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Kelowna council forum #1 at Revelry

Castanet and Revelry, with ForChange Kelowna · Sept. 16, 2026 · Full video of this forum on YouTube (opens in a new tab)

1. Opening statement

   Each area has a different challenge, but the challenge that is the closest to my heart that I see every single day and I hear from the residents in our community is safety.

2. Opening statement

   So affordability, cost of living, those are all things that mean a lot to me.

3. What does leadership mean for you on council?

   it is your choice as a leader to make decisions that are difficult, that will affect our community positively.

4. A council decision you disagreed with, and what you would have done differently

   the Okanagan Springs golf course. [...] But the problem with the whole situation was that there was definitely not enough consultation to the public of why it happened, where the change happened. [...] I wasn't in that room, I couldn't tell you that decision right now today.

5. A council decision you disagreed with, and what you would have done differently

   the CPL soccer team in the announcement that just popped up recently, [...] We cannot convert that field into turf.

6. An area of city spending that deserves greater scrutiny

   the budget as a whole. There's a lot of fine print behind where money's going, where it's being spent. I think it needs to be translated into layman's terms and shared out to the public. [...] So that's where I would ask is, if I were to have to put greater scrutiny in a specific area, where does that money go and who's receiving it and what part of town is it going to?

7. What would you do differently about crime and safety that hasn't been done before?

   So what it comes down to is accountability and presence. [...] So we need to expand those programs into the communities which would obviously be the bylaw side of it. But accountability, what are the stats, what are they actually doing out there because it wasn't accountable the first time.

8. Question from Davis Kyle: What's missing from the public safety conversation?

   We know there's bike chop shops happening, you know, and we know where they are. There's nothing done about it. [...] Again, if I'm elected, I'm going to be absolutely pushing to clean the streets up, growing some of the programs that we have existing and looking for alternative ways to make things better.