Accomplishments & Community Service
Serving as Councillor for the City of North Vancouver since 2018, Angela Girard has participated in roughly 3,000 recorded votes, working with Council and staff to:
- Certify the City as a living wage employer
- Expand child-care spaces on City-owned lands and through new development, and advocated for after-school childcare programming
- Increase developer supports to tenants being displaced through new development
- Reinstate funding to upgrade school playgrounds in the City
- Celebrate the City’s cultural diversity and reduce racism through an annual multicultural community festival
- Rebuild the North Shore Neighbourhood House and adjacent City parks, which includes affordable housing and Care Bc to support seniors and their caregivers
- Direct the City’s growth strategies under new provincial housing legislation — including the requirement for both five-year and twenty-year plans, historical growth analysis, and direct engagement with the Province on the gaps in its mandate
- Establish the Central Lonsdale Business Improvement Area and endorse the Lonsdale Great Street Plan, giving the City’s main commercial corridor the organization and investment it needs
- Set the City’s first urban forest canopy target and strengthen tree protection, alongside the Climate and Environment Strategy
- Relocate Flicka Gymnastics supporting 2,000 young local athletes and families for years to come at Mickey McDougall with both City and Federal government funding
- Press senior governments for an independent, public-facing review of the North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant respecting its delivery, decisions and financial management of this capital project where costs have escalated from $700 million to $3.86 billion and the burden falls disproportionately on North Shore ratepayers
- Advocated for support to arts organizations to receive automated cost-of-living-increases for staff through grant applications
Since 2018, Angela Girard has also served as a City Council representative on the:
- City of North Vancouver Social Planning Advisory Committee
- City of North Vancouver Advisory Design Panel
- North Vancouver Recreation & Culture Commission (Commissioner)
- CNV4Me Child and Youth Task Force
- Finance Committee
- Parcel Tax Roll Review Panel
- Multicultural Community Festival Task Force
- North Shore Neighbourhood House – Board Director
- North Vancouver Community Arts Council – Board Director
Angela has also served as the Mayor’s appointed Alternate Director on the Board of Metro Vancouver when needed.
When not serving as City Councillor, Angela has had the privilege of volunteering for:
- Burnaby North Shore Neighbourhood House Food Bank – 2024
- St. Andrew’s United Church – Teddy Bear Picnic, 2022-2024
- North Shore Restorative Justice Society – Annual Walk-a-Thon, 2021 & 2022
- L’Arche Greater Vancouver – Board of Director, LGV Operations Board and LGV Housing Society Board, 2015-2021
- Ridgeway Elementary School – PAC “Fun Lunch” Program, 2017-2018
- St. Paul’s Catholic Indian Church – Occasional pianist & psalmist, 2016 to 2025
- St. Edmund’s Elementary School – School Advisory Board Member, 2009-2010
Listen • Lead • Take Action
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Caring about community begins with small conversations – with families trying to find a home they can afford; with isolated seniors on fixed incomes seeking support and community; with business owners struggling to find and keep employees who can continue to afford to live in our City. It’s about the time we take to genuinely listen and care for those within our community.
—Angela Girard
Here are some initiatives Angela worked hard to bring forward in this past term, with support from her Council colleagues and staff (and what people are saying about them):
Certifying the City as a “living wage” employer
“I was immediately taken with Angela’s care and concern for all the residents in the City of North Vancouver, especially advocating for the City’s most vulnerable population.”
Kate Galicz – Cultural Administrator; Vice Chair, Social Planning Advisory Committee; Board Member, North Van Arts Council, North Vancouver Resident
Expanding childcare on City-owned lands, and through new development
“…[Angela and I] have worked on many initiatives and projects during this time including childcare, playgrounds, safe routes to school…”
Kulvir Mann – North Vancouver Resident
Increasing developer supports to tenants being displaced through new development
“Unable to realize alternative accommodation after trying for many years… Angela encouraged me in a situation I had known nothing about, namely that new developers are required to have a few spaces at a lower price for tenants they were displacing. Angela went to bat for me with one of the leasing agents for the developer company. They decided they were able to accept me at a price I could manage. I am extremely grateful, and feel Angela is something special in a City Councillor.”
Suzanne – Senior & North Vancouver Resident for 35 years
Exploring “rent-to-own” housing options for the ‘missing middle’
“…[Angela] has gone out of her way to ensure that the residents of North Vancouver are taken care of, more so now as the cost of living in this beautiful city is sky rocketing. She continues to understand the residents and their needs…”
Vanja Bezdrob – Licensed Practical Nurse & North Vancouver Resident
Reinstating funding to upgrade school playgrounds, with 3 City school playgrounds completed
“As a former PAC Executive for Westview Elementary, I am really grateful that we have the support of the City, with the playground Grant, because it gave us the opportunity to make our school’s play area, inclusive to everyone in our community.”
Maria Haslbeck – Former PAC Executive, Westview Elementary School & North Vancouver Resident
Exploring morning and after school care programming through local agency & SD44 collaboration
“… [Angela] raises issues and topics that are focused to provide positive impact to the families and citizens in The City of North Vancouver and more so for the community at large. For example, Angela brought forward a motion to Council advocating for much needed, after school care programming. This demonstrated her deep understanding and connection to her community.”
Franci Stratton – Chief Operating Officer, Nemetz (S/A) & Associations Ltd. & North Vancouver Resident
Establishing a task force to develop an annual multicultural festival to celebrate the City’s cultural diversity and reduce racism
“… Angela understands the benefits of culture and how supporting culture creates deeper ties to the community as well as a better understanding of each other…”
Kate Galicz – Cultural Administrator; Vice Chair, Social Planning Advisory Committee; Board Member, North Van Arts Council & North Vancouver Resident