#9107 - Nov 1991

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Page four, Kensington Market Drum November 1991
Election '91 Election '91 Election '91 Election '91
NOVEMBER 12 NOVEMBER 12 NOVEMBER 12 NOVEMBER 12
What is a Municipal Election?
On November 12 there will be a municipal election in
·roronto.
This means that the people M the City will elect:
• a Mayor
• City Councillors
• Metro Councillors, and
• School Board Trustees.
Who can vote in the Election?
You can vote·if:
• you are a Canadian citizen; and
• you are 18 years of age or older; and
• you or your husband or wife live, rent or own
property in the City of Toronto, anytime
between September 3 and October I I , 1991 .
Where do I vote?
If your name and address arc on the VotetJ' List, the people at
City Hall will mail you a card by October 30, telling you that
Election I hy is November 12. '!'his card will also tell you the
place where )'PU vote.
If your name and address are not on the Voters' List, or you
do not get your Voter's Card in-the mail, call the Ciry Clerk's
Department at 392-1600 and ask for help.
When can I vote?
You can vote on November 12 any time betWeen I 0:00 in
the morning and 8:00 in the evening.
What jobs 'lire people running for?
People are running for the jobs of Mayor, C ity Councillo r,
Metro C oupcillor, and School Board T rustee.
The City-C ounci!J,Qss arc members of Toronto C it y
CounciL The Metro Councillors arc members of Metro
CounciL The Scliool Trustees are members of a Board of
Education. There arc different Boards of Education lor ·
Engli·sh-languagc and French-language p~blic schools, and
for Separate (Roman Catholic) schools. The Separate
School Board has two sections, one for English-speaking
and one for French-speaking people.
What is a referendum question?
A~ well as the names of the people running for office, there will
he a question, or questions, on the ballot. You arc given the
choice of answering yes or no to these referendum questions.
For more on
Election '91, see
Talking Drum, p. 6
and
All Candidates
(some of the
time), page 12
'91 Election '91 Election '91 Election '91 Election '91
NOVEMBER 12 NOVEMBER 12 NOVEMBER 12 NOVEMBER 12
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PRESENT COUNCilLOR:
METRO COUNCIL,
DALE MARTIN
DOWNTOWN WARD (5 AND 6)
(rPtiring) ,- ---
NUMBER OF CANDIDATES·
TO BE ELECTED:
\ I" FIVE - . ONE
*OLIVIA CHOW: Ward 5
trustee for the past six years was
the NDP nominee to replace
· Dale Martin, who retired this
year. At the Board of Education
she was chair of the Personnel,
Race Relations, and English as a
Second Language Committees.
Among her community affiliations,
she is on the board of
directors of St. Stephen's Youth
Employment Centre, the Urban
Alliance for Race Relations, and
the Metro Toronto Legal Aid
Clinic for Chinese/South East
Asians. She was also a community
worker at Woodgreen Community
Centre and assistant to
Dan Heap (1980-84).
Issues of concern to her:
increasing the extent to which
metro government listens to and
shares decision making power
with all residents, especially
those whose voices have not
: been heard; working towards -a
: greener Metro by improving
· public transit, through housing
intensification; attracting more
riders through special programs
such as student passes and pr:oviding
bicycle storage spaces in
subway stations.
*ZOLTAN FEKETE: independent.
Born and raised in Kensington
Market, Fekete now lives in
Thornhill but remains an active
member of the Kensington Business
Association, and the Kensington
Market Area Task Force.
He has a B.A. in Landscape
Architecture from the University
of Toronto and is presently
employed by the Liquor Control
Board of Ontario. He has a
, Cellarmasters Diploma from the
Wine Academy and Higher
Certificate from the Independent
Wine Education Guild.
He is against market value
assessment, believes there
should be more citizen input into
planning the future of the city,
and believes there should be
regular audits to examine spending
by City and Metro Council.
A founding member of the
Friends of Spadina, opposing the
Spadina LRT, he was a member
of the Spadina Transit Consultative
Committee. He helped
introduce a new market specific
by-law to allow residential intensification
and controlled restaurant
growth and also represents
the task force on the Toronto
Hospital Planning Advisory
Work Group. He says the key to
his platform is that he is
opposed to polarization of local
councils by party politics.
I
LARRY LEE, who placed second
in the mayoralty race in
Uxbridge township in 1988 is
running for Metro Council
largely on the issue of free TTC
ser:vice. Lee who runs his own
advertising company came to
Toronto from Hong Kong at age
12 and has been active in politics
and community service most
of his life.
Lee's free TTC idea comes,
he says, from European cities
where you pay one fare to ride
all day. The plan can be carried
out with no increase in Metro
taxes. The 69% revenue shortfall
could be met by increased
advertising sales, a TIC lottery,
and a less than 1 % deduction
from metro paycheques. Benefits
•
.
would be enormous, he says,
from increased small business
along TIC routes to cleaner air
for all of us.
On some of the other issues
of the day: he opposes market
value assessment; wants to see
more police footpatrols; . wants
lowrise affordable housing, bike
paths, and a reduction of the tax
burden for small business.
*MICHAEL LOCKEY
A 45 year old Civil Engineer
gradute from the University of
Toronto, Michael Lockey is a
specialist in waste water treatment
and public transit systems.
He has long been active in
community issues, sp~ifically
dealing with problems of the
handicapped. He is an original
member of Pollution Probe,
organized a citizens' action
group to acquire Belt Line Railway
as a 6.5 km linear park in
Toronto and York, organized
and ran youth and handicapped
adult centres in Scarborough and
East York. He also organized
the 1st Annual Don River Canoe
Race, is is active in neighbourhood
community action group
(ECRA) and is head of the
University of Torono Concrete
Canoe Club!
THE ISSUES
He believes the major issue
facing the voters in the Downtown
core is the massive public
housing projects and opposes
'-
ef'eet
market valuation but believes we
must accept that changes will
have to be made. He strongly
opposes the idea that anyone has
to pay more taxes when they
improve their properties. He
. also thinks something must be
done to reduce the spiralling
trends of crime and drugs and
that economic opportunity will
reduce though not eliminate
these evils.
* STORM MACGREGOR
(Team Toronto) says "We must
put Metro back to work with
fundamental changes to the
Municipal Tax System." A
downtown resident since 1980,
he is currently employed by the
Ontario provincial government
coordinating the construction of
15,000 units of co-op and social
housing. He has also been a
member of the Police Community
Committee for the past five
years and is a member of the
McGill-Granby Village Residents
Association. In the mideighties
he was a founding member
of STOP (Save Toronto's
Official Plan) which fought for
more housing and better development
in the Railway Lands.
At the moment he is best
known in the ward as co-founder
of a lobby group called Citizens
for Property Tax Reform --leading
the fight against Market
Value Reassessment.
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•INDEPENDENT
- works for the downtown community,
not a political party
• EXPERIENCED
Active since 1984 on:
- Kensington Community Task Force
- Spadina Transit Consultative Committee
- Kensington Business Association
• ACCOMPLISHED
-filed legal suit with the city to· get
accounting of your tax dollars
FEKETE wants to work with you, for you.
CALL 592-9348 for h1formation.
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