Background
- Do you live in the community you are running in?
- How are you currently employed, or what organizations are you involved in?
- Do you have past Board of Director experience?
- What experience do you have with financial budgets and financial plans?
- What are your top skills related to local government?
- Are you affiliated with any provincial or federal riding associations?
- Are you running on a slate?
- Where is the best place online to find out more about you?
- What unique strengths, experiences or unusual perspectives will you draw from?
Political Experience
- Have you read the Community Charter?
- Have you attended Council meetings in the past?
- Have you run, or been elected before in this community?
- Have you run for office before in another community?
- Have you been approached by any organizations to offer you support, and if so, which?
Governance & Engagement Specific
- Candidate Engagement: How do you plan to make yourself available to voters during the electoral process? Upon election?
- Government Transparency & Accountability:
- The Size of Government: growing and employing more vs using private contracts
- Voter Engagement: What would you do to increase the number of voters that engage with the electoral process?
Issues
- What are your top 3 priorities?
- Transportation Infrastructure, Active Transportation, Public Transit: what is the role of local government? Where can we best improve or change how we’re addressing transportation in our community?
- Climate Change: What do you consider the role of municipal government with respect to climate change or adaptation?
- Infrastructure Projects: What major infrastructure projects would you like to see happen in your community?
- Housing & Homelessness: How do you plan to address the lack of affordable housing in your community? Density.
- CVRD Subdivision:
- Public Safety:
- Crime:
- The OCP:
- Recycling/Garbage:
- Business / Economic Development:
- Jobs:
- Rail Corridor:
- Bylaw Specific (Noise/Chickens/Wood Stoves, Goose Spit Fire Pits, Cumberland Heritage, etc):
- Reconciliation: How would you change or improve your community’s approach?
- Inclusion: What does inclusion or inclusive community mean to you?
- SOGI: Do you feel you understand what SOGI is, and do you support it’s role in B.C.’s K-12 curriculum?
- Opposed Policy: steelman the case for, and against opposition