Poll context · first edition
Six of ten responses placed usage, accessibility and community equity first when ranking infrastructure projects.
Frozen snapshot
First 10-response threshold
10
responses
Safety risk and asset condition
20% · 2
Service continuity and emergency access
10% · 1
Cost and risk of delaying the work
10% · 1
Usage, accessibility and community equity· leading
60% · 6
Immutable historical snapshot. Responses received after August 24, 2026 belong to the next edition.
Snapshot finding
Limitations
The snapshot does not replace engineering inspection, legislated asset-management duties or emergency-access requirements. It records only which factor participating visitors chose to lead the ranking.
PUBLIC RECORD
Facts drawn from official municipal records and linked to the sources below.
Chatham-Kent's 2026 consolidated asset-management report uses condition, function, capacity and sustainability as common service-level measures, with customer-value terms that include reliability, accessibility, affordability, quality and timeliness.
Sources: 1, 2
The report estimated a $2.663-billion ten-year infrastructure funding gap. Its table reported roads at 58% funded with a $46.34-million annual gap and bridges and culverts at 44% funded with a $21.521-million annual gap.
Sources: 2, 3
INTELLISYNC VIEW
The participant preference adds a public-value test to a constrained technical system. A defensible ranking method should show community use and access beside safety, asset condition, service continuity and the cost of delay—not allow one factor to erase the others.
ACCOUNTABILITY QUESTION
Can residents see the same ranking criteria, weights and reasons Council uses when one project moves ahead of another?
Inspectable evidence
No candidate statements were used in this edition. Every source is a municipal public record.