Tim Baillie

Well, as you've seen over the last four years, we've taken a lot of pressure off of 200th by finally finishing 208 After, what, over a decade of fooling around with that, we've also put in a very significant amount of bike lanes. And we've improved vital things, like if you look at what happened on 40th Avenue there, when the Atmospheric River in 21 took that down, it wasn't repaired properly and then a couple years later it dropped, it dropped at the wrong time so we had to have that out of service for something like eight months. Compare that to 216 now where we went ahead, that is off for two months because you have to deal with federal government, with DFO, you have to deal with the Ministry of Environment, low water flows and also trying to fit it into a time when there's not a lot of road users. I look at it a different way also too, I look at it for emergency services, made sure that when we're talking to transit that the BRT line is also available for emergency vehicles and that's vital because sometimes when you get into a collision scene you have to make sure you can get through that believes police, fire and ambulance. Thank you.

Yes, I really want to address, you know, like here we increased the taxes 20 percent over four years and now they say we're going … to increase 22% over one year. You know, the last year was projected at 17% and we came in at … So it shows that those figures that are being used in this election are political to be kind, okay? And looking at what we're doing is we're investing now at a lower interest rate. We get a much lower interest rate by borrowing the way we are. And we are looking at how we can pay it down. We've got a plan with CACs, which are funding. The debt right now, that is not operating debt, that is capital debt, and that is very, very important to establish that. So when you're looking at the debt, also look at what you're gaining. You're getting world-class facilities that are benefiting the youth of today, tomorrow, and into the generations. Also we borrowed for a fire hall that is going to serve this community without any renovations of that for at least 30, 40 years. So borrowing for capital assets is not the same as borrowing on a credit card. Thanks.

So I've in the past been on the Surrey Crime Prevention Society, and I've also been a community representative for the Surrey pre-trial. So I've seen some of the downsides of what's going on. At the pre-trial, and people think that's not a full prison and that at the time that I was on that the Bacon Brothers were imprisoned in there and saw that the situations that evolved like throwing cocaine and that over the top and that. So I worked in Whalley when the SkyTrain came in and I saw firsthand and I dealt with firsthand the results of what's going on there. Surrey Crime Prevention Society had a very, very comprehensive program of dealing with the businesses in the area, Whalley BIA and the Board of Trade and that was a very integral part of how they were able to manage what was going on. Lookout is an organization that was dealing and is still dealing down in the Whalley corridor and those are vital discussions that you've got to have and they've got to be on the ground and you've also got to involve your bylaw officers, your firefighters, and your police. Thank you.

By hiring more bylaw officers that are specifically trained in areas like soil, ALR restrictions and proper usage, direct and fast actions should be the goal of TOL, possibly a direct complaint line to speed up compliance and enforcement, easy access to rules for possible users and advocate to the province for faster ALC rulings and fund enforcement.

Do not remove ALR land especially for truck parking, use proper zoning for trucks. Truck parking is vital for farmers and it needs to be a part of a revised Rural Plan. SPEA land must be protected for environment and fish. It has been too long that the Rural Plan has been not been revised, part of our platform.

Aquifers are declining and at risk verified by the province with over 7000 licensed wells and unknown un licensed, convert to metro water where possible, those areas that have aquifers actually recovering. Aquifers should not be used for so called emergencies as it does not work. Aquifers must be protected from current private well users and farmers. Water courses must be protected and respected for fish and other wildlife.

The best thing you can do is you have to work with the owners. These are private properties and you cannot force owners to deal with their own property in ways that are going to go against their wishes. So, you have to work with them, encourage them, maybe some grants and all that kind of stuff, but when it comes to dealing with heritage properties and that, you have to make sure that you are not also trampling on the private rights and responsibilities of property owners.

Tim Baillie, Progress for Langley. Yes, public consultation is a must, and that can tie in with Fort Langley community plan. So right now there is a recommendation for a building that's four stories. It's right in behind the community center, and I'll guarantee you I will not support that because four stories is out of the question. We have to ask the Fort Langley people, what do you want to see, how do you want to interact, and how do you want to have your community go forward? In the past, there has been an awful lot of discussion, I'm going to put it nicely, discussion about how this should go forward. I agree fully with the fact that we have to come and ask the people in this very unique community of Fort Langley, what do they want to see, and how do they want to see it go forward?

Well, I hate to tell everyone, Tim Baillie, Progress from Langley, that we did speed up the process, the building, especially in residentials. We have greatly and significantly sped up that. But one of the things we did this last term was we created the Housing Trust. That is creating over 200 units for people who live and work in the community. That's firefighters, that's cops, that's nurses, people that you need to have in the community. And we are right now up on our sixth story on the first build, and we are making great progress in the Aldergrove one. So we have already taken very significant steps towards housing for people who live and work in the community.

Yes, my name is Tim Baillie and you know you'll see I've got a folder here, And I don't read off scripts. I believe that you have come here to listen to councillors and people what really is in their minds and in their hearts. No AI generation here and no scripts written for me. So I served over 27 years in the Surrey Fire Service, retired as a captain. I've also over a 40-year period coached 32 minor sports teams and I was a single father of two young boys. I'm now a proud papa And finally I've interacted with for over three decades with people in poverty and with people that are homeless. I've been on the boards of Surrey Urban Mission, Surrey Food Bank and other things like that like the Lower Mainland, the United Way of Lower Mainland. So I'm here because of my background as a firefighter in public service. I was convinced to come in and have a look at our fire department mainly and saw it was violating legislation regulation and standards and over the last four years I have worked towards bringing that up and I look forward to doing more for the next four years. Thank you with your support.

Governments run on the record. We said what we're going to do last time, and we did it. And then I sit up here and I listen, and I hear respect and positive. And I struggle with that when I hear it, is because weaponizing an ex-wife in a political campaign is neither respectful or positive. So we're not getting into that mud like some other people are. We're saying look at our record over the last four years and vote on what has been done and what is coming down the line. Thank you,.

My name is Tim Baillie. I'm running with Progress for Langley. I'm a first-term councillor. And I came out of retirement after 11 years, serving over 27 years as a firefighter in Surrey. I was also an instructor with the J.I. at the Fire Academy and also did extensive work for firefighters across the province. I have served on Surrey Food Bank and Surrey Urban Mission and other poverty-based and homelessness-based organizations. So I bring some very unique structures and knowledge and practical experience that proved out very well last time in this council, made huge advances to the public safety. And I'm very proud of saying that the fire department and the police department are now better because of our actions. Thank you.

Tim Baillie, Progress for Langley. This last term, we did something that most politicians don't do. We said we were going to do it, and then we did it. And I'm going to say right now, when it comes to public safety, your number one duty as an elected official, we have improved public safety right across the board. And that is something that has been ignored. There hasn't been a fire hall. An example, there hasn't been a fire hall built in 20 years while our population increased 60,000. We've increased the police. We've made their buildings safer and better and much more effective when it comes to prosecutions, actually. And we have to continue this movement going forward to make sure that the safety of the people in the township stays on track. Thank you.