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TED CALLAGHAN

your candidate for Mayor/ votre candidat à la mairie

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 Now is the time for a change in the City of Greater Sudbury ’s leadership – time for Ted Callaghan to make the transition from trusted City Councillor to a caring and devoted mayor. As Councillor, Ted has seen firsthand that for a mayor to have little or no experience in municipal politics just doesn’t work. One of Ted’s greatest assets is his 16 years of relevant experience at Tom Davies Square . His many accomplishments speak to the strength of leadership we need now more than ever.

A proud citizen of the City of Greater Sudbury and trusted public servant since 1994

Never one to shy away from civic involvement, Ted entered municipal politics in 1994, serving two terms on Sudbury ’s City Council and Regional Council. Ted was acclaimed to City Council in 1997 and has twice served as Deputy Mayor. Following amalgamation, Ted was elected to serve three consecutive terms as City Councillor of the City of Greater Sudbury .

With his impressive track record of fiscal accountability at city hall and a champion of community causes, Ted feels the time is right to bring his years of experience to the Mayor’s office with the goal of creating a dynamic and prosperous city.

A strong, experienced voice at City Hall

As Chair of the Finance Committee, Ted has been frustrated by the waste of taxpayer dollars and countless hours spent on misdirected and poorly organized exercises designed to deliver on large, grandiose projects that have not come to fruition. Ted Callaghan represents our best hope for a Mayor who has the experience and leadership skills we need to deliver the realistic and affordable community services and programs citizens expect.

Ted’s accomplishments

During 16 years of dedicated public service to the citizens of the City of Greater Sudbury , Ted Callaghan has served multi-year terms on over thirty committees, association boards and community task forces, in many cases, providing leadership as Chair or Vice-Chair. He considers the following to be among his greatest accomplishments.

Pioneer Manor Re-development

Greater Sudbury Public Library

Finance Chairperson

ParkSide Older Centre Development

Diversity Committee Formation

Millennium Committee Leadership

Ted’s Platform for Change

1. A City That Works

Focusing on delivering core services such as water, parks and recreation, roads, policing, • fire protection, transit and libraries

Responding to citizens’ concerns before they become large and problematic issues•

Continuing to support community initiatives surrounding services to seniors •

Setting the tone for positive corporate responsiveness to citizens’ concerns in • cooperation with council

Actively representing all citizens of the community•

2. Good Leadership

Understanding how municipal government works•

Being upfront with people regarding their expectation of what municipal government • can offer

Continuing the difficult task of ensuring tax rates stay low, while maintaining core city • services

A knowledge of the city, its people and their character/qualities, as well as the ability to • harness these strengths in order to make a difference

Working with and supporting City Councillors in representing their constituents•

3. Economic Diversification

Building on existing public and private infrastructure

Supporting community medical initiatives

Championing our city’s vital mining supply and service sector

Further developing our community’s “City of Lakes ” initiative

Exploring the development of an emergency services training and education facility

Ted Callaghan is the change we need

  
For experience you can trust, for change you can count on … elect Ted Callaghan as your next Mayor for the City of Greater Sudbury .

 To join his team of volunteers or contribute to Ted Callaghan’s election campaign, call, email, visit his website, or drop by the campaign office in the Montrose Mall, 770 Lasalle Boulevard .

TedCallaghan.ca

Leadership for a Greater Sudbury !

I am honoured to have had the opportunity to serve as the Mayor of the City of Greater Sudbury and look forward to your support on October 25^th.  Over the past four years I’ve had the opportunity to meet with many of you at various community events, the local coffee shops and more recently on your door step as I’ve been out on the campaign trail. Your creative ideas and advice have been greatly appreciated and I thank your for your expressions of support.

I am proud of the infrastructure improvements that we have been able to implement in Valley East during my first term as Mayor.  We started by completing the rebuilding of Municipal Road 80 through McRae Heights to Val Caron.  Since then, we have undertaken major projects on Muncipal Road 80 from Frost St. to the Village of Hanmer , Main Street West in Val Caron, and Municipal Road 15 from Belisle Drive to Chelmsford . The bridge on Desmarais Road is being repaired and significant improvements have been made to streets from Hillside to Martin to Flake, to Dugas.  We have also identified and drilled new wells to ensure that Valley East is well supplied with safe, clean water.

Over the past four years, I have spent a great deal of time visiting businesses throughout the city.  In my meetings with business owners I listened carefully to their suggestions regarding how we can improve municipal services and streamline our processes at City Hall to make it more efficient for businesses.  I was impressed with my visit to the Valley East Industrial Park and met several business owners who are shipping products to mining operations across Canada and around the world.  The City is actively working on expanding the Valley East Industrial Park to create opportunities for additional light industrial development and more jobs in the Valley.

 As Mayor, nothing gives me more pleasure than to meet our young people and encourage them to pursue their goals and dreams.  Though I have visited many schools across the city, my visit to Confederation Secondary School was particularly memorable.  The Evolutionary Band was a highlight but I was also impressed with the trades and shops program which will help many young people find their niche. I also held a web-streamed town hall session with senior students and they asked the Mayor tough and well thought out questions. It is encouraging to have our youth engaged in political discourse.

Looking to the Future

For the next four years I have outlined a platform that is forward looking and responsible. A few examples are listed below and I encourage you to visit my website for more details at www.johnformayor.ca .

Encouraging Development and 
Streamlining Approvals

Mayor John Rodriguez has convened regular meetings between the major developers in Greater Sudbury and municipal staff to discuss ways to speed up approvals and encourage development while maintaining high standards for inspection. These efforts have resulted in additional staff to deal with backlogs, shortened turnaround times for major approvals and a solid plan to create an integrated “one-stop shop” for technical approvals. John is committed to have this new system in place by January 2011, in time for the next construction season.  

