Crombie also said she want to ensure police feel they have the resources they need “adequately do their jobs.”

Mississauga previously had a community safety summit in 2018.

In December, Peel police Chief Nishan Duraiappah said that the 35 officers funded in the 2020 budget would bring the force to a “breathing point” for service delivery.

Transit

In 2020, Crombie said she’ll continue to advocate for two-way, all-day service on the Milton GO train line.

Though it would be a “longer-term project” involving the federal and provincial governments building more freight rail capacity, the mayor said the initiative would be “transformative for Mississauga, should it happen.”

Currently the train line runs east into Toronto in the morning, and west out of Union Station in the afternoon, primarily catering to commuters leaving Milton and Mississauga.

Crombie said the city needs train service more reflective of the needs of commuters travelling to work in Mississauga.

“That train — and I like to say this because people get it right away — it travels in the wrong direction,” she said.

GO buses run from Union Station to Mississauga along the Milton Line weekday mornings and afternoons.

Affordable housing

Crombie said affordable housing stock is “always on our wish list,” and Mississauga is working with the provincial government “to ensure that we can impose things like inclusionary zoning on new developments.”

Inclusionary zoning, a policy that can require a certain number of affordable units in new residential developments, was limited to projects in major transit areas in Ontario’s Bill 108.

According to a Mississauga news release, less than 10 per cent of city-approved residential units have been built.

— With files from Hailey Montgomery