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Potential Winnipeg mayoral candidate Scott Fielding has issued another campaign-style announcement, unveiling a five-point plan to restore public trust into a scandal-shaken city hall.

The St. James-Brooklands councillor announced an "accountability action plan" this morning that calls for holding referenda on major capital projects, using a treasury board to track spending and creating an ethics office at city hall, a whistleblower bylaw and a lobbyist registry.

Fielding said last week he is all but certain he will run for mayor in 2014. He quit executive policy committee in October and almost immediately began trading barbs with Mayor Sam Katz, his former ally.

It's not clear whether Katz will run next year. So far, only former St. Vital Coun. Gord Steeves has declared he will run for mayor.

Other candidates mulling a mayoral run include Charleswood-Tuxedo Coun. Paula Havixbeck, lawyer Brian Bowman and former NDP MP and MLA Judy Wasylycia-Leis.

Katz issued an announcement of his own this morning, offering another preview of the 2014 budget, which will be tabled on Friday.

At the Millennium Library, the mayor said spending on library materials will increase $300,000 to $3,084,770 in 2014.