Kathy Bellemare is looking to remain on Dauphin City Council as she runs in the municipal election set to take place on October 26th.
Bellemare is originally from The Pas and moved to Dauphin thirty-two years ago.
She says that people should vote for her because she brings a lot of experience and has a big curiosity about how things work and how they could be made better.
"I have the time and the energy. I just want to roll up my sleeves and help make Dauphin an even better place to live," she adds.
Even though Kathy Bellemare feels that a lot has been accomplished during the eight years she spent on council, there are still things that she wants to work on.
"One of the things is that I think we need to develop a community safety and wellbeing plan for all our community partners... I think it's important that all the partners sit down and plan together and get to know each other and plan a stronger future forward... Also, economic development, that's an ongoing thing. We always need to figure out how [we can] better position our community, so that we can provide lots of employment for people and offer lots of services for our community, so people want to come here and stay here," she adds.
Bellemare went on to say that she's also interested in developing a climate mitigation and adaptation plan.
"I think we all realize that there's some wonky weather out there and we just need to stand back and take a look and say 'Ok, what could happen? How do we prepare for that? How do we minimize that, so that we're not at the mercy of some of these huge weather events?'," she adds.
Kathy Bellemare says that her main priority is public safety.
"I think that community safety is important right now and I think economic development is important right now. And sometimes that ties together. If people are not employed and they feel [that] their lives are out of control, certainly that could dovetail into the crime rates that we're having and we need to figure out a way of stopping that and improving that for our community," she adds.
Bellemare also says that the reasons for crime are not neccessarily simple and that there is no quick fix.
Anyone interested in running for mayor, council or reeve has until September 20th to register.
