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PUT OUT THE FIRE ATCONTRACT CITYFORHALL. A BETTER SURREY FOR MAYOR

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STARCHUK, Mike

SAFE STREETS

ALDABAINAH-BARAKAT, Yousef ✕ CHOHAN, Perminder ✕ HANIF, Ashiyana ✕ MUBANDA, Margaret

FAST COMMUTES

SMART INVESTMENTS

CHAHAL, Chandan ✕ DELA CRUZ, Narima ✕ LI, William ✕ WILKIE, Kevin ✕

LOWER COSTS

STRONG SERVICES

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PLATFORM 2026

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INSIDE THE PLATFORM A letter from Mike Starchuk

Five core commitments

The contract at a glance

Brenda, Doug, and Linda lit the fire

Two futures for Surrey

Don’t roll the dice on Brenda, Doug, or Linda

Safe Streets · police transition debacle 13

Fast Commutes · transit map 19

Smart Investments · Waterfront District 22

Lower Costs · SurreyPass 30

Strong Services · stop the cuts 34

Surrey at 150

Meet the Imagine Surrey team

How we pay for it: our fiscal plan

The record, in detail

Legacy parties bingo

Promise cards

The contract, signed

Vote

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OUR CONTRACT WITH YOU This platform is our contract with you. By the end of our first term, an Imagine Surrey mayor and council majority will deliver a Surrey where:

STREETS ARE SAFER. COMMUTES ARE FASTER. INVESTMENTS ARE SMARTER. COSTS ARE LOWER. SERVICES ARE STRONGER. “I want to build a city where there is more money in your pocket, more time in your day, and more peace in your mind.” MIKE STARCHUK

I M A G I N E I T. T H E N V O T E F O R I T.

I M A G I N E S U R R E Y. C A

A LETTER FROM MIKE STARCHUK

IT’S TIME TO PUT OUT THE FIRE AT CITY HALL The people who lit that fire are the legacy parties that have run City Hall for too long, and the same three people are asking to run it again: Brenda Locke, Doug McCallum, and Linda Annis. Three names. One City Hall. The same fights. Four years at the council table taught me how City Hall works. Four more years in Victoria taught me how to work with others. I know exactly what I’m walking into. I spent 32 years with Surrey Fire Services, from a paid-on-call volunteer at the hall at 108 Avenue and 146 Street to the city’s Chief Fire Prevention Officer. In office, I've gotten big things done from the Cloverdale Hospital and regional cancer centre, to investments for Surrey United soccer and the Surrey Museum. Now I'm ready to get more done for

Dear Surrey,

you. In a fire, you don’t stand in the driveway arguing about who lit it. You put it out.

ity Hall is on fire. Not the building. The culture. Two mayors spent years fighting over the police. Their fight cost you $1.28 million

in court, and the mayor called it "money well spent." In January, council declared an emergency over extortion. By June the police chief had been fired in the middle of it, the board chair had quit over what he called "political tentacles", and nobody has told you why. A $360 million arena deal was done in the dark, on land the City overpaid for, and the people

“IN A FIRE, YOU DON’T STAND IN THE DRIVEWAY ARGUING ABOUT WHO LIT IT. YOU PUT IT OUT.” MIKE STARCHUK

who asked questions were told they "must be seeking public office." Your taxes went up 27% in four budgets, and the only other candidates are proposing to cut your services. You deserve better.

That is the job I am asking you to hire me for. Not to win the argument about who lit the fire, but to put it out, and then to build the city Surrey’s people have earned. It's time to build the city we imagine.

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But putting out the fire is only the first job. Surrey has the people, the talent, and the heart of a city that should be leading this province. What it has never had is a City Hall that matches them. Imagine Surrey is a team of frontline workers who are judged on their results every day. We’re not interested in drama. We’re interested in delivery. As your mayor, I will follow three rules.

FIRST, PUT OUT THE FIRE AT CITY HALL. Finish the police transition, fix the board, and put a real program on extortion. Then the arena, the taxes, the permits, the sidewalks.

SECOND, SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF AND DO BIG THINGS. The broken light, the missing sidewalk, and the unbuilt washroom, because that is daily life. The community centres, the rapid transit, the waterfront, because Surrey deserves a city it can point to with pride. Every big thing comes with a price tag, a partner, and a date.

THIRD, BE ACCOUNTABLE TO YOU. Your City property taxes, the general tax and the roads levy together, rise no more than BC inflation for the year before, for four years. Frontline services protected, and a public dashboard for every promise, updated every quarter. If we are behind, you will read it from us first. This platform is our contract with you. By the end of our first term, an Imagine Surrey mayor and council majority will deliver a Surrey where STREETS ARE SAFER, COMMUTES ARE FASTER, INVESTMENTS ARE SMARTER, COSTS

ARE LOWER, AND SERVICES ARE STRONGER. A finished police service you can trust. An arena we can be proud of, in the right place at the right price. Taxes that don’t outrun your paycheque. A City Hall that answers the nurse renting in Whalley before it answers a developer. A Surrey that’s done being the punchline and is finally getting big things done.

Imagine that. Then vote for it.

MIKE STARCHUK

Candidate for Mayor, Imagine Surrey

32 years

with Surrey Fire Services, from paid-on-call volunteer to Chief Fire Prevention Officer.

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4 years

at the council table, learning how City Hall works.

4 years

as the MLA for SurreyCloverdale, where he chaired the all-party committee that decides what the province can afford.

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MIKE STARCHUK & IMAGINE SURREY

LIFE WILL GET BETTER UNDER MIKE STARCHUK AND IMAGINE SURREY A CITY THAT PUTS MONEY BACK IN YOUR POCKET.

Our plan will save families thousands over our term: taxes at or below inflation, a $70 transit pass, half-price recreation for seniors, free swim lessons for kids, and permits with a clock or your fee back.

A CITY THAT PUTS TIME BACK IN YOUR DAY.

Our plan will shorten commutes and give you more ways to move fast: SkyTrain to South Surrey through Newton, three bus rapid transit routes, commuter rail service, synchronized lights, wider roads, new greenways and pathways, and 50 kilometres of new sidewalks.

A CITY THAT PUTS PEACE BACK IN YOUR MIND.

Our plan will make our communities safe and make you feel protected: the police transition finished, an antiextortion command, a named person for every victim within 48 hours, and more firefighters with better equipment.

A CITY THAT MAKES YOU PROUD.

Our plan will invite the world and build the best waterfront in the region: the City of Champions, the Waterfront District, bids for the Games, a cricket and rugby stadium, and the right arena at the right price.

A CITY THAT INVESTS IN WORKERS.

Our plan will stop our opponents’ cuts and invest in the people who keep Surrey running: by-law officers to enforce the rules, firefighters and police, sanitation workers, and a Clean Streets rapid response team.

A CITY WITH A RIVER ON ONE SIDE AND OCEAN ON THE OTHER R E S U LT S Y O U C A N C H E C K

A PUBLIC DASHBOARD FOR EVERY PROMISE, UPDATED EVERY QUARTER. CONTRACT FOR A BETTER SURREY

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PLATFORM COMMITMENTS

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Complete the Surrey Police transition as the city’s top priority

Fix the police board

End extortion and put extortionists behind bars

Give the police what they need to succeed and keep us safe

A generational investment in firefighting and emergency preparedness

Mental health, addiction, and clean streets rapid response teams

Stop organized crime and money laundering

Zero pedestrian deaths and safer neighbourhoods

End domestic violence

Prevent dangerous and loud street racing

Restore funding to the Surrey Crime Prevention Society

Build SkyTrain to South Surrey via Newton

Three bus rapid transit routes by 2030

Synchronize traffic lights

Build new and expanded roads

Build 50 kilometres of new sidewalks

Connected cycling infrastructure

Give taxis a break

More parking where it matters

Clear the sidewalks around parks in winter

Commuter rail to Surrey, and our fair share from TransLink

A high-speed rail station for Surrey

End privatized towing and establish Surrey Tows

Develop Scott Road Station into a multi-modal transit hub

Create a Transportation Committee to advise mayor and council

Legal, lit, and secure parking for trucks

The right arena at the right price

Build the Waterfront District

Become the City of Champions

Host the world

Buy Surrey, hire local, and hire students

Grow Surrey’s economy

A lobbyist registry, open procurement, and a council that decides in public

Establish business accelerator zones

Develop an international trade centre in Downtown Surrey

A tech incubator and coworking spaces for startups

Reform Metro Vancouver

Build supportive and affordable housing

Require strict conditions for AI data centres

Develop Downtown Surrey

Night buses, toward 24/7 transit

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LOWER COSTS, STRONG SERVICES

LOWER COSTS

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STRONG SERVICES

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PLATFORM COMMITMENTS

The Frontline Guarantee: taxes at or below inflation, no cuts to the front line

Permits with a clock, or your fee back

Half-price recreation for seniors, and free for residents over 70

Lower transit fares: $70 one-zone monthly passes

Expand affordable child care

Free select programs for seniors

A climate adaptation strategy for weather and climate emergencies

Free swim lessons for kids five and under

Launch the SurreyPass

Build abundant housing

More homes people can afford to own

Half the City’s property tax on new homes families can afford

Protect renters

More senior and accessible housing

A Sen̓ áḵw-style partnership with local Nations

Free monthly household waste drop-off

Lower energy and water costs at home

Freeze parking and recreation fees

Abundant parks and recreation

Community centre expansion plan

Respect public workers and taxpayers, and make City Hall work

Neighbourhood hubs that work

Seniors and youth strategies

Fund the arts, and build places for artists and tradespeople

Reduce homelessness with urgency and compassion

Further reconciliation and champion human rights

Defend Surrey’s libraries

Welcome newcomers and support settlement

Citywide accessibility strategy

Climate action, urban forest, farmland, and food security

A pet-friendly city

A referendum on ward representation

48-hour standard for 311

More public washrooms

Get rid of rats as development grows

Win the power for an Empty Homes Tax to pay for affordable housing

Pay a living wage

Recognize new cultural districts

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TAXES AT OR BELOW INFLATION

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THE RECORD

BRENDA, DOUG, AND LINDA LIT THE FIRE

Three names. One City Hall. The same fights. And you pay for all of it.

BRENDA LOCKE

DOUG MCCALLUM

LINDA ANNIS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

THE COURT FIGHT

Council voted unanimously to end the RCMP contract and, in a second unanimous motion, to cancel the funded LRT. Doug McCallum moved both. Brenda

The City spent $1,283,065.99 in outside legal fees on a case the BC Supreme Court dismissed on May 23, 2024. The mayor called it money “pretty well spent.”

Locke voted for both. Linda Annis supported both.

The City also paid $316,663.50 to the firm that defended the former mayor, according to its 2022 Statement of Financial Information.

THE TAXES

THE HOMES

12.5%, 7%, 2.8%, 2.6%. About 27% compounded in four

November 2025: 202 non-market rental homes, 40

budgets. Water and district energy up again in 2026. Asked about a freeze, the mayor said it “means we’d have to do things like cut services, cut staffing.”

supportive homes, and 20 complex-care units, recommended by City staff, sent back by a unanimous vote. Every councillor from all three old parties voted the same way, to stop it. Mike Starchuk would have voted yes.

