Dan McGuire: Candidate for Re-election as Alderman, 28th Ward（英文）

By Dan McGuire

1987年2月

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Historical February 1987 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.

I have been honored to serve as your Alderman in the 28th Ward for the last six years, and look forward to continuing to work with you after the upcoming election.

While our ward now stretches from Manchester on the south, along the City Limits to Delmar, and then east all the way to Boyle, Skinker-DeBaliviere is my home.

My wife, Jill, our infant son, Danny, and I moved into our first home at 5788 Waterman in 1971, after I returned from a tour of duty with the US. Army in Korea.

By the time our other son, John, reached two years of age, we needed more room, so in 1978 we moved to our current home at 6185 Westminster. Both children attended St. Roch’s School, and Dan is now a junior at CBC.

During these last 16 years, Skinker-DeBaliviere has been reborn.

Many of our singlefamily homes have been renovated. Where once stood blocks of blighted apartment houses, now stands DeBaliviere Place, a nationally acclaimed model of urban renaissance; Lucier Park, our children’s neighborhood playground; and Kingsbury Square, one of the first subdivisions built within the City in decades.

The aged and dilapidated streetcar garage and yard at Delmar and DeBaliviere has been transformed into a modern, architecturally pleasing landmark; and an underutilized and failing private hospital has been converted into a regional health center within walking distance of our area’s needy, and whose staff provides a great economic boost to our neighborhood shops and restaurants.

After the completion of the Nina Place and DeBaliviere Arcade projects, the promise of light rail transit linking our community with the airport, UMSL, and Downtown, will provide the final step in Skinker-DeBaliviere’s climb back to becoming a premier residential neighborhood. Indeed, our ethnic, social, and economic diversity is a model for the metropolitan area.

I have always been an active member of the community, but as your Alderman for the last six years, I have played a major role in this continuing rebirth of our neighborhood and our City.

As the incumbent, I do not offer you hollow unrealistic promises and political rhetoric but a solid record of accomplishments.

The primary task of any Alderman is to insure that his constituents receive the best City services possible and their fair share of limited tax dollars for neighborhood projects and institutions.

Since space does not allow detailing this record here, I have purchased additional space in this issue for this purpose.

In brief, I have worked hard to adopt worthwhile proposals for the City and then made sure that all of our neighborhoods in the 28th Ward were among the first to benefit.

For example, Skinker-DeBaliviere was in the first group of neighborhoods to be offered:

• Low-cost or free Home Security Packages through Operation SafeStreet

• Low-interest loans and grants for low- and moderate-income resident home-owners, to correct housing code violations and to finance major home renovations, through Operation Impact

• Cable TV service

• City dumpsters

• New and more efficient street lighting I have also been active in other City-wide issues of interest to our area. I successfully sponsored many important ordinances which include:

• A complete revision of the City’s zoning code, with new emphasis on historic preservation, and providing citizens with a stronger voice in proposed new residential and commercial projects in their neighborhoods.

• A new “insurance” program to repair water line breaks and leaks, which were previously the responsibility of the homeowner.

These repairs are paid for by a surcharge on quarterly water bills.

• The establishment of several “obsolete districts” within the ward to provide tax incentives for existing homeowners to rehabilitate their homes.

• The expansion of the Skinker-DeBaliviere-Catlin Tract Historic District boundaries.

• The establishment of a fund to support abused women’s shelters in the city, financed by a surcharge of $5 on each marriage license and divorce decree.

• An increase to $50 in the fine for parking in a “Handicapped Parking Only” space.

For the past six years, I have worked full-time at the Board of Aldermen and in our neighborhoods, accessible, and responsive to the many diverse needs of the 28th Ward.

I have kept the community informed of current issues and events through regular columns in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere and West End Word, and I meet with block units, neigh borhood groups and other organizations whenever invited, to listen and act on resident and business concerns. I look forward to the challenge of serving you, my friends and neighbors in Skinker-DeBaliviere, for another four years.