The former big cheese on inteGRATED infrastructure

This week Troy and Mack talk with Adam Laughlin, the current deputy city manager of integrated infrastructure and the former interim city manager during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Show Notes

Here are the relevant links for this episode:

Big Bin Events

• PSA: Free Big Bin Events are back

Mosquito Control

• Edmonton helicopter program to control mosquito population reinstated for 2021 season

Best. Summer. Ever.

• News Release: New COVID-19 restrictions to stop the spike

Guest: Adam Laughlin

• LinkedIn
• Adam Laughlin, P. Eng, DCM, father, feminist

Interim City Manager

• Dec. 13, 2019: Adam Laughlin named Interim City Manager
• Nov. 20, 2020: Senior civil servant with long military career hired as Edmonton's new city manager

2021 Construction

• News Release: City construction contributes to 13,000 jobs
• City of Edmonton anticipates $400M gap in provincial infrastructure funding
• Delayed Valley Line Southeast LRT tracking toward late 2021 opening as part of city's $1-billion 2021 construction season

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