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Mayor says he’s not running for re-election Theresa McManus tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca

After two terms as mayor and three terms as a councillor, Jonathan Cote has decided not to seek re-election in the 2022 civic election.

For the past year, Cote said, he and his wife, Alix, have been discussing whether or not he should seek another term as mayor.

“After spending the holiday period with close family and close friends, I came to the conclusion that it’s time for me to take on my next adventure,” he told the Record. “I have really loved the opportunity to play my role as mayor and council member over the past 16 years, and I am really incredibly proud of the work that we have been able to do, but I think it’s time for me to take my next adventure and it’s time for me to make some room for the next round of leadership in the city.”

Cote said the past two years have been “particularly stressful,” and he’s been considering his ability to contribute.

“I am proud of the contributions I have made, but it does take its toll playing this type of public role for such a long period of time,” he said. “No doubt the pandemic has been incredibly challenging. I am actually proud of the work we have done as a city of being a resilient city, of being a caring city, and working through the struggles and stress in the community during this period.”

For Cote, one of the positive aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic was the fact that he was at home for dinner every night with his family rather than being out about four nights a week as he was before.

“That really struck home with me and made me realize how important spending time is with fam-

New mayor coming: Mayor Jonathan Cote isn’t running for re-election this fall. PHOTO RECORD FILES

ily,” he said. “I still have three school-aged children.

Obviously, priorities need to focus in that direction.”

Cote’s decision also comes on the heels of conflicts related to the formation of the Together New West political party, which announced in early December it would be fielding candidates for city council and school board in the 2022 election.When the Downtown New Westminster Business Improvement Association voiced concerns the party’s name was the same as a branding campaign it had launched in 2020, Cote issued a statement apologizing to the BIA and expressing disappointment that the party executive had decided not to work with the BIA to fully address the legitimate concerns they’d raised.

“I have been thinking about this for the past year and struggling with this decision,” he said. “I think the events of the last month, they have given me greater clarity to help this decision, but, ultimately, they are not the driving force behind me deciding to move on and take my

next steps.”

Cote was first elected to city council in 2005, serving three terms as a councillor before defeating incumbent mayor Wayne Wright and being elected mayor in 2014. Running as part of a slate of candidates called Team Cote, he was re-elected to a second term as mayor in the 2018 election.

This is a very personal decision.

Asked about today’s political environment, Cote said it’s not one where he can do his best work.

“I’ve always found my leadership style to really be consensus-based and bringing people together, even people of different mindsets and views.

It’s been challenging for me. I have seen politics become a little bit more divided over the years that I’ve been involved in local politics. I don’t think that’s just a New Westmin-

ster phenomenon; that’s more generally speaking even worldwide,” he said.

“Unfortunately, I think my kind of consensus leadership style is not really in style these days.You are either an ally or an enemy in a lot of politics these days.

Unfortunately, that’s not the best environment for me to thrive. I think that’s been a challenge for me.”

Cote, however, stressed he’s not being pushed out of the mayor’s race.

“Not at all,” he said.

“This is a very personal decision. No doubt this is something Alix and I have really been spending a lot of time with over the past year, kind of debating whether we had the energy and whether it was the right thing to be going for one more term or if now was the right time to be taking our next chapter.

I think both for personal and professional reasons, it just seems like it was the right time for us.”

Cote said the city has evolved a lot over the past 16 years, and he feels incredibly honoured to have been a part of those changes.

“In particular, I am re-

ally proud of the work we have done in the City of New Westminster on housing policy and affordable housing.We are a small city in our region, but I think we punch well above our weight.We have been a leader in the region in housing policy and in trying to attract affordable housing, which is one of biggest challenges our region faces,” he said.

“Another area I am really proud of is the work we have taken on climate action.”

Not long after being elected to council in 2005, Cote put forward a Green Action Plan in an effort to put climate action on the city’s agenda.

He’s proud to see how that work has evolved and led to the city’s Seven Bold Steps For Climate Action.

“No doubt, both housing and climate are going to be huge challenges in the future, but I am really proud of the work we have done here locally,” he said. “Although I have really enjoyed being a part of it, to me, I don’t think it is any individual that has accomplished those goals. It’s been the collective effort of a lot of amazing city staff, a really passionate community. I have had the opportunity to work with many great individuals on council over the many years who have all helped to contribute to building a really forward-thinking community.”

