My Priorities

These priorities are the things that I feel council needs to either keep doing, or get done!

My focus will continue to be guided by both “city plans”, and, “feedback from you” !

Priority: Managed Community Growth

As a Beaumont councillor, prioritizing Managed Community Growth means steering the city’s rapid expansion (over 25,000 people in Beaumont now with 5-6% year-over-year-growth) with balance, transparency, and resident input to preserve neighborhood character and control the cost of growth.

To do this effectively, the community needs to feel involved in this conversation.

This conversation on the Land Use Bylaw is coming in fall/winter 2025/2026 and all input is required from the community (residents, businesses, builders, developers and investors alike).

We need to get to the bottom of what is working and WHAT IS NOT WORKING in our community and make responsible changes accordingly.

Priority: Infrastructure

People may not get excited about infrastructure….but, infrastructure gets the spotlight when the things around us, that we expect to work everyday, suddenly are no longer doing what they should. Water, wastewater, roads, buildings and lights are some examples of this very important infrastructure. Continued investment, and, more importantly, the future planning of maintenance on these items is crucial.

On-going maintenance, upgrades and repairs to our biggest community liabilities have to be budgeted for appropriately year-over-year!

Priority: Economic Prosperity

We live in a strong region in Alberta and businesses have a choice in where they invest. I believe that if we continue to invest our time, energy and resources into the above two priorities (Growth and Infrastucture) that economic prosperity will follow.

While there is a dedicated economic development team working hard everyday to attract investment in Beaumont, a larger and more powerful group of people (all of us in Beaumont) who love their community and neighbors will continually draw people here!

More people means more growth which will bring more investment!

Local jobs in Beaumont are so important!