League of Women Voters of Ohio
Hamilton County, OH November 4, 2003 Election
	David C. Crowley Answers Questions Candidate for Council Member; City of Cincinnati

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 Facilities Master Plan will replace or renovate every school in our district and will invest almost 1 Billion dollars into our neighborhoods. I created a Council Subcommittee on education designed to assist the implementation of this plan and to promote the development of Community Learning Centers. These centers will provide adult education, recreation and after school programming and more. This City/CPS cooperation is essential to our children and the future vitality of our neighborhoods.

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?

There is an important role for local government to play in regional planning. Controlling a sprawling region is in fact crucial to our future viability. I am leading the development of a Housing Advisory Council along with CMHA and the County to find solutions to low-income housing issues in this region. The brownsfields remediation and economically viable improvements in regional transportation are concrete actions that come from good regional planning.

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?

My first priority is preserving Cincinnati's Recycling Program. During the 2003 budget process the City Manager proposed a budget that preserved the 2003 Recycling funding and stated that in 2004 the program would be discontinued without a new funding source. A majority of Council members proposed using savings generated from Managed Competition to fund recycling in 2004. I believe we should find another more secure source of funding to fund recycling in 2004 and beyond.