Many civic politicians seeking re-election express a desire to implement plans they’ve helped develop.

“The process of citybuilding is a task that is never completed. It is an ever-evolving role,” he said. “For me, I am obviously really happy I’ve had the opportunity to contribute during the period I have had, and I hope the community can feel I’ve made a positive

impact on the city. But I think you also need to be able to make room and space for new leadership to emerge, new priorities and new ideas to work through.”’

Cote hopes a lot of the work he’s been passionate about will continue into the future and the next mayor and council will build upon the work that’s been started.

“But with all leadership, you need to make room for the next chapter and the next step,” he said. “To me, I think this is a good time for our community.”

Cote said Jan. 1 seemed like the right time to announce he wouldn’t be running in the Oct. 15, 2022 election.

“There was just something that seemed right about starting off the new year fresh and picking this day,” he said.

Cote said he also wanted to provide ample time for people to ponder whether they were interested in running for mayor.

“That’s why I wanted to give lots of time for what I think is a lot of great community members that could go into this role and do an excellent job in this role,” he said.

When the time is right, Cote expects he will endorse a candidate he hopes will win the mayor’s seat.

“I think it’s very likely that I would support and endorse a candidate. But, having said that, I wanted to give lots of time for many people in the community to give good thought about whether this was the role for them.

We will see how the year plays out,” he said. “Yeah, I very likely will be supporting candidates. Ultimately, it’s not a decision for me; it’s a decision for residents of New Westminster to determine who their next mayor is.”

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NOTICE OF INITIATIVE PLAN FOR THE DOWNTOWN NEW WESTMINSTER BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT AREAS SERVICE IT IS THE INTENTION OF THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF NEW WESTMINSTER TO CREATE TWO BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT AREA SERVICES IN DOWNTOWN NEW WESTMINSTER PURSUANT TO SECTION 215.(2) OF THE COMMUNITY CHARTER This notice concerning the creation of Business Improvement Areas Services on the Council initiative plan is given pursuant to Section 215(1) of the Community Charter.

The business promotion scheme proposed to be undertaken consists of: 1. the encouragement of business in the Business Improvement Area Service in order to complement and expand the present business mix; 2. the strengthening of businesses in the Business Improvement Area Service by undertaking beautification projects and promotional initiatives including special events and by advertising and promoting existing businesses; 3. the carrying out of research and the preparation of reports including measures to enhance the economic vitality of the Business Improvement Area; and 4. the improvement, beautification or maintenance of streets, sidewalks or municipally-owned land, buildings or structures in the Business Improvement Area.

The business promotion scheme will be designed to benefit two areas, a Primary Area and a Secondary Area, shown outlined in heavy black on the maps identified below as “Primary Area: Bylaw 8288, 2021 Schedule A” and “Secondary Area: Bylaw 8289, 2021 Schedule A”.

PRIMARY AREA The estimated grant cost of the business promotion scheme for the Primary Area will be $161,912.41 for 2022, $166,769.78 for 2023, $171,772.87 for 2024 and $176,926.06 for 2025. The maximum grant for the term of the bylaw will be $677,381.12.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS Monday, January 10 6:00 pm City Council Meeting Meeting held electronically and in Council Chamber, City Hall

QUEEN’S PARK BIKE SKILLS AREA The new Bike Skills Area, located in Queen’s Park south of the Centennial Lodge parking lot, is now complete. A looped trail with seven bike features have been installed as well as signage regarding trail safety and etiquette.

This project aims to integrate a purpose built bike park that balances the needs of the biking community (beginners and experts alike); encourages safe and responsible use of the forest; and respects the ongoing ecological restoration efforts within Queen’s Park. As part of the ecological restoration effort for this particular area, additional vegetation has been planted and split-cedar rail fencing has been installed to help protect both existing and newly planted trees and plants.

We intend to engage the users of the Bike Skills Area in future stewardship events to help work on the track, features and with ongoing ecological restoration. Our hope is that we can all work together to keep the bike park in good shape!

