Mancieri Ready to TAKE ACTION

I, Garrett Mancieri, am very excited and proud to announce my candidacy for City Council in Woonsocket for the 2013 election.  I am ready to work for the people of Woonsocket to bring back our thriving City with new ideas and solutions.  I am happy to share my platform with the voters and hope you will give me a chance to represent you.

My top three priorities will be to promote economic development, increase property values and lower tax rates, and to improve the image/reputation of the City.  First, I will start up a foundation called GROW Woonsocket to collect donations and apply for funds to give out to new and expanding businesses to give our City a competitive advantage.  Second, I will form a Woonsocket Neighborhood Revitalization Group to report code violations, clean up neighborhoods, and apply for grants to rehabilitate blighted property or demolish property to create open space/off street parking.  Third, I will call for a full review of every procedure/guideline of City Hall to make it easy for businesses and investors to do work in the City.  More will follow in the press releases to come.

I have several other priorities as your next Councilman.  I will cut the law budget by implementing a cap and forming a negotiating team for the City with no outside counsel, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars.  I promise to restore all street lights to protect our citizens at night.  I will buy our own tax liens to either collect extra interest or take ownership of properties to resell for a profit or demolish the property to save costs.  We need to sell all empty City owned property and vacant land immediately to save maintenance costs and promote economic development.  I will also implement a fine system for abandoned property owners to improve our quality of life.  It is important to promote tourism with a new website that promote our businesses and will be appealing to the Providence/Boston market.  In addition, I will form sub-committees for the Council to encourage more citizen participation.  It is very important our new City Council meets regularly with our school committee and our RI delegation to have a good working relationship and stay informed.  Please go out and vote on October 8th.  Thank you.

Garrett Mancieri