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Newman Abuissa

Newman Abuissa

Candidate, Iowa City Council - At Large

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1. If elected, what would be your top three priorities while serving on the Iowa City City Council?

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2. What do you see as the top issue facing Iowa Citytoday, and how do you believe the City Council could help address it?

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3. If the city were faced with budget cuts, how would you handle doing so as a City Council member and are there specific areas of the city’s budget you would look to first for potential reductions?

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4. Affordable housing has been identified as a community need. What do you see as the City Council’s role in addressing that issue, and what steps if any would you take as a council member to do so?

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5. Do you support the local option sales tax ballot measure that appears on the Nov. 4 ballot? Why or why not?

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6. How important is regional collaboration with government and non-government entities? What opportunities, if any, would you approach as a region and what will you do to support that?

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7. What will you do to be responsive to residents? What types of communication should the public expect from you?

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8. What will you do to build relationships with council members who may have differing opinions from your own?

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9. Should Iowa City look at collaborating with Johnson County on a joint law enforcement center? Why or why not?

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10. What, if any, improvements should Iowa City think about to its transportation systems (i.e. streets, trails, public transit)?

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11. What, if any, role should the city play in business and economic development? What are the most important criteria in determining whether to offer tax incentives and how those criteria should be measured against the use of public funds?

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