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City Manager
2016-2020 FINANCIAL PLAN
Led Innovation Boulevard marketing
including new website, newsletter,
social media, content development
and online dashboard to showcase
success metrics;
Retention and expansion of existing
businesses and attraction of new
businesses through outreach,
advocacy, and market expansion
including:
Outreach: Conducted 80 (YTD)
comprehensive one-on-one
business visits; and
Advocacy: Took action on over
90 issues raised during business
visits and reported back to
business contacts.
Organized and led the transit
referendum business educational
campaign in partnership with BIAs,
Chambers and board of trade;
Hosted an educational social media
workshop in partnership with Surrey
Tourism to increase online presence of
Surrey based businesses and promote
the True Surrey brand. Approximately
40 companies attended the event;
Hosted six Surrey Tech Meet-ups in
partnership with the BC Technology
Industry Association to support
entrepreneurs, create connections and
showcase companies;
Revitalized Newton’s 137th Street
through the Newton Pop Up Art
initiative that placed art in empty shop
windows, created new public art
exhibits and established a gallery
space for artistic groups and students
to showcase their work; a central
tenant to the Cultural Corridor
initiative;
Mapped and created an online
resource to highlight the artistic and
cultural infrastructure along King
George Boulevard – Surrey’s Cultural
Corridor. The work shares with the
community and entrepreneurs various
venues, institutions, events,
organizations and public art pieces
that comprise the Cultural Corridor;
Creation of City - SFU Joint Venture to
establish and fulfill Innovation
Boulevard Business Plan;
Increase business license revenue by
increasing enforcement efforts and
inspections;
Made the Inter Municipal Business
License pilot project with 11 Fraser
Valley municipalities a permanent
program;
Made the Metro West Inter Municipal
Business License pilot project with 6
Metro Vancouver municipalities a
permanent program;
Administered the 2016 Tax Exemption
process resulting in the management,
review and processing of 500 property
applications;
Through three 2015 Canadian
Transportation Agency decisions,
Surrey has changed the law as it
relates to railway crossings in both the
federal and provincial schemes.
Previously the CTA would impose
indemnities in favour of railways in its
terms of approval; a practice which
has existed for decades. Surrey
successfully convinced the CTA that
this was not appropriate and as such,
the law on this issue has changed
across Canada; and
Successfully transitioned from
contractor managed Surrey Animal
Resource Centre to City staff, in
collaboration with CUPE 402.
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