Burnaby Social Sustainability Strategy - City of Burnaby

VII. Implementation
In order to advance toward Burnaby’s Social Sustainability Vision and
execute the Social Sustainability Strategy, the City will need to chart a
course to achieve its goals. This section provides a framework for the City
to implement the Strategy.
Implementation Steps
Subsequent to Council adoption of the Strategy, staff will develop an
implementation plan, to include the following steps:
• prioritize actions for implementation in Phase One, including
sequencing of actions
• develop the work plan for the first year of Phase One
• implement Phase One
• monitor and report progress annually
• refresh the Strategy after five years and adopt a new strategy after 10 years
1. Set Priorities
2. Develop Timeline + Work Plan
3. Implement Phase One
4. Monitor and Report
5. Renew Strategy
= Vision + Goals
City-sponsored eco-sculpture atop
Burnaby Mountain.
Each of these steps is elaborated upon below.
1. Set Priorities
In order for the City to realize its Social Sustainability Vision, it will be
important to prioritize the actions in the Social Sustainability Strategy. This
will enable the City to focus its limited resources to deliver on a suite of
initiatives in the near term. The highest priority actions will be proposed
for Phase One while others will be considered for subsequent phases.
(Depending on the results of annual reviews, the needs of the community
and Committee and Council direction, the City may subsequently decide
to begin work on Phase Two while Phase One work continues.)
The Social Sustainability Strategy actions will be prioritized by taking into
consideration the following guidelines:
• Ensure the group of prioritized actions help achieve all of the 10-year
goals: Community Inclusion, Community Liveability and Community
Resilience
• Include a combination of actions that:
- build on our foundation, expand our horizons and break new ground
- benefit a broad cross-section of Burnaby citizens as well actions that
benefit specific target groups
- the City has control over as well as actions that require the City to
work in partnership with others to achieve the desired objectives
- are “quick wins” to generate early successes as well as actions that
are long-term and might take three years or longer to bring to fruition
- can benefit from existing partnerships as well as actions that will
depend on new relationships for success.
• Include some actions that:
- are high profile and emblematic of Burnaby’s social sustainability
commitment, which could be characterized as “signature initiatives”,
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