Lacombe’s effort to develop a Municipal Sustainability Plan has gotten off to a slow start.
Only a handful of local residents turned out to share their thoughts last Friday and Saturday.
On Friday morning, focus groups were to work with a consultant. A public kick-off event had been scheduled for the evening and on Saturday public workshops were to be held.
Mayor Steve Christie said only a couple of people turned out for the kick-off event.
“We understand it’s a busy time of year and there’s a lot of things going on, school’s back in and there are hockey tryouts and everything’s happening.
“We just have to pull in the reins a little bit, go back to the drawing board.”
Christie said the city will have to look at ways to take its sustainability project out to the people and not wait for them to come to the city.
While the committee didn’t get the public participation it hoped, it was able to meet and discuss how to go forward, he said.
The city is calling its plan Lacombe2040 and it is expected to guide how the community does business in the future.