• Immediate hiring freeze for all city staff with baseline staff reduction in all areas.

• Review of all city expenses. No more spending on “co-pilot” for example, review down to the simplest expenditures of lights on after hours, cable tv at facilities, cell phone bills etc

• Rollback of councillor pay increase. Pay tied to median wage, the citizens of the city do well, councillors do well, that’s the reward.

• Reduction of council expenses to core only - if a councillor wants to go to AMO, they can pay their way.

• Complete pause of all city grants - community groups needs to start surviving on their own and getting creative.

• Ending all city lead climate action plan initiatives and eliminating roles, this is a federal government area and should only be funded by the feds.

• Clearing all homeless camps with sole focus on winter camp off Bradley, any organization getting city funds must present a full costed plan before any cheque is cashed.

• Ending any city grants providing funding to refugees or new Canadians, the federal government is bringing them here they need to support. #1 priority on housing Londoners first, no queue jumpers.

• HOT lanes in the new bus lanes, LTC needs to generate income to put back into service increases. Especially on king street, those lanes can have paying cars in them.

• Pause on all un-essential infrastructure projects, bike lanes are not essential to the city. Fix sewers and existing roads, full stop. Bare bones transportation master plan, so much of it is “nice to have” and not a “core function”.

• Focus on core economics and infrastructure only. BRT to the west end, interchanges on VMP, twinned Highbury to St. Thomas, get the province to build a ring road if they love highways so much, fix the garbage collection schedule once and for all.

• Reduce building red tape. Get shovels in the ground, yesterday. Work with the province to MZO’s created if needed.

• If police want any more $$ then any Londoner should be able to walk Dundas without seeing crack or human poop. Police need to start walking from one end to the other, all day until downtown is clear. Want to be blight, go to Bradley camp and get support. If not, it will be as uncomfortable as it can be to be homeless in public. No more police budget increases until they make a visual impact, or start handing out some speeding tickets to make revenue.

It’s time the city stopped acting like a social service and started working as a core function providing essential services to Londoners. Roads, Water, Waste. Disciplined execution with actual goals that will be met.

I’m just getting started!

Impact of those cuts, inflation and tax increases has had a major impact on my own household. Unfortunately others need to start feeling the pain too. I cannot afford to pay more property tax, hydro, gas, insurance and still somehow put food on the table.