League of Women Voters of Ohio
Hamilton County, OH November 4, 2003 Election
	Howard H. Bond Answers Questions Candidate for Council Member; City of Cincinnati

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?

I would immediately call together the business community and employers to meet with citizens to identify barriers to employment and economic opportunities, and subsequently direct the institution of programs to resolve these problems.

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?

I have always been a proponent of taking proactive stands. It is imperative that local government participate in land use planning, housing, transportation, and economic development OKI's Land Use Commission and Hamilton County Regional Planning Commission and Planning Partnership COMPASS. I would serve as a member representing the city of Cincinnati and would probably wind up in leadership positions.

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?

For the past eleven years, I have served as a Cincinnati Park Board Commissioner and during that time, our parks have become the number one urban park system in the nation. I would work with recycling in the same way, by motivating and inspiring our employees to support and promote recycling programs to reduce solid waste generation.