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The questions were prepared by the League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area and asked of all candidates for this office.
See below for questions on
Top Priority,
Planning,
Recycling
Click on a name for other candidate information. See also more information about this contest.
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1. How would you implement your top priority?
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Answer from Kathy Mohr:
Minutes of public meetings, resolutions, meeting schedules, and budget will continue to be posted on the website, http://www.coleraintwp.org, following approval by the Board of Trustees. All public records are available at the Admin office between 8:00-4:30, Monday-Friday. I am active in communicating with the State Auditor (who provides the accounting software), the accounting/payroll needs of the largest township in the state of Ohio (45 sq. miles; population 60,000+; 600+ businesses; 275 employees).
Answer from Heather Harlow:
The Township's meeting minutes belong to the people -- and they have every right to access them. I'll make accessing the Township's business easier for taxpayers by posting them on the Township's website as well as placing them at local libraries. Further, I'll create an e-mail list and send meeting minutes, notices, etc., to voters who request it.
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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?
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Answer from Heather Harlow:
Local goverment should be very involved in these planning activities. On the local level, we have a greater ability to communicate with voters, learning their needs and ideas. If elected, I will inform voters of these planning activites by notices placed at the library in the meeting minutes binders as well as through the e-mail list. If asked, I will fully participate in these sessions.
Answer from Kathy Mohr:
N/A to the position. The clerk has no legislative authority.
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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?
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Answer from Kathy Mohr:
N/A to the position. The clerk has no legislative authority.
Answer from Heather Harlow:
Recycling is very important to our state: not only does it support the state economy, but it also keeps our sanitary landfills from filling up as quickly. Though the Clerk does not have any direct policy-making ability, I will use my vehicles of communicaiton with the residents to inform them of recycling opportunities in the area.
Responses to questions asked of each candidate
are reproduced as submitted to the League.
Candidates' statements are presented as submitted. The answers will not exceed 75 words. Direct references to opponents are not permitted.
The order of the candidates is random and changes daily.
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