Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Maintain an open and collaborative approach to projects.

Record: This isn't a project with an end date, it's how this council does business. Built the Community Engagement Framework so public input shapes decisions, not just comments on them after the fact. Renewed the Downtown Business Improvement Association through 2032, signed the city's first-ever Chamber of Commerce agreement, and kept showing up: Be Downtown, farmers markets, budget consultations. Open and collaborative isn't a box we checked, it's a standard we keep meeting.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Create a four-year strategic plan and include public review and input opportunities.

Record: Adopted the 2023–2026 Council Strategic Plan and kept it in the open, with quarterly public updates, a live community dashboard, and real accountability for results. By the end of 2025, 60% of the plan's key results were already complete. A plan the public can actually see and track, not one that disappears into a filing cabinet.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Add land acknowledgements to the beginning of official meetings.

Record: Brought land acknowledgements back to the start of every council meeting. A small practice with real meaning, naming the Katzie and Kwantlen First Nations who have called this place home since long before Maple Ridge existed, at the start of every decision this council makes. Respect starts with remembering whose land we're standing on.

Status: 🟡 Underway

Commitment: Seek opportunities to work together and create a stronger relationship with Katzie First Nation, Kwantlen First Nation, Golden Ears Métis Society, Fraser River Indigenous Society, and other Indigenous groups.

Record: Built real partnerships with Katzie and Kwantlen First Nations, not just words. Worked together on the Bring to Market Industrial Land Study to bring jobs and investment to Albion, and co-designed the city's 150th anniversary banners with Kwantlen artists, formally approved by both nations' leadership before a single one went up. Because good neighbours keep showing up, and this council isn't stopping.