Neil Todd

Neil Todd was elected for the first time in 2022.

His background includes decades in the restaurant industry and ownership of the Brown Derby Café.

The forum showed Todd defending the current council much more strongly than his campaign profile does.

He rejected the suggestion that council had failed to listen to residents and pointed to years of public consultation around Pleasant Valley Boulevard North.

His argument was that council’s responsibility is to consider the entire community, not necessarily follow the loudest opposition to a project.

On finances, Todd said the current council has mapped Armstrong’s roads, pipes and other infrastructure so it has a clearer picture of what needs replacement and when.

That is his argument for why current spending is planning rather than waste.

The minutes give one concrete financial example.

Todd was absent from the April 7, 2025 meeting when council endorsed the tax structure.

At the April 22 special meeting he seconded Wehner’s motion giving the 2025 tax-rate bylaw first, second and third readings.

The motion was recorded as CARRIED, with no councillor identified as voting against it.

Previous public office: Armstrong councillor, 2022-present.

Record summary: First-term involvement in OCP, CARI, budgets and infrastructure planning.

What the minutes show: Todd helped advance the 2025 tax-rate bylaw and no negative vote was attributed to him on that motion. He was absent from the earlier tax-policy discussion.

From the forum: Defended the current council’s consultation record and long-term infrastructure planning.

Another way to look at it: Consultation can be genuine even when people dislike the final decision. The harder question is whether decision-makers changed anything in response to what they heard.

What I’d like to know: Which first-term decision best demonstrates what Todd personally contributed rather than what council collectively accomplished?