Katz to tout climate strategy, more cameras
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MAYOR Sam Katz is expected to announce an environmental strategy for Winnipeg as well as plans to place more security cameras downtown during a state of the city address billed as meatier than speeches from earlier years.
The annual event, slated for Friday afternoon at the Winnipeg Convention Centre, will include more specific policy announcements than he delivered during feel-good speeches last year and in 2006, according to his staff.
Katz will refer to a “community climate-change plan” that could involve all Winnipeggers, as opposed to purely corporate emissions, according to one city hall insider this week.
The plan could involve public consultations, provide information about where the city’s greenhouse gas emissions are being produced and suggest broad ways to reduce emissions, sources said.
The mayor is also expected to unveil plans to explore the deployment of more security cameras in downtown Winnipeg to augment the dozens of cameras already monitored by private businesses.
Early this week, the mayor flew to Minneapolis, where private businesses have helped the city install and monitor more surveillance cameras, which are used as both a deterrence mechanism and as a means of gathering evidence against people who commit street crimes.
The city and the Winnipeg Police Service are already beginning to study how cameras could be deployed, thanks to a motion initiated in January by St. James-Brooklands Coun. Scott Fielding.
Traditionally, the State of the City address acts as the mayor’s version of a provincial throne speech, which outlines the government’s plans for the next year.
During the 2007 speech, Katz announced his plans to create a police commission. By the end of the year, city council had approved the creation of a police advisory board.
Last year, Katz also pledged to implement all 30 recommendations made by his Red Tape Commission within one year. By the mayor’s own accounting, he fell short of that goal by two.
The mayor also announced the creation of a new committee to advise him on trade and economic matters. The mayor is also advised by an environmental committee, a seniors’ committee and still plans to implement some of the recommendations made by a committee struck to find means of finding means of replacing revenue lost when and if city council eliminates Winnipeg’s business tax.
Opposition councillors such as Jenny Gerbasi have criticized these entities because they only advise the mayor and do not answer to city council.
No new committees will be announced this year, Katz’s advisors have hinted.
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