Early Voting Starts June12-22
By Dan Murphy
Mayor Mike Spano endorsed City Council President Lakisha Collins-Bellamy for reelection at a recent event. Mayor Spano said, “This is a really important election. And when you think about Yonkers and the direction we’re heading in, I think a lot of people say that Yonkers is finally heading in the right direction. We’re educating our kids more what we’ve ever done before.
“There’s a 90% graduation rate. We’re were at 72%. We have a crime rate that’s lower than any one of the big five cities in New York State and one the lowest crime rates in all of America.
“Economic development, $5 billion worth of economic development happening all across the city. We are a city that’s going through a renaissance, we are on the move and we’re going in the right direction.
“We don’t want to go backwards. And I think that when you look at the candidates that are running for council president, we could very easily slip and go back. We don’t want to do that.
“Because when you look at what our council president has done, in leading the council, we have a city that has balanced budget, we have a city that has a better bond rating than ever before, we have a city that doesn’t balance its budget on the back of the kids, nor on the back of our employees, whether it be the police, fire, or sanitation. We don’t balance our budget on their backs.
“What we do is we run a responsible government and we make sure that the job is done and we do it right and effective. And you can only do that if you have good partnership.
“And you can only do that if you have a council president that’s willing to do what they need to do to move our city forward. And I have to tell you, I’ve been able to watch Lakisha Collins-Bellamy operate, when she was a trustee on the Board of Education, somebody who’s an attorney, somebody who is really taken on her own personal beliefs and structure and moved herself forward and her family forward in this city and she has taken all of us with her.
“I’m very proud to call her a friend. She is someone who is doing a great job for us. She is a fantastic candidate who can do great things for our city.” said Spano
