Rookie city councillor Cori Ramsay has been working hard learning the ropes of her new job and can't wait to get busy with tasks at hand this coming year.
"I feel so amazing, I can't even tell you how excited I am - we go into these meetings and I feel like I could go for hours," Ramsay laughed. "I just feel like I'm doing good for my community and I feel like I get a little bit of an endorphin rush from that. It's just making a positive impact in my community is really important to me and I feel I'm living that - I'm doing that."
Mayor Lyn Hall advised Ramsay and the other new city councilor Kyle Sampson to visit each city department and learn what each one does and take tours of facilities.
"He said to go learn all of the different areas of the city and all of the functions and we get to go on a tour of the courthouse and we get to go on a tour of the 18th Avenue yard and I'm just really excited to learn more and more so I can make good decisions on behalf of the people of Prince George, which is really important to me," she said.
Ramsay said she believes the best way to get to know a job is to jump right in. She took a giant leap to take on the tough duties of city council which includes sitting on the finance and audit committee.
"There's a lot of knowledge on our current council and I'm really keen to learn from each and every one of them all that I can," Ramsay said.
"A lot of them have said they're going to be retiring in the next couple terms and I was really hopeful to be on finance and audit and I am. It's probably going to be a tough committee to be on - there are some proposed tax hikes that people are not going to be in favour of but you know I'm putting myself on that committee in hopes of having a good understanding of how this city operates, how the money works, so in those future terms when we lose that institutional knowledge, we'll have someone who can step up to the plate and I'm hoping that maybe that will be me."
Ramsay said her first impression of council is that each member brings something different to the table.
"So, holistically, that will make us into a really powerful engine for the city, for making decisions and that's something I'm really looking forward to - working with each of these individuals." Ramsay said. "And I know it's going to be a really good term, so I'm really excited."
