Our Future Hamilton Community Vision Analysis

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What is Our Future Hamilton Community Vision?
Hamilton is a beautiful city with many opportunities for employment, education, entertainment and other activities, but it still has so much to improve upon. The City of Hamilton decided to create an in depth future vision for its residents consisting of various factors such as a goal, mission, culture and priorities to improve our city. The plan is called “Our Future Hamilton Community Vision and was created by city councillors and citizens. It is specifically designed for residents with the main vision of being “the best place to raise a child and age successfully”. Who was involved in shaping this plan? Why is it important?
There were many people who truly cared about the future of Hamilton …show more content…

Although Vision 2020 did help our community, there were still many spots left for improvement which is why in 2015-2016, residents were asked questions again to create our current shared community vision, “Our Future Hamilton Community Vision”.
Our Future Hamilton is the largest, broadest, and most inclusive public engagement initiative ever organized by the City of Hamilton. In other words, residents can fully express their thoughts and with an increasing number, approximately 55 000 residents have already done so.
There are many ways for the residents of Hamilton to be actively involved and informed for the Our Future Hamilton Community Vision; online at the Our Future Hamilton website, vision cards, community events such as festivals, broad and inclusive participation, online surveys, project presentations, engagement in a bag, and open houses. Our Future Hamilton Community Vision and the City of Hamilton’s 10-year Strategic Plan are two separate plans, but have similar goals and the same vision of making Hamilton the best …show more content…

With the major help of citizens, we can accomplish a much brighter future for Hamilton. There are numerous ways citizens can help make Hamilton a better city, especially by fulfilling the needs for priority three (Healthy and Safe Communities). For example, citizens can buy local, nutritious products, lead active lifestyles (even going out for a walk is considered active), or by supporting someone you know that has a problem with drugs, smoking or alcohol. Along with priority three, citizens can also contribute to the other five priorities by browsing through hamilton.ca as it states all key directions or ideas that we can follow. Additionally, hamilton.ca selects a “community champion of the month” where you have the opportunity to earn cool prizes such as tickets to sporting events or passes to Hamilton Civic Museums simply by sharing your story of what you are doing to make the vision a reality. Not to mention, you can join your organization with Hamilton to also share what you are doing to help make our community better, as well as gain public recognition and receive a signed certificate from Mayor Fred Eisenberger. If every single citizen incorporated one task in their life everyday to make Hamilton a better city, whether the task is big or small, Hamilton will be one step closer to

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