Driving Business Success: City Insights, Future Plans & Collaboration to Succeed

Description

You are invited to join us for a Business Round-Up with the City of Medicine Hat to discuss plans, progress and improvements within Development & Infrastructure; Energy, Land & Environment; Procurement as well as Economic Development and learn about the 2025-2026 capital budget plans recently adopted by City Council.

This will also be an opportunity for you to view some changes to website tools and participate in a roundtable discussion with the Chamber on some of the advocacy efforts, and proposed updates to existing recommendations and ongoing work-in-progress items for our municipal Government. 

Agenda:

1. City of Medicine Hat updates on plans, progress & improvements

1. Planning & Development Services

• Land Use Bylaw status update
• Offsite Levy update and progress
• Development Permit and Building Permit status
• Process improvements 

2. Environmental Utilities

• Projects and priorities for 2025 
• Updated 2025 Environmental Utilities fixed servicing/abandonment costs
• Process improvements and challenges ahead

3. Municipal Works

• Projects and priorities for 2025
• Traffic counts 
• Downtown and citywide patio process
• Process improvements and challenges ahead

4. Air Service

• Updated flight information
• Priorities for 2025
• Air service attraction

5. Procurement 

• Annual report highlights from 2025
• Current and upcoming bids for 2025-2025
• Overview of procurement website page and any questions

6. Economic Development 

• Economic Opportunities Strategy overview of action plans
• Business Retention & Expansion Industry Specific (BREIS) update
• Plans for incentives for 2025-2026

2. Capital plan budget items for 2025-2026

3. Roundtable discussion regarding the recommendations in the Chamber’s policy ‘creating a business-friendly regulatory environment’

Special thanks to our refreshment sponsor: