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We hope you can find everything you need. Cano460.com is the official campaign website for Christopher Cano's campaign for State Representative in District 60. Chris is dedicated to providing high-quality public service and ensuring the constituents of District 60 see real improvements to the quality of their lives. - He will do everything he can to meet your expectations and beyond.
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HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM
NOW
More Security and Stability
If You Have Health Insurance, the Obama Plan:
- Ends discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions.
- Limits premium discrimination based on gender and age.
- Prevents insurance companies from dropping coverage when people are sick and need it most.
- Caps out-of-pocket expenses so people don’t go broke when they get sick.
- Eliminates extra charges for preventive care like mammograms, flu shots and diabetes tests to improve health and save money.
- Protects Medicare for seniors.
- Eliminates the “donut-hole” gap in coverage for prescription drugs.
Quality, Affordable Choices
If You Don’t Have Insurance, the Obama Plan:
- Creates a new insurance marketplace — the Exchange — that allows people without insurance and small businesses to compare plans and buy insurance at competitive prices.
- Provides new tax credits to help people buy insurance.
- Provides small businesses tax credits and affordable options for covering employees.
- Offers a public health insurance option to provide the uninsured and those who can’t find affordable coverage with a real choice.
- Immediately offers new, low-cost coverage through a national “high risk” pool to protect people with preexisting conditions from financial ruin until the new Exchange is created.
Reins in the Cost of Health Care
For All Americans, the Obama Plan:
- Won’t add a dime to the deficit and is paid for upfront.
- Requires additional cuts if savings are not realized.
- Implements a number of delivery system reforms that begin to rein in health care costs and align incentives for hospitals, physicians, and others to improve quality.
- Creates an independent commission of doctors and medical experts to identify waste, fraud and abuse in the health care system.
- Orders immediate medical malpractice reform projects that could help doctors focus on putting their patients first, not on practicing defensive medicine.
- Requires large employers to cover their employees and individuals who can afford it to buy insurance so everyone shares in the responsibility of reform.
TRANSPORTATION: What you need to know
What Does the Transportation Plan Mean to Our Region?
Without the Master Plan’s improvements, delay on roadways is expected to increase 300% in the TBARTA region by 2030. The average American household spends 18% of income on transportation, but in Tampa Bay, the average is 25%. Why?
Studies say: long commutes and few transit options.
How will improved mass transit benefit us?
The TBARTA transit plan will get 1.3 million people to within a half-mile of their jobs in such employment centers as downtown Tampa, the West Shore business district, and Pinellas County's Gateway area.
The Mid-Term Vision would: Build 116 miles of passenger rail, 159 miles of managed lanes (such as HOT lanes), 226 miles of express bus, and 54 miles of Bus Rapid Transit. Increase local bus service 3.3 times, to connect local communities and destinations to the regional lines. Link all of the major regional employment centers and many tourist destinations in Tampa Bay. Serve 5 million residents and provide access to over 3 million jobs in 2035. Create an average of 250 professional jobs and 1,200 construction jobs every year for the next 25 years. Potentially employ over 2,800 transit drivers by 2035.
The Environment: Protect our local resources
Cone Ranch: Hillsborough County's Natural Resource
What you need to know:
After months of hard work by local activists one of county's most precious resources is finally secured for our future generations. The sale of this natural resource to a private entity is no longer a threat. After much pressure from the City of Tampa and Hillsborough County residents the Board of County Commissioners have voted 6-1 to transfer Cone Ranch from the county’s water utility to ELAPP, the county’s preservation program.
This is one of the main tributaries of the Hillsborough River and our water supply in Tampa Bay. To ensure our best interest are protected, it must stay in the hands of the public. And, although this hard fought victory has been one, we must be forever vigilant that our public officials do not attempt to sell off such resources ever again.
Thank you to all who have fought so hard for this including the Sierra Club and Mr. Kent Bailey as well as the many residents who spoke out on behalf of the people.
Our Children: Protecting their future
Civil Citations: A New Approach to Juvenile Offenders
What you need to know:
Florida ranks as one of the highest states in America for crimes committed by juveniles. With an already inadequate prison system and excessively high recidivism rates, our Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners is looking into implementing a county-wide civil citation program.
Rather than arresting a student who is involved in common school misbehavior, the civil citation program offers early intervention, counseling, education and other appropriate community resources without the harshness, baggage and expense of an arrest. Civil Citation programs seek to identify and address the underlying cause of misconduct and punish students with disciplinary action that is most likely to decrease future occurrences of misbehavior.
More specifically,
Florida Statute 985.12 established the civil citation process “for the purpose of providing an efficient and innovative alternative to the custody by the Department of Juvenile Justice of children who commit non-serious delinquent acts and to ensure swift and appropriate consequences.”
Where we stand:
As it stands now the County's Civil Citation Program although presenting an alternative to incarceration for juvenile offenders, does not adequately expunge the child's record upon completion of the citation's requirements. It will continue to show a civil citation on the child's record which could have an impact on their future to achieve a higher education. This is an issue that must be addressed for this program to be truly successful as an alternative to arrest. Contact your County Commissioner and express your view of how to best serve our children.
Who you need to know:
Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners
- Ken Hagan, Chairman (District 2)
Phone: 813-272-5452
- Mark Sharpe, Vice Chairman (District 7)
Phone: 813-272-5735
- Rose Ferlita (District 1)
Phone: 813-272-5470
Phone: 813-272-5720
- Al Higginbotham (District 4)
Phone: 813-272-5740
- Jim Norman (District 5)
Phone: 813-272-5725
- Kevin Beckner (District 6)
Phone: 813-272-5730
Where you need to be:
Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners Meeting
Regular meetings of the Board of County Commissioners are open to the public and are held on the first and third Wednesdays of each month, beginning at 9 a.m. Speakers generally are limited to three minutes.
All meetings will be held on the 2nd Floor of County Center (unless noted otherwise). You can visit the BOCC website at Hillsboroughcounty.org for any further information or time changes.
