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Board of County Commissioners

2006 Hamilton County Report Card

Fellow Citizens

As your Hamilton County Board of Commissioners, we are pleased to present the 2006 Report Card to you, the people of Hamilton County. Its purpose is to show you our performance and the progress we are making in a number of important areas.

After the release of the first annual Report Card we asked citizens for their feedback. We wanted to know if we were reporting what was important to you. Should the format be changed? Are we asking the right questions? What do you care about? Thank you to the hundreds of citizens who filled out the enclosed comment card in last year's report with suggestions for future reports. We took those suggestions seriously and changed the format of this report to reflect what you, the citizens, want to know: What are the Commissioners doing to reverse the population and job loss in Hamilton County?

This year's report focuses on what the Commissioners are doing to reverse these trends. We have focused our attention on implementing strategies that will reverse the negative direction of these trends, based on our top four priorities:

• Improving Public Safety
• Controlling Spending and Taxation
• Promoting Economic Development
• Improving the Management of County Government

The Commissioners remain committed to increasing accountability not just for our top priorities but for all levels of county government. Although this year's report does not include many of the indicators from last year's report, that doesn't mean we aren't still tracking those indicators. We are making those indicators available online on our website: County Indicators and Community Indicators for citizens review.

Once again, we encourage citizens to tell us what you think. Does the 2006 Report Card more accurately reflect what you want to know? What's most important to you? What do you like? How should we change it? Please call 946-INFO, fill out the enclosed response form, or fill out our online response form and tell us what you think.

Thank you,

Pat DeWine

Phil Heimlich

Todd Portune