Helping people avoid dehydration during extreme heat is important and part of the City’s response to support the safety and wellbeing of vulnerable Edmontonians.
The Committee has determined that Edmonton does not currently require a local state of emergency and that the city’s fire risk is at a level that Edmonton Fire Rescue Services can manage. In addition to the Expo Centre, the City of Edmonton sent 12 crews and equipment to support the Entwistle, Yellowhead County and Strathcona County responses.
Vehicles parked on Phase 2 parking ban routes after 7 p.m. on Tuesday, January 24 may be ticketed and towed at the owner’s expense. If your vehicle is towed, it will be moved to the nearest cleared roadway and can be located by contacting 311.
Neighbourhoods will be under the ban for 24-72 hours as crews move through the city. The entirety of Phase 2 is expected to last up to four weeks depending on the weather. Crews and equipment will be working 24 hours a day until Phase 2 roads are clear. Remember to watch for signage at the entrance of your neighbourhood. You can also check our online maps for your neighbourhood schedule and sign up for the new parking ban notification tool, that gives 24 hours advance notice of when crews will be in your area at edmonton.ca/SafeTravels.
If you are interested in accessing this data, they are available online on the City of Edmonton 311 page.
311 responds to approximately 2 million inquiries a year and the online data sets were refreshed two times a day. If you go to the page you can see different sub-categories, such as the overall volume of 311 requests, archives broken down by year, as well other focused data sets such as categories by ward, by neighbourhood, or by topics.
Most rewarding is the conversations I get to have with the constituents, both individually and in groups, and it’s really rewarding. Something that I really came to enjoy, you know, when I first ran for office in 2017.
Two city councillors launched an initiative called “Participatory Budgeting”. Councillor Knack of ward Nakota Isga on the west side, and Councillor Tang of Ward Karhiio on the east side are working on this project together. They are setting aside $25,000 of their office budgets for residents of their ward to apply for small projects that benefit their community, where residents get to vote which projects will receive these funds.
She is Edmonton’s, Keren Tang.
Everywhere she goes, her sweetness and kindness is endearing. This is our first media chat with a councillor in 2022, and we are excited it is with Keren! We cannot emphasize enough how empowering it is to be seen in Edmonton today.
We are a BIPOC brand, and media work is primarily voluntary. We remain grateful to Keren for making the time. We talked about snow removal, bonding with other councillors, who might be responsible for the EPCOR’s recent power outage in Edmonton South, the Edmonton Police, Canada and so much more.
