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In Office - Mayor 2022 -present
In Office - Council 2014-2022
Jan Liggett was elected to her first term on Cambridge City Council to represent Ward 4 in 2014, sitting on the Economic Development Advisory, Cambridge Arts Theatre and Core Areas Revitalization Advisory Committees as well as part of the Water Billing Appeals Committee and the Post Office Steering Committee. After 8 years as the Ward 4 Councillor, Jan Liggett was elected as Mayor for the 2022-2026 term.
Jan was the co-owner of Garden Gate Ltd. and Benabec Architectural Precast. As a businesswoman, Jan hired her employees through hard-to-hire programs such as The John Howard Society, some of whom may have mental illness or disabilities, low education, or a criminal past. She is a founding member of the international Ornamental Concrete Producers Association and served as co-president for one term.
Jan founded a philanthropic fund through Cambridge Kiwanis Club, The Fallen Sparrows Fund for families of critically ill children. Prior to becoming Mayor, she volunteered extensively in the fields of art, culture, and especially heritage. She is also past president of Heritage Cambridge, served on the board of the “Grand River Film Festival in its beginning, and is also a past board member of the Kiwanis Club of Cambridge. She was a member of a Grand River Conservation Authority committee for over 15 years. Jan was the first person to recognize the need to safeguard the river valley lands now known as “rare Charitable Research Reserve”, a beautiful and culturally significant environment. This pristine ecosystem is home to an array of flora and fauna, some of which are ranked significant nationally, even globally.
As vice chair of the Legacy Cambridge Task Force, a committee of council, she co-authored the Heritage Master Plan recommendation report which went on to become the city of Cambridge’s Heritage Master Plan. She served as a member of the Blair Heritage District Plan committee, also a committee of council.
Jan recently commissioned a province wide public opinion poll in response to the growing mental health and addictions crisis in an effort to hear how Ontarians would like to see this issue resolved. The poll was shared across Ontario with encouraging feedback from municipal and provincial counterparts.
As Mayor, Jan is a member of the Ontario Big City Mayors (OBCM), the Ontario Auto Mayors Caucus, and is a GrandBridge Energy Board Member.
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