The City of Yorkton will take another step in updating the community's Municipal Cultural Plan.
In 2009, the City of Yorkton became the first Saskatchewan municipality to develop a Municipal Cultural Plan, with support of the provincial global organization for arts and culture in Saskatchewan, SaskCulture. The following year, Yorkton City Council adopted the Municipal Cultural Plan and directed administration to examine the findings and bring forward recommendations for an implementation strategy, explained Darcy McLeod, Director of CDPR with the City at the regular meeting of Council Monday.
"Now, ten years after the process began, we are revisiting and refreshing our Municipal Cultural Plan. Our community has changed over the past ten years and, in 2020, through a SaskCulture Community Cultural Engagement and Planning Grant, Prairie Wild Consulting was engaged to conduct local research, including: information gathering, identification of cultural and community assets, mapping assets, assessment, analysis of data, and eventual publishing of these findings," he said.
The findings of Prairie Wild Consulting will soon be provided to Council, and the greater community, in a 鈥淪tate of Culture Report鈥�.
McLeod said they would then move into the next phase of the process, which is community engagement.
In this Community Engagement phase, Prairie Wild Consulting would be engaged to work with us to host public meetings, town hall meetings, facilitated discussions, focus groups, building community knowledge and capacity through presentations/guest speakers followed by discussions, etc.
There is no financial commitment from, or budget impact to, the City to apply for this grant, other than our in-kind staff time, added McLeod.
