Submitted questionnaire

Glendon Charles Smedley

Journeyman Carpenter Red Seal

This is the candidate’s public questionnaire. It is not a ForChange recommendation. The committee’s recommended candidates are published on the Candidates page.

1. 01 · Why are you running for Kelowna City Council?

   Order out of Chaos!

2. 02 · Issue #1: the issue, the specific actions you would take, and how City Council can actually influence the outcome.

   #1 Public Safety

   Lights for the Rail Trail

   Create more Group homes for homeless and intervene with counseling and occupational Health and wellness

3. 03 · Issue #2: the issue, the specific actions you would take, and how City Council can actually influence the outcome.

   Traffic & Infrastructure

   Traffic Circles build more.

   Advocate for 3 lanes coming into Kelowna and a cantalivered sidewalk on side of bridge, bringing 3 lanes into Kelowna to connect up with Harvey Ave. Near water Street

   Make sure infrastructure keeps up with Development not let Development move faster than infrastructure.

4. 04 · Issue #3: the issue, the specific actions you would take, and how City Council can actually influence the outcome.

   Wildfire and water Security

   Expand on what the fire department
   can do for the city at this time.
   * High Rise Rescue
   * use the lake with a Tug Boat /
   Barge system for shoreline fire
   suppression and Rescue

5. 05 · What experience, skills, and community involvement do you bring to the role?

   * Journeyman Carpenter Red Seal
   . Certified
   * Mechanical Engineering
   Technologist
   * Scaffolder on industrial oil sands
   projects
   * Property Management Experience
   * Property Caretaker
   * Outreach to the Homeless

6. 06 · How will you approach council decisions when priorities compete for limited resources?

   Look at limited resources and find funding from other projects. Divide the priorities into smaller segments to Phase the priority into maybe 4 phases instead of all at once.

7. 07 · How do you work with people who see an issue differently than you?

   Listen and understand the people who see an issue differently than myself. Ask questions and give a point of view which may help move us forward toward a common sense agreement.

8. 08 · What else should voters know about you?

   TAKE THE NEXT STEP

   Faith doesn't mean you never have questions.

   Faith means you are willing to move forward when God has made the direction clear.

   Gideon was not the strongest man. He wasn't fearless. He questioned what God was asking him to do.

   But he was willing to trust God and obey.

   God didn't give Gideon the whole plan at once. He gave him the next step.

   And Gideon took it.

   That's a lesson I believe we can all understand.

   Sometimes the challenge in front of us looks too big. Sometimes the odds don't seem to be in our favour. Sometimes we don't have all the answers.

   But that doesn't mean we stand still.

   Take the next step.
   Do what is right.
   Trust God.
   And leave the outcome in His hands.

   You don't have to be the strongest person.

   You don't have to have all the answers.

   You have to be willing.

   Gideon had 300 men against an army that seemed impossible to defeat. Yet God showed that victory does not always depend on numbers, power or human strength.

   It depends on who you trust.

   That is why I believe leadership is not about simply talking about problems.

   It's about being willing to step forward and do the work.

   Build something.

   Fix something.

   Stand for something.

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