During her tenth State of the City Address, Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan celebrated the strides the city led in the past year and laid out her vision for 2023. Her priorities include affordable housing, American Rescue Plan Act investments, parks and recreation, small businesses, workforce development, and infrastructure improvements.
Mayor Sheehan shared housing investments Albany is leading, including creating more homeownership opportunities across the community, investing in homeowners and homelessness prevention efforts, and holding bad landlords accountable. She also shared infrastructure improvements such as filling more than 22,000 potholes, repaving ten-plus miles of streets, and doubling their water infrastructure investments.
The Mayor also highlighted public safety initiatives, such as implementing new police reform efforts, removing 147 illegal guns off the streets, building a new 911 dispatch center, completing the city’s 300th diversion, and launching a new auxiliary police program.
“I hope that as you look at what we have been able to accomplish, you are seeing that we are writing history right now, and we are making history right now. We’re creating a city that is truly an Albany for all, powered by pride and potential,” said Mayor Sheehan.
Watch Mayor Sheehan’s full remarks here.
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