Activist Toolkit

[Jonathan Keller has not submitted answers to the Activist Toolkit questionnaire.]

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1. What motivates you to seek this office? What skills, experiences, and perspectives would you bring to the Board of Trustees, and why would those contributions be valuable to the Village of River Forest?

2. What steps will you take to improve and expand community engagement with the Village and the office of the Clerk? 

3. What does transparency mean to you? How would you put it into practice as Clerk?

4. What do you see as the most important responsibilities of the Clerk’s office? Do you see opportunities for the office to do more? 

5. Give an example of a time when you worked to understand a situation or view different from your own. What helped you to move through that process? What hindered you as you moved through the process?

6. Who or what is your role model for your approach to governing?

7. What do you feel are the three biggest issues facing the office of the Clerk, and how do you intend to address them? How will you prioritize among competing priorities?

8. What barriers do you see for community members who wish to engage with River Forest’s village government? How would you work to reduce or eliminate those barriers? 

9. How do you define racial equity? Have recent events and discussions in the larger community informed or changed your thinking? 

10. How do you plan to solicit feedback from people who may be experiencing River Forest in a different way than you? What barriers do you believe may exist in this process?

11. What is your position on the extent to which the Village includes or should include accessibility features? Please address both physical structures and virtual/information processes.

12. What are your plans for collaborating with our neighboring communities? Do you see a role for the Clerk in the implementation of the Twin Village Covenant with Maywood?