hello and welcome to c c t v s channel seventeen town meeting television and another in our twenty nineteen live candidate forums i'm your host matt kelly on tonight show candidates vying for north district city council seat on march sixth one of these three candidates will be the next city councillor for the north district let's meet our candidates vying for the kid for the position as a democrat is franklin paulino as an independent we have keenan christianson and also running as an independent we have erica bundy reddick our format for this evening is a sixty second candidate opening statement followed by a round robin question and answer with the candidates answering questions that i will give them the candidates have been given the questions ahead of time time now for our opening statements ladies first erica bunny reddick let's begin with you thank you it's really nice to know that chill really is not dead here in burlington  my name is eric about erratic and born and raised in vermont family ties to the north and since the early sixty's and running as an independent but i'm also self proclaimed conservative and i just don't like labels at least not today i don't like labels and so we're going to go with that and my big thing for vermont is economic development my big thing for burlington especially is economic development economic development conscious economic development and that's my that's my statement very good christianson your sixty second opening statement my name is keenan christensen and i'm running for the north district to represent the new north and the reason why i'm running is because i believe that when communities are working together all of us thrive we can find solutions to housing affordability here in burlington we can find solutions to climate change we can find solutions to making north avenue safer and we can bring community services out to the north end i'm a young attorney here in town i've represented survivors of violence i've represented multi million dollar corporations and i'm a former law clerk to justice beth robinson i believe in excellence through hard work and that's what i'm going to do for all of you when i'm elected as your next city councilor very good franklin paul do you know your opening statement my name's franklin paulino and i'm the democratic candidate for the northeast and i'm running for office because of a passion for public service and i'm dedicated to helping people i've been a career prosecutor for most of my career and as a prosecutor i know this community i work for t j donovan and sara george and during those four years i know this community struggles i see them every day our priority needs to be to bring a common sense approach to city government to get more things done for our tax dollars to get more value for our cities assets that's why i'm running i'm a father three my wife was born and raised here as a partner to my wife and a father to my three children a career prosecutor i will ask tough questions and get results very good are sixty second opening statements from our candidates thank you for all of those statements it's a pleasure an honor to actually share the stage with each of you i want to salute your courage for your willingness to serve our city we have a question the phone lines are already lighting up so we'll go to line one right here   your response to the question please so the tweets were hit me at a very visceral level i had the privilege of representing survivors of violence for the last year and you know i was really upset and disillusioned by the tweets you know i condemned them i issued a statement shortly after that i found out about them but i'm really focused on how we move forward as a community because there is going to be a lot of hard work that the other candidates going to have to put in to really build bridges to bring folks together violence impacts on all of us and it impacts all of us in various ways and i'm really focused on how we move forward as a community it's going to take a lot of hard work you know when i came out to my father as gay it did not go over well he was very upset he did not accept my sexuality and i could have ostracized him i could have said no we're not going to have a relationship it took a lot of hard work and effort to build that relationship back up and i'm so glad that we did because it allowed me and my father to have a really good relationship i encouraged mohamed to continue to put in hard work he came with me yesterday to go see restraining order hearings where frequently survivors are appearing without representation from an attorney where frequently they have to face their abuser who has an attorney we can do better here in vermont and one of the things that i'm proposing a city council is funding a city attorney to provide that representation to survivors so that no one seeking a restraining order has to go into court alone   i have i have a few feelings about this on a personal level obviously it's horrifying you know you never want to hear about people being sexist or racist or anything because that kind of hate and misunderstanding just doesn't make sense to me i wasn't raised that way and it doesn't register so it just makes me really sad now that being said this person is out in the open being public about it and they get to say whatever they want to because we have what's called freedom of speech here and i then get to vote with my feet and if this person i know happens to be a massage nest i'm not going to go where they work i'm not going to buy from the store i'm not going to vote for them for city council and now it's out in the open that they are who they are and so it's not a secret and so to me better to the question poised to human question well these races are should be about the voters and the constituents should send the the candidate a message this behavior will not be tolerated it was just a few years ago this behavior happened it was a pattern and rights and democracy has stood by their candidate that's party over politics bro and tony is no better they'll see right through it yet transparency are going to we're going to move right on we've got the phone tree lighting up  the audience from our constituents so we'll move right on here to our line to color you're on the air here with our north district candidates for city council your question please good evening let a mystical tillotson i live in safer venue to travel as further vehicles at this tree and bicycling and any other mode of transportation and i will warn you that if anyone comes up with the idea of more  rhetoric will begin with your