DOWNLOAD A COPY OF: “Living Water Smart in British Columbia: Moving Towards Sustainable Service Delivery in the Comox Valley” – released by the Partnership for Water Sustainability in May 2023
Note to Reader:
Waterbucket eNews celebrates the leadership of individuals and organizations who are guided by the Living Water Smart vision. The edition published on May 30, 2023 featured the story behind the story of the “experiment in collaboration” involving the four local governments in the Comox Valley over the past two decades. The Partnership’s hope is that having this record of their oral history will serve to inform and inspire future generations of local government staffs.
Comox Valley is an experiment in collaboration
Everyone learns through stories, and this is how the Partnership hopes to inspire readers. The Partnership for Water Sustainability is releasing a series of comprehensive “stories behind the stories” of inter-regional collaboration among local governments along the east coast of Vancouver Island and in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.
The second in the series features the four Comox Valley local governments. The Partnership describes the regional team approach in the Comox Valley as an “experiment in collaboration”.
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To download a copy of the Comox Valley story, click on Stream Systems and Watershed Stewardship in the Comox Valley: Moving Towards Sustainable Service Delivery.
Stream Systems and Watershed Stewardship in the Comox Valley: Moving Towards Sustainable Service Delivery
The Comox Valley was the first region to embrace the vision for Asset Management for Sustainable Service Delivery as a regional goal. This was in 2011, four years before the BC Framework was jointly released by UBCM and the Ministry of Municipal Affairs through Asset Management BC.
An over-arching takeaway from the Comox Valley story is that the collaboration journey must be measured in terms of decades rather than years. Collaboration has built trust in the Comox Valley. The four local governments are looking beyond their boundaries to figure out how they can help and support each other.
“We do not have to be exactly the same in what we do,” they say, “but we need to be consistent in the message. Those past connections and that social contract with each other is part of what greases the wheel and gets stuff done.”
TO LEARN MORE:
To read the complete story, download a PDF copy of Living Water Smart in British Columbia: Moving Towards Sustainable Service Delivery in the Comox Valley..
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