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Welcome the candidates comment

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a public service presentation of P.T.'s.
All candidates running for mayor of Ann

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Arbor were invited to come to see T.N.

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To share their platform and ideas.
Candidates to participate will be shown in

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alphabetical order. Well I'm Jackie tonight
and I'm running for mayor of Ann Arbor

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I've lived in Ann Arbor for thirty three
years my wife and I have lived in the

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Dicken neighborhood for twenty years
where we raised our kids I've had the

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privilege of representing the Fourth Ward
and city council since two thousand and

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thirteen I spent my legal career representing
labor unions and their members not

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corporations I care deeply about working
people and their ability to afford to live

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in our city the two thousand and eighteen
mayor all the action is an important one

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because for the first time residents
will be electing their mayor for

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a four year term voters need to ask themselves
which candidate deserves their trust

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to be responsive to their concerns I have

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a strong record of listening to residents
and representing their common sense

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priorities this election provides an
important choice between promises and

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leadership the incumbent has served
for nine and a half years as part of

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a city council majority that failed to
address the same problems he now promises to

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fix as mayor I will demonstrate the leadership
necessary to resolve those problems

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as your next mayor I will fix the city
streets faster and better than proposed by

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the incumbent resident should not be asked
to rate eight years to recover from the

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city's failure to maintain its roads as
your next mayor I will pursue neighborhood

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friendly development the city can that
satisfy the demand for affordable housing by

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supplying luxury apartments and expensive
condominiums as your mayor I will restore

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an arbors role as environmental leader.
It's inexcusable that Ann Arbor Once

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a leader in consumer recycling as allowed
its recycling program to fail it's

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inexplicable that Ann Arbor has not led
the effort to involve the U.S. E.P.A.

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In the Gelman dioxin plume disaster as you
may or I will end our practice of hiring

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unnecessarily expensive consultants in Arbor
has sufficient intellectual capital to

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create citizen advisory boards instead of
hiring consultants as your next mayor I

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will be

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a good steward of your tax dollars and
unicycle fees as an example in contrast to

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the incumbent I recently voted against
the increase in residential water as

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a culture member I have championed
transparency accountability responsiveness and

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community values as your next mayor I
will continue to be guided by those

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principles Please visit my Web site to learn
more about my campaign and my plans to

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improve our community Jack Eaton for mayor
dot com voters have an important choice

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to make in this election I ask for
your vote on August seventh Thank you.

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Hi My name is Christopher Taylor and I'm
the mayor of Ann Arbor it has been my

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pleasure and my honor to serve as mayor
since two thousand and fourteen when I

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pledged to improve basic services and hands
quality of life since twenty fourteen

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we have accomplished

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a lot the roads have been terrible for
decades but we are spending millions more

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now every single year and we are on track
to have eighty percent of our road rated

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good and excellent by twenty twenty five.
We intervened in the one for dioxin loss

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and to demand stronger clean up and protect
our drinking water were in line to

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obtain best practices accreditation for the
Ann Arbor Police Department by the fall

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of two thousand and eighteen we've
completed all of our tier want to tear to

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pedestrian safety projects near our
schools to help keep kids safe we've

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accelerated storm water projects plans of
thousands of new street trees improved R

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L G B T Q equity score from seventy seven
to over one hundred dedicated two point

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three million in new money
for affordable housing

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a duster in safety climate
action and we've built

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a universal access playground to gallop
park our finances are strong and our double

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A plus bond rating is reaffirmed so I'm
running for reelection this year because

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there's so much more to do and I just
love an arbor and I am not alone in that

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because I hear the same thing from people
every single day they love our town they

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tell me that this is the best place they've
ever lived and they take pride in what

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we've built together now there are lots of
reasons for this but I think that we at

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city hall of

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a role to play first and foremost the city
is responsible for our basic services

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the streets sidewalks storm water clean
water sewer police fire these are the

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things that we do every single day and
we must make them better and better I'm

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committed to maintaining and improving these
basic services because they are at the

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core of what we do and over the next four
years I want to continue to increase road

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spending roads eighty percent good X.

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I want to take real action and one for
dioxin secure safe drinking water for

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generation with

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a refurbished water treatment plant and
improved water main network I want to

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reduce they provide flooding with more
storm water projects but you see I know

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we're not just

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a basic community. And are is not going to
be the best place you've ever lived and

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it's not the most equitable place
you've ever lived if it's not the most

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sustainable place you've ever lived so we
need to fund and implement our fordable

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housing plan so that we can improve
diversity and inclusion we need to make an

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arbor an age friendly community to help
seniors age in place we need to start up

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and support

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a trusted community policing commission
we need to fund and implement our climate

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action plan so that we can do our part
we need to improve our recycling and

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composting systems and finally we need to
make sure that we are the most pedestrian

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and bike friendly town you've ever lived
in my priorities are in our priorities

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basic services sustainability that's why
I'm running for re-election and I'd be so

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grateful for your vote on August seventh
thanks so much. This concludes the

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presentation by candidates running for
mayor of Ann Arbor. This program is

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available for viewing on line is
it dot org slash watch C.N.N.

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. Remember to do your part
and vote and I'll get seven.