answer to the question about north avenue safety i would love to have a really intelligent well articulated answer for this question and frankly i don't my understanding is that there is a process already under way in the city already has a number of plans for lighting and sidewalks than did did did did did did today and so as representative government i'm going to trust that they're moving in the right play we need bus pull outs so the buses can move out of the way and they can stop and drop off their passengers easily and safely we also need an ambulance service we need an ambulance service it's going to be on the ballot in two thousand and twenty but we need it as soon as possible and we also need safer sidewalks for senior citizens it is unacceptable that the hungry senior centers citizens cannot take a leisurely walk around the building or good  christian christianson the sixty second response please i wholeheartedly agree we need those lighted cross walk we were promised them two years ago and we still don't have them that's an acceptable in addition to the light across locks we need to make sure that we have the chirping devices on the on the cross walks because we have a number of blind neighbors who can  cross the street because they don't have the ability to know when the lights have changed because we don't have the chirping devices in addition i agree that the sort of armadillo bike barriers along with the large plastic barriers are ineffective and we need to find a different solution it's a waste of tax dollars to install them because they were already been taken out by plows we need to find a better solution and i think that we can do that by exploring you know better installments of a more permanent solution that includes green space in addition i think that we need to increase crosswalks near the bus stations because we have a number of people who are getting off the bus and don't have a cross walked across that resulting in folks darting across the street and we need to fix that and finally we need to increase the lighting along north avenue because when it's dark at night it's very difficult for folks to see and it's very difficult for folks to see not only when they're walking on the sidewalk but for drivers to see who's trying to cross the street so more lights more lighted crosswalks get rid of those plastic barriers ok we're going to move right on here it looks like we don't have a question at this point from the audience so we'll move on here to our questions you've been proper provided with before and we'll start with you franklin do you support the city's economic development right path it's our job to continue his work and what he's done i think that he's done a great job i think city place is a very positive will be a very positive change we need to grow burlington to in a smart way  keep the vermont image but attract new people and keep the people who want to stay here and that's why i propose affordable housing as well as part of my public safety platform that christianson the economic development strategy of burlington to support it so i think that the economic development strategy for burlington has been too focused on downtown and in particular it's been too focused on what the developers need and not what the community needs i think you know city place would have been a great idea had the financing been in place and had city council in the mayor done its job to ensure that before don cynic's broke around that the financing was in place so that we didn't end up with a hole in the ground i think what we really need is to not put all of our eggs in one basket and continue the economic development out into the north and we have some of the greatest restaurants down in the north and we have some of the greatest activity centers and i want to see more of that development coming out to the north and the north and sends about two point one to two point two million dollars a year down to city hall and it feels very like it feels like very little that money is coming at seat o's strategic plan for twenty one thousand for the city and i mean there's one hundred things on the list but there were a few that really stuck out for me and one is reduction of regulatory barrier barriers to building which is one of the biggest reasons that we have housing shortage well it's a reason that we have housing shortage and it's affecting people being able to keep property in the family so as an example my grandparents house in the n end has some weird zoning issue but now i can't get a mortgage to buy it and the only person who's going to be able to is an investor who can pay cash for it so we're like losing our community because of silly regulations that don't make any sense one of the big ones that i love that they're planning to do is mapping the city to see where there are opportunities for building for growth where are there are gaps and services and that we can see like what do we actually need here and that we we can have i'm calling it conscious economic development rather than waiting until our infrastructure is crumbling and we're forced to seek outside investment to help us kind of catch back up let's start deciding who we want to come here like champlain college as an example has a program where they teach but you know game development why doesn't the sports have a production site here that they can utilize all of these young college graduates but there's so much more started it's a great topic i understand we have a lot of callers dialing in and we'd like to answer their calls so we'll go right to the phones right now and caller you're on the line here with the north district city council candidates do you have a question please questions that they may have so keen and i believe it's your turn to start so i started my campaign in early december and the first thing that i did was coordinate my campaign get as many of my neighbors involved as possible because this i wanted this campaign to be about people first i have been knocking on every on my neighbors doors i've personally not to now and over seven hundred doors because i want to hear from my neighbors and i want to hear what issues are important to them i've had several house parties with our neighbors where we've had great discussions about all of the issues that are impacting the north and i have gone again to over seven hundred doors to personally hear from folks because i'm invested in representing our community and making sure that your interests are being heard and finally i have been working very hard to ensure that our next city councilor puts the new northants interests