St. Albert Mayor Cathy Heron has been elected as the president of Alberta’s urban municipalities.
On Friday morning, Alberta Municipalities, formerly known as the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association, elected Heron as president of the organization.
Heron won a landslide victory, earning 75 per cent of the votes, with 406 votes against Andre Chabot from the City of Calgary, who scored 25 per cent of the votes, or 131 votes.
St. Albert’s mayor took over the reins from interim-president Angela Duncan from Alberta Beach, who served for several months after former president Barry Morishita left his post to lead the Alberta Party.
If elected to the position, Heron told The Gazette in early November she would want to “bring rural municipalities into the fold” to increase the effectiveness of the association's advocacy.
“Villages and towns do struggle, and we need to support them, but at the same time I think they need to learn and understand their limitations,” Heron said. “The big cities have their own issues, and they generally have good access to the province," Heron said earlier in November.
