- Party: Democratic
- Occupation: Professor, Mathematics Education
- Community/neigborhood: Hyde Park
- Education: B.S. Education, M.S. Mathematics Education, Ed.D. Mathematics Education
- Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Cincinnati for twelve years. Have served on Board of Directors for several organizations,
- including Mental Health Services East (vice president, 1994-5), Hyde Park Neighborhood Council Education Committee (president 1991-3), and the
- Project Succeed Advisory Committee (1994 - present).
- Cognate area of doctoral degree: Economics.
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Top Priorities if Elected |
- Create system to reduce the amount people pay in property taxes.
- Increase voluntary contributions to local schools.
- Enable revitalization of economically "stagnant" areas via low interest loans
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- The Treasurer & Taxes: It's Your Money! (How Bob Drake will lower property taxes.)
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It is possible to reduce the amount paid in property taxes
by many residents of Hamilton County through a plan to use
the interest on early payments. A significant advantage is
that this plan, while reducing the tax paid by individuals,
does NOT reduce the amount used for other purpos
- The Treasurer and School Funding. (How Bob Drake will provide more money for schools without raising taxes)
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Through the same plan mentioned in Position Paper #1, the
Treasurer can enable individuals to donate additional money
to schools, while providing a deduction for "charitable
contributions" on their federal taxes.
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- Economic Revitalization (How Bob Drake will encourage economic revitalization of economically "stagnant" areas)
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By accepting a lower interest rate on some of its own bank
deposits, Hamilton County can motivate lending institutions
to make low-interest loans to qualified homeowners. That
money, in turn, can be used to improve property and, thus,
revitalize economically "stagnant" communit
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- Hamilton County Democratic Party
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League of Women Voters of Ohio
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