first and is really concerted on making sure that all of us thrive in the new north and not just those of us that can afford to thrive thank you erica bundy running your outreach and what have you heard yet that's that's a great question i have to tell you that i literally put my name in the hat like two weeks ago so i love that my cohorts here have been out there pounding the  i mean that's really what we have to do here is talk to the people because we can pontificate up here all we want and we can have coffee and speak anecdotally about what we think is going on but in till you actually hear it so when you know i was walking around knocking on doors introducing myself to neighbors you know they were telling me about you know concern about the changes to the fire department and the ambulance services and their fears and really everyone is just afraid like they just want to live their life and they just want to be happy and so that's really ultimately the conversation that i've been having with people is like we just want to be happy and we don't want people to mess with our stuff and hey we're scared because there's a drug epidemic and things are falling apart and we don't know what to do and the worst thing that we could do is not actually just sit and like be with one another because that's ultimately what this is like we're in a community and we depend we are we're dependent on one another to make this thing work and so if we just kind of like stick in our little bubble and pretend like there's no one else out there that has a different opinion than me we're not going to get very far ok and franklin probably know one of your outreach efforts been like and what have you been hearing in the community so one of the things i've done is go door to door and knock on people's doors and hear them out to hear their thoughts and concerns and in my campaign i've been running a campaign centered around mr hartnett's endorsement me because nobody knows the northen like dave hartnett nobody's been twenty years in the retail business working every day talking to people in the north end and days gone door to door with me day in and day out and we've hit events at the high number of center we've employed social media strategies such as facebook twitter you name it you've probably seen it and so  i think what this campaign should be about is the north and bringing new blood in there that's going to represent our people and be accountable to them and so we've posted on front porch form there hasn't been an option we haven't used thus far and will continue to do that because we're going to continue knocking on doors because we've got about four thousand doors in our in our ward so ok we're going to continue to move on and go to our phone lines here for another question hello the caller you're on the air synagogue and i'm wondering what each of the candidates will do to help the most  you i believe this question starts with you horrifying that really illustrates intolerance and i think in our community we're seeing a rise of intolerance can you address that and  you think the city council role plays in trying to tamp that down yeah this is actually a really great question and i'm glad that i get to answer it i have literally been saying for years that the greatest thing that creates fear between races sexes classes whatever is lack of proximity and i say that because growing up as a white person in a predominately predominantly white state i didn't i don't necessarily understand i can be empathetic to people of other races but i can't understand what they're going through because i lack proximity to them and so when i moved to texas and i really got involved more in my my husband is black in all of his friends and family are every race that there is because he is a military brat and so you start to see like what people are dealing with and then you and then you get to better understand it and so as long as there is this barrier to being able to ask the stupid questions or the questions that are going to make you sound stupid because you've always wondered and you don't understand like when we don't have those opportunities and and all the conversation just gets immediately shut down before you know as bad before anybody can really start to understand each other obviously i'm not saying like attacks on synagogues are ok like no and we can judge them and we can punish them after the fact but what i would rather see is a community discourse where people are allowed to ask questions and be ignorant and stupid and not be judged for it so that they can better understand  good franklin paulino your sixty second response do you see intolerance on the rise in our city and if so what do you think the city council role is to to tamp that down i think our role needs to be lead by example i think our role needs to be to keep prosecuting people for hate crimes i think our role needs to be to encourage neighborhood watch groups i think we need to fund our police departments so that if there is more of these attacks and that's what they should be called attacks that we can properly respond you know we're lucky enough to have a great police department and that has video cameras and we're able to prosecute these cases our  office has done so and we've taken into the supreme court and will continue to fight for the disenfranchised i think it's a very very important issue i was very lucky to see and glad to see the city council president  resolution to pass on monday that calling these attacks a terrible act and that we won't stand for that ok killing christians in sixty second response in tolerance on the rise of acts of violence know i wholeheartedly agree with franklin that we need to continue to support our criminal justice system in particular police officers and the folks out there that are doing the hard work to hold folks accountable but we can do more we need to continue having conversations with one another and engaging our community you know as a white as a white person when i find out that a person of color feels like they're not welcome here i want to stand shoulder to shoulder with them that's why when there was a protest over these of of these heinous act i was there i showed up because i know that standing up and standing with our neighbors of color and with our most impacted community members is how we're going to get the best results from this it's not just about criminal justice it's about engaging our community and having the difficult conversations that's why i'm all about hard work these conversations are hard they're going to take a lot of hard work too and to