Scott hosting town hall meeting
Councillor Susan Scott invited members of the community to join in a conversation she offered to have during a meeting at the Marriott Courtyard in downtown Prince George Sunday afternoon to kick off her reelection campaign.
About 75 people attended including Mayor Lyn Hall, and councilors Murry Krause, Garth Frizzell, Frank Everitt, Brian Skakun and MLA Shirley Bond.
After Scott offered a few talking points about what she’s done as a city councillor in the past four years, she opened the floor to questions from the audience and with the help and guidance of her fellow councilors she addressed several issues including homelessness, affordable housing, the ability for seniors to age in place, accessibility, infrastructure, taxation and speeding on the city streets.
“It’s good to spend time with people who want to make our city the best it can be,” Scott began.
Several issues were highlighted including how services for the homeless in the downtown core can be improved, including toilets placed in strategic spots, how going forward council will address the fact that salaried employees were eligible for overtime they claimed during last summer’s wildfires that brought more than 10,000 evacuees into the city, the sinkhole on Winnipeg Street, how residential taxes need to be kept affordable and how industry investors not in the downtown core should be offered incentive tax breaks.