{"id":128846,"date":"2022-12-01T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=128846"},"modified":"2022-12-01T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T22:08:00","slug":"mission-city-councillor-wants-city-to-build-on-local-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/mission-city-councillor-wants-city-to-build-on-local-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission city councillor wants city to build on local infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With a growing student body and overall population, second term City Councillor Ken Herar believes that Mission's infrastructure needs to grow <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in a way so that residents don't have <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to leave town to access education and medical services. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe lack the infrastructure in our communities in terms of schools, ambulance services and hospitals, just to name a few things.\u201d Herar says. \u201cWe need to be mindful of the fact that we need to grow and work with our provincial counterparts to do so.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">former Mission mayor Pam Alexis first ran for Member of the Legislative Assembly in 2020 (now current the NDP MLA), Herar said that she campaigned on the promise<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0to build a high school in Mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s not only that we need another high school, we\u2019re also lacking at least another elementary school that needs to be built.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe did speak with the minister of education in September, and she was optimistic about a new school, and we need to meet in January on what will happen,\" he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">City council meets on alternating Mondays at 6:30 p.m., and the proceedings are available via <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mission.ca\/city-hall\/mayor-council\/webcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">webcast here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>To hear all of what Coun. Ken Herar has to say on the city\u2019s infrastructure, listen to the full interview below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a growing student body and overall population, second term City Councillor Ken Herar believes that Mission&#8217;s infrastructure needs to grow in a way so that residents don&#8217;t have to leave town to access education and medical services. \u201cWe lack the infrastructure in our communities in terms of schools, ambulance services and hospitals, just to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":128855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57,221,225],"tags":[19392,21129,4615,19766,6871],"radio":[1377],"origine":[1372,280,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128846"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129918,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128846\/revisions\/129918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128846"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=128846"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=128846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}