Mayor & Council Members

Back row - left to right: Councillor Meghan Lahti, Councillor Mike Clay, Mayor Joe Trasolini, Councillor Gerry Nuttall, Councillor Karen Rockwell
Front row - left to right: Councillor Diana Dilworth, Councillor Bob Elliott

The City of Port Moody, incorporated in 1913, provides services to its 28,000 residents under the authority of the Provincial Local Government Act and Community Charter. Port Moody encompasses 2590 hectares (10 square miles), has a general annual operating budget of $35M and has a staff of 231 full time and 339 casual, auxiliary, part-time employees.

Council meetings are held every second and fourth Tuesday of the month in Council Chambers (Inlet Theatre), usually beginning at 7 p.m. If your schedule doesn’t allow you to attend the meeting, you have the option of watching it on TV – meetings are taped and later broadcast on Shaw Cable 4 at 9:00 am the following Saturday.

Elections are held province-wide on the third Saturday of November every three years.  At that time, Port Moody residents will be asked to elect one mayor, six councillors and two trustees to the School District 43’s board.

Mayor Joe Trasolini was re-elected in 2008 to his fourth term as Mayor. Re-elected as Councillors are Mike Clay (first elected in 2005), Bob Elliott (first elected in 1990), Diana Dilworth (first elected in 1999 and again in 2005), Meghan Lahti (first elected in 1997), and Karen Rockwell (first elected in 2002).  Councillor Shannon Watkins made the decision not to seek re-election in 2008 and as a result a returning Councillor Gerry Nuttall was re-elected. School Trustees representing Port Moody are Melissa Hyndes and Keith Watkins.

Mayor and Council provide direction to City employees, who carry out the decisions and tasks set by Council and as outlined in the Local Government Act and Community Charter. In the most basic of democratic principles, Mayor & Council are accountable to their constituents: the residents of Port Moody. Residents can participate in the governing process by asking questions during the public input period that precedes and closes every Council meeting; speaking at a Public Hearing; addressing Council as a formal delegation on an issue of concern; or volunteering to serve on an advisory board or committee. Click here for more information on these options. You may also contact the Mayor or a Councillor directly at the numbers listed below, or visit the Mayor during his ‘Open Door Thursday’  call his assistant at 604-469-4501 for times. Of course, the most important way to get involved is to vote!

A number of appointed committees, commissions and boards advise Council and staff on a variety of issues. Mayor and Council provide leadership at these committees by acting as Chair and Vice-Chair. There are also statutory boards, namely the Police Board and Library Board, which work with Council in the delivery of those services.

In addition to the boards and committees, Port Moody is represented by either an elected official and/or a staff member on a large number of external bodies, including:
  Arts Centre Society;
  Arts Connect;
  E-Comm;
  Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM);
  Fraser Burrard Community Justice Committee;
  Fraser Health/Municipal Government Advisory Council;
  Golden Spike Days Society
  Joint Family Court & Youth Justice Committee;
  Lower Mainland Local Government Association (LMLGA)
  Lower Mainland Treaty Advisory Committee (LMTAC);
  Mayor’s Council (formerly TransLink) on Regional Transportation;
  Metro Vancouver (formerly GVRD), which has a number of committees pertaining to regional planning, energy & environment, land use and transportation, ports, waste management, sewage, water, labour relations and regional finance;
  Municipal Insurance Association (MIA);
  North-East Sector Environmental Stewardship Committee;
  Northeast Sector Mayors Committee;
  Port Moody Festival of the Arts;
  School District 43 Liaison Committee;
  Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce;
  Tri-Cities Community Consultative Committee;
  Tri-Cities Homelessness;
  Union of British Columbia Municipalities (UBCM);
  Vancouver Port Authority (VPA);
  Westcoast Advisory Committee;
  West Nile Virus

Contact Port Moody’s Mayor & Council:

You can reach all elected officials as a group by sending an email to: council@cityofportmoody.com

Faxes can be sent to 604-469-4664.

Alternatively, contact Diane Simmons, executive assistant to Mayor & Council,
at 604-469-4501.