Nine candidates seeking four spots on University Heights City Council participated Tuesday (Sept. 26) in a League of Women Voters Candidates Forum.
University Heights City Council candidates posed for a photo following the League of Women Voters candidates Forum held Tuesday . From left are moderator Susan Taft, Vice Mayor Michele Weiss; Vincent E. Stokes II; Micah Maliskas; Hallie Shalev Turnberrez; Threse Marshall; Jonathan A. Bartell; Winifred J. Weizer; Alicia Sloan; and John P. Rach.UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Voters will be asked this fall to elect four council members among the nine candidates in the running.
As they have during council meetings, Weiss, Rach, Marshall and Weizer continued to support backyard collection, each noting that surveys have backed this method. Stokes also joined in his support for backyard collection. Brennan has been advocating for a switch to automated collection, stating that the modernized system would be more efficient and less costly.
Maliskas, who possesses a master’s degree in business administration, and Turnberrez spoke of the need to convert the former Wiley School building into a community center, while Sloan noted that, while activities for seniors are needed, as has often been mentioned, so too are activities for residents of all ages.
In introducing herself, Turnberrez said, “I am a young, queer, Jewish, leftist artist, and I’m also an attorney. I’m running for City Council because I think we need fresh, new ideas, especially in a city with an average age of 29, I think young people need to be in the room where it happens.” Rach is an architect, with whom Brennan has often had his differences. He said, however, that council has backed Brennan’s goals, via legislation passed, 95 percent of the time. He said council works well together and that some “kinks” need to be worked out in the council-mayor relationship.
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