If you live in the Municipality of Kincardine, watch for an important flyer in your mailbox.
The municipality is sending out forms asking for resident input for the new community plan council has decided to develop.
Mayor Larry Kraemer says they want to find out citizen’s suggestions on how to improve what the community offers and how it operates.
He says they want people to think inside and outside the box when it comes to their suggestions.
Kraemer says the survey asks four questions about the values, ideas, efforts, and suggestions to make Kincardine a better community.
The Mayor says the flyers are being sent out in the summer so seasonal residents have a chance to have their say.
Kraemer says if you don’t get a flyer, they can also be printed from the municipal website, and a Community Plan Facebook group is also going to be started.
He says the survey isn’t just for residents of the town of Kincardine, the municipality wants to hear from citizens in Tiverton, small communities like Bervie and Glammis, cottage areas like Inverhuron, and the rural farm area.
Residents have until September 4th to return their surveys.
They can be dropped off at the Municipal Administration Centre, the tourism office, public libraries, the Davidson Centre, Kincardine Medical Clinic, along with Sobeys, Zehrs, and Foodland in Kincardine, the Tiverton Kwik-Way, and Cottage Grocery in Inverhuron.
Once the surveys are all collected, a series of public workshops will be held from September to November to let residents offer more input and get more involved.
Kraemer says early in 2010, a Community Plan report will go before council and they will decide which suggestions are feasible.
Kraemer says this community plan is meant to build on the one from 2004 and around 60 percent of things it contains have been done.
As an example, Kraemer says the 2004 plan contained streetscape improvements to Kincardine and Tiverton which he believes have since made a beautiful difference in both communities.