Chris Mayne Campaign for North Bay City Council
MEDIA RELEASE
Tuesday, 18 August, 2026
Chris Mayne is pleased to announce that he will be running as a candidate for North Bay Council again and looks forward to the opportunity of continuing to serve our community.
If re-elected this term, his four major areas of concern would be;
1 Source Water Protection
2Long Term Care for Seniors
3Homelessness and addictions
4Capital Budget
Source Water Protection
The City of North Bay continues to provide excellent drinking water that meets all current Provincial and Federal health standard requirements. Given a baseline USEPA study on PFAS released in 2022, the Ministry of the Environment and Health Canada may, or may not, decide to re-examine our own current standards and whether or not they should be changed. Continuing with the strong support we have received from the Federal and Provincial Governments I believe there are further steps we can take with them to be proactive and ready to move forward should any of those drinking water standards change.
Long Term Care for Seniors
The first phase of the Cassellholme Redevelopment has been completed and residents have moved in to a bright, beautiful, new long care home. There is still work to be done.
I look forward to building a positive and constructive relationship with Castle Arms to leverage our existing resources towards adding new and more diversified senior accommodations in our community. In recent years this has been identified as another growing need in our community and we believe Castle Arms is well positioned to help address that need.
Homelessness & Addictions
As a member of The District of Nipissing Social Services Administration Board, and the Nipissing District Housing Corporation, we are fortunate in North Bay and area to be able to provide over 2,200 rent assisted accommodations in our community to help towards our community housing needs. Strong Provincial support has had success in creating the Low Barrier Shelter and Northern Pines Transition House. We are working with recent Federal programs to add additional supportive housing to our community.
At the same time, there are clear health and wellness issues involved that need to be shared with all levels of government and cannot simply be placed on Municipalities’ shoulders. The Province and Federal Governments have been very supportive in recent years to help with Capital costs but more work needs to be done to address Operating costs of these programs.
Capital Budget
For as long as I have been on North Bay City Council, growing our Capital budget and addressing our Infrastructure Gap, has been a priority. The Capital budget has always been an easy target at budget time but that simply puts off needed work and leaves us further behind in our infrastructure maintenance than we should be.
MEDIA RELEASE
Tuesday, 18 August, 2026
Chris Mayne is pleased to announce that he will be running as a candidate for North Bay Council again and looks forward to the opportunity of continuing to serve our community.
If re-elected this term, his four major areas of concern would be;
1 Source Water Protection
2Long Term Care for Seniors
3Homelessness and addictions
4Capital Budget
Source Water Protection
The City of North Bay continues to provide excellent drinking water that meets all current Provincial and Federal health standard requirements. Given a baseline USEPA study on PFAS released in 2022, the Ministry of the Environment and Health Canada may, or may not, decide to re-examine our own current standards and whether or not they should be changed. Continuing with the strong support we have received from the Federal and Provincial Governments I believe there are further steps we can take with them to be proactive and ready to move forward should any of those drinking water standards change.
Long Term Care for Seniors
The first phase of the Cassellholme Redevelopment has been completed and residents have moved in to a bright, beautiful, new long care home. There is still work to be done.
I look forward to building a positive and constructive relationship with Castle Arms to leverage our existing resources towards adding new and more diversified senior accommodations in our community. In recent years this has been identified as another growing need in our community and we believe Castle Arms is well positioned to help address that need.
Homelessness & Addictions
As a member of The District of Nipissing Social Services Administration Board, and the Nipissing District Housing Corporation, we are fortunate in North Bay and area to be able to provide over 2,200 rent assisted accommodations in our community to help towards our community housing needs. Strong Provincial support has had success in creating the Low Barrier Shelter and Northern Pines Transition House. We are working with recent Federal programs to add additional supportive housing to our community.
At the same time, there are clear health and wellness issues involved that need to be shared with all levels of government and cannot simply be placed on Municipalities’ shoulders. The Province and Federal Governments have been very supportive in recent years to help with Capital costs but more work needs to be done to address Operating costs of these programs.
Capital Budget
For as long as I have been on North Bay City Council, growing our Capital budget and addressing our Infrastructure Gap, has been a priority. The Capital budget has always been an easy target at budget time but that simply puts off needed work and leaves us further behind in our infrastructure maintenance than we should be.
