Links to ICSPCentral pages and other useful information.
With the March 31, 2010 deadline to complete Integrated Community Sustainability Plans looming, MACA has scheduled a series of regional workshops to help community governments complete the work.
NWTAC Sustainability Coordinator Susan Coyne will be playing a lead role.
Sustainability Coordinator Susan Coyne has been visiting NWT Communities to help with the development of their ICSPs.
Susan Coyne is the NWTAC's Sustainability Coordinator. She joined the Association in 2008 to work with communities as they developed ICSPs.
This program is a partnership between the NWT Association of Communities and the GNWT's Department of Municipal and Community Affairs.
Welcome to ICSP Central, an Online Information Portal for NWT Community Governments during the development of Integrated Community Sustainability Plans (ICSP).
As required by the Federal Gas Tax Agreement, these plans must be completed by March 31, 2010. ICSPCentral exists to provide information on ICSP development to NWT Community Governments.
An ICSP is a long-term plan that is developed in consultation with community members, which provides direction for the community to realize objectives it has for the sustainable development of cultural, social and economic dimensions of its identity.
In exchange for this new multi-year funding allocations, NWT Community Governments are required to develop and implement ICSPs which consist of at least the following four components:
Using the definition used to create the New Deal for NWT Community Governments, a sustainable community is one that:
Funding available to each community through the Gas Tax supports the development of public transit systems, and water and wastewater systems, solid waste management, community energy systems, and community capacity building.
The pages of ICSPCentral are to provide basic answers to questions and access to information. Each planning area has its own dedicated page, providing links to people who can answer questions or to download planning tools.
Feel free to contact NWTAC Sustainability Coordinator Susan Coyne if you have any questions or would like to see something added to the website.
Please contact Susan Coyne, Sustainability Coordinator
E-mail: susan@nwtac.com