Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz - Democratic Mayors

Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz delivered his State of the City address, where he shared the progress the city has made in several areas over the last year and discussed the remaining challenges.

The Mayor opened his speech by discussing gun violence, which has spiked across the United States in the aftermath of the pandemic.

“We’ve made a lot of progress in a number of areas but there’s more work to be done,” Mayor Kapszukiewicz said. “I have no doubt if we work together we will be able to overcome our challenges.”

Mayor Kapszukiewicz highlighted many successes: a strong local economy, a healthy city budget with a $43.5 million rainy day fund, a record-setting amount of sidewalk and road repairs, the highest number of youth programs in the city’s history, a new Wayman Palmer YMCA, new parks and recreation renovations, and new market-rate housing developments that are underway.

The Mayor rounded out his address with two important challenges to sustain Toledo’s future: developing a site to attract new electric jobs of the future and making needed upgrades to the Bay View Wastewater Treatment Plant.

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