Arthur Tyus
Candidate for Mayor
Q: Where can people go to learn more about your biography? If not readily available online, please describe in 150 words or less, your relevant experience, public offices held (if any), involvement in environmental causes, and membership in any environmental organizations. If you currently hold office, describe any votes or actions demonstrating concern for the environment.
Community
Q: If elected, how will you work with Detroit residents to ensure that they benefit from and partake in the decision-making surrounding local development projects and that potential adverse impacts of those projects are identified, measured, monitored and mitigated? Moreover, how would you work to put more power into the hands of residents to maintain and revitalize their own communities and to access vacant land through the DLBA?
A: The Detroit Land Bank must be recognized to make more housing available to Detroit residents. The New Housing Bank will sell Detroit residents housing and give Detroit residents a discount for helping other Detroit residents who purchased a house from NHB ( New Housing Bank) to get the house up to code and occupied for the new owners and if a helper can help get ten properties occupied they will receive a house for one dollar.
Q: If elected, what budget appropriations would you propose to increase investment in needed social and environmental services to help improve the quality of life and health of Detroit residents?
A: Increase summer jobs for Detroit youth and open back up the Benjamin Davis Aerospace High School. Open up a Detroit Nautilus High School on the Detroit River to educate the youth in navigation and boat repair and maintenance. Also open up Detroit Veterinarian and Agriculture High School in Rouge Park. Create a Detroit Elite Homicide Unit that will increase the Detroit murder solve rate to 99 percent.
Public Health
Q: What long term solutions do you see for addressing vehicle speeds and making our streets safer?
A: Increase street traffic policemen in problem areas and speed bumps in trouble areas.
Q: How will you work to reduce the negative health impacts of air quality on the residents of Detroit?
A: Increase Detroit Health Department to inspect adult facilities. Senior Citizens and Hospitals and grocery stores to make sure health and safety measures are second to none.
Q: If elected, what actions will you take to work toward safer, healthier, and more affordable housing for all Detroiters?
A: Reorganize the Detroit Land Bank to motivate Detroiters to help get the property that is auctioned or lottery off to residents. If a resident helps ten families get their property up to code and occupied that person will receive a house for a dollar.
Energy
Q: What are your priorities to reduce emissions and lessen the impacts of climate change in Detroit during your term in office?
A: Create a Detroit car emissions test that will make sure that cars are not creating more emissions and using the emissions fee to fight emissions and pollution in the city of Detroit.
Q: What are your plans for helping the city transition to renewable energy and how will you ensure that the cost benefits and increased resilience that come from the use of renewables is made accessible to low-income and vulnerable communities across Detroit?
A: Start a policy to make new housing use 50 percent of renewable energy like solar and wind and offer low-income residents grants that will install solar panels for low income Detroit residents.
Recycling
Q: How can the city increase recycling, composting, and the use of post-consumer recycled materials, while addressing the city’s litter and illegal dumping problem?
A: Increase waste recycling locations for Detroit residents to bring consumer recycling material into new locations and start summer youth jobs that will help clean the city in the Summer and Fall while giving job opportunities to our youth.
Jobs
Q: What steps would you take to prepare the local workforce to take advantage of and be part of the movement toward a green economy, through qualifying for good paying infrastructure and clean energy jobs, amongst others?
A: I will create ingenuity districts that will teach and train young Detroit adults in skill trade and new green technologies
Water
Q: How will you ensure that clean water is accessible and affordable to all Detroiters?
A: We have to create a fund to help Detroiters with affordable water and access to the funds.
Q: How will you help municipal agencies and property owners integrate Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) across the city to manage stormwater and reduce drainage charge fees for property owners?
A: I will revise the Detroit Drainage fee that is the main factor of the Detroit water crisis created by the current administration. Detroit water bills are $20 a month but the Drainage fees are $45 a month.
Optional
Q: Please identify the top environmental concerns to you personally, identify the environmental issue in your community that is the most pressing, and what you would like to do as an elected official to address this most pressing concern.
A: Economic, Environmental, Health and mistreatment of Detroit residents to bring Justice meaning guaranteeing no one is mistreated and whoever needs the most constructive help receive that help.
