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Q. Now that you’ve been re-elected for a third term, what do you hope to accomplish before you leave office? What are your goals? What do you want city employees to accomplish? A. Since I was inaugurated as mayor, I have emphasized five basic principles: improving the quality of life in our neighborhoods; keeping our city safe; reducing traffic congestion; promoting economic development; and making City Hall more responsive and efficient. With the help of city employees, we have been holding to those principles, and as I travel around the city, citizens know it and respect the job we are doing. We need to keep focused on those things, but I also have laid out to directors some specific goals for 2008. I want to increase police staffing and further reduce violent crime. I want to improve Houston Hope neighborhoods with at least 200 new affordable housing starts and make thousands more homes more energy efficient. I look forward to opening and improving Discovery Green and Lake Houston parks. I want to get residents to recycle more grass and wood material that is now sent to dumps, and I want to get increased federal and state action to reduce benzene in our air. These are just some of the goals we will all be working together on in 2008. With your hard work, I’m confident that we’ll accomplish each one.
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