Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: New ways to recruit and retain staff to operate our aquatic centres, facilities, and community programming.

Record: Brought fitness services and ACT programming in-house, hired more lifeguards, and added new swim lessons. The results speak for themselves, Maple Ridge has been named a BC Top Employer three years running.

Status: 🟡 Underway

Commitment: Build a new accessible recreation and aquatic facility to accommodate our growing population.

Record: For more than a decade, Maple Ridge talked about the need for a new aquatic and recreation facility. This term, we moved beyond discussion and into actual planning. We also advanced the expansion of the Albion arena by completing a key regulatory step that had not previously been submitted.

Residents now have actual projects, locations, plans and costs in front of them as part of the Recreation Ready referendum this October. After years of talking about the need for new recreation facilities, we have brought the community to a decision and that decision belongs to residents.

Status: 🟡 Underway

Commitment: Eliminate pay parking on weekends and bring back one-hour free parking at all City facilities, including City Hall, the library, and the Maple Ridge Leisure Centre.

Record: A Better Maple Ridge pushed to bring back free weekend parking downtown, and free parking is now back at the Business Centre lot, serving the Leisure Centre, library, and ACT, every weekend through the busy season.