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A Campaign for Change
Hratch Aynedjian is committed to positive change and will:
- Fight to lower property taxes;
- Provide leadership on community safety and crime prevention;
- Clean up our ward by putting an end to all graffiti and illegal signs;
- Champion green spaces and environmental initiatives;
- Work to improve our cherished municipal services;
- Take on measures to reduce gridlock on our streets; and
- Help make our ward a better place to live, work, and raise our children.
Hratch Aynedjian has proposed a ten-point plan to fight crime:
- Establish a task force that will work with community groups to coordinate a comprehensive and practical strategy to crime prevention.
- Initiate crime and safety audits to help identify concerns and target potential areas of criminal activity.
- Lobby higher levels of government to impose tougher sentences for violent crimes, including minimum sentences for all repeat offenders.
- Make crime prevention a basic element of community planning.
- Ensure the timely enforcement of property standards.
- Implement a zero tolerance policy for graffiti, illegal signs and garbage dumping.
- Establish business improvement areas as well as support community and tenant associations.
- Work with schools to make facilities available after-hours and on weekends for youth recreation and programs.
- Expand innovative programs such as City Watch and utilize technology such as infrared cameras to detract criminal activities.
- Stop marijuana grow house operations in our communities.
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