My Platform
I love Canmore.
But I also know that as a community we have challenges to overcome.
I have spent most of my life living in this valley, having been born just over a month after the Canmore Coal Company closed the mine in July, 1979.
In 2006, I graduated from a certificate of journalism program at Mount Royal and was hired as a journalist at the local newspaper. Having spent 15 years covering the news in my hometown, I am more than familiar with the issues that will fall firmly at the feet of our next elected town council.
I have sat in council chambers for more than a decade of meetings, including every budget meeting since 2013. I have read the reports and legislation that will guide future decisions.
My platform is centred around priorities we must focus our efforts on immediately as a council and community. Reconciliation; housing and affordability; climate change; tourism; human use management and wildlife connectivity – these are some complex problems to solve and that is why I am running in the Oct. 18. 2021 municipal election as a candidate for town councillor.
I am asking for your support to take a leadership role in tackling these challenges because we need informed and hard-working locals at the table asking the right questions. I will use this space to share my ideas on each of these issues over the coming weeks.
If elected, I would focus specifically on the following priorities immediately:
Finding the next Chief Administrative Officer for the Town of Canmore
Conducting a full post-COVID-19 service review of the annual capital and operating budgets
Pushing for a major update to the Comprehensive Housing Action Plan (including setting the stage for planning processes that focus on the Larch, Lion's Park, downtown and Palliser areas)
Finding a location for intercept parking and investigating if live monitoring of the traffic at Railway/Bow Valley Trail/Benchlands during high volume periods could reduce congestion (Banff does this when volumes lead to gridlock!)
Advocating for council to support a new strategic plan for the downtown core in the 2022 capital budget
Working with local stakeholders during the next phase of the Land Use Bylaw review to incorporate policies that address climate change. This may require lobbying to change the building code in order to achieve the desired results.
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Election Day
Monday, Oct. 18
Polls are open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Coast Hotel (511 Bow Valley Trail)
Advanced Polls
Thursday, Oct. 7 – 3-7 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 8 – 3-7 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 9 – 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 12 – 3-7 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 13 – 10 a.m.-6 p.m.