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Each year, we invite residents to participate in our Your Government, Your Ideas engagement campaign in October, and tell us what’s important to them.
MODL has a master plan, which along with resident input, informs our strategic priority setting. As you can imagine, a number of priorities end up being fairly consistent year after year, while the actions we take to reach goals within those priorities may change.
Each year, we select a shortlist of projects to focus on. This is based on information we received from residents, community groups, the provincial and federal government, and staff. In late fall, Council meets to brainstorm on where our focus will be, keeping in mind the feedback and information we’ve received from these many sources.
After much discussion, Council approves the Municipality’s strategic priorities for the next 18 months. Council then works with staff over the winter to pass a budget in the spring based on these priorities.
Thank you to those who contributed their thoughts.
Each year, we invite residents to participate in our Your Government, Your Ideas engagement campaign in October, and tell us what’s important to them.
MODL has a master plan, which along with resident input, informs our strategic priority setting. As you can imagine, a number of priorities end up being fairly consistent year after year, while the actions we take to reach goals within those priorities may change.
Each year, we select a shortlist of projects to focus on. This is based on information we received from residents, community groups, the provincial and federal government, and staff. In late fall, Council meets to brainstorm on where our focus will be, keeping in mind the feedback and information we’ve received from these many sources.
After much discussion, Council approves the Municipality’s strategic priorities for the next 18 months. Council then works with staff over the winter to pass a budget in the spring based on these priorities.
Thank you to those who contributed their thoughts.
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The Municipality has committed to two major projects to combat Lyme Disease. The first is funding an innovative bait station research project in Garden Lots and Blue Rocks. We’re working in partnership with Dr. Robbin Lindsay of the National Microbiology Laboratory and the Public Health Agency of Canada on this research project, which finishes this year. We expect to have the results of the study available in 2022.
Our second major project is an educational campaign. In addition to taking precautionary measures to avoid contact with ticks–wearing socks and closed-toed shoes, for example–we’re also encouraging residents and visitors of Lunenburg County to make tick checks part of their daily routine. As our radio ads say–Naked People are Deadly to Ticks!
MODL undertook a baseline inventory of greenhouse gas emissions for corporate operations and the community, and Council set a corporate target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030.
The Sustainability Committee and Council are now developing climate action plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for both corporate operations and community emissions.
MODL2040, our municipal-wide land-use planning project, is underway.
The Province of Nova Scotia has indicated that municipalities will be required to have land-use planning in place across the entire Municipality in the near future. The goal of MODL2040 is to develop the Municipal Planning Strategy (MPS) and comprehensive land-use planning for the whole municipality.
