City of Surrey's 2021 - 2025 Financial Plan

PARKS, RECREATION & CULTURE

• Museum of Surrey successfully completed the restoration of 1881 Town Hall and Anniedale School. Both buildings were used for the modified summer programs in 2020; and • Planned, redesigned, developed a new website that launched on September 2, 2020. The new site has a clean and bold design, improved navigation structure, and uses a more modern open-source Drupal technology enabling an improved user experience for both external audiences and internal users. The site enables new abilities to integrate customer experience across multiple city online applications using a single account or login. The new site averages 11,600 visits daily across the site while the new online services page observed 126,605 page views in the first four months contributing to 17,000 new MySurrey user accounts. Clothes line” featured textile art and business partnerships with companies working to upcycle textiles, reduce waste and provide opportunities for creating textile artwork.

CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY • Virtual Surrey Fusion Festival received a federal grant from Community Support, Multiculturalism and Anti- Racism Initiatives (“CSMARI”) program for $20,000 to support cultural programing, the cultural video series, marketing and logistics; • Virtual Surrey Canada Day received a grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage Celebrate Canada Fund for $60,000 to support online programming, marketing and logistics; • Increase the investment into the online customer registration experience portal of Perfect Mind in 2021; and • Feature Exhibition at Museum of Surrey in Fall 2020 called “Nature’s

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