Nalini Naidoo, a longtime Yellowknifer and the citySA国际影视传媒檚 director of planning and development, is bound for the East Coast.
Naidoo's last day is Jan. 29. She has previously served the city as director of communications and economic development and as manager of planning and lands.
She described her role in planning her hometown as a longtime SA国际影视传媒渄ream come true.SA国际影视传媒�
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According to Naidoo, SA国际影视传媒渘othing is achieved alone in our line of work,SA国际影视传媒� but she did recall some highlights from her career in public service.
That list includes integrating social media posting into the city's communications strategy; lobbying the Northwest Territories government for more authority on tourism and energy retrofits, and updating building energy efficiency rules to exceed the National Building Code.
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Wishing Naidoo well, Mayor Rebecca Alty pointed to the large amount of work on planning and lands over the last year, particularly with the Yellowknives Dene First Nation boundary change.
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Naidoo is a Sir John Franklin High School graduate; her family has called Yellowknife home since the 1970s. She was introduced to Halifax shortly after high school as an undergraduate student at Dalhousie University.
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She encouraged whoever takes her place to consider reconciliationSA国际影视传媒檚 impact on the role, explaining it SA国际影视传媒渨ill push land use planners to undo the work of the past.SA国际影视传媒�
She pointed to one quote that she would specifically leave.
ItSA国际影视传媒檚 from a scholarly text: Reclaiming Indigenous Planning by Ryan Walker, David Natcher and Ted Jojola, who stated planning has often been complicit with colonialism, provided the tools SA国际影视传媒渢o facilitate the scorched earth clearance of Indigenous people.SA国际影视传媒�
According to the authors, city planners have a responsibility to confront this complexity and assist in the recovery and re-inclusion of Indigenous communities in SA国际影视传媒淪A国际影视传媒榮haredSA国际影视传媒� though nonetheless misappropriated space.SA国际影视传媒�
She also offered her successor the same advice she received when becoming manager of planning and lands.
SA国际影视传媒淭hey didnSA国际影视传媒檛 hire you to do it the way I did it. Your job is to read everything, know everything you can, learn the city, every document, and weave that into all your planning recommendations,SA国际影视传媒� she stated.
