We’ve outlined some concrete, achievable solutions for new candidates to consider:

✅ Right-Size Senior Management

• Cut at least 6 administrative management positions

• Align staffing with comparator municipalities

• Save up to $1 million per year

• Implement the promised Budget Committee

• Adopt Zero-Based Budgeting to evaluate every dollar spent

• Require Council review of all contract hires

• Shift all senior management to 5-year renewable contracts, not lifetime guarantees

• Tie up to 20% of salaries to community-focused performance goals

• Ensure goals are approved by a 60% Council majority

• Restore meaningful public engagement (true Town Halls, open dialogue)

• Focus spending on urgent community needs—not consultant studies

• Expand support for low-income and unhoused residents

We won’t fix this by waiting.

We’ll fix it by electing better councillors—people who will:

• Demand accountability

• Control unnecessary spending

• Listen to all residents, not just insiders

• Make compassion and fiscal sense co-exist

Let’s get organized now. Let’s support and encourage candidates who are ready to lead with integrity, humility, and purpose.

The 2026 election could be the last opportunity to stop the decline

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