Priorities
Residents want the basics taken care of, accountability and common sense.
Governance & Fiscal Responsibility
⚖️ Accountability. A forensic audit of City Hall & CPS spending and management of public funds to identify overspending, governance failures, and whether collective agreements prioritize self-interest over residents and public safety. Follow the money.
💰 Lower taxes. Transparent tax collection and budgets are the foundation. A clear audit of the governance process for how property tax legislation is applied by administration to ensure consistent, fair treatment across all residential and commercial properties. Findings should be forwarded to the Alberta Municipal Affairs minister to drive improvements in legislation, so residents and business owners are not taken advantage of.
A renewed focus on core municipal services in our hierarchy of needs—water, waste, transit, and road maintenance—with the target to eliminate wasteful spending and deliver better value. Efficient operations mean lower taxes for residents and businesses while improving the services we all depend on.
Community Safety & Community Protection
Public Safety FIRST before Police bureaucracy
👮 Frontline policing. Each officer can cost taxpayers up to $200K annually (Training, equipment, and insurance). Desk-bound officers can attribute to 60% frontline understaffing & costly overtime (double pay). Deploy officers to patrol, staff desk roles with civilians — HR, IT, specialists, admin - a practice used by modern law enforcement agencies worldwide.
🤝 Smart management. Police are trained for enforcement, not organizational management. Policing should be run as a business of safety with strong community planning. We need to identify barriers in collective agreement clauses and management culture that create inefficiencies, delay change, or exclude qualified civilian talent with relevant expertise. A review of the Police Commission appointment structure is also needed.
Infrastructure and Planning
🏘️ Local planning. Resident needs and local planning decisions come first. Housing, roads and transit planning must be coordinated. Administrators must answer directly to residents and council for department failures. Administration decision making and failures must be traced to individuals and not hidden behind departments
👨👩👧 Planning with Purpose. Developments must factor the human element into their design over the decades and be self sustainable. Communities are made up of seniors, families, and vulnerable residents at different stages of life, and they evolve as we age. Well-connected transit, roads, healthcare, and commercial services create more points of contact, support local businesses, generate wealth, reduce reliance on external funding, and allow communities to grow organically (with dog parks).
🌱 Local control and local jobs. Let elected communities and elected HOAs manage maintenance where they do it better and cheaper - creating jobs & reducing cost.
🚌 Protections for the most vulnerable. Free transit for seniors and terminally ill residents.
🛣️ Repair. A full review of road maintenance is needed. Potholes shouldn’t be marked “complete” when the work hasn’t actually been done.
My Position on Blanket Rezoning.
I oppose this approach because it represents a fundamental planning failure, not a housing solution. The process failed to ask the right questions or meaningfully engage residents.
True urban development requires comprehensive, area-specific regeneration strategies that serve communities for decades. Redevelopment must be strategic:
Where will new clinics and healthcare facilities support seniors, families, and vulnerable residents to reduce hospital pressure?
How will schools, daycares, and recreational facilities expand for growing populations?
What is the plan to upgrade water, waste, and utility infrastructure?
How will transit be improved and traffic managed?
Effective planning demands this kind of vision. We cannot base major decisions solely on Federal Housing Accelerator Funding — which is not free money, but loans that taxpayers ultimately repay.
City Councilors have a civic duty to ensure residents are protected from poorly conceived schemes and to plan for sustainable, livable communities. My commitment is to make sure residents’ long-term interests come first.