Ed Isabella outlines priorities in Medina City Council at-large bid, emphasizing deer control, sidewalks and square traffic

Ed Isabella, a candidate for Medina City Council at large, said in a televised interview that his leading priorities if elected are professionalizing the city's deer-control efforts, easing the financial burden of sidewalk repairs on homeowners, and reconfiguring parking and traffic around the downtown square to improve pedestrian safety.

Isabella said those topics matter to everyday life in Medina and that city government can directly affect day-to-day services. "You're trying to take the concerns, take the issues that are facing ... the people that live here," he said, adding that council must work with the mayor and service departments to find solutions.

The candidate described the current deer-management program as "insufficient" and tied recent problems to reliance on a volunteer bow-hunting effort. "I think we either have to work with ODNR, find game control people that can help us with this problem," Isabella said, referring to the Ohio…