If re-elected, O’Hare would like to strengthen the neighborhoods through neighborhood engagement, protecting and enhancing housing stock and reducing the number of foreclosed homes.
“I would like to add at least one housing employee whose dedicated function is to more actively crack down on nuisance and blighted properties,” he said.
He also would like to focus on financial management, economic development and improving communication.
“We can improve by diversifying our economy and tax base via the work of the ad hoc financial review committee ... to help devise new strategies for management of city finances,” O’Hare said. “We also have the opportunity to attract new companies, in industries that we might not currently be well-represented in our city.”
As a current councilman, he said he “brings long and varied experience” to the position, and has gotten things done in council meetings, housing task force, and neighborhood association meetings.
The 32-year resident has been the chairman for Housing, Building and Neighborhood committees, a member of Executive and Finance and Public Service committees.
-- Amy Popik, News-Herald article from Oct. 9, 2013
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