Today at 10:00, Greg Fischer is releasing his “plan” for Louisville. So Hal Heiner is also discussing his plans for the city. He’s pretty specific, without using flowery corporate speak.
Here’s how he opens his plan:
When sitting down with my family last fall to decide if running for Mayor of Louisville was in fact the best thing for us, I had to confront the tough questions. Was I ready to lead? Did I have the ideas to alter the way Metro Hall operates? Is Louisville ready for fundamental change that will grow jobs, improve neighborhoods, work to dramatically improve our schools, keep spending in check, and make government work more efficiently and effectively?
I’ve never done anything without putting forth all my energy and resources, but the task still seemed daunting. Yet, the more I thought about it and talked to people from every corner of Louisville, the more excited I became. Louisville is ready for a new direction. Our metro Government and its attitude toward its daily business has been the same for a generation, and the people of Louisville see that and are ready for an improvement.
Throughout the campaign, I’ve laid out a detailed vision of where my administration will take our city. Through this booklet, I’m proud to expand upon my plans for job creation, safe and secure neighborhoods and open accountable government by including ideas for education, fiscal responsibility, transportation and infrastructure, energy and the environment.
I want this list of ideas to not only let the voters know how we are going to move Louisville forward, but also to serve as a means of holding us accountable to what we say we are going to do.
Click here (Warning: External PDF Link) to review Heiner’s plans.
Here are ten points Heiner includes in his document:
- Have the East End Bridge Under Construction: We still know if the two-bridge project is going to be affordable. What we do know is that it’s time to move forward with the jobs and transportation improvements the East End Bridge will create. Let’s get it started.
- Establish Louisville as an Alternative Energy Research Center: We can build on the momentum of a $20 million dollar gift to the University of Louisville to bring talent and research and development resources to the city.
- Complete the Southwest Library: During the Library Tax debate, I didn’t say “no” to libraries. I just said “no” to new taxes. We can build libraries by responsibly investing and the Southwest Library will be completed by the end of my first term.
- Spending Accountability for Metro Budgets: For too long, the belt tightening that occurs when things are tight gets loose when revenue starts pouring back in. Time to keep a fiscally responsible policy in place and save to create jobs and pay down debt.
- Bring Metro Government into the 21st Century: By instituting performance measurements and innovative management techniques, Metro government can deliver services more effectively and efficiently.
- Get Our Education System Back on Track: Louisville can’t be a center for job creation if our school system continues to fail our children. As Mayor, I will work tirelessly to advocate for turning around our schools and improving opportunities for each child to learn.
- Build an Urban Coalition: For too long, Louisville and other urban areas in Kentucky have gotten the short end of the stick from Frankfort. An urban coalition can work together to make sure our cities are getting the investments they need to prosper.
- Traffic Light Synchronization: My work on the council has gotten us started on this but we have much more to do. We can save time and gas for the community by making the project a priority.
- Tackle Abandoned Properties: Blighted houses are incubators for crime and neighborhood decay. Putting into place a comprehensive approach to the problem will put us on the path of building more safe and secure neighborhoods throughout the community.
- Growing Jobs in Louisville: What does it all add up to? A place where businesses want to locate and small business owners want to grow. A customer-service friendly culture in Metro Government can be a partner in creating an environment for jobs and investment. That culture will be a hallmark of my administration.
We’ll link to Fischer’s plan once it’s public.
19 responses so far ↓
1 Steve Magruder // Oct 7, 2010 at 9:46 am
I’ve been browsing this somewhat, and it looks pretty comprehensive and mostly agreeable.
Re: #1, based on my reading, I think Heiner means “We still don’t know if the two-bridge project is going to be affordable. “
2 JOhn // Oct 7, 2010 at 9:49 am
I’m guessing it should say, “we still DON’T know if the two-bridge…”
3 garyguss // Oct 7, 2010 at 10:03 am
Good one Hal !
4 Lindsey // Oct 7, 2010 at 10:07 am
Way to completely ignore public transit!
5 jake // Oct 7, 2010 at 10:15 am
That’s not happening in this city.
We’re destined for more TARC cuts, rough surface streets, no sidewalks and fat fat fat.
Light rail? Haha.
Regional train service? HAHAHA.
6 Jeff Gillenwater // Oct 7, 2010 at 11:46 am
It will happen here, Jake. It’s just a matter of choosing it now or being forced to do it later, after the economy is further decimated and all the boomers who will need it the most have aged out of the workforce to help pay for it.
