THANK YOU! ...For making Victoria Votes a success for its second year! We managed to reach about 10,000 individual voters this year, which is over half of the voters in this city. We hope that Victoria Votes has helped you to become more informed about the municipal election, and look forward to our next election together! In the meantime, we will be looking for ways to sustain Victoria Votes throughout the Council term, so if you have any suggestions just email us! Here is the City of Victoria election summary. And here is B Channel's final report on the election. And a Monday Magazine article on the electi...

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Results

Click here for detailed results! The new council is, in order of most votes: Geoff Young, Charlayne Thornton-Joe, Lisa Helps, Ben Isitt, Marianne Alto, Pam Madoff, Shellie Gudgeon, and Chris Coleman. More on this lat...

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Marianne Alto Q&A

Marianne Alto is running for her first full term on Council after being elected to serve the remainder of Sonya Chandler's term in the 2010 by-election. Alto ran unsuccessfully in '05. She is a business consultant and facilitator - her website is here and here are her answers to our survey: Q: Why are you running and why should I vote for you? A: I bring people together, find common ground, balance competing interests and get results. I think those are good skills to have at the city council and CRD tables. Elected just last fall, I’ve already secured city council approval for an integrated plan to help vulnerable residents get the health services they need, and a comprehensive open government initiative that will give easy access to information and bring city hall to TV. I’ve scheduled...

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Conservation Voters of BC Announces Endorsements

The full list of Conversation Voters of BC endorsements is here, but here are the names for Victoria: Victoria John Luton Philippe Lucas Lynn Hunter Lisa Helps Ben Isitt Rose He...

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Release form Paul Brown's Campaign

Sent out this morning: Paul Brown’s Vision If I am elected Mayor of Victoria, my key pledge is to deliver a Council and City Hall that is open, accountable and transparent to the public. Here’s what I mean by that: · Victoria will have a realistic and public plan for restoring or replacing its crumbling infrastructure, including its sewers, roads and public recreational facilities. · Future city budget plans and financial forecasts will share with the public all the assumptions they are based on, not just those that make the numbers look better than they are. · When taxpayers are told their rates will increase by only 3.9%, they will not get a tax bill later saying 7%. · When city projects are budgeted, that is the amount taxpayers can expect to pay, not double or triple that amount...

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