Candidate Profiles

Marty Hoeger

Incumbent, Cedar Rapids City Council - District 1

Born and raised in Cedar Rapids attending Cedar Rapids LaSalle High School. Married 29 years to wife Jennifer. Three children : Jack, Ben and Ella.
My career has been working in the real estate and development industry including time as a City of Cedar Rapids Real Estate Development Coordinator, Executive Director of the Neighborhood Development Corporation and currently an owner of Ogden & Adams Building Solutions.

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

Homelessness, Neighborhood stabilization, Affordable housing options for all citizens.
Flood Control System
Economic growth for existing and new companies to the community.
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2. What do you see as the top issue facing Cedar Rapids today, and how do you believe the City Council could help address it?

Affordable housing in our community.

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?

We would need to look at areas that would not jeopardize the health and safety of our community and make sacrifices in areas such as capital improvement projects that are not in dire need of repair.

4. Housing across all sizes and income levels 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?

We have a role to work with our leaders at the state level and national level at HUD to identify our housing needs and create programs that assist in making housing affordable. There are many current programs in place that we can and do tap into. We need to identify the gaps in those programs to better serve those who need more affordable housing.

5. What do you see as the city’s role in driving population growth, and how would you put that into action if elected?

We have experienced great success with economic growth the last four years of our community which brings in workers from outside our community. Once the workers are here the hope is they experience a safe, vibrant community to raise their family. The hope is they will want to stay and plants roots in our community for years to come.

6. Cedar Rapids has made several investments and partnerships over the past years as it works to address homelessness. How do you reflect on the efforts made this far, and do you believe there is anything the city should or could be doing differently?

We have wonderful non-profit partners in our community that works on the issues in homelessness. The City Council role is to work with the non-profits to provide them with tools and resources to help them in their mission.

7. One of the current Cedar Rapids City Council goals is to be business friendly. What does that mean to you and what do you believe is the City Council's role in business development?

To be business friendly is to provide consistent guidelines on what it takes to do business in the City of Cedar Rapids and not put un-needed barriers on businesses to be successful.

8. What do you believe are the most important criteria in determining whether to offer tax incentives and how should those criteria be measured against the use of public funds?

How does this project benefit the community around it?
What public purpose will this project benefit our community?
What gap exist to make the project successful?

Each of these criteria's should have weighted guidelines and should be measured consistently from project to project not to have an emotional connection with one from the other.

9. Nearly two decades after the 2008 flood, the city is still working on its flood control efforts. How do you measure the importance of those efforts and what approach do you think the city should be taking to moving the effort forward?

I was city employee at the time of the floods of 2008 and saw the devastation to the neighborhoods and businesses firsthand. The city at that time made a commitment to rebuild our city and see to it that the future generations would be protected from future floods. It is very essential that we continue this mission all the way to the end to ensure our community is safe and all citizens are out of harms way.

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Candidate Profiles

Marty Hoeger

Incumbent, Cedar Rapids City Council - District 1

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

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

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?

4. Housing across all sizes and income levels 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?

5. What do you see as the city’s role in driving population growth, and how would you put that into action if elected?

6. Cedar Rapids has made several investments and partnerships over the past years as it works to address homelessness. How do you reflect on the efforts made this far, and do you believe there is anything the city should or could be doing differently?

7. One of the current Cedar Rapids City Council goals is to be business friendly. What does that mean to you and what do you believe is the City Council's role in business development?

8. What do you believe are the most important criteria in determining whether to offer tax incentives and how should those criteria be measured against the use of public funds?

9. Nearly two decades after the 2008 flood, the city is still working on its flood control efforts. How do you measure the importance of those efforts and what approach do you think the city should be taking to moving the effort forward?

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Candidate Profiles

Marty Hoeger

Incumbent, Cedar Rapids City Council - District 1

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

- Hoeger's Response

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

- Hoeger's Response

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?

- Hoeger's Response

4. Housing across all sizes and income levels 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?

- Hoeger's Response

5. What do you see as the city’s role in driving population growth, and how would you put that into action if elected?

- Hoeger's Response

6. Cedar Rapids has made several investments and partnerships over the past years as it works to address homelessness. How do you reflect on the efforts made this far, and do you believe there is anything the city should or could be doing differently?

- Hoeger's Response

7. One of the current Cedar Rapids City Council goals is to be business friendly. What does that mean to you and what do you believe is the City Council's role in business development?

- Hoeger's Response

8. What do you believe are the most important criteria in determining whether to offer tax incentives and how should those criteria be measured against the use of public funds?

- Hoeger's Response

9. Nearly two decades after the 2008 flood, the city is still working on its flood control efforts. How do you measure the importance of those efforts and what approach do you think the city should be taking to moving the effort forward?

- Hoeger's Response

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