City Council functions like a board of directors for a very large corporation, with a current annual budget of $4.6 billion and more than 17,000 municipal workers serving 1.5 million citizens. Every four years, the voices of Calgarians shape the future direction of the city when they elect Councillors and a Mayor who collaboratively set policies, pass bylaws, and approve a four-year budget which is reviewed annually for necessary adjustments....
While many of us know Jyoti as Calgary’s Mayor, her story starts when she was born in the U.K, and at the age of four, she and her family immigrated to Canada. Settling first in Winnipeg and then moving to smaller towns in Manitoba, she experienced the typical childhood growing up in the prairies, playing basketball, curling with jam cans, and skating on ponds. Jyoti’s family was one of the...