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The questions were prepared by the League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area and asked of all candidates for this office.
See below for questions on
Top Priority,
Planning,
Recycling
Click on a name for other candidate information. See also more information about this contest.
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1. How would you implement your top priority?
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Answer from John Waksmundski:
I would continue to expand the township's appropriation codes to provide greater accuracy in tracking expenditures, and continue using the Uniform Accounting System, adopted during my tenure, to insure that all transactions are in compliance with standards of the office of Ohio's auditor. I will continue to facilitate continuing education and training of personnel in the clerk's office and complete annual continuing education requirements myself.
Answer from Jeffrey Ritchie:
Residents need to know what the township is doing. To facilitate communication, I will make more effective use of electonic communications. Meeting agendas will be posted at least three business days in advance of all meetings, and minutes will be posted no more than three business days afterward. The township budget and other pertinent information will also be available for all resident to review, and the township will set up a list-serve to that residents can receive e-mails about upcoming events and issues.
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2. Numerous important issues including transportation, land use planning, housing and economic development for the Greater Hamilton County regions are being deliberated by OKI's Land Use Commission and Hamilton County Regional Planning Commission and Planning Partnership COMPASS; how engaged should local government be in these planning activities? If elected, how would you participate in these planning activities?
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Answer from Jeffrey Ritchie:
We have to think regionally if our area is to be competetive in a global economy, and that means being both comprehensive and cooperative in our planning efforts. I would be an active participant in regional planning efforts wherever and whenever my input would be productive.
Answer from John Waksmundski:
Local government should have input on all these issues. If elected, I will continue as Secretary of the Hamilton County Trustees and Clerks Association and our organization will monitor and offer ideas regarding the aforementioned issues.
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3. Ohio Department of Natural Resources in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Recycling Coalition conducted a state-specific study and found recycling businesses in Ohio generated $650.6 million dollars in state government revenue. If elected how would you promote recycling and support recycling programs currently in place in your community to reduce solid waste generation?
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Answer from Jeffrey Ritchie:
If elected, how would you promote recycling and support recycling programs currently in place in your community to reduce solid waste generation?
Wherever feasible, the township should purchase material with a high rate of recycled content, in addition to purchasing the most energy-efficient vehicles and products available. The township should expand it's drop-off recycling efforts and promote them more aggressively.
Answer from John Waksmundski:
As an elected official I continually encourage and promote recycling. In Springfield Township we offer recycle and cleanup days which enables residents to dispose of/or present items for recycling at various drop off sites. The Clerk's office administers an annual recycling grant for the township.
Responses to questions asked of each candidate
are reproduced as submitted to the League.
Candidates' statements are presented as submitted. The answers will not exceed 75 words. Direct references to opponents are not permitted.
The order of the candidates is random and changes daily.
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