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stress her desite 19 keep city igxes down and yo encourage economic deve jobs, was a major priority as was community safety and crime prevention. She also said developing the city‘s parks and trails system was important as was the balanced development of Waterloo‘s west side, with an emphasis on protecting the west side‘s environment. Also McKinnon said she was intent on promoting and protecting as much d%&cflhfihfipflhflwfldb&mh the city continued to have the municipal tax rates among the three cities located in the Region of Waterloo. ® However McKinnon said last Sunday as she has been campaigning doorâ€" toâ€"door and on Waterloo city streets in recent weeks, she has tended to mayor of Waterloo in this Nov. 10s municipal election last May, she listed olf at least five main priorities she wanted to tackle if she in fact became "I‘m the only one of the three who‘s ever made a single public decision and had to stand behind it," she said. "My strength is the fact that I‘ve had to make a lot of tough decisions. And I‘ve made them in public and 1 have had to be accountable for them." best candidate running for mayor of Waterloo because she is the only one of the three candidates who has ever held elected office. McKinnon, 62, said in an interview Sunday that the fact she has been a Waterioo city councillor for the past nine years and a Region of Waterâ€" loofcity councillorâ€"atâ€"large for the past six years has provided her with the essential experience to take on the job of mayor. In an interview last Friday, Byron, 68, City of Waterloo chief administraâ€" mo&ahulmmIM.flhb&mhhhufld“k three Waterloo mayoralty candidates to take on the challenges posed by the 8 funding changes originally announced by provincial ministers last January & during mega week‘. £ , Byron said he is best suited to meet the chaenges because as the city‘s & fmcHMo&a.hbWfi#.b organizations and is skilled in both problemâ€"solving and tough negotiaâ€" tions. He therefore believes he can best protect Waterloo‘s interests against the provincial government. lyronucumfyu&rmvih\%lffidhthkfivmflyu senior assistant to the acting viceâ€"president of finance and administration. He has lived in Waterloo sinceâ€" 1988, is married and has three children. * km-hi‘-los‘lhlkcfi&pflonwfluhoddm, Mngnhpky-dmkyMMM'nbmy out," he said. "It‘s not dissi from that of local government. It‘s just structured differently, that‘s all." He also said although he has never held elected office, his fiveâ€"year stint achamoldnhddmdl&mwy(b&pin Fort McMurray, Alberta from 1983â€"88 has made him politically aware. Thirdly, he would like to work with the new Waterloo council and the citys administration to develop a new threeâ€"year city tax plan so that resiâ€" dents and business people alike won‘t be left guessing every year how much they may have to pay in city taxes. "I just think there are other options which have not been explored," Byron said. "All we‘ve done is simply focused on the existing system and not looked at what really is the full range of options we have." "I‘m not against amalgamation for the sake of being against amaigamaâ€" ton," he said. "I‘m against the idea that somehow it‘s going to resolve issues and perceived problems simply because by doing that things will be better. That‘s my argument." There are three things that Byron particularly would like to do as mayor. First of all, he would like to protect Waterloo residents and businesses fmtkmdch'pudbymmw»h would like to work with the private sector, the Region of Waterloo and Waterloo‘s two universities to make the city a world centre in terms of clecâ€" tromic technology. "From my point of view, if you‘re going to go on a cruise into uncharted waters, ask yourself, Who do you want to be captain‘?" Byron said. "I‘ve got a proven record." The former chief administrative officer also said just because he is in favor dwwhguahdnhuwhh*pdpu&knflc‘yd government changes being proposed by the province doesn‘t mean he‘s necâ€" essarily in favor of any kind of local amalgamation. All amaigamations in the past have always meant increases in municipal taxes, he said. Waterloo city and regional councillor Joan McKinnon believes she is the Wmmmwfiml&mmfinb&g restructuring between the province and municipalities that‘s to take effect d-h.ummpu”n_umwnâ€"qdm 3. w aevmenpnaintl ap t# t as t t o e t n w 4 McKinnon Byron The reason Saunders said he favored that form of amalgamation is because under such an arrangement, Waterloo would be able to maintain its unique character, : a dm*flnwh-wpuh-::au d Canada‘s Technology Triangle, a transit service run region, lit ities to entertain children in us uon toieite "So Cambrid over Wilmot and Wellesley)." Sormmwwldh:vcwbcmdoqfinh.dflldomwy the city could finance a tax cut would be by getting rid of land it owns that it does not plan to eventually use for its own use. _ An example of that is the Seagram lands that the city recently agreed to purchase. ‘The city has to get out of the land development business and sell off whatever land it‘s not planning for its own uses," he said, "(While camâ€" pany:m;)l‘vebe:ntoldduovamdmw' € Saundmalsosu‘dtlnhedogfivonfomdmuidplndpmm within the Region of Waterloo, f 'Thoptiondmlwouldlikuoseeiwheud!mmlld)fl" into the three cities," he said. For one thing, he would maintain a zero per cent property tax increase on the city‘s portion of the municipal tax bill. He would even consider frying to implement a tax roll back if he could get a majority of councillors to go along with him. &udthwj:&urdznmwbtqm'fi'nphdxwhs)obas an autobody repairman if voters reject him, that doesn‘t mean he hasn‘t goi a plan to run the City of Waterloo if in fact he is elected. "So I think it‘s time that we try a more honest and open approach from a personwhodom‘(mwbupolficmllpdndouflw 10, in lhuymfrmmwifd!pwpks;%h’tmyé",mpback.l already have a career." f "Every one of them have got more pieces of paper hanging on the wall dmlcmddmhopcw.uhnflam.'bd'uyuwmwbc in a mess all the time." However Saunders said that just because he is not planning to become a professional politician and currently doesn‘t have any political experience doesn‘t mean he can‘t do an effective job as mayor. The autobody repairman said he believes a number of current politicians and administrators may appmwbepmkulzlynllqdifiedhhflyhandmmup& "I‘d like to be the mayor of a city that 1 live in so 1 can help the city grow and prosper," he said. "I don‘t want to go off and be the prime minister or anybody else‘s pawn as an MP or an MPP. This is not a career move that I‘m trying out here." : Saunders, 37, said in an interview last Friday that unlike many other politicians, he is not running for mayor to use it as a springboard to get into Waterloo mayoralty candidate David Saunders says he is the best candiâ€" date for mayor of Waterloo because he intends to use all of his energy to truly benefit the people of Waterloo. McKinnon first came to Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo with her husband Wayne and three children in 1966. She is now retired but has worked as a high school teacher in Toronto and has done some partâ€"time teaching at Conâ€" estoga College. § For one thing, she is currently working on a program to develop h qaeedcamumbdzm;?:i::nm:fi‘t: to ing developed in Toronto. entire I} be 'w:;’mmd dlm,wfid:nenmfl{rw‘:mm more its highâ€"tech companies and graduates from its two universities. , if we have good economic development, we will create jobs," she J';rm:ww,nhn&dyaplo:&bqv&hdg wwmflm:w&hhuhdmm continue to do as mayor to help spur economic development and crene b:lordcvclopuim,ud&-mnuhb-mutmdlgrw. Staying with the city‘s fiscal plan means money into the city‘ reserve funds and paying off the city‘s debt by 2011, MeKinmon said. 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