How decisions are made about your community is vitally important to your life. Yet fewer than 25 per cent of Chilliwack residents voted in the last municipal election.

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Empowered by provincial legislation, municipal governments are responsible for:

• Collecting property taxes, including a portion of those taxes for the school district 

• Hiring and managing city staff​

• Garbage & recycling

• Water and wastewater management

• Local road repair & maintenance

• Transit

• Tourism

• The Chilliwack airport

• ​Development planning

• Land use, zoning, development permits & charges

• Business licenses

• Bylaws & bylaw enforcement

• BIA--Business Improvement Association

• CEPCO--Chilliwack Economic Partners Corporation

• Recreation, culture, sports fields, arenas, pools & local parks & trails

• Libraries & community centres

• Animal control

• Public safety including police & fire protection

• Emergency preparedness

• Flood protection

• Climate change & the environment