Questions For City Candidates

Candidates being for a prosperous city, cutting unspecified spending, improving city services and creating jobs is akin to being for Mom, apple pie and the American flag is easy task. Everybody is for those items.

Here are some harder questions on matters that require serious consideration and compromise from the city's elected officials. You can reply to paulhunter45177@gmail.com Candidate replies will be posted on my FB page.

My questions for city office candidates.

Do you support the curbside recycling program?

Would you support a cost free cardboard recycling program?

Do you support efforts to commercialize and expand the city landfill?

Do you believe that our huge loss of treated water from unknown sources should be a priority?

Do you support allowing the taxpayers to decide if they want to pay a little more in taxes in order to repair and maintain our city streets?

If the answer to the last question is yes, would you place an non-dedicated earnings tax increase or a property tax increase dedicated to street repair and maintenance on the ballot?

Would you consider dissolving the redundant CIC and its millions of dormant dollars in cash and land and using the funds for improving the city's image and allow the Port Authority to continue its role as the economic development entity for the city and the county?

Do you think that the city has an obligation to pay the township an increasing amount of tax money for assuming the township's administrative and maintenance responsibilities?

Would you support converting the Human Resource director's $1004,000 position from full time to an “as needed” one similar to many other Wilmington sized cities?

Would you consider using a state approved city income tax collection group (RITA) that, if contracted, could save the city $50,000 - $100,000 per year?

Would you encourage the Mayor to replace, the already retired and rehired, service director with a fully qualified civil engineer/administrator?

Paul Hunter