John Utley
Ward 2 Councillor
City Hall
100 Wellington Square
P.O. Box 818
Brantford, Ontario
N3T 5R7
226-388-0005 cell
519 759-7840 fax
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Profile
John is married to Pat, they have lived on Woodlawn Avenue in Ward 2 since 1976 where they raised their two children David and Jennifer. David and his wife Fiona have two beautiful daughters Elizabeth and Jessica, they live in the Guelph area. Jen lives in Brantford with her son Dylan.
John served a five year apprenticeship as a General Machinist and received his certification from the City & Guilds of London Institute in Mechanical Engineering Craft Practice in England. He has taken numerous Management, Facilitation and Quality courses at the Universities of Waterloo, Guelph and York.
John began his career as a machinist in England before emigrating to Canada in 1970. John managed the machine shop at Eagle Precision Tool for 5 years. He taught apprentices on a part time evening basis at Mohawk College before joining them as Chair of Technical programs in the early 1980’s. John managed all the technical programs at Brantford, New Credit and Ohsweken. He left Mohawk to set up a skills training facility and management consulting business. This led to John joining Wescast Industries where he had management responsibilities for leadership development, new product launch, quality and manufacturing at plants in southern Ontario and Georgia, USA. John authored “Excelling as a Leader” a workbook for leaders and continues to operate his leadership training business
Previous Community Involvment
John has 30 years of volunteering experience and was awarded the Queens Jubilee Medal for community service in 2002.
· Economic Development Advisory Committee, member for 3 years and Vice Chair
· Brant United Way Campaign Cabinet, Chair Medium Size Industry, 3 years
· Golf Board, member and Chair for 3 years
· Brant Skills Development Group, founding member and Chair
· Brantford/Brant Regional Chamber of Commerce board member
· Willett Hospital Board of Governor’s. Initiated palliative care unit
· VON Board of Governor’s
· St Joseph’s Lifecare Foundation and Stedman Hospice supporter
· Wayne Gretzky Sports Classic organizing committee
· Kiwanis Club of Brantford. Member for 18 years and distinguished past president
· Chair Early Years Steering Committee of the Brant County Health Unit
· Kids Can Fly past Chair and founding member
Committees
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Appointments Committee
- Committee of the Whole – Community Development
- Committee of the Whole – Operations and Administration
- Estimates Committee
- Finance Committee
- Brantford Airport Board
- Brantford Power Inc. Board
- Brantford Energy Corporation Board of Directors
- Golf Board
- Economic Development Advisory Committee
- Post-Secondary Education Advisory Committee
- Tourism Advisory Committee
- Age Friendly Community Initiative Task Force
- Children's Memorial Garden Study Group
- Council Procedures By-law Review Task Force
- Purchasing Policy Review Group
- Waterfront Master Plan Task Force
- Major Service Contracts Study Group
Outsite Boards/Agencies/Advisory Committees
My Goals