{"id":8688,"date":"2011-09-15T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=8688"},"modified":"2011-09-15T17:00:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T21:00:07","slug":"bonner-gaylord-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/voter-guide-2011\/2011\/09\/15\/bonner-gaylord-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonner Gaylord (I)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Age: 33\"\"<\/a>
\nOccupation:General Manager for North Hills
\nWebsite: www.bonnergaylord.com<\/a><\/p>\n

How long have you lived in Raleigh?<\/em><\/strong>
\nAll of my life, except for college, when I lived in Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n

Why have you decided to run for office?<\/em><\/strong>
\nI would like to continue to serve this city and help to make this city an even more fantastic place than it already is. I was born here, grew up here, and have been provided a lot of op\u00adportunities by the city, and I feel that it\u2019s incumbent upon me to try to give back and make a difference here. I also enjoy the opportuni\u00adty to help improve Raleigh.<\/p>\n

What do you think are the three biggest issues the city of Raleigh faces? In 30 seconds or less, how would you address those issues?<\/em><\/strong>
\nContinued growth. We\u2019re a booming area, and we need to address how to manage that growth in the smartest way possible.<\/p>\n

Transportation, since we\u2019re growing so quickly. We need to figure out how we\u2019re going to get around and how we\u2019re going to not become an area with over-congested traffic.<\/p>\n

Next would be qual\u00adity of life: make sure that we provide opportunities for activity, and that we protect the safety of our neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

What do you think are the best and worst decisions the city council has made?<\/em><\/strong>
\nI think the best deci\u00adsion that the city coun\u00adcil has made is the implementation of SeeClickFix, which I was able to get unanimous sup\u00adport for at no cost to the city, providing addition\u00adal services and being a leader na\u00adt ionwide in the way that we de\u00adploy that sof twa re , so I think that\u2019s prob\u00adably the best.<\/p>\n

I still don\u2019t agree with the way that we ap\u00adproached the budget and cutting needed infrastruc\u00adture as opposed to cut\u00adting recurring expenses in order to meet our budget shortfall.<\/p>\n

What do you think is the most important issue facing your district and how do you plan to address it?<\/em><\/strong>
\nI think the issues the city at large faces, growth, transportation, and neigh\u00adborhood quality of life, are the same issues that my dis\u00adtrict faces. My district is a very large district and is a growing district, and very keenly deals with the chal\u00adlenges of growth as it has continued to grow rapidly, so they\u2019re particular\u00adly impor\u00adtant in my district.<\/p>\n

What do you think the city should do to house its public safety functions?<\/em><\/strong>
\nI think that we need to come up with a plan that provides the public safe\u00adty needs for the city, and does it in a way that is dis\u00adtributed, so that it doesn\u2019t require everything to be built at once and it doesn\u2019t require a massive and ex\u00adpensive singular structure. I think it should be placed at the southeast side of downtown where econom\u00adic development, public in\u00advestment, and public safety resources are most needed.<\/p>\n

How do you feel about impact fees?<\/em><\/strong>
\nI think that we need to treat impact fees in a fair manner. I think that to de\u00adtermine a fair contribution of what impact fees need to be paid based on the true impact and based on the inherent benefits. Growth brings challenges and ben\u00adefits, so we need to weigh those in establishing fair impact fees.<\/p>\n

What ideas do you have for public transportation in Raleigh? <\/em><\/strong>I think we need to have a holistic approach. We can\u2019t neglect any portion of our transit approach, but I do think increased pedestrian and bicycle facilities are extremely critical, and moving forward with a robust transit infrastructure is necessary for managing our growth, for economic development, and promoting our city to prospective employers and employees who would like to move here.<\/p>\n

How do you think the City of Raleigh should plan to meet its future water needs?<\/em><\/strong>
\nIt needs to be a two-fold approach. We need to continue to search out the most cost-effective ways of providing additional wa\u00adter resources, while also creating a culture of con\u00adservation to lessen the in\u00adcremental impact of our growing city.<\/p>\n

The city has been given a million dollars to use for anything it wishes. How do you think the money should be spent?<\/em><\/strong>
\nI would want to take care of some of the folks who are left without the re\u00adsources to deal with their losses from the tornado first, and then if there is anything left over, I always love seeing more sidewalks and bicycle facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Age: 33 Occupation:General Manager for North Hills Website: www.bonnergaylord.com How long have you lived in Raleigh? All of my life, except for college, when I lived in Chapel Hill. Why have you decided to run for office? I would like to continue to serve this city and help to make this city an even more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24038,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[378],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}