Boston Candidate Questionnaire Request for Comments
Here's the first draft of the candidate questionnaire for mayoral and city council candidates in Boston. Please comment!
1. Describe the appropriate balance of powers between the mayor’s office and the city council. Do you feel that the balance of responsibility between the Mayor and the city council is about right the way it is? If not, what would you like to see change?
2. The city of Boston is suffering from a housing crisis. Many individuals and families are forced out of their homes due to increased rent, and even more are unable to reside in the city due to the high cost of housing. How would you work to alleviate the housing crisis in Boston? What would you do to prevent families from being forced from their homes?
If reintroduced would you vote for the Community Stabilization Act?
3. Since 9-11, six states and over 370 cities, towns, and counties in the US have passed “anti-Patriot Act” resolutions affirming their support for civil liberties and constitutional freedoms, and instructing city services, including libraries and police departments, to protect those freedoms. Most of the major cities in the US, New York, Los Angeles and Philadelphia, have passed these resolutions. Even cities such as Dallas and Denver have done it. Boston is conspicuous in its absence from this list. A resolution for the city of Boston has been drafted.
Would you support introduction and passage of the resolution? Furthermore what actions will you take to ensure the safeguarding of civil liberties in the City of Boston?
4. Boston has many residents and communities that have traditionally not been included in city politics. Recently, many of these communities have been participating in greater numbers. - What specific steps have you taken, or will you take, to stimulate greater political involvement from all of the city's residents, and to keep them involved in the long term?
- What barriers to political participation exist in the city today?
How do you propose to tackle those barriers?
5. What problems do you see with the city's tax and revenue structure
as it now is, and what changes would you like to make?
guidelines about what kinds of changes you would support, and under
what circumstances?
6. Do you support equal marriage rights?
7. Education? (not sure about language yet)
- something about specific deficiencies in our schools
- then what is your proposal to deal with those deficiencies
- also what are goals, how to measure progress?
8. Institutional Development tax exempt status for universities
9. Transportation (again ideas for language?)
- what kind of role should the city council take in dealing with MBTA?
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10. BU Bio lab. Are you in favor or against it?
11. Please address the following environmental issues. If there are other important issues we have left out, please feel free to address them as well.
- city-wide recycling (especially working with MBTA)
- fuel-efficient, low emission transportation in the city
- city-wide air quality
- encouraging the use of public transportation
1. Describe the appropriate balance of powers between the mayor’s office and the city council. Do you feel that the balance of responsibility between the Mayor and the city council is about right the way it is? If not, what would you like to see change?
2. The city of Boston is suffering from a housing crisis. Many individuals and families are forced out of their homes due to increased rent, and even more are unable to reside in the city due to the high cost of housing. How would you work to alleviate the housing crisis in Boston? What would you do to prevent families from being forced from their homes?
If reintroduced would you vote for the Community Stabilization Act?
3. Since 9-11, six states and over 370 cities, towns, and counties in the US have passed “anti-Patriot Act” resolutions affirming their support for civil liberties and constitutional freedoms, and instructing city services, including libraries and police departments, to protect those freedoms. Most of the major cities in the US, New York, Los Angeles and Philadelphia, have passed these resolutions. Even cities such as Dallas and Denver have done it. Boston is conspicuous in its absence from this list. A resolution for the city of Boston has been drafted.
Would you support introduction and passage of the resolution? Furthermore what actions will you take to ensure the safeguarding of civil liberties in the City of Boston?
4. Boston has many residents and communities that have traditionally not been included in city politics. Recently, many of these communities have been participating in greater numbers. - What specific steps have you taken, or will you take, to stimulate greater political involvement from all of the city's residents, and to keep them involved in the long term?
- What barriers to political participation exist in the city today?
How do you propose to tackle those barriers?
5. What problems do you see with the city's tax and revenue structure
as it now is, and what changes would you like to make?
guidelines about what kinds of changes you would support, and under
what circumstances?
6. Do you support equal marriage rights?
7. Education? (not sure about language yet)
- something about specific deficiencies in our schools
- then what is your proposal to deal with those deficiencies
- also what are goals, how to measure progress?
8. Institutional Development tax exempt status for universities
9. Transportation (again ideas for language?)
- what kind of role should the city council take in dealing with MBTA?
-
10. BU Bio lab. Are you in favor or against it?
11. Please address the following environmental issues. If there are other important issues we have left out, please feel free to address them as well.
- city-wide recycling (especially working with MBTA)
- fuel-efficient, low emission transportation in the city
- city-wide air quality
- encouraging the use of public transportation
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