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Park board chair Camil Dumont said that while he can’t yet reveal details about the third party, the board is working non-stop with the city and B.C. Housing on solutions for the troubling situation at the park.

“I just feel like they’re holding (that information) back for fear of compromising the process, but I know that it’s all happening,” Dumont said.

Commissioner Stuart Mackinnon said Friday that the third party could be announced this week. It will be “working on the ground with the people, building relationships, making sure they’re hooked into the correct services, and finding appropriate housing for them as it becomes available,” he said.

Dumont said the third party will serve as a kind of liaison between the people in the park and the services available to them.

“There are human beings here who are really struggling and those folks need to be helped,” Dumont said. “That’s different than the bigger, more systemic issues that we’re working on and we need to do both.”

The effort to find the people in the park adequate and affordable housing has been made more difficult by the housing crisis in the region and homelessness crisis across the country, Dumont said.

The park board also authorized its general manager, Malcolm Bromley, to seek a court injunction to clear the park, after certain conditions were met, including the engagement of that third party.

In September, the board had rejected Bromley’s earlier recommendation to clear the park with an injunction.