Civil and Municipal - Mar 2023

122 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3 PREFERRED VENDOR/PARTNER n The Miller Group www.millergroup.ca n GSS Engineering Consultants Ltd www.gssengineering.ca Meaford community has been the mission of the Municipality’s Community Safety and Wellbeing Plan, which has been working throughout 2020-21 to gather community perspectives on important items through resident feedback and local data. “The Plan, which is unique to our municipality, has made a huge impact in our understanding of the social infrastructure of our community,” Clumpus explains. “We are paying attention to the health and welfare of all of our residents to see what needs we have, which may have gone under the radar when you’re faced with so many overwhelming infrastructure challenges. There are a number of really vital and exciting tasks coming out of that Plan, to create an even more age-friendly community, encourage more vibrant shops to come in, create opportunities for employment in all sectors, and ensure the appropriate housing to accommodate those new workers coming into our area.” The Municipality of Meaford is a vibrant community that offers a strong health care system; an emerging, creative, rural economy; community events; arts and culture; quality educational institutions; a well-established farmers’ market; and year-round, world- class recreational opportunities in its rolling countryside, charming historic villages, sandy beaches, and unspoiled natural amenities. In short, Meaford, Ontario is an attractive place in which to live, work and play. “There is just a wonderful future ahead here,” says Clumpus, “and it’s very exciting to be a part of it.”