League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area Education Fund
Hamilton County, OH November 5, 2013 Election
	Jenni McCauley Answers Questions Candidate for Member Council at Large; City of Wyoming

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Questions & Answers

1. What are your qualifications for office?

My experience working as a manager in an urban economic development department, as a crisis manager of a small tornado ravaged city, as a top selling real estate expert and seven terms on Wyoming City Council have taught me that peristence brings results and respect of others makes colaboration work.

2. What services do you believe should be considered basic and essential for the City?

I believe that the basics of city government are essential and always come first. Basics are safety services(police/fire/EMS), garbage collection, water & sewer,care & maintenance of public infastructure (streets, parks, playgrounds,public buildings, etc).

3. How would you balance the City Budget?

City budgeting is a constant process of review, prioritizing, seeking greater efficiencies and looking for grant opportunities. Wyoming is significantly better off than most cities because of fiscal policies that I co-sponsored during my first term on council in 1982. We created a systemitized reserve fund for equipment,funded yearly. This eliminated interest costs,crisises, and gave Wyoming a AAA bond rating. 2013-14 is a very challenging time for all local governments in Ohio. Funding from the state income tax is going.Estate tax is gone. My pencil is once again being sharpened.

4. Citizen engagement is important to the health of local government. In what ways do you support citizen engagement?

I believe an engaged community is a much stronger one. This is evident in Wyoming's schools and city government where we recruit residents to advise and to help. They residents have achieved great things over the years and/or provided valuable critique of proposed plans. Others, like our Fire/EMS volunteers continually demonstrate critical importance. Wyoming is very lucky that every year hundreds of volunteers help schools and city.I am very appreciative.

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