Safe, Vibrant and Healthy communities are what make living in Edmonton great. Access to green space, the beautiful river valley, excellent public recreation centres and our amazing Libraries make communities in Edmonton such wonderful places to call home.

During my time as Councillor, we have seen the addition of the beautiful new Northeast River Valley Park, at 190 acres, it is one of the largest parks in the City! It has an event centre, playground and even a lake where you can enjoy canoeing or kayaking. Hermitage Park is another fantastic space right on the River Valley. It features off-leash dog parks, picnic sites, walking & cycling trails and even fishing!

The Clareview Community Recreation Centre provides a place for fitness, sport, learning and so much more for the residents of Ward Dene. The recreation centre features a gym, fitness classes, a running track, pools, basketball courts, daycare, ice rinks, an outdoor soccer field and a park for families to enjoy. There is also a multi-cultural centre to provide access to resources for new Canadians. Additionally, the centre features meeting rooms that you can use to host meetings or events. The centre also hosts the Clareview Library branch, which offers books, films, video games, music and so much more.

A key element of safe and vibrant communities is the need to make our Communities inviting and beautiful places to live. Understanding this I put forward a motion in Council that resulted in the Residential Boulevard Gardening Program. Which allows residents all across Edmonton to plant Gardens on City-owned boulevards to create diverse, colourful boulevardes that adds to our ecological diversity and climate resiliency. Another program that has been launched to promote biodiversity has been the creation of the Urban Beekeeping Program that allows Edmontonians to set up a beehive on their property and make their own honey! As well as the City Urban Hen Program that allows for residents of our City to raise hens on their property and have fresh eggs every morning. Additionally, I advocated for Pop-Up Community Gardens to help reduce barriers to growing fresh food locally. Since the program's implementation in 2020,114 Pop-Up gardens have been created with 1,419 planters distributed across the City!

We have created a Vibrant Streets program to provide patios and decorative crosswalks to improve mobility. The City has also created the Summer Streets program that allows for vehicle lanes to be converted for biking and walking in selected areas in the City.

Making our Communities Safe in the Northeast has been a major priority since I was first elected. During the pandemic, I hosted three online public safety information sessions on Community Safety & Wellbeing in the Northeast in collaboration with Reach Edmonton. These sessions were organised to address safety concerns and provide residents with solutions on how we can work together to make our neighbourhoods safer. You can find a link to those discussions here, and here.