Merritt drafting community resilience framework

The City of Merritt is working with community to create a resilience framework.

“The framework will help community partners, service organizations and local businesses better understand resilience and identify the strengths and opportunities that can help Merritt navigate sudden events, ongoing stresses and other pressures,” explains the city.

The idea to create the framework comes in the aftermath of lessons learned in the 2021 flood.

The framework will build on Merritt’s experience of the 2021 flood, as well as other historical experiences the community has navigated together. Work is underway to review and coordinate what has already been completed and integrate past research and planning into a resilience framework,” continues the city’s release. ” It will be a key tool to help unlock partnerships, funding and grant opportunities as we work together to enhance our community’s resilience.”

The funding to create the framework comes from the Canadian Red Cross, with the city noting it’s not a city plan.

“The City is facilitating the development of the framework, but it is intended to be a community-driven initiative and a shared community resource. Community partners, service organizations, local businesses, local government and First Nation Communities all have roles in strengthening community resilience,” reads the document.

The goal is to have the framework completed by December.

Full details can be read – https://www.merritt.ca/resilient/