THE CHIEF

THE RULES

An extortion emergency declared January 26, 2026. The chief was terminated after a special meeting the

In February 2025, Elections BC fined Doug McCallum’s party and its financial agent a combined $7,043,

board chair did not attend, and the termination was announced June 2. The chair resigned, writing that “the

Brenda Locke’s party $1,350, and the financial agent for Linda Annis’s party $750 over the 2022 campaign.

political tentacles and pressures have reached far too deeply.” No reason has been made public.

27%

Property tax increases over four budgets.

City Hall has been in chaos under each of Brenda, Doug, and Linda. Where has it gotten us? Mike Starchuk is the only candidate with a career of real service on the front lines, proven experience at City Hall and in Victoria, and a practical plan that puts working families first. The others have had their chance. It’s time to put out the fire.

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$1.28M

Outside legal fees paid on the police court case.

TWO FUTURES · ONE

THEIR FUTURE: THE SAME FIGHTS Brenda Locke, Doug McCallum, and Linda Annis.

THE POLICE

Two mayors and five years fighting over the police. More fights for years to come.

EXTORTION

An emergency declared January 26, 2026. By June the chief was fired and the board chair had quit, writing that “the political tentacles and pressures have reached far too deeply.”

THE ARENA

A $360 million deal done in the dark. $114.2 million of public land swapped for a site assessed at $86.8 million, with no business plan and no public vote. Ask a question and you must be “seeking public office.”

YOUR TAXES

12.5%, 7%, 2.8%, 2.6%: about 27% in four budgets, and utilities up again. A freeze that “means we’d have to do things like cut services, cut staffing.” A 0% promise with no math. A “core review” for “potential savings.”

TRANSIT

A funded LRT cancelled by unanimous vote in 2018, rapid transit to Newton stopped, and a $54 million repayment to TransLink for the cancelled line, the final $19 million of it paid this year. In May 2026, a vote against the King George bus rapid transit design. Linda Annis is running on slow, at-grade LRT again.

HOMES

November 2025: 202 non-market rental homes, 40 supportive homes, and 20 complex-care units, recommended by City staff, sent back by a unanimous vote. Every councillor from all three old parties voted the same way, to stop it. Mike Starchuk would have voted yes.

CITY HALL

Elections BC fines over the 2022 campaign: $7,043 for Doug McCallum’s party and its financial agent, $1,350 for Brenda Locke’s party, and $750 for the financial agent for Linda Annis’s party. Land deals decided in camera, and a walkout from Metro Vancouver nobody voted for.

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TWO FUTURES · TWO

OUR FUTURE: PUT OUT THE FIRE AND BUILD THE CITY OF CHAMPIONS THE POLICE

Finish the Surrey Police transition. Issue a public transition deadline for final handoff.

EXTORTION

A funded anti-extortion command team led by Surrey Police in cooperation with CSIS, RCMP, and other key policies bodies and intelligence agencies.

THE ARENA

Yes to an arena. No to this deal. Not one more dollar until there is a public business plan, partners with cash, cheaper land, and a vote before borrowing. Until then, the $198 million set aside for it goes to work on community centres first.

YOUR TAXES

Taxes at or below inflation, and no cuts to the front line. If inflation is 2%, you pay 2%. Not 12.5% like under Brenda. No layoffs of frontline staff, no closures, no reduced hours.

TRANSIT

SkyTrain to South Surrey, through Newton. The business case and the right of way in year one, the money asked for by name, and three BRT routes by 2030. Fifty kilometres of new sidewalks, and every traffic light synchronized to real traffic.

HOMES

We would have said yes. Affordable housing on transit arteries with services, in every part of the city. Build more affordable homes, on City land where we have it, and publish a City Land for Housing inventory in year one.

CITY HALL

A Lobbyist Registry and searchable contract disclosures, live within the first 100 days. No in-camera land deals without a public rationale. A council that decides in public.

“We’re not interested in drama. We’re interested in delivery.”

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NO NEW CASINOS

SAFE STREETS

DON’T ROLL THE DICE ON THEM. How will Doug, Brenda, and Linda pay for their reckless promises? We asked them to rule out expanded gambling and more casinos... they wouldn't! The City’s own arena consultant has already floated a casino at the arena site. Don’t roll the dice their plans to expand gambling.

NEW CASINOS UNDER AN IMAGINE SURREY COUNCIL

DOUG MCCALLUM

BRENDA LOCKE

LINDA ANNIS

A 0% tax freeze for four years with no math: about $241 million less than the City’s own five-year plan says it needs. His plans would bankrupt the city. Is that why Doug won't rule out expanding gambling to pay for his reckless promises?

About 27% in taxes in four budgets, and a $360 million arena deal done in the dark, with no business plan and no public vote. We don't know how much her plan would cost. Is that shy she won't rule out expanding gambling?

A “core review” of every program for “potential savings”: the study every government runs right before the cuts. Two terms on council’s audit committee, and she has never named one saving. She still won’t. Is that why she won't rule out expanding gambling?

OUR PROMISE

NO NEW CASINOS, FULL STOP.

We will restore the Cloverdale Fairgrounds, with the existing casino, as a year-round destination, planned directly with the Semiahmoo and Kwantlen First Nations, and we will not expand gambling anywhere else. Tougher licensing for cash businesses and crypto ATMs, and restrictions on predatory payday lending, so dirty money stays out of Surrey.

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T H E H O U S E A LWAY S W I N S . D O N ’ T B E T C I T Y H A L L O N I T.

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SAFE STREETS 2026

Already the highest extortion year on record.

$1.28M

What the City spent fighting the province in court over the police, a case it lost in 2024. Money that should have gone to officers on the street.

45%

Fewer firefighters than Vancouver, for a similar population spread across three times the land.

Surrey needs the public safety investment this emergency demands, so families feel safe at home, on the sidewalk, and at the local shops. It comes down to three promises:

Finish the police transition and get City Hall out of the chief ’s office and the police board.

Give every extortion victim a liaison and a path to safety.

Put visible prevention and emergency capacity where the risk is highest.

“You will not live in fear. The extortionists will.” M I K E S TA R C H U K

COMPLETE THE SURREY POLICE TRANSITION AS THE CITY’S TOP PRIORITY A public transition dashboard within 30 days of taking office so that you can see what work is left to do and what needs to be completed. Fund the sworn officers in the service’s staffing plan. Listen to the police on their needs for equipment, staff, and resources.

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A completion date negotiated with the province and the police board and published within 90 days. The police service’s own target is late 2027. We will hold every party to a published date, keep the public informed every step of the way, and report until the job is done.

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SAFE STREETS

THE RECORD

THE POLICE TRANSITION DEBACLE Two mayors spent years fighting over the police. The fight cost you $1.28 2024 · M AY 2 3 , T R U O C E million in court, the chief was fired in the middle of an extortion emergency, M BC SUPRE SED and the transition still isn’t done. Brenda, Doug, and Linda were part of it all. A C SE DISMIS

5 yrs

of two mayors fighting over the police

$1.28M

in outside legal fees on a case the court dismissed

Nov 5, 2018

THE FIRE IS LIT

2022

THE FIGHT FLIPS

reasons made public for firing the chief

2027

the service’s own target for finishing, not yet locked in

Council votes unanimously to end the RCMP contract. Doug McCallum moves the motion. Brenda Locke votes for it. Linda Annis supports it.

Brenda Locke leads the vote to keep the RCMP after all. Linda Annis, who backed the 2018 motion, switches sides and lines up behind Locke. The province says no. The City goes to court against Victoria over its own police service.

May 23, 2024

THE COURT SAYS NO

Jan 26, 2026

AN EMERGENCY DECLARED

June 2, 2026

THE CHIEF IS FIRED

Sept 28, 2026

THE CHIEF GOES TO COURT

Today

The BC Supreme Court dismisses the City’s case. The bill for outside legal fees: $1,283,065.99. The mayor calls it money “pretty well spent.” The City signs the province’s deal anyway.

Council declares an extortion emergency.

The chief ’s termination is announced after a special meeting the board chair did not attend. The chair resigns, writing that “the political tentacles and pressures have reached far too deeply.” No reason is made public.

Norm Lipinski files a petition in BC Supreme Court to overturn his dismissal, saying it was “motivated by extraneous political considerations.” The former board chair swears he was told the special meeting would have no decision-making.

STILL NOT DONE

The service’s own target is late 2027. Nobody at City Hall has published a completion date or a monthly report. Officers are still working through the uncertainty.

“...THIS DOES NOT SIT WELL WITH OUR MEMBERSHIP, GIVEN THIS YEAR’S POLICE BUDGET CUT OF $47 MILLION, THE FAILURE TO PAY SPS RECRUITS A FEW YEARS AGO, AND THE FERVENT OPPOSITION TO THE POLICING TRANSITION THROUGHOUT HER [BRENDA LOCKE’S] CHAOTIC TENURE.” RYA N B U H R I G · P R E S I D E N T, S U R R E Y P O L I C E U N I O N As reported by the Surrey Now-Leader. This is not an endorsement of Imagine Surrey.

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SAFE STREETS

FIX THE POLICE BOARD An arm’s-length, public process for hiring the next chief. A written protocol, signed by the mayor and every councillor, that nobody at City Hall contacts the chief or the service about enforcement decisions. Ever.

A demand to the province: publish the reasons for the chief ’s termination, and restore a board governance policy under which the chair cannot be shut out of a decision.

END EXTORTION AND PUT EXTORTIONISTS BEHIND BARS SURREY’S EXTORTION EMERGENCY 2026 is already the highest extortion year on record.

Extortion is terror for the families and small businesses it targets. Imagine Surrey will treat it like the emergency it is, with the goal of ending it in our first term.

A coordinated anti-extortion command, led by Surrey Police, working with the RCMP, CSIS, and regional forces to dismantle organized criminal networks. Dedicated intelligence officers focus on the networks, the money, and the ringleaders, and on shortening the path from threat to arrest to conviction. A 48-hour standard for every reported victim: contact, a safety plan, and a named liaison. Re-energize Project IRIS, Surrey’s camera registry, so every business and home with a camera can register it with Surrey Police and investigators can pull footage fast, and put tactical cameras in the highest-risk areas, with privacy safeguards and real-time police access. Shared air support through the existing RCMP Air Services program. No to purchasing a separate helicopter.

Increased police roadside checks in high-risk areas, especially overnight, to disrupt criminal movement and put visible police where the threats are. Cost recovery from convicted extortionists and from properties used to run the operation, where the law allows. Back the police in naming charged suspects, as Surrey Police already do where the law allows. A demand to the province and Ottawa: fast-tracked prosecutions for extortion, tougher bail for repeat violent offenders, seizure of criminal profits, stronger border and financial enforcement, and enforcement against the international networks that fund and direct it. A weekly public safety briefing from the mayor.

“I run a small business and I mentor young people. They deserve to grow up in a Surrey where the extortionists are the ones living in fear.”

