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Welcome to Rod Frank, Mayor, Strathcona County
Rod is Mayor of Strathcona County in Alberta, Canada.
Learn about governance in Strathcona County at this site.
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Crisis Leadership
Challenging times have called for a steady hand, and disciplined, calm leadership
In my first term as Mayor from 2017 to 2021, all of us together faced unprecedented challenges with a gripping recession, collapsing oil markets, a major crisis incident in our County Hall, and a once-in-a-century global pandemic. Your county governance met these challenges head-on through disciplined, calm leadership. Today, we all enjoy best-in-class municipal services, inclusive social progress, and the province’s strongest fiscal position. Thank you for the re-election and mandate in October, 2021 to keep the momentum going together! I am more passionate and committed than ever to be your Mayor. I am using the lessons learned and invaluable experience gained in my term to further solidify our community as one of the best places to live, work, play, and stay in the province.
Rod Frank ... Proven leadership: Vision and Results
Vision 2021-25
Leading in 2021-25 with:
· Disciplined, calm leadership with evidence-based decisions
· Canada’s most livable community – in work, education, and recreation
· Best-in-class municipal services - Fire, Police, Ambulance, Roads, Water, Transit, Social Services, Recreation, Parks, and Culture
· Competitive, responsible taxes, financial responsibility
· An inclusive community
· Prosperity and economic diversity to improve your quality of life
Our County has gone through unprecedented challenges since 2017 of a recession, collapse in energy markets, explosions, and a 100-year pandemic. Disciplined, stable leadership has seen us emerge ahead of the crowd with best-in-class municipal services, inclusive social progress, and the strongest fiscal position in the province.
My job is to use all my education, experience and abilities in the current term to ensure our community leads the pack through the 2020’s and beyond.
Getting Results: First Term 2017-21
· Stable, calm and disciplined leadership through major crises: the 2018 County Hall explosions, challenging energy markets, provincial austerity, recession, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
· Highest quality municipal services with citizen satisfaction over 87%; New Chief Commissioner hire for more positive change
· Taxes cut by 1.35 percent
· Crime down 11 percent
· Rural: Roads – additional $3 million in funding; Recreation – spray park, skate park; Water fill; Multimillion dollar Broadband initiative
· Social service non-profits empowered with an additional $1 million annually in funding
· Jobs and economy: over $4 billion in new investment
· Agricultural Master Plan implementation
Leading with great governance
We are all proud of Strathcona County’s achievements
Rod feels honoured and privileged in his work to make the County’s vision of Canada’s most livable community a reality.
Rod’s governance interests include:
· Leading with best-in-class municipal services,
· Supporting responsible commercial and industrial development to improve our citizens’ quality of life,
· Enabling the non profit sector for social advancement,
· Championing fiscal responsibility, and
· Following evidenced based decision making.
Rod is passionate in leading Strathcona County to a future of continued prosperity.
Strathcona County
Strathcona County is an industrial and agricultural juggernaut. It is compromised of both rural and urban areas, including Sherwood Park, and has a population of close to 100,000 citizens. Its best in class municipal services lead in policing, firefighting, transit, recreation, parks, culture, water and roads .
The County is home to over 40 world class companies in the energy, petrochemical and hydrogen sectors, with total investments of of over $40 billion.
The County's Beaver Hills Biosphere is an environmental oasis in the region.
The capital region that Strathcona County is a part of has a population of over 1.3 million people, produces 30 per cent of Alberta's GDP, and supports over 700,000 jobs.
Rod's Background
Rod was elected Mayor of Strathcona County on October 16, 2017. He was re-elected for a second term on October 18, 2021.
Mayor Frank was raised in the County, after moving here with his family in 1963. Rod and his wife brought up their own family here also.
He earned business and law degrees from the University of Alberta. Before becoming mayor, Rod had over 40 years of experience in the business and legal worlds. As a corporate lawyer, Rod had a telecom, and competition and antitrust law practice .
Leadership credentials in the business world include co-leader of Legal Services at TELUS, and practice lead to the wholesale, business, and wireless divisions; as well as lead competition law advisor. Rod was lead counsel closing a $1.2 billion-dollar deal, one of the single largest telecom services transactions in Canadian history.
In the legal field he headed the Canadian Bar Association’s National Competition Law Section, comprised of over 1,000 expert antitrust lawyers. Rod is also a former member of the American Bar Association’s Compliance & Ethics Advisory Board.
In the non-profit sector, Rod was one of the original incorporators of the Elk Island Education Foundation (REAL Foundation), and a former President and General Manager of the Edmonton Wildcat Junior Football Club.
With two sons who grew up in the Park, Rod has also volunteered for more than 15 years in local schools, and “every sport out there – football, hockey, soccer, baseball, lacrosse”. Rod previously wrote a legal column for the Sherwood Park - Strathcona County News, "The Lawyer in Your Corner. "
Rod is committed to serving the citizens throughout term; working for the citizen in politics and current events. The core of his plan is to realize Strathcona County's vision, to provide first-in-class municipal services, and to provide financial certainty for individuals and industry, and to foster a citizen-centered culture.
“I respect the trust citizens have placed in me. I dedicate my service to advancing the best interests of Strathcona County, and to this community being a leading light in Alberta.”
Rod is:
- Chief Elected Official, Strathcona County
- Vice-Chair and Director, Alberta’s Industrial Heartland Association
- Board Member, Edmonton Metropolitan Region Board
- Representative, Edmonton Metro Region Economic Development (Edmonton Global)
- Representative, Edmonton Regional Airports Authority
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Writing
Rod previously wrote a legal column for the Sherwood Park - Strathcona County News, "The Lawyer in Your Corner. "
Rod previously wrote a national blog on competition/antitrust law issues for the Canadian Bar Association's "National Magazine."
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Thank you
Citizens of Strathcona County, all candidates, volunteers, and the Re-Elect Rod Frank for Mayor campaign team! You made a difference for democracy in our October 2021 election.