Three minutes on me and my candidacy

This year’s QATV Address…fired up!

I sat down with Joe C and Mark to discuss this year’s campaigns, communication, campaign finance, and participatory budgeting.

Here is what I’d do first if I was elected.: catch up on what is in the pipeline to help move it along and try to start a South Shore climate summit.

Here I am getting fired up about a couple of fellow candidates who got hyper-literal about a question rather than answer to the intent of the question. The same guys were ignoring the time limits too ;)

THE PLANET IS ON FIRE: Here I’m giving my opinion on embracing a stretch code (a locally mandated code or alternative compliance path that is more aggressive than base code, resulting in buildings that achieve higher energy savings.) When talking about “a reach” I am responding to Councilor McCarthy’s concern that it might be too much of a reach for building and developing.

EJ = Environmental Justice Communities “describes situations where multiple factors, including both environmental and socioeconomic stressors, may act cumulatively to affect health and the environment and contribute to persistent environmental health disparities.” I believe the whole world’s environment would be much better if we treated every neighborhood like a wealthy neighborhood.

What we are talking about here is whether or not I would support a moratorium on building in flood-prone properties and encourage the city to buy these properties when they become available.

The Quincy Dems Had a foum for each and every candidate this year.

Joe had to represent ward one on his own at the QDCC forum.