League of Women Voters of Ohio
Hamilton County, OH November 4, 2003 Election
	John Waksmundski Answers Questions Candidate for Clerk; Township of Springfield

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?

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.