Lori Bresciani announces run for mayor in Regina

Two-term Regina city councillor Lori Bresciani is running for mayor.

At a media event on Tuesday, Bresciani said her campaign will emphasize affordability, community engagement and communication, as well as keeping spending under control.

“I would talk about more about the debt and the money and the financial piece around our city, and I think that is something that’s vitally important to people,” the Ward 4 councillor told reporters on Tuesday.

Ward 4 Councillor Lori Bresciani said she would make affordability a key priority. (Daniel Reech/980 CJME)

Bresciani noted that she is “only one vote on council,” making it “very tough to make any kind of decisions around anything kind of around funding or anything like that.”

She said she was against increasing the city’s debt limit to fund the central library’s renewal. While saying she believes in a new pool, Bresciani said the city has to be more cost conscious on that and other similar projects.

Costs for Regina’s indoor aquatic centre ballooned up to $245.1 million from the initial $160.7 million plan.

“I want any project that comes forth, whether it be an arena, whether it be any of those projects, (to) come forth with partnerships and funding from other levels of government,” she said.

Bresciani said her campaign would not take money from developers or any other interest group that she thinks might have an influence on council.

Also running for mayor are Brandon Abtosway, Chad Bachynski, Kevin Kardash, incumbent Sandra Masters, Bill Pratt, and Shawn Sparvier.

Regina’s municipal election will be held on November 13.