Action Plans
Strategic Plan
At the regular Council meeting held on September 3, 2024, the Town of Brome Lake’s elected officials adopted the 2024-2028 Strategic Plan, the result of a collaborative effortion amongbetween the citizens of Brome Lake, community partners, the municipal administration and elected officials. To carry out this initiativeexercise, the Town of Brome Lake worked with Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton to define, among other things, the vision, mission, values and major strategic orientations that shapeguide the final document.
Highlights
The Town of Brome Lake’s 2024-2028 strategic plan aims to addresses the demographic, environmental, social and economic challenges our community faces. The plan, the result of a wide-ranging public consultation involving nearly 1,500 people, is a collective response to the aspirations of citizens, elected officials, municipal employees and local partners.
Strategic Priorities:
- Environmental: Protecting natural spaces, manageing water runoff water and maintaining wastewater infrastructures
- Social: Addressmeeting demographic needs through adapted and inclusive services, and promoteing a sense of belonging
- Urban planning: Develop housing development, preserve heritage preservation, and promoteion of active mobility
- Economy: Foster economic diversification and support for local businesses, while strengthening tourist appeal
- Governance: Mmodernizeing municipal management and strengthenincreasing collaboration with stakeholders
Mission
Proud of its history and natural setting, the Town of Brome Lake offers efficient and responsible services in an enviabledesirable living environment to a forward-looking community.
Values
- Respect
- Transparency
- Integrity
- Resilience
- Leadership
Directions
- Services to citizens that respect diversity while promoting inclusion and a sense of belonging
- A vibrant town with diverse and attractive commercial, cultural, and tourism offerings
- Harmonious land development that considerstakes into account the needs of the population, as well as the character and history of the town
- Measures promoting ecological transition and biodiversity protection
- Modern management and increased collaboration with all stakeholders and partners of the Town
See the full document
Previous Strategic Planning
2015-2020
The 2015-2020 Strategic Pplan received official approval from the Town Council on August 3, 2015.
It included five major themes and issues that encompass all the activities that the Town has been prioritizeding from 2015 to 2020. These are:
- Municipal infrastructure
- Economic and demographic development
- Quality of life
- Protection of the environment and Brome Lake
- Municipal governance and institutional relations
Action Plan for a Healthy Lake
The Action Plan for a Healthy Lake is a Town of Brome Lake initiative aimed at preserving the water quality and biodiversity of Brome Lake. The plan details concrete actions to protect the lake's ecosystem, promote sustainable development, and raise community awareness aboutof the importance of lake conservation. Find out more about the environmental measures planned and how you can help preserve this precious natural environment.
Nurturing Community
This project is made possible by financial assistance from the Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation under the Programme d’appui au développement de l’agriculture et de l’agroalimentaire en région
Brome Missisquoi’s Nurturing Community
The Brome Lake Nurturing Community Project aims to place food at the heart of the community and to make our local food system more sustainable. Here is the complete diagnostic portrait of Brome-Missisquoi's Nurturing Community. A summary of this portrait is also available for consultation.
Here are some examples of cities that have joined the nurturing community movement: Montréal, Val-David, Saint-Bruno, Bromont, Saint-Camille, eight municipalities in Saguenay, and some in the Gaspésie region, to name just a few.
5 ingredients
- Fertile land
- Prosperous and responsible businesses
- Better access to healthy food
- An increased demand for proximity
- An optimized life cycle
Action Plan
Goal: Make our local food system more sustainable
Between now and February of 2023 Brome Lake will elaborate its Plan de développement de communauté nourricière (PDCN), its or nurturing community development plan. This process will be carried out in two stages:
- Establish a diagnostic portrait of our current local food system;
- Elaborate a vision and a realistic action plan, developed in collaboration with the population and local stakeholders, to make our food system more sustainable.
To this end, we will receive support and assistance from the Local Development Centre (CLD) of Brome-Missisquoi and the OROKOM group’s consulting services. In fact, as part of the implementation of its Agri-Food Development Strategic Plan 2021–2023, the Brome-Missisquoi CLD) is rallying eight municipalities within its territory around the concept of nurturing towns and villages (Bolton-Ouest, Brigham, Cowansville, Farnham, Frelighsburg, Brome Lake, Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge and Saint-Ignace-de-Stanbridge).
The objectives and advantages for building a nurturing community in Brome Lake as well as in Brome-Missisquoi are numerous:
- Improve the quality of life and sense of belonging among citizens;
- Increase food autonomy and access to quality food;
- Promote the retention of agricultural and agri-food businesses;
- Reduce our food system’s ecological footprint;
- Reduce food waste;
- Adapt our practices to the impacts of climate change.
The information relating to this process will be posted on this web page and on our other platforms (monthly newsletters, social media, etc.).
Basic concepts to master
Within the framework of the development of a nurturing community, there are two basic concepts to master: the components of the food system, which refer to the actors, activities and infrastructures of the ecosystem; and the ingredients of a nurturing community, which contribute to making our food system more sustainable by integrating the three pillars of sustainable development (social, environmental and economic aspects).
1. The Components of the Food System
2. The Ingredients of a Nurturing Community
