Although Tom Fredrickson and Carol Newman agree on some issues, the two candidates running for mayor of Springfield differ in a number of key areas. First, Fredrickson has been called the "green candidate" and has said he plans to assemble a committee of citizen volunteers to research ways the city can use energy more efficiently. He has also proposed spending $1,000,000 on a new transportation center designed to encourage greater use of the city's public transportation system. On the other hand, Carol Newman has focused more on education reform. She says she wants to renovate and modernize the city's high school, which was built more than forty years ago. Her proposed project would cost about $500,000. Fredrickson and Newman agree that property taxes should be lowered. However, Newman would like to impose a higher fee on cars traveling on Highway 97. Fredrickson has not proposed raising any taxes so far. The main point of disagreement between the two candidates is the idea of installing cameras on the city's street corners. Although Fredrickson says that the cameras will save money because the city will need fewer police officers, Newman opposes the idea because she says the cameras and their maintenance will cost just as much as—or more than—hiring a few more officers.