Governance
City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan

Governance & Corporate Excellence Priority Statement

Responsive and accessible government is paramount to building public trust. We build that trust through the City’s communications, transparent engagement and customer-centric service experiences. We honour our service to our community through prudent financial management, effective public policy and transparent decision-making.
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Initiative Status Snapshot (Chart Type: Pie) Plot Bands In Progress: 50.0% (14) Needs Attention: 0.0% (0) Under Review: 3.6% (1) Not Started: 3.6% (1) Complete: 42.9% (12) Not Updated: 0.0% (0)
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Key Result Partially Met - No Further Action

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Initiative Needs Attention

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Key Results
KR End Date
Initiatives
Initiative End Date
Initiative Status Icon
Initiative External Update
Q4-24
Q1-25
Q1-25
12/31/26
7/31/25
In Progress
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In Progress
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  • Work is progressing well to develop an "Indigenous Engagement and Protocol Framework" to guide the work and communications.
  • To date staff have prepared a draft outline which we will be sharing with our local First Nations in the weeks to come.
6/30/25
5/30/25
In Progress
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Complete
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  • The baseline work required to support a Customer Experience Framework is complete
  • A new initiative will track implementation of customer experience improvements and measurement through an evaluation methodology. 
  • The goal of this project is to ensure monitoring across city services to ensure continuous improvement of customer experiences as residents and visitors interact with the city to receive services 
6/30/25
Not Started
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In Progress
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This initiative has emerged as an outcome of the development of a customer experience framework for the City of Maple Ridge.  Work will commence in Q2, 2025 to implement the findings of our research and framework to enhance customer experiences across all departments of the city.  The City regularly surveys residents and customers to find opportunities for continuous improvement of how we deliver our services to provide the best experience for our users. 

6/30/25
6/30/25
Not Started
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Not Started
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This work involves the establishment of benchmarks and performance measures for customer service across City departments and is dependent on completion and approval of the customer experience framework.  Work on this will commence in late Q2, early Q3 2025. 

12/31/25
12/31/25
In Progress
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In Progress
City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan

Review and amendments of policies is ongoing, including rescinding outdated Council policies. Several policies re undergoing updates and will be brought forward to Council as appropriate when completed for review. 

9/30/26
9/30/26
In Progress
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In Progress
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This work will commence in earnest in June 2025, and involve multiple departments to identify and assess legal, operational, reputational, environmental and strategic risks and create mechanisms to manage and mitigate risk to guide city decision making and response to crisis communications and proactive risk assessment. 

12/31/25
12/31/25
Not Started
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Complete
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Business Continuity Program Framework has been completed.  Implementation of the framework and further planning work across departments is commencing in Q2, 2025. This work helps departments to identify priority services in the event of an emergency and have detailed plans, roles and accountabilities to ensure minimal to no disruption to core services for residents in the event of an emergency or other major disruption. The date has been extended to reflect the project moving into implementation phase. 

6/30/25
6/30/25
Not Started
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In Progress
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The City is committed to reviewing and update fees and charges to ensure accessibility of city services while maintaining a focus on cost recovery and ensuring that inflationary pressures are addressed for delivery of city services.  Staff undertook analysis of fee structures to identify areas of complementarity between building, planning and engineering fees to streamline fee schedules and consolidate fees under a single bylaw rather than embedding fees in other related bylaws.

Building, Planning and Engineering fees will be formally updated in a bylaw update for the Maple Ridge Fees & Charges Bylaw No 7575-2019 in or before June 2025. 

6/30/25
Not Started
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In Progress
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The City is committed to reviewing and update fees and charges to ensure accessibility of city services while maintaining a focus on cost recovery and ensuring that inflationary pressures are addressed for delivery of city services.  Staff undertook analysis of fees and charges across multiple bylaws to improve clarity of fees of different types.

These fees were brought forward to Council consideration on April 1, 2025 for information.  The fees will be formally updated in a bylaw update for the Maple Ridge Fees & Charges Bylaw No 7575-2019 in or before June 2025. 

6/30/25
Not Started
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In Progress
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The City is committed to reviewing and update fees and charges to ensure accessibility of city services while maintaining a focus on cost recovery and ensuring that inflationary pressures are addressed for delivery of city services.  This set of fees is being planned for updates in 2025.  Work will commence once other departmental fees are updated as more analysis is needed on water and sanitary sewer and drainage fees which must take account of variability in demand.  It is expected that a report will be brought forward to Council updating fees in late Q2 2025, 

6/30/25
Needs Attention
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In Progress
City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan

The City is committed to reviewing and update fees and charges to ensure accessibility of city services while maintaining a focus on cost recovery and ensuring that inflationary pressures are addressed for delivery of city services.  Staff undertook analysis of comparator municipal police services and RCMP detachments to ensure fees and charges are consistent with other similar cities.  As well, staff reviewed in comparison with other City departments to ensure consistency for basic service fees (e.g., photocopying). 

