My Platform:
My platform is built around practical local priorities that matter to residents every day: safer neighbourhoods, better transit, stronger by-laws, support for seniors and working families, help for small businesses, expanded outreach services, and better access to healthcare in Welland.
This platform is about listening to residents, bringing real community voices back to City Hall, and working together to build a safer, stronger, and more connected Ward 5.
Transit and Public Safety:
Transit / Bus Routes
Route efficiency
New and improved routes.
Safety and security updates.
Reliability.
Create easier access for seniors/workers/students.
Improve public safety on transit and in public spaces while ensuring vulnerable individuals are connected with mental health, addiction, and housing supports
Continue to fund and be active in community safety initiatives.
Influence policing priorities.
Pass nuisance bylaws.
Improve transit/security presence
Coordinate with police/social services
Community and Business:
Community Meetings / Resident Engagement
Continue hosting monthly meetings to encourage residents and members of the community to have their voice heard and pull resources to co-create policy motion ideas together.
I believe someone in office should have this level of engagement and connection with their community to fully be able to represent them at city hall.
I believe in being accessible, transparent and willing to engage with the people face to face.
I want to work with everyone on council in unity while I fully and properly represent my ward and city.
I run weekly cleaning up of trash in the streets and parks and I encourage others to also partake in the same activities in my community.
I have helped feed the homeless weekly and continue to do so while encouraging groups of people to come out with me to help.
15 years experience giving to families in need and to the homeless and the more of us out there doing these acts, the better we are off.
I support stronger accountability, fair property standards enforcement, and better support for small businesses dealing with neglect or unsafe commercial conditions.
We must inspect properties.
Raise and enforce standards so residents and business owners
feel safe and can afford to strive.Will advocate to Provincial and Federal governments to give new small business owners and long time small business owners new tax relief and affordability breaks to help catch up and keep their businesses in business.
Mediate through business support programs.
Influence commercial development.
Support BIAs (Business Improvement Areas)
Raise community awareness to lobby for funding.
Homelessness / Rehab / Shelters:
Support expanded shelter, addiction recovery, and outreach services in appropriate locations that balance compassion, safety, and neighbourhood concerns.
Fund shelters through support grants, programs.
Approve new locations.
Support outreach programs.
Coordinate more public services and events.
Lobby upper governments for more funding.
More funding to existing groups such as “Open Arms / Beyond the Streets” and even groups like “the mushroom army” who have given away over 500 meals alone.
By-laws/Taxes:
Modernize local by-laws to better reflect today’s housing realities and neighbourhood needs.
Update and look into Parking by-laws.
Improve property standards.
Update by-laws for shared driveway usage.
Update zoning-related bylaws for both residents and commercial/public spaces.
Advocate for property tax relief programs and affordability measures for seniors and working families.
Prioritize and advocate for rebate programs.
Lobby Provincial Government for tax cuts and updated programs.
Work with other city council and levels of government to reach new agreements that are more affordable.
Support property tax relief and deferral options for seniors living on fixed incomes.
Create tax deferral programs.
Create relief/rebate programs.
Offer utility support programs.
Work to create better updated relief programs with the provincial and federal governments for seniors and for retirement.
Healthcare:
Advocate for expanded healthcare services and diagnostic access in Welland so residents don’t need to travel outside the city for care. Such as Imaging Centres / other Healthcare Technology.
Advocate for more funding to be put into Welland Healthcare services, health care equipment and technologies needed to keep residents from travelling outside of the city.
Improve wait times at the hospital, extra staff and care for staffs.
Open new or add more space to medical facilities inside of Welland.
Increase support and funds to our own Welland Hospital.
will work with council to support and advocate for grants, partnerships, and facility cooperation.