In the run up to the 2017 election, we asked our readers and listeners what issues matter most to them. Every day, we ask candidates for their thoughts on healthcare, growth, traffic, city facilities, downtown, and the other issues important to their campaign. Today, Trevor Dziaduck addresses your issues.

Council candidate Trevor Dziaduck believes things work best when all interested parties work together towards a solution on an issue.

"If you can work together to get a problem solved, it's better than 'I tell you what you need, and you deal with it.' I mean, you can make it work, but there's always that woulda, coulda been, 'they should have done this instead,' which in the long run does not work."

That perspective, which Dziaduck has learned through working as a manager in the oilfield, is one he hopes to apply to the issues facing Airdrie if elected to City Council on October 16.

Dziaduck said he would like to build on this year's improvements to the urgent care centre. He's happy Airdrie now has 24 hour health care service, but he hopes to make sure the urgent care centre is expanded so that it can take in more patients or accommodate emergency services.

Dziaduck said it is nice that Airdrie is a growing community, but there are some issues that accompany growth. In particular, Dziaduck hopes to address infrastructure and traffic if elected. He said it is important to make it easier to get in and out of the City. That could be done by improving access to the highway, or expanding 8th Street to two lanes all the way to Highway 566. He said it would be necessary to work with the City to identify constraints, and possibly work with private companies to address the issues.

When it comes to facilities in Airdrie, Dziaduck believes it is important to make sure all possible groups are at the table.

"I would look at the special interest groups from hockey, soccer, dance, gymnastics, and then see exactly where the needs are gonna be looked at in the future and what we can do to build on it, and then work with them to build a facility that we can all work together with."

Dziaduck said it is also important to build additional community centres that can accommodate weddings, socials and conferences.. He also sees value in looking at what surrounding communities are doing right when it comes to facilities, and learning from them as Airdrie builds for the future.

Dziaduck also thinks downtown redevelopment is a big topic at the moment, but he believes it is important to keep developers at the table in order to see anything actually happen.

"Again, working side by side with the developers and the City to come up with a plan to work together. There's no sense putting in all the public money to redevelop downtown if the developers have no reason to go down there."

He is firm in saying he does not want to see a large waste of public funds going towards developing downtown in a way that citizens don't actually want.

Dziaduck also said one of the things that attracted him to Airdrie seven years ago was low property taxes, and he hopes if he's elected that there will be a way to keep costs low while also improving services.

 

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