League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area Education Fund
Hamilton, Butler County, OH November 6, 2007 Election
	Dan Unger Answers Questions Candidate for Board Member; Northwest Local School District

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Questions & Answers

1. What are your qualifications for office? (50 word limit)

Lifelong career in private industry Northwest Expenditure Reduction Committee 2004-06 Northwest Audit Committee 2006-07 Regular attendance NW board meetings since 1994 Clippard YMCA Building & grounds COmmittee Member Hamilton County Tax Levy Review Committee Chaired review of Council on Aging 2007 Chaired review of Cincinnati Zoo 2006 Review team for Children's services 2006

2. What plans do you have to address your top three priorities? (100 word limit)

Academics - Classroom instruction needs to receive a greater portion of available funding, we will devote our limited financial resources to those areas that most directly impact student learning. Technology - Update all computers now using the savings and the annual $600,000 lump sum payments from the recent transfer of the vocational programs to Butler Tech. Fiscal Issues - Implement reforms recommended by our outside, independent auditor. My election will help to continue necessary reforms started with the audit committee. We need to have all board members support the update of our policies and procedures as recommended.

3. What is your position on amending the Ohio Constitution with regard to the funding of public schools? (150 word limit)?

The current system of reliance on property taxes to fund elementary and high school education has placed a disproportionate burden on homeowners, especially in a district like ours that is primarily residential. In the Northwest Local School District, homeowners pay for 15 separapte line items on the county property tax bills, including the new item for joint vocational school. The State of Ohio legislature and the federal government continue to place additional unfunded mandates on our local school. If the Ohio Constitution was to be amended, it should be that any educational spending mandate from the Ohio legislature be offset by spending reductions in other areas.

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