The estimated grant cost of the business promotion scheme for the Secondary Area will be $133,857.52 for 2022, $137,873.25 for 2023, $142,009.45 for 2024 and $146,269.73 for 2025. The maximum grant for the term of the bylaw will be $560,009.95.

Land or improvements within the business improvement areas will not be subject to this levy unless they are classified, in whole or in part, as Classes 5 or 6 as defined in the Assessment Act Regulation, B.C. Reg. 433/98, as that regulation stood on October 4, 2021.

100% of the cost of the business improvement scheme will be borne by the benefiting property owners. Cost recovery will be in the form of a local service parcel tax, calculated on the basis of assessed value of the benefiting property owners, collected in the same manner and at the same time as property taxes.

The charges will be imposed for a period of four years from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2025.

The establishment of the Primary and Secondary Downtown New Westminster Business Improvement Area Services are being proceeded with under Council initiative plan. Unless within one month after the second publication of this notice a majority of the benefiting property owners, representing at least half of the assessed value of the parcels that are liable to be specially charged, petition the Council not to proceed with it, the program will be undertaken.

Any opposition to the plan by affected property owners should be made in writing to the City Clerk, 511 Royal Avenue, New Westminster, B.C., V3L 1H9 and received no later than 4:30 p.m., Monday, February 14th, 2022.

Jacque Killawee, City Clerk

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Opinion MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

Dix takes politics out of decisions

As we enter 2022, it is worth noting that those who held the leadership roles in the BC NDP government at the beginning of the pandemic are by and large still there as we approach its third year of existence.

Just before he left to be treated for throat cancer, Premier John Horgan and I had a social chat in his office and he remarked how unusual it was for a government to govern more than four years without making a lot of changes around the cabinet table.

Indeed, other than some changes necessitated by a few retirements (notably former party leader Carole James), the big horses are still there.

Mike Farnworth is still the public safety minister and the government house leader (and has now added deputy premier to his titles). Rob Fleming, the former education minister, is now transportation minister, a portfolio whose importance has grown in the wake of a partially destroyed highway system.

Lana Popham is still agriculture minister, another portfolio whose stature has increased after record flooding of farmland in the Fraser Valley.

But perhaps most notable and impressive of all is that former party leader Adrian Dix is in his fifth year as health minister.

Unlike any other previous health minister in B.C. history, Dix has had to ensure the health system actually continues to function while an extraordinary public health emergency menaces it at every turn.

He has overseen the rescheduling of thousands of non-emergency surgeries, an overhaul of the ambulance service, a massive and unprecedented vaccination program, the hiring of thousands of healthcare workers, among many other things.

His team has remained largely intact since the beginning: Dr. Bonnie Henry and her own team at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, Dr. Penny Ballem, the head of the vaccination program, and longtime deputy health minister Stephen Brown.

Despite the pressure, Dix shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, he genuinely seems to thrive under the circumstances, rarely taking a day off and never shying away from a challenge (of which there have been many).

“This (the pandemic) is in Adrian’s wheelhouse,” Horgan told me when the pandemic began in March 2020. I agreed with him, and partly as a result B.C. has taken more positive steps than negative ones under Dix’s watch.

Dix wisely, at the beginning, made it clear that Henry and the health experts – and not he, a politician – would be calling the shots. As a result, political considerations have often taken a backseat to public health measures.

He has also taken partisan politics out of the mix and has brought the political Opposition into the tent, offering it briefings and even getting BC Liberal MLAs, at times, to represent public health in meetings and town halls.

Until the pandemic hit, Dix was chiefly known for leading his party to a gutting election loss in 2013, and indeed for a while he seemed deeply scarred by that experience.

The pandemic, however, has allowed him to stage a remarkable political comeback and to put 2013 in the rear-view mirror, a great distance away.

Dix has proven to be one of B.C.’s chief assets in this pandemic.

There is no reason to think that assessment will change in 2022.

Keith Baldrey is Global BC’s chief political reporter.

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At first glance, it looked like there was a lot of support for the rezoning of three single-family homes on Fourth Avenue to make way for townhouses.The city got a 75-signature petition of support, but a closer look revealed nearly half the signatures weren’t from people living in the affected Brow of the Hill neighbourhood.