7 Edmund // Oct 7, 2010 at 12:20 pm
Indifference toward mass transit, and I just read about Fischer’s ‘Red Line’, doesn’t make me want to get comfortable in this town.
8 blowin' in the wind // Oct 7, 2010 at 12:58 pm
The Heiner campaign needs to reformat the web pages so you can read them–Fischer’s are east to read. I hope there will be print copies available.
9 jake // Oct 7, 2010 at 1:05 pm
Uh, what?
These are PDFs. You can download them to your computer and determine how they’re sized on your screen.
Why waste paper if you have a computer?
10 blowin' in the wind // Oct 7, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Sorry Jake, when you are trying to get people to vote for you, you make it as simple as possible–including not having to think about re-sizing. We older folks don’t like to have to play around with technology: Fischer’s can be read immediately,
Heiner’s can’t. I am a Heiner fan, but isn’t the young techies like yourself that are going to elect him, it’s the golden oldies.
11 jake // Oct 7, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Hate to argue, but it’s a PDF. A lot of factors play into whether or not it’s a particular size on your screen. Depends on the software you’re using to read PDFs, your screen resolution, the preferences you’ve set for whatever program or plugin you’re using, and even the web browser makes a difference.
12 Billy Taylor // Oct 7, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Why is this guy behind in the polls?
13 JTT // Oct 7, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Billy, because too many people can’t get past the D to the R ….
14 Sam // Oct 7, 2010 at 10:59 pm
He’s for the Seum – Williams bill to mandate school attendance rules from Frankfort? That’s real leadership from the Mayor’s office. Everyone satisifed about his discussion of poverty and homelessness? There’s more about animals than poor people. And how about a discussion about enforcing local civil rights laws? Oh, yeah, he led the campaign and voted against the last one. Cracking down on polluters? Nothing here , but of course he was against the air pollution law too.
15 jake // Oct 7, 2010 at 11:02 pm
Really? Hal Heiner led a campaign against enforcing local civil rights laws?
I’d like to see proof of that.
(Drunk again, WC?)
16 Sam // Oct 10, 2010 at 6:03 pm
No one said Heiner led a campaign against enforcing civil rights laws. He could only do that if we elect him Mayor. He sure led the campaign against passing Fairness, though, and, given that deplorable record, it’s too bad he puts out a thick book which says nothing about enforcing the law.
17 jake // Oct 10, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Led the campaign? Really?
Cause I seem to remember it being Frank Simon and other actual bigots leading the fight. I’ve read through transcripts and spoken to dozens of folks – including those old hands at Fairness – and not one of them expressed serious concerns about Heiner and Fairness.
That’s just some shit you folks at Fischer Inc are using to drum up fear with the gays.
It’s unfortunate that Hal is mentally retarded on the equality issue. There’s no doubting that.
But if you folks want to conduct negative campaigning – use your real, full name. And be honest.
(The mayor doesn’t enforce laws – law enforcement does.)
18 Sam // Oct 11, 2010 at 8:50 am
The Mayor appoints the people who enforce this law. This is from the Metro website
HUMAN RELATIONS-ENFORCEMENT
This body is composed of seven (7) members appointed by the Mayor and approved by the Metro Council. The duties, responsibilities, and authorities granted to the Enforcement Board are for investigation and enforcement of local anti-discrimination laws.
And if you don’t think Heiner was a Council leader opposing Fairness, read here
http://leoweekly.com/news/jerrys-kids-41
19 jake // Oct 11, 2010 at 9:13 am
Yeah, I read the story. Here’s what it had to say:
He spoke out against the Fairness Ordinance at a council meeting and voted against it. You said, “he led the campaign.” Kinda not the same thing. You changed your story from “Heiner led the campaign” to “he was a council leader opposing Fairness.” Nice.
If you think that body enforces anything, here’s a look at recent history:
They don’t enforce anything. I could go on for days about Todd Eklof and other Fairness violations.
You can continue anonymously harping on this issue and I can continue using my real identity to talk about it. You can continue foaming at the mouth. But this isn’t a single-issue mayoral race.
The fact of the matter is Hal Heiner is stupid when it comes to discrimination. But the day-to-day reality is the mayor has nothing to do with enforcing anything. He’s there to dole out jobs, stand against organized labor, lie and make sure people like Chris Poynter continue to have high-paying jobs.
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