In his first State of the City address, John Rodriguez directed staff to initiate a plan to ensure that the city will have an adequate supply of “shovel-ready” industrial land for the next twenty years. This work is well underway and will identify where the city should strategically invest in directly developing our own industrial parks or make investments in infrastructure that will assist private industrial land development. John will ensure that this report is finished as soon as possible and given priority in budget deliberations

Finding Efficiencies

Greater Sudbury ’s Auditor General is now firmly in place and has begun his reviews of municipal operations with a focus on efficiencies and best practices. John Rodriguez will ensure that the Auditor General recommendations are addressed so that maximum value is achieved for the city.

Beyond the work of the Auditor General, John believes that Council must ensure that every municipal department and every operation that this city undertakes is needed and is financially sound. Over the next four years, John will lead a systematic and strategic Council review of every budget line in every department to ensure that the City of Greater Sudbury is in the right businesses, that we have the correct priorities, that we are as efficient as possible, and that our operations are matched to our financial capacity. 

In the spring of 2009, Mayor Rodriguez initiated a direction to city staff to prepare for constraint and plan for the challenges ahead. That effort began last fall with almost $4 million in savings identified for 2010.  John will ensure that these efforts continue in the future and efficiencies and savings are maximized across the municipality’s operations. 

John Rodriguez is proud of the partnership that he has fostered with municipal workers through the “Year of the Employee” and the savings that were jointly identified in snow removal. He is committed to continuing this partnership as the city deals with future financial realities. Empowering municipal employees to find efficiencies at all levels of the organization is key to our long-term viability.

Building a Community of Communities

Pete Chenier

Christine Guillot-Proulx

I first off want to explain why I decided to run for City Council. I have a huge passion for helping others; I have myself needed help in the past and was very lucky for the family and friend support that surrounds me. Unfortunately, not very many people have that kind of support and many people do not reach their full potential in life due to circumstances that they just can’t overcome.  I began volunteering for different organizations and even though I was giving my time to help these organizations I still felt like I wasn’t making that big of an impact. I decided to sign up as a Big Sister with Big Brothers/ Big Sisters, I also signed up as a Board Member for YWCA and the Sudbury Volunteer Association. With these organizations I am able to be more functional in the community and make more of a difference.  I am proud to be a part of these wonderful organizations, but still feel that I need to do more. This is where politics comes in.

Due to a series of events, I signed up as Federal Green Party of Canada Candidate- Nickel Belt.  I have a love for rural areas; the beauty and tranquility of these districts astound me. Because I immediately jumped in on a federal level I really didn’t consider running municipally. The bug was put in my ear and I soon realized how much of a difference I could make as a City Councillor. The impact would certainly fulfill my need to help others and I know I can make some positive changes in the citizens’ lives.

I am a mother of 2 girls- Cassandra 10 and Julia 3. I was 16 years old when I had my first daughter and am not shy to hard work and struggle. I was a high school dropout when I was pregnant and after giving birth I went back to school. I worked 2 part-time jobs while attending school and worked my way up to College and graduated with CDI as an Executive Office Assistant; I needed to get a quick college certificate so that I can quickly enter in the career world and provide for my daughter. I did all this with huge support from my families (especially my wonderful parents) and no help and more anguish from my daughter’s father.

I am now happily married to a very supportive husband, Shawn Proulx and work full time as a bookkeeper for Thermotek Insulations Inc. We live in small home in Sudbury , which is under renovations. Repairs and renovations happen based on the time and finances that we have. My husband and I both work hard and know the financial struggles of having a family.

I am a proud Christian who turns to God whenever I am faced with a difficult decision. I am blessed everyday of my life and I want to pass on that appreciate and happiness to everyone that I meet.

I don’t hide the fact that I do not live in Ward 6; by no means should this be the reason why I wouldn’t accumulate votes. I have sisters and a brother that live in the Valley area with all my nieces and nephews; I am out there quite often. My reasoning for running in this Ward is that I will eventually run Federally in the Nickel Belt region. Being elected as City Councillor would be the beginning of my political career and I want a chance to show the citizens what I cando; I need to prove myself to the community in order to ever advance politically. Below is my vision for Ward 6.

My Vision

-          Local Farmers Market for the farmers that run through our Wards and the adjacent Wards.

-          Better public transportation.

-          Better leisure activities for our youth and young families such as dance, music, parent and tot classes at the local recreational centers, leisure skating rink, as well as additional biking and walking trails in the areas.

-          Better city services, such a snow removal.

These proposals come from listening to what the locals have told me.  I will always listen to what the community has to say and will work hard in City Hall to get them what they want.  I am a very loud person and am determined in everything that I do. I am not asking to be elected so that I can make political contacts, my agenda is strictly for the community.

I have said many times that I would go far and beyond the duties of a City Councillor and if elected I will cut my current full time job to 3 days a week and dedicate the other 2 to my council duties. Any community projects that are going on you can be sure that I will be there with my work boots on getting my hands dirty (excluding road work). I want citizens to contact me with whatever aid they are looking for and I will provide them with the resources if I can’t personally help.

Lastly, I want to acknowledge my determination to get the Ward 6 community involved. When community comes together for events, local projects etc. the community as a whole strengthens. In rural areas, community involvement is much easier to accomplish, and with the help from the public, local projects can be done at a lower cost and the spirit of the community will evolve and expand. 

In this 2010 Municipal Election I ask all the voters from Ward 6 to checkmark my name on the ballot.

Look for me at the mall, grocery store and other public venues. I am out there trying to meet as many people as I can. Every Wednesday night I will be at the local Tim Hortons, please come and say hello.

I look to the public for information and suggestions, please contact me 929-8353 or christineguillot@hotmail.com.