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Candidates for Suisun City mayor want a cleaner city Todd R. Hansen

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ization. We need to focus on incremental change that gradually improves the area’s economic foundation and eventually makes large-scale investments possible. This can

SUISUN CITY — Larry Brumfield will be the next city mayor – albeit for a matter of days or a couple of weeks at the most. Brumfield said he is going to use that opportunity to raise concerns he has heard from the public, which he has written down in a notebook he carries. The candidates who want the job after Brumfield – Councilwoman Alma Hernandez and businessman James Berg – offer choices in what they view as their priorities for the city. However, they agree on one priority: Suisun City needs a good cleaning. “Suisun City has a growing reputation for being littered with trash and unkept. This comes BERG from multiple sources without accountability. Many of the city’s dirtiest lots actually belong to the city,” Berg wrote in response to the Daily Republic’s question. That question was: “While mayors only have one vote in City Council HERNANDEZ decisions, it is a position of leadership. Name three critical issues facing the city and state how you would influence public policy and council collaboration on these issues.” “The main responses to help address this issue would be to enact existing code enforcement policies and have city accountability, while pushing forward with effective, proven ways to help the unhoused get off and stay off the streets. I am concerned with the amount of money being thrown at this crisis without enough results. A clean city can help open new doors of opportunity,” Berg added. Hernandez said, “One of the top priorities I have heard from residents is the need to clean and beautify our city. Having such a windy city, we have an issue with trash being blown from overflowing trash bins, littering, and illegal dumping. We also have had issues with overgrown weeds, maintenance of public spaces, illegal encampments, neglected empty business spaces and lack of code enforcement to enforce and regulate city and building ordinances.” To address the issue, she said she would establish a Citywide Beautification

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Larry Brumfield, candidate for short-term Suisun City mayor, listens to remarks at a candidate forum in Fairfield, Sept. 26, 2022.

Priorities separate 5 candidates vying for 2 Suisun council seats Todd R. Hansen

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SUISUN CITY — A mixture of what they view as the city’s top priorities does give voters a choice among the five candidates seeking two seats on the City Council. Those top-shelf concerns range from public safety and crime to roads, from dredging to homelessness, from city cleanliness to communication with the residents and from quality of services to the general quality of life. The Daily Repub-

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lic asked the candidates: Name two issues critical to the city, what you think needs to be done and how you would effect those outcomes. One issue that came up frequently was the local economy. Jenalee Dawson,

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Princess Washington and Charles Lee all commented on the topic. “The city could be a destination city, with the downtown waterfront, but we need to strategically invest in the critical pieces of economic revital-

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Kyiv braces for prolonged hardship as Russia threatens more strikes The Washington Post KYIV, Ukraine — With Kyiv facing rolling electricity outages, authorities on Tuesday raced to repair the damage from a barrage of Russian missiles that slammed into the heart of the Ukrainian capital, in a significant escalation of the nearly eight-month-old war that drew international condemnation of Moscow. Many Kyiv residents hurried on Tuesday to make whatever preparations they could ahead of potential cuts to power, heat and water – fearful that the missile strikes, which killed at least 20 people across Ukraine

on Monday, were a bleak prelude to what they will face repeatedly in coming months. The attack, which Russian President Vladimir Putin said was retaliation for an explosion over the weekend on the Crimean Bridge, targeted power plants and other critical infrastructure, and underscored the continuing vulnerability of Ukrainian cities despite a surge in Western military aid since Putin’s Feb. 24 invasion. Speaking to leaders of the Group of Seven via video link on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky voiced his own

apprehension about Russia’s intentions in the coming months, and he pleaded again with leaders of the world’s advanced democratic economies for more advanced air defense systems. Even as they began bracing for difficult months ahead, Kyiv

residents voiced determination and resolve. Olga Sali, who was surveying the gaping crater a Russian bomb left near a playground in one of the city’s central parks, said that she had just dropped her 10-year-old daughter at school on Monday See Kyiv, Page A9

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