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Should you be elected, what are three specific areas you like to change, address, improve or further research, and specifically how would you go about it.?
My platform consists of five (5) initiatives:

Strengthening Enhancing Supporting

our safety services, city services and maintaining by protecting your investment new economic

our city assets

neighborhoods

existing businesses

while promoting

growth municipal government

Ensuring financial accountability, Real collaboration

while establishing

a transparent

with our City's school Board (all initiatives can be seen on the initiatives tab of my

I will speak to three of the five initiatives: website: www.mancusoformayor.org)

Enhance our neighborhoods by protecting your investment

We will implement property owners, proven housing tenants, Euclid initiatives police that will include active and informed Euclid courts, participation by

and fire departments, will increase

and neighborhood property and

associations.

This well coordinated We will:

initiative

the value of all residential

ensure safe neighborhoods. Develop

and implement

a nationally

proven

housing

plan that will provide

consistent

and

practical processes neighborhood

that will benefit the property owner, educate the tenant, and support the that benefits the community.

through a city wide collaboration

Develop a systematic approach to stop overcrowding in rental units and provide City Inspectors the technology and data they need to track and eliminate overcrowding in rentals.

Streamline the process in City Hall for issuing, monitoring and fairly, but aggressively enforcing violation notices while working closely with the Court to ensure quick results.

Develop an internal Administrative code for the Housing Department that is consistent, up to date and, transparent.

Explore more aggressive criminal enforcement of our public nuisance laws, charging chronic offenders and/or property owners for repeated police calls.

Offer residency incentives to police, fire and school employees to fill vacant homes and establish consistent funding for a land bank program to purchase vacant properties.

Establish an aggressive demolition plan to rid neighborhoods of 'eyesore' properties

Economic Development As leaders, we have to re-examine the City's economic development strategy. Clearly, the old ways don't work. In order to compete in these economic times, we must become more efficient, and more customer service focused, while pursuing collaborative partnerships that build on our community's assets and provide Job opportunities for our community. Here I will summarize my plan into specific areas of focus. We need to use the enormous pool of business expertise, experience, and talent to move our City into a 'real' business-friendly environment. Action and support, not rhetoric, will create a mutually constructive environment for current Euclid businesses to thrive and for the city to grow. At the same time, I will aggressively go after state and federal funding opportunities for our larger development projects. As Mayor, I will use all available resources to fully fund economic development loans for small businesses, with a dual focus on finally getting our larger projects done, and filling up vacant storefronts with new commercial office space. We must perform real short and long term strategic planning with management structures put in place to measure the process to completion instead of continually behaving in a reactive mode. Such projects as the implementation of trash fees, the third try at recycling, Euclid Ave. development (which has been on the books since 2002 without much progress), lakefront development which is still on paper after

8 years of this

administration, the current poorly coordinated storefront project, the failure of the most recent sewer levy, the poor management and maintenance of city owned assets that have
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created fiscal dilemmas in the budget, all speak to the lack of proactive forward thinking planning and implementation. Create a pro-active entrepreneurial development department devoted exclusively to expanding small businesses and nurturing new enterprises. This could include: -Business incubators to provide mentoring -Marketing coordination -Consortium of small business owners for collaborative bidding, joint ventures, and business-to-business buying Within the Economic Development department, create an Office of Innovation that will coordinate with major universities, corporations and government agencies through

congressmen and business contacts, to make available technology, Jicensing transfer, development, subcontracts and partnerships. We will develop a retail business Development Plan to attract and retain quality shopping in Euclid. Implement the Lakefront development plan with 'rocks in the water' by end of four years. Partner with energized, experienced staffs that doggedly pursue grants, earn-in contracts, and other funding resources for the community. Euclid leadership in collaboration with current business owners and our educational programs will provide aggressive workplace development and training. For example, in collaboration with the culinary school, students will find local employment. A computer skills training program could assist veterans, resident with disabilities, and others to prepare for, find, and keep suitable jobs. We need to leverage and invest our tax dollars, not just spend them. Transparency in Government and Fiscal Accountability My plan for fiscal responsibility and government transparency in the first 100 days in office includes: Conducting an immediate integrity and fiscal audit of the entire City's spending practices. Instead of continually making 'across the board' cuts to meet expected revenue Hiring qualified employees, implementing a nepotism policy, a duplicate of the policy currently enforced by County Executive, Ed Fitzgerald

Ensuring leadership is part of the solution, not part of the problem. End the old reactive traditional political patterns and methods. Then we can then begin to identify, prioritize, and measure what is best regarding what the residents' value, so we budget our resources proactively to meet those values and priorities.

Empowering residents to participate in government processes Developing a consistent method of communicating with the community Implementing short and long term strategic planning with management structures put in place to measure the process to completion, instead of continually behaving in a reactive mode.

Utilizing and effectively sharing government services with surrounding communities. Being fiscally responsible for the use of taxpayer dollars in this austere environment

Whether for past accomplishments or future goals, why should voters elect you? I believe in the potential of Euclid and the need to achieve that potential for the residents of the City. Today, the City is drifting and there are too many of our residents that are frustrated by how the City operates. Many of the residents I have spoken to are discouraged at the lack of progress they see, their inability to really impact the decision-making process, and the overall lack of accountability. I know that my business and organizational skills give me the insights and experience to finally put Euclid on track to realize its' full potential. I am not a career politician and I can and will listen to ideas and plans from all within the community who want to participate, (A skill this administration has proven over and over it cannot do successfully). Our residents deserve the very best from their City Leaders and should expect a proactive, responsive, innovative government that listens to them and values their input.