis Parts A–DInstrument · Quarterly release
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Planning & DevelopmentInstrument · Permit-time KPIs, quarterly
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Engineering & Public WorksManaged competition M15 (with procurement) · adaptive signals M19 · pedestrian standard M20b · bathrooms M24b · streetlights · GIS and LIDAR M53/M53c · sensors M56Instrument · Project and savings tracker
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Bylaw & Community SafetyDPOT M26 · extended hours M27 · camera registry M28c · enforcement record M31b · safety-plan performance contract M31c · encampment response coordination M11, with BC Housing — see the Partnership StrategyInstrument · M31b quarterly record
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Parks, Recreation & FacilitiesInstrument · KPI library
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Culture & HeritageStreet furniture M44 · heritage fund M46 · venue preservation M46b · heritage lighting M48 · cultural hours M50 · arts floor M50bInstrument · Annual report
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Economic DevelopmentBusiness attraction M71 · welcome program M72 · tourism M73 · Team Victoria M73b · Conference Centre review M73c · ocean economy M55bInstrument · Annual plan, published
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City Clerk & GovernanceIntegrity Commissioner M79b · lobbyist registry M79d · FOI fee waiver M79e · survey M82 · turnout and ballot access M82bInstrument · Registry and reports
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External boards, named honestlyVicPD Board — budget request; the City's lever is the M31c performance contract on City funding, never operational direction. Victoria Regional Transit Commission — M23b published position. CRD Board — M70c regional bill and voting record. School District 61 — M13d standing agreement.Instrument · Published positions and decision records
Portfolio names above are functional. On day one they map onto the City's actual organization chart as it stands — this framework publishes a plan; it does not reorganize the administration in order to publish one.
The first 100 days
Everything below runs inside lines already costed in the Savings & Revenue Analysis. There is no new money on this list, and there are no savings claims beyond the Year-1 realization band already published ($1.4–2.7M full-year, Part A6) — most of which lands after day 100. That is stated up front because a 100-day list that quietly promises steady-state results is the kind of list this framework exists to replace.
Set the operating system
- Lean-baseline budget instruction issued — the deferred additions from the council's 13.3% opening draft are not re-adopted by default, the first structural decision named in Part E.
- Attrition-only policy in force — departures reviewed before backfill (M68).
- Mandate letters published for every portfolio above (M79c).
- The material-change rule adopted — mid-year surprises are disclosed when they are known, not when convenient (M78b). Council remuneration deferral adopted (M79f).
- First dashboard cut published from data the City already holds — the baselines the KPI library locks (M67).
Start the savings engine, and the visible work
- Managed-competition tender issued for waste and street cleaning, with the employee-protection clauses stated in the tender (M15).
- First zero-based review scoped — grants and contracts over $50K, with condition verification (M65, M9b extension).
- Extended bylaw hours phase-in begins toward 6 AM–10 PM, seven days; the Downtown Public Order Team stands up inside that line (M27, M26 — $1.0–1.5M/yr as booked).
- The 24-month suite amnesty and concierge open (M8b — years 1–2 add-back, funded from M15 savings as booked).
- Partnership letters go to BC Housing, Island Health and the Province on the exact asks in the Partnership Strategy. The gated measures (M26b, M28d) remain at $0 until a cost-share partner signs — the gate is the negotiating position.
Build the instruments
- Pattern-book design competition launched inside the M7 platform envelope (M7b).
- Lobbyist-registry build starts (M79d); Integrity Commissioner shared-service negotiation opens (M79b).
- School District 61 standing-agreement talks begin (M13d).
- Sidewalk inventory and crossing-gap analysis tendered, sequenced with the LIDAR scan to reduce cost (M20b, M53c).
- The first quarterly variance report is published — the first receipt. If any of items 1–14 slipped, the report says so and says why.
The quarterly cadence
One release, within six weeks of quarter end, published whether or not the numbers flatter anyone. Contents, every quarter:
| # | What publishes | Instrument |
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| 1 | The 12 Commitments scorecard — every commitment, its number, its baseline | Scorecard |
| 2 | Budget variance, line by line, against Savings & Revenue Analysis Parts A–D, including Part C1 envelope consumption | M67 |
| 3 | The enforcement record, including the enforcement-survival rate | M31b |
| 4 | Debt metrics under the debt rule | M66c |
| 5 | Glide-path tracker against Part E | M66 |
| 6 | KPI library deltas | 2030, Measured |
| 7 | Gate status for the v1.8 and v1.9 conditional tiers — triggered, waiting, or dead | Part C |
Annually: the Household Bill (M66d), the community survey (M82), the regional bill and CRD voting record (M70c), and the City's published transit position (M23b).
A miss is published with a variance note and a correction path, in the same release, at the same prominence as the wins. A framework that grades the current council on published outcomes accepts the same grading.
Annex version 1.10 — July 31, 2026, published to this site August 5, 2026. This page adds no measure and books no cost; every instrument on it is costed in the Savings & Revenue Analysis. Changes are dated in the version history.
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