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Social Sustainability & Cultural Master Plans

CITY OF SPRUCE GROVE

Cultural Master Plan

Highlights of Plan

• Delivered by Cultural Services & MDB Insight

Consulting

• June 2016 Presentation to Council
• The Five Pillars
• Planning Process & Community Consultation
• Cultural Resources & Inventory
• Reporting & Monitoring

Cultural Master Plan

Why Culture, Why Now?

• Support a prosperous and diversified local economy
• Enhance quality of life for residents
• Support social planning and development
• Define community identity and sense of belonging
• Build sense of civic and community engagement
• Celebrate diversity and create a welcoming, inclusive community

Cultural Master Plan

Process

• Document Review
• Cultural Resource Mapping (a total of 180

cultural resources were identified)

• Community Engagement process (online

survey, community forum, stakeholder interviews, focus group discussions)

• Key Findings Report
• Drafting the Plan

Cultural Master Plan

2026 Vision

• City of Spruce Grove is recognized across the Capital Region for its cultural energy

and vibrancy

• Culture is widely accepted in the community as essential to building a diversified

local economy and a high quality of life

• The City is respected for the leadership it has demonstrated in leveraging cultural

resources to address a range of pressing social issues and needs

• Spruce Grove’s strong cultural industries are significant drivers in a growing creative

economy attracting talent and investment

• Culture engages both new and long-standing residents stimulating civic pride and

community identity.

• A ‘culture of design’ infuses decisions, producing a city that boasts a vital City

Centre and beautiful places throughout the community

• As diversity grows, Spruce Grove’s cultural sector answers with responsive cultural

programming focused on intercultural dialogue and exchange

• City of Spruce Grove is recognized as a municipality that integrates culture into all

facets of planning and decision-making

Cultural Master Plan

Five Strategic Directions Pillars:

• build and strengthen municipal and community capacity

Cultural Capacity

• develop and implement an integrated marketing strategy

Marketing & Communication

• use programs and small scale cultural spaces as an attraction

City Centre Revitalization

• address identity, diversity, and inclusion through cultural

programming

Strengthen City Identity

• increase access to cultural facilities and spaces

Support Programs & Facilities

Cultural Master Plan

The City’s Role

• Planning and Policy
• Partner
• Facilitator and convener
• Promoter and champion
• Funder and Provider

Monitoring & Evaluation

• Determine the ‘story’ the City and cultural leaders wish to tell
• Identify the indicators and performance measures needed to

communicate that story/messages

• Produce regular Report Card
• Time to coincide with Cultural Summit

Recent and Current Cultural Initiatives

• Canada 150
• Public Art Policy & Implementation
• Tri-Regional Cultural Summit
• Community Cultural Spaces
• Spruce Grove Public Library Operating Grant increase

and Needs Assessment

• Municipal Event Hosting Strategy
• 0.5 Cultural Services Coordinator

Social Sustainability Plan

Overview

• FCSS & Social Planning and Moorhouse & Associates
• May 2016 Presentation to Council
• Document Review and Community Consultation
• Eight Key Areas for Action
• Reporting & Monitoring

Social Sustainability Plan

What is Social Sustainability Anyway?

• social equity
• livability
• health equity
• community

development

• social capital
• social support
• human rights
• labour rights
• placemaking
• social responsibility
• social justice
• cultural competence
• community

resilience

• human adaptation

Social Sustainability Plan

Why Social Sustainability?

• Rapid growth and changing social trends (>30 percent

population increase 2011-2016)

• Plan within the municipal structure to address issues

and root causes

• High level focus on inter-dependencies between the

economy, environment, and society

• Long term prosperity and high quality of life for

current and future residents

• Guide effort and resource allocation of the City and

key stakeholders

Social Sustainability Plan

Engagement and Methodology

• Document review
• City of Spruce Grove plans, Social Sustainability plans from other municipalities, Alberta Social Policy

Framework

• Community profile built on existing work of Parkland & Area Community Mapping Initiative
• Extensive community consultations and engagement
• Series of focus groups to engage service providers, business community, school division representatives,

and residents including youth, seniors, vulnerable sector, Aboriginal community, and newcomers

• Resident survey

Eight Key Areas for Action

• develop a program of support for the homeless population

Homeless Population

• reduce levels of family violence

Family Violence

• increase social wellness through appropriate and affordable public

transportation

Transportation

• develop a continuum of housing to meet diverse needs and income

levels

Housing

• increase access to programs, services, and supports

Programs & Services

• create sustainability through community engagement and capacity

building

Community Engagement

• create and sustain Spruce Grove as an inclusive community

Inclusivity

• modify governance and admin practices to ensure the Plan is

incorporated at all levels

Civic Governance & Admin

Social Sustainability Plan

Implementation

• Communications launch
• Social Sustainability Plan and Cultural Master Plan Webpages
• Develop ongoing and effective community engagement

strategies

• Use the Plans to guide future resource allocation, programs,

and services

• Implement standardized reporting processes to Council and

community

Recent and Current Initiatives

• Youth Engagement Strategy
• ParentLink Centre
• New Beginnings: An Indigenous

Engagement Improvement Strategy

• Gay Straight Alliance Partnership Launch
• Tri-Regional and Local Transit Plan
• Standardized Reporting Processes

Next Steps…

Strategy to Reduce Poverty & Homelessness Community Development Framework Cultural Spaces Initiative Welcome and Inclusive Communities Initiative

Overarching Future Objectives

Focus on community capacity building Build a culture of inclusion through engagement Invest in facilities and open spaces that welcome and celebrate diversity Modify governance and administrative practices to support the plans at all levels

Brent Oliver

Director, Cultural Services City of Spruce Grove 315 Jespersen Avenue Spruce Grove AB T7X 3E8 780.962.7634 ext. 619 boliver@sprucegrove.org

Janine Peter

Director, FCSS & Social Planning City of Spruce Grove 105 – 505 Queen Street Spruce Grove AB T7X 2V2 780.962.7628 jpeter@sprucegrove.org

Questions

https://www.sprucegrove.org/media/1999/cultural-master-plan.pdf https://www.sprucegrove.org/government/reports-plans/social-sustainability-plan/