Kevin Klein
Web: www.kevinklein.ca
Citizen’s Agenda Pledges
Homelessness
- Create an Advisory Board made-up of non-profits, councillors, and city staff to advise Council on issues around homelessness
- Establish safe spaces using under-used city facilities
- Work with non-profits to house people currently living in Winnipeg Transit shelters
- Use CMHC funding to buy trailers for those who prefer to avoid the traditional shelter system
Crime Prevention
- Keep the police helicopter
- Put a strategic action plan in place for road safety
- Establish policies to deter bicycle theft
- Free up police resources by putting sheriffs in hospitals
- Expand the Alternative Response to Citizens in Crisis (ARCC) program, where plain clothed police officers respond to mental health calls, alongside a specialized mental health clinician (Winnipeg Shared Health)
- Increasing the availability of low cost programming for youth, to keep youth away from being recruited into criminal activities
- Devote up to $7 million for youth safe spaces aiming to prevent gang recruitment
- Advocate for WPS cadets to post at community and rec centres in ‘high risk’ areas
Transit
- Advocate for all new buses to be electric
Active Transportation
- Double the funding to the active transportation department
- Reduce pedestrian and cyclist fatalities by creating more thorough systems to improve the safety of active transportation networks
- Invest in more secure bicycle parking
- Make active transportation committee meetings public
- Ensure that future roads investments requiring active transportation will be reviewed and analyzed prior to execution
Police Budget
- Not specifically mentioned in platform
Roads
- Spend $2 million on an infrastructure plan to improve roads, bridges and sewers
- Support expansion of carsharing and ridesharing programs
Compiled by: Caleb Dueck
jmajorrrc@gmail.com
Updated Oct. 2; Oct. 10; Oct. 22
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