Growing older should not mean leaving the community you love. My plan for Schenectady focuses on helping seniors age in place by expanding affordable transportation, improving home accessibility, supporting caregivers, and building neighborhoods where residents can live independently for as long as possible.

Orlondo Hundley unveils his Universal Childcare Plan for Schenectady, expanding affordable daycare, supporting childcare workers, and helping working families thrive.

Every resident deserves to feel safe. Every child should be able to play outside without fear. Every senior should feel comfortable walking through their neighborhood. Public safety is one of the most important responsibilities of city government, but lasting safety cannot come from enforcement alone.

Violence is not just a policing issue. It is also a housing issue, an economic issue, a mental health issue, and a youth opportunity issue. If we want safer neighborhoods, we must address the conditions that make violence more likely while ensuring that people who commit violent crimes are held accountable.

As mayor, my approach will focus on prevention, accountability, and community partnership.

Schenectady native Orlondo Otis Hundley has emerged as an early and unconventional & leading contender in the city’s 2027 mayoral race, building a campaign that blends grassroots organizing, digital outreach, and a focus on local economic realities.

Orlondo for mayor means a Livable Schenectady for all.

The Livable Schenectady campaign is about correcting that imbalance.

For too long, we have socialized the losses while privatizing the gains. When things go wrong, residents and small businesses are asked to carry the weight. When things go right, too often the rewards are concentrated among a few. A livable city flips that equation. It ensures that success is shared, opportunity is accessible, and the basic conditions of life are not a privilege but a guarantee.

A City Policy for Expression, Literacy, and the Future of Human Communication

Schenectady has always been a city shaped by ideas, voices, and innovation. From labor halls to classrooms, from poetry readings to protest lines, communication has been the foundation of our civic life. As technology reshapes how people speak, write, and understand one another, our city must ensure that young people are not left behind or silenced by systems they did not design.

This policy proposes the creation of Communication and Language Centers across Schenectady. These would be public, neighborhood based spaces dedicated to developing language, expression, and critical communication skills for young residents.

These centers are not luxuries. They are civic infrastructure.

The Office of Enrollment will serve as a centralized, people-first hub that helps residents access, enroll in, and maintain essential public programs and local services. Many Schenectady residents qualify for benefits but are blocked by paperwork, fragmented systems, or lack of guidance. This office removes those barriers and ensures public resources reach the people they are intended to serve.

Orlondo Hundley believes sidewalks are not a luxury or an afterthought. They are essential public infrastructure that directly affects safety accessibility public health and local economic growth. When sidewalks are cracked uneven missing or poorly maintained the cost is not abstract. It shows up as injuries lost mobility higher insurance claims and entire neighborhoods cut off from opportunity.

In Schenectady too many residents navigate broken sidewalks every day. Seniors struggle to walk safely. Parents push strollers into traffic because curb cuts are missing. People with disabilities are forced to take dangerous detours or stay home altogether. These are not minor inconveniences. They are failures of basic governance.