League of Women Voters of the Piedmont Triad Candidate Questionna​ire and Answers

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Name: George Hartzman

Age: 46

Office being sought: Mayor

Address: 2506 Baytree Drive

Webpage: georgehartzman.com      
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Occupation:

Registered Investment Advisor, Hartzman Financial
Chief Economist and Lecturer, Think Professional Education
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Education:

Double major - Philosophy and Speech Communications; Minor - Public Relations
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Background/experience:

I have been a financial advisor since 1993, taught CPA and attorney financial ethics for 10 years, and foresaw the 2008 financial crisis.
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1) Apart from budgetary issues, what one thing would you like to accomplish, and how?

Save city employees more than $500,000 per year in their 457 retirement plan by lowering excessive fees. A charter school prioritizing single mom's who haven't graduated High School and their kids. Save the Memorial Stadium on Yanceyville Street.
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2) How would you enhance recreation and employment opportunities for youth?

Provide some night time recreation facilities on East Greensboro religious properties near our most at risk populations, where volunteers oversee semi-organized play, including educational activities like chess, and provide career/basic financial management guidance for kids looking to get ahead.
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3) What are your strategies for promoting economic development in East Greensboro?

Greensboro could create more than 10,000 jobs by designing and manufacturing a high quality, simply designed, inexpensive, fuel efficient, modifiable automobile with interchangeable parts that can easily be exchanged between different model years, like the 70’s and 80’s Jeep CJ's.
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4. How can the City expand women and minority contractor participation?

The City of Greensboro doesn’t provide transparency of information tracking women and minority participation of sub-contractors who work for general contractors doing business with the city. Showing who gets what under the hood of government outlays would increase participation.
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5. What can be done to expand the availability and use of the Greensboro Public Transportation?

We need more benches and shelters for heavily used bus stops.

Expansion of availability should be determined by demand.
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6. What role do you think the City should have in enforcing immigration laws?

If Greensboro were to enact a severe immigration law within a sea of non-enforcement in other municipalities, our local economy could be harmed.

A new immigration enforcement regime would also cost more taxpayer money.
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7. What are your ideas for handling Greensboro waste disposal?

Some of Don and Nancy Vaughan's income has been directly associated with lost tax revenue from free White Street Landfill methane for Cone Mills.

Nancy should step down from the Waste Management and Recycling Task Force and should be investigated.
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8. What is your position on participatory budgeting?

The City of Greensboro’s budget process is not understandable to most who try to review the books. To increase the community’s participation, city staff needs to clarify the process more transparently, especially concerning appropriated funds and Coliseum cost shifting.