Standing Committee on Public Safety

By Cheryl Jahn

City Council

Mayor’s Standing Committee on Public Safety dissolved

Mar 18, 2026 | 4:18 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – It was a committee made up of the Mayor, City Councillors and community organizations like the Downtown Business Owners Advocacy Group. It was pulled together at the beginning of this Council’s term, but as of this week, the Mayor’s Standing Committee on Public Safety is no longer.

“We’ll end the committee but all committee work as we have been doing will continue all to the committee as a whole and, through the mayor’s report,” explains Mayor Simon Yu. “So Council’s, Notice of Motion will continue until the very last day of this particular Council.”

The local Chamber of Commerce noted it is disappointing to see the Committee dissolved.

“The Chamber would argue it’s too important an issue to take a break. Right. The the provincial government, the federal government, the partners, the business associations, the business community. We don’t take a break on this issue,” says Neil Godbout, Executive Director of the Prince George Chamber of Commerce.

Mayor Yu noted that the last thing he wanted was to have the Committee, the issues behind its creation and the work to date, hijjack the election campaigning process.

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“I understand what what the mayor is saying, that it could be seen as as somehow political, but everything’s political.”

Nonetheless, Mayor Yu would like to see the next Council pick up the mantle. And Godbout agrees, the committee’s work is too important. Too important to go two steps forward, one step back.

“The community needs this work. Everyone agrees on that. So to to dissolve it seven months before an election, it’s it’s a little disappointing.”

So now the onus will be on the new Mayor and Council to decide if it needs to resurrect the Public Safety Committee.