Business View Magazine | February 2020

217 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2020 NEW GLASGOW, NOVA SCOT I A BVM: Can you give us an overview of New Glasgow from an economic development aspect? Mayor Dicks: “I’ve been on Council for seven years, three as Mayor, and one of the important things I’ve realized is that New Glasgow has a long-term plan in place for the future; it’s not just a town that deals with what’s happening at the time. Our infrastructure is well maintained and there has always been a vision for what that will look like over the next two to three years and beyond. We have expert staff that instill confidence in recommendations to Council, so our decisions become relatively easy. We have also just hired our first Climate Change Coordinator through federal funding. And we have an age-friendly designation that’s been in place for a while and we look at all our options through that limb.” Mackenzie: “Nova Scotia passed accessibility legislation in June 2017, with the goal of being fully accessible by 2030. With that Accessibility Proud supplier and installer for the Town of New Glasgow’s Mountain Road Reservoir project Geomembrane cover and liner solutions for water and wastewater applications 1-855-653-0453 | www.evoqua.com Town Hall: One of the first federal buildings commissioned in Nova Scotia by the first Prime Minister Sir John A MacDonald