move us past these sort of racial stigma and homophobic signals that many of us have felt but we need to have these conversations because it's how we're going to move forward and that's what's going to help us come together as a community because at the end of the day we're all neighbors we're all working together to try and find the best path forward time is again the phone tree is lighting up here we're going to go to a line one here and take another caller  whether to add a referendum question to the ballot when president actually collect the required number of signatures are good a good question thank you in fact this is a question that we do have on our list of questions that all the candidates have been provided how should the city handle advisory questions keenan christianson the question to you please so i think if we're going to have a referendum process we need to respect it you know when it comes to the city hall park for example i was very much in favor of the park i'm on record as being in favor of the park but just because i'm in favor of the park doesn't mean that i think we should ignore the fact that over three thousand of our citizens got the requisite signatures to be put on the ballot we need to respect the referendum process because just because i might disagree with a referendum on this juncture doesn't mean that down the down the road i might agree with the next one and if we're going to have a referendum process we've got to respect it and again if three thousand people put enough signatures on the ballot are good enough signatures to be put on the ballot they should be allowed to have their voices heard that's the kind of campaign i've been running this entire time is about hearing our voices and making sure that people can have their voices heard and if we're not going to respect the process that allows people to have their voices heard then we shouldn't have the process to begin with erika bunny reading should every a dvisory question that the community comes up with go on the city ballot nor should the city council continue to make that decision i agree one hundred percent with keenan that if we have a process in place we need to honor it my understanding is that they did honor it with the city hall park issue and again from what i understand from what i've been told from other city council people is that for whatever reason they didn't meet all the criteria i don't know it's a he said she said things so whatever i'm not sure what i do know however is we have a representative government and if we aren't going to seek counsel to do the job that we gave them to do then why do we have a city council at all and i guess that's really all i have to say about that franklin polina your response should the  all advisory questions and automatically go on the ballot no and i think ericka said it best that at the end there that we you know city council members were elected for a reason and were left to do our job so why spoil the support certain questions getting on the ballot and people having their say the questions should be reviewed by the city council it's and we should frankly work together we you know the city hall park is a great example there were twenty two meetings held there was employed there was a commission that was started and an agreement was made for between the groups against the renovation and with two stablished this commission and then the petition process was started so while i think it's important to have advisory questions we also need to realize that a certain point our citizens want us to get to work they want results and they want to get value for their tax dollars very good can i add something sure it was ok just thirty seconds yeah that's what i and the other thing about  putting all of the advisory questions on the ballot and why we have a representative republic in to begin with is because we want to avoid mob rule and that sounds like crazy but that's ultimately unlike what they say is th reason for representative republic is to make sure that people can't just go crazy and take over and that's my history lesson for the day all right and will allow the team in the thirty second response as well i think the so there's a real difference between me and my opponent is that you know the folks deserve to have their voices heard and you know i don't think that we should be politicizing the referendum process you know if the city council is going to pick and choose which referendum items they're going to put on the ballot that's going to be really dependent upon you know what issues they think are invaluable and which issues they don't if we're going to have a referendum process we've got to respect that process all right we're going to move on again we have the phone tree lighting up here we're just going to picket line for here you're on the air live with city council candidates from the north district you have a question avenue safety i think we're actually going to move on only as we did address that so we'll take another question here caller you're live on the air with city council candidates from the north district do you have a question for our our candidates yes i was i couldn't say no words about the press conference recently held showing the chin in county is at the forefront of leading the decline in deaths as result of overdoses i think we need to provide all the medications to prevent overdoses everywhere i think we need to provide test everywhere as pot that we can i think it should be something that's limited axis as well as we need more sober houses we need places for people to go immediately once they decide to make decision to go so to me and sober and we need resources to help them get there i think that one of the things that is lacking right now is residential treatment centers and sober houses so i support a financing package with the city to subsidize a local vermonter to start a sober house because they can be amazing places the twelve step program to get people in the right path i'm going to follow up here with a follow up question here that i will also ask each of the candidates to answer as well there have been proposals about safe needle exchanges that cetera et cetera do you support that proposal i do i think that we should be doing everything we can for citizens we owe it to them and we should give it a try and i know it's not a concept that everybody's comfortable with so i support a mobile place where people can go and the place can go to where the need is in terms and it can be publicized and a doctor can be on staff i think it's a great idea christianson your response about the