Dan McCreary
Ward 3 Councillor
City Hall
100 Wellington Square
P.O. Box 818
Brantford, Ontario
N3T 5R7
519 761-2439 cell
519 759-7840 fax
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Profile
Dan was born in Brantford and grew up in our East Ward and Eagle Place neighbourhoods. He earned his secondary school honour graduation diploma at Pauline Johnson Collegiate and graduated in 1979 from The University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree.
After graduation, Dan spent ten years as a manager and general manager in the contracting industry in Calgary AB. Dan returned home in 1990, electing to raise his family in Brantford.
Since then, Dan has been a principal in a contract cleaning company – Ruggz Building Cleaning. Dan also was a newspaper columnist – writing the weekly City Beat political column for the Brantford Expositor for five years prior to his election as ward three councillor.
Dan, daughter Rachel and Princess the dog are happy to call Brantford their home.
Dan was first elected to Council in 2003 and re-elected in 2006.
Dan is an avid cyclist and rides Brantford and Brant County Trails nearly every day. He is also a vintage car buff and the owner of an old Cadillac.
Previous Community Involvment
Before being elected to council in 2003, Dan was already active in community service.
He had served on a number of municipal committees:
- City of Brantford Property Standards Committee
- City of Brantford Heritage Committee
- City of Brantford Parks & Recreation Naturalization Ad-Hoc Committee
Dan also participated in the Brantford Environmental Education project.
Dan was named by the Province of Ontario to the Board of Directors of The Brant Community Care Access Centre and served two terms of appointment, helping to direct the operations of home care service and long term care placement in Brant.
While on Council, Dan has served in the following capacities
- Brant County Health Unit (Chair & Vice-Chair)
- Social Services Committee (Chair & Vice Chair)
- Community Advisory Committee for Disability Issues
- Transit Liason Committee
- Brantford Police Services Board
- Economic Development Advisory Committee
- Parks, Recreation & Waterfront Advisory Committee
- Multi-Use Trail & Bikeway Advisory Committee
Committees
- Appointments Committee
- Committee of the Whole – Community Development
- Committee of the Whole – Operations and Administration
- Estimates Committee
- Finance Committee
- Brantford Heritage Committee
- Council Procedure By-law Review Task Force
- Demolition Control By-law Study Group
- Human Resources Committee
- Purchasing Policy Review Group
- Transit Terminal Study Group
- Walk of Fame Task Force
- Waterfront Master Plan Task Force
- Joint City-County Committee to Examine Shared Services
- Nominating Committee - Brantford Energy and its Subsidiaries
Outsite Boards/Agencies/Advisory Committees
My Goals
“I work for you.”
“My ward-mate (Councillor Debi Dignan-Rumble) and I work together as a team to do our best to look after the concerns, requests and problems of our Ward Three constituents.”
“I was elected in 2003 because I promised to fight tax increases. I have done my best to continue to fight to keep property taxes as low as possible, while continuing to provide services to city residents.”