Eileen Walker

Two city-wide priorities, and how to achieve them

• Fiscal accountability at every level of spending, as a long-time taxpayer.
• Community-driven growth: development with purpose and planning, not growth for its own sake.

Two changes to improve City services

• Speed up building permit applications.
• Close the recycling and garbage gap for small businesses left out after the provincial change, and improve organics and recycling.

Two changes to improve quality of life in Hamilton

• Relieve gridlock: have the province take over the Link and Red Hill Valley Parkway (as with the Gardiner and DVP) and use savings for other arteries such as Highway 20, Centennial Parkway and Rymal.
• Economic opportunity closer to home: Hamilton open to the “right type of business” so people commute less.

Two priorities for Ward 9

• Infrastructure planned in advance of development (fire, police, sidewalks, roads, water).
• Community safety: more patrols using existing police resources (not a substation), and bringing back school/community liaison officers; cites vehicle thefts, break-ins and youth crime.

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

Trusted, effective, dedicated.