To date there has been five public meetings held at the Knights of Columbus Hall in North Sydney. At the last public meeting, held March 06, 2002, the communtiy had an unanimous vote to allow CBCEDA to put forth the funds needed to hire a consultant to help the four discussion groups write an action plan to apply for funding.

Landscape committee: meeting on a regular basis(once a month) this group is in the process of getting prices on an architectural drawing of the downtown,garbage cans, benches, planting flowers, flower baskets, window boxes,developing green areas, and improving our downtown Christmas lights.

Infrastructure committee: this groups discussion involves mostly long term projects such as a facade program, signage, unsightly premises, policing, underground wiring, inbound traffic patterns, relocation of tourist bureau and improve communication with Marine Atlantic. A short term project being worked on now is address numbers for downtown businesses.

Image and Profile: this groups major concentration is on the promotion of our downtown, as well as improving upon the community communication. Right now they are in the process of doing the community asset mapping.

Arts/Culture and Tourism: this group has been meeting regularly to discuss ways to draw tourists as well as the community to our downtown by showcasing our local talent.