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City Manager
2016-2020 FINANCIAL PLAN
2015 ACCOMPLISHMENTS
INVESTMENT & INTERGOVERNMENTAL
RELATIONS
Investment and Intergovernmental
Relations drives economic diversification
and investment attraction by developing
strategies, partnerships and programming
in key sectors to enable sustainable
economic growth. Investment &
Intergovernmental Relations also ensures
the City’s interests are effectively
communicated to all levels of government
and seeks to identify and
maximize partnership opportunities with
other orders of government, educational
institutions along with the public and
private sectors.
PUBLIC SAFETY STRATEGIES
The Public Safety Strategies office is
responsible for developing, implementing
and monitoring the City of Surrey Public
Safety Strategy, an evidence-based
approach aligned with the vision and
strategic goals of Council. The Public
Safety Strategy fosters integration across
all public safety portfolios in the City and
is linked with the RCMP Strategic
Framework, other strategic approaches in
the City and the mandate of Provincial
agencies and service providers in the City
of Surrey. The Public Safety Strategy
provides oversight and support to RCMP
Support Services.
ECONOMIC
Led the administration and
relationship management of the
Innovation Boulevard partnership,
including initiating an update to the
governance structure to support its
rapid growth;
Mental Health and Addictions –
partnered with SFU to establish a
Chair positon in Technology
Innovations in Youth Addiction
Recovery and Mental Health. Led the
work of Mental Health & Addictions
Committee;
Hosted the inaugural Greater
Vancouver Clean Technology Expo &
Championship on January 28, 2015
which attracted over $13,000 in cash
prizes, 500 visitors, 38 BC clean
technology companies, and 15
sponsors;
Supported Foresight Cleantech
Accelerator Centre in establishing in
Surrey the Advanced Resource Clean
technology Innovation Centre, a $2.6
million federally funded initiative to
stimulate cleantech innovation for
Canada’s resource industry;
Established the ECONewton Clean
Technology Innovation & Research
Pilot initiative and continuing to work
with major institutional and industry
players to attract, retain, and grow
cleantech business opportunities in
the Newton Industrial Area;
Developed a first in North America
value chain research initiative around
increasing the industrial productivity
of over 8,000 Surrey-based businesses
by exploiting and up-skilling existing
skills/ capabilities within these firms;
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