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Letters Our pockets are empty

Too many barriers

Editor: The announced property tax increase of 4.4%, on top of already approved increases of 7% for sewer, 7% for water, 2.8% for electrical and 14.5% for solid waste, is simply becoming too much to bear for the average New Westminster resident.

Unlike our elected officials and city employees, I doubt the majority of citizens receive automatic and significant yearly increases to their wages. The City of Surrey, with a population approximately six times that of New West, was able to keep its property tax increase to a much more reasonable and acceptable 2.9%.

Almost every week I read of a new committee being formed, a new task force being drawn up or a new “problem” to address. It is time for the mayor, council and staff to put their very well-paid time (the number of city employees taking home triple-figure salaries being unconscionable) to work on funding and carrying out the basics of maintaining a well-run city.

Please keep your focus on such things as repairing the city’s badly deteriorating road and laneway networks, crumbling sidewalks and dimly lit streets and let the private sector look after your wish list of “wants.”

To sum things up, if you haven’t got the money, please don’t spend it – our pockets are empty.

K. Timewell, New Westminster

Editor: As a social worker, I have become frustrated by the lack of action by the provincial and federal governments to remove barriers for poor and marginalized people to access essential services. Specifically, the need to show a government-issued ID to obtain any help.

You need an ID to get a new ID. You also need money to get an ID and you need a mailing address to receive the ID. How is a homeless person supposed to get an ID? Many government forms are also complicated to fill out for someone living with mental illness or drug addiction or a lack of education or limited English ability.

Making sure their ID is in a safe space and not lost is not a huge priority for some of them.

Many also do not have access to computers or cellphones to apply for a new ID. Anyone in B.C. should be able to walk into any government office and pass a security check and obtain services on the spot.

Why does the social service system have to be so broken and inaccessible for a vulnerable sector of the population?

And don’t get me started on the meager and shameful income assistance and disability shelter and support allowances in Metro Vancouver, which is one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in.

Alex Sangha

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Year in Review 2021: Reconciliation and reckoning in New West Julie MacLellan

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The small shoes that lined the steps outside NewWestminster City Hall in May said everything that words couldn’t.

They spoke of all the children who never returned home after being sent to Kamloops Indian Residential School.The memorial – and others like it from coast to coast – became a national symbol of mourning for a past, and a present, that Canada has yet to reconcile.

Reconciliation became a major headline in New Westminster in 2021.

The story that galvanized the nation was the discovery of 215 children’s graves, found on the site of the former residential “school.”Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc worked with a ground-penetrating radar specialist in a search for answers about what had happened at the institution, which was once the largest residential school in Canada. It operated between 1890 and 1978.

The story, which became international news in May, wasn’t a new one for Indigenous people. It had long been known to survivors and their families, who have lived with the effects of the residential school experience for generations.

But it brought the discussion to the forefront

once again – here and across the country.

In NewWestminster, the Spirit of the Children Society placed teddy bears at Hyack Square to honour the 215 young lives, and society members invited the community to join them in a ceremony at city hall.

Similar ceremonies took place across the country. Schools, city halls and other institutions lowered their flags to half-mast.

And, everywhere, a recognition grew that this was a moment of reckoning.

It was the first of what would be a series of grim discoveries across the country, as hundreds more graves were found at other residential school sites. As of mid-December, searches at seven former residential schools in B.C., Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Nova Scotia had turned up nearly 1,400 suspected graves – on top of the more than 6,000 deaths already documented by Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

RENAMINGS MAKE HEADLINES It’s no surprise reconciliation has been a dominant narrative in NewWestminster this year.

It began in April, with the NewWestminster school board’s historic vote to change the name of Richard McBride Elemen-

LOST LIVES: Qayqayt artist Johnny Bandura created this large-scale work, titled The 215,

envisioning the potential lives of the children found buried at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED/FILED

tary School to Skwo:wech – the Halq’eméylem word for “sturgeon.”

Another major renaming came in June, when the City of New Westminster announced the name of the new aquatic and community centre will be təməsew̓ txʷ – from the hən̓ q̓ əmin̓ əm̓ words for “Sea Otter House.”

