So if you weren’t aware, there are elections coming up soon for our local city hall!
There’s lots of great info on the New West City website, but I figured it’d still be useful to summarize some stuff.
First up, key dates! Most important is the general voting day – October 15th. Additionally, there are several advanced voting days:
- October 5th
- October 8th
- October 12th
Additionally, this is the first year the city is doing mail-in voting, which is great! There are some dates associated with this too:
- Deadline to apply to receive a ballot by mail: 4:30pm, October 6th
- Deadline to post a ballot to return it to the Election Office: Noon, October 11th
- Deadline to apply to pick up a ballot: Noon, October 12th
- Deadline to return completed ballot kit to Election Headquarters: 8pm, October 15th
There are some other dates as well, but you can see those on the “Vote by Mail in 2022” page on the city website – in addition to a bunch of other info like how to get a mail ballot, etc.
Next, there’s the candidates. You can check them all out on this page on the city website. We’ll be voting to elect the following:
- 1 Mayor
- 6 Councillors
- 7 School Trustees for School District 40
I highly recommend everyone takes some time to read about the candidates and what they support.
Lastly, I think that it might be worth maybe writing a letter to send to the candidates; either from just our complex, or seeing if the Queensborough Residents Association is planning to send one. I think it’s important that the candidates are reminded that Queensborough is a part of New Westminster and that the concerns & needs of our community are addressed the same way the concerns & needs of any other part of New Wesminster are addressed.