Solutions

Tina Cottone will create a stronger Hilliard with services and policies that help residents in every stage of life:

  • Responsible fiscal stewardship of city debt and spending to build a resilient Hilliard
  • Promote, attract, and SUPPORT small business & local ownership
  • Improve communication of available city services
  • Forward-thinking planning that builds stability for the entire community
  • Increase the transparency of city council activities

FISCAL MANAGEMENT

Maintain a close eye on tax revenues post pandemic and adapt budgets as needed to preserve a balanced budget

FOR YOUNG ADULTS, TINA WILL

  • Improve the variety of available housing options by filling in Hilliard’s “Missing Middle” (What's the Missing Middle? Click here to learn more)

  • Attract creative service businesses to historic district

  • Improve the promotion and communication of Things to Do in Hilliard, including event information, volunteer opportunities, ongoing classes, groups, art, and more

  • Embrace and enact policies that promote a healthier lifestyle for residents with the national Blue Zones initiative

  • Encourage development and maintenance of facilities that encourage solitary (non-team) athletic activity throughout the city and its park systems

FOR new families, TINA WILL

  • Provide a comprehensive source of information on childcare in Hilliard

  • Work closely with the school district to better manage and adapt to community growth

  • Target federal funds to improve our Safe Routes to School: Safe Routes to School 
    • Safe Routes to School (SRTS) is an approach that promotes walking and bicycling to school through infrastructure improvements, enforcement, tools, safety education, and incentives to encourage walking and bicycling to school.

  • Provide incentives to companies to offer on-site childcare for their employees

FOR established families, TINA WILL

  • Create HilliardCorps to provide teens with productive after-school activities that benefit the community while helping with college financing.
    • Similar to AmeriCorps, local businesses and non-profits engage a city-wide force of engaged teens ready to assist with community needs
  • Tackle the growing e-cig and vaping challenge by working with the Mayor’s Court to provide schools with addiction counseling
  • Work to solve the overcrowded drop-off/pick-up dilemma at our elementary
    schools

FOR empty nesters, TINA WILL

  • Embrace and enact policies that promote a healthier lifestyle for residents with the national Blue Zones initiative

  • Attract creative service businesses to the historic district

  • Improve the promotion and communication of Things to Do in Hilliard, including event information, volunteer opportunities, ongoing classes, groups, art, and more

  • Improve the variety of available housing options by filling in Hilliard’s “Missing Middle” (What's the Missing Middle? Click here to learn more​)

  • Encourage development and maintenance of facilities that encourage solitary (non-team) athletic activity throughout the city and its park systems

FOR seniors, TINA WILL

  • Help seniors remain in their homes in Hilliard
  • Create Hilliard Silver Services to help improve the quality of life for seniors with a centralized source of information and assistance
    • Grocery Delivery - In partnership with HilliardCorps and area grocery stores/Hilliard Pantry/InstaCart, grocery orders are delivered directly to seniors
    • Assist with prescription delivery services through area pharmacies
    • Check-ins – Seniors and their children may request the city place a phone call at regular intervals to living-at-home seniors and check in on their health and safety status
    • Home In Hilliard – information packet and resource line for seniors wanting to stay in their home
    • Incorporate Safe Rides for Seniors
  • Tina will champion tax structures that help Hilliard seniors
    • In response to rapidly increasing home values, Tina will explore the
      feasibility of a Senior Tax Deferment – Seniors that meet set criteria may
      elect to defer any property tax increases until the sale of their home or
      estate settlement
  • ​Embrace and enact policies that promote a healthier lifestyle for residents with the national Blue Zones initiative
  • Improve the variety of available housing options by filling in Hilliard’s “Missing Middle” (What's the Missing Middle? Click here to learn more​)

FOR LOCAL BUSINESS, TINA WILl

  • Focus city incentives on attracting and developing small business
  • Incentivize local ownership and management
  • Attract creative service businesses to burgeoning historic district

  • Maximize the benefits of Federal Opportunity Zones created with the Tax Cut and Jobs Act to increase investment in Hilliard and foster new business startups

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