Mayor and Mayor Candidate Response

Mayor Jonah

Mayor Jonah is the current mayor of Horizonia. He is all for "Taking the extra step." He has lived in Horizonia for 7 years, and he has talked to many people who live here. He wants what the people want.

Mayor Jonah has 4 major ideas: 

1.  Mayor Jonah wants to improve transit, to make it more efficient, and usable, for people who only have transit as a travel option. He also wants to make it greener. He wants mostly to have greener heating.

2. Mayor Jonah wants to build a condo on the old factory. He thinks it doesn't do anything for the town, it is not a tourist attraction, and is not pretty. He thinks the condo will help small businesses. These small businesses can move into the bottom of the condo and people can just come downstairs and buy stuff. He is not going to make them all metal, and made of glass. He wants to make them out of brick, to have them seem more friendly.

3. Mayor Jonah wants to build a community centre. He thinks that day cares can move into it, and that would be good business. He also wants to put a pool in. The reason is that parents will be assured that their kids will be safe while swimming. They can also have swimming lessons in the pool, and it will be good for swimming during the winter as well as the summer.

4. Mayor Jonah wants to build a boardwalk in the swamp. He thinks this will be good because people can enjoy all that the swamp has to offer, and it will be like a conservation area, so no big companies will destroy it. He wants to make it a nature reserve with feeding stations. People will walk along the boardwalk and feed the wildlife that lives there. He also wants to clean out the swamp. It will be volunteer work to do that, and Roy Buck will also help a lot.

Mayor Jonah is genuinely interested in what we have to say. He wants to hear peoples voices, and for families to prosper.

 Emma Swarney

Emma is the mayor-candidate for the upcoming election next year. She has many of the same interests as Mayor Jonah, and is dedicated to Horizonia. 

She loves the community and the people who live here. She loves the small-town feel of Horizonia, and wants to keep it that way. She doesn't want Horizonia to become a big city like Toronto. 

Emma has 3 major ideas:

1. Wants to improve transit because it is so faulty. She thinks she can find a solution for it.

2. She thinks day care is very expensive, and wants to make it more affordable.

3. Project Lakeshore is her biggest idea. 

There are 3 components to Project Lakeshore.

    1. Save the marsh. Emma wants to make the marsh into a conservation area. She thinks this is important because of all the wildlife that is living in the marsh. She would like to clean out the marsh of all the garbage that has been accumulated there.

    2. Turn the smaller abandoned factory into condos. She thinks this will attract some new citizens to Horizonia, therefore making more business and improving the economy. 

    3. Turn the larger abandoned factory into a park with a beach. Emma wants to do this because there are no places in which to swim in the lake, except the super-expensive country club. She thinks this will have a really good effect on the community, and tourism.

Emma wants to make Horizonia a great, very friendly place to live. 

I am not sure who to vote for because of 2 major reasons. 

Both Emma and Jonah have some of the same goals. They are great ones, but this means that there is no difference in which ever one of them you vote for, for mayor. 

The second reason is that their ideas are both very expensive. How will we pay for a whole 2 factories to be destroyed, and then made into something else? How will we pay for a community centre with a pool? How will we pay for a condo to be built? 

Since the big crash in 2008, people are struggling more than ever with money. If our taxes are raised, we may not be able to afford as much as we can now. What if the government doesn't give us the money we need to build all this?

I have many un-answered questions, and that is why I am un decided.