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Chicago Mayoral Candidates’ Questionnaire
Runoff Elections - April 2, 2019
Candidate Information
Name on Ballot:
Home Address
Employer/Your Title
Phone Email
Candidate signature attesting to the truthfulness, accuracy, and authorship of this Questionnaire.
Date Print Signature
[Please feel free to attach primary campaign literature, bio or vita]
Campaign Information
Campaign Manager
Phone Email
Website
a. Have you held or run for public office before, and if so, what office[s] with what results?
b. Have you been appointed to any public committees, commissions, task forces? If so, please list.
Chicago Mayoral Candidates’ Questionnaire
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c. Please list your top 5 largest campaign contributors/amounts:
Contributor Amount
Candidate's Plans and Goals for Office
d. Why are you running for this office? What makes you the best candidate for this office?
e. Describe your vision for Chicago and your constituency.
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The purpose of this candidate questionnaire is to ascertain your interest in and commitmentto improving the quality of life for the Black Community in Chicago.
QUESTIONS OF POLICY / PROPOSALS/ ADMINISTRATION / OPERATIONS(Representative of the National Black Agenda)
INSTRUCTIONS
For each of the questions and/or propositions, grouped by Issue Category. starting on the nextpage, please answer with a Yes or No and provide Rationale/Method.
If the topic will be a priority for your administration, you may indicate as “First 100 Days.” Pleaseprovide a reason for skipping a question. Please add extra sheets as needed, ensuring that yourName and Question# appear on all additional pages. NBAC welcomes any questions which willhelp you provide your best response. You may contact James Hill during the hours of 7am-7pmfor this purpose: by phone @ 773.457.8619 or via email at [email protected] or Craig Wimberlyat 773.350.9315, [email protected].
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JOBS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
1) South Suburban Airport. We strongly support the building/completion of the South Suburban Airport asa strong catalyst to spur economic development from the southside of Chicago through the south suburbancommunities desperately in need of jobs and serious economic growth. Past Chicago mayors have activelyblocked or inhibited this major initiative that has been embraced by the black community. Will you support theSouth Suburban Airport as a solid investment for jobs and economic development and parity of opportunity forthe south side of Chicago?
Yes No First 100 Days? Yes No
Rationale/Method:
2) Minimum Wage. A Minimum Wage Ordinance increases the minimum wage to $13/hr by the year 2019.This is a start, however it is insufficient. Do you support increasing the minimum wage (as other progressivecities and states have done) to $15/hr immediately?
Yes No First 100 Days? Yes No
Rationale/Method:
3) Youth Employment. Should Chicago's youth employment programs give priority to Black youth applicants,based on their high percentage of unemployment?
Yes No First 100 Days? Yes No
Rationale/Method:
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4) City Contracts Reform Part 1. Chicago, like other governmental units has MBE/WBE/DBE goals to supportthe growth of minority and women owned small businesses and to redress decades long discrimination inawarding contracts to black-owned businesses. And like other governmental units, the actual results fallsignificantly and pathetically below these goals. Will you commit to working with community organizationswho have researched proven methods to redress this ongoing failure and to implement reforms towardsmeeting or exceeding the City’s MBE/WBE/DBE goals within your first two (2) years in office?
Yes No
First 100 Days? Yes No
Rationale/Method:
5) City Contracts Reform Part 2. There are long-standing guidelines for City contracts towards increasingbusiness for minority businesses, expressed as MBE/WBE/DBE goals, and yet the City and Sister Agencies do notcome remotely close to meeting these goals. One of the reasons is vendors are often found in violation of minoritygoals for contracts (through fraudulent bidding, post award distribution of work, sub-contractor intimidation,etc). Current fines are insufficient to promote compliance. Would you support an ordinance to preclude acompany from bidding or being a sole-source recipient of a city or sister-agency contract for a 2 year periodon new city business or large additions to existing contracts if they are found to be in violation of the City orSister Agency MBE/WBE/DBE goals?
