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Ashwani Jain - Part I - Candidate for County Council At-Large - Part I
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- Three priorites:
- Reduce opportunity gap
- Strengthen local economy
- Reducing traffic congestion
- On the opportunity gap (instead of the achievement gap)
- Official sanctuary county for immigrants
- Universal pre-k
- Expand language immersion programs
- More 1 on 1 time between students and educators
- More autonomy / support for teachers
- Support students regardless of their zip code
- Main duties of council member
- Budget, land use and zoning
- 120 million dollar budget deficit
- Don’t cut critical services
- We have amazing county employees
- Schools in north / eastern part of county are not being properly prioritized
- Aging infrastructures
- Invest in schools in students that are not part of the county
- Success means listen and consulting with all (elected, managers, officials, etc.)
- Partner w/BOE
- Partner with school admin
- Need to build a coalition
- Importance of BOE to get better schoolsGreat businesses mean:
- Retention
- Better workers
- Smart Growth
- Inform them better
- Help them relocate / share info with customers
- Mixed use development around public transportation
- Diversity of income in mixed use development
- More job training
- Helps expand tax base
- Helps businesses find employees they need
- Helps employees build a career; not just getting a job
- Assist small business owners who are displaced from large dev projects
- Budget shortfall fix
- Injects funds to economy without cutting essential services / laying off county employees
- Expand tax base
- Support small biz
- Look at issue in comprehensive way
- Leads to responsible fiscal membership
- Lower amount of reserves can help
- On Reserve Budget
- They still have AAA bond rating / low borrowing costs
- Reaction to financial crisis
- Helps weather econ. Downturn
- Higher = easier to have AAA bond rating
- Ours may be too high relative to other counties in area
- Budget / Land Use / Zoning
- More Affordable housing opportunity
- Expand % of new development as affordable
- Expand MPDU program
- Look at rent control
- Landlord notice to tenants of increase and possibly getting approval from county before increase
- Work w/ developers to pay to avoid MPDUs, instead get them to comply or go beyond
- Quicker / easier to get to work
- Ensure high quality of lifeGovernment can do this: saw this at HUD
- Residents should not get priced out of their city
- This is a priority
- Only more density / floors as a reward for:
- More energy efficiency
- Electric charging stations
- More MPDUs
- Mixed use development should create Inclusive communities
- Working with developers
- Families feel like they are priced out of new devs
- Feel like not getting enough notice of developments
- Not enough affordable housing
- Not developing enough mixes use / smart growth
- Residents should get best deal for new devs
- Workers should get respect on these projects
- More Affordable housing opportunity
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