BarrieToday recently reached out to each candidate for city council in Barrie's 10 wards for a 300-word profile in their own words about their background and why people should vote for them.
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I ran to become Ward 9's councillor in 2014 to bring vision to how we grow, how we invest in our infrastructure, and how residents are served.
Four years later, I am proud of the vision we have been able to deliver for Ward 9 and Barrie at-large:
- Ward 9 saw unprecedented investment in roads, being the priority of almost every year's budget. South-end Barrie's first accessible park was built at Lennox Park, Mapleview Drive was widened, Huronia, Madeline, Ashford were repaved, and I successfully pushed for Lockhart to be repaved years before schedule. As a director on the board for Barrie (Social) Housing, I voted in favour of rebuilding the building destroyed by the Little Avenue fire and building an additional floor in order to add housing inventory to the local market.
- Tabled motion approved by council to get quarterly staff updates. Alongside work from other councillors, the mayor and stakeholders, this motion and other efforts sped up the Harvey Overpass by over a year.
- Successfully lobbied council to approve bus Route 11 to provide bus service to Ward 9 residents that haven't had service for 13 years, and worked with staff to get Georgian students to approve the U-pass, which will put $135,000 to $364,000 a year into improving Barrie Transit for all riders, with moneys coming from students and the college, not from property taxes.
- Tabled motion approved by council that introduced paperless agenda to save taxpayers money on paper and staff time required to print them.
- Tabled motion approved by council that saw us develop a strategy for electric car charging stations. I negotiated an agreement with staff that got 54 stations for both Teslas and non-Teslas, pay for the installation costs, and sign over the ownership rights to the city, at no cost to taxpayers.
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Campaign cell: 1 (877) 650-0978