Yes No
First 100 Days? Yes No
Rationale/Method:
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6) Investment in Black Communities. Are you willing to reallocate funding specifically earmarked for theBlack community to address the dis-investment of past administrations in our infrastructure and creation of newbusinesses?
Yes No First 100 Days? Yes No
Rationale/Method:
7) Jobs in the Community. Are you willing to develop Grants to small business to improve their ability tohire neighborhood youth and create apprenticeship programs for the youth.
Yes No First 100 Days? Yes No
Rationale/Method:
HOUSING AND LAND USE
8) Master Planning & Commercial Corridor Committee(s). In order to produce a holistic design of localliving economies in Black communities which incentivize neighbor-owned businesses, neighborinvestors/property owners, and keep neighbor dollars circulating within a “walkable-village” square-mile forresidents, would you create and/or support a ward-wide Master Planning & Commercial Corridor Committeestaffed by local experts who reflect the racial and ethnic composition and interests of the community, and whichalso includes community residents and funders?
Yes No First 100 Days? Yes No
Rationale/Method:
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9) Large Lots. Would you support expansion of Chicago’s Large Lot Program for repeat rounds of offerings,and with amendments to achieve greater economic equity in the Black community, such as: a) removing therequirement to be a present landowner; b) providing a one-year waiver on the payment of real estate taxes tohelp defray fencing costs; c) the establishment of zero-interest loans and grants to improve the land withstructures; and d) a Technical Assistance Pool of local Black real estate experts to consult neighbors on thedevelopment-management of the land?
Yes No First 100 Days? Yes No
Rationale/Method:
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
10) Health Equity. The current City of Chicago Health Plan (Health Chicago 2.0) outlined several goals toimprove the health of all Chicago residents, as Mayor how will you address improving health equity amongBlacks/African-Americans?; they have the lowest years of life expectancy, Black Women account for the highestnumber of Maternal deaths, Young Blacks account for the highest percentage of new STI/HIV diagnosis, andhave the greatest impact of overall health inequities (as seen in chronic diseases, substance abuse and mentalillness) compared to other racial/ethnicity groups?
Please provide specific health equity solutions for Blacks/African-Americans living in Chicago.
Yes No First 100 Days? Yes No
Rationale/Method:
12) Police Oversight / FOP Contract. Chicago is moving forward with the daunting and arduous task ofattempting substantive police reform, under the oversight of a U.S. Federal Consent Decree. Recognizing thatyou support police reform, and further recognizing the the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) union contract ascurrently negotiated, precludes police reform with many of its contract articles, will you commit to renegotiat-ing the FOP contract upon its expiration to eliminate those articles, rules and stipulations that are counter totrue police reform? Additionally, as proof of your commitment, please include below, a specific example of acontract rule or stipulation which must be renegotiated to affect police reform.
Yes No
First 100 Days? Yes No
Rationale/Method:
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PUBLIC SAFETY AND JUSTICE
13) Restorative Justice. Would you support a city-wide Youth Initiative Program staffed with stakeholdersand other trained professionals within the community, to holistically address the culture of violence amongBlack youth, utilizing proven best practices such as restorative justice, in lieu of incarceration?
Yes No
First 100 Days? Yes No
Rationale/Method:
11) Violence in our communities. Do you believe, as do many experts, that VIOLENCE is a disease? Willyou support comprehensive legislation on Violence as a Disease and a major public health issue?
Yes No
First 100 Days? Yes No
Rationale/Method:
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EDUCATION
14) CPS Curriculum. Would you support the requirement that all CPS schools have a functioning library withcertified librarian/media specialists; certified math and science teachers; the implementation of the mandatedBlack History curriculum; civics, geography, music/band and art? What methods would you use to monitorprogress and compliance?
