Councilor Westerlund elected as Vice President of AAMDC
A Brazeau County Council member has been elected the new Vice President of the Alberta Association of Municipal Districts & Counties (AAMDC) at it’s fall convention in Edmonton.
Councilor Kara Westerlund was elected on Thursday after beating out two other nominees. She called the win a huge honor and with it brings a large task at hand.
“It’s an extremely big honor and privilige to be elected. I have a huge task ahead working with MLA’s to ministers right up to the Premier and being a direct line to our communities for the provincial government,” Westerlund said.
She says her background as a third term councilor, being raised on a farm and owning and operating an oil field company mirrored pressing issues in rural Alberta, and spoke to a lot of the membership.