Candidates for mayor of the city and their main promises to the citizens

October 24 is the day when the long-awaited election of the mayor will take place. All 8 candidates made announcements and opened their future plans. Today, we would like to choose the most important moments from their plans.

Brian Bowman

Property taxes: property tax will be 2.33 percent over the next 4 years, which will significantly increase the treasury of the city.

Other financial positions: there will not be any water-and-sewer dividend and frontage-levy hikes.

Portage and Main position: it will be open for people to walk there.

Environment: a total ban on the use of plastic.

Recreation: the emergence of a new recreation facility in Waverly West; an increase in funding for the community center; assistance to volunteers in community centers.

Meth crisis: the creation of safe injection sites.

Jenny Motkaluk

Property taxes: property tax will be 1.16 percent over the next 4 years.

Other financial positions: auditing costs of wastewater treatment projects.

Portage and Main position: it will be closed for people to walk there.

Environment: priority of the western expansion of the Main Path of Pegius.

City Hall: forward as much as possible 311 calls to city departments during business hours.

Meth crisis: additional officers on the streets and the creation of a treatment center.

Don Woodstock

Property taxes: freeze property taxes for four years.

Portage and Main position: it will be closed for people to walk there.

Meth crisis: building of a treatment center.

City hall: prevent personal relationships between adult employees and their subordinates.

Environment: a total ban on the use of plastic.

Tim Diack

Property taxes: property tax will be 1.2 percent higher over the next 4 years.

Portage and Main position: this is not the most important problem of the city.

Meth crisis: additional officers on the streets of the city and the creation of a secure methamphetamine psychosis intake facility.

Environment: a total ban on the use of plastic.

Doug Wilson

Portage and Main position: it will be open for people to walk there.

Environment: a total ban on the use of plastic.

Ed Ackerman did not express his positions and specific future plans.

Venkat Machiraju

Infrastructure: completion of the inner ring road.

Environment: a total ban on the use of plastic.

Umar Hayat

Portage and Main position: it will be closed for people to walk there.

Meth crisis: the creation of safe injection sites.

Environment: there should not be a total ban on the use of plastic. 

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