{"id":31891,"date":"2022-09-08T18:47:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T22:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=31891"},"modified":"2022-09-08T18:47:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T22:47:22","slug":"aurora-votes-2022-ward-1-candidate-biase-focuses-on-p-e-a-s-e-people-environment-accessibility-safety-and-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-votes-2022-ward-1-candidate-biase-focuses-on-p-e-a-s-e-people-environment-accessibility-safety-and-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Votes 2022: Ward 1 candidate Biase focuses on P.E.A.S.E.: People, Environment, Accessibility, Safety and Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An Aurora resident of nearly 30 years, Nick Biase has seen a lot of change \u2013 and now, as a candidate for Ward 1 in this fall\u2019s municipal election, he wants to be part of shaping Aurora\u2019s future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s long wanted to become more involved in the community and now, with the time and ability to do so, he\u2019s seeking a place at the Council table to advocate on behalf of his neighbours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was only going to run in the ward I am living in,\u201d he says of his decision to throw his hat into the ring. \u201cI know there are policies in place where you can run in another ward, but, to me, we\u2019re not really serving the people in the community [that way]. I\u2019m in with both feet and I think it\u2019s important that if you say you\u2019re going to represent [your neighbours] you need to be with them. It\u2019s kind of like being the captain of a ship.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his home ward, Biase is offering a simple platform that he\u2019s boiled down to an acronym: P.E.A.S.E. This stands for people, environment, accessibility, safety, and economic growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am trying to approach this in a holistic way,\u201d he says of his campaign platform. \u201cAlthough you\u2019re running for the ward, you\u2019re hoping what you do for the ward resonates across the rest of the Town. The environmental piece of this is preserving what we have today right now. There are lots of buildings and lots of things going on and irrespective of whether we have space or room in our ward where people want to do more stuff, we want to make sure we don\u2019t let it get out of hand \u2013 and that\u2019s not just in our ward, but right across the board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe other thing is safety in the community [and] that too is across the board. There are a lot of thefts these days, vandalism and so forth. How do we address some of this stuff? That\u2019s something I really want to tackle and take a look at. One of the things that is underlying for everybody is accountability we all have from a financial perspective. Everyone who lives in Ward 1 wants to make sure their dollar is spent wisely. It\u2019s about making sure we\u2019re getting our fair share as well for some of the activities the Town is doing for us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the People front, Biase is running on a platform that \u201cembraces cultures\u201d and looks at \u201cexpanding services to assist our aging population. The Environmental plank of his platform includes preserving and protecting greenspaces in the community, the improvement of park management and \u201cTown cleanliness\u201d while also promoting a walkable community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accessibility, to his mind, includes \u201chonest, straight talk communication, financial responsibility, transparency, and timeliness, accountability and action-driven\u201d work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Safety platform planks include neighbourhood watch programs, speed reduction solutions, traffic calming measures, and \u201cbylaw enforcement to keep pace with the growth of the Town.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economic growth proposals include supporting local businesses and fostering opportunities for job creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe whole concept of going to a Ward System is the smartest thing Aurora could have done,\u201d he says. \u201cYou\u2019re calling the person who is representing you within your ward. I spent most of my career in the corporate world in a very complex environment, different lines of business, a different hierarchy\u2026 although I have spent it more within a technology environment, there\u2019s the same kind of foundation, the same view, if not more complex, that would be even within\u2026the Council or the Town with politics or the public sector we have today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy ability right now to have worked in that environment and to have held many senior positions and really understand how to get things done and how to lobby for things that need to get done and how we move things quickly through the system, being able to have some very good straight talk on a lot of items will help me tremendously. I am not tied to the public sector so\u2026although I may have worked in an environment that had a very similar structure, I was also in a world where, at the end of the day, if things didn\u2019t get done you didn\u2019t have a job. At the end of the day you\u2019ve got to get results.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As he heads into the election campaign, Biase says he\u2019s very much looking forward to meeting more of the people within Ward 1, hear their views, and share his own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe ability to interact with these folks a little closer, more one-on-one, and get their true views and perspective on things and reassure what I\u2019m wanting to do is the right thing and whether I need to shift gears, that\u2019s important to me \u2013 to get a good sense and a good handle on exactly what the folks are thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to focus on things that are present, things that we can address, and that we can action relatively quickly. That\u2019s not to say we shouldn\u2019t have some short-term and long-term [goals] but, in my opinion, we need to move on the things I think we can make some quick hits and really address right away.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Brock Weir
Editor
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An Aurora resident of nearly 30 years, Nick Biase has seen a lot of change \u2013 and now, as a candidate for Ward 1 in this fall\u2019s municipal election, he wants to be part of shaping Aurora\u2019s future. He\u2019s long wanted to become more involved in the community and now, with the time and ability […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2022-09-08-04.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-8in","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 15:06:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}