Councillor Craig Hodge City of Coquitlam municipal Updates
Channel: tricitiestv
Date: 2023-03-28

Cathy Cena the host of Tri-Cities magazine speaks with councillor Craig Hodge Coquitlam City Councillor about all municipal updates in the city of Coquitlam. Councillor Hodge says that the provincial government is investing 150 million dollars to update 911 system and mental health by allowing cellphones to be able to send text and pictures to a 911 dispatch. Mr. Hodge talked about various committees he is chairing around metro Vancouver some of which are dear to him like safety, RCMP and BC round table for police act. Hodge spoke about mental health and how it is affecting our loved ones as no one is immune from it, but also, talked about teams who respond to 911 calls related to mental health, by advocating for car 67 program by involving professional mental health nurses with the police call, Hodge urged Fraser Health to train and employ more mental health nurses response team to help police during 911 calls. In time Riverview hospital used to house around 4500 mental health patients, Hodge says phasing out the service in this hospital; created many issues the society is dealing now with, like homelessness, and opioid crises due to lack of transiting to community care before being introduced back to society. TCCTV host asked Hodge about the city developments, Hodge replied that Coquitlam is in a transformative stage now, at the border with the City of Port Moody where the sky train station there will be 9 new towers as a community by itself, the north road development, Coquitlam Centre, all these master plans. Hodge says " I have served on Metro Vancouver I'm on the board of directors of Metro Vancouver which is the regional district of 23 municipalities part of it and so we oversee a water waste some Regional Parks but we also look after managing the Region's trash and so I've been Vice chair of that committee for the past eight years and recently now I've been appointed to chair the national zero waste"