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Gabrielle Battiste’s Promises if Elected City
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BATTISTE’S
PROMISES IF ELECTED CITY COUNCILLOR FOR WARD O-DAY’MIN
Gabrielle is a resilient, strong and capable woman. She is a mother, an entrepreneur and business owner with fresh ideas, common sense and life
Gexperience. She is business oriented, fiscally responsible and focused on opportunities.
She is a city councillor candidate for Ward O-day’min. If elected, Gabrielle wants to create a community of care with safe and walkable neighbourhoods. A community that is inclusive and accessible for every Edmontonian. For her, isolation, ignorance and negativity are not okay. She believes that prioritizing mental, physical health and safety will bring us all together.
Gabrielle sees herself as the one candidate with fresh ideas, backed by the right experiences and skills to start the job on day one. She is an ethics investigator, she teaches councils and boards how to be effective, collaborative and how to work with their administrations to implement strategy. She understands what the job entails from a respectful, best practices perspective. She can bring people to the table and has already built the relationships and connections. She has also created new organizations to monton. As a mother to a 27-year-old autistic son who is going to NAIT, she believes that students will be the future leaders of Edmonton and need inclusive opportunities. She will reach out to schools, cultural organizations and use social media to build an effective and meaningful network for employment, learning, affordable housing and mentorship for students across Edmonton. On other most important things she wants to focus on when elected, these are the things she told Ladies Corner: “I believe in using alternative sources of energy in city planning, building infrastructure. I will work proactively and respectfully with communities and stakeholders to preserve our trees and green spaces as a critical component of ecosystem stability. I will create partnerships with international stakeholders to find better ways to reduce waste. I will encourage continuing education for individual public and corporate accountability. Do as I do—not just as I say.” She continued, “I will use a variety of methods to stay in close personachieve success for the future of Ed- al touch with people who are either marginalized or who are not having their voices heard. I will commit to spending as much time as possible in person across the communities in my ward. I will create paid opportunities for marginalized voices to be proactively consulted on city policies and directions before they happen— to be part of the solution. I will wind down the majority of my businesses while I am a City Councillor. I have partners who can help while I focus my time and energies on finding common ground with people and organizations to move Edmonton forward with focus and practical solutions. I will provide a regular report card to Edmontonians on how I am creating success that is outcome based and flexible, based on feedback from my constituents. I will help lead with transparency, accountability, equity and inclusion to create an Edmonton that has inclusive and diverse possibilities and opportunities for everyone. Together we will build an Edmonton for Edmontonians.”
