Halfway through his first mandate as Mayor, Dave Bosiak says he is happy with how things have gone so far, although he admits he would like to have more items completed.
During his state of the city address on Tuesday, Bosiak admitted he would like things to be moving faster, but they are getting through items as quickly as the municipal world allows them.
"The big stuff that is going on, most of it is invisible. The $20 million project on the south end with the new roads and the new drainage - people just expect a place to drive. The same thing with when you flush your toilet - the water goes somewhere, and the waste goes somewhere. But that is $20 million too. And so that is what we are trying to do, is balance those mega-projects that we need to maintain and sustain the community, but also bring in the stuff that really makes people happy."
Bosiak says the creation of a new project manager position, which will come online this year, should help some of those smaller, less high-profile projects move along to the finish line.
Bosiak also spoke glowingly of his council team during his address.
He says the current capacity of council has allowed for some major work to be completed during the first two years of their current mandate, and will continue to allow more to be done over the next two years.
"The thing that I am most impressed with is that we have had disagreements on council in closed doors and different priorities, but at the end of the day in the public discourse, we are all on the same page. I don't want to brag, but we have not had a non-unanimous vote on any resolution yet in over two years."
Bosiak says that does mean there are no disagreements. It just means that those disagreements are all worked out before the votes take place.
