WORKING ON Safety

Grande Prairie is a safe community. But we should always be seeking to make it even safer. Additionally, many residents don’t feel safe. This has a huge impact on their quality of life. We should be working to make Grande Prairie be and feel safer.

 

If re-elected, I intend to advocate for:

  • Working with communities to explore engineering solutions to slow down traffic on problematic residential collector roads, especially those with a school. Solutions could include seasonal bollards, curb bump-outs for pedestrians, planted medians, or better marking of school and playground zones.

  • Stronger support for Neighbourhood Associations to help residents meet their neighbours. Having connected neighbours is the best defense against crime and the best way to make sure help is immediately available in crises.

  • Stronger support of non-profits that help people in crises or offer preventative care to stop crises from happening.

  • Continued advocacy and municipal work to address homelessness. It isn’t safe or dignified for people to live in shelter or on the streets. Additionally, encampments pose fire risks and make residents feel unsafe. We need to advocate for and do our part to build realistic pathways for people dealing with houselessness, addictions, or mental health to get as healthy and live as independently as possible.

  • Slowing down or removing people from our trails that operate bicycles and electric devices at unsafe speeds. Solutions could include better trail marking and signage, set speed limits, better public education, and increased enforcement. I’d also like to explore something like Edmonton’s street labs to allow residents to drive safety enhancements in their own neighbourhoods.

  • Continued advocacy for provincial investment in mental health, housing, and addictions programs.

  • Closing missing links in our Active Transportation network so people can safely commute by walking, biking, in a wheelchair or pushing a stroller

  • Champion the safety and well-being of our LGBTQ+ community, taking action to address the increased risks of harassment, violence, and homelessness they face, and extend this support to all vulnerable residents.

  • Ensuring the Grande Prairie Police Service transition continues to roll out smoothly. Ensuring that we have a well trained, highly qualified, professional service that integrates best practices from modern policing.

  • Continuing to build out integrated dispatch for police and fire. Advocate for the City to receive a contract to do EMS dispatch so that all emergency services can be accessed without call transfers. Creating strong connections between 911, 211 and 311 so residents who call with non-emergency safety issues can be transferred efficiently.

 

During my time on Council, the following work has been done to enhance Safety:

  • Installation of crosswalk flashing beacons and dynamic speed signs throughout the community

  • Establishment of Access GP and 311 so that safety concerns can be efficiently reported and quickly acted on

  • Establishment of the Grande Prairie Police Service to secure the best possible policing for our community

  • Undertook significant Fire Smart work in the Bear Creek corridor and worked with the County and province to establish a firebreak to the south of the City to protect our community from wildfire

  • Construction of Cedar Point to give people a realistic and compassionate path out of houselessness that includes medical and social supports as well as housing. Strong advocacy through my work with Alberta Municipalities to expand housing help and addictions and mental health treatment across the province.

  • Strong support from the City in the building of Sunrise Youth Emergency Shelter

  • Creation of the Mobile Outreach Program and establishment of Supportive Housing to help address homelessness

  • Volunteered extensively with the disc golf club to increase foot traffic through areas of Muskoseepi Park which had safety risks

  • Modernize the Grande Prairie 911 Dispatch system to allow for better communication with first responders and the future integration of police dispatch

  • Multiple successful deployments of the Grande Prairie Regional Emergency Partnership to respond to disasters in our region and care for evacuees from other regions

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