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SAFE STREETS

A GENERATIONAL INVESTMENT IN FIREFIGHTING AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS

MENTAL HEALTH, ADDICTION, AND CLEAN STREETS RAPID RESPONSE TEAMS

Fire hall coverage that keeps pace with growth: two new fire halls in the term, with the fire service setting the sites. New fire trucks and far more firefighters. Surrey has 45% fewer firefighters than Vancouver for a similar population spread across three times the land. A Chief Emergency Readiness Officer to lead citywide preparation for floods, earthquakes, extreme heat, and wildfire smoke, with clear plans, regular drills, and neighbourhood-level readiness, supported by a new Public Information Officer.

Not every 911 call needs a police response. We will fund dedicated mental health and addiction crisis response teams that pair trained clinicians with first responders, so people in crisis get the right help, police can focus on crime, and emergency rooms aren’t the fallback.

FIREFIGHTERS, FOR A SIMILAR POPULATION

A Clean Streets Rapid Response Force with dedicated crews and new City-owned street sweepers, and a 48hour standard for illegal dumping, graffiti, needles, debris, and abandoned vehicles, starting with transit hubs, schools, parks, and business districts. Dumpers get billed the full cost of the cleanup, with real fines for repeat offenders. The crews are in-house, built with CUPE and the workers who do the job.

VANCOUVER SURREY

45% fewer

Vision Zero: raised crosswalks, safer intersections, protected corners, traffic calming on high-risk streets, crossing guards where needed, and targeted speed enforcement in school zones.

LAND TO COVER

VANCOUVER SURREY

ZERO PEDESTRIAN DEATHS AND SAFER NEIGHBOURHOODS

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STOP ORGANIZED CRIME AND MONEY LAUNDERING Tougher licensing for cash businesses and crypto ATMs. Restrictions on predatory payday lending. Stronger procurement transparency so dirty money stays out of City Hall. No new casinos, full stop. We will restore the Cloverdale Fairgrounds, with the existing casino, as a year-round destination, planned directly with the Semiahmoo and Kwantlen First Nations, and we will not expand gambling anywhere else.

Faster citywide LED upgrades. Brighter routes between transit, schools, and parks. New sidewalks. Broken lights get fixed. More benches to rest on.

END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Take on intimate partner violence by coordinating Surrey Police, housing, health care, and community providers, so no victim gets bounced between systems. Support transition housing so leaving is possible.

PREVENT DANGEROUS AND LOUD STREET RACING Crack down on late-night exhaust noise from street racing cars, and back maximum penalties for street racing, enforced with Surrey Police and ICBC.

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SAFE STREETS

GIVE THE POLICE WHAT THEY NEED TO SUCCEED AND KEEP US SAFE More boots on the ground, faster 911 response, and visible neighbourhood patrols. New precinct offices where they’re needed, so every part of Surrey gets faster coverage and officers who know the neighbourhood. Modern frontline equipment for organized crime, highrisk incidents, and repeat offenders. Every hiring target published, every result published, every year.

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We will build a public safety camera network, focused on extortion shootings, violent crime, and chronic disorder. A re-energized Project IRIS, so every business and home with a camera can register it with Surrey Police. Realtime access for Surrey Police, with privacy safeguards.

RESTORE FUNDING TO THE SURREY CRIME PREVENTION SOCIETY In April 2024, council suspended the Surrey Crime Prevention Society’s

The society has put young volunteers on Surrey’s streets since 1982.

grant in the middle of an extortion crisis, with no reason given, and later handed back a third of it. The society has put young volunteers on Surrey’s streets since 1982: safety patrols, speed watch, graffiti cleanup, and eyes and ears for police at Vaisakhi, Fusion, and the Rodeo. An Imagine Surrey council restores its full grant in the 2027 budget and puts it on a four-year funding agreement, so its volunteers are never used as a bargaining chip again.

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A DASHBOARD.

A FINISH DATE.

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Mike Starchuk and the Imagine Surrey team.

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FAST COMMUTES 3 BRT

Bus rapid transit routes by 2030. The City builds its share, and we press TransLink to fund the rest in its 2027 investment plan.

50 km

$54M

Of new sidewalk on roads that have none today. School and transit routes first.

We will get Surrey moving with rapid transit, smarter roads, and real options.

Was repaid to TransLink for the rapid transit to Newton that the legacy parties cancelled. The final $19 million was paid this year.

“Surrey families deserve their time back. We’ll give it back to them.” M I K E S TA R C H U K

SYNCHRONIZE TRAFFIC LIGHTS

BUILD NEW AND EXPANDED ROADS

BUILD 50 KILOMETRES OF NEW SIDEWALKS

Surrey’s lights run on a timetable. The City tested adaptive signals on 72 Avenue and reported in 2013 that they worked, and drivers are still waiting. Under an Imagine Surrey council, every light responds to real traffic and buses get priority at key intersections.

Expand the roads that choke every rush hour: 124, 144, 148, and 168 Streets, 80 and 40 Avenues, and Colebrook Road, and twin 24 Avenue. Worst bottlenecks first, with safer intersections and better lighting, funded through development cost charges, TransLink cost-sharing, and provincial and federal programs. Where nobody lives nearby, build around the clock so the work is done sooner.

Close the sidewalk gap: 50 kilometres of sidewalk on roads that have none today, with a published Missing Sidewalks Map and annual targets. School and transit routes first, paired with safer crossings and lighting. Repaved sidewalks don’t count toward the 50. Sidewalks that need repaving still get done at the same pace.

124 St

144 St

148 St

168 St

80 Ave

40 Ave

Colebrook Rd

Twin 24 Ave

CONNECTED CYCLING INFRASTRUCTURE Protected greenway corridors, secure bike parking at transit hubs, and routes that actually connect, planned with HUB Cycling, Movement YVR, and the people who ride.

GIVE TAXIS A BREAK Taxis in bus lanes where the road owner agrees, lower licensing costs, and less red tape. Taxi drivers’ hours are capped while rideshare drivers’ are not: we will fix Surrey’s own rules and press the province for one standard for both.

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MORE PARKING WHERE IT MATTERS New parkades in town centres and more park-andride at transit hubs.

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CLEAR THE SIDEWALKS AROUND PARKS IN WINTER Street clearing works. The sidewalks around parks barely get touched. New sidewalk-clearing equipment and crews for park perimeters, so kids and seniors aren’t walking in the road.

FAST COMMUTES

BUILD SKYTRAIN TO SOUTH SURREY VIA NEWTON

SKYTRAIN TO SOUTH SURREY, THROUGH NEWTON, IS THE LINE SURREY BUILDS NEXT. KING GEORGE STATION

NEWTON

South Surrey is one of the most underserved parts of the Lower Mainland for rapid transit, and Newton has waited since 2018, when council killed the funded line that was already coming. Don't forget that Brenda, Doug, and Linda all voted to cancel rapid transit to Newton. They'd do it again. An Imagine Surrey council commits to it and asks Ottawa and Victoria for the money by name.

SOUTH SURREY

Here is how it gets built instead of promised. The Langley extension had a feasibility study and a business case before the money arrived. We deliver ours in year one, protect the right of way, get senior governments signed onto the corridor, and put South Surrey next in line once the current construction is done. Three BRT routes by 2030 hold the corridor and move people while the money is assembled.

THREE BUS RAPID TRANSIT ROUTES BY 2030

T H E B AC K B O N E O F A C O N N E C T E D S U R R E Y

We will deliver three BRT routes by the end of our first term. The City builds its share, road works, signal priority, and curb lanes, and we press TransLink to fund the service and stations in its 2027 investment plan. They are the foundation for future SkyTrain expansion and the backbone of a connected Surrey:

BRT 1

BRT 2

BRT 3

SCOTT ROAD · STRAWBERRY HILL · NEWTON · EAST NEWTON

SURREY CENTRAL · NEWTON · SEMIAHMOO

SURREY CENTRAL · GUILDFORD · EAST NEWTON · SEMIAHMOO

Convert the existing R6 RapidBus into a full BRT route and extend it all the way to 152 Street via 72 Avenue and Scott Road.

Complete the promised BRT from Semiahmoo to Surrey Central via King George Boulevard and Newton. Prioritize this route for the next round of SkyTrain expansion.

A new route from Surrey Central to Guildford, down 152 Street through East Newton, and south to Semiahmoo, with a stop serving Highway 10 and a possible branch to Carvolth Exchange.

COMMUTER RAIL TO SURREY, AND OUR FAIR SHARE FROM TRANSLINK As the province writes its passenger rail strategy, Imagine Surrey will make the case, by name, for commuter rail service in Surrey: Scott Road to the Fraser Valley through Newton and Cloverdale.

ENDORSED BY

Demand that TransLink deliver more buses, more frequency, more night service, and faster delivery of the projects Surrey’s growth requires, and report every quarter on what we asked for and what we got.

“Mike and his team have demonstrated outstanding progressive leadership. He is down to earth, genuine, and in the same social democratic tradition of a Mike Harcourt or Bob Bose. Imagine a Mayor and Council who actually respects Unions, and shows solidarity with the working class.”

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FAST COMMUTES · MIKE STARCHUK’S TRANSIT MAP FOR SURREY

THE FAST FORWARD PLAN EXPRESS · TO CARVOLTH EXCHANGE

BRT 1 · SCOTT ROAD TO EAST NEWTON BRT 3 · 152 STREET TO SEMIAHMOO

EXPRESS · TO WILLOWBROOK

COMMUTER RAIL · TO THE FRASER VALLEY

SKYTRAIN TO SOUTH SURREY, THROUGH NEWTON: NEXT IN LINE

BRT 1 BRT 2 · SKYTRAIN CORRIDOR BRT 3 EXPRESS BUS COMMUTER RAIL

BRT 2 · KING GEORGE TO SEMIAHMOO

BRT 1 · SCOTT ROAD · STRAWBERRY HILL · EAST NEWTON

BRT 2 · SURREY CENTRAL · NEWTON · SEMIAHMOO

The R6 RapidBus converted to full BRT, extended to 152 Street via 72 Avenue.

Down King George Boulevard. The corridor for SkyTrain to South Surrey, through Newton. With a stop at Highway 10.

ASKS TO TRANSLINK

COMMUTER RAIL

Express routes we will press TransLink to add: Scottsdale to Willowbrook along Highway 10, and Surrey Central to Carvolth Exchange.

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Scott Road to the Fraser Valley, with stations at Scott Road, Kennedy-Nordel Way, Newton, Sullivan, and Cloverdale.

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BRT 3 · SURREY CENTRAL · GUILDFORD · EAST NEWTON · SEMIAHMOO Down 152 Street through East Newton, with a stop serving Highway 10.

HUBS

Scott Road Station as a multimodal hub, and washrooms at every major hub.

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END PRIVATIZED TOWING AND ESTABLISH SURREY TOWS

A HIGH-SPEED RAIL STATION FOR SURREY

When the current private contracts expire, the City hires its own tow truck drivers under a new City service, Surrey Tows. Priority goes to the tows that clear congestion, not the ones that make the biggest profit.