opioid epidemic and what you think the city council should do to try to know here again i wholeheartedly agree with franklin that many of the things that the city are doing regarding opiate crisis is is a very good and it's helping a lot of folks i think there's two things that we can do i agree that we need sober houses and safe houses for folks to get clean but they need to be safe and they need to be regulated and we need to make sure that we're putting in a plan in place so that when folks get out of the sober houses or when they're getting out of treatment we have community support ready to step in you know when i was serving on the circles of support and accountability it's a group of members that get together that help prisoners transitioning out of prison and back into the community we can do something very similar for folks transitioning out of treatment so that they feel connected to the community i was talking to a principal on woodbury street who was telling me that many of her students are are are turning to opioids because they just don't feel like they have community connection we can find solutions to this by engaging the community by creating the similar sort of situation as a cosa for folks coming out of treatment so that when you come out you immediately step into a group of individuals who are going to be there if you're having a crisis if you need support if you just need someone to talk to that's one of the great ways we're going to stop the will be opioid epidemic and then to ask you as well do you support needle exchange absolutely wholeheartedly  yeah great question one that is very very close to my heart actually i'll be celebrating my ten year sober anniversary next month so thank you not the heroin but  nonetheless addiction i don't want to say addiction is addiction but across the board people are turning to heroin gambling shopping like whatever it is and and it's been said like we don't feel like we're part of a community anymore and when you have a generation of people who are you know going off to college because they were told to and then they get out and they can't get a job and they're broke and they're living in their parents basement like you're depressed and you feel lost and alone and so shooting dope seems like a wicked good idea and i don't mean to be flip about it but it's a community issue like it's a personal issue right but it's a community issue and the barriers frankly for re entry whether it's out of treatment or prison is incredibly difficult we talk all the time about  forgiveness and redemption but we talk about that when it relates to other people and not when it relates to us or when we've been hurt by it and your thoughts about safe needle exchange sites and i would i i'm not sure i would want to know more statistical information about the benefits of that are good we're going to move right on we've got more questions here the phone tree is lighting up caller you're live on the air here a channel seventeen with our north district candidates for city council do you have a question for them thank you this question the concern safety realty perk area over the last five to seven years we've had at least to do that let me part one rolling in right the last last year i believe one involving something that we don't know what happened in the last six to eight months the almost community has built their own homeless and can't let that much closer to the actual parking lot of the shopping center where it's actually very intimidating for customers and employees of the shopping threat or because it's  city safety and perhaps addressing the homeless population and keenan christianson will begin with you on this question yeah so i think that we need to increase the community services that we have in the north end because part of the issue is that we don't have the same sort of resources that other parts of the city have and so this is why i talk about reinvesting in the new north and again we're sending two point one to two point two million dollars down to city hall year and we're seeing very little of that money coming back into our communities the safety issue is really important we need to be supporting our police officers who can go in there and can take care of you know some of the crime that's taking place but we've got to address housing affordability because we have an increasing homelessness problem because folks can't afford to stay in their homes and we have to find a solution to housing affordability and that i use the phrase housing affordability instead of affordable housing because housing affordability impacts all of us and it makes it we have to find a solution so that whether you or whether you're you know on a fixed income or whether you're a new family or whether you're a new american you have the support to stay in your home to find housing and to live a life that is really thriving life and not one that you're just struggling to get by on cue frankly poll you know your response safety in the new north and particularly around the levee park area so i think that our north enders deserve to be safe i think that you know an increased police presence is a great idea but we also really need what shelters we need a shelter that homeless people can go to and they can  they don't have to not be able to drink and that's why as well i suppose support the sober houses because that is the reason why we have a in crisis and why certain people choose to live behind him for so it's unfortunate that that's the choice to have to make but i think i agree with keenan that if we had more housing options for people that included the ability to drink they would choose to live behind hannaford i mean nobody wants to leave  your thoughts on safety in the new north and particularly around the north around the levy park area yeah this is it's funny because it seems really like all of the things that we've been talking about relate to one another so when we're talking about a heroin epidemic who else is going to end up homeless living behind hannaford but somebody who is dealing with mental health issues someone who's dealing with addiction and so there has to be a more comprehensive approach and i don't know who was here if you guys live here when waterbury the mental health facility closed was in that in the ninety's and i can't remember it after a hurricane i mean well i at lake as our mental health facilities have continued to close it because i remember there was one that closed when i was around twenty maybe it wasn't waterbury maybe was brattleboro or something but we don't we just don't have the resources