Councilor-at-large candidate Randall J. LeBlanc

Randall J. LeBlanc is no stranger to Waltham. He has lived all over the city, from his childhood home in North Waltham to his current residence on Linden Circle, where he lives with his wife and three children, and he often spends time at Prospect Hill Park or sampling food at the many Moody Street restaurants. 

“It’s a wonderful community. It’s kind of like a city that feels like a small town,” LeBlanc said. 

He listed diversity as one of the aspects that keep the community strong.

LeBlanc owns a local contracting business that provides HVAC services. LeBlanc coaches Waltham Youth Hockey and sits on the Waltham High Vocational Education Board. He is proud to have helped revive the Waltham High School homecoming parade, which returned in 2024, as well as establish the annual Moody Street Car Show. LeBlanc is also proud of the work he has done as councilor-at-large, which he hopes to continue  if reelected.

LeBlanc was first elected in 2017 during a councilor-at-large special election. Before that, he sat on the Zoning Board of Appeals and the Community Preservation Committee.

LeBlanc said if reelected, he wants to focus on improving the city’s management of traffic, noting that there is . “On some of the longer roads in the city, we should continue with some traffic calming measures,” he said. 

He said he supports narrowing busy roads as a way to slow down vehicles. LeBlanc said he supports paving private ways, which he sees as a piece of caring for the city’s aging infrastructure.

LeBlanc wants to strengthen the city’s commercial tax base through zoning that allows for more business development in areas of the city such as 2nd Ave and the Bay Colony Corporate Center on Winter Street. He said he believes this will allow Waltham to keep residential tax rates low for its citizens.

LeBlanc currently serves on the City Council’s Rules and Ordinances Committee, which put in place a dumpster ordinance in July that required all dumpster owners in the city to submit applications to the Health Department with information about pest management and cleaning for their dumpsters. He said the ordinance aims to reduce the city’s rat population by reducing rats’ access to food. If reelected, LeBlanc plans to continue working toward rodent control solutions.

In his past terms, LeBlanc helped make Waltham a Stretch Energy Code-compliant city, which means that Waltham is required to be 15% more stringent than the current state code for energy consumption and efficiency.

He also introduced a resolution to update the city’s current electric car charging stations as well as apply for grant money to add new stations, which the city has received and implemented. LeBlanc wants to continue to make the city more sustainable in the future.

LeBlanc said he knows that Waltham residents are facing uncertain times, both at a federal level and on a local level. He said although the City Council can’t control federal mandates, he does think it can take actions that make Waltham stronger regardless of what happens on the national level. 

“As a City Council, we can try to make sure that everyone in Waltham feels safe, respected and treated fairly when they interact with any and all of our city departments,” LeBlanc said.