Mayoral candidate Cody Cacciotti has released his election platform, with a focus on encouraging economic growth and opportunity in the city.
"The City of Greater Sudbury is unsustainable with regard to infrastructure," said Cacciotti in a news release. "In order to stabilize tax increases, the City of Greater Sudbury must expand its tax base."
Cacciotti says that the city must promote an environment that will encourage growth and break down the barriers stadining in the way of economic opportunity.
His platform is broken down into four categories: Leadership, Working Together, Economic Development, and Value For Dollar.
You can find the breakdown of Cacciotti's platform below:
Leadership:
The City of Greater Sudbury needs new leadership and a clear vision for the future.
To accomplish this, citizens must elect a mayor who is proactive rather than reactive. Greater Sudbury requires a leader who can leverage assets, coordinate resources, identify trends and unite the entire city under a common goal of growth and progress.
Working Together:
There is a profound need to change the culture within the City of Greater Sudbury. It is important to foster an environment where services are solution driven and customer focused, especially when promoting economic growth. Municipal workers should be encouraged to use their skill sets to enable development and help drive the community forward.
Citizens must elect a mayor that will work collaboratively with council and staff to encourage further participation from all communities across the city. Having an active presence in neighbourhoods and with community groups in all areas of the city must be a priority moving forward. Ongoing dialogue and open discussion through regularly scheduled community forums is imperative if we are to work collectively to improve the quality of life for all of Greater Sudbury’s citizens.
Economic Development:
The City of Greater Sudbury must commit to further facilitating the process of establishing new opportunities for developers, business owners and entrepreneurs making Greater Sudbury the place of choice for business development. The City must also be thorough in its approach to courting major investment opportunities which includes relying on local expertise, leveraging local assets and allowing for community consultation.
Value for Dollar:
Greater Sudbury needs to ensure that taxpayers are are receiving the best possible value for their tax dollar.
To achieve this, Greater Sudbury must institute a better coordination of services between departments. An environment of cooperation and teamwork among workers will ensure that citizens are getting the best product possible.
The city must look at finding efficiencies, not in terms of cuts, but rather in terms of developing new economic opportunities by updating the way in which the municipality conducts business. (i.e. technology and innovation).
The city must ensure that it has projects shovel ready in order to capitalize on grants and tax friendly sources of funding so that their is improved investment for infrastructure (roads, water, playgrounds, recreational facilities, etc.)
Cody Cacciotti
Mayoral Candidate 2018
www.gettingontrack.ca
