The mayor and councillors for the City of Dauphin are sworn in and ready to go.
The swearing-in ceremony took place last night at City Hall, followed by a short meeting.
Mayor Allen Dowhan spoke with us after the ceremony and share what he thinks of the new council.
“I’ve been waiting for a long time on this! I feel we have a good group of councillors, we have an excellent staff to work with, and they are very, very cooperative. They present all angles of an issue. And the councillors, I think, are committed to the growth of our community, and that’s what we want. We have to sustain and grow our population if we want to remain a force in Manitoba.”
He says everyone is ready to go.
“We haven’t had a meeting, a full council since the beginning of October. So we have a lot of catch up to do. We’re going to appoint committees; we’re looking at new development agreements that will be on the agenda in November. And then we’ve asked each council member to give us their goals and what they’d like to achieve, and try to achieve it through discussion through cooperation.”
He also looks forward to working with communities around the Parkland, saying communities have grown apart. He’s hoping they can all come together because when communities work together, everyone benefits.
At the meeting, they appointed Ashton Kaleta, a DRCSS student, to the newly created position on the council as youth representative.
