CKDM News Now caught up with David Bosiak as he marks one year on the job as the city's new mayor.
Bosiak won a two-person race on October 26th of last year to become the new mayor.
"I think it has been pretty much what I expected. I knew that the first year of a four-year mandate for any municipal government has a lot of leftover business from the previous mandate. So I did not have a lot of expectations in the sense that we are going to do everything that our new council wants to do in the first year. But I would like to think that we laid the framework for doing that and we are really looking forward to the next three years."
Bosiak adds he has developed a great relationship with his councilors.
"We are all on the same page, and we all believe in good things for our community, and working towards it. So there is a real positive sense of working together and not having to protect ourselves from each other or have any animosity between members of council or staff."
Tourism is high among Bosiak's top priorities for the remainder of this term.
"We are looking forward to re-igniting our hosting capacity. We want to support our major festivals - the Ukrainian Festival and Dauphin's Countryfest, both of which have big anniversaries coming up. And then we have the wonderful development happening up at Northgate, and then with the 2024 Manitoba Summer Games happening in Dauphin. That is one of our major strategies to make Dauphin a great tourist destination."
Bosiak added one of the things that he wanted to do was to ensure that the environment at City Hall was a positive one - a great working environment between council and administration and senior staff.
He adds he is more than pleased with the capacity and capabilities of city staff, adding the city has one of the strongest municipal administrative teams in the province.
