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LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF OXFORD LOCAL POSITIONS
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE UNITED STATES PUBLIC POLICY POSITIONS
LWVUS IMPACT ON ISSUES 2008-2010 - an 82 page downloadable PDF that "includes the official statements of position for each program area, briefly traces significant past actions and achievements, and indicates links among positions." If you want to view only on one section, e.g. voting rights, not the whole document, click on that link in the Table of Contents below.
GOVERNMENT
Support of the HOME RULE CHARTER for the City of Oxford (1963).
LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE: Support of sound fiscal policies and practices for the City of Oxford that: provide for the basic needs of the citizens; are based on a mix of progressive and regressive revenues and rational expenditures; allow revenue sources to be earmarked; promote user fees which are more consistent with actual cost; encourage the State of Ohio to reimburse the city for the actual cost of services provided to Miami University; allow for the use of incentives to entice business; and include the school district in the tax abatement process (1990).
Support the use of PREFERENCE VOTING for Oxford City Council and Talawanda City School District elections (1997).
SOCIAL POLICY
Support of AN EFFECTIVE PUBLIC SCHOOL REMODELING AND BUILDING PROGRAM where educational goals can be maintained with teachers, parents and taxpayers involved in the planning (1985).
Support of a HIGH DEGREE OF EXCELLENCE IN LOCAL EDUCATION BASED ON FLEXIBLE BLEND OF STATE AND LOCAL FUNDING, supplemented with federal funding. This means that:
- Additional local, state and federal support for education means that citizens must support additional taxation;
- Federal money for specific programs which meet local needs should be encouraged (1978); and
- Revise the school funding formula according to the decisions of the Ohio Supreme Court (2005).
Support LIBRARY FACILITIES AND SERVICE in the City of Oxford and the Talawanda School District (1970; amended 2005).
Support of an effective RECREATION AND PARKS PROGRAM including:
- Specific delineation of the duties and responsibilities of the Recreation Board;
- Long-range recreation planning;
- A capital improvements fund for recreation; and
- Cooperation with groups involved with recreation in the Talawanda School District (1975).
Support for the SENIOR CITIZENS AND COMMUNITY CENTER for the provision of services and activities to older citizens in the Oxford area financed by public and private funding (1979, amended 1982).
Support of LOCAL TRANSPORTATION FOR THE ELDERLY in the Oxford area financed by public and private funding (1979).
Support of HUMAN SERVICES, especially childrenĄ¯s services, for Butler County and the Oxford community through both public and private agencies; support of services for children and their families, including: (a) professional diagnosis of social, learning, medical and psychological/psychiatric disabilities, and (b) innovation and coordination of quality programs for protection, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation, including temporary care (1986).
PARKING AND TRANSPORTATION: Support of environmentally responsible approaches in and around Oxford for self-supporting management of cars, creation of bicycle paths, and public transportation. Such approaches would consider: the creation of a parking authority to operate and finance parking; a master bike plan ¨C safe, designated and integrated with other systems, and cost of existing public transportation and alternative services for test populations (1997; amended 2005).
Support of current & future CITY EFFORTS TO INCREASE AVAILABILITY OF HOUSING for low & moderate households.
- Increase housing options for: seniors, the disabled, first-time home buyers, residents who live in substandard housing, and households that earn their living in Oxford.
- Promote a variety of housing styles and types for rent and for purchase that are integrated within the community.
- Support strategies including: public and private partnerships and grants, development agreements, rehabilitation, fee waivers, density bonuses, and an affordable housing trust fund. (2005)
NATURAL RESOURCES
Support of policies and practices that are the most environmentally sound and the most economically feasible, and support interjurisdictional solutions for growth management (amended 2005).
WATER
- Promoting water conservation
- Maintaining high quality water with any additional treatment being done only with public support
- Improving the wastewater treatment plant and rehabilitating the sewer pipes using both federal & local government funds.
SOLID WASTE
- Promoting recycling using both private and public funds.
LAND USE
- Using the properly secured and closed landfill for recreational purposes
- Requiring an impact study for all annexation requests and land use plans
- Providing city services (water and waste water) to individual sites meeting criteria outside city limits and not to area developments
- Annexing land that the city now provides with city services (1983).
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