A Mayor Wooster Deserves  

I am running to be the next mayor of Wooster because I love our community and I know that if we have the right leadership, we can work together to realize Wooster's full potential.

Wooster is a terrific small city! We have great civic pride, businesses that compete on the world stage, internationally renowned institutions of higher learning, and many other attributes that are the envy of our peers.  Now is the time to build on these strengths, to get to work on our more persistent problems because failing to do so threatens the very future of our community. Our poverty rate is higher than the national average and growing. Drug addiction is devastating families and draining our resources. Wooster needs more housing for all income levels.  Employers have positions that go unfilled while job seekers face unnecessary barriers to employment.  These stressors are all interrelated and affect the quality of life for every member of our community. Wooster deserves a mayor with a vision for a brighter future.

Now is the time to secure our economic and cultural future. We need to grow our economy by building on our current strengths, positioning ourselves for the information economy, pursuing environmental sustainability, and promoting the Arts and Humanities.

Wooster deserves a mayor who can inspire all of us to tell the Wooster story.

In order to accomplish all this we need leadership willing to listen to and collaborate with public services, nonprofits, business interests, elected officials, and all of our citizens including those most directly affected by the issues of poverty, addiction, housing, and jobs. The broader the input, the better the solution. Wooster deserves a mayor who will work tirelessly for all of us.​​

-Nell Reardon