League of Women Voters of Ohio
Hamilton County, OH November 4, 2003 Election
	Eric Minamyer Answers Questions Candidate for Trustee; Township of Symmes

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?

My vision is to preserve Symmes Township as a pleasant and inviting place to live and work. To this end I plan to work to expand the Symmes Park System, already one of finest. We will provide top services for lowest possible taxes. We will purchase more parks and more green space. We will move forward with improvements to major roadways and continue road resurfacing. We will keep taxes down and property value up. I shall serve all the people of Symmes Township, favoring no one area. We will keep Symmes Township a resident friendly community and ensure proper balance of commercial and residential tax base. We also will continue to involve the residents in decisions affecting them.

In my fourteen years of elected office, I have tried to put the interest of my fellow citizens first. Being a local government official is not glamorous and you don't get rich doing it, but I have been proud of what has been accomplished. I am equally enthusiastic about the future and ask for the people's support on November 4 to continue to be privileged to be your Symmes Township Trustee. Thank you.

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?

As Trustee President I have attended all these groups' meetings. I do not agree with the goals of COMPASS and have so stated as input in the process. Symmes Township has Home Rule, Local Zoning and a Land Use Plan revised this year.

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 already implemented in Symmes Township, both by curb side oickup by Rumpke and regular township collection events.