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Dear Friends,


When you elected me as Buffalo’s Mayor in 2005, I promised that I would work to revitalize our City, build a safer, smarter, stronger Buffalo and ensure that every community shares in our opportunity and success. And we’ve made incredible progress.


We have made progress by growing our City for the first time in 70 years! Census numbers show a growth in our population to 278,000. Our Buffalo Complete Count Committee worked with community stakeholders to educate people in every community to show how an accurate count would direct hundreds of millions of dollars to Buffalo over the next ten years.


We have made progress by hiring the most diverse workforce in the history of the City of Buffalo. And we will continue to provide dependable, experienced leadership and management in City government. We will promote the concepts of diversity, equity and inclusion to increase the chance for every resident to succeed.


We have made progress by building a stronger economy. With 8 billion in new economic activity and the creation of more than 12,000 jobs, we are experiencing one of the fastest recovery rates from the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. And we will accelerate economic development, job creation and job training to continue to improve quality of life Citywide, as we implement a plan for a complete and rapid post-pandemic recovery.


We have made progress by keeping Buffalo affordable. We reduced residential property tax rates in Buffalo by 16%, making it much easier for families to own homes. Hundreds of millions have been spent on affordable housing, and when the moratorium on eviction and foreclosure expires, we will partner with the State to connect qualified residents with HUD-certified mortgage counselors to assist with loan modifications and provide referrals, as well as providing up to 12 months of rental and utility assistance to residents impacted by the pandemic.


We have made progress by making our neighborhoods safer. We have hired more than 200 new police officers, torn down more than 6,000 blighted vacant structures, installed hundreds of surveillance cameras, and taken over 15,000 illegal guns off our streets. We’ve created and deployed a specially trained behavioral health team to respond to mental health crises with mental health professionals from Endeavor Health Services alongside police officers. All of our police officers are, and will continue to be, trained community police officers.


We have made progress by dedicating resources to our Citywide Infrastructure Program. We have allocated more than $200 million for engineering capital improvements since 2006, including paving, and curb and sidewalk upgrades. We have returned cars to Main Street and rehabilitated commercial corridors in every neighborhood across the City of Buffalo.


We have made progress by creating opportunity for Buffalo youth. 12,000 children have completed our Reading Rules! Summer Reading Program. We have provided millions for free college tuition for high school graduates, created 22,000 job opportunities through our Summer Youth Internship and Employment Program, and have provided more than a billion dollars in direct funding to the Buffalo Public Schools. And we’re investing in broadband Internet access in every community across our City.


We have made progress by investing in our local businesses and our workers. Throughout the pandemic, the City of Buffalo facilitated direct aid for our local businesses through grants and programs, and we stood up a 100 percent virtual employment center with counseling, referrals and job placements for our residents. The Beverly Gray Business Exchange Center serves as the region’s only dedicated business assistance center focused on minority owned businesses. We’ve completed the first two phases of the Northland Workforce Training Center, a massive mixed-use development under construction on Northland Avenue, which is training residents for high-paying manufacturing jobs, while transforming an entire neighborhood on the East Side of Buffalo.


We have made progress by investing in our community centers and cultural institutions, and by re-imagining our parks and open spaces. We’ve invested more than $77 million in parks and parks facilities since 2006, including courts, pools, rinks and splashpads, and we have built more than 100 miles of contiguous bicycle lanes. We will continue to ensure that Buffalo is a world-class City for arts, culture, parks and recreation.


We have made progress by earning the designation of a Climate Smart City. The Buffalo Sewer Authority has issued a $50 million green bond to support sewer and water facility upgrades to improve the quality of our water treatment systems and increase our capacity to build green infrastructure, and our award-winning Raincheck 2.0 program helps guide future City infrastructure investments that manages rainwater and takes on other challenges in a more sustainable manner. Our investment in replacing old lead lines has increased the availability of healthy, affordable housing that Buffalo will need to serve our growing population in the future.


We must keep the progress going.


Thank you for taking the time to visit my campaign website. It would be my honor to continue to serve as your Mayor in this next phase of recovery and revival, and I know that, together, we can build on our progress and continue to improve and strengthen every neighborhood in Buffalo.


I’m humbly asking you to WRITE DOWN BYRON BROWN for Mayor on your ballot – vote by absentee ballot, vote early starting October 23rd, or vote on Election Day on Tuesday, November 2nd.  


Truly yours,


Mayor Byron Brown

I’m humbly asking you to WRITE DOWN BYRON BROWN for Mayor on the November 2nd ballot. When I was elected in 2005, I promised that I would work to revitalize our City, build a safer, smarter, stronger Buffalo and ensure that every community shares in our opportunity and our success. And we’ve made incredible progress. I’m running in the General Election because there is far too much at stake to stop now. We cannot afford to turn back Buffalo’s progress.

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