{"id":662761,"date":"2026-05-11T18:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662761\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T18:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:24:10","slug":"surrey-mayor-delivers-annual-state-of-city-address-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662761\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey mayor delivers annual State of City Address on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Surrey mayor delivers annual State of City Address on Thursday<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 9:30 am Monday, May 11, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke will deliver her annual State of the City Address for 2026 this coming Thursday, May 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be sharing updates on City priorities, key achievements and the vision ahead for Surrey,\u201d Locke stated in a social media post. \u201cI enncourage everyone to tune in live on the City of Surrey\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheCityofSurrey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook page<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The luncheon will run between noon and 2 p.m. at the Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel at 15269 104 Avenue but her speech will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surrey.ca\/news-events\/events\/2026-state-of-city-address\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">livestreamed.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Locke received a standing ovation for her roughly 40-minute <a href=\"https:\/\/surreynowleader.com\/2025\/05\/14\/surrey-mayor-delivers-sold-out-state-of-city-address\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2025 State of the City Address<\/a> at the Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel, which was also on May 14 \u2013 a speech laden with capital projects, meeting challenges in schooling and healthcare, building up the city\u2019s transportation network and addressing other growth-related pressures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI often say Surrey is a house on fire,\u201d she said. \u201cSurrey is just moving so fast, it\u2019s quite incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey mayor delivers annual State of City Address on Thursday Published 9:30 am Monday, May 11, 2026 Surrey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-662761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}