I have submitted my nomination for city council member of Peterborough ward 3 town for municipal elections in October.
Current platform for city council issues as follows
*reversing ban on open burning and fire pits within city limits and working with the fire department to issue fire pit and burning permits for safe burning and the fire department agrees.
*reversing the new noise complaint laws back to normal hours instead of the 24 hours of calling police for no reason and the police agree.
*extra funding to hire more police officers to deal with the new crime wave that is through the roof and officers told me city council has consistently denied police funding for no reason.
*fixing Landsdown street and every street in Peterborough that council has consistently denied Drain Brothers the contract for no reason for the past decade, could have all been done by now. I have repaired the front springs and tie rods on my truck due to bad roads damage and many have had same repairs done on brand new vehicles!
*Getting rid of the bike lanes, get on the sidewalk like it was and get off the road and our of our way, traffic is bad enough in Peterborough.
*Everyone is fed up with all these unnecessary one way streets that make no sense, ask any cab driver or driver, most need to be made two way streets.
*bringing in some big Canadian businesses to create jobs at fair wages, with tax breaks and incentives with assurances of jobs and economic growth.
*getting rid of the safe injection site that enables drug addicts and makes the problems worst.
*by-laws for large fines for littering the streets, parks and sidewalks with needles when there are bins for them already.
*a ban on the 6 methadone clinics ( they should not be getting free drugs for 10 years that yes gets them high and overdose from it)
*Fines for not picking up dog crap, people are sick of seeing it everywhere
*banning the sex offender halfway house that should not be here.
Will add to my platform as I talk to neighbours in my constituency and see what they want.