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Emily Halevy

Emily Halevy is running for County Commissioner, Super district 6.

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Economy

Create smart policies that address affordable housing, healthy food options, sustainability and wellness

Focused on using county planning methods proactively so everyone has access to affordable and healthy living

Wants to leverage community grants to help provide housing for displaced people

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Taxes

Approach is based on Emory study commissioned by DeKalb in 2018

Most of her policies don't require a modification to tax codes at all

Create a housing trust fund through the collection of late taxes and other means to support a sustained plan for affordable housing

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Education

Create an open dialogue with the school board to create a working school district inside communities.

Believes that the next step should instill confidence in parents to send their kids to neighborhood schools.

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Transportation & Infrastructure

Wants expansion of the MARTA transportation system throughout south DeKalb County.

Develop our transit stations so they are used to their maximum capacity.

Believes in the expansion our Path and Trail system to alleviate traffic and provide alternative transportation methods (i.e. Bikes, Scooters, etc.).

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Infrastructure

Focused on repairing priority portions of our sewer lines to create more opportunity for affordable housing and economic development

Create a fund in an effort to maintain the work done on these systems and prevent future issues.

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