League of Women Voters of Ohio
Hamilton County, OH November 4, 2003 Election
	John A. Smith Answers Questions Candidate for Council Member; City of Silverton

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?

Ask all of our citizens to continue to work together as they are doing now to make Silverton safe. Work with local developers to help improve our business district, plus continue to work with different agencies to repair our streets, water drains, and sewers. Ask citizens and business people to continue to work to make Silverton the best city it can become.

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?

We need to have 100% input in the area. Some of our citizens are also involved in this. I am currently involved with COMPASS when time permits me to attend the meetings.

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?

A lot of our citizens are recycling now. Ask the citizens to continue and try to get other citizens to start.