Police Services fees will be formally updated in a bylaw update for the Maple Ridge Fees & Charges Bylaw No 7575-2019 in or before June 2025. 

12/31/25
12/31/25
In Progress
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In Progress
City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan

In 2025, the City is undertaking a major review of the model for setting Development Cost Charges (DCC).  This work is being led by the Planning and Building Department as it is closely related to many other Official Community Plan and Area Planning pieces of work underway.  This project relates to changes to the financial model and bylaw once the planning work is completed.  Work will likely result in a bylaw amendment in Q3, Q4 of 2025 to set new charges per the model for 2026. 

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1/31/26
In Progress
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In Progress
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Performance planning framework developed. System software development in progress. Leadership & HR pilot program is underway. The date has been adjusted to reflect implementation of the program. 

12/31/25
In Progress
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In Progress
City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan

The following policies were reviewed and adopted by Council on October 8, 2024

  • Gaming Revenues
  • Proceeds of Sale of Municipal Land
  • Staff Expenses 
  • Council Expense

Work on other financial policies continues.

12/31/25
In Progress
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In Progress
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  • Learning & Development framework developed
  • Working with BCIT to support the L&D Framework
  • Curriculahave been defined and developed
  • Developing internal workshop series for staff
  • Moving into the implementation and deployment of training starting in April 2025. The completion date for this framework has been adjusted to reflect implementation of the framework. 
6/30/24
Complete
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Complete
City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan
6/30/24
Complete
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Complete
City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan
12/31/24
Complete
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Complete
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12/31/26
In Progress
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In Progress
City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan

A Strategic Health and Safety framework has been developed. Work on key foundational pillars of program has also commenced. The Strategic plan has been drafted and reviewed. Action planning work is underway based on COR audit recommendations. Resourcing plan to be developed to separate OHS from labour and employee relations, due to the impending growth of the City of Maple Ridge. Work on implementation is ongoing for this project. 

5/30/25
In Progress
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Not Met
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The City was considering hosting a Leadership focused summit event in 2025. However, it has been determined to refocus on a youth leadership summit to be organized by the Recreation Services team. This item will be revisited in the 2026 update to Council's Strategic Plan to determine if a summit event will be held in future years. 

4/30/25
Complete
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Under Review
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This work is currently under review pending an update report to Council to receive further direction and budgetary decision.

6/30/25
Not Started
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In Progress
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Work is underway to develop a new policy that will be brought forward to Council in Q2 2025 to govern archeological management. 

Governance & Corporate Excellence Completed Key Results

Key Results
KR End Date
Initiatives
Initiative End Date
Initiative Status Icon
Initiative External Update
Q4-24
Q1-25
Q1-25
12/31/24
12/31/24
Complete
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Complete
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Council to Council regular meetings have been established.

Meeting will continue to occur progressively throughout the year.

6/30/24
6/30/24
Complete
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Complete
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System has been deployed successfully. 

9/30/24
9/30/24
Complete
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Complete
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The Records Management Policy provides the framework that will guide records management for current and future record keeping of the City. 

12/31/24
12/31/24
Complete
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Complete
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 Emergency Program Manager - Edd Bennett conducted on October 31, 2024 with the EOC Leadership Team.

 

9/30/24
12/31/24
Complete
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Complete
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  • Program development is complete, transitioning to implementation
  • Since August, 502 staff members have completed the base training course
  • Two cohorts (25 staff members) have completed intermediate-level training in 2024
  • Four cross-functional process reviews—Business Planning, Civic Addressing, Communications, and Business Licensing—have been completed, with the outcomes set to be integrated into operations
  • A report summarizing progress and findings will be presented to Council in early 2025
6/30/24
12/31/24
Complete
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Complete
City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan

The strategy was completed in 2024 and implementation is underway. 

12/31/24
6/28/24
Complete
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Complete
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  • Process review recommendations complete
  • Near-term enhancements will be embedded in the 2025 Business Planning process by July
  • Long-term enhancements to be included in 2026 Business Planning process
  • Council to receive 2025 Business Planning Guidelines in July