Kelly Somers

What do you feel about the gifted program being phased out?

Would you support a bylaw to freeze municipal taxes at 2025 rates for 5 yrs to help seniors stay in and maintain there homes. Given today’s economic climate

Why is our water and wastewater bills are higher than other municipalities?

Reviewed the routes , do you support additional routes connecting Tottenham to Beeton to Alliston?

Are you going to do anything about this homeless situations in this town . What ideas do you have to help this matter . The residents of Alliston are feed up with their properties being damaged and personal items being stolen, and the fear of our children picking up discarded contaminated needles and we all know what can happen with that . Action needs to be taken now , we have had enough .

What is your plan on cleaning up the drugs and homelessness in Alliston?

This is an ongoing safety concern for residents and businesses. I understand these are people that need help clearly they are not getting that help here.

If you are elected to council, which other organizations or groups are you part of or working with that are a pecuniary interest now or previously?

What do you want to achieve in the next 4 years to help New Tecumseth become more environmentally sustainable and carbon neutral?

What exactly have you done for Tottenham, with all the builds more cars on our town lines and the roads have become hazards especially in winter months.

Funding for our new high school has been available since 2021, yet we are still years from breaking ground, while Ontario communities funded after us are already under construction. The Province did not create that delay, council vote did.

For the record: A 2023 closed-session decision delayed the project, with individual votes not readily available. In December 2024, the vote to advance the school was

YES: Norcross, Gabrek, Masters, Jacks and Foster;
NO: MacLellan, Cox and Harrison McIntyre.
Biss and Rapin recused.

Question:

1. If you were on Council or the Board when these decisions were made, how did you vote, and why?

2. That delay cost this community roughly two years. What did we gain that justified it? What materially changed about the site, plan or agreement between the 2023 decision and the eventual approval?

3. If elected, what specific steps will you take to move this project forward now?