BRADY ROGERS — CANDIDATE QUESTIONNAIRE OK, Let’s Vote — Kelowna’s 2026 Election Guide Office: Kelowna City Council Submitted: September 16, 2026, 03:24 PM (time displayed by CRM) Reviewed and published September 16, 2026 Answers supplied by the candidate or authorized campaign representative and published with saved authorization. Private contact details and internal identifiers are excluded. Wording follows the original response; paragraph spacing is normalized. These are attributed campaign statements, not independently audited facts or outcomes. Conditional and undecided answers are not forced into support or opposition. Hypothetical answers about past council motions are not recorded votes. PROFILE AND PRIORITIES 01 · Your candidacy and priorities Answer: City Council. www.bradythecreator.com Give a short biography focused on experience relevant to the office. What would you bring that voters cannot learn from a job title? Answer: Kelowna is the place I biked everyday as a kid, and now the home of my family and small business. I graduated from UBCO with a degree in applied science, then worked as a robotic automation engineer for a few years before leaving the career path to pursue something more meaningful. In 2019, I started The Rogerie with my wife - a company that turns plastic waste into useful new homeware products made right here in Kelowna. Since then it's been my full time occupation and passion, and has brought me close to the local community. What are your three highest priorities for the next term? For each, give a first-year action, a measurable result and a realistic timeline. Answer: 1. Make Kelowna more affordable to actually live in. Housing matters, but so do transportation and everyday costs. One practical step: seriously investigate what it would take for more Kelowna households to go from two cars to one, or one to none, through better transit. 2. Make sure growth benefits the people who already live here. Kelowna is getting richer. I want that to make Kelownians richer too. I’d audit major developments to understand how much value City decisions create, how much developers contribute toward infrastructure and amenities, and whether the public is getting a fair return. 3. Build and protect things everyone gets to enjoy. Parks, beaches, trails and cultural spaces are shared wealth. I’d start by mapping Kelowna’s waterfront access, identifying meaningful missing links, and investigating what it would take to create a more continuous public waterfront. How would you handle conflicts of interest, lobbying, gifts, campaign support, closed meetings and recusal? What additional disclosure or independent oversight would you support? Answer: Incidentally, transparency is part of what led me to run for council. A personal question about the Eldorado boardwalk posted to my Instagram account turned into a widespread public issue, and the core of my message was simple: what's actually going on here, and what don't we know? I think residents deserve to understand not just what decisions Council makes, but why. I would explain my votes publicly, including the evidence and reasoning behind them, and be equally willing to explain when I've changed my mind or gotten something wrong. When important information can reasonably be made public, I'll push for it to be public. Accountability also means remaining accessible. I already use my platform to ask questions, share what I find, and let people challenge my conclusions. I don't intend to stop doing that just because I get elected. Disclose business ownership, employment, directorships, development interests, paid advisory roles or other financial interests relevant to the office. Give public sources and explain how you would handle related decisions. Do not include home addresses, account numbers or confidential documents. Answer: Only that I run a local business - The Rogerie. QUICK POSITIONS 1. The City should shorten and simplify the process for approving new homes. Answer: Conditional / Depends Explanation: At face value, I would say yes, simplifying new home construction is a good thing as it reduces cost and increases speed. But the important counterpoint is that growth needs to pay for growth, and it shouldn't come at the expense of taxpayers. 2. The City should reduce development cost charges on new housing. Answer: Conditional / Depends Explanation: This is an issue I'm currently studying. DCCs are already reportedly lagging significantly behind the rising cost of construction, and Council has reduced them by a further 25%. Incentivizing development is positive, but the bills left by reduced DCCs don't disappear, and the buck shouldn't simply pass to the taxpayers. 3. Restrictions on short-term rentals should be loosened. Answer: Conditional / Depends Explanation: STRs are useful for tourism, which is important for Kelowna, but we're also dealing with a scarce supply of housing. The city has already loosened restrictions by allowing non-principal-residence STRs in specific zones, so I would want to know what further loosening looks like before saying yes or no. 4. The City should pursue expanded public transit service. Answer: Yes / Support 5. Infrastructure and service capacity should be ready before major additional growth is approved. Answer: Conditional / Depends Explanation: I wouldn't say taxpayers should foot the bill to build infrastructure before growth can happen. New development can and should pay for the infrastructure it requires. What I wouldn't support is approving major growth without a credible plan for the roads, transit, water, sewer, and other services it will need, including who will pay for them. 6. The City should advocate for expanded involuntary addiction-treatment capacity. Answer: Yes / Support 7. The City should invest in wildfire prevention and preparedness. Answer: Yes / Support 8. The City should carry out additional spending audits or operational reviews. Answer: Yes / Support 9. The City should make individual councillors’ voting records easier to find and search. Answer: Undecided 10. Would you have supported the October 27, 2025 electoral-reform study and conditional referendum-preparation motion? This bundled decision did not implement wards. Answer: Conditional / Depends Explanation: I'm not sure I have a strong opinion about this. I would be open to it if there was demonstrable public interest, but otherwise it may not be worth the cost to study right now. 11. Would you have supported the March 16, 2026 second and third land-use and rezoning readings for part of Kelowna Springs? These were not final adoption. Answer: Undecided 12. Would you have supported the April 20, 2026 financial-plan and tax-funding motion, with its stated average net property impact of 4.40%? Individual bills vary. Answer: Undecided 13. The City should help expand co-operative housing and community land trusts. Answer: Yes / Support 14. The City should strengthen protections for tenants displaced by redevelopment or renovations. Answer: Yes / Support 15. The City should allow more small shops and cafés within residential neighbourhoods. Answer: Conditional / Depends Explanation: In general I would be for this. I would just want to gain a better understanding of what the existing policies are and what tradeoffs exist. 16. The City should advocate for a second bridge crossing of Okanagan Lake. Answer: Yes / Support 17. The City should invest in filling gaps in its sidewalk and cycling networks. Answer: Yes / Support 18. The City should expand foot patrols in commercial areas experiencing crime and disorder. Answer: Conditional / Depends Explanation: I'm certainly supportive of meeting immediate crime mitigation needs in commercial areas, but I'm also very interested in the larger picture of what the province is doing, if there's a meaningful comprehensive plan in place, who's in charge of it, and what else the city needs to be advocating for. 19. The City should support expanded non-police response teams for suitable mental-health and substance-use calls. Answer: Yes / Support 20. The City should increase access to public washrooms. Answer: Undecided 21. The City should prioritize protecting agricultural land when making land-use decisions. Answer: Yes / Support 22. The City should strengthen protection for existing trees. Answer: Yes / Support 23. The City should limit annual property-tax increases to inflation. Answer: Undecided 24. Mayor and council pay increases should take effect only after the next election. Answer: Yes / Support 25. Would you support a ward system for Kelowna, where residents elect councillors to represent defined geographic areas? Answer: Undecided AFFORDABILITY AND ADDITIONAL COMMENTS Which actions would you prioritize to make housing more affordable in Kelowna? Answer: "Partner on non-market, co-op and affordable rental housing, Protect existing rental housing and tenants, Use public land for affordable housing, Speed up and simplify housing approvals, Allow more housing in areas with infrastructure and services" Beyond housing, which actions would you prioritize to make everyday life more affordable in Kelowna? Answer: "Expand affordable public transit, Reduce recreation and community-program fees, Plan walkable neighbourhoods close to daily needs, Support local jobs and business opportunities, Maintain the current approach, Review municipal spending to limit taxes and fees, Partner to improve access to affordable childcare" What important issue did we miss? 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