Locally, the anger and pain surrounding the residential school reality came into harsh light in July, when a Roman Catholic Church was hit with graffiti and splattered paint.

St. Peter’s Church on Royal Avenue was targeted with orange spray paint that included the words “Baby killers,” “killers” and “You’re guilty.”

The church was founded in 1860 by Father Leon Fouquet of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate – a religious order that operated 48 residential schools in Canada, including Kam-

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loops.

It was the only New Westminster incident reported amidst a spate of vandalism and fires at churches and church properties in B.C. FINDING HOPE, TAKING ACTION Alongside the grief and the anger, there also came tangible signs of change and hope.

Through the year, Indigenous artists found another way to give voice to the Indigenous experience: through art.

The Arts Council of NewWestminster hosted a summer series called Expressions of Reclamation, curated by guest curator S^yowah. It featured emerging Indigenous artists offering performances, talks, demonstrations and activities showcasing their own journeys to reclaim their identity through art.

And there was Qayqayt

artist Johnny Bandura, nephew of Chief Rhonda Larrabee, who created a large-scale work called The 215, envisioning what the future of each of those children could have been had they survived. It was shown at the NewWestminster Museum in November and December.

On the political front, NewWestminster city council approved two separate housing projects designed to support Indigenous community members: a 96-unit Sixth Street project by the Aboriginal Trust Society, which gained approval in May; and a 58unit Fenton Street project in Queensborough that was just approved in December.

Reconciliation also gained a new, tangible expression in the form of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, declared by the federal gov-

ernment for Sept. 30.

It was marked by local schools with Orange Shirt Week, including a variety of activities designed to educate students about the residential school experience and related issues.

The City of NewWestminster formally recognized the day and lit the Anvil Centre in orange to commemorate the day.

The Spirit of the Children Society invited the community to take part in a ceremony that day, honouring residential school survivors and those who didn’t come home.

But, as Larrabee reminded Record readers in a column submitted for the occasion, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is just the beginning of the conversation.

“The Truth is being told, and people across Canada are listening,” she wrote. “Keep the conversation alive.”

The small shoes are no longer on the steps at city hall. But the children’s stories demand to be told.

And the long journey of reconciliation will continue into 2022 – and far beyond.

– with files from Theresa McManus and Stefan Labbé NEED HELP? The Indian Residential School Survivors Society has a 24-hour crisis line at 1-866-925-4419.

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AHMADI FAMILY Week-in, week-out, New West residents Roqiya Ahmadi and Mohammad Amin Ahmadi help put food on the tables of local residents in need.

Several years ago, the couple started Social Hope Forum, a New Westminster-based nonprofit organization that fights against child poverty and child labour in Afghanistan.When the pandemic began, they started collecting food and making food hampers available to community members twice a week.

The four Ahmadi children – Farhod, Feresatah, Farazod and Farzona – have used money that would normally have been used for birthday parties to buy supplies for goodie bags that they give out to seniors, homeless people and other community members.

LEONA GREEN Vulnerable citizens, seniors and animal shelters are just a few of the causes supported by Leona Green, a charity-supporter extraordinaire.

Giving spirit: The Ahmadi family, founders of Social Hope Forum, were among the residents who made this city better in 2021. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER/FILES

In 2004 Green was named NewWestminster’s Citizen of theYear.

In 2019 she received the B.C. Community Achievement Award, which celebrates British Columbians who go above and beyond in their dedication and service to others and who devote time and energy to making their communities more caring, dynamic, beautiful, healthy and unique.

But instead of resting on her laurels, she’s always coming up with new ways to support charities, whether it’s by cooking up soup for seniors (thousands of bowls during the early months of the pandemic), offering a bowl of soup in exchange for socks that are donated to local

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charities or baking hundreds of tasty scones to raise money to buy muchneeded dog food for an animal shelter in Guatemala that she supports.

Much of what Leona does is done with little fanfare – like providing leftover food from her deli to a local non-profit that disperses it to folks in need.

KYLE ROUTLEDGE Kyle Routledge has quietly been leading the Glenbrook Ravine restoration project for several years.To Kyle and all the volunteers, young and old, who help remove invasive plants and plant more suitable species, we say thanks for helping to beautify this lovely little oasis in our city.

