Ask them about the affect of Poverty on the Public School System.

 

Ask them about Adkins wanting to declare the whole city eligible for HUD funds yet 46% of the citizens won't qualify for any of the funds.

 

Ask them how they plan to combat Poverty when they are attracting more and more low income residents, yet there are not enough significant jobs in Middletown for the people who live here now.

 

Ask them about 56 Degree going out of Business, if it is true, and why they think it is still feasible to push Downtown development.

 

Ask them why they don't re-instate the infrastructure fund and start repairing some infrastructure, i.e. roads.

 

Ask them why City employees only pay 7% of their Health Care Premium and even the Federal Employees pay 25%.

 

Randy all of these questions have been asked and talked about on this forum for months and you knwo what we get no significant concrete answers to any of them, from the City Admin or the City Council.

 

 

 

I've already posed the MMF question, which SHOULD have every citizen in Middletown up in arms.

 

Next, I'll put forth the "conflict of interest" question.  It will be framed by Sunday evening in a way that will be appropriate to ask of past, present OR potential future council members.

 

I do work on another site based in Monroe and the questions asked of those running for council did indeed have suncoke questions. But the issue is not over with. As for section 8 I agree with you completely and I have made that very clear on this site. I think Middletown has far too much section 8 and it is not run the way it should be. My point was and is that current council are not going to answer that question again and one question answered leads to 10 more to be asked. I started this interview process so we could get some answers to questions we had, it is too the point now where council serving now don’t want to talk to me any more cause I only ask section 8 questions. I ask them for the readers of this site who I respect and think deserve answers.

 

The at large issue is OK, but the Biggest issues in Middletown are EXCESSIVE POVERTY, LACK OF EDUCATION, LACK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, EXCESSIVE PUBLIC HOUSING/SECTION 8 AND WHY NO PROGRESS IS BEING MADE ON ANY OF IT.  Wanting to be the Best Section 8 in Ohio just doesn't cut it.  Saying you want to reduce Section 8 is one thing.  They stated this 6-7 months ago and once again we have no progress made toward this stated goal.  This is one of the problems with Middletown, it takes years to get any action or goals accomplished.

 

Even after the BOE stated that poverty was hurting the schoolk sin the combined meeting, it was like so what when you looked at Council.  No reaction, no statement of agreement and plan to even discuss it further with the BOE.

 

I can't wait for Election Day to just get rid of some of the people who sit on Council and do nothing.

 

WASTEFUL -- once again we both are similarly minded.  My point is.............The City should not place an increasing reliance in seeking HUD funds such as Section 8 Administrative Fees to reduce the need for General Fund revenues that pay for salary and fringe benefits for personnel.  The cost for this increased dependency on Federal funds is likely to be far worse than the administrative funds that come here (with strings attached) from Washington, D.C.

 

Thanks again, Wasteful. 

 

 

 

 

 

Rail just above you want the city to go after Federal funds to re-develope lots that they are demolishing houses on.