Who sits where on the new City of North Vancouver council: boards, committees and acting mayors

The new City of North Vancouver council took the oath of office on Monday, November 2, 2026. Justice Michael Thomas swore in Mayor Linda Buchanan and Councillors Holly Back, Don Bell, Angela Girard, Andrew Robertson, Shervin Shahriari and Tony Valente. The meeting ran from 6:00 pm to 6:56 pm, and the minutes record two decisions. Both passed unanimously in one motion, moved by Shahriari and seconded by Bell.

The first named the City's member of the Metro Vancouver board. The second gave each council member seats on City, North Shore and outside boards and committees from November 3, 2026 to December 31, 2027, and set who serves as acting mayor. This is what each person now does, from the staff report the council endorsed.

Metro Vancouver and TransLink

Mayor Linda Buchanan is the City's director on the Metro Vancouver board for the four-year term, and Councillor Angela Girard is the alternate. The same director also sits on the boards of the Greater Vancouver Water District and the Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District, which Metro Vancouver's fact sheet lists as the body for liquid waste services. A letter from Metro Vancouver in the agenda package asked the City to name one director and give that director 3 votes. The letter says the Metro Vancouver board meets for the first time this term on Friday, November 27, and holds orientation sessions on December 3 and 4.

The letter also says a director must act in the interest of Metro Vancouver at its board, and "may vote differently at Metro Vancouver than they do as an elected representative of their home jurisdiction, even on the same issue." During the campaign Buchanan promised to keep seeking direct provincial relief for North Shore ratepayers and a fairness rule for regional cost overruns.

As mayor, Buchanan also sits on the TransLink Mayors' Council, by provincial law.

The whole council

Every council member sits on the Finance Committee, the Policy Committee, the Parks and Recreation Committee and the Parcel Tax Roll Review Panel. The mayor chairs all four, and the acting mayor of the day is the alternate chair.

Policing, safety and substance use

Buchanan and Councillor Holly Back are the City's council members on the North Vancouver Policing Committee. Back chairs the City's Community Safety Advisory Committee, and Councillor Shervin Shahriari is its vice-chair. Councillor Don Bell represents the City on the North Shore Standing Committee on Substance Use. Back's campaign site said she would work on the drug crisis, including substance use education in schools.

Energy, recreation and community

Councillor Tony Valente is council's appointee to the Lonsdale Energy Corporation, which the report lists among the City's management bodies. He promised a carbon-neutral pathway with milestones and public reporting for it. Valente and Buchanan sit on the North Vancouver Recreation and Culture Commission, with Back as alternate, and Valente is the City's voting member at the North Shore Neighbourhood House.

Girard sits on the North Vancouver City Library Board and is the non-voting council liaison to the North Vancouver Community Arts Council. Bell sits on the North Vancouver Museum and Archives Commission.

Planning, transportation and heritage

The council members named to the City's advisory committees are liaisons who do not vote there.

• Advisory Planning Commission: Shahriari and Councillor Andrew Robertson
• Integrated Transportation Committee: Robertson
• Social Planning Advisory Committee: Robertson
• Advisory Design Panel: Bell
• Heritage Advisory Committee: Shahriari
• North Shore Accessibility Advisory Committee: Shahriari
• Civic Naming Committee: Buchanan as chair, with Bell and Robertson

Robertson's campaign promises include a complete, connected cycling network and safe crossings and traffic calming. Shahriari promised incentives to protect heritage buildings and mature trees.

Buchanan is also the City's member of the Vancouver Coastal Health and North Shore local governance liaison group, and its liaison to the Park and Tilford Gardens Review Board.

Acting mayor

Council members take turns as acting mayor, two months each:

• November and December 2026: Valente
• January and February 2027: Valente
• March and April 2027: Bell
• May and June 2027: Girard
• July and August 2027: Robertson
• September and October 2027: Shahriari
• November and December 2027: Back

The next dates

The City's list of important dates for the new council sets the first regular council meeting of the term for Monday, November 16, 2026, at 6 pm. Council orientation sessions are on November 18, a council workshop on November 23, a community tour on November 14 and visits to partner agencies on November 28. The North Vancouver Board of Education, which includes the three trustees the City elected, holds its inaugural meeting on Tuesday, November 17, at 6:30 pm.

The appointments end on December 31, 2027, and council sets new ones each year. Each person's votes in the new term will appear on their page, and every campaign promise is on the City of North Vancouver promise tracker.