Voter’s Guide: Don Woodstock at a glance

Don Woodstock

Citizen’s Agenda Pledges

Homelessness

• Create an action team
• End homelessness by 2027
• Renovate city-owned buildings for shelter and long-term build multi-dwelling housing with wrap-around services in conjunction with provincial and federal government programs

Crime Prevention

• Direct $400 million annually for five years to the development of community-based youth recreation, after-school and sporting events in inner-city communities and the suburbs
• Remove/renovate derelict homes quickly
• Establish direct reporting of meth houses by public to city hall, not 311

Transit

• Electric buses
• Reduce or eliminate fares within six months
• Return bus shelters to bus-users
• Operation ‘safe ride’
• put plain clothes first-year police on buses
• Restore shelters to original states

Police Budget

• Not specifically mentioned in platform

Roads

• 3rd part inspections of road construction
• Eliminate change orders
• Build a city rock-crushing station to supply aggregate
• No expansion of Chief Peguis Trail in next four years
• Postpone widening of Kenaston Boulevard
• Establish 3rd-party audits of tendering process
• All awarded contracts will be announced ASAP with dollar amount
• All completed projects will be announced ASAP with dollar amount
• “On time and on budget” will be clauses in contracts with penalties attached
• Subcontractors will be paid prior to general contractor
• “Green technology” will be mandatory

Active Transportation

• Not specifically mentioned in platform

Compiled by: Shauna Turnley

Updated Oct. 16

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