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2025 Highlights & 2026 Priorities
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Community Strategic Plan Pillars

Our guiding principles

These strategic pillars from our Community Strategic Plan guide the daily work of staff.

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    Pillar direction

    Innovate for service excellence

    We embrace a culture of innovation. We pursue partnerships, integrate technology, attract and develop top talent, and use data to inform decision-making, to deliver the impactful services our residents need today, and ensure readiness for those that will be needed tomorrow.

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    Pillar direction

    Ignite economic opportunity

    We ignite economic innovation, resilience, and prosperity by positioning the infrastructure and services businesses need to thrive.

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    Pillar direction

    Foster a thriving community

    We foster a liveable, healthy, and inclusive community, where diversity is celebrated and people from all walks of life feel a sense of belonging.

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    Pillar direction

    Propel sustainable growth

    We balance the benefits of development and intensification with preservation of our rural heritage, and lead in environmental stewardship, building complete communities that are resilient to climate change and create a high quality of life for all residents.

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    Pillar direction

    Champion a vibrant future

    We proactively build strong relationships with other levels of government, municipal and community partners to address community needs and interests, influence policies, and advance municipal goals.

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Looking back on 2025

45

45

New businesses launched and 98 expanded with the help of BECN

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181

Licensed child care spaces were opened across 4 facilities

5.7 K

5.7 K

Mattresses and box springs were diverted from landfill

$127K

$127K

in micro grants to support local small business owners and youth entrepreneurs

Innovate for service excellence

Expand municipal collaboration

Supported the successful implementation of a domestic training exercise by the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) in April 2025, partnering to raise awareness and promote public understanding of the initiative.

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  • Search and rescue walks with someone through mock emergency exercise
  • Two staff walk with bankers boxes down a hallway
  • IT staff sets up mic in council chambers
  • person walks by Social Services sign
  • IT staff works on infrastructure
  • County staff member reaches for a document in the filing room
  • HR staff chats with staff at a table
  • Court Services staff passes paper to client
  • Group photo at Broadband announcement
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  • Passages program participants pose next to County sign
  • GPL staff walks down GPL hallway with resident hand in hand
  • County staff pose next to booth at high school visit
  • Buy-Local-Launch
  • Grant writer writes content on a whiteboard
  • Leisse Wilcox presents at She Owns It Conference
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  • Two tourists sit in Muskoka chairs in a tent at Whispering Springs
  • OAFVC staff pack local food product into bags
  • Powered doors and accessible exit at County building
  • Children and adults drum together
  • Staff at ID clinic
  • Two Golden Plough Lodge staff chat at a computer
  • Elgin Park Redevelopment
  • Hands holding a paper cutout of a house.
  • Social Services staff chats with client
  • Community Paramedic smiles at camera as he opens door to vehicle
  • Little boy looks at camera as he holds a dinosaur toy
  • Inaate’abiwin Playroom
  • Two kids hold up leaves at learning table in the County forest
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  • Students help plant trees in Northumberland County Forest
  • Man walks two dogs in County Forest
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  • Northumberland Next project logo
  • New construction home residential construction home framing against a blue sky
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  • Photo of intersection updates at Welcome Intersection
  • Elected officials and staff pose behind new generator
  • Photo of freshly paved County Road 64 in Brighton
  • Trent River Crossing Design Mock Up
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  • New Golden Plough Lodge
  • Row of wooden block houses
  • finger touching wooden blocks with various climate action icons printed on them.
  • Proof of Residency sign at Brighton Landfill
  • Stack of recycled mattresses at landfill
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County staff member supporting a community member with using the assistive listening device in County Council chambers.

What we're working on this year

115

115

Affordable, transitional and market rent units in the construction pipeline over the next 3 years

180

180

Beds opening at the new Golden Plough Lodge

4th

4th

Annual BECN She Owns It Women's Entrepreneurship Conference

Smart21

Smart21

designation from Intelligent Community Forum

Innovate for service excellence

Expand municipal collaboration

Connect to Province-wide Public Safety Radio Network, connecting Northumberland Paramedics with 38,000 other frontline and emergency responders across Ontario, improving coverage in rural areas and security of data encryption.

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  • IT staff assists Customer Care staff with their computer
  • IT staff works on wiring in ceiling
  • Staff member on call using computer and headset
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  • Mock ups of County's new website design on tablet, laptop and mobile phone
  • HR staff points over the shoulder of co-worker at computer screen
  • Roads student holds up a stop sign at construction site
  • Zoll Zenix monitor
  • Finance staff members flip through budget binder
  • Finance staff uses computer
  • New GPL logo in lobby of new home
  • Photo of business card
  • County's Writing Guide
  • Women holding a mobile phone.
  • Intelligent Community Forum Smart21 Communities of the Year graphic
  • BECN staff smile next to promotional banner
  • BECN staff pose in front of floral photo wall at She Owns It Conference
  • Dog-friendly business decal
  • County staff member supporting a community member with using the assistive listening device in County Council chambers.
  • Gidinawendimin poster
  • aerial view of County Road 45 in Alderville First Nation
  • Council Chambers
  • Image of character from Language on the Land website
  • Staff at ID clinic
  • Donate-GPL-resized
  • Paramedic holds patient's hand
  • Adult and child hands holding blue paper house
  • Northumberland Next project logo
  • cyclists in forest
  • ATV in forest
  • Giant Hogweed
  • Staff spray paints tree for removal during timber harvesting
  • New Golden Plough Lodge
  • Museum staff carries box next to pile of moving boxes and supplies
  • Trent River Bridge in Campbellford
  • Digital mock up of proposed Trent River Crossing and Arterial Road network
  • CRC staff operates scale house
  • Roads staff holds up a Slow sign at construction site
  • Cycle Northumberland Contest graphic
  • Globe resting on long grass
  • Bins at Community Recycling Centre
  • Broadband cable
  • Community Paramedic smiles from window of vehicle
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