Vote Medford 2005

Q1: Medford Square Revitalization

The revitalization of Medford Square is still in the planning stages.  If you were walking through Medford Square and along the Mystic River ten years from now, what would you like to see there?

How would you as a councilor try to implement that vision?

Q2: Social, Cultural and Historical Assets

What do you believe are the city's strongest social, cultural and historical assets? What can be done to enhance them and to leverage them as part of current revitalization efforts?

Please be specific.

Q3: Encouraging Small Businesses

What measures can the city take right now to help Medford's small businesses flourish and to help attract more small business owners and customers to the city?

Q4: On Low- and Moderate-income Families

What is the city doing to ensure that low and moderate-income families and individuals can move to and continue to live in Medford?

Are there additional measures that could be taken and what can you, as a city councilor, do to address this issue?

Q5: Environmental Issues

What do you believe are the city's most pressing environmental issues?

Are they being fully addressed now? Please be specific.

Q6: Open Spaces, Sidewalks and Trees

What are your thoughts on the condition of Medford's parks, open spaces, streets, sidewalks and trees?

What would you do as a city councilor to ensure that the city is making the best use of its resources in the care and maintenance of these assets?

Q7: Street Safety

How would you rate the city's response to fixing dangerous roads and installing and maintaining directional signals and signs?

Also, has the city adequately addressed the safety needs of pedestrians and cyclists?

Can improvements be made in either of these areas and, if so, what would you do?

Q8: Green Line

Do you support extending the Green Line to Medford? Why or why not?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of extending it and not extending it?

Q9: Rising Energy Costs

How are rising energy costs going to impact the city's budget and what can be done to address this problem?

Q10: Representing All of Medford

Four of Medford's eight wards do not have city councilors representing them. What do you do (or what would you do) to compensate for that imbalance and to ensure that the Council understands and considers the needs of Medford as a whole?