The city's work on the city's roads, sewers and waterworks will continue vigorously if John Rodriguez is voted in for a second term of office.
The candidate for the Oct. 25 election held a press conference at the Spills the Beans Farm, owned by Albert and Jeannine Vaillancourt near Chelmsford on Sept. 28.
“Over the past four years, this city has invested in infrastructure renewal in a way that has never been seen before,” Rodriguez said. “We have made impressive headway but we must keep up the momentum and continue to increase our financial commitment to infrastructure.”
Greg Clausen, Greater Sudbury general manager of infrastructure services, in recent interviews said the amount of money spent on road renewal has doubled in both of the past two years in part due to the federal and provincial infrastructure programs.
The city has had to contribute only one third of the cost.
Clausen said the major work on three major city road arteries — Paris Street, Lasalle Boulevard and Falconbridge Road, should be complete by Thanksgiving.
Rodriguez also said he supported the farm community.
“I chose this farm location to remind us all of the immense diversity that we have in this great city,” he noted.
The 100 acre family farm has been in operation since the 1920s, Jeannine Vaillancourt said.
“In the past we had a lot of animals, but now my daughter Rocsan has a four-acre organic vegetable operation underway,” she said. “She sells to the Eat Local Cooperative store in Sudbury and expects to be fully certified organic soon.”
Rodriguez said agriculture was still viable in the Valley.
“Agriculture will continue to play a small but important role in our economy and I am proud that our council was able to enact a top soil bylaw to protect our valuable farmland to ensure that our children and grandchildren will have this agricultural land for food production well into the future.”
