A Lifetime of Public Service.
Experience that helps a community make better decisions.
19 yearsserving the City of Cranbrook in senior public works and infrastructure roles30+ yearsin municipal serviceTwo-time presidentof the Rotary Club of Cranbrook
Municipal work that matters
From good information to useful results.
Experience matters when it helps a community make better decisions. Joe's record includes practical work in infrastructure planning, public works operations, water and wastewater management, project delivery, public consultation, staff development and community partnerships.
Currently involved
Serving Cranbrook through community leadership.
- Member of the Columbia Basin Trust Water Initiatives Task Force.
- Serves on the Community of Practice Board for Asset Management BC.
- Ambassador for the Partnership for Water Sustainability in British Columbia.
- Director of the Rotary Club of Cranbrook.
- Co-chair of the Rotary Club of Cranbrook Projects Committee.
- Supports the Cranbrook Youth Ambassador Program through float maintenance, driving and transportation, and helps youth build practical new skills.
Municipal work and project delivery
Experience that produces useful results.
- Helped shape and deliver Cranbrook's 2017 capital works program using asset-management principles.
- Pioneered a Kootenay-wide water-loss management program through a Columbia Basin Trust-sponsored initiative, resulting in a reported 22% reduction in water loss in Cranbrook.
- Led the long-term vision for wastewater treatment and effluent disposal that earned a Federation of Canadian Municipalities Sustainable Communities Award for work on Cranbrook's spray-irrigation site ponds.
- Managed the completion of Moir Park through extensive in-house work and community-group participation.
Past community involvement
A long record of giving back.
- Coached girls' basketball in Cranbrook for 14 years.
- Served twice as President of the Rotary Club of Cranbrook.
- Led Rotary projects at Idlewild Park, Moir Park and J. Fred Scott Villa.
- Served as a member of the Kinsmen Club of Cranbrook for six years.