Activist Toolkit

[Rodney Alexander Montgomery 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, and why would those contributions be valuable in the office you are seeking?

2. When in the past have you had to balance competing interests? What process did you use? What did you learn?  

3. What does transparency in government mean to you?  How would you put it into practice? 

4. As more of our local discourse happens in social media, what is your view on how local elected officials should communicate with and respond to constituents? How will you engage with the breadth of the community, and not only those on social media?

5. What barriers do you see for community members who wish to engage with the Park District? How would you work to reduce or eliminate those barriers?  

6. What do you feel are the three biggest issues facing the Park District, and how do you intend to address them? 

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

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

9. Name an influential local community member. How did this person’s influence change Maywood? As an elected official, what do you imagine your influence will be on the community?

10. Park districts make use of many different sources of funding, including property tax revenues, fees, and grants. Do you feel the Park District maintains the right balance of free and fee-based facilities and programming for financial sustainability and equity? What do you see as the tradeoffs?

11. Do you believe the Park District’s current debt level is sustainable? What opportunities do you see to improve the District’s financial footing? 

12. What opportunities do you see for the Park District to collaborate productively with other local taxing bodies? What could hinder those efforts? How would you improve relations between the Park District and the Village, in particular?

13. What is your financial plan for ensuring the proper upkeep of the parks, both those the Park District currently controls and those the Village may soon release to Park District control?