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Page 5 Ottawa Journal Friday, November 3, 1 978 Board of Control v. ill iiiiiiif pi IMkmm Cyrllle Coulet Ottawa lawyer Cyrille Goulet is making his first attempt at a municipal post with his candidacy for a seat on board of control. Goulet, 4.8, attracted attention when he suggested the mayor's job will be too tough for a woman to handle over the next three or four years. Goulet hopes to top the board of control polls and add a moderate view to council so the squabbling will end and serious negotiations with the federal government to increase grants will begin. The most important thing for the city is to regain the confidence of the federal government and to attract businesses to the city, he maintains.

i Goulet proposes to simplify local zoning bylaws and to take a hard look at the planning department. David Oehler Ottawa lawyer David Dehler is making a bid to return to City Hall, but this time he wants to win a board of control seat. Dehler, 41, served as St. Georges Ward alderman in 1963 and 1964 and he tried unsuccessfully to win a provincial seat in Ottawa East as a Progressive Conservative in 1975 when he battled Liberal Albert Roy. If elected, Dehler says he will launch an immediate investigation to determine why so many of the top bureaucrats at city hall either were fired or resigned during the Green-berg era.

Dehler supports a small up to two per cent increase in taxes and wants to investigate the grants the city gives out to local groups every year. Jules Morln Political institution Jules Morin is back, running on the platform that Ottawa needs now more than ever his 30 years of political experience. The 64-year-old retired businessman served under seven Ottawa mayors as alderman for By Ward and as a controller. He was also Ottawa East MPP under three premiers. Frost, Robarts and Davis.

When politics has been good to you for this long, you feel you pay something back, says Morin, who did not seek re-election after his last term on the board. "I think the best way to do it is to put some of that experience back to work for the municipality." While there are no "easy" ways to alleviate the tax burden, he promises to hold the line." Brian Bourns Wellington Ward's 27-ycar old alderman Brian Bourns is hoping to make the jump to board of control Nov. 13. Bourns has served on city Council for four years and initially had the Image of being a radical, young NDP member. "BuT during the past year he has changed his style and worked countless hours with businessmen trying to revitalize the downtown core.

The freelance journalist was one of the driving forces behind the efforts to revitalize Bank Street and it was after his prodding that zoning In Centretown was liberalized to allow ultra clean industries to locate in Ottawa. He also has been the mainstay in setting up the city's Non-Profit Housing Corporation 9 ,1 Joseph Parodis Joseph Louis Paradi's, a 65-year-old retired boilermaker and self-styled civic watchdog, will make his sixth bid Nov. 13 to win a seat on board of control. The feisty and pugnacious demon of city hall, who habitually telephones top city bureaucrats and elected officials and regularly prowls city hall corridors to complain about the "sorry lot" running municipal government, has tried five times to win a board of control seat and twice to capture the mayor's job in the past 20 years. Paradis has never spent money on his campaigns although he has won more then 7,000 votes in the mayoral races.

If elected, he would like committee and council meetings to be held in community centres so people have a chance to hear what their politicians are Ralph Sutherland Ralph Sutherland Is seeking a second term on the board, re-affirming the importance of "quality of life" in a city "designed for people" The 53-year-old physician is advocating "responsible administration" of tax dollars In the existing economic climate, but not If holding the line works to the detriment of social services. "Our Job Is to help senior citizens and others in need," he says, "and we must continue to support public housing as the only effective means of providing affordable accommodation for 10-20 per cent of our population." Sutherland wants continued public participation at city hall and "no-nonsense" administration. He is the only controller who has consistently voted for abolition of his own board. Rev. George Tliecfcedoth Rev.

George Theckedath was motivated to run for the board by what he describes as "the appalling lack of political acumen" at city hall. Theckedath, a priest in the Anglican-Catholic Church which broke away from the Church of England over the ordination of women wants to set up a "people-oriented" administration on Green Island. "The people who run the city now don't seem to understand the intense agony of low-income residents," says the 51-year-old native of India. "I feel that I do." Theckedath Is convinced that Ottawa' will indeed turn Into a "ghost town" if taxes are not reduced. He supports measures to increase the housing vacancy rate, shorter leases on apartments and continued existence of the board "as long as it performs competently." Don Reld The top priority for Ottawa is rcvitallzation of the city core, says former mayor and incumbent controller Don Reid and other programs are going to have to take second place.

"I've seen other cities die when their downtowns started to fail," says the 51-year-old businessman. "We've got to direct all our energies in the next year toward ensuring that doesn't happen here." Reid feels the solution lies in improving relations with the federal government and working with It to attract new business to fill vacant office space. It's impossible to keep taxes down without cutting' services, Reld says, and he has proposed a one-year moratorium on millions of dollars slated for new recreation facilities..