If the Vancouver to Seattle to Portland high-speed rail line goes ahead, Surrey must have a station. We will offer City land, fast-track the planning, and fight to make sure Surrey isn’t an afterthought.

DEVELOP SCOTT ROAD STATION INTO A MULTI-MODAL TRANSIT HUB

CREATE A TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE TO ADVISE MAYOR AND COUNCIL

Scott Road is Surrey’s front door for anyone coming across the Pattullo Bridge, and today it’s a bus loop and a parking lot. Working with TransLink and the province, plan the station area as a real hub: the BRT 1 terminus, a commuter rail stop, park-and-ride, secure bike parking, public washrooms, and homes and shops built around it, tied into the Waterfront District next door.

A standing committee of the people who use Surrey’s roads and transit every day: bus riders, truckers, taxi and rideshare drivers, tourism operators, cyclists, seniors, people with disabilities, business owners, and students. It meets in public, sets the order of the City’s asks to TransLink and the province, and reports to council every quarter on what got built and what didn’t.

LEGAL, LIT, AND SECURE PARKING FOR TRUCKS

NIGHT BUSES, TOWARD 24/7 TRANSIT

Surrey runs on trucks, and it has nowhere near enough legal places to park them, so rigs end up on farmland, on side streets, and in the wrong neighbourhoods. Deliver new legal, lit, and secure truck parking on industrial and City-owned land, built with the trucking industry, the province, and the port, and paired with enforcement that finally has somewhere to send people.

A city of nurses, warehouse crews, airport shifts, and restaurant closers should not lose its transit at 1 am. Negotiate more NightBus service with TransLink, starting with the King George, Scott Road, 152nd Street, and Fraser Highway corridors and the exchanges shift workers use, so Surrey gets real 24/7 coverage on its busiest routes.

S U R R E Y R E S I D E N T M O N T H LY PA S S · T H R O U G H T H E S U R R E Y PA S S

$70 BRT 1

BRT 2

ONE ZONE · ONE MONTH $117.20 TODAY BRT 3

SKYTRAIN · SOUTH SURREY VIA NEWTON

FARE

$70 PER MONTH ONE ZONE

SURREY TOWS: THE CITY HIRES ITS OWN DRIVERS CONTRACT FOR A BETTER SURREY

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SMART INVESTMENTS $360M

$114.2M

An arena deal done in the dark, with no business plan and no public vote.

Of public land, on BC Assessment’s values, swapped for a site assessed at $86.8 million.

Your tax dollars should deliver real results: projects on time, contracts that reward value, and city-building that grows Surrey’s economy for you.

More City money for the arena until there is a public business plan, partners with cash, cheaper land, and a vote before borrowing.

“Yes to an arena, no to this deal.” M I K E S TA R C H U K

THE RIGHT ARENA AT THE RIGHT PRICE Yes to an arena Surrey can be proud of. No to this deal. Not one more dollar of City money moves until there is a published business plan, partners with cash on the table, a council vote in public, and an assent vote of residents before any borrowing.

Move it to cheaper land in a better spot that brings development with it. Fleetwood gets the first look. Publish the valuation, the private capital, and the appraisal of the current site before any decision. Business plan and site decision in year one.

Demolition is not a mandate. The terms of the demolition permit have not been met, so no permit has been issued, and the Safeway still stands. Money already spent is not a reason to spend $360 million more after it.

The $198 million the City has set aside for this arena through 2030 goes to work on community centres first, until the four tests are met.

THE ARENA TEST

T H E A R E N A L A N D S W A P, O N B C ASSESSMENT’S 2026 VALUES Public land swapped

$114.2M

Site assessed at

$86.8M $27.4M gap

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1 3

A published business plan. Cheaper land in a better spot, with the valuation and appraisal published.

2 4

Partners with cash on the table. A council vote in public, and an assent vote of residents before any borrowing.

Meet all four and Surrey gets an arena it can be proud of. Miss one and it waits.

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SMART INVESTMENTS

THE WATERFRONT DISTRICT

Surrey has kilometres of Fraser River frontage and almost nowhere to stand and look at it. A Waterfront District will deliver the best waterfront in the region and be Surrey's front door on the Fraser River.

THE DISTRICT INCLUDES SIGNATURE “SURREY” LANDMARK

COMMONWEALTH VILLAGE MARKET HALL & FOOD HALL

FRONTIER TECH CENTRE AMPHITHEATRE

Public quay, pier, and waterfront promenade with kiosks and busking areas

Public market, night market, and food hall, anchored by hotels

Amphitheatre and civic plaza for concerts and festivals

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PUBLIC QUAY & PIER

Major new waterfront park Signature “SURREY” landmark with public art and monuments Restaurants, shops, and mixed-income homes at transit density Deep-tech office space with a startup incubator and accelerator, and a Surrey Trade Centre with coworking and meeting spaces Commonwealth Village, a home for Games athletes and future residents

C O N C E P T R E N D E R I N G · WAT E R F R O N T D I S T R I C T AT BROWNSVILLE

THE BEST NEW WATERFRONT IN THE REGION

COMMONWEALTH VILLAGE WHERE · THE FRASER RIVERFRONT AT BROWNSVILLE AND SOUTH WESTMINSTER (APPROXIMATE)

Homes

A Commonwealth Village that houses the athletes for the Games, then becomes a neighbourhood of mixedincome homes for Surrey families.

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A home for Games athletes and future residents. Surrey’s bid for the Commonwealth Games brings facilities, transit, and the world’s attention to the waterfront, and the Village stays as homes for Surrey when the Games are over.

2029

The Waterfront District master plan adopted, phase 1 scoped with its partners named, and the birthday party on the waterfront.

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Scott Rd

Tied into the Scott Road Station hub next door: BRT, commuter rail, and homes around the station.

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BECOME THE CITY OF CHAMPIONS “We’re going to build a city you can point to with pride: the City of Champions.” Mike Starchuk Rebrand Surrey as the City of Champions. Replace “The Future Lives Here” with a motto that honours the people who built this city: the athletes, teachers, nurses, coaches, volunteers, and small business owners who made Surrey one of Canada’s fastestgrowing cities. Then attract professional and minor league teams in hockey, cricket, rugby, and basketball. Build a cricket and rugby stadium. Fleetwood gets the first look. The fastest-growing sports in the region deserve a home, on land the City already owns, within walking distance of a future SkyTrain station. The business case, the partners, and the site are published in year one, and the stadium is built with senior government and private capital, not property taxes. Same test as the arena: partners, price, and date, or it waits.

$1M

CITY SHARE OF THE STADIUM: THE BUSINESS CASE AND SITE WORK

The City provides the land in Fleetwood at its appraised value and pays for the business case and site work. Senior governments and private partners fund the build.

Upgrade the Cloverdale Fairgrounds, Softball City, and Newton Athletic Park. Turn the Cloverdale Fairgrounds, including the existing casino, into a year-round destination, developed with the Semiahmoo and Kwantlen First Nations, with the Cloverdale Rodeo given special event status. Give Softball City and Newton Athletic Park the promotion, partners, and events they’ve earned, and make all three anchors of any Games bid. Protect Surrey’s heritage neighbourhoods and honour our champions. Designate heritage conservation areas in Ocean Park, Crescent Beach, Cloverdale, and the city’s other historic districts, and create a Heritage Register with incentives for owners who preserve character. Honour Surrey’s heroes with monuments, murals, historic markers, and streets named after them, chosen through public consultation.

2029

The Cloverdale Fairgrounds, Softball City, and Newton Athletic Park.

The city’s big birthday in 2029: a year of celebration, with murals and monuments to Surrey’s champions in every town centre.

ANCHORS OF ANY GAMES BID

SURREY 150

H E R I TAG E C O N S E R VAT I O N · S T E WA RT FA R M H O U S E , C R E S C E N T R OA D CONTRACT FOR A BETTER SURREY

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HOST THE WORLD

Bid to host the World Police and Fire Games, the event a firefighter’s city was built for: 2031 if the current council gets its letter in before the end of October, 2033 if it doesn’t. And bid for the 2034 to 2038 Commonwealth Games, which would bring facilities, transit, and the world’s attention to Surrey years sooner than waiting our turn. Same test as the arena: partners, price, and date, or it waits, and no host commitment without a provincial and federal guarantee that covers the cost.

Be a bigger partner to Vaisakhi, with special event status and the practical help a celebration this size needs: more washrooms and handwashing stations, and recycling and safe disposal of cooking oil and anything else that could end up in the storm drains, so one of the largest Vaisakhi celebrations in the world stays as clean as it is joyful. Take the Cloverdale Rodeo to the world with special event status and $250,000 in additional grant funding to run it well and market it beyond BC.

Grow Surrey Pride with special event status and dedicated annual funding set by a published formula, so the parade and the festival can plan on it. Surrey’s 2SLGBTQIA+ community deserves to celebrate with City Hall behind it.

2031 or 2033 WORLD POLICE AND FIRE GAMES BID

2034 to 2038

COMMONWEALTH GAMES BID

BUY SURREY, HIRE LOCAL, AND HIRE STUDENTS A Buy Surrey directory, priority for local vendors at City events, and an annual report on the share of City spending kept local. “Solve It in Surrey” challenges where local companies compete to fix real city problems. Big contracts broken into pieces local businesses can win. A First Job pipeline of City-backed paid placements and apprenticeships in trades, tech, and green jobs.

Pride

SURREY PRIDE FUNDING, SET BY A PUBLISHED FORMULA

$250,000

ANNUAL GRANT FOR THE CLOVERDALE RODEO

GROW SURREY’S ECONOMY Make it easy for food trucks, late-night eateries, night markets, and live venues to open and stay open, with simple permits for safe, fun evening programming. Lower film and TV permit fees and run a one-window Film and Event Desk with fast-track permits. Expand BIAs to more neighbourhoods, co-fund high street upgrades, and back the markets, festivals, and events that fill them.

DEVELOP AN INTERNATIONAL TRADE CENTRE IN DOWNTOWN SURREY

A TECH INCUBATOR AND COWORKING SPACES FOR STARTUPS

Surrey is a port city, a border city, and a farm city with no front door for the world to do business with it. Build an international trade and convention centre in Downtown Surrey with the Board of Trade, SFU, KPU, and private partners. The City brings the site and the approvals. The partners bring the capital.

Surrey graduates thousands of tech and trades students a year, and most build their companies somewhere else. Bring a tech incubator to Surrey with SFU, KPU, the Board of Trade, and private partners, and open coworking spaces in the town centre hubs, so a startup can begin here, hire here, and stay here.

“Thirty-four years in Newton, running a business, and a foundation taught me one thing: Surrey has never lacked talent. It has lacked a front door for the world.”

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SMART INVESTMENTS

A LOBBYIST REGISTRY, OPEN PROCUREMENT, AND A COUNCIL THAT DECIDES IN PUBLIC

REFORM METRO VANCOUVER

BUILD SUPPORTIVE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING

REQUIRE STRICT CONDITIONS FOR AI DATA CENTRES

ESTABLISH BUSINESS ACCELERATOR ZONES

DEVELOP DOWNTOWN SURREY

Others promise to review City Hall. We’re going to run it, in public. A Lobbyist Registry and searchable contract disclosures, live within the first 100 days. No in-camera land deals without a public rationale. A council that decides in public. A scorecard for every major project: budget, timeline, change orders, and contractor performance. And a City Hall that Victoria and Ottawa can trust with their money, because that’s how the big things get funded.

