Whether it’s soliciting donations or platform ideas, city council candidates are embracing crowd-sourcing.
Incumbent Coun. Arjun Singh is running a survey on his website, yourkamloops.com, which he hopes will help shape his platform for the Nov. 15 municipal election.
Singh is hoping to get 1,000 responses from the community before Oct. 10 — the deadline to file nomination papers — and plans to release his platform on Oct. 15.
“Being on city council, there’s lots of things you just have a pulse on by virtue of being on council, but I think when people are asked questions and they think about things in more of a focused way, there are things that come out that are new — and are things you want to get a pulse on,” Singh said.
Several candidates have also embraced online donation platforms such as GoFundMe in order to raise donations from members of the community who may not attend fundraising events, but want to chip in a few bucks.
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