League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area Education Fund
Hamilton County, OH November 6, 2007 Election
	Sam Malone Answers Questions Candidate for Council Member; City of Cincinnati

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Questions & Answers

1. What are your qualifications for office? (50 word limit)

Councilmember, City of Cincinnati, 2003 - 2005, Vice Chair, Health, Tourism, & Small Business Committee; Finance Committee; Audit Committee Former President, Bond Hill Community Council Former Member, Cincinnati & Hamilton County Mental Health Board Former Member, Woodward High School LSDMC Former Member, Westwood Elementary School LSDMC Graduate + Grassroots Leadership Academy

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

Supporting law enforcement remains my first priority. To increase neighborhood safety, I will support police department efforts to target and reduce crime in hot-spot communities. I will seek to build partnerships between schools, community groups, and law enforcement to reduce and deter the activity of community criminal groups in and around school facilities and school related events. Community business districts can be enhanced through access to information, capital, and strategic relationships. I plan to develop an annual "Neighborhood Economic Development Summit" that facilitates problem solving, information sharing, and strategic planning to strengthen community business districts throughout Cincinnati.

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

Through high-tech enterprising, transit collaboration, and regional commerce initiatives, regional cooperation can be achieved. We must continue to support programs like CincyTechUSA by organizing scheduled roundtables with regional planners, policy makers, chambers of commerce, and other stakeholders to develop and promote high-tech centers. We must continue defining and refining Cincinnati's identity as a "hot bed" for high-tech entrepreneurship to increase our region's economic competitiveness. Regarding transit collaboration, David Thornburgh, of the Alliance for Regional Stewardship, queries, "What's the one issue that really ties a region together? My vote + transit. " The Greater Cincinnati region has an abundance of transit related issues that create opportunities-a-plenty for collaboration and regional relationship building between the many municipalities in our area. My plan would be to utilize the appropriate committee to identify lead organizations, convene stakeholder meetings, ensure projects are prioritized, and monitor the collaborative process so that action plans are developed and completed.

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