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The questions were prepared by the League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area and asked of all candidates for this office.
See below for questions on
Basic Services,
Budget,
Citizen Engagement
Click on a name for candidate information. See also more information about this contest.
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1. What services do you believe should be considered basic and essential for the Village?
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Answer from Ron Hirth:
Smaller urban communities like Golf Manor need to concentrate on smart budgeting to sustain the infrastructure and maintain strong police, fire and essential services. This needs to be accomplished through looking at each expenditure for whether or not it meets the criteria of creating a responsible & accountable government that answers to the taxpayers while ensuring the community is sustainable and a friendly, livable place to reside.
Answer from Darlene "Dar" (Mays) Dangerfield:
Communities such as Golf Manor should focus on budgeting to maintain the basic fundamental facilities and their fire, police, and essential services. These things can be skillfully done if the expenditures of the community meet the criteria of establishing a responsible and accountable government as well as answering to the taxpayers. Accomplishing this would assure that Golf Manor is a livable place/community to reside in.
Answer from Sharon Chaney:
Golf Manor is a small community so the need is to concentrate on smart budgeting to sustain the infrastructure and maintain our police, fire and other services. These are all essential services that must be provided. We accomplish this by looking carefully at each expenditure to make sure it meets the criteria of creating a responsible and accountable government that can answer to our taxpayers. We strive to ensure that our community is sustainable and an excellent place to live and raise a family.
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2. How would you balance the Village Budget?
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Answer from Darlene "Dar" (Mays) Dangerfield:
By having the leaders/heads of our service departments, such as Police, City Services, and Fire work together on spending that is essential to the community and truly adds value. To do this, the department heads should utilize today's technology, as well as manage taxes and grants as effectively as possible.
Answer from Ron Hirth:
By engaging the heads of essential service departments (Fire, Police and City Services) to collaborate on scrutinizing expenditures to ensure they are essential and adding value to the community. This includes making wise use of available technology, grants and managing taxes in the smartest way possible. I want to engage our village employees in soliciting their ideas for cost savings and then implementing those ideas that make sense and offer true value to the taxpayers.
Answer from Sharon Chaney:
We engage our fire, police and administrative department heads to work with council to make sure we provide essential services with excellent value for our residents. We've received a few grants over the years that help us improve the community. We use our taxpayers money wisely to the best of our ability and we are always looking for cost savings and areas where we can get additional revenue without asking the property owners to provide more. It has been difficult in this bad economy to balance our budget but we are optimistic that the economy will improve and make it easier to balance the budget in the future.
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3. Citizen engagement is important to the health of local government. In what ways do you support citizen engagement?
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Answer from Darlene "Dar" (Mays) Dangerfield:
I am one that is all for citizen engagement. I would love to see our social media brought current. The GM website become more user friendly so that every resident, young or old is able to enjoy it, and make sure that the communication concerning things that are happening in the village are well advertised. I would also continue by participation with our Neighbor to Neighbor group and the Recreation Commission. My interaction in the community will be continual, and I hope to encourage others to participate in the Village as well. I also plan to help our youth and young adults become more engaged as well.
Answer from Ron Hirth:
I am open to citizen engagement and want to see further use of social media like the GM website, Facebook, Nextdoor and the Time Warner information screen to allow notification on what is happening in the village. Also by participating in the Recreation Commission, Concerned Citizens and Neighbor to Neighbor groups to engage and solicit feedback from the residents. I plan to have an open door to interaction as well as encourage participation in the political process through voting and encouraging others to run for public office in the Village.
Answer from Sharon Chaney:
I am always delighted when citizens are engaged in our community and would like to see more use of our Golf Manor website, a Golf Manor Facebook page created, with more social sites used such as Nextdoor so that we can keep people advised of what is taking place in our community. By doing these things, we will have more citizen engagement. I will always be available to our residents if they wish to talk. I participate with our residents on our Recreation Commission and Concerned Citizens committees. We have free community meals twice a year in which I participate so that I can meet our residents. I encourage people to come to our Council meetings and keep us informed of what is important to them.
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