By Tanner Smith

By-Election

A third candidate has been added to the ballot for the 2022 Grande Prairie By-Election

Sep 8, 2022 | 3:29 PM

The 2022 By-Election is coming up in October, and a third Candidate has put his name on the ballot.

Bryan Petryshyn, who ran in last year’s City Council Election, has filed his papers to be a part of the race.

“What my focus on for the three years, is financial accountability and making everyone’s personal everyday life, easier to live.”

Petryshyn says he wants to save taxpayers money. He believes that this is possible through better spending by council on things like infrastructure, construction, and snow removal.

” Everyday financial accountability will lower everyone’s personal taxes. I know for Alberta, Grande Prairie is extremely high for property taxes and so making City Hall more accountable or tighter for spending, will be able to pay off debt and work more efficiently.”

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Petryshyn says taxpayers can keep more money in their pocket with a streamlined snow removal system. He adds that “when you see a snow removal truck driving down the road with their plow in the air, they could be going to a job, but it’s hard to explain that to the public.”

Petryshyn would like to see a person oversee the snow removal operations to ensure the jobs are being done effectively and taxpayers aren’t just paying these trucks to drive around.

He would also like to work with residents moving forward with road rehabilitation and infrastructure projects, only spending money on upgrades that are needed.

Petryshyn said while he was campaigning for the municipal election last year (when he ran for mayor), he talked with a resident about a neighborhood road rehabilitation project that they said was unnecessary.

His main focus will be on keeping money in taxpayers’ pockets through city services and ‘tighter spending’ but he also has a plan to ease the tension with the transit system by adding another library.

“I think it would make it easier for the transit system. You wouldn’t have so many people making the route to the current library. I would still keep the library, put a second library in the Eastlink Centre so it’s less travel for commuters.”

Petryshyn plans on campaigning in neighborhoods throughout the City, going door to door and learning the problems of residents face to face.