• Economic resilience. We need to ensure tourism covers its costs, but we also need to do more to support businesses and economic diversification. For example, Squamish’s multi-person team has mobilized millions in grants for business resilience programs. That's revenue and resilience we're likely leaving on the table.

• Climate resilience. Climate Action is a current council priority, yet we are falling well short of our goals. Moving forward, we need to maximize the return on climate mitigation and adaptation investments, but also get real about how the changing climate will affect every aspect of our community. 

• Wildfire resilience. The term ‘it’s not if but when’ is now common when we talk wildfires. We clearly need to continue investing in wildfire thinning at key locations and Firesmarting. We have plans for evacuation. I think we should be equally focused on preemptive recovery planning. Jasper, Fort McMurray, and Lytton have all shared details of of what they wish they had done in advance - we can be more prepared.

A strong sense of belonging is key to people choosing Whistler

• Community connection:
  Whistler's non-profit sector isn't a nice-to-have — it's how this community delivers on what government and business can't reach alone. The BC Community Charter gives municipalities tools to partner directly with non-profits in ways they can't with businesses, and I don't think we're using that toolkit as deliberately as we could. I've spent 20 years inside that sector here — as Executive Director of AWARE Whistler, and on the boards of Arts Whistler and the Whistler Chamber. Seniors staying in community, kids growing up here, newcomers finding their footing deeper collaboration with non-profits is how we deliver belonging at every life stage.

• Housing:Whistler doesn't need a louder debate about housing - it needs to keep doing the patient, unglamorous work of getting it right. I'll continue backing staff's efforts to strategically leverage funding for employee housing, and keep reviewing the fine print of who qualifies and how — so a Whistlerite doesn't lose their home over a technicality, like a household falling out of eligibility because only one person qualified, or someone temporarily relocated for work.

• Affordability:Fiscal responsibility, not fiscal avoidance.
  I stand behind the fiscal choices council has already made this year — the property tax increase and the shift of more tax burden onto tourism operators. Chasing zero-tax-increase headlines might feel good in the moment, but it's how you push real costs down the road onto future councils and residents. This isn't about austerity — it's about responsive capacity and funding strategy. From two decades running a non-profit, I know there's real capacity to be found in understanding where staff time goes, and I want external funding — grants, senior government dollars, partnerships — to become a standing KPI for departments, not an afterthought.