Surrey’s homeless count keeps climbing, and the answer is homes with supports in them. Work with BC Housing, the health authorities, and non-profits to build more supportive and affordable homes, on City land where we have it and on transit arteries where the services are, so people come off the street and stay off it.

Designate an accelerator zone in each town centre where new local businesses get fast-tracked approvals, targeted tax incentives, and a single point of contact at City Hall, so investment lands in every part of Surrey and not just downtown.

If we can fix Metro Vancouver, we should. Cut the number of directors, make the board answer to the taxpayers who fund it, publish Surrey’s net contribution to the region every quarter, and make sure Surrey gets its fair share of what it pays in. If the region won’t reform, Surrey residents get a say on the terms of membership through a plebiscite. Nobody walks Surrey out the door without asking you.

Data centres are coming to the region, and they use as much power and water as a small town. Surrey will welcome the ones that pay their way: no property tax breaks, the full cost of their own grid and water upgrades, waste heat captured for Surrey City Energy’s district heating, water recycling, local construction and operating jobs, and a community benefit agreement before a permit is issued. Industrial land stays for the businesses that employ Surrey residents.

Downtown Surrey has the towers. It needs the jobs, the streets, and the safety to match. Attract office employers to City Centre so people can work where they live. Require real ground-floor shops and restaurants in new towers, not blank walls. Build out the university district around SFU Surrey and KPU. Stop making the Downtown Surrey BIA justify its own levy line by line before it can spend it on cleaning and safety, and finish the public realm around Surrey Central and King George stations: lighting, washrooms, trees, and places to sit. And protect the small businesses already there, including the strip at 108 Avenue and King George, so the people who made downtown worth investing in aren’t the first ones pushed out.

PUBLIC LAND, SWAPPED

AN $86.8M SITE .2AMI N . FOR 14 $1 A P P R A I SA L P U B L I S H E D. RY E V E AG NEVER

“For thirty years I have asked City Hall the hard questions on behalf of families, seniors, and entrepreneurs. A lobbyist registry and a council that decides in public means you won’t have to.”

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SMART INVESTMENTS

SURREY IS THE FRONT DOOR TO BC. TREAT THE TOURISM ECONOMY AS ESSENTIAL.

SURREY AS A DESTINATION

THE 3% HOTEL TAX, AND WHERE IT GOES 1.8% Discover Surrey

For visitors driving up from Washington State, Surrey is the front door: the Peace Arch and Pacific Highway border crossings are both here. Tourism brings money and jobs into Surrey from people who don’t live here.

NAME TOURISM AS AN ECONOMIC SECTOR Tourism named as an economic sector in the Official Community Plan and council’s strategic plan, with land set aside for it and targets the City reports on every year. Planning protects what each of Surrey’s six communities gives visitors, from the Cloverdale Rodeo to Vaisakhi in Newton to Crescent Beach, and Surrey 150 goes in the strategic plan as a tourism moment.

A STANDING TOURISM TABLE Discover Surrey, the hotel association, Indigenous tourism businesses, and operators meet the mayor and senior staff on a fixed schedule. Their advice is attached to the reports council votes on, and every land-use or major-event report says how it affects tourism. Tourism has a seat on the Transportation Committee, because a visitor’s first look at Surrey is usually a road, a bus loop, or a SkyTrain station. Reinstate a council liaison to Discover Surrey

VISITORS AND RENTERS SHOULD NOT COMPETE FOR THE SAME APARTMENT

Enforce the province’s short-term rental rules and Surrey’s business licence fairly, so whole units bought as investments stay in the rental market, while a homeowner renting a room or a suite in the house they live in keeps simple rules. Build visitor accommodation on purpose: land zoned for hotels near SkyTrain and our event venues in the investment inventory, so when a big event comes to Surrey its visitors can stay in Surrey.

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0.6%

0.4%

Surrey Hotel and Motel Association

City: sports tourism, Provincial Tourism events, research Events Program

EVERY DOLLAR STAYS IN TOURISM, INCLUDING THE CITY’S SHARE.

MAKE SURREY INVESTMENT-READY A tourism investment-readiness plan built with Discover Surrey, the Surrey Hotel and Motel Association, and operators: a published inventory of sites for hotels, attractions, and venues, with the zoning, servicing, and transit access of each one mapped. Hotel and attraction projects get the same 180-day clock on rezonings and development permits as housing, and one number to call at the Film and Event Desk. The Games bids give investors a date to build toward.

KEEP THE HOTEL TAX IN TOURISM MRDT will not fill holes in the general budget, the onlineplatform share stays in tourism, and renewal work with Discover Surrey and the hotels starts well before the April 1, 2029 deadline. Show the work: the MRDT plan and results presented in person at an open council meeting every year, with a lineby-line account of the City’s 0.4%, and overnight stays, occupancy, visitor spending, and the return on every event published. Any change to how MRDT is used, administered, or governed goes first to the tourism table in writing, with at least 60 days to respond, and the response attached to the council report.

PLAN FOR THE BUSIEST DAY

Visitor and event demand built into the City’s capital and asset-management plans, sizing roads, transit, parking, washrooms, water, and sewer for the peaks, using Discover Surrey’s visitor data. Hotels, major venues, and Discover Surrey written into the City’s emergency plan with named contacts, exercised every year, the evacuee role for hotels agreed with the province in advance, and visitor alerts in the languages Surrey speaks.

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LOWER COSTS 27%

Property tax increases in four budgets: 12.5%, 7%, 2.8%, and 2.6%.

$241M

The cost of a four year tax freeze.

Our plan delivers real savings you can feel: lower fees, less red tape, and disciplined budgeting.

$70

A Surrey resident’s one-zone monthly transit pass under Imagine Surrey.

“Doug McCallum’s ‘tax freeze’ is a fast track to bankrupting Surrey.” M I K E S TA R C H U K

THE FRONTLINE GUARANTEE: TAXES AT OR BELOW INFLATION, NO CUTS TO THE FRONT LINE Property tax increases at or below inflation for four years. Frontline services protected: no layoffs of frontline staff, no facility closures, no reduced hours at your recreation centre or library. We’ll hire the officers and firefighters we need, build the community centres and parks we need, and protect services like garbage pickup from the cuts proposed by our opponents. Administrative savings only where service levels hold. A freeze with no math is a cut. Doug McCallum’s 0% for four years collects about $241 million less than the City’s own five-year plan says it needs. It lands on the officers we need to hire, the fire halls we need to build, and the hours at the rec centre your kids use. His tax freeze would bankrupt Surrey and put working families on the chopping block with layoffs and fee hikes.

PROPERTY TAX INCREASES

12.5% 7% 2.8% 2.6% ≤2.5% FOUR BUDGETS UNDER THE OLD PARTIES: ABOUT 27%

OURS

At or below inflation for four years, planned at 2.5%. If inflation runs lower, so does the increase.

“I came to Canada at seven and I am raising my family in Sullivan. I am running so families can afford to stay here: lower costs, safer streets, and transit that works.”

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LOWER COSTS

PERMITS WITH A CLOCK, OR YOUR FEE BACK A decision on your residential building permit within 180 days. Miss the clock and your fee comes back for every day late, so at seven months the permit is free. Safety checks are never skipped.

A 180-day clock on development permits and rezonings, the applications that decide whether homes get built at all, with the City’s fee discount for every day late.

A 60-day lane for the small stuff: home renovations, home businesses, secondary suites, and minor improvements, with part of the fee back for every day late, free at seven months.

A Permit Concierge Desk for homeowners, small builders, and small businesses, with pre-approved designs and fast-tracked approvals for laneway homes, secondary suites, and multiplexes.

60 DAYS

The small stuff: renovations, home businesses, secondary suites, minor improvements.

180 DAYS

Residential building permits, development permits, and rezonings.

FEE BACK PRO-RATED

Miss the clock and the fee comes back day by day: 1/150th a day on the 60-day lane, 1/30th a day on the 180-day clock. Free at seven months either way.

HALF-PRICE RECREATION FOR SENIORS, AND FREE FOR RESIDENTS OVER 70

Half price at every City recreation program, pool, arena, museum, art gallery, and attraction for seniors aged 60 to 69, starting in the 2027 budget. The City’s own 2026 rates put a senior’s recreation pass at $436 a year. Under an Imagine Surrey council it drops to $218, and passes and programs for residents over 70 are free. Discounts apply automatically through the SurreyPass, the fee schedule and uptake are reported every year, and this promise lives inside the inflation rule, not beside it. Seniors built this city. They shouldn’t pay more to use it. They should pay less.

A S E N I O R ’ S R E C R E A T I O N PA S S , P E R YEAR Today, at the City’s 2026 rates

$436

Seniors 60 to 69

$218

Residents over 70

Free

LOWER TRANSIT FARES: $70 ONE-ZONE MONTHLY PASSES

40%+ OFF A ONE-ZONE M O N T H LY PA SS

$117.20 $70

TransLink raised fares 5% on July 1, and an adult monthly pass now starts at $117.20. Victoria’s City Hall bought youth bus passes in bulk for its young people. Surrey is on its way to a million people and has the buying power to do the same. Direct the City to negotiate a bulk fare agreement with TransLink so a Surrey resident’s one-zone monthly pass costs a flat $70, starting with low-income adults in 2027 and reaching every resident by 2030, delivered through the SurreyPass.

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$1,132 S AV E D A Y E A R

(family of two adults riding every month)

LOWER COSTS

EXPAND AFFORDABLE CHILD CARE

A CLIMATE ADAPTATION STRATEGY

FREE SWIM LESSONS FOR KIDS

Build child care into every new City facility, starting with the three community centres and every new fire hall site. Fast-track permits for operators, waive City fees for nonprofit providers, and take half the City’s property tax off new licensed child care spaces for up to 10 years. Support extended hours for shift workers, because a nurse on nights needs care that doesn’t end at six. Partner with the school district, non-profits, employers, and the province’s ChildCareBC New Spaces Fund so the spaces actually get built.

Heat domes, atmospheric rivers, wildfire smoke, and floods are Surrey’s new normal. A citywide climate adaptation strategy, published in year one, sets out how the City responds to weather and climate emergencies: cooling and clean-air spaces in every town centre, check-ins on seniors living alone during heat warnings, run with the fire service and community groups, and flood and smoke plans for the neighbourhoods most at risk.

Every Surrey child gets their first swim lessons for free at City pools, starting in the 2027 budget and registered through the SurreyPass. In a city with a river on one side and the ocean on the other, no kid should grow up unable to swim. We’ll hire the lifeguards and instructors to open the spaces, and the program grows as capacity does.

FREE SELECT PROGRAMS FOR SENIORS

Free drop-in programs for seniors at every community centre and library, chosen with the seniors who use them, so staying active and connected doesn’t cost more as you age.

