UNBC hosted the first public forum of the civic election on Tuesday night.
UNBC’s faculty of environment, environmental and sustainability studies and the department of political science hosted the first public forum for the city council and mayor candidates on Tuesday at the university.
ON AIR QUALITY McConnachie said being elected doesn’t turn you into an expert on everything, so it’s important to work with groups like the PGAIR roundtable, which brings expertise and insight to what the city can be doing to improve air quality Jeffery disagreed that the city is taking air quality seriously, after the city’s environmental coordinator position was eliminated.Air quality is a multi-generational problem for the city, Stewart said, which will take cooperation from multiple levels of government and industry. Improving the infrastructure for electric vehicles would be a start, he added.
Klassen said the city doesn’t just need to look at preserving green spaces, it also has to look at how to manage them to mitigate and adapt to the changing climate and pressures they’ll face in the future. “If we keep flushing money down the toilet, we aren’t going to have the money for sidewalks…” he said.“Riding a bicycle in this town is dangerous,” Cook said. “I have seen some terrible close calls.”
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