City Council candidate Chris Edes
(Ballot lines: Libertarian, Reform)
1) What is your No. 1 priority, if elected?
End the practice of giving tax breaks, subsidies, reciprocal agreements and other forms of corporate
welfare.
2) What is the greatest strength and, conversely, the greatest weakness of the City Council?
Our City Council has a unique strength in that its hybrid composition of at-large and district seats allows
both local and city-wide concerns to be addressed. However, one party rule and various means of
influence over the primary process by political elites leads to a situation where the concerns of working
people are drowned out by money and influence.
3) What have you learned about this community during the campaign, and how will that affect your
service?
I've learned that there are many people from all walks of life who want to participate in the political
process. When I am elected, my approach will be to ask "how can I help them?" rather than "how can
they help me?"
On Page 2 are the responses to a questionnaire from August (prior to the Democratic primary). Please
refer to ballot lines above for those applicable in the general election.

City Council candidate Chris Edes
(Ballot lines: Reform)

1) Do you support the RBTL/Morgan proposal for Parcel 5 Yes/No and why?

No. We should turn Parcel 5 into green space. People loved it when we held an outdoor concert there
during the RochesterJazz Festival. Parcel 5 is just the place for transforming Rochester's downtown into
a world class city where people can come together as a community. An open green space can be used
for many purposes, benefiting everyone, but if we build a project there instead it locks in a single use,
and not everyone will be able to enjoy it. The only argument for building anything there is tax revenue,
and since the current proposal is tax-exempt it makes no sense at all.

2) On what topic/issue do you most disagree with the current city administration, and why? On
which are you most aligned, and why?

My biggest disagreement with the current administration is its continued participation in corporate
welfare schemes which are destroying the city. We give handouts to wealthy developers, so they can
build housing to attract people from outside the city. This not only places a higher tax burden on
everyone else,? it also drives up rents which forces people who live there out of their neighborhoods.
Instead of subsidizing the destruction of our communities, we should make it easier to start a small
business so that people who live here can better their situation.

I agree 100% with the decision to remove the red light cameras. The cameras were never about safety.
Instead they were used to extract money from people in the city who already have trouble making ends
meet. To the extent we ticketed people from the suburbs, it discouraged them from going to the city
and spending money at our businesses. The out of state company that managed the cameras was found
guilty of bribing public officials. This was a train wreck that needed to be cleared away.

3) 7 Do you support or oppose the proposed redevelopment of Cobbs Hill Village, and why?

Ownership of?this property should have reverted to the City after the mortgage was scheduled to be
paid off in 2012, according to the agreement the City signed in 1956 with Rochester Management. feel
it was disingenuous to refinance the mortgage only 3 years before it was to be paid, so that Rochester
Management could own it through 2041. We gave this land to them to use as a public service to house
the elderly, and it should continue to be used as a public benefit. We should put Rochester
Management completely out of the picture, and decide as a City what we want to do with this property.
Until then no changes should be made to the property unless it becomes structurally unsound.