BUILD ABUNDANT HOUSING

In November 2025, City Hall sent all 262 homes at 152 Street and 19 Avenue back to the drawing board: 202 non-market rentals, along with the 40 supportive and 20 complex-care homes it refused to support. We would have said yes. Supportive and complex-care housing belongs on transit arteries with services, in every part of the city, and when City staff recommend it, an Imagine Surrey council will say yes.

A City Land for Housing inventory published in year one, offered to non-profits, co-ops, and Indigenous housing providers with covenants that keep homes affordable for decades. Every quarter, three numbers: homes approved, homes built, homes people can afford. Approvals that keep up with schools: growth planned with the school district so a new neighbourhood arrives with its classrooms, and City land offered for school sites where the district needs them.

MORE HOMES PEOPLE CAN AFFORD TO OWN

HALF THE CITY’S PROPERTY TAX ON NEW HOMES FAMILIES CAN AFFORD

City land goes first to family-sized homes people can buy at below-market prices: co-ops, non-profit and shared-equity ownership, and covenants that keep the price fair for the next buyer too. Pre-approved plans for laneway homes, suites, and multiplexes, so a family can add a home on the lot it already has. The nurse renting in Whalley and the young family in a Newton townhouse should be able to see a door into a home they can afford, not just the rent going up.

Council already has this power, and we will pass the program in 2027: half off the City’s property tax for up to 10 years on new rental homes that rent below market and on new licensed child care spaces, secured on title and repaid in full if the deal is broken. Only the new building is exempt, so the tax on the land keeps coming in, and on rental homes the province matches it on its share. The cost is capped and published every year. City Hall’s current break goes to student towers over $100 million with no strings on rent; ours comes with conditions. Co-ops and co-housing get City land and a single desk that knows how to say yes.

“Twenty-one years as a social worker taught me that a home with supports in it changes everything. When City staff bring us homes people can afford, the answer is yes.”

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LOWER COSTS

THE SURREYPASS

ONE CARD. EVERY CITY SERVICE.

ONE CARD FOR

RECREATION PERMITS

One card, digital or physical, for every City service: recreation, libraries, permits, parking, events, and bike lockers. Local business perks through Buy Surrey. Affordability discounts applied automatically for eligible residents. Live in year one.

LIBRARIES PARKING

EVENTS

BIKE LOCKERS Plus Buy Surrey perks at local businesses and the $70 a month transit fare. Tap at any City counter.

The SurreyPass, front and back. A mock-up card, one example of how it could look.

$70

A Surrey resident’s one-zone monthly transit pass costs a flat $70, negotiated with TransLink and delivered through the SurreyPass.

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½ price

Half price at every City recreation program, pool, arena, museum, art gallery, and attraction for seniors aged 60 to 69, and free for residents over 70. Discounts apply automatically through the SurreyPass.

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Free

Free swim lessons for every Surrey child. Free select programs for seniors.

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PROTECT RENTERS

Tough anti-renoviction enforcement, and a tenant assistance policy that gives renters displaced by redevelopment the right to come back at the rent they were paying. Support for the BC Rent Bank. A crackdown on slumlords with tougher inspections and real penalties. Pet-friendly terms in every home the City helps build. Protection for renters who play by the rules, and support for the landlords who do too: a faster Residential Tenancy Branch process, pressed for in Victoria, when a tenant is violent, dealing drugs, or wrecking the building.

MORE SENIOR AND ACCESSIBLE HOUSING

City-owned sites for seniors’ and accessible housing with BC Housing, the health authorities, non-profits, and veterans’ organizations, on main arteries with transit and services.

A SEN̓ ÁḴW-STYLE PARTNERSHIP WITH LOCAL NATIONS

FREE MONTHLY HOUSEHOLD WASTE DROP-OFF

The Squamish Nation is building thousands of rental homes at Sen̓ áḵw, on its own land and its own terms. Explore a development of that scale in Surrey in true partnership with local Nations: their land and leadership, the City’s servicing and approvals at speed, and a share of the homes locked in as truly affordable for decades.

Bring the household items you can no longer use to the City’s drop-off for free, up to once every calendar month, all year, so nobody has an excuse to dump. Paired with the 48-hour cleanup standard in Safe Streets, dumpers billed the full cost, and real fines for repeat offenders.

LOWER ENERGY AND WATER COSTS AT HOME

The City buys a lot. We’ll use that buying power to lower your bills at home.

Bulk energy savings: lower energy bills through City-negotiated bulk pricing on solar panels and heat pumps. Efficiency financing: retrofit loans repaid through your property tax bill, so families can cut energy costs without paying everything up front.

BACK IN YOUR POCKET

O N E H O U S E H O L D, O N E Y E A R : T W O W O R K I N G PA R E N T S A N D A G R A N D PA R E N T Two $70 transit passes

Down from $117.20 each, twelve months

Half-price recreation pass for a senior 60 to 69 From $436 to $218 at the City’s 2026 rates

B AC K I N YO U R P O C K E T

$1,132 $218

$1,350+ a year

Free water meters: free water meter installation for households that want to pay only for what they use. Fees frozen: City parking and recreation fees are frozen for four years. The seniors’ cuts come on top of the freeze, not instead of it.

“I work on sustainable solutions for a living. Cutting a family’s energy bill and getting Surrey ready for heat, floods, and smoke are the same job.”

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“Mike Starchuk has long served the people of Surrey with hard work and a big heart. He will be a great Mayor of Surrey.”

BRUCE RALSTON · FORMER MLA FOR SURREY-WHALLEY AND BC CABINET MINISTER

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STRONG SERVICES 3

Community centre projects: finish Newton on time, and start two more, each built with its neighbourhood.

100,000

Trees planted on the way to a 40% tree canopy by 2035.

48 hr

A response to every 311 request, with a tracking number and a name.

“We are frontline workers, not career politicians. We show up quietly every day for this city, and we are no longer going to be quiet.” M I K E S TA R C H U K

In a fire, you look after the people first. That is how we will run City Hall.

ABUNDANT PARKS AND RECREATION Expand park space by 5% beyond the City’s current land-buying program, and greenways by 10%, including a signature Greenway Loop that connects Surrey.

More community gardens for fresh food access, and climate-ready amenities: shade, misting, heating and cooling centres, and bus shelters where families gather in the heat.

New covered picnic grounds with power, chosen through citywide consultation.

COMMUNITY CENTRE EXPANSION PLAN Three community centre projects: finish Newton on time, and start two more, funded by pausing the City’s $198 million arena commitment until the four tests are met, by provincial and federal partners, and by City land. Each one built with its neighbourhood: gyms, program space, and child care in every centre, and pools, ice, and specialized playing surfaces where the budget and the partners allow.

Complete the North Surrey Sport and Ice Complex with an indoor Olympic-sized pool and waterpark, replacing the pool downtown Surrey lost, and a community hall.

Finish the Newton Community Centre now under construction, on time, with the gym, program space, and child care the neighbourhood was promised.

Complete the Clayton Hall site with a full aquatic centre and gym.

WHALLEY AND CITY CENTRE

NEWTON

CLOVERDALE

“I spent my career helping newcomers find work and community here. Surrey is where BC’s newcomers land. City Hall should speak their languages and open the door.”

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RESPECT PUBLIC WORKERS AND TAXPAYERS, AND MAKE CITY HALL WORK Launch Track My Request so you can follow your permit, inspection, or 311 call online, and open the City’s data by default.

Hire more frontline staff, including lifeguards, program staff, and the crews that keep the city clean, so programs stop selling out and streets get cleaned.

Stop the outsourcing of frontline services, and audit existing contracts to bring essential work back inhouse where it saves money or serves people better.

End lavish political travel and waste. The money goes to the front line.

Bargain in good faith on pay, mental health support, safer conditions, and better equipment.

NEIGHBOURHOOD HUBS THAT WORK

SENIORS AND YOUTH STRATEGIES

Every town centre gets a hub with better lighting, safer streets, and local art, offering child care, coworking space, seniors’ and youth programming, and free public Wi-Fi.

A seniors’ strategy and a youth strategy, each written with a resident advisory council and delivered at every community centre, with the social services and accessible transit that make the programs usable, and a standing ask to the province for more in-home care so seniors can stay in their homes.

FUND THE ARTS, AND BUILD PLACES FOR ARTISTS AND TRADESPEOPLE Grow the City’s arts and culture grants every year of the term, so Surrey’s arts organizations, festivals, and community groups are funded like a city of a million people and not a suburb, and put the grants on multiyear agreements so groups can plan past next spring. Keep funding the Surrey Art Gallery, the Surrey Arts Centre, and the public art program, and commission Surrey artists first.

Use City land, community amenity contributions, and rezoning conditions to build affordable studios, workshops, and rehearsal space, and homes that artists, tradespeople, and other working people can actually afford, including live-work buildings where the studio is downstairs and the apartment is upstairs. Open City spaces to studios and rehearsals at cost, streamline permits for artists and performers, and put an artist in residence in every new community centre.

HOW WE WILL RUN CITY HALL

IN A FIRE, YOU LOOK AFTER THE PEOPLE FIRST.

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“We believe Mike and his team have established the vision, experience and innovative thinking needed to lead Surrey as a world-class city with an improved reputation for livability, sustainability and safety. With Mike, the city we imagine is the city Surrey will become.”

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STRONG SERVICES

STOP THE CUTS. FUND FRONT LINE SERVICES.

THE FRONTLI

NO CUTS. NO CGLU A R A N T E E OSURES.

WHAT THE LEGACY PARTIES WOULD DO

$241M HOLE DOUG MCCALLUM’S PLEDGE

A four-year freeze collects about $241 million less than the City’s own five-year plan says it needs. It lands on the officers, the fire halls, and the hours at your rec centre.

$47M CUT BRENDA LOCKE’S CUTS

Brenda cut $47M from policing this year after raising taxes by 27%. What will she cut next?

“Core review” LINDA ANNIS’S PROMISE

A review of every program and expense for “potential savings” is the study every government runs right before the cuts. She sat on the audit committee, when she showed up, and found none. Ask her to name one service she’ll protect.

THE FRONTLINE GUARANTEE

NO LAYOFFS OF FRONTLINE STAFF. NO FACILITY CLOSURES. NO REDUCED HOURS. Hire the officers and firefighters we need, build the community centres and parks we need, and protect services like garbage pickup from the cuts proposed by our opponents. Administrative savings only where service levels hold. Hire more frontline staff, including lifeguards, program staff, and the crews that keep the city clean, so programs stop selling out and streets get cleaned. Stop the outsourcing of frontline services, and audit existing contracts to bring essential work back in-house where it saves money or serves people better. The clean streets crews are in-house, built with CUPE and the workers who do the job. Restore the Surrey Crime Prevention Society’s full grant in the 2027 budget and put it on a four-year funding agreement, so its volunteers are never used as a bargaining chip again.

