Strict fiscal responsibility, a City-run medical clinic, and AI traffic lights

TAXES AND THE CITY BUDGET

Common Sense on budget

The second pillar, "Accountable City", opens with strict fiscal responsibility. The third pillar, "Healthy City", promises a municipally operated medical clinic "to directly combat the severe provincial healthcare shortage". Thomas Leung's statement to the City says he studied the public clinic models of Colwood and Langford for use in Richmond.

The first pillar promises AI traffic light systems to reduce congestion. Chiu's statement to the City proposes using AI to improve traffic circulation and City communication. The fifth pillar promises to digitize municipal forms.

The organization's Core Values page says City Hall should fix problems instead of blaming the provincial or federal government, and gives the doctor shortage as an example. Health care is a provincial responsibility, and the platform does not say how a City clinic would be funded.

4 PUBLISHED COMMITMENTS

What they say they will do

• Strict fiscal responsibility

  The second pillar promises strict fiscal responsibility. It names no tax target, no saving and no year.

  Common Sense Alliance Association

• A municipally operated medical clinic

  The third pillar promises a City-run medical clinic to address the shortage of family doctors. Leung's statement to the City says he studied the clinic models of Colwood and Langford. No cost or funding source is given.

  Common Sense Alliance AssociationCity of Richmond

• AI traffic light systems

  The first pillar promises to deploy AI traffic light systems to reduce gridlock. Chiu's statement to the City proposes AI for traffic circulation. No cost or intersection is named.

  Common Sense Alliance AssociationCity of Richmond

• Digitize municipal forms

  The fifth pillar promises to digitize municipal forms to streamline processes and improve efficiency.

  Common Sense Alliance Association

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