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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