Since 2016, they’ve raised over $26,000.They have also racked up some impressive statistics at their 25 work parties, with nearly 600 volunteers getting their hands dirty, planting more than 1,300 trees, and restoring over 2,600 square metres of area from a monoculture of Himalayan blackberry to an assortment of 18 different native shrub and tree species.

“I want to give a very heartfelt thank you to all

of you,” Kyle said in a year-end message to volunteers. “It was a pleasure getting to work alongside you and I know the community is grateful for all we have accomplished.

The passion you have for this place and the help you provided will not soon be forgotten.”

Kyle is stepping down as the event’s organizer to focus on his growing family, but he still intends on lending a hand with some of the boots-on-theground work.

ELAINE SU When Sapperton resident Elaine Su approached some of her neighbours to see if they’d be willing to put a Lunar NewYear decoration on their doors to demonstrate to her young son that his cultural identity was important as other festivals, she had no idea what to expect. Su’s request struck a chord with her neighbours, with more than 50 homes decorating their doors for Lunar NewYear.

For bringing joy to residents, promoting inclusivity and for helping to build a better community, Su is one of the folks we’d like to thank for making New West the kind of community where we want to live.

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City City embarks on ‘bold vision’ for 22nd Street area Theresa McManus

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Work on developing a “bold vision” for the area around the 22nd Street SkyTrain station will begin in 2022 and will include an ideas competition.

As part of the 2017 update to the official community plan, the city identified the area around the 22nd Street SkyTrain station as a place that could accommodate higher density development. Planning for this part of the Connaught Heights neighbourhood was put on hold because of the pandemic, but it will be getting underway in 2022.

“The proposed project would create a bold vision for an eco-neighbourhood in the 22nd Street station area,” said a staff report. “The vision is intended to be an ambitious

forward-looking statement on the bold steps that could be taken in developing the area.”

Higher density uses would be considered around the SkyTrain station, stepping down to middle-density uses in the surrounding neighbourhood.

“The goal of the 22nd Street station area bold vision process and subsequent steps will be to create a roadmap for redevelopment and the transition of the station area into an eco-neighbourhood. Specifically, a neighbourhood that is designed in such a way as to adapt to climate impacts and achieve a net zero or positive impact on climate,” said the report.

To “break the mould of traditional planning processes” and to identify how the city can achieve

climate excellence, the city is proposing the use of an “ideas competition” for Phase 1 of the process.

“The ideas competition will invite leading global experts in climate resilience and community planning, and members across the community to provide creative ideas about how to achieve the project goals,” said a report to council. “The intent of the competition is to tap into a wide range of bold ideas, many of which can then inform the vision.”

The ideas competition, which will take place through the summer of 2022, will be followed by Phase 2 – the evaluating and shortlisting of ideas.

After that work is done in the fall of 2022, the development of a bold vision (winter 2022 to spring 2023) and implemen-

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tation of the bold vision (spring/summer 2023 and onwards) will take place.

In December, council directed staff to proceed with the workplan for the 22nd Street station bold vision.

The city’s 2022 budget includes $370,000 for this project, which includes

consultation and costs for consultants.

“Following adoption of the 2022 budget, staff will put out a call for expressions of interest (EOI) from consulting teams to frame and lead the ideas competition and visioning process,” said the report. “The EOI is being

proposed to allow for consultant teams to use their expertise to pitch creating framing of the planning process.”

The city anticipates a consulting team will be selected by early April, and the ideas competition will take place next summer.

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CITY OF NEW WESTMINSTER DRAFT 2022-2026 FINANCIAL PLAN The City of New Westminster is in the process of completing its draft 2022-2026 Financial Plan. As part of the public consultation process, a budget information package including the draft 2022-2026 Financial Plan, a staff report, and a link for providing comments are available on the City’s Budget 2022 website page: beheardnewwest.ca/budget2022.

The draft Financial Plan bylaw will be presented to Council for three readings at a City Council meeting on January 10, 2022 at 6:00pm.

