Four Rural Studies students from The University of Guelph were asked to develop a community-based tool that fosters strategic, transparent, sustainable decision-making in the rural Ontario municipality of Grey Highlands. In this presentation, we would like to unpack both the processes of collaboration with the Municipal sub-committee and the processes of community engagement that went into building the deliverable of the project -- a framework connecting community-identified assets to the community capitals framework. Our presentation is broadly related to the notion of regional development and more specifically, the capacity of regional governments and communities to "maintain a pulse" on and build connections between their own regional assets.
