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| | | |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | Facility audits have been completed on the Maple Ridge Leisure Center and Planet Ice by the Rick Hansen Foundation in 2024. From this, $90,000 in funding is available for accessibility improvements. After discussions, review and accessing needs and priorities, the decision was made to use these funds to renovate the front counter area at the Maple Ridge Leisure Center as it is not fully accessible, equitable or inclusive to all users.
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| | | |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | The city hosted 2 Rock the Blocks in August. August 10 was held at Hammond Park and Aug 24 was rescheduled from June (due to weather) at Blaney Hamlet. Each event saw over 500+ Neighbours and visitors participating. There were food trucks, Kids Zone, DJ & dance tutorials, live music, and more. The Maple Ridge Musuem ran an engagement tent with games & education on the history of Maple Ridge and Katzie People in collaboration with the Katzie First Nations. MLA Lisa Beare joined the 2 events with an engagement tent giving away popcorn and other treats. Artist, Carly Bouwman, completed her 4th community engagement mural where residents were invited to help paint a large mural representing their neighborhood (north Maple Ridge). This mural is part of the larger MR150 public art project and will be unveiled on September 14.
With the 3 Rock the Block locations and other free programming throughout the summer across Maple Ridge (including Hot Summer Nights at Firefighters Park and Music on the Wharf, and festivals at Memorial Peace Park) 67.64% of the population was 15 minutes walking distance of a free city sponsored event.
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| | | |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | The initiative is now complete. As a result of this work, staff have taken the extra step and are developing a process to update financial access funding to the community that is in alignment with neighboring cities and aligns with the demographics (current and future) and needs of the city of Maple Ridge residents. |
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| | | |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | Through the first phase of community engagement, public feedback provided valuable data that along with a City of Maple Ridge specific service demand analysis and best practices review, was used to develop a draft building concept. The concept is currently being test-fitted on the Hammond Community Park site and aligned with additional technical analysis including archeological and traffic and parking assessments. The second phase of community engagement, planned for winter/spring 2025, will seek the public's feedback on the proposed building concept at Hammond Community Park. The community and user group engagement and feedback analysis is a key step in the preparation of the final and comprehensive feasibility study. |
| | | |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | The weekend of the Maple Ridge 2024 BC Summer Games wrapped up on July 21, 2024, however work remained to complete such administrative tasks such as inventorying the Summer Games equipment and preparing for transfer to the 2026 Winter Games in Trail-Rossland. The Board of Directors and City staff have now completed those tasks. |
| | | |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | On September 14, the City welcomed the region to celebrate Maple Ridge 150 with Our Neck of the Woods. Residents and visitors participated in Soar Over Maple Ridge Zip Line, Indigenous Makers Market, TransLink Car Free Street Party, activities for all ages, and 3 stages of live entertainment including mainstage with Dawn Pemberton, Aaron Pritchett and the Strumbellas. The Katzie First Nation provided a ceremonial opening at 12Noon in the bandstand. |
| | | |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | Volunteer resource room at MRLC will start hosting drop-in hours in the Fall. Space will be hub for Rec Services, Events and Volunteer activations. Will support Our Neck of the Woods as Volunteer HQ. |
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| | | |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | Interdepartmental team meetings on draft policy. |
| | | |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | The 2024 OKR to complete a Musuem Needs Assessment has broadened to a service review of arts, culture, events and heritage services. Deliverables will include conducting a needs assessment and analyzing current service provision, operating models, partnership agreements, funding deficiencies and opportunities and use of facility and program spaces for these programs.
Funding was re-allocated as part of the 2025 business planning process
On boarding of a consultant to be initiated in Q1 2025 |
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| | | |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | Planning work in progress. |
| | | |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | Recruitment for the additional Suppression FF's is complete. Written tests have been completed as has the endurance/skills assessment components. Panel interviews have been completed and for those candidates moving forward, they were scheduled for ride-a-longs and finally an interview with the Fire Chief. 11 Suppression firefighter positions were filled (7 from the POC ranks) and are currently being onboarded through an 8-week training regiment..
These additional 11 FF's will result in the city having a second fire unit available to respond from Fire Hall 1. Training is completed and new hires are scheduled on shift. |
| |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | Posted two positions in order to support Community Risk Reduction initiatives related to Prevention and Public Education. Final interview with the Fire Chief scheduled for early September. Working through final stage with HR for job offers. 2 candidates offered positions. Both accepted. Onboarded November 12, 2024. |
| |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | Building strong corporate relationships with Fire and multiple CMR departments. Collaborating with Bylaws, Planning, Legislative Services, IT, HR and RCMP to achieve corporate goals. |
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Implementation of an EV emergency response Squad Unit. Electrical infrastructure has been installed.
Vehicle outfitted and branded. Staff completed orientation and training. EV now fully operational.
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| |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | Successfully recruited a Corporate Emergency Program Manager. Engagement with Metro Vancouver has resumed with dialogue related to the Lower Fraser River Floodplains regional actions as well as Wildfire interface challenges. |
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| | | |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | Draft of Framework and update of Communications and Engagement Policy completed. Internal team of staff have reviewed the draft Framework. External review of the Framework and Policy are completed. The Communications Department is now finalizing the Framework and Policy and plan to present to Council in mid-February before we go out for public engagement. The Policy and Framework will then be finalized and presented to Council for approval by end of March 2024. |
| | | |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | In January 2023, the City launched Engage Maple Ridge, an online community engagement platform where residents can learn about City initiatives, have a say on decision making and connect with staff and neighbours on projects that matter to you.an online consultation platform to create a consistent, accessible, and user-friendly online engagement experience. In 2023, the City undertook 15 engagement projects. As of the end of March, the City has undertaken 7 engagement projects in 2024.
In 2023, there was 15,800 visitors to the site with 2900 engaged visitors which means they participated, 6700 informed visitors, which means they viewed/visited a page and 11,900 aware visitors who visited at least one page.
As of March 2024, there has been 16,300 visitors to the site, 3600 engaged visitors, 6700 informed visitors and 13,100 aware visitors. |
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- Options proposed to Council on July 23 Workshop
- Council directed staff to not progress with the initiative due to existing priority projects
- This initiative will be removed from future reporting
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| | | |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | Expert Community Safety Consultant agreement signed for 2025. |
| |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | The Heritage Grant Pilot Program stems from the 2013 Heritage Plan and is built on and further supported by the recently endorsed Heritage Plan 2024 - 2034 as identified under Goal 4: Support Community Conservation Action 4.3.
The Heritage Grant Program is currently a pilot program intended to help conserve our community’s heritage by providing financial support for eligible heritage projects led by residents, organizations, and members of local First Nations.
Applications for the pilot year of this program will be accepted until February 28, 2025. |
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| |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | After the successful pilot that addressed concerns raised at the Downtown Maple Ridge Business Improvement Association Safety and Security Committee, City staff coordinated a continuation of the overnight security service with Westridge Security. There is now mobile security service 24 hours a day, with 8 hours contracted to the BIA, and 16 hours contracted by the City. The contract is currently being held by the Manager of Bylaw, Licensing and Community Safety. |