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#1) Do you think you are fairly taxed, given the services available to you and your neighbors?

No, taxes eat away a significant portion of the rental income from our garden level unit. Police response time is a joke, the local branch library quality isn't the greatest, the local schools are terrible and quite the eyesores.

#2) Do you feel Mayor Menino and other elected officials address all of the issues you care about in your community? If not, what can they do better?

No, they appear for photos and promote their social personal agendas. They could care less as long as their tax revenues continue to increase. They sell the chic and slowly approve beautification projects for the happy tourists but ignore the festering infrastructural/social problems which have existed for decades.

#3) Do you feel safe at night in your community?

I personally do, but there are many instances of armed robbery, sexual assaults, and burglary for a neighborhood considered to be Chic. Most of these incidents are related to the location of public housing and those in the neighborhood for drug treatment or homelessness.

#4) Are you a parent? How many people live in your household?

Yes, twin daughters, one son, all university age. I live with my wife and the kids visit occasionally. A couple lives in our rental unit.

#5) How would you rate the quality of the public schools in your district?

One could confuse the zoo for humanity for a public school based on the quality. Aesthetically and urbanistically the facilities function akin to industrial parks.

#6) Are you concerned about the quality of police and fire safety, education, and medical care in the South End today? How do you think you'll feel about it five to ten years from now?

Police response is a joke, unless blood or bullets are involved they can take several hours to never showing up on one phone call. Fire safety is reasonable unless one lives adjacent to an abandoned building, their response time is consistently good. Education is terrible as mentioned before. Medical care is good in the city, however the medical center is a dumping ground for the city's homeless and habitually high. These transients tend to then migrate through the neighborhood. Five to ten years from now it'll likely be the same if the same policies and funding continue.

#7) What ethnicity do you most closely identify with? About how old are you (30's, 40's, etc.)?

Ukrainian, Mid 50s