Good Roads 2024/2025 Board Of Directors Announced
Local municipal professionals unite to represent road safety and promote better infrastructure in the province.
May 6 2024, Oakville, ON – At the 130th edition of the Good Roads Conference held from April 21 – 24, 2024 in downtown Toronto the 2024/2025 Good Roads Board was announced. More than 1,800 professionals attended the conference to discuss and look at road safety, infrastructure and municipal funding.
“While the Board recognizes this milestone, it also acknowledges there is more work to do. Everyone understands that it is important to have leaders that reflect Ontarians,” said Scott Butler, Executive Director, Good Roads. “I look forward to working with the new Board to deliver the advocacy, training and services that municipalities need to be successful.”
“I am honoured to become the 2024 Good Roads President at such a critical time for the municipal sector. Municipalities are facing many challenges due to aging infrastructure and growth demand, rising construction costs and budget constraints, training and staff retention, together with regulatory compliance. I look forward to working closely with our Board of Directors to maintain a balanced staff/elected official perspective on these issues, to advocate on behalf of our members, to promote networking to unify our interests and to strengthen municipal-government relationship.” said Antoine Boucher, Good Roads President and Director of Public Works and Engineering, Municipality of East Ferris.
Good Roads 2024-2025 Board of Directors includes:
President: Antoine Boucher, Director of Public Works and Engineering, Municipality of East Ferris
First Vice: Cheryl Fort, Mayor, Township of Hornepayne
Second Vice: Paul Ainslie, Councillor, City of Toronto
Third Vice: Aakash Desai, Deputy Treasurer, Municipality of Southgate
Past-President: John Parsons, London, ON (Retired)
Melissa Abercrombie: Manager of Engineering Services, County of Oxford
Salim Alibhai: Director, Capital Planning and Delivery, Transportation Operations, Public Works, Regional Municipality of York
Chris Angelo: Director of Public Works & Environmental Services, City of Quinte West
Cathy Burghardt-Jesson: Warden, County of Middlesex
Nazzareno Capano: Manager, Transportation Policy and Innovation, City of Toronto
Guy Godmaire: Road Superintendent, Township of Harley and Kearns
Terry McKay: Deputy Mayor, Township of Chatsworth
Kristin Murray: Councillor, City of Timmins
Nancy Peckford: Warden, United Counties of Leeds and Grenville
Justin Towndale: Mayor, City of Cornwall
Good Roads is a municipal association concerned with the advancement of roads and other infrastructure in Ontario. Based in Oakville, Ontario, we have been devoted to the cause of better roads since 1894. Originally known as the Ontario Good Roads Association (and still using that name corporately), we have more than 430 member governments, including most of Ontario’s municipalities and a growing number of First Nations, as well as dozens of affiliated corporate members in the transportation and infrastructure sectors. Our purpose, in part, is to connect our members to each other, to other levels of government, and to relevant companies in the private sector. Our members look to us for training, knowledge, political advocacy, and answers to their most pressing problems. Good Roads is resolutely independent.
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For more information, please contact:
Rachel Swiednicki
Manager, Communications and Marketing
Good Roads
1525 Cornwall Road, Unit 22
Oakville, ON L6J 0B2
- 905-630-0542