and when you go to places like los angeles or san francisco when you see these homeless encampment it's you know this is that's what happens from on checked dealing with a population of people that frankly nobody wants to deal with because no one knows what to do ok well move right on here we have only five minutes left so we're going to get to our next caller here caller you're live on the air with our north district city council candidates do you enough to here current residents do you think the current city council the current city government is responding to the needs of the city and franklin that we can with you on this i think that our city government has been responsive to its constituency i think in this day and age you know there are multiple platforms that can be used to communicate i mean i talked about them earlier so in addition to being able to post on front porch form which i see our city is doing i think that twitter as well as facebook or greek mediums to be able to be connected to the community i saw our city councilors the n p a meeting so i i do believe that everybody is trying their best to do what they can understand no one's ever going to be happy so i understand that that is part of the balance but you know having had the opportunity to meet most of the city councillors throughout this process i do believe they're doing a great job being you know being responsive to their constituency erica bunny running your response do you think city council is responding to the communities and i do i think that we are all human beings doing the best that we can do i think all our city councilors are awesome and perfect no because they're human beings and no one is and when you live in a community of diverse people of different opinions and backgrounds and things like that you're almost never going to have consensus on an issue and so what i've learned in my experience not just in government and in business is there's no perfect answer there is only tradeoffs so you do the best you can given the information that you have with the resources that you have and then you move around so you're killing christensen what your thoughts on city council city government and its response to the communities and i agree for the most part with my my opponents that city council and city government has been doing a pretty good job of listening to our neighbors but i think we can do more i think we can support our because i think that our m p s are one of the great drivers of local democracy and i think that we really need to be supporting our m p s and doing more to promote that kind of engagement what i love about the m p s is it's an opportunity not only for city councillors and our elected officials to come in and hear directly from their constituents but it allows us to be it allows to have a conversation between city hall city council and the neighborhoods that are being impacted i remember in the ninety's they are m p s how did robust budgets and now we  have very small budgets of about four hundred dollars and we need to be doing more to support our m p s because that's how we're going to engage more citizens i think that having a community dinner up in the north end would be another great way to get more folks down to the m p s i agree that social media is another great aspect of it but our m p s are something very special and something that we should really be supporting very good time now for our closing statements we apologize to our viewers out there whose questions we weren't able to get you on the phone but it is time now for  closing comments from our candidates sixty seconds apiece franklin paulino will begin with you please well i want to i want to thank you for the opportunity being able to run and being the democratic candidate i think it's an honor whoever gets the oper represent the north district in the last few weeks i've been knocking on doors taking phone calls and meetings nonstop in an effort to try to reach out to people and let them know who i am because i am not an issue based candidate i'm running on my record and my values and i have a record of asking tough questions and getting and making the just decision if i was a constituency or a constituent i would want to vote for the person that i feel i can trust that i feel has a record for fighting for what's right and realistic results we need a commonsense approach and a strong voice will bring people together that's what you get when you vote me in i hope to have your support on march fifth human christianson your final sixty second closing statement please as i said at the beginning of this debate i believe in excellence through hard work and that's what you're going to get if you elect me i have been running since the early december i didn't start i didn't wait for someone to ask me to run i ran because i knew it was my time to run because i knew our neighborhood need a strong voice on city council and i knew that folks just didn't feel like their voices were being heard i know that working together we can find solutions to fixing the affordability crisis in burlington i know that by and gauging one another and having these really difficult conversations we can find solutions to not only safety on north avenue but we can find solutions to climate change and we can bring community services out to the north and i have been tyrus lee knocking doors for six weeks now i have knocked on over seven hundred doors and i'm going to continue that hard work when i'm elected as your next city councilor thank you erica bunny rabbit your final closing statements and thank you everyone for being here and being with us in considering and being involved the most important and really the only thing that we have to do as citizens of this country in the city is vote that is our one most important job in my opinion and i am super excited for the opportunity to be a part of helping keep burlington amazing we have something really unique and really special here and i brag all the time when i travel about how independent thinking or monitor are and how fiercely prideful we are and and also fiercely loyal and how much we love our community and love our neighbors and love all of the buildings and the environment in the tre n and we can keep all of those things and bring conscious economic development so that the burden of taxes is not on the fifty six percent of listed properties ballot at your local town clerk and join us for complete election night coverage on tuesday march fifth beginning at seven pm here on channel seventeen for all of us a town meeting television i'm at kelli thank you for watching