2025 Annual Report-final June 4

Strategic Priority: Engaged, Healthy Community

Strategic Priority Goals • Provide a diversity of inclusive and accessible recreation opportunities. • Build and celebrate community pride, strengthening community connections to foster a sense of belonging. • Promote a vibrant arts and culture community. • Ensure the safety and enhance the well-being of residents. • Improve community engagement with the City.

2025 Activities

2026 Goals

Community Activation and Engagement • Conducted an Arts, Culture, Events & Heritage Services review to identify opportunities to respond to evolving community needs. • Completed a public participation and engagement framework to guide development of future policies and programs based on community involvement. • Completed a Recreation Facility Feasibility Study. • Completed community engagement (Phase 1) on new aquatic and recreation amenities to support the city’s growing population. • Completed a new Public Art Policy and Handbook. • Increased participation in subsidized recreation programs by 11.6% from 2024-2025. Public Safety • Implemented a social well-being pilot to enhance service delivery to marginalized populations and established a Social Wellbeing Action Team to support this work. • Updated the staffing model to strengthen the capacity of Fire Service to support the city’s rapidly growing population. • Delivered “Be Downtown” initiatives to increase safety, and support businesses and community activation. • Completed a Community Safety Action Plan. • Onboarded new bylaw, police, and fire service members approved in the 2025–2029 Financial Plan.

Community Activation and Engagement • Complete costing estimates and develop a potential funding strategy for three recreational infrastructure projects to serve our growing community’s needs. • Implement public art to support community art installations in line with the Public Art Policy and Handbook. Public Safety • Complete the deintegration of the Ridge Meadows RCMP detachment planned for April 1, 2026, to establish a stand alone Maple Ridge RCMP detachment. • Complete the social well-being pilot and report on outcomes achieved. • Determine sustainable funding approach for Community HUB services for marginalized populations. • Implement 20 individualized action plans for repeat offenders. • Increase community engagement with public safety services by 20% with increased foot and bike patrols and joint RCMP and Bylaw safety walks. • Implement a succession plan for Fire Services.

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