QUESNEL CITY COUNCILLOR
| Category | Information |
| Council Service | First-time councillor elected to Quesnel City Council in 2022, receiving 1,163 votes, fifth among the six elected councillors. She filled the Council seat that became available when Ron Paull ran for mayor. |
| Financial Sustainability & Audit | Served on the City’s Financial Sustainability & Audit Committee, dealing with financial plans, tax rates, audits, reserves and spending. In April 2024, she moved recommendations to approve the City’s 2023 financial statements and the 2024 five-year financial plan. In April 2025, she moved the recommendation approving the City’s 2024 financial statements. |
| Growing Communities Fund | In April 2023, moved that the remainder of the City’s Growing Communities Fund be held in reserves until the status and full cost of the Johnston Bridge Replacement Project were known. |
| Neighbourhood Funding | In May 2025, moved that Council be asked to approve an amended Neighbourhood Funding Policy intended to continue encouraging neighbourhood associations. She also moved that the City’s Local Services Policy be reaffirmed. |
| Public Safety & Policing | Appointed with Mayor Ron Paull and Councillor Mitch Vik to the Public Safety & Policing Committee beginning in 2022. She continued serving on it in 2025. |
| Governance & Strategy | By 2025, served with Mayor Ron Paull and Councillor Tony Goulet on the Governance & Strategy Committee, dealing with strategic planning, governance, Council education and relations with neighbouring First Nations. |
| Dragon Mountain Wildfire / Fuel Treatment | In May 2025, seconded Mayor Paull’s motion directing staff to develop a media strategy concerning required logging/fuel treatment on Dragon Mountain for community safety. The motion passed unanimously. |
| South Quesnel Business Improvement Association | In April 2023, moved a recommendation concerning City installation/removal of SQBIA Christmas snowflakes and City installation, watering and removal of hanging flower baskets purchased by the association. |
| Business Background & Downtown Concerns | Before becoming a councillor, McKelvie was publicly identified as owning a downtown Quesnel floral shop. In 2019 she spoke publicly about crime, aggressive panhandling, drug use and the effects those problems were having on downtown residents and businesses. |
| Homelessness, Drugs & Public Safety | Her concern about downtown disorder predates her election. By 2022 she was placed on Council’s Public Safety & Policing Committee. This establishes continuity between an issue she publicly raised as a business owner and an area of responsibility she subsequently held on Council; it does not, by itself, establish that particular policing or homelessness outcomes were personally achieved by her. |
| 2026 Election | Current election reporting lists McKelvie among the incumbent councillors seeking election in 2026. |
| 2022 Campaign Finances | Elections BC has her 2022 General Election Disclosure Statement on record. |
| Specific Personally Initiated Actions | The public record identifies motions she personally moved, particularly on financial reserves, financial statements, neighbourhood funding and local services. Many other actions during her term were collective Council or committee decisions and are not presented here as her personal accomplishments. |
| Censure and Sanctions Against Mayor Ron Paull — April 2024 | Council initiated the censure/sanctions process on April 2, 2024 and imposed the sanctions on April 30, 2024. McKelvie participated as a councillor. The resolutions imposing the sanctions were subsequently quashed by the B.C. Supreme Court. |