Some Platform Details!

The following are some specifics on each of the 3 main identified planks. I have the following specific plans:

1. Reviewing City Priorities

  • Review the operation of Waste Services and how this service is delivered. Lets get rid of the Maggots and the Mice with the return of weekly garbage.
  • Review Emergency Services and determine how to better use the current resources and determine shortfalls in services.
  • Examine partnerships with surrounding areas for increased shared resources.
  • Improve roads and infrastructure by ensuring new revenue from development is spent correctly.
  • Review the need for a City owned Crown Corporation or Public Private Partnerships (P3) or service delivery of services in which the city has an interest in being delivered, but not deemed a core service. 
  • Work with the Province and other stakeholders in ensuring legislated program delivery are meeting the needs of clients within the City of Ottawa’s responsibility.
  • Improve services for the disabled, the homeless, seniors and youth. Equalize Para service and cost by increasing cost to the Track/Slots
  • Implementing term limits of at most 2 consecutive terms in the same office for all Council members to eliminate the career incumbent and allow fresh ideas.

2. Improving the City's Long Term Fiscal Health

  • Create a city wide project office.
  • Implement new contracting procedures [Orgaworld, Plasco. LRT for example] to reduce cost and risk.
  • Review development charges
  • Implement a better reserve transfer system.
  • Implement a Nunn-McCurdy type budgetary measure for city projects.
  • Implement a Compensation program where City Staff or any Citizen receives a portion of and after a period of time, for example, the first 2 years, of demonstrated savings for an incorporated suggestion.
  • Decreasing use of consultants and increasing accountability and use of existing city staff.

3. Rural Identity and Values

  • Re-establishing trust and shared responsibility with City staff.
  • Support community based infinitives like the Torbolton Institute, Sandhills community hub Project in Constance Bay and the Huntley Highlands initiative to create a large walking park in West Carleton- March outside of Carp.
  • Work with developers, residents and City staff to create a better system for future developments.
  • Develop better communication between residents and City Hall such as with a new "electronic town hall" system.
  • Proactively handling concerns of "in city" agribusiness including championing the development of an Ottawa Food Terminal similar to Toronto's in West Carleton-March.