To provide input on the plan, residents may submit written comments by the start of the Council meeting at 6:00pm on January 10, 2022. Communication options are as follows: Via our website: beheardnewwest.ca/budget2022 Via email: nwfinance@newwestcity.ca Via regular mail: Attention: CFO/Director of Finance City of New Westminster 511 Royal Avenue. New Westminster, BC V3L 1H9 Written submissions will be presented to Council and published.

2022 WAIVER APPLICATION FOR SENIORS LIVING ALONE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL FLAT RATE UTILITY CHARGES Annual residential flat rate water, sewer and solid waste utility bills will be mailed before the beginning of March 2022.

If you have reached the age of 65 you may qualify for a waiver of 25% of your 2022 single family residential flat rate utilities if you meet all the following requirements.

1. 65 years of age or over during the calendar year AND 2. Living alone (one person only) in the single family residence during the calendar year, AND 3. A registered owner of the property, either solely or with others, during the calendar year.

To receive the waiver, an application form must be completed and returned to City Hall before January 31, 2022 (before 4:30 pm).

The 2022 Waiver Application form was mailed in December to residents who received the waiver last year. If you did not receive your form in the mail, one may be obtained at: • Online, please visit www.newwestcity.ca/services/online-forms ➢Printable forms > 2022 Senior Waiver • City Hall / Finance Department – 511 Royal Ave 604-527-4555 • Century House – 620 Eighth Street 604-519-1066 • Queensborough Community Centre – 920 Ewen Avenue 604-525-7388 • Centennial Community Centre – 65 East Sixth Avenue 604-777-5100 If you have any questions, please email revenue@newwestcity.ca or call the Finance - Revenue and Collections Division at 604-527-4555.

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Arts & Entertainment

Photos by

Jennifer Gauthier

CHRISTMAS TRADITION: Royal City Youth Ballet brought its holiday

production of The Nutcracker to the Massey Theatre stage for four shows Dec. 18 and 19.

The ballet marked a return to performance following a one-year pandemic hiatus in 2020.

Photographer Jennifer Gauthier captured the action backstage and from the wings.

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Community

SNOW DAYS:

Snow lovers in New West got their fill of the white stuff over the winter break, as Mother Nature provided the perfect backdrop for sledding at Queen’s Park.

Photographer Jennifer Gauthier found funseekers of all ages on the hill last Thursday, Dec. 30.

Above: There’s always time for a selfie on the slopes. At right, Alexander Biniaris and Evan Howes try out their snow racer on the slope.

PHOTOS JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Queen’s Park fun: Top left: Seven-year old Amelia pulls her toque over her eyes as the Vugteveen family hits the slope. Top left (below): Calhan Milner (front) and Kye Creightney speed downhill. Top right: Elena Panfilova and three-year-old Veronika enjoy the hill. Above: Audrey and Frances Warren enjoy some time on the slopes before taking a tumble. More sledding weather may be in store for New Westminster residents, as a winter storm warning had been issued for the region at press time – meaning a possible 10 to 20 centimetres of further snow.

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Organic Lean Ground Beef

WEEKLY SPECIALS W PricesBC Effective January AND 6 - January 12, 2022.

100% OWNED OPERATED

100% BC OWNED AND OPERATED

LOCAL from

1199/lb

Organic Rio Red Grapefruit

Comox Valley

26.43/kg Grass Fed Value Pack

Choices Fresh Turkey, Beef or Vegan Chili

from Mexico

98/lb 6 1.81/kg Bag Organic Navel Oranges from California

198/lb

799

4.37/kg

710ml

Choices’ Own Breads

Beef Ribeye Steaks

Country French or Sourdough Multiseed

35.25/kg

/lb

from New Zealand or Australia

ALL PRODUCTS ON SALE

649899

499

1599

Grass Fed, Value Pack

Choices’ Curry Entrées

480g - 600g

435g - 540g

Natural Factors and Whole Earth & Sea Vitamins and Supplements

Amy’s Organic Soups

Organic Traditions Superfoods

20% off

2/600

25% off

398ml

Assorted Sizes Regular Retail 4.99-87.49

Kitsilano | Cambie | Kerrisdale | Yaletown Commercial Drive | Burnaby Crest

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Assorted Sizes

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