The following policies are an action plan to uplift poor and working-class people, which, by improving schools and reducing crime, will also retain and attract middle-class people and businesses, and build a sustainable prosperity for all.

Progressive Tax Reforms: Prevent city bankruptcy and fully fund city services.

• City Income Tax: A progressively graduated income tax on residents and commuters.
• State Revenue-Sharing: Restore to pay for unfunded state mandates.
• Countywide Property Tax Sharing: As recommended by the Consensus Commission.
• NY Health Plan: State-level Medicare for All to save the city $80 million.
• Cut Regressive Sales and Property Taxes once other progressive tax reforms take effect.

Jobs for City Residents and Minorities

• Equal Employment Opportunity Program: Improve and enforce it so that city residents and minorities get their fair share of city-funded jobs with city departments and contractors.
• Community Hiring Hall: Create to serve as a primary source for hiring for city and city-contractor jobs in order to meet affirmative action goals for city resident and minority hiring.

Build Community Wealth

• Worker Cooperatives: Develop worker co-ops where the wealth created by workers' labor stays with working families as increased income and assets.
• Public Power and Broadband to lower the costs of living and doing business.

Reduce Poverty: End Syracuse having the most concentrated (segregated) poverty in U.S.

• Inclusionary Zoning to desegregate housing by race and class.
• Desegregate Schools: End tracking within the district and pursue inter-district desegregation by race and class.

Crime Reduction and Police Reform

• Invest in poor neighborhoods: schools, jobs, housing, and youth recreation and mentoring.
• Divest from militarized “broken windows” policing and mass incarceration.
• Invest in community policing, de-escalation tactics, and restorative justice programs.
• Diversify the police force.
• Support the Citizen Review Board.
• Support Sanctuary City policies.

Environmental and Economic Sustainability

• I-81: Replace elevated highway with a community street grid and rebuild the 15^th Ward as a residential and commercial neighborhood that is mixed-income, mixed-use, and walkable.
• Lead: Require landlords to remove lead and receive a lead-safe certificate before renting.
• Deer: Employ dogs to shepherd deer out of the city.
• Sidewalks: Municipal responsibility for snow removal and maintenance.
• 100% Renewable Energy: Public power to move the city toward affordable clean energy.

Inclusive Democracy

• Neighborhood Assemblies: Neighborhood-directed planning and participatory budgeting.
• Proportional Representation on Common Council.
• Ranked-Choice Instant Runoff Voting for Mayor, Auditor, and Council President.
• Public Campaign Fund: Public funding for candidates who opt out of private funding.
• Metropolitan Government:
  • No to the Consensus Commission proposal that disempowers Syracuse residents and consolidates segregation.
  • Yes to metropolitan government based on Proportional Representation, the Federation of Cities and Towns, and includes Public Schools and Housing Authorities. A democratic metro government is necessary to desegregate housing and schools, plan land use, and coordinate economic development for shared prosperity and ecological sustainability.