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Originally Posted by ThePusherMan
Well, Erin Mendenhall is our new Mayor. Looking forward to what we can get done when the city council (RDA) are on the same team with the Mayor.
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I'm stoked. Erin will do a great job. She was really good on the council. Luz was a solid candidate as well but I think knowledge of the mechanics of a city is a huge deal. So our choices where, mayor with good connections on the hill (Luz) OR mayor with deep knowledge of city issues and functions (Erin). We lucked out and got a great choice this year NO ugliness and two strong, smart, West Side women to choose from! I don't know if any of you know what a bullet we dodged with Jim Debakis. His Twitter feed is whacky.
Salt Lake's primary challenge has been in keeping momentum and focus on critical projects, focus on our city's development and defend its interests from the asshats on the hill. It needs to engage on a county and state level and have a voice on things like alcohol legislation (A much bigger deal than anybody thinks), transportation, regional planning issues, continued recruiting of tech and creative professional uses. Some really basic stuff too: the city needs a functional maintenance budget and master plan for example. The endless cycle of study after study after study needs to end. It's action time.
This is all city-level stuff and it will help to have somebody who understands these issues and know the history of these issues, understands the funding mechanisms of these issues and Erin is the right person. I'm personally pretty excited about the prospect of an Mendenhall mayor and a Hunstman governor.