Carleton Place Business Improvement Area

What is the BIA?

The Carleton Place Business Improvement Association began in 1979. The business community requested that the downtown be designated as an improvement area through municipal bylaws and provincial legislation and the BIA was formed.

The Carleton Place BIA promotes the downtown as a business and shopping area, not just a group of individual shops, restaurants and offices. Our mandate is twofold; beautification and promotion. Our ongoing floral beautification, seasonal banner program, and decorative lighting, add to the vibrant streetscape. We use promotional activities and special events to keep downtown Carleton Place foremost in the public’s mind as an attractive, pleasant place to shop, to be entertained, to work and to live.

The formal designation of the BIA provides a forum for business members and property owners to participate, through a Board of Management and its committees. The BIA is a self-help mechanism funded through a special municipal tax, designed to assist the local business area. It allows for planned programs to be developed through an annual budget contributed to, by all its members. The ongoing efforts of the BIA attract and maintain customers, clients, and shoppers in the commercial area, as well as attracting new business to the community.

Goals of the BIA:

To draw a larger customer base to the BIA area.
To develop and strengthen the business community to be a unified body.
To be the voice of BIA businesses.
To make the BIA area an enjoyable experience for each person who visits
To reflect the concerns and needs of the BIA business community to all levels of government.
To maintain and increase awareness of the BIA to BIA members

Benefits of the BIA:

Co-ordinated efforts – more impact and profile in the community.
Sustained funding- ongoing fiscal and marketing management provides the ability to plan programs in advance.
Self reliance- provides the mechanism to raise money to be spent on useful projects within our area.
Restore pubic image- the activities of the BIA raise the profile of the area by raising money to be spent on useful projects.
Community benefits- to build a business area that is physically attractive, well marketed and successful.

As revised by the new Municipal Act, which came into effect January 1, 2003 and in accordance to the Town of Carleton Place by-law which governs the BIA,

A board of management shall be composed of:

one or more directors appointed directly by the municipality; and the remaining directors selected by a vote of the membership of the improvement area and appointed by the municipality.

The term of the board of management is the same as the term of the council that appointed them but continues until their successors are appointed. By-law 54-92 says the Board of Management should consist of a minimum of five members and a maximum of eight members plus a municipal representative (nine members)

A new Board must be appointed/elected for a new four-year term, coinciding with the municipal elections. The current board is as follows:

Carleton Place BIA Board of Management

Keith Rouble (Chairperson of the BIA Board of Management)

The Granary

107 Bridge St. Carleton Place, ON. K7C 2V8

613-257-5986 or

Email: granary@trytel.com

Nancy Code-Miller (Vice Chairperson)

Nancy’s Impressions Ladies Fashion

149 Bridge St.
Carleton Place, ON. K7C 3X5

613-257-2124 or 613-264-2724 (Perth)

Email: nancysimpressions@hotmail.com

Gary Strike
Sponsored by Dacks Jewelers
42 Nelson St.
Carleton Place, ON. K7C 3P5
613-257-8049
Email: garystrike@rogers.com

Dwight Neron
Marg & Don’s Hair Stylists
157 Bridge St.
Carleton Place, ON. K7C 2V6
613-257-3334

Peter Tyler

Beckwith Bicycle Company

154 Beckwith St.

Carleton Place, ON. K7C 2T5

613-257-4738 or 613-257-8049

Councillor Dennis Burn

25 Morphy St.

Carleton Place, ON.

613-253-4772 or 613-229-0199

Dorothy Smith

The Barber Shop

290 William St.

Carleton Place, ON.
613-257-8049
Email: ivan.smith@sympatico.ca

Mike Maher