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Continued development
I believe that Chelsea can become a vibrant and exciting community while still retaining an integral part of its heritage and its rural character. It is what makes us different from so many other municipalities and what makes Chelsea so special. Our rural traditions must remain at the forefront of our continued development, more importantly, though, we have to move forward together, united. In order to accomplish this task our council needs to improve communications between town hall and residents and we also must act with more transparency.
Our municipality needs to flourish, but as Chelsea changes, we need to ensure that these changes are in line with the aspirations of our residents while still reflecting what we have always been; a proud, united and environmentally conscious community.
We need to improve our infrastructures and municipal services. We need to work with our school boards to ensure that our young families can send their children to our schools here in our community. We cannot wait until tomorrow, when the reality of our demographics will leave us with little or no options and we’ll be forced to send our children away to schools in other municipalities.
We need to protect our natural resources, our lakes and waterways, and make the right environmental decisions. Seniors need better services and options, options which can permit them to retire in the community they’ve lived in and built for us. We have to deal with these issues today, before these problems take us by surprise and become too expensive and difficult to resolve.
I will work to open the lines of communication and increase transparency in the planning process. It’s time for town hall to be inclusive in its planning for us to achieve unity and maintain our sense of a healthy, striving community.
I will address the issues that concern us today rather than wait for these issues to address us tomorrow.
I will fight for a continued, sensible and affordable development.
Managing Public Funds
Chelsea is one of the most desirable villages in Western Québec and can still be so much more. I have discovered that the citizens of Chelsea have an incredible sense of unity in its aspirations of becoming a more modern, environmentally friendly, united and inclusive community.
These dreams can become reality, but not at any price. We cannot, in good conscience, continue to manipulate or abuse our public funds; we must become an example of best practices. We can preserve Chelsea’s uniqueness, its cherished ties to its traditions and rural character through efficient management of financial resources and at the same time continue to flourish as a community.
By coming together and finding common ground we can trace the future of our municipality and its development. We can achieve all of our goals while protecting our public funds from unwise spending and mismanagement. I believe that with good planning, budgeting, communication and execution these dreams can become reality. It is in this way that Chelsea can preserve its enviable sense of community for generations to come, so that our children can raise our grandchildren in a community we’ve proudly prepared for them.
We can accomplish this only through the efficient and transparent management of our public funds. I will endeavour to protect our future by protecting our common interests as well as our public purse.
I will voice your concerns at the municipal table.
I will fight for the efficient management of our public funds.
