Rajesh Jayaprakash is a technologist with a master’s degree in computers and works as a software architect for a major TELCO.
His community work involves libraries, kids with learning disabilities and raising issues in Surrey as part of a press club.
Jayaprakash is the founder of PEOPLE FIRST SURREY, a grassroots movement to fundamentally improve our governing system in Surrey city hall. We do online sessions everyday on facebook to ensure people participation and to refine our 16 point platform.
PEOPLE FIRST has a practical plan to cancel LRT and expand SkyTrain. Crime will be countered using technology, enabling police to reallocate resources to fight gangs and to keep taxes same. To improve affordability of housing and preserve greenspaces, we will take a balanced approach using canopy percentages and it will be part of every development’s approval. We also propose an e-vote platform to improve people participation in city governance.