Yes No
First 100 Days? Yes No
Rationale/Method:
16) Elected School Board. Do you support an elected school board as a means of improving the oversightof CPS which requires significant improvements if we are to improve the education of our black and brownchildren?
Yes No First 100 Days? Yes No
15) Student Health. Do you support the restoration of physical education in all elementary and secondarygrades in CPS with qualified and certified PE teachers? Mainstreaming yoga and meditation practice? Outdoorexercise on grass with gardens? With what enforcement or penalties?
Yes No
First 100 Days? Yes No
Rationale/Method:
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17) Achievement Gap. Are you willing to commit the required resources and policy and operational changesto close the gap between Black/White /Hispanic achievement based on current reading and math scores?
Some solutions
A commitment to all the children in our community by supporting programs that strengthen them.
Smaller classes
2 teacher in classrooms male and female
More Black teachers in black schools
Partnership with Chicago State to grow our own teachers for each communities needs
Mandatory free pre-K
Implementing Ron Barker 3-5 year reading program in all neighborhoods.
Intensive remediation for all grade levels to increase literacy
Yes No
First 100 Days? Yes No
Rationale/Method:
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FISCAL ACCOUNTABILITY
18) Independent Financial Audits. Would you support a series of independent audits of all of the City’spublic agencies and revenue streams, including but not limited to fees, fines, and other collections, as well asby distribution or disbursement; review of the financial institutions that have managed the City’s Pension andChicago Housing Authority funds; Public Building Commission; Chicago Public Schools, how each school isspending its Title 1 funds, and other agencies / departments?
Yes No
First 100 Days? Yes No
Rationale/Method:
19) TIF Reform. State of Illinois “Tax Increment Financing” law [TIF] is a tool designed to finance real estatedevelopment plans. It allows for a certain portion of certain taxes paid by Chicagoans in certain mapped areasto be used to spur investment in that area – if blighted – once plans for that area have been approved; forexample, real estate taxes withdrawn from the operating budgets of schools and parks and invested in a vacantcommercial corridor in the area. Abuses to this system have been widely reported. Have you studied theresearch on this topic by the TIF Illumination Project [tifreports.com], and would you support TIF reform thatrequired a) full quarterly public accounting of all TIF funds collected; b) elimination of porting power; c)requirement that a resident-approved plan exist before certifying a TIF district; and d) return of all fundswhich were not used for the approved development plan to the TIF district from which they were taken?
Yes No
First 100 Days? Yes No
Rationale/Method:
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CULTURE
21 Decade for People of African Descent. "We must remember that people of African descent areamong those most affected by racism. Too often, they face denial of basic rights such as access to quality healthservices and education." — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Would you play an active role ininitiating and/or supporting a resolution recognizing and committing to the United Nations declared Interna-tional Decade for People of African Descent (Jan 1, 2015 - Dec 31, 2024), under the theme "Recognition, Justiceand Development" and its Program of Action?
Source: http://www.un.org/en/events/africandescentdecade/index.shtml
Yes No First 100 Days? Yes No
Rationale/Method:
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
20) Mayoral Administration and Parity. We believe in representative government as the foundation ofour democracy, further, we proffer that to achieve this requires that a diverse population must be reflectedbeyond the elected officials and indeed must be reflected throughout an administration recognizing that policyis created at a number of levels of leadership in a governmental unit and that practice and procedures areexecuted throughout all levels of government. To truly serve the Black Community, an administration mustreflect, particularly at leadership levels, the proportionality of the black community in the citizenry. Thisprovides the knowledge, experience and sensitivity required to affect policy and practices that lead to improv-ing the quality of life for black people. Recognizing that the right skills and competencies are required for eachposition in your administration and knowing that there is no lack of requisite skills and competencies acrossChicago’s Black Community, will you commit to having an administration that includes numbers of blackpeople, particularly in policy making roles, reflective of our numbers within the Chicagoland area?
Yes No First 100 Days? Yes No
Rationale/Method:
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Thank You
