Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Revitalize the downtown core to make the area more inviting for recreation, families, and businesses.

Record: Renewed support for the Downtown Business Improvement Association through 2032 and signed the city's first-ever Chamber of Commerce operating agreement, giving downtown businesses a real partner at city hall. Backed it up with an expanded patio program, new food truck Fridays at Albion Community Centre, and the Be Downtown initiative, nine events engaging nearly 600 residents alongside the RCMP, the BIA, and local businesses. Add in free weekend parking and pedestrian-only Social Saturdays, and downtown has become the place people actually want to be.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Invest in infrastructure to enhance and expand Sport and Culture Tourism.

Record: Maple Ridge isn't just a place people pass through anymore; it's a place they choose. Direct film revenue is up 18%, generating $9.4M in economic impact in 2025. Visitors are up, drawn by a rebrand and a downtown people actually want to spend time in. We built the calendar to match the ambition: launched Run the Ridge, sold out two Bites and Bikes events, and grew Canada Day from 300 people in 2022 to 10,000 last year.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Fully participate in and support the post-secondary review, and implement any recommendations.

Record: Stayed at the table through a multi-year process with Pitt Meadows, the school district, and four post-secondary institutions to bring higher education closer to home. The province's answer in February 2026 was disappointing, no campus for now, based on economic feasibility rather than local need. That's not the end of the fight. Maple Ridge families deserve local options, and we're not backing off this one just because Victoria said not yet.

Status: 🟡 Underway

Commitment: Work with the provincial government to create more child care spaces.

Record: Maple Ridge families have more child care options now, 110 new spaces at Under the Tree, plus $10-a-day spaces at Albion Community Center, secured with the help of Bob D'Eith, then the local MLA and now part of our own council team. Progress families can see, with more still needed.

Status: 🟡 Underway

Commitment: Promote and invest in Maple Ridge agriculture and agri-tourism.

Record: Made agri-tourism one of three pillars of the city's tourism brand, and put real money and spotlight behind it: Sunflower Cafe took home the city's Innovation Challenge for its farm-to-table model, and the new Fields of Flavours festival brought visitors straight to local farms and food producers.