League of Women Voters of Ohio
Hamilton County, OH November 4, 2003 Election
	Hubert E. "Brownie" Brown Answers Questions Candidate for Trustee; Township of Whitewater

The questions were prepared by the LWV Cincinnati Area and asked of all candidates for this office.

Read the answers from all candidates.

Questions & Answers

1. How would you implement your top priority?

The primary duty of the township is public safety. We have done well in maintaining and upgrading our Fire Department personnel and equipment on a limited budget. Our next hurdle is replacing our small and outdated firehouses. We purchased the property for a new firehouse, now we are working on funding for a new building. Our most important priority is protecting you, your family, and your home.

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?

I attend many meetings with the Regional Planning Commission and I am disappointed. Local government should be involved in these planning activities but it seems that after 8 years of meetings, the planners are only interested in more development with little interest in greenspace, land conservation, and protecting hillsides. I stopped attending Compass meetings when they decided to charge our Township $4000 per year. Too much money for too little accomplishment.

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?

Residential recycling in Whitewater Township is encouraged through the recycling program with Rumpke. Our township sponsors a township cleanup twice a year to collect tires, trash, yard waste, metal debris, and appliances, which are separated for recycling. Our township receives grants to purchase recycled materials, such as our Township sign in Hooven, ballfield benches, and park picnic tables.