Delaware County Democratic Party Platform
Economic Development
1. Provide additional resources for job development, especially for small business development and minority business development.
2. Promote livable communities that end the flight of jobs and residents out of state.
Health & Safety
3. Establish a county health department to eliminate Delaware County's status as suburban leader among infant mortality rates, sexually transmitted disease rates, preventable cancer and lyme disease incidence.
4. Provide the county health department with adequate resources to prepare for and fight bio-terror.
Education
5. Provide funding grants to our community college for non-credit courses for job training purposes, thereby providing additional economic development resources and ending Delaware County's status as the only suburban County that does not contribute funds to a community college.
6. Address the current schools crisis and minimize the impact of partisan politics on the public education of our children by encouraging local, non-partisan citizen groups to run bi-partisan school director tickets.
Political and government reform
7. Replace the county council with a county legislature that will provide direct accountability to district voters, reflect in its composition the diverse population of our county, and secure the benefits of two-party government.
8. Reform county hiring practices to insure we hire the most qualified, not the most connected.
9. Oppose the privatization of essential public services.
Environmental Conservation and Land Preservation
10. Promote smart growth strategies that emphasize environmental conservation and land preservation.
11. Establish a County Grant Office to provide assistance to local governments in preparing grant applications for these purposes.
Taxes and Reassessment
12. Use the clout of county government to urge property tax reform in Harrisburg.
13. Institute a regular, recurring tax reassessment plan to avoid the mistakes that lead to the recent reassessment debacle.
14. Insure the assessment appeals process is fair to all property owners.
Delaware County Democratic Party Officials
| Chair: | Cliff Wilson | |
| 1st Vice Chair: | Anthony Campisi | |
| Vice Chairs: | Dolores Jones-Butler Mary Ellen Balchunis-Harris Donald Dix | |
| Secretary: | Michael Shaw | |
| Treasurer: | Paul Scoles | |
| Deputy Chm. for Education: | Tom Quinn | |
| Deputy Chm. for Finance: | Bruce Bikin | |
| State Committee: | Nancy Bruner Baulis Mary Fran Ballard Rosetta Carter Angela D'Alessandro John Innelli Bryan Lentz Gerald Lawrence Shelly Rahman Lee Taliaferro Jayne Young |
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| Party Solicitor: | Raymond Santarelli, Esq. | |
| President, Delco Young Democrats: | Joe Johnson | |
| President, Delco Democrat Women: | Dorothy Gallagher | |
| President, Delco Asian American Democratic Association: | Abu Rahman | |
| Webmaster: | Mark Berczynski |
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