There are literally a flood of issues facing Hamilton's municipal government as we look toward Election Day on November 4 when the people of Hamilton will elect a Mayor and two Council members who will lead our community over the next four years.

Rather than attempting to address each singularly let us place all of them into broad categories. First and foremost, we pledge to restore and improve fiscal stability and sanity to our municipal government. Equally, we pledge to make Hamilton safer, cleaner and more beautiful than it has ever been, with a healthy respect for the accomplishments of the past and a clear vision of what the future can be. And, finally we pledge to re-establish and enforce fairness, justice and impartiality in all activities of our township government. How we intend to go about accomplishing those goals is the basis of our campaign.

On the Issues

• Hamilton Township is in financial chaos and no amount of bureaucratic dancing or political bobbing and weaving can change that fact. The facts are very clear. The current government inherited an $8,000,000 surplus and it's gone. Regardless of who is elected in November, that mayor and administration will have at the least two very difficult years of dealing with a falling bond rating, depleted surpluses, stop-gap, one-time financial gimmicks applied to the present that will have to be paid in the future and a rising demand on tax dollars. [our plan...]
• To be safer every public safety program currently in effect must be evaluated to determine its effectiveness and continuing need. By conferring with the chief of police and the department's superior officers, as well as with representatives of the Hamilton PBA who are actually the people doing the job on the street, we will determine what our community's requirements are for first-class law enforcement. Whether it's more officers, more cars, more foot and bicycle patrols, more neighborhood crime watch units, or simply better utilization of all those tools and elimination o0r reduction of others, we will make those judgments only after we know exactly what we have and how the personnel and equipment are being utilized presently. [more...]
• To make our beloved Hamilton cleaner more concentration must be applied to such mundane tasks as timely garbage collection and leaf removal. In the first case, garbage collection, the contract with the collection firm has penalties in the form of fines that can be imposed on the collection firm for failure to collect in a timely manner. There is absolutely no acceptable excuse for garbage to remain on Hamilton streets for a week or more. Applying hefty fines for that failure will soon correct the collection company's faults. Otherwise, the collection contract has been voided by the company's failure to deliver on contracted services and the township can seek another collector. [more...]
• To be more beautiful Hamilton's parks, flowerbeds, trees, athletic facilities and open spaces must receive a higher priority in scheduled maintenance than they are now. We shall re-establish the tree-trimming function that, until four years ago, was an integral part of the Buildings and Grounds Division. That unit provided a very necessary service under our beautification goals. No longer can flowerbeds be left unattended from one year to the next. All require weeding and planting each spring and regular attention throughout the year. [more...]
• Fairness, justice and impartiality have literally disappeared from Hamilton government operations over the past four years as noted by just a few examples. [more...]