League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area Education Fund
Hamilton County, OH November 3, 2009 Election
	Tom Adamec Answers Questions Candidate for Council Member; City of Blue Ash

The questions were prepared by the League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area and asked of all candidates for this office.
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Questions & Answers

1. What are your Qualifications for Office? (50 word limit)

My business experience, community leadership, and years of civic involvement make me an ideal candidate. As a P&G manager for 26 years and community leader in civic and school organizations, I successfully led others while achieving high goals, eliminating waste, and improving operations.

2. What plans do you have to address your top three priorities? (100 word limit)

I will work with Council Members and Administration to:

• support a well balanced community of parks, residential, and business areas through long-term strategic planning, strategies that attract new businesses, new facilities that provide value, and projects that improve the vitality of our commercial areas.
• promote systems that eliminate waste and cost while preserving services through development of long-term cost control and budget planning systems.
• promote systems that report progress towards reaching our goals.
• promote systems that engage and involve residents and seek out new ideas and approaches from our community.

3. What two actions would you promote to enhance city revenue or decrease city expenditures in order to balance the city budget, given the current economic conditions? (100 word limit)

Blue Ash has a balanced budget and healthy balance sheet, but the uncertainty of the national economy means Council and the City administration should prudently:

• Include expectations and goals for every department and employee to seek out, recommend, and reduce costs or losses while improving the quality and services.
• Support actions in our economic development department that attracts new business to our city.
• Support accelerating work on future planned facilities projects to take advantage of current low market place construction and purchasing costs.

4. What steps should the local government take to ensure that the quality of rental property meets minimum legal standards? (100 word limit)

• Review standards for current housing for health, safety, and appearance and adjust if necessary with ordinances.
• Put in place an inspection and compliance program that requires rental housing to meet the housing standards required by new ordinances.
• Implement a fee structure for rental housing that pays the cost of the rental inspection and compliance program.
• Remedy all issues according to the compliance program.

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