File photo of the Town of Coaldale office. (Lethbridge News Now)

By Justin Goulet

Coaldale Town Council launches ‘Inspiration to Action’ Strategic Plan

Apr 28, 2022 | 11:39 AM

COALDALE, AB – Coaldale Town Council has announced the launch of its 2021-2025 Strategic Plan.

It outlines the priorities of council for the upcoming term and includes six focus areas.

Those areas are:

• Public safety
• Recreation
• Service excellence,
• Community growth and economic prosperity
• Relationships
• Community experience

Coaldale Mayor Jack Van Rijn said the plan, titled as ‘Inspiration to Action’ is based on feedback from residents and “Council’s willingness to listen”.

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Van Rijn said, “I would like to thank our community, staff, and each member of Council for their contributions in designing a plan that takes engaging with the public seriously, and that will help share the future of our community.”

About 500 residents provided their feedback through the Town’s online engagement process.

Cameron Mills, Director of Growth and Investment for the Town said, “we wanted to be sure that Council had access to a significant amount of public feedback while preparing this plan.”

“Council is very eager to incorporate public feedback into the decision-making process, and it’s great to see that we not only collected a large amount of data, but also, a representative sample of data.”

Mills continued, “because of that, Council can know that the information provided from the public is truly a reflection of what the community wants to see over the course of the next few years.”

Council will put the plan into action immediately, with top projects including:

• Completing Coaldale’s first-class recreation centre;
• Expediting improvements in Coaldale’s roads, sidewalks, alleys, water, wastewater, and stormwater utilities;
• Consulting the community on new recreation projects and moving forward with those projects that residents support;
• Working with the province and federal RCMP to secure a fair cost-sharing model for Coaldale;
• Advocating for appropriate response times for medical emergencies.

Mayor Van Rijn said, “as a Council we’re very excited about the implementation of this plan.”

“Having a significant amount of input from our residents to help us craft it was vitally important for us a as a group, and now we’re looking forward to getting to work to make this community vision a reality for the people of Coaldale.”

The 2021-2025 Strategic can be viewed at the Town of Coaldale website.