League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area Education Fund
Hamilton County, OH November 8, 2011 Election
	Chris Seelbach 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)

1) Vice-President & CFO of The Seidewitz Group 2) Leader in 2004 repeal of Article XII from Cincinnati City Charter 3) Former campaign manager & staffer to former Vice-Mayor David Crowley 4) Homeowner & active community member in Over-the-Rhine 5) Graduate of Xavier University & University of Dayton Law School

2. How would you balance the City Budget? (100 word limit)

Look for waste and greater efficiencies in every department. Honest and straight forward dialogue with department heads and union representatives. Push for greater efficiencies and restructuring before considering layoffs. Promote collaboration between county & City departments to share services. Any spending should be targeted directly to bring more families and jobs into our City, leading to more revenue in the long run.

3. What services do you believe should be considered basic and essential for the City? (100 word limit)

Police, fire, health (including our health clinics) are the City's top, basic core services and priorities. However, we wouldn't have to consider cutting any service, basic or otherwise, if we hadn't lost 10% of our population in the last ten years (2 families a day, everyday, for the past 10 years!), leading to $30,000,000 to $60,000,000 deficits every year. As a result, we must focus not only on basic services, but also on restoring our tax base by attracting and retaining more people, families and jobs.

4. What actions will you take to support clean air?

As a Sierra Club endorsed candidate, I am a strong proponent of cleaner air and water in our region. Our City is one of the most polluted in the nation, and attracting top talent to our businesses is difficult when younger workers are looking for sustainable & environmentally friendly places to live. We need to push for more Ohio Third Frontier funding to bring more bio-tech and clean industry jobs to our City and actively pursue Clean Ohio Grant funds for brownfield remediation preparing formerly polluted sites for new, green construction.

I strongly support the Office of Environmental Quality, which had a less than $300,000 budget in 2011 but brought in millions in grants to clean up & green up our City.

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