Candidates: Karl Nurse, Sharon Russ
In the Post It's
Time To Go On the Record, I asked each registered St. Petersburg
candidate to answer seven questions:
1. Should the LENS come to a referendum, will you
support voting to stop the project?
2. Do you support closing the
Pier?
3. Will you move to end the red
light camera program?
4. Do you support the Rays
talking to anyone in Pinellas County or Hillsborough County about a stadium
site?
5. Do you support the
neighborhood association concept and what will you do to specifically help
rebuild this City asset?
6. Do you support hiring a new
Police Chief?
7. What specifically what will
you do to begin to reduce crime and improve the quality of life in South St.
Pete?
As candidates responded to Comments section of the Post has
become long and a bit difficult to follow; so I have set up a Post for each
race and copied, with no editing,
the candidate's responses to date.
Candidates who have not responded, may add them in the Comments section or
e-mail them to me and I will add those comments with no editing to the Body of the Post.
Karl Nurse
1. Should the LENS come to a
referendum, will you support voting to stop the project.
Lens - I support allowing the voters to decide this and have
voted a dozen times to put a referendum on the ballot.
2. Do you support closing the
Pier?
Closing the Pier - As you know, the Mayor, not the City Council,
has the power to close the Pier. If it were up to me, I would have voted to
keep the Pier open until the voters decided on the Lens
3. Will you move to end the red
light camera program?
Red light Cameras - I will
support fixing the program rather than ending it. If we focus on the red light
runners exceeding 1/2 second, then that is where the safety gains are made. The
yellow light timing needs to be checked a each of the locations, and right on
red should not be part of the ticketing.
4. Do you support the Rays
talking to anyone in Pinellas County or Hillsborough County about a stadium
site?
Rays - I have played a role to help facilitate discussions with
the Rays. I believe we will work out an agreement that allows the Rays to take
a serious look at the Gateway location and then look in Tampa.
5. Do you support the neighborhood
association concept and what will you do to specifically help rebuild this City
asset?
Neighborhood Associations - As a former CONA President, I have a
very clear understanding of how neighborhood associations can play a
significant and positive role in improving neighborhoods and how they help
connect the neighborhood and the city. We frankly need an organizer to help
re-launch many neighborhood associations. I have helped get two associations
restarted in my district.
6. Do you support hiring a new
Police Chief?
Police Chief - I believe the upcoming retirement of the police
chief is an opportunity to inject new energy and tactics into the police
department. Many police departments have embraced pro-active, hot spots driven
police with very powerful impacts. St. Pete has been slowly moving in this
direction but can pickup the pace.
7. What specifically what will
you do to begin to reduce crime and improve the quality of life in South St.
Pete?
Crime & quality of life in South St. Pete - This is the area
where I put much of my energy. I believe in pro-active and assertively
addressing the hot spots and have worked on a number of those such as Citrus
Grove with some success. We need to embrace both new tactics and technology.
The mobile police unit and cameras are both good examples of pushing crime out.
The quality of life issues require us to simultaneously address:
jobs, education and housing. These are significant and long term challenges. I
have recently passed three housing related programs: a foreclosure registry, a
lien release process and a "Rebates for Rehabs" program. I am working
to bring additional jobs to St. Pete and particularly to South St. Pete. My
involvement with Melrose Elementary has led me to push for more pre-K education
rather than day care programs. Collectively, this work can make a significant,
long term difference.
Sharon Ross: No
response
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Campaign Disclosures: Contributor to Darden Rice Campaign
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