BACKGROUND AND PROCESS
The Municipality of Port Hope commenced its strategic planning in January 2019 and built upon the Municipality's prior strategic planning efforts.
Recognizing that community engagement is a key element of Council's decision-making process, the development of this strategic plan has advanced in a way that has been consultative, transparent and has offered multiple opportunities for public participation.
As such, the consultation process began with two community input sessions for members of the public, and two similar sessions for Municipal Staff, all of which were facilitated by a professional consultant and took place over two days.
In addition, an online community consultation was launched at the beginning of February and included a month-long comment period. All consultation participants, at the in-person sessions and online, were asked to respond to the following questions:
- • What is your vision for Port Hope? Imagine it is 2030 and we have been successful in achieving all of our goals. What does Port Hope look like to you?
- • What are the things that you value most about the Municipality? What does Port Hope do well and should continue doing over the next four years?
- • What are our areas for improvement? What are we not doing that we should be doing?
- • What do you see as the top priorities for the Municipality of Port Hope in the next 2-3 years to ensure our success? If you were in charge, what are the first things you would do?
All of the comments, suggestions and feedback collected throughout the online consultation process and at the in-person sessions were circulated to Council and Municipal Directors. After reviewing these comments, Council and Directors participated in a full-day, facilitated strategic planning session. During this exercise, they collectively responded to the questions noted; incorporated the public input; defined the desired future state of the Municipality; and developed priorities and objectives for the 2019-2022 Strategic Plan.
- 01 Public Participation Session
- January 30
- 02 Staff Participation Session
- January 31
- 03 Online Consultation
- February
- 04 Circulation and Review of all Comments
- March 4 - 20
- 05 Council and Directors Develop Draft Plan
- March 21
- 06 Draft Strategic Plan Presented to Committee
- April 16
- 07 Draft Strategic Plan Posted for Community Consultation
- April 18- May 2
- 08 Draft Strategic Plan to Council for Final Approval
- May
