League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area Education Fund
Hamilton County, OH November 6, 2007 Election
	Mike A. "Howell" Howell Answers Questions Candidate for Trustee; Township of Symmes

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)

I am a lifetime Symmes Township resident with over 20 years of township involvement. I have been on the Symmes Law & Safety Committee and a commander with the Symmes Neighborhood Watch. For over 5 years I was President of my civic association. I have donated blood with regular recognition

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

Issues 1 & 2. Bring back the combined Symmes Law and Safety Committee and Neighborhood Watch into one unified group. Empower them to enact on a broad range of township issues like Polk Run flooding and come up with solutions. Embrace other similar groups in surrounding communities to be involved.

Issue 3, I would only vote on an new tax levies that involve increases to Symmes property taxes if it involved a vital safety or health issue to residents.

These are addressed in full in my position papers.

3. State three actions that you recommend to promote regional cooperation, and explain how you would implement each action? (150 word limit)

Level 1(local level): Establish shared aims and goal between Sycamore, Deerfield, Montgomery, Loveland, to name a few. These neighboring entities share common areas of interest. Crime, traffic, economic development, diversity, and urban development are a few areas of concern for all. Over tax residents, over crowded schools, too much traffic and too few jobs are but only a few of these.

Level 2 (at the county level): After Level 1 is accomplished, I would team up with our county commissioners and officials from Warren County to relate and further identify these shared goal and aims and attack them at broader level.

Level 3 (at the state level): In unison with the Level 1 and Level 2 accomplishments I would create a direct communication line with state authorities, in particular, ODOT to assure the issues, aims and goals are dealt with as a whole not just a local issue

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