The city has been learning from the overlapping and increasing extreme environmental events that impact our citizens, but we have great work to do as we recognize that these will continue.
Climate change and the areas to prioritize when combating its effects aren’t my personal area of expertise, so I believe we should look to environmental scientists and municipalities seeing results in these areas so we can explore how we might adopt their methods in practical ways in Kamloops.

However, dealing with the social infrastructure of environmental crises is my wheelhouse. We need to proactively build strategies, partnerships, and procedures that mitigate confusion and trauma when events happen. A clear flow of communication ensuring activities performed by key stakeholders are not duplicated and that gaps are filled, anticipating and activating a coordinated response effort to house, feed, resource, and care for the mental health of people affected by environmental crises is necessary, and we must do it together.
EMBC, Tk’emlups, those working in food security, the hospitality and accommodation sector, adjoining municipalities. etc

As far as roads and services, I thin there is a time for short term and a time for long term solutions. With a predicted recession on the horizon and our currently pinched economy I'm currently hesitant to increase taxes when so many folks are already feeling the pressure of rising grocery costs, rental increases/shortages, increased goods and material expenses, etc.
I prefer at this moment in time to work within the current city budget and on its set priorities.