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NAME: Varun Bhardwaj
OCCUPATION: Funding analyst
ADDRESS/WARD: Ward 4
CONTACT INFORMATION: e-mail [email protected]
POSITION YOU ARE RUNNING FOR: Halton District Faculty Board trustee, Ward 4
PREVIOUS POLITICAL EXPERIENCE: None.
WHY HAVE YOU DECIDED TO RUN?: To deliver youth/range of opinions to the Halton trustee board. I had a really optimistic expertise rising up in Ward 4 and hope to assist college students obtain the identical success/fulfilment
WHAT ARE YOUR TOP THREE ISSUES? 1. Scale back/remove bullying 2. Apply strain to replace curriculum 3. Guarantee capital effectivity
IF ELECTED, WHAT DO YOU PLAN TO ACCOMPLISH IN YOUR FIRST 100 DAYS? It will probably take me this time to know the nuances of the board, and pursuits of stakeholders. It will be naïve, and maybe, harmful to try to accomplish something grand within the first 100 days. Long run mission could be instilling confidence in college students (i.e. shallowness).
HOW WILL YOU EMBRACE AND CHAMPION DIVERSITY IN THIS ROLE? If the present board was re-elected with me, I’d be the youngest, solely individual of color and solely male trustee. The quick reply is I’m a visual minority and perceive the significance of range. The lengthy reply is range isn’t solely ethnicity — it’s gender, cultural, differing views, and so on.
