As Councillor for Ward 2 my priorities will include:

Fiscal Responsibility

City budgets represent your tax dollars.  City spending needs to be done in a responsible and sustainable manner.  This includes balancing the need to deliver quality services with keeping the tax burden on citizens at a manageable level.  Providing strong services while maintaining affordability is vital to drawing people to our incredible city.

Core Municipal Services

Your municipal government has the mandate to provide services across six (6) core service areas:

• Police & Fire Services
• Drinking-Water
• Public Transit
• Recreation
• Zoning (Land Use)
• Waste Collection

While many issues will arise that deserve attention from your municipal government, it is important that City Council doesn’t lose focus on its core municipal responsibilities.  These items are what provide the strong foundation a community needs in order to flourish.

Citizen and Community Engagement

A community should inspire a sense of belonging for its residents.  Engagement is a key driver of feeling that sense of belonging.

I will work to build engagement in municipal affairs through information sharing and being accessible to you, my fellow citizens, so that I understand what is being felt by those in my ward and ensure those views are being heard at the council level.

Once we move into a post-COVID world I’d like to build a stronger sense of community within Ward 2 through things like town hall meetings, community BBQs and a trail system that connects our area to the already fantastic trail systems throughout our great town.

Building Partnerships 

If we aren’t moving forward, we are falling behind. To ensure that Fredericton progresses in areas outside of its core municipal mandate it needs to build strong partnerships with First Nations, Not-For-Profits, and other levels of government to impact real change.