ANDRII ZVORYGIN FOR MAYOR
A City That Works for Residents is the current flagship campaign flyer.
Affordable Housing • Lower Property Taxes • Improved Neighbourhood Cohesion
Andrii Zvorygin is an Owen Sound farmer, IT professional, community organizer, Grey Bruce Makerspace Treasurer, and founder of HelpOS, running for Mayor to make housing more affordable, improve value from City spending, and strengthen neighbourhood connections.
MayorOfOwenSound.ca
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andrii@zvorygin.ca
Canadian with Finnic–North Eurasian roots
33 years in Ontario • 11 years in Owen Sound
Andrii Zvorygin is an official candidate for Mayor of Owen Sound.
Affordable homes for ordinary and lower-income households, using existing homes and new low-cost housing and land options.
Vacant homes • Low-cost housing options • ARC pathway
Learn more about Affordable Rural Communities → helpos.ca/arc
Examine City spending, remove obsolete costs, improve processes, and direct money to services residents value.
Open the books • Remove obsolete costs • Simplify City work
Help neighbours know one another, connect clearly with City Hall, and solve appropriate local problems together.
Local Representatives • Neighbourhood gatherings • Shared Stewardship
These are the results. Transparency, Participation and Compassion are how we get there.
Open finances • Management accountability • Track decisions and results
Local Wards • Local Representatives • Neighbourhood gatherings
Affordable homes and land • Recovery and belonging • A healthier downtown
Andrii has spent years working with Owen Sound and Grey County mayors, deputy mayors, councillors, and staff, while also engaging provincial and federal representatives, ministries, and public bodies on housing, land use, food security, local production, and community resilience.
Andrii is already reviewing City spending, debt, staffing, management structure, and service delivery. He runs profitable farm and IT businesses and brings hands-on financial responsibility from serving as Grey Bruce Makerspace Treasurer and previously as a federal campaign treasurer.
Andrii built HelpOS.ca to make agendas, transcripts, Council results, public documents, and local issues easier for residents to find, follow, and understand.
Andrii organizes monthly discussions with international scientists and engineers on energy, resources, transition planning, and long-term community viability.
Current work reviews approximately $29 million in City debt, spending, staffing, management structure, service delivery, a simpler City Hall organization, zero-based budgeting, and transparency.
The ARC work includes detailed low-cost housing modelling, open affordability calculations, productive-land options, and a Grey County planning pathway.
Research covers wastewater debt and infrastructure, wet-weather inflow and infiltration, harmful discharges, monitoring, source tracing, accountability, capacity, and system improvements.
Stabilize current transit within the existing levy, prevent another five-year contract lock-in, and prepare City-owned, locally maintained buses. Evening and Sunday service can follow when verified recurring savings, sustainable funding, and expected fares cover the cost.
This is a living platform. It continues to improve as residents raise concerns, share local knowledge, challenge assumptions, and suggest practical solutions.
Resident feedback has already helped refine housing models, wastewater proposals, City Hall reform, campaign materials, and other parts of the platform.
Vote online, by phone, or in person at an Election Centre from October 16 to 26.
A City That Works for Residents is the campaign’s flagship flyer. Delivering 50 or 100 copies, canvassing with Andrii for an hour, or helping with lawn signs can make a meaningful difference.
Campaign Update: $29M in Debt, $61K Homes, City Hall Reform and a Certified Ballot
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A short true story about service, neighbours, community, food security, and the common good.
A short music video to help people pronounce Andrii Zvorygin’s name.
A campaign interview filmed in the local history section of the Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library.
No. Owen Sound would continue electing seven Councillors at large in 2026. After the election, Council could assign each Councillor primary responsibility for one geographic Ward while all seven continue to represent the whole city.
Read the Wards and Local Representatives plan → helpos.ca/wards
The current two-adult, three-child ordinary-site model is about $750 per month as a preliminary planning estimate. It is an illustrative housing-cost model rather than a quoted price or guaranteed rent.
Read the ARC cost model → helpos.ca/arc
ARC is general affordable housing for seniors, young adults, workers, families, growers, and others seeking secure housing with access to land. Voluntary recovery is a separate specialized pathway.
Read the ARC housing plan → helpos.ca/arc · Read the voluntary recovery proposal → helpos.ca/recover
The Mayor leads Owen Sound at both the City and County level. Owen Sound’s Mayor and Deputy Mayor also sit on Grey County Council, where they vote on County responsibilities such as regional planning, County roads, housing and social services.
At the City level, the Mayor and Council oversee Owen Sound’s budget, organization, services, local planning decisions and other municipal responsibilities. This means proposals involving both City and County action can be advanced through the Mayor’s roles on Owen Sound Council and Grey County Council.
The Mayor also has a role in lobbying and advocating with Grey County, provincial and federal representatives when a proposal depends on decisions, funding or rules outside City authority. The Province sets many of the laws municipalities operate under and funds or delivers services such as health care, so some proposals also require provincial cooperation.