All candidates running for contested seats in the upcoming election were invited to submit a post in support of their candidacy to Village14.  .

Note: The deadline for these posts was noon on Friday.  The Sangiolo post didn’t arrive until many hours after the deadline.  Rather than just ‘stick to the rules’ a compromise was struck where both mayoral campaigns would have until a new deadline today to submit a post.  This is Amy Mah Sangiolo’s


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I’m Amy Mah Sangiolo and I’m running to be your next Mayor. 

 

Newton needs a bold, empathetic leader who will listen and respond to community voices in all of our villages – especially when making decisions that affect our lives and transform our city. I will be that leader.

 

As Mayor, I will give residents a greater voice in planning and decision making. My vision is that every Newton resident, regardless of what village they call home, their income, or social connections, has an equal voice in determining the direction of our city. 

 

There are many challenges facing Newton–from restoring confidence in our schools and ensuring every child reaches their full potential; addressing out-of-scale development while increasing truly affordable housing; investing in our fields and our streets and sidewalks while making them safe and accessible; to meeting our climate action goals–all within the confines of serious, projected revenue gaps in the next few years. My leadership style of being accessible, responsive, and transparent will build the public trust we need to move Newton forward.

 

I am focused on education, development, and open and transparent governance. On education, I will bring my perspective as a former Newton Public Schools parent to provide teachers with the resources they need to help every child succeed and address the mental health challenges facing our children. On development, I will use my legal skills and partner with the City Council, where I served for 20 years, to preserve our neighborhoods and historic resources, revitalize our village centers, and implement a multi-pronged strategy to create more truly affordable housing options. To increase open and transparent governance, I will draw from my experience as an Asian American woman, and elevate our commitment to increase racial, ethnic, and gender diversity and diversity of thought, to ensure residents have real equity and inclusion in planning and decision making and ensure access to information and data is publicly available.

 

Please give me your support on November 2nd and I will bring accessible, responsive representation to our local government.