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THE CUTS

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FURTHER RECONCILIATION AND CHAMPION HUMAN RIGHTS

WELCOME NEWCOMERS AND SUPPORT SETTLEMENT

Establish formal government-to-government relationships with the Semiahmoo, Katzie, and Kwantlen First Nations, and the Métis Nation of BC, to work together on housing, supports, procurement, and stewardship. Indigenous consultation will cover land use and community planning. An annual grant, delivered with community partners, will support inclusion, anti-racism, and anti-bullying work in the community.

Surrey is where newcomers to BC land. Expand welcome services at town centre hubs in Surrey’s most-spoken languages, communicate in more than English, and partner with DIVERSEcity, PICS, and Options to help new residents find work and community.

CLIMATE ACTION, URBAN FOREST, FARMLAND, AND FOOD SECURITY

CITYWIDE ACCESSIBILITY STRATEGY

Grow Surrey’s tree canopy to 40% by 2035 by planting 100,000 trees beyond the City’s existing replacement program and protecting urban forests. Support food banks, expand community gardens, and protect the Agricultural Land Reserve. Build a farm-to-table economy through local procurement and farmers’ markets, and stop speculative development on productive farmland.

REDUCE HOMELESSNESS WITH URGENCY AND COMPASSION Work with the province and the health authorities to expand shelter capacity and transitional housing, connect people to wraparound supports, and deal with encampments with dignity, so people have somewhere to go.

Audit every City facility, park, sidewalk, and transit stop for accessibility. Give the Accessibility Advisory Committee a real mandate and make every new City project meet or beat the standard, so everyone in Surrey can take part.

DEFEND SURREY’S LIBRARIES Extend hours, open new branches in underserved areas, and protect librarians’ professional judgment. Do not allow politicians to ban books.

A PET-FRIENDLY CITY Build new off-leash dog parks in every major town centre. Expand pet-friendly amenities in Surrey parks. Partner with animal welfare organizations. Make Surrey one of the most pet-friendly cities in BC.

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“I don’t think you’re going to find anybody in the political landscape far and wide that’s more honest, more thoughtful, and more compassionate. He’s got what it takes to hold that centre chair.”

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A REFERENDUM ON WARD REPRESENTATION Every Surrey councillor is elected citywide, which means some neighbourhoods have nobody who answers to them. Imagine Surrey will put a hybrid system to a referendum by 2028: one each for Whalley, Guildford, Newton, Fleetwood, Cloverdale, and South Surrey, and two elected at-large. Voters decide, and we respect the result. Imagine Surrey is open to exploring other reforms, such as ranked choice voting, as part of any referendum.

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AT LARGE

FLEETWOOD CLOVERDALE

SOUTH SURREY

AT LARGE

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SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF

Mike’s second rule is the broken light and the missing sidewalk, because that is daily life. The next three promises look small on paper and enormous on your street.

Better service 48-HOUR STANDARD FOR 311

Every 311 request gets a response within 48 hours, with a tracking number and a name, and the response times are published every month.

Every hub MORE PUBLIC WASHROOMS Build public washrooms in every town centre and, with TransLink, at every major transit hub: Newton Exchange, Scottsdale Exchange, South Surrey Park and Ride, Guildford Exchange, and every current and future SkyTrain station in Surrey, pressing TransLink to build the station washrooms with City cost-sharing where needed. Review current contracts to find opportunitites for public washroom upgrades in parks such as Dominion Park.

WIN THE POWER FOR AN EMPTY HOMES TAX TO PAY FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING Vancouver has taxed empty homes since 2017 and put the money into housing. Surrey can’t, because the province hasn’t given us the power. We ask for it in year one, and until we get it, demand that the Speculation and Vacancy Tax collected on Surrey’s empty homes come back to Surrey to build affordable housing here.

RATS! GET RID OF RATS AS

DEVELOPMENT GROWS Surrey has a rat problem, no plan, and every new development site stirs up more of them. A citywide rodent strategy that goes after the causes, from garbage and dumping to construction sites, with rodent control written into demolition and excavation permits, so the rats don’t just move next door.

PAY A LIVING WAGE The City of Surrey should not pay anyone less than it costs to live in Surrey. Close the gap between what the City and its contractors pay and the Living Wage for Families BC standard as contracts renew, and attach community benefit agreements to major City projects so local hiring and apprenticeships come with the construction.

RECOGNIZE NEW CULTURAL DISTRICTS Designate the King George Boulevard corridor at 108 Avenue, Whalley’s Corner, as Little Africa. The Blackowned restaurants, grocers, and beauty stores between 105A Avenue and 108 Avenue already make it one, and the Nigerian Food Festival already fills the parking lot every August. The City makes it official and protects it: banners and wayfinding, façade and signage grants, a permanent festival plaza, stable space for the Black Arts Centre, and a rule that the towers coming to this corridor include small storefronts the existing businesses can move into at a rent they can pay.

Work with Surrey’s Arab community to designate its own district within the city. Work with Surrey’s Filipino community, one of the largest in Canada, to designate its own district and to build a Filipino community centre. Work with Surrey’s East Asian communities to recognize their heritage in the city, in particular the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese communities, with a district of their own where the community wants one.

“Surrey’s Filipino community is one of the largest in Canada, and we have never had a place of our own. A district and a community centre say: you built this city too.”

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150 SURREY AT 150

1879

S U R R E Y I N C O R P O R AT E D

NOVEMBER 10, 1879 TO NOVEMBER 10, 2029

SURREY, THE CITY OF CHAMPIONS, TURNS 150 IN 2029 Surrey was incorporated on November 10,

1879. On November 10, 2029, in the last year of this council’s term, the city turns 150. The three old parties haven’t mentioned it. We intend to throw the party.

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SURREY TURNS 150

Surrey 150 is a year-long celebration with legacy projects on a deadline:

The Waterfront District master plan adopted, and phase 1 scoped and funded with partners

The Greenway Loop in development, section by section

Surrey’s big birthday: a year of celebration, with murals and monuments to the city’s champions in every town centre

New cultural districts designated, festivals are expanded

Launch the bid for the Commonwealth Games and celebrate our birthday together.

G E T R E A D Y T O PA R T Y I N 2 0 2 9 !

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MEET THE IMAGINE SURREY TEAM

Mike Starchuk and the Imagine Surrey team.

Mike Starchuk speaking with media.

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CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR C A N D I DAT E F O R M AYO R

MIKE STARCHUK

Firefighter, former councillor and MLA, grandfather Raised in Newton, Mike served 32 years with Surrey Fire Services, retiring as Chief Fire Prevention Officer in 2014. A Local 1271 officer and workers’ compensation advocate, he helped injured firefighters and their families recover more than $14 million in wages and benefits. He cofounded the Surrey Fire Fighters Charitable Society and received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee and King Charles III Coronation Medals. He served on Surrey City Council and as MLA for Surrey-Cloverdale, where he chaired the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services. He is running to put out the fire at City Hall.

A LIFE OF SERVICE RAISED IN NEWTON PAID-ON-CALL Born in Vancouver, VOLUNTEER raised in Newton, and a Surrey resident ever since, with homes in Newton, Fleetwood, and Cloverdale.

At the fire hall at 108 Avenue and 146 Street.

$14M+

Recovered in wages and benefits for injured firefighters and their families, as a Local 1271 officer and workers’ compensation advocate.

CHIEF FIRE PREVENTION OFFICER

Surrey Fire Services, from the hall floor to the top of prevention.

SURREY CITY COUNCIL

In the council chamber, learning how City Hall works.

MLA, SURREYCLOVERDALE

Chaired the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services.

Co-founder

Surrey Fire Fighters Charitable Society.

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CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR

Running to put out the fire at City Hall and build the City of Champions.

2 medals

The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and the King Charles III Coronation Medal.

“FOUR YEARS AT THE COUNCIL TABLE TAUGHT ME HOW CITY HALL WORKS. I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I’M WALKING INTO.” MIKE STARCHUK

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CANDIDATES FOR COUNCIL

YOUSEF ALDABAINAH-BARAKAT C O U N C I L Diplomat, community builder, multilingual advocate

A proud Canadian of Arab-Palestinian descent who has called Newton home since 2010, Yousef is a husband and father of four. He began his career as Office Director for the Palestinian Authority’s Minister of Foreign Affairs before moving into settlement and workforce development in BC. Founder and President of the Canadian Arab Forum of BC and fluent in Arabic, Hebrew, French, and English, he works as a professional legal interpreter and is running for an inclusive, connected, prosperous Surrey.

CHANDAN CHAHAL C O U N C I L

Small business owner, youth mentor, public safety advocate Chandan, 34, lives in Fleetwood and is a small business owner, youth mentor, and community advocate who knows first-hand what working families and small businesses need from City Hall. He is running for a safer, more affordable, betterconnected Surrey where the next generation can build a life.

PERMINDER CHOHAN C O U N C I L

Entrepreneur, philanthropist, 34-year resident, grandfather A Newton resident for 34 years, Perminder is President and CEO of Lifewise Financial Group and a philanthropist who has served with the Surrey Board of Trade, the South Asian Health Fund, and the Surrey Newton Rotary Club. Through the Perminder Chohan Foundation, he supports local sports and scholarships at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. An Emmy-winning producer and author, he knows Surrey’s residents and how to get things done for them.

NARIMA DELA CRUZ C O U N C I L

Community leader, volunteer advocate, founder of SPIDS A longtime Surrey resident and a leading voice for young people, service organizations, and underserved communities, Narima founded and leads SPIDS, which represents Surrey’s Filipino community. With nearly two decades of volunteer service, she sits on Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Advisory Committee for Asian Studies and lives in Surrey Centre. She is running for a Surrey that is affordable, safe, healthy, and easier to get around.

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ASHIYANA HANIF C O U N C I L

Media professional, 40-year resident, accountability advocate A media voice for accountability, public safety, and community service across Surrey for more than three decades, Ashiyana lives in Panorama Village and speaks Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, and English. As founder of Media Waves Live, she has kept residents informed on public safety, small business, and what City Hall does with their money, and she never hesitates to ask the hard question on behalf of families, seniors, and entrepreneurs.

WILLIAM LI C O U N C I L

Community advocate, entrepreneur, finance professional William immigrated to Canada at age seven and is raising his family in Sullivan. A Simon Fraser University business graduate, he is Sales and Brand Director at an international trading company and is active in the Rotary Club of Surrey, where he was honoured as Rookie of the Year, and the Sunshine Lions Club. He is running to make life better for families: affordable living, safer streets, and transit that works.

MARGARET MUBANDA C O U N C I L

YWCA Women of Distinction Award, BC Medal of Good Citizenship A longtime resident of Surrey Centre and a leader on social and economic justice, Margaret received the YWCA Women of Distinction Award (2020), BC’s Medal of Good Citizenship (2024), and an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from University Canada West. She served 21 years as a resource social worker with BC’s Ministry of Children and Family Development, was a foster parent for 15 years, and sits on the City’s Livability, Social Equity and Public Safety Committee.

KEVIN WILKIE C O U N C I L

Business development professional, new dad, 30-year resident A Surrey resident for more than 30 years who grew up playing local sports, Kevin works in business development at Black & McDonald with a focus on sustainable solutions. He ran federally in Cloverdale-Langley City in 2025 on climate resilience and family-focused leadership. A new father and dog owner, he believes strong communities are built one conversation at a time.

