Bernard Tompkins

Two city-wide priorities, and how to achieve them

• Maintain reliable core services: review cost versus results, separate wants from needs and push for measurable outcomes.
• Promote development and growth: more incentives for local businesses, shorter permit timelines and lower development costs so approvals move faster.

Two changes to improve City services

• A single service-request system (phone, website or app) modelled on 3-1-1 systems elsewhere, with a map pin, photo, tracking number, responsible department and estimated completion date.
• Public service standards: report average response times, completion rates and outstanding requests, and show which departments meet or miss the standards.

Two changes to improve quality of life in Hamilton

• Help residents feel safe in their parks, streets and business districts by coordinating core public services with mental health and addiction support teams.
• (He named one broad change rather than two separate ones.)

Two priorities for Ward 2

• Safer, cleaner streets: more affordable and supportive housing, mental health and addiction treatment, and enforcement on public disorder, funding results rather than services.
• Support business and development by working with council to streamline permits and development timelines.

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

Practical, accountable, effective.