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Courtenay’s vision. From the numerous policies and actions contained within the OCP, Council sets strategic priorities for their term to guide department work plans, the five year Financial Plan, and annual budgets. Outcomes are annually reported through the City of Courtenay Annual Report, which offers an opportunity for evaluation and further work plan refinement year after year.

2 Establishing performance indicators and monitoring framework The City publishes an annual report outlining development activity and summarizing major planning, programming, and capital investment initiatives. This report will identify what actions have been initiated and completed and what the outcomes are; as well as and how well the City has responded relative to the vision, goals, and policies of the OCP. Appropriate performance indicators will be established, measured, and monitored on a regular basis. Other creative performance monitoring approaches such as partnerships on indicator selection and data tracking, and third party reporting through the CVRD’s Regional Growth Strategy data collection and monitoring work will also be considered. The OCP provides the overarching strategic direction for the City, from which all other plans, bylaws, actions, and decisions should align. The full implementation of the OCP depends on its full integration with the City’s strategic and organizational action plans, budgeting, work planning, and annual reporting system. A list of plans, bylaws, procedures, and services that need to be updated to reflect the OCP’s direction, and new plans, bylaws, procedures, and services that are needed to operationalize key policies within the OCP, are listed in Table D-7 Implementation Priorities, and Appendix 1 Implementation Actions.

Performance Monitoring Council, City staff, partners, and all residents are strongly encouraged to participate in decision-making processes and community wide dialogue in order to respond to the evolving context of the community, and determine whether the OCP vision, goals, and targets are being achieved. Ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the Plan is crucial to the successful implementation of the OCP. 1 Carbon neutrality by 2050 The primary indicator of the OCP’s success is carbon neutrality by 2050. In order to meet this target, a number of policies and actions must be implemented immediately while others can be phased in over time. To guide GHG reduction performance, the City of Courtenay commits to the phased GHG reduction targets in Table D-1.

Table D-1 GHG Modelling and Target Setting Conducted by Sustainable Solutions Group.

Target Year

2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050 -15,543 -37,642 -58,585 -77,,073 -86,600 -92,662 -15% -45% -60% -80% -90% -95%

tCO2e Reduced from 2016 Percentage emissions reduction from 2016

These targets align closely with those identified by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations governmental body responsible for advancing knowledge on human-induced climate change, and also generally align with the federal government’s most recent enhanced Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) on greenhouse gas emissions reductions (2021).

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