Next Steps

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend last night’s community workshop. We had valuable discussions at the tables and learned a lot about the current challenges, ideas and solutions and what a vision for the site could be following the shelter wind down. Thank you again for taking time to share your concerns, thoughts and ideas with us.

Samples of the notes taken last night and one of the maps from the workshop discussions.

Next steps: we will take the notes and feedback received from you and report back through Get Involved Kingston on what we heard and what actions we are taking in response. We expect to be able to report that back to you in approximately two weeks. When we do the update will be posted on the project’s Get Involved page and emailed to those subscribed for updates.

City staff are also looking to address some of the specifics we heard last night related to security operations, shelter services, shelter operations transparency and emergency contact information. More detailed information will be included with our report back to you.

We would also like to better understand how you would like to engage on this topic going forward. Please let us know through a quick survey on Get Involved Kingston. This will help us understand whether community members would like to continue with the same type of open format events we have hosted so far or prefer the creation of a community liaison committee.

With thanks,

38 Cowdy Street Project Team