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Danika Brison Ready to Tackle Her New Role
Danika Brison Ready to Tackle Her New Role
Michelle Pinon - News Advertiser
Danika Brison can hardly wait to take on her new role as councillor with the Town of Mundare. But she will have to wait until she’s officially sworn into office on August 8.
In the July 5 by-election she earned 82 votes while her opponent Kent Santo earned 52 votes. Shortly after voting closed, Brison was personally informed of the results. Her first reaction? “I was honestly surprised actually, because Kent is really great, too. He’s really well informed and older than me, too, and knew that would be an up for him. When I was informed I pleasantly surprised. It was nice. I was happy.”
Brison won by a margin of 30 votes. She said she was kind of surprised by that as well. “I thought wow, 80 plus people actually wanted me to be on council, so that was also kind of nice.”
Soon after the results came in, Brison said she started thinking about what comes next. . It’s not just campaigning. It’s not just everybody hope you vote for now. You did vote for me so now I’ve got to go through all the
steps, but I’m very thankful that I know that a lot of people will help me, especially council and the town and what not because I am brand new to this, and there will be a lot of questions coming from me; and I know they expect that, too. I know they’ll be patient and that’s very nice to know. I’ve known them for years. That’s nice and I’m very comfortable with them and they know that I am young and brand new to it so I feel they will help me with it.
I’m looking forward to how council works together whether it’s the concerns, ideas or suggestions from the people in town and talking about them. That’s what I’m interested in.” She’s also looking forward to learning about how the budget works and expects to learn a lot just from talking and observing during council meetings.
Not only does she want to get more people of her generation involved, but younger generations in what is happening at the council level. “I love the town and clearly from being on the fire department and helping others, and I’ve had so many jobs in town. I just want to see that keep going and to attract more people here. I’ve heard so many people that have moved into town just recently and come into work. I love to hear and see that and want more of that to happen.”
Having grown up in Mundare, Brison can tell it has “tons of potential and room to grow” and she can hardly wait to start contributing in her new role.
