Who?
The My Community My Voice community engagement project is an initiative of the Fort McMurray Chamber of Commerce.
Since 1914, the Chamber of Commerce has been the largest, most influential advocate for business in Fort McMurray. The Chamber was founded with the aim of creating a strong, unified voice and a set of values from which policies encouraging regional prosperity would emerge.
As the Region’s leader in public policy advocacy, the Chamber’s mission is to foster a strong community that benefits not only the businesses but the citizens of Fort McMurray and the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo.
What?
My Community My Voice begins with an on-line community dialogue forum as well as street-team engagement forums through which we hope to capture an environmental scan of life in Wood Buffalo and our hopes for the sustainable growth of this community.
When we have completed data collection and verification through a series of focus groups, the Chamber will advance its public engagement effort to ensure residents of Wood Buffalo are able to influence informed decision making at all levels of government that help to keep this region the roaring economic engine of Alberta and Canada but that also provides to residents a quality-of-life that is equal to or better than that of any community in Canada.
Our long-term prosperity depends on making Wood Buffalo a home of which its citizens can be proud.
Where?
In Anzac, Conklin, Draper, Fort Chipewyan, Fort Fitzgerald, Fort McKay, Fort McMurray, Gregoire Lake Estates, Janvier, Mariana Lake, Saprae Creek Estates and everywhere in between, our community dialogue forum is available on-line and in paper form. If you want to share this opportunity with people who do not have Internet access, then Contact Us and we will mail you the questions to be completed by hand.
When?
The on-line and written community dialogue survey was closed to public responses on December 31, 2009. The Chamber is now engaged in data analysis of survey responses, and will release that information to the public early in the New Year.
Focus groups will be conducted in the region to test and verify that data early in the New Year. We hope in the spring of 2010 to share what we’ve learned and to work with stakeholders in the region to develop a plan to improve the quality-of-life of all the residents of Wood Buffalo.
Why?
Wood Buffalo has borne the brunt of explosive growth that has had benefits across the province and the country. In the meantime, the residents of Wood Buffalo have been squeezed to keep that engine running under more and more difficult circumstances.
It’s time for our voice to be heard so that our community becomes the place we all want it to be.
The growth of our community starts with the power of your voice.
