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Stephen Mandel, Mayor of Edmonton

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How good is Stephen Mandel?
Mayor of Edmonto, Canada

City Mayors invites its readers to assess the performance in office of Stephen Mandel, Mayor of Edmonton. Please rate his overall performance by awarding him marks out of ten. '1' signifies an extremely poor performance, while '10' would rate his performance as outstanding. Please also provide details of what in your opinion are the mayor’s best and worst decisions.

Over time, Mayor Monitor will provide a valuable track record of the mayor's successes and failures as well as his popularity among residents and a wider public. The results will be published on the City Mayors website and updated regularly. The ratings will also become a contributory factor of World Mayor 2010.

Please assess Mayor Mandel not more than once a month. In order to eliminate multiple submissions and/or fraudulent as well as organised rating by political friends and foes of the mayor, all submissions are processed manually and, if deemed questionable, cross-checked. Thank you for participating. How good is Mayor Mandel?

RESULTS FOR STEPHEN MANDEL:
Performance index:
July 2010: 6.27 points out of 10
March 2010: 5.69 points out of 10

COMMENTS:
Thumbs up:
• A G B (Edmonton): Envisioning a long term plan, now in progress, to developing a much more comprehensive transportation system, including
many extensions of the LRT (light rapid transit) public transportation system, for the growth and growing needs of Edmonton. He has committed approximately $1 billion towards this overall plan. Recession in the economy has not deterred his commitment to these developments.
• Graham L, Edmonton: The amount of work on the cities infrastructure is phenomenol. It seemed in the early 2000's that Edmonton was on "pause" when it came to infrastructure and city spending on things that actually benefit Edmontonians. Lately we are seeing our freeways widened and repaved, our light rail transit system is finally reaching parts of the city that it needs to, and there are plans being made to ensure every corner of the city is connected by the train system. Downtown Edmonton has seen a jump in population and has record low vacancy rates. Although this cant all be attributed to Mayor Mandel, I believe he has been a driving force behind what we are seeing in the city.
• Anthony M O, Edmonton: Promoting Edmonton as "Canada's Festival City", and finally making the decision to move forward on Transit expansion, rather than building more roads. He has also championed many diversity and socially progressive causes that previous Edmonton mayors have been reluctant to.
• Anon, Edmonton: Tried to get rid of homelessness

Thumbs down:
• A G B (Edmonton): I feel Stephen Mandel's bold visions for Edmonton sometimes leave out the little guy. The continuing proposal for a massive downtown sports complex that he seems to support will be expensive to develop and in the long run, not affordable to a great many of Edmonton's citizens. This has not yet gone ahead but in a city of sports lovers, it will probably will get a green light.
• Tim (Emonton): As is commonly known, Stephen Mandel is a 'development' mayor. He represents the interests of corporate developers primarily, and all other stakeholders (most notably citizens of Edmonton) secondarily.
• dbez (Canada): He could acheive a 10 out of 10 if he only listened more...
• Anthony M O, Edmonton: Increasing residential and business taxes more than needed during the "boom" times.
• Graham L, Edmonton: Unfortunately Edmonton is stuck in a beaurocratic nightmare. It takes years for the red tape to be cut which means that projects are not being done when they are needed. Mayor Mandel recently addressed this issue in his State of the City address and he does plan to eliminate this issue but it needs to be done faster. Also, the train system needs to reach the west end IMMEDIATELY. (but that is a biased statement since I live in West Edmonton.)
• Anon, Edmonton: -Using political power to divert LRT away from his own neighbourhood
-Initiating lawsuit against Sherwood Park development to protect his own trailer park investment
-Potential river valley development scheme
-Being bias toward Port Alberta and using his political agenda to push the concept through without proper discussion and anaylsis
-Proposing the elimination of the downtown airport for a undisclosed or perhaps non-existant future development
-Suggesting banning knives
-Building a skateboard park downtown to get skateboarders away from city hall
-Spending excess monies on website development and unnecessary consultants
-Inability to attract head offices/businesses to Edmonton despite a provincial boom during his years in office.

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How good is Stephen Mandel? Mayor of Edmonto, Canada

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Mayor of Edmonto, Canada