KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – According to Southwest Michigan First, economic growth and how to achieve it are at the top of the platform for most candidates running for government office, including candidates for Mayor and the Kalamazoo City Commission.
The economic catalyst organization reached out to the 2023 candidates running for office to get their take on growing the economy. Current Mayor David Anderson told the organization “To encourage employers and residents to want to stay in Kalamazoo, there must be a functional, effective, efficient, responsive city government in place that takes care of its responsibilities. This is work I have been attending to for years and intend to continue.”
His challenger John Allen said his goals are “To provide a voice that is pro-motorist, pro-police, and pro-business. To obtain better communication to the city from neighborhoods, about neighborhood street projects. To compel a full disclosure of raw metrics data for each street project, mandated by the City Streets Policy, and to use those metrics in street redesign.”
Others answering the South Michigan First survey were Kalamazoo City Commission candidate James Ayers and Portage City Council candidate Chris Burns.
Click here to view the complete survey answers.
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