One year after inauguration

Councillor Brian Skakun is also one year into his term, albeit his seventh term, and the issue touched on by Mayor Yu is also what he has found challenging this term.

“It was a priority last term. It’s been a priority this term for myself and many others, and it’s just been such an absolute challenge and, you know, we’re trying to be compassionate, but we’re also trying to make sure that we enforce our Safe Streets bylaw and that so it’s just been a continuation of some initiatives that are working. Some aren’t.”

“We need to fine-tune things together,” said Mayor Yu during his inauguration meeting. We will collaborate to develop a multi-generational plan for our city, one that ties us today and carefully considers our children, grandchildren and future generations to come.”

But he admits today that the plan is moving slower than he had thought it would. “Taking a bit longer than he anticipated. I anticipated it would move a little bit faster,” he says. “But knowing the availability internally, the staffing levels we have in that area, and the time required to engage in outside consulting and consult the citizens, it took a little longer than I thought, you know, at the end of the day.”

In the meantime, this group of folks around what’s called the Horseshoe have their work cut out for them for the next three years.

by Cheryl Jahn

One year after inauguration

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