League of Women Voters of Ohio Education Fund
Hamilton County, OH September 13, 2005 Election
	Alicia Reece Answers Questions Candidate for Mayor; City of Cincinnati

Questions & Answers

1. What are your qualifications for office?

As a three term councilmember and the Vice Mayor, I have co-sponsored the Police Walking Patrol initiative, recruited national conventions to the city, played a lead role in negotiating the Collaborative Agreement, sponsored neighborhood development initiatives, co-sponsored the Youth Summer Job program, co-sponsored legislation to end Firehouse Brownouts, championed funding for Health Centers, Senior Services, and initiatives for People with Disabilities.

2. What plans do you have to address your top three priorities?

• Safety-Make Walking Patrols Policy and Create an Anti-Violence & Homicide Taskforce bringing the total community together to reduce violent crime.
• Create Jobs For Cincinnatians by connecting job training programs to the anticipated $4 billion in development (The Banks, Uptown, Downtown, and Neighborhoods
• Move the Neighborhood and Downtown Plans from plans to action with time tables.
• As Mayor will have the Mayor's Health Taskforce to focus on the uninsured and the underinsured

3. What steps would you take to ensure that all public facilities are accessible to people with disabilities?

As someone who has a mother who is in a wheel chair, I was proud to have sponsored the City Accessibility Project making City Hall more accessible to people with disabilities, as well as encouraging businesses to hire people with disabilities. In addition to working with many advocacy groups on making transportation more accessible, I have made sure that accessibility groups were included in the redevelopment of projects like Fountain Square. As Mayor, I will go further in making sure that people with disabilities are included in appointments to boards and commissions and that city-owned buildings are not only accessible but welcoming. Our goal should be to become one of the most accessible cities in the country. As Mayor, I will be a voice in making our city more accessible.

4. What specific steps will you take to expand recycling services in your community?

I have voted to fund recycling. However, we must go a step further in educating our citizens. We must look at innovative ways to not only keep recycling going but to educate at a young age the importance recycling.

5. What steps would you take to provide affordable housing for all residents of your community?

As Vice Mayor, I worked with residents to craft and pass the city's first Anti-Predatory Leasing Law, to crack down predators who were taking advantage of our citizens. As Mayor, we will expand on outlawing predatory practices and redlining. My Housing Ownership and Retention plan will focus on not only new home-ownership but it will also focus on helping citizens retain their homes to respond to the high number of bankruptcies and foreclosures. We will also create affordable housing stock for the working middle class through tax incentives. I will continue to promote mixed income diverse neighborhoods.