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8- The Oakville Beaver Weekend, Saturday August 23, 2008 www.oakvillebeaver.com
Key Accomplishments
To be accountable in everything we doAn internal audit function was created at the Town this year. This role is helping to
improve our business processes and strategies, ensure that we are accountable to the
community and make our investigations and oversight activities more rigorous.
The Town developed and rolled out its Strategic Plan for the period 2007 to 2010.
Setting out our vision, mission and values for the next three years, this document
describes the future we want to create for our community and how we will attain it.
To enhance our natural environmentThe Town of Oakville was designated as the 2007 Forest Capital of Canada by the
Canadian Forestry Association for its commitment to the strategic management of its
urban forest, demonstrating stewardship and sound practices toward sustainable forest
development, management and conservation.
The Town reached an important agreement with landowners this year, outlined in the
North Oakville Secondary Plan. Through it, a major component of the Natural Heritage
System – 2,100 acres of natural environment – will be conveyed to the municipality at
no cost. This accomplishment is a major step forward in preserving and protecting our
green spaces.
To continuously improve our programs and servicesTo provide a temporary framework for assessing development applications until the
Official Plan revisions are complete, an Interim Growth Management Plan (Official
Plan Amendment 275) which targets growth to three areas long identified in Oakville’s
Plan and raises protection of our neighbourhoods to the maximum extend possible.
With that move, we began the three year process of creating a new from-the-ground-up
Official Plan: “Livable Oakville.”
The Town held public consultation meetings and developed plans for the North Park
project. Indoor and outdoor amenities will be integrated, combining a quad-pad hockey
facility, recreation centre and library with active sports fields, trails and other park features.
The purchase of the former Dominion Twin Rinks arena was completed this year,
giving us a much needed new facility called the Joshua’s Creek Arenas. A partnership
was struck with the Oakville Soccer Club to install an artificial turf field at River Oaks
Park, and construction began on the Oakville Little League field house.
To have programs and services that are fiscally sustainableA program-based, performance-based budgeting system, PB2, was launched for the
2008 budget preparation cycle. PB2 focuses on the programs the Town delivers and the
outcomes of investments and the performance measures that assess them.
This year, the Town began to set up a 10-year financial forecasting process linked to
Council’s strategic plan. This is a living document that will be continually reviewed
and updated, helping us assess priorities, identify long-term financial needs and make
plans and decisions about revenues and expenditures.
For a complete list go to www.oakville.ca
Mayor’s Message
On behalf of your Council I am pleased to provide
you with highlights of our 2007 Annual Report.
Your Council began 2007 by creating a unanimous
vision and four year Strategic Plan for our work
together to 2010. We resolved to be goal-driven,
performance-based and results-oriented. This
means measuring our progress, seeking continuous
improvements and holding ourselves accountable to
meet the diverse needs of our community.
We look for innovation, modern tools and new
strategies that take us closer to our goals while
helping us to control costs, improve efficiency
and maximize value. We are proud to have delivered one of the lowest
property tax increases in the GTA in 2007, and will continue working hard
to maintain Oakville’s economic competitiveness.
Our efforts will continue to focus on the things that residents, businesses and
staff tell us are most important to them: recreation and transit, accessibility
and the environment.
I hope you’ll take the time to review our full Annual Report, which gives the
details of our accomplishments in 2007.
Starting this summer, look for Council’s new and improved newsletter, Let’s
Talk Oakville, in your mailbox. We combined the previous six separate Ward
newsletters into a consolidated magazine-style newsletter as a town-wide
accountability report.
Given the progress we’ve made in our first year, we are optimistic for the
future. We’ve set a goal to create the most livable town in Canada. Every
step toward this goal increases our quality of life and our ability to continue
to attract residents, businesses and staff who are the best and brightest.
Sincerely,
Rob Burton
Mayor, Town of Oakville
For the full report, please visit www.oakville.ca. Hard copies will be available at Town facilities at the end of August.
Town32.5% Region
41.3%
School26.2%
Examples of where your tax dollars are spent within the Town Who receives your tax dollars Population growth in Oakville
2007 Highlights
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