League of Women Voters of Ohio
Hamilton County, OH November 4, 2003 Election
	Chris R. Monzel 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?

We must continue to make our streets safe. We must increase the number of police walking the beat in our communities and continue to support the Citizens on Patrol program. We must improve the quality of life in all Cincinnati neighborhoods by fixing our crumbling sidewalks, removing blight and improving our housing stock.

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?

Currently the city has representation in these planning activities and we need to continue to stay involved with the planning processes so that the city, county, and greater Cincinnati region will continue to grow and prosper in the future.

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?

First we need to continue funding our city's curbside recycling program. Then we need to work with such organizations as Keep Cincinnati Beautiful to promote recycling in our community.