Saint John Common Council received an update on the city’s initiatives plan earlier this week.
It is a three-tiered approach from significant initiatives to functional area initiatives that follow the council’s priorities.
City Manager John Collin mentioned while several projects are underway, the pandemic impacted the city to take on additional projects.
“What we are now seeing, and what will drive the remainder of 2022 and into 2023 is the post-pandemic realities in Canada, we are seeing huge inflationary pressures, we are seeing supply chain delays, and quite frankly there’s more work than there are people.”
Collin added parts of the plan had been delayed, but routine operations remain the largest consumer of time, people, and money.
“We still are managing the major initiatives of 2020 and the sustainability work, workforce restructures, and workforce realignments that had to go on, we did not complete everything we wanted to do in 2021, and therefore some of that needed to be carried forward.”
City staff will deliver another update in the third quarter of this year.
