Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz - Democratic Mayors

Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz gave his State of the City address titled ‘For the Betterment of Toledo,’ highlighting the city’s growth and goals for 2022. Some of Mayor Kapszukiewicz’s top priorities include public safety, affordable housing, improving city parks, universal pre-K and workforce, and economic development.

Mayor Kapszukiewicz shared the city’s plans for its ARPA dollars through the Toledo Recovery Plan, which prioritizes safe and livable neighborhoods, youth recreation and parks, job creation and economic impact, avoiding cuts to city services, and green and healthy housing. Through this plan, the city will add 100 new police officers, expand youth programming and mentoring, replace lead service lines, construct 600 new housing units, fight blight, plant trees, and more.

“We have faced adversity before in this city, and we’ve always bounced back. Sure, we’ve been knocked down. If there is anything good about being knocked down as often as we have, is that we know how to get back up. We know how to dust ourselves off and fight back. There is a togetherness in this city that most other communities don’t have,” said Mayor Kapszukiewicz.

Watch Mayor Kapszukiewicz’s address here.

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