Donald Lee Waller: Candidate Profile

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Note: Answers provided have not been edited for grammar, misspellings or typos. In some instances, candidate claims that could not be immediately verified have been omitted. Jump to:BioQA Bio City: WheelingWebsite: lee@genesistek.comTwitter: Candidate did not respond.Facebook: Candidate did not respond.Office sought: Wheeling Village Board Age: Candidate did not respond.Family: 1 son1 daughter3 grandchildren1 sisterOccupation: Management ConsultantEducation: Juris Doctor - Thomas M. Cooley Law School (Lansing, MI)Master (Business Management) - Central Michigan University (Mt. Pleasant, MI)Master (Personnel Administration) - Central Michigan University (Mt. Pleasant, MI)BS Mechanical Engineering - General Motors Institute (Flint, MI)Civic involvement: Fairly heavy church involvement atOur Saviours Lutheran Church1234 North Arlington Heights RoadArlington Heights, IL 60004Elected offices held: Candidate did not respond.Questions Answers What makes you the best candidate for the job?I have 50 years of business related problem solving experience:(1) Working in various business positions during 13 years with General Motors,(2) Running several mid-sized businesses (ex. Dir. of Mfg. at Midwest Automation, Buffalo Grove),(3) Business Management Consulting, for25 years at Genesis 1 Technology, Wheeling, and(4) I have 5 additional years of legal experience gained by studying and practicing law.I am a logical thinker, with a proven track record of problem solving and a man who:(1) Is not afraid to face the tough issues,(2) Will do what's right for Wheeling residents,(3) Will be a voice for Wheeling residents.What is your opinion of your community's present level of local sales and property taxes? Is the tax just right, too low or too high? Explain.We always believe our taxes are too high but given the level of services offered to our residents they are probably about right.Rate the efficiency of your town's police and fire coverage. Are the departments well prepared for the next decade? What, if anything, should be changed? Do you have specific public safety concerns?Our police and fire departments are both down about 5 or 6 people based on the metrics that they use to compare themselves to other similar departments and based on the service level of demanded by the village residents. If the continued level of apartment building continues these departments will be significantly understaffed in the near future.Where, if anywhere, could the current budget be trimmed, and conversely, are there areas the budget does not give enough money to?Candidate did not respond.What is one good idea you have to better the community that no one is talking about yet?The village taxpayers want relief from the oppressive traffic on Dundee Road, instead the Village President and Trustees compound the problem by continuing to support endless construction with no solution to this onerous traffic congestion. It is about time to seriously address this problem.What other issues, if any, are important to you as a candidate for this office?The Village Trustees have a fiduciary responsibility to Wheeling residents to act in our best interest, but instead they appear to have become subservient to the Village President, generally rubber stamping whatever he wants to do. Even when presented with damning evidence of questionable activities on his part, they set by quietly and ignore their responsibility, refusing to even acknowledge the possibility that mischief may be afoot. The facts are so obvious that no Trustee can claim to not know what is going on, for example, every month the trustees approve the credit card bills incurred by the Village President, but even though in recent times 26 different times his credit card charges were identified as "to be reimbursed" nobody askes a question about what is going on???Please name one current leader who most inspires you.Don't you dare publicize this! Donald Trump is driven, focused and a visionary. I like the fact that he is a git-r-done kind of guy.What is the biggest lesson you learned at home growing up?The value of honesty and for having the guts to do the right thing even when it might be unpopularIf life gave you one do-over, what would you spend it on?I would study smarter in high school and college.What was your favorite subject in school and how did it help you in later life?Math, made it possible for me get a Mechanical Engineering Degree.If you could give your children only one piece of advice, what would it be?Most of the time there is no gray area between right and wrong, even though the pundits would have us believe otherwise.