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-Mayor Byron W. Brown Our diverse and unique neighborhoods are fundamental to what makes Buffalo such a great city. Over the past ten years, Mayor Byron W. Brown has made the safety and vibrancy of our neighborhoods among his top priorities. He’s implemented a number of effective crime fighting strategies that have resulted in a reduction of overall crime, invested significant funds in programs that help make our children successful, allocated nearly $52 million to beautify parks citywide, and continues to support Buffalo’s world-class our arts and cultural organizations. . Public safety is important to citizens, businesses, and communities. Under Mayor Byron Brown’s leadership, there have been major gains to make Buffalo a safer city since 2006. Crime has decreased in major categories, such as assaults, robberies, rape, and even overall violent crime; and the Brown Administration has forged a number of unprecedented collaborations among federal, state and local law enforcement partners to fight crime. Fighting Crime: Buffalo's crime rate has dropped 32 percent since 2006. In 2015, Buffalo saw the ‘lowest crime rate’ in the city’s recorded history. From Mayor Brown’s Zero Tolerance policing policy, to beefing up the Buffalo Police narcotics division, to adding more surveillance cameras, to removing over 15,000 illegal guns, the Brown Administration’s strategies are producing results. Improving Community Trust: Mayor Byron Brown has implemented a number of plans to improve policing and better serve the needs of everyone in the city. There’s a strong emphasis placed on reestablishing community policing to improve dialogue between our community and police officers. Monthly meetings are held at each district police station, as well regular meetings with the Concerned Clergy, and Block Club leaders. Mayor Brown’s Buffalo Peacemakers initiative has been highly effective, a group that defuses potentially violent situations and works with residents and law enforcement to make our community safer.
Investing in First Responders: Since 2006, Mayor Byron Brown has invested significant funds in both police and fire technology, training, equipment and resources. Under his direction, he introduced new black and white police vehicles, built to be versatile for a wide range of tasks. He added new firefighters, replaced the entire firefighting fleet, opened three new fire houses, implemented a Code Red Emergency and Non-Emergency Alert system.
Infrastructure and Demolitions: Over the past ten years, the Brown administration has invested over $530 million on infrastructure projects citywide, allocated over $100 million dollars to demolish more than 5,700 blighted properties, and improved dozens of neighborhoods after conducting 241 Clean Sweeps.
Energy Initiative: The City of Buffalo has spent nearly $2.5 million on energy efficiency measures at over 45 city-owned facilities, with anticipated energy cost savings of $410,205; implemented complete street, traffic signal improvements and smart growth policies designed to encourage energy smart transportation; upgraded its downtown district energy system; and removed barriers to private renewable energy generation through the draft green code. In addition, Buffalo Water is currently completing an Energy Performance Contract with a total investment of $14M which will yield approximately $490K in annual energy savings, while the Buffalo Sewer Authority has spent over $20 million in energy upgrades over the last 9 years that have cut natural gas usage and reduced electrical usage. 34 and More Buffalo Recycles: 34andMore is the city’s first ever public awareness campaign aimed at encouraging city residents and visitors to make recycling a priority. In 2011, the recycling rate in Buffalo was 11%. Today – as a result of 34 and More Buffalo Recycles, city residents reached a recycling rate of 26%…closing in on Mayor Brown’s goal of 34% recycling by 2018. |
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