As the full City Budget is going to be released tomorrow Monday December 29th, I am sharing the results of my budget survey click on image below or here to download.
What Residents Want to See Addressed
Across Windsor, respondents most frequently identified the following as their top priorities:
- Mental health, homelessness, and addictions supports
- Affordable housing supply and rental safety
- Transit, traffic calming, and road safety
- Roads, sewers, and basic infrastructure repair
- By-law enforcement and property standards
Support for these priorities was consistent across neighbourhoods, with particularly strong consensus around ensuring rental units are safe and properly maintained and improving responses to homelessness and mental health needs.
Rather than calling for reductions to essential services, survey responses suggest residents want better alignment between spending and outcomes. Many emphasized the importance of maintaining core services, addressing long-standing maintenance issues, and improving responsiveness at the neighbourhood level.
More than 79% of respondents agreed that access to services should not depend on the ability to pay user fees, highlighting concerns about affordability and equity in how services are delivered.
Ward 2 Priorities Reflect City-Wide Themes
In Ward 2, respondents echoed city-wide findings, placing strong emphasis on:
- Affordable housing and attracting families to the neighbourhood
- Holding landlords accountable for property conditions
- Traffic calming on residential streets
- Fixing roads and completing major construction projects
- Increased by-law enforcement and neighbourhood safety
Residents also identified numerous “little things that matter” small-scale improvements—such as lighting, benches, alley maintenance, and waste management—that could be addressed quickly and cost-effectively while supporting broader budget goals.
You can download the cleaned survey data here.
Happy New Year Everyone! Check back soon for budget updates and some other engagement and data in 2026!
HEY FRAZIER, FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR SHOWING A FRESH APPROACH OF ASKING YOUR CONSTITUENTS FOR INPUT.
SECOND, I KNOW I, AND MY NEIGHBOURS, CAN COUNT ON YOU TO FIGHT TO GET SOME OF THE TANGIBLE ITEMS OUT FRONT MORE SO THAN BEFORE, THOSE BEING THE ROADS. IT’S JUST ASTOUNDING TO SEE THE MILLIONS SPENT IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, ON THE EAST SIDE, HOWARD, ‘REPEATED’ LAUZON PKWY, SEWER REPAIRS ETC.. ADMIN CAN CONTINUALLY LET WYANDOTTE AND UNIVERSITY LINGER ENDLESSLY FOR DECADES. YA, A SMALL TIDBIT OF UNIVERSITY RECENTLY AND NO MORE HOPE OF THE FINAL STRETCH OF WYANDOTTE BTW CAMPBELL AND WELLINGTON NEVER EVEN THOUGHT OF FROM OUR VIEWPOINT. THE RECENT UNIVERSITY WORK HAS LET THE STRETCH FROM CAMERON TO JANETTE EVEN WORSE THAN IT ORIGINALLY WAS. TAKE A DRIVE, YOU’LL SEE WHAT I MEAN. IT’S A SUSPENSION ‘TORTURE TRACK’!
PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF THAT IS TEMPORARY TIL THE SPRING OR NOT.
YA, BEING A COUNCILOR, YOU HAVE TO PLAY THE OLE ‘DIPLOMACY’ GAME BUT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
THIRD, HOW LONG DO YOU FEEL THIS ENDLESS ‘NEGOTIATION’ WITH THE AMBASSADOR BRIDGE OUTFIT SHOULD GO ON BEFORE WE FINALLY GET NEARBY COLLEGE, PATRICIA AND WYANDOTTE/PATRICIA INTERSECTION, REPAIRED. WE’RE NOT MORONS, WE DEMAND THE CITY DO SOMETHING ABOUT THESE STRETCHES ,WITH OR WITHOUT THE BRIDGE CO.. OUR COSTS TO REPAIR VEHICLE SUSPENSIONS WHILE THE BRIDGE PUTZS AND RAKES IN MILLIONS IS INSULTING. I HOLD THE CITY JUST AS NEGLIGENT IN THIS MATTER.
I CAN ONLY WISH A YOUNG GUY LIKE YOU DOESN’T GET FRUSTRATED AND HAS THE ENERGY TO LET COUNCIL AND ADMIN SEE THAT THERE IS A NEW GUY THAT EXPECTS REASONABLE ANSWERS AS TO WHY THE ABOVE ISSUES HAVEN’T BEEN ADDRESSED IN THE SAME TIMELY FASHION AS THE EAST PART OF TOWN. SURE, THAT’S MY OPINION BUT TO ME, IT APPEARS THAT WAY.
FRAZIER, IF THERE WAS ANYONE THAT WE COULD HAVE COUNTED ON THE GET OUR CONCERNS OUT FRONT, IT WAS FABIO BUT FROM MY VIEWPOINT, I WOULD HAVE DONE EXACTLY AS HE DID WITH THE LOGIC FOR DOING SO. I DON’T THINK I HAVE TO SPELL IT OUT FOR YOU. HE WORKED LIKE A DOG BUT I SENSE HE EXPECTED MORE RESULTS FOR US MUCH SOONER.
FRAZIER, SINCERELY WISH YOU ALL THE BEST AND LET ME KNOW IF I AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD GROUP CAN HELP YOU GET THINGS DONE.
CHRIS ASMAR
Hi Chris,
Thanks so much for comment and I hope you had a great holidays.
University Ave reconstruction from Campbell to Slater will continue through next spring and summer. The current state is patching work for the Winter to allow some usage when construction isn’t progressing due to winter weather. McEwan is seeing the same patching.
I appreciate your position on the Bridge and understand the frustration. Those negotiation are ongoing and I don’t have a significant update to share at this point. It is long been the majority of council’s position that the Bridge should be responsible for those repairs. Even if I hold a different point of view, it isn’t the majority’s point of view. This doesn’t mean I won’t advocate for these roads getting redone but the broader context matters.
The context of council has changed under Strong Mayor Powers. Whether Fabio or myself or any future councillor are in a context where the Mayor exercises greater control over the budget process and allocation of resources. There are tens of millions of dollars of investment coming to East Windsor beyond the past few years investment that you highlighted (it’s likely tomorrow’s budget will illustrate this in my opinion) this leaves little left for the rest of the City for projects unless the majority of council wishes to raise taxes or strip resources for other projects. As a result this is why in my opinion here is no future phase of University Ave in the 2025 budget and we will see if it makes it into 2026 Budget. I can list a dozen different projects I am watching for to see if they have been delayed to fund additional East Windsor investment.
This does not mean I will not fight for investments that Ward 2 deserves, but the context has changed and that requires a change in process and focus from a councillor perspective.
Happy to meet and discuss in detail if you wish.
Best regards
Frazier