This Thursday the Medicine Hat Municipal Bylaw & Enforcement will launch a new Facebook page to provide the community with current information related to bylaws.--NEWS PHOTO BRENDAN MILLER
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On Thursday, Medicine Hat Municipal Bylaw and Enforcement will launch a new Facebook page to interact with residents.
They will also use the page as an educational tool to help inform residents on important information around local bylaws, as well as highlighting certain bylaws throughout different seasons of the year.
“It’s a good way to reach out to the public, the community and engage them. And instead of people searching through the city website for bylaws, we can reference it through social media,” says Brad Potts, bylaw supervisor. “We want to make it fun and engaging. Whether it’s the history of bylaws or just to get the community engaged and be able to serve.”
Potts says the Facebook page is a staff initiative and all officers will be involved in creating posts.
“All officers are involved in creating and kind of helping with posts when they can, but we have two staff that are the volunteers for the upkeep of the page,” says Potts.
The page will also be used to assist APARC to get the word out to the community whenever a stray dog is picked up or to highlight an animal that is up for adoption.
“We can post that on our social media as well as APARC’s so it’s just the more eyes on it, the better,” says Potts.
The page will also provide up-to-date information on when bylaw officers are on duty and how to reach them.
“A lot of people don’t know that and don’t know where to find it. But if you know you can look at our Facebook page and find out when officers are available and what kind of shifts they’re working,” explains Potts.
He says they also plan to use the page to highlight the important work bylaw officers do in the community.
“Whether it’s doing a ‘bylaw officer of the month’ just so people realize that we’re out there doing bylaws and enforcing things and they’re involved in the community. It’s gonna be educational but also, hopefully, a fun engagement with the community,” says Potts.
