Mike Morden Mayor City of Maple Ridge

Responses received 20 Oct 2020 from BC Liberal candidates to questions posed by Maple Ridge City Council on matters of importance to our citizens.

Really disappointed to see this reckless act of vandalism in Maple Ridge Park over this weekend. If anyone witnessed anything this weekend please connect with me, the GM of Parks [email protected] or our local police. My hope is that together as a community, who have enjoyed a lot of our free time in our amazing green spaces throughout this pandemic, which sadly have seen increases in vandalism, destruction of public and private property, dumping of refuse everywhere including into our waterways along with a lot of hateful and racist graffiti, are caught and punished accordingly.

The city is aware and has been actively working on catching criminal acts of graffiti around our community’s downtown core. As the public know, certainly our downtown regular visitors know as well, we along with many communities, have been plagued with racist and hateful words, and targeted comments towards the police. It is unacceptable and our expectation is those doing this face consequences. I can report the Police and our CSO section have been actively working on this f...ile for some time. Thanks go to those who quietly do their part to clean up, particularly our downtown BIA, and to Ryan Svendsen, Maple Ridge Councillor and Chelsa Meadus -Councillor for taking the time to clean up the offensive mess well before this media outlet picked this up after the fact. https://bc.ctvnews.ca/racist-homophobic-graffiti-painted-on and as previously noted here https://www.facebook.com/259717848039359/posts/595272241150583/ where at the end of the post you will find how best to contact resources for response. Let’s all do our part to report crime and keep our city beautiful! See more

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