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THE RULE, THE SOURCES, AND THE DISCIPLINE

Measured against the City’s own adopted 2026 to 2030 plan. The inflation increase keeps today’s City running. New promises are paid only with operating money found below; capital is on the next page.

HOW WE PAY FOR IT: OUR FISCAL PLAN THE RULE

Your City property taxes, the general tax and the roads levy together, rise no more than BC inflation for the year before, for four years. If prices rose 2%, you pay 2% or less. No new levies or parcel taxes to get around it. We plan at 2.5%; if inflation runs lower, the next new promise starts later, in a published order. The math is published before every budget vote.

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A L L F I G U R E S I N $ M , I N C R E M E N TA L T O T H E C I T Y ’ S P L A N

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Arena reserve transfer paused: general revenue the City’s plan moves to the arena, kept in operations

2.0

12.0

16.0

18.0

48.0

Debt servicing avoided on arena borrowing

0.0 8.5 0.0 3.0 1.0 14.5

3.0 10.1 8.0 5.0 2.0 40.1

6.0 9.9 12.0 6.0 2.5 52.4

8.0 8.8 15.0 6.0 3.0 58.8

17.0 37.3 35.0 20.0 8.5 165.8

8.6

17.8

27.7

38.3

92.4

5.9

22.3

24.7

20.5

73.4

Safe Streets: 100 officers above the City’s plan, extortion command, victim liaisons

3.4

8.0

10.5

9.5

31.4

Fast Commutes: signal operations, sidewalk upkeep, truck parking, Surrey Tows

0.1

1.8

2.2

1.8

5.9

Smart Investments: event grants, lobbyist registry, Games bids, accelerator zones, Surrey 150

0.5

3.1

3.0

2.4

9.0

Lower Costs: fee freeze, seniors’ discounts, $70 transit pass, swim lessons, permit refunds

1.7

5.6

4.6

17.5

Strong Services: 311 standard, frontline hires, arts and inclusion grants, living wage

0.2

3.8

3.4

2.2

9.6

5.9 0.0

22.3 0.0

24.7 0.0

20.5 0.0

73.4 0.0

NET NEW FUNDS

Savings: contract audit, no political travel Police transition savings Partner funding Cost recovery Total new money Low property taxes: holding increases at 2.5% instead of the City’s planned 4.0% Remaining for new promises

NET NEW INVESTMENTS

Total new investment Net

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HOW WE PAY FOR IT

CAPITAL BUDGET AND COSTING PLAN

FOUR-YEAR CAPITAL BUDGET: MONEY IN, MONEY OUT

2027 TO 2030, $M

CAPITAL FUNDING PLAN $132.0M $130.0M $120.0M $154.6M

Arena capacity redirected Development cost charges and amenity contributions Partnerships City reserves and new borrowing

$536.6M

Total new capital available

CAPITAL SPENDING PLAN $30.0M $24.0M $130.0M $80.0M $5.0M

Second new fire hall and apparatus Equipment and infrastructure for policing Signals, sidewalks, and road corridor upgrades Rapid transit expansion and planning Truck parking on City and industrial land North Surrey pool and waterpark; Clayton aquatic centre and gym

$154.0M

Parks, greenways, the Greenway Loop, and trees above the City’s program

$50.0M

Waterfront District phase 1: master plan, dike and site work, promenade

$50.6M

Cricket and rugby stadium: business case and site work (City land at appraisal, partners build)

$1.0M $12.0M

SurreyPass and digital service upgrades

$536.6M

Total new capital program

Already funded in the City’s own plan, at no new cost: Newton Community Centre and library, the Fire Hall 6 relocation, park washrooms, and parkland buying ($468.4M).

COSTING PLAN TAXES AT OR BELOW INFLATION No more than BC inflation for four years, planned at 2.5%. Freeze recreation and parking fees.

EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS Audit the contracts, cut the waste and the political travel, finish the police transition, and never overpay for land again. No service cuts. No privatization.

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Ottawa and Victoria fund big projects alongside other partners.

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GROWTH Amenity cost charges and development contributions that keep pace with the city.

THE RECORD, IN DETAIL

THE THREE OLD PARTIES, IN THEIR OWN VOTES, BUDGETS, AND WORDS BRENDA LOCKE She lost every fight she picked. Then she sent you the bill. Picked a fight you paid for. She led the 2022 vote to keep the RCMP, spent $1.28 million fighting the province in court, lost on May 23, 2024, and signed the province’s deal anyway. You paid for every round. Extortion exploded on her watch. No plan and no urgency. She declared an emergency in January. By June the chief was fired and the board chair had quit, citing political interference. She still hasn’t told you why, and now former Chief Lipinski is challenging his dismissal, which means the bill for her police fight is still growing. The transition still isn’t done. A $360 million arena, in the dark. $114.2 million of public land swapped for a site assessed at $86.8 million, with no business plan and no public vote. $27.4 million more in assessed land value went to Wesgroup Properties than came back, and the City took $12.2 million less than its own appraisals for its three parcels. You got the bill. Twenty-seven percent more in taxes, and nothing to show for it. No new community centres opened, no transit wins, no housing breakthroughs. Brenda isn’t working for Surrey.

$360M

DOUG MCCALLUM We don’t need a third sequel to Doug’s chaos. We’re still paying for the last two. He lit the fire. He moved the 2018 motions that started the police transition and killed rapid transit to Newton. His tax freeze would bankrupt Surrey. The one thing Doug has been consistent about is cutting your services and raising your fees. He’d turn off the taps. He wants to pull Surrey out of Metro Vancouver, the body that delivers your drinking water and treats your sewage, with no alternative and without asking you. Rules are for other people. The forensic-audit candidate’s party and its financial agent were fined $7,043 by Elections BC and spent $691,956 on $566,729 raised in 2022. The City paid $316,663.50 for his legal defence. He doesn’t respect the rules or your tax dollars. Confrontation is not a plan. He alienated the partners and funders Surrey needs to get big things done. Elect him, and his wish list becomes a blacklist in Victoria and Ottawa.

$360M for an arena deal done in the dark paid for by a 27% increase in your taxes.

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THE RECORD, IN DETAIL

THREE NAMES. ONE CITY HALL.

LINDA ANNIS

Eight years on council. Cuts, conflicts, and higher fees.

Sat in silence. She backed the 2018 motions and now complains about the bill. She sat through Doug’s term and Brenda’s term with nothing to show for either. On most votes, all three old parties voted the same way. Core review means cuts. Her flagship promise is a review of every program and expense for “potential savings,” which is the study every government runs right before the cuts. She sat on council’s audit committee, and never found a dollar. Now the review she never did is her core commitment. Ask her to name one service she’ll protect.

THREE LEGACY PARTIES SHARING ONE RECORD OF FAILURE.

Wrong on transit, twice. She voted to cancel LRT in 2018 and stopped rapid transit from reaching Newton. Now she’s running on LRT in 2026: slow, at-grade trains through streets that are already jammed. In May, she voted against the King George bus rapid transit design for Newton. Wrong on policing, twice. She backed the 2018 motion to leave the RCMP, then switched sides to line up behind Brenda Locke. Two positions, one bill, and you paid it. Eight years, nothing to show. Two terms on council, through Doug’s chaos and Brenda’s court fight, and Surrey still has no finished police service, no rapid transit to Newton, and taxes up about 27%.

IF BRENDA, DOUG, OR LINDA WINS, SURREY LOSES. Stop paying for their fights and waste. Let's make a change on October 17 with Mike Starchuk and the Imagine Surrey team!

“FIREFIGHTERS DON’T START FIRES. THEY PUT THEM OUT.” MIKE STARCHUK

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C U T O U T. B R I N G TO T H E D E B AT E .

LEGACY PARTY BINGO

Three names. One City Hall. The same fights. Cross off a square every time you hear one.

Doug yells at a debate audience

They promise a tax freeze with no math (a path to bankruptcy)

They promise a “core review” (cuts to frontline services)

Linda promises LRT (again)

Brenda spends more money picking a petty fight

Brenda doesn't show up

Doug promises a 0% freeze with no math

Linda promises a core review but doesn't say what she'll cut

Brenda makes another bad deal for a photo op

Doug launches a plan to go to Mars

Doug suggests starting another new police force made entirely of robots

They build a new casino after the election to pay for their promises

They vote to cancel rapid transit to Newton (again)

Surrey First’s financial agent is fined (again)

Surrey Connect is fined (again)

They promise a “forensic audit” (DOGE style cuts)

Brenda gives more public land away

202 affordable homes are sent back to the drawing board (again)

Doug doesn't show up

Doug blames someone for why he didn't get it done in 14 years as Mayor

Linda doesn't show up

Surrey Central Safeway is still standing

Doug's councillors ignore his advice and vote with Brenda (again)

Brenda raises your taxes by 27% (again)

FREE

THREE LEGACY PARTIES. ONE FIRE AT CITY HALL.

BINGO? PUT OUT THE FIRE BY VOTING FOR MIKE STARCHUK AND IMAGINE SURREY CONTRACT FOR A BETTER SURREY

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OUR CONTRACT WITH YOU

SIGNED, FOR THE PEOPLE OF SURREY

A SIGNED CONTRACT, FOR THE PEOPLE OF SURREY We, the undersigned, commit to the promises in this contract, and to publishing our progress against every one of them, every quarter, for the people of Surrey.

STREETS ARE SAFER. COMMUTES ARE FASTER. INVESTMENTS ARE SMARTER. COSTS ARE LOWER. SERVICES ARE STRONGER.

MIKE STARCHUK YOUSEF ALDABAINAHBARAKAT

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PERMINDER CHOHAN

C A N D I DAT E F O R M AYO R

CHANDAN CHAHAL

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ASHIYANA HANIF

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WILLIAM LI

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ELECTION DAY N O G IN T O V Y NB W I T N E SS · T H E P E OSPIG LE OF SURREY CONTRACT FOR A BETTER SURREY

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2026 E L E C T I O N DAY

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MIKE STARCHUK. FIREFIGHTER. COUNCILLOR. MLA. READY ON DAY ONE.

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E FOR IT. T O V N E H T . IT IMAGINE S AT U R D AY,

VOTE MIKE STARCHUK AND THE IMAGINE SURREY TEAM

CHANGE THAT WORKS FOR YOU.

City Hall is on fire. The same three politicians have been standing in the driveway arguing about who lit it. Mike Starchuk spent 32 years putting out fires. Let's put out the fire at City Hall and build the City of Champions.

FOR MAYOR

FOR COUNCIL

STARCHUK, Mike

ALDABAINAH-BARAKAT, Yousef ✕ CHOHAN, Perminder ✕ HANIF, Ashiyana ✕ MUBANDA, Margaret

ELECTION DAY

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17 2026, 8:00 am to 8:00 pm

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CHAHAL, Chandan ✕ DELA CRUZ, Narima ✕ LI, William ✕ WILKIE, Kevin ✕

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Vote for Mike Starchuk and the entire Imagine Surrey team.

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