The One Foot Off Center podcast panel broke down what ForChange Kelowna should be looking for as it prepares to vet this fall's council candidates.

Does it matter what a candidate did before city council? With roughly 80% of council votes tied to housing, how many names on this year's ballot really understand housing if pressed on the spot?

It's known that councils will spend an hour arguing over a $500 purchase, yet wave through an $84 million project without a second look. Is that a failure of oversight, or just what happens when a number gets too large to feel real anymore? What actually makes someone fit to lead. How do you measure character in a person you've only sat across from once?

Listen for more on how ForChange differs from a political slate, and why the group insists it will never tell anyone how to vote.

Host:

Rick Maddison

Regular Panel:

Ron Mattiussi — Former City Manager, City of Kelowna 


Cassidy deVeer — Interim Executive Officer, Canadian Home Builders' Association Central Okanagan

Scott Lanigan — Lead Pastor, Trinity Church Kelowna

Links:

ForChange Kelowna: https://forchangekelowna.com/

BC is Burning: https://bcisburning.ca/

Thanks to our sponsors: Soil to Sod Landscaping, Key West Mechanical, and Jennifer Maddison, RE/MAX Realtor.
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One Foot Off Center is a Kelowna-based panel show where local leaders debate the issues shaping our city. New episodes weekly.

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Should seniors lose the right to vote on decisions they won't be around to live with? Host Rick Maddison is joined by former Kelowna City Manager Ron Mattiussi and CHBA Central Okanagan's Cassidy deVeer to debate age-restricted voting, municipal debt, and why Kelowna keeps falling behind Kamloops on rec facilities. Ron calls the idea "bullshit" and explains why. Cassidy pushes back on who Kelowna's low property taxes actually protect. It gets heated — that's the point.

One Foot Off Center's regular panel includes Ron Mattiussi, Cassidy deVeer, and Scott Lanigan, Lead Pastor of Trinity Church Kelowna.

A boardwalk that's supposed to be public is closed — and it's headed to court.

Rick Maddison talks with Cassidy DeVeer (Canadian Home Builders Association) and former Kelowna CAO Ron Mattiussi about the El Dorado dispute: who actually has rights to the lakeshore, how the city has handled fights like this before, and where private property ends

and public access begins.

🎙 Hosted by Rick Maddison 🎧 Guests: Cassidy DeVeer, Ron Mattiussi, Scott Lanigan📍Kelowna, BC