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« Politicians 2009
Gary Rosati
- Gary Rosati's Photo
- From:
Boardman Township, OH
- Office Sought:
Boardman Trustee
- Offices previously held:
n/a
- Gary's reasons for seeking office:
I am seeking this office so that I can best help to turn around the fiscal crisis currently plaguing the township.
- Gary's qualifications:
I am an attorney with over twenty years experience dealing with complex legal, business, and economic problems. I am an outsider with new ideas, a fresh approach, and I’m willing to make the tough choices necessary to get the job done.
- Where Gary stands on the issues:
The major issue for the township is the ongoing fiscal crisis, and my position is, well, I’m against it. Seriously, we need to address the problem both on the revenue side and the expenditure side. The problem on the revenue side can be summed-up in two words: foreclosure crisis. The township finances its operations primarily through real estate taxes, but as residents lose their jobs, default on their mortgages, and abandons their property the township has been losing more and more of its tax base. In turn the township has been forced to incur the high cost of dealing with the abandon properties: cutting lawns, abating fire hazards, policing vandalism and vagrancy, and other related nuisance issues. Abandon properties also contribute to lower property values, which in turn results in lower revenues for the township. We should explore setting up a HUD-approved housing counseling agency for township residents. All too often people in financial distress abandon all hope and simply give up. They assume there’s nothing to be done. Many times, however, something can be done. There are programs and lending products available to help people avoid foreclosure. New resources include the HAMP program. FHA and VA loans offer their own special program. HUD offers the HOPE for Homeowners (H4H) program. HUD-approved housing counseling agencies can receive grant dollars to help support their housing counseling and education programs. On the expenditure side, we need to curb costs. Township salaries and benefits need to be brought in line with current economic realities. Overtime costs at the BFD must be curtailed. We need to end mandatory overtime, return to two firemen per outlying fire station, rework the fire prevention rules, and strongly consider the use of part-time personnel at the fire department.
- Gary's priorities if elected:
See above
- Related Campaigns
Gary-
Fiscal this and fiscal that.
Where's the problem???
Save your energy and run for fiscal officer.
THAT'S where help is needed!!!!!
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