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Republican Janet Burman officially launched her mayoral campaign with a strong focus on public safety.
Burman says public safety is her number one priority, and accuses city leaders of making the wrong move when they tried to reduce spending because of the pandemic.
The common council and the mayoral administration acted to reduce the Syracuse Police budget by over $6 million. My first action as mayor will be to restore that funding.”
Burman says fire safety needs to be a top priority when the I-81 project gets underway. She says the city should start planning ahead, especially since the closure of fire station 7 on E. Fayette St. in 2014.