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在GAZETTE《第25界区长选举竞赛有很多熟悉的名字》文章里现任区长,Daniel Solis表示将支持采用EB-5方式解决芝加哥市的部分财务危机

2011-2-5 14:25 原作者: admin

在GAZETTE的一篇介绍芝加哥地区选举的文章,《第25界区长选举竞赛有很多熟悉的名字》里现任区长,Daniel Solis表示将支持采用EB-5方式解决芝加哥市的部分财务危机
25th ward alderman race sees some familiar names

2011年2月4日,Solis建议采用不增加税收的方式来帮助芝加哥市解决金融危机。他建议合并政府机构,在政府物业和市罚单上卖广告。Solis也支持加强EB-5计划。该计划在芝加哥远远没有被使用(远落后于纽约和洛杉矶)。该计划要求投资50或100万美元的外国投资者必须雇用10个员工来得到绿卡。

【原文如下】25th ward alderman race sees some familiar names

February 4, 2011

By Miriam Y. Cintrón

Serving since 1996, Alderman Daniel Solis is looking to hold onto his office as he faces challengers Ambrosio “Ambi” Medrano Jr. and Cuauhtémoc “Temoc” Morfín in the 25th Ward, which includes Pilsen, Chinatown, and University Village.

Ambrosio Medrano Jr.

Ambrosio Medrano Jr., a longtime employee of the Chicago Department of Transportation, said he holds education close to his heart, so one of his top priorities as alderman would be to protect equal funding for charter and public schools. His website is www.ambimedrano.com.

Citing his own experience as an Andrew Jackson Language Academy student who was deeply involved in community activities, Medrano said he would act “as the bridge that connects schools and community organizations.” These entities should work together on programs “that keep kids from joining gangs” in order to cut crime, which he said has been particularly high in the ward’s University of Illinois at Chicago and Pilsen areas.

Medrano sees reducing the C.A.P.S. program as an opportunity for residents to step up and reclaim their streets by building up block clubs and restoring a sense of community. Although increasing police presence offers another way to reduce crime, “Given the City’s poor financial state, we have to look to new revenue streams to pay for additional officers,” Medrano said. He proposes selling advertising space on City trucks and merging City departments.

The City also could save money by reverting to a regional grid system for garbage collection rather than collecting on a ward by-ward basis, which is may be “unnecessarily complex” due to the irregular ward boundaries.

A novel suggestion of Medrano’s is to reduce the number of members on the City Council. He noted New York and Los Angeles, both larger than Chicago, have fewer members on their city councils.

He admits the idea is “bound to raise some eyebrows” but is “worth exploring.”

Tax increment financing (TIFs) should be used for their intended purpose, reviving blighted areas, he said. Medrano would do that by developing the industrial strip at the ward’s south end. Attracting medical and construction companies with tax breaks would create new jobs, but he would make sure “they hire local residents.”

He agrees with the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) proposal to strengthen local school councils and elect a citywide school board, adding that aldermen — and even the mayor — should not make all decisions on their own, but should “look at the ideas in front of them.”

With the City facing such difficult times and huge budget deficits, “now more than ever it is important for aldermen to roll up their sleeves and work with the communities they serve,” Medrano said. He added that aldermen should be just that — aldermen — and not hold two or three jobs. Medrano’s father was 25th Ward alderman before Solis.

Cuauhtémoc Morfin.

Cuauhtémoc Morfin, a community activist who ran against Solis in 2007, believes this election cycle represents a unique opportunity for Chicagoans to create change because Mayor Richard M. Daley is not running for re-election after 21 years and the face of the City Council potentially could change. “We don’t need politicians,” he said. “We need public servants.” Morfin’s website is morfinfor25thward.com.

For him, becoming alderman represents a chance to prevent privatization of City services. The ward has great potential to attract much needed jobs, particularly the industrial corridor along Cermak Road, according to Morfin. Chicago is “transforming into a green city,” he said, and tax incentives could entice existing and new businesses to create green-collar jobs in the area.

In education, Morfin would “allocate more resources to public schools and prevent them from becoming charter schools.” He also cited the need for more teachers and expressed support for the CTU plan to create a 13-member elected school board consisting of educators, parents, and community members. According to Morfin, the mayor should not have sole discretion to appoint the Chicago Public Schools chief executive. As a local school council member at Benito Juarez High School, Morfin helped plan for the school’s expansion and said the experience made him see the importance of having the community and educators work together to make decisions.

“The community’s voice should be considered,” he said. The same principle should apply to TIF funds, said Morfin, who advocates community input on how and when they should be used.

Regarding the environment, Morfin would support the Chicago Clean Power Ordinance, which would force Midwest Generation to reduce particulate and carbon dioxide emissions at its coal-fired power plants, Fisk Generating Station at 1111 W. Cermak Rd. in Pilsen and Crawford Generating Station at 3501 S. Pulaski Rd. in nearby Little Village. While having the company move the plants or shut them down might not be feasible, Morfin said the company must bring its plants up to code and reduce emissions.

About crime, Morfin, a former juvenile probation officer, said Chicago streets not only need more police officers but increased presence and patrol. C.A.P.S. “needs to be enhanced,” he said, because it allows residents to vent and comment on what is going on in their communities. He would work to establish more community programs aimed at keeping kids off the streets and in community centers.

Daniel Solis.

Looking back on his most recent term, incumbent Alderman Daniel Solis highlighted his involvement in expanding Benito Juarez High School; the upcoming opening of a new science, technology, engineering and math school this fall; and securing funding for a new Chicago Public Library. Solis’s website is www.dannysolis.org.

If re-elected, he will continue making jobs, education, and safety his top priorities. Solis said he would address education by improving school facilities, supporting local neighborhood organizations’ education programs, meeting with local principals to listen to and address their concerns, and allocating funds to schools for children and adult programs.

Regarding crime, Solis said blue light cameras, after-school programs, meetings between residents and police commanders, and C.A.P.S. meetings are crime deterrents that he would continue to support.

While he noted C.A.P.S., which recently saw many of its officers moved to street patrol, “should work with the budget it has,” he does advocate enhancing community participation. He plans to “continue participating in ridealongs” with the Chicago Police Department to identify gang activity and drug trafficking locations.

“Seeing this information firsthand, I would use a holistic, block-by-block approach instead of being reactive,” he said. “I would [use] this tactic along with existing strategies with cameras, additional lighting, etc.”

Solis suggested strategies to help the City overcome its current financial crisis without raising taxes. He proposes consolidating City departments and selling advertising space on City property and City stickers. Solis also supports boosting the EB-5 visa program, which is not used to its full potential; created 20 years ago, the program allows entrepreneurs who invest at least $1 million and plan to create or preserve ten permanent jobs for qualified U.S. workers to apply for a green card.

Concerning the CPS, Solis’s spokesperson Maya Solis said the Alderman “was in favor of having someone with a combination of an education background and management skills to lead CPS.” Alderman Solis has opposed the Chicago Clean Power ordinance designed to clean up the Fisk and Crawford power plants. “I’ve worked hard to see that the Fisk and Crawford plants are cleaned up,” Alderman Solis said.

“And we’ve seen significant emissions reductions from those plants. “Not only as the alderman, but as a father and grandfather of three young children, if I believed for one minute that these plants were endangering residents of the 25th Ward or of Chicago, I’d be pushing to have them closed,” he continued.

“These plants are meeting very tough State and Federal regulations designed to protect public health and safety. And because this ordinance would shut these two plants down…putting 200 hardworking union men and women out of work and threatening the reliability of our energy grid, at this time I don’t think this ordinance is a good idea,” Solis concluded.

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