Jon Kunkel: Candidate profile

Name: Jon Kunkel

City: Hanover Park

Office sought: Village trustee

Age (on Election Day): 58

Family: wife Roberta, 4 children

Occupation: Retired Design Electrical Engineer

Education: BSEE

Civic involvement: Red Cross, Patriot Guard Riders, AL Post 1038, DAV, AARP, involved with reading to and with kids at the local schools in the area for the past 5 years since retiring, Cub/Boy Scouts, numerous city and regional committees (12) on numerous regional boards concerning Airports and the FAA

Previous elected offices held: Village Trustee

Incumbent? If yes, when were you first elected? Yes 2011

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Issue questions

What are the most important issues facing your community and how do you intend to address them?

Opoid crisis - we have been arming all police as well as Firefighters with Narcan and education of doctors and residents of this scourge

Infrastructure - approved the most recent budget to increase 3X budget for road repairs to increase it to 3,000,000 without increasing the tax levy

What makes you the best candidate for the job?

Experience as well as background in designing electronics hardware to help bring the village into the 21st century and beyond

Describe your leadership style and explain how you think that will be effective in producing actions and decisions with your city council.

My leadership style originated in the military and to look at the problem from all angles. My decisions have produced very effective actions within the village.

How would you describe the condition of your community's budget, and what are the most important specific actions the town should take to assure providing the level of services people want?

As being on the Finance committee for the past 3 years we have not had a property tax increase in that long and not diminishing the village services to the residents

What's one good idea you have to better the community that no one is talking about yet?

Use local farmers for food and food purchases during the growing season, show residents that growing food is actually easy even with a small garden to start.