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3 Questions For Watertown City Council candidates
By Lexi BrueningPublished: Jun. 23, 2023 at 4:06 PM EDT
WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) -We’re continuing our series of interviews with Watertown City Council candidates ahead of next Tuesday’s primary election.
We’re asking three questions to each of the dozen candidates running for council seats.
On Friday, we sat down with Jason Traynor and MaryEllen Blevins.
1. What do you think of the job the current council is doing?
“I think there needs to be lots of improvement. Especially, I was not in agreement of the golf course price, $3.4 million with an assessed value of $1.1 million. I believe when I get elected, we need a budget amendment. Basically, whatever the city takes in, that’s how much we spend, and if there’s a national disaster, that’s frozen,” said Traynor.
2. What would you do differently on council?
“Listen more. Talk less, listen more. I believe that’s a true leader. We need to sit and hear people’s concerns more,” said Traynor.
3. What do you think the city’s top priority should be?
“Infrastructure, roads, sidewalks, the water system, $50 million. And also this common understanding, and just ideas. We need to just fix the priorities first. Protection, services, water, and a whole bunch of things,” said Traynor.
Traynor says he would have voted for the golf course purchase if the price was closer to the $1.1 million assessed value. He says he supports two pools instead of three and says there are needs that should be prioritized instead.
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[20:58, 5/30/2021] Jason: WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WWTI) — Watertown is gearing up for the primary vote in its 2021 City Council Election.
One of the candidates is born-and-raised, City of Watertown resident, Jason Traynor.
Traynor shared that he has been interested in local politics for many years.
“Over the years, my passion for politics has grown stronger,” shared Traynor. “To learn about what’s going on and to help deal with the issues that people face in this community one by one.”
Traynor stated that he is focusing the majority of his campaign on implementing more mental health resources in the Watertown area.
“My focus points on my campaign is on
mental health services. I believe there’s not enough money to deal with the systemic mental health that we have in Watertown,” stated Traynor. “I believe if we had more money, and more down to Earth people that will sit down and listen to another person’s issues, I believe we can make them more impact the mental health community.”
However, Traynor shared one thing he believes the city is doing right: Infrastructure improvements.
Adding, “there are roads and sidewalks that are being improved. So there’s progress.”
Jason Traynor is currently running against two other candidates for a two year seat on
Watertown City Council.
Early voting for the primary election will begin on June 12 with the final day for voting on June 22.
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Watertown Bus System is the second top of my programs. Sunday, January 26th, 2020 Newspaper Watertown Daily Times shared the information about me which is I was riding and talking about Watertown bus system.
Bus system improvement is the second top priority of my program. Currently the city bus operate on Monday to Friday at 7am to 5.40pm, Saturday service first bus leave at 9.40 and the last bus leave at 5pm.
My program is increase the bus operation hours service from Monday to Saturday until 10PM with offering bonus ride include $10 ride pass.
My target is attract the people (workers and college/student) interest to riding bus. This program also concerned to increase the visitors of shopping place like malls, grocery stores and cinema. The people who have not vehicle can enjoy the night time with family and friends. Upgrade the bus facilities and provide WI-FI is apart of my program.
