Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Expand city-supported festivals, Pride, music festivals, and community-based festivals such as Albion, Haney, and Hammond.

Record: Turned Maple Ridge into a city that celebrates together. Canada Day grew from 3,000 people in 2022 to 10,000 in 2026. Updated the Pride crosswalk, designed by local youth. Launched brand new events from scratch: Rock the Blocks, Our Neck of the Woods, PlayFest, Run the Ridge, two sold-out Bites and Bikes rides, food truck Fridays at Albion Community Centre, and 45 funded block parties in a single year. Today, 70% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a free festival. This isn't a handful of events, it's a city that shows up for its neighbourhoods, all of them.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Review City of Maple Ridge committees to ensure citizens have opportunities to participate in a meaningful way and council is using the advisory committees in a way that actually informs decisions.

Record: Completed a full review of the city's advisory committees and consolidated eight into four, each aligned with council's real priorities. Bigger memberships for more diverse voices, lower quorum requirements so meetings actually happen, and terms that line up with the election cycle. Advisory committees that actually inform decisions, not just meet for the sake of meeting.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Review public input and engagement opportunities and explore new opportunities for citizens to engage with council and city staff.

Record: Built a new Community Engagement Framework to make public input consistent and transparent, not an afterthought. It's working: nearly 7,000 survey responses across 21 engagement opportunities in 2025 alone, real-time snow removal tracking so residents can see the city at work, and a 102% jump in volunteers for city-run events in a single year. Maple Ridge residents are showing up, because the city is finally listening.