A grassroots civic engagement and advocacy group has launched a new community check-in survey to hear from residents about quality of life, city services and priorities heading into the 2026 municipal election.
The survey by Engage Windsor opened on April 1 and accept feedback for about one month.
Co-chair Josh Sankarlal says the survey aims to give Windsorites a chance to share what issues matter most to them.
"Across municipalities in Ontario, roughly every two years, the city council will ask residents to just give feedback on the direction of the city, the city's budget, all of those things," Sankarlal said.
"That's not something that Windsor has been in the practice of doing, so Engage thought that we would sort of take it up and run it ourselves.")
Sankarlal said the goal is to collect meaningful resident feedback that can help inform public discussions before voters pick the next council.
"The survey asks a lot of questions about their quality of life, like has it improved, has it declined, what services do they access, and do they find that those services are to their satisfaction, how do they feel about the way that the city has budgeted this year compared to other years," he said.
Sankarlal said Engage Windsor hasn’t run a survey like this before, but board members have professional polling experience.
"We're hoping for a strong response," he said.
"We've got a bit of a plan laid out to hopefully attain about 1,000 responses which is more than our neighbouring municipalities get when they run it."
The survey can be accessed at surveys.engagewindsor.org.