Mark Powell

Two city-wide priorities, and how to achieve them

• Look closely at high-end city salaries; he says about 16% of the budget goes to roughly 3,500 people.
• Housing and spending discipline: he was disappointed in how the Barton Street tiny homes project ballooned in cost and sidelined the HATS plan.

Two changes to improve City services

• Create transitional housing that keeps people downtown, and freeze property-tax and transit fee increases.
• Free public transit is his “dream” if the province would help fund it.

Two changes to improve quality of life in Hamilton

• Rein in open drug use in downtown parks and streets, citing a child hurt by a crack pipe at a splash pad.
• Explore a city-run grocery program alongside full food banks to lower grocery costs.

Two priorities for Ward 1

• Aberdeen Avenue: he says the lane reduction is backing up traffic, and that notice of the public meeting arrived late.
• Chateau Golf Course: he wants to know who commissioned the two studies on the green space and why.

Three words for a four-year term (looking back from September 2030)

Active, innovative, effective.