2011
Candidate Questions
Candidates can respond to questions by sending answers to info@laportepac.com Answers to the following
questions can be found in a link below. |
| Questions to be answered by Mayoral, City Clerk, & City Council Candidates |
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Why you are running for this office and what specific qualifications do you bring to the office you are seeking...
a. In your opinion, what are the top issues currently facing La Porte and how would you specifically address those issues? |
2. |
How do you improve the financial situation of the City of La Porte? |
| 3. |
What role do you feel your elected office plays in economic development? |
| 4. |
What do you see as the role for:
a.City Council?
b. Mayor?
c. Clerk Treasurer?
d. Board of Public Works and Safety? |
| 5. |
Explain your vision for revitalization of Downtown area and strengthening the downtown businesses? |
| 6. |
What steps can a Mayor take to assure cooperation between the executive and the City Council and City Clerk regardless of the political make-up of the City Council? |
| 7. |
Many of our neighborhoods are starting to deteriorate. What steps would you take to improve the conditions our neighborhoods? |
| 8. |
What are your plans on developing a 5 year annexation plan for the City? |
| 9. |
How do you see the roll of tourism/hospitality industry as it relates to economic development for the City of La Porte? |
| 10. |
What programs or steps that you believe the City of La Porte take to help the development and enhancement of our local workforce? |
| 11. |
How would you go about setting priorities for capital expenditures? |
| 12. |
Do you support the continuation of the Greater LaPorte Economic Development Corporation (GLEDC)?
a.o YES o NO |
| 13. |
If yes, how would you finance it over the next four years? |
| 14. |
If no, how do you propose to conduct Economic Development? |
| 15. |
Do you support the following, if not please explain.
a.Tax Abatement for real estate and manufacturing equipment? o YES o NO
b.Infrastructure dollars such as roads, sewer and/or water lines to a new industrial property?
i.o YES o NO
c. TIF (tax increment financing) as a means of paying for infrastructure? o YES o NO |
| 16. |
Please state your thoughts on whether a truck by-pass or economic development corridor should be constructed around the City of La Porte? |
| 17. |
What programs do you support to develop the local workforce for current and future jobs? |
| 18. |
As Mayor or Council member, what will you do to help LaPorte grow in assessed valuation? |
| 19. |
What should be done about locating new industry now that the Thomas Rose Park is now full? Please be specific. |
| 20. |
What do you think should be done to make the City of La Porte one of the best managed cities in the State of Indiana? |
Questions for Mayoral Candidates Only |
| 1. |
How would you go about planning and setting priorities for capital expenditures? |
| 2. |
The City’s financial condition has been challenging for many years. How do you plan on improving it? |
| 3. |
What has your experience been with strategic planning?
a.How would you use strategic planning as Mayor? |
Questions for City Clerk |
| 1. |
What are the City’s biggest financial problems and what would you do in the next four years to reduce or eliminate them? |
| 2. |
Some have suggested that La Porte’s failure to address annexation haw resulted in a loss of assessed valuation as more development has occurred outside the city limits. Do you agree or disagree? Why? |
| 3. |
What qualifications do you bring to the position? |
Questions for City Council Candidates Only |
| 1. |
If there’s one thing you would like to accomplish as a member of City Council, what would that be? |
Questions for City Council Candidates Wards 1-5 Only |
| 1. |
How do you balance the interests and needs of your constituents with the interests and needs of the overall city?
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