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For nearly 10 years I’ve been a key player in my neighbourhood, the Old East Village, making it a better place to live and do business. As president of the neighbourhood association almost all that time, I’ve had a hand in:
• building real value in our homes and in our neighbourhood
• steering our public school and our library branch off the road to shut-down
• protecting our heritage homes
• bringing more than $150 million in new investment to our business district.
With all that I’ve learned in the process – about seizing opportunities, about jumping hurdles – I can make a real difference as Ward 4’s voice on City Council. I will:
• demand more community policing on our streets
• fight any tax expenditure that doesn’t improve our quality of life
• create jobs to make London more competitive
• insist on a fair share of City services and resources for Ward 4 and all of East London; and
• stay in touch with the people of Ward 4, with regular office hours, an open ‘town hall’ meeting every year, and a website.
This is My Agenda. These are the four commitments I will ask Ward 4 to judge me on in the next election.
My Themes are snapshots of my thinking on some issues vital to the future of our city – safe and healthy neighbourhoods, jobs in the knowledge-based industries of the future, fair taxation and responsible City spending, sensible strategies for suburban growth, ‘greening’ the city, preserving our heritage.
Ward 4 needs an informed, steady, effective presence at City Hall.
I can be that presence.
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