League of Women Voters of Ohio
Hamilton County, OH November 4, 2003 Election
	Heather Harlow Answers Questions Candidate for Clerk; Township of Colerain

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 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.

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 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.

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?

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.