By Pepper Parr
April 7, 2016
BURLINGTON, ON
Mayor Rick Goldring has released the names of his Millennial Advisory Committee.
Mayor Rick Goldring with his rarely worn outside the Council Chamber Chain of Office.
The committee will develop initiatives focused on how to keep and attract residents aged 18 to 35 in Burlington. It will also concentrate on creating opportunities to engage millennials with their community.
The members of Mayor Rick Goldring’s Millennial Advisory Committee are:
Elizabeth Blanchard
Jessica Bowes
Kimberly Calderbank
Tyler Freeman
Rebecca Hinchcliffe
Maude Leger
Beth Martin
Mark McGuire
Phuong Nguyen
Darcy Oberding
Christopher Reuse
Julia Ricottone
Chris Ritsma
Brad Smith
Sasha Theron
Kayla van Zon
Ashley Venables
Karl Wulf
Interested applicants were asked to submit their name, age, contact information, profession/student status and a 500-word essay on their ideas for the committee that would help meet its mandate of helping Burlington foster and retain millennial-age residents. Applicants could live or work in Burlington.
Committee members will serve a term of one year starting April 2016. The committee will meet the second Thursday of each month from 7:30-9:30 p.m. at rotating city facilities across Burlington. Meeting details and committee updates will be posted at burlingtonmayor.com.
“I look forward to the ideas, insight and initiatives from this committee,” said Mayor Rick Goldring. “If we want to be successful in attracting and keeping young people in Burlington, we need them to help us create that city. This is another example of how we are working with the community on great city-building. Everyone’s voice matters and we have the opportunity to learn a lot from each other.”
Is this committee part of the election team Mayor Goldring is now putting together? There is at least one person related to one of the Mayor’s leading advisors.
Ya well it’s not more traffic lights, no parking and traffic congestion – mixed in with unaffordable housing. Add in endless new developments that can never contain a bar, restaurant, pub or caffe insuring no vibrancy at all.
Places to grow is back firing and it’s easy to see it’s just impossible to afford any type of rental arrangement for kids starting out. The explosion of housing prices is going to keep kids inside parents houses or outside of Burlington at the moment.
The entire enterprise is being miss-managed and the current direction is a more car dependent, grey and congested city than ever before. It’s not attractive to this age group.