Philip Hornberger - Future Orem Mayor 2010-2014

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Mounting City DEBT!

DOES IT REALLY MATTER?

Last 10 Years Orem City Debt Annual Budget

2000 $17,500,000 $31,000,000

2009 $80,000,000* $80,000,000

*27 Oct 2009 Council approved another $13,000,000 bond

**Plus- Orem City has co-signed for another $110,000,000!

That’s $7,862 per household!!! Debt is bondage!

Is this a “Legacy”, an “Investment” a “Balanced Budget”?

If you want to cut up the credit card, VOTE PHILIP HORNBERGER for Mayor

Phil promotes fiscal responsibility and supports Orem’s citizens and Business

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

The current city council touts that they have not raised taxes since 1977, so where is the money coming from to pay our debt? Check out these clips from the budget, we still have increases in other areas.

Notice the INCREASE in each of the necessary city services, what is it for? To pay for debt

Please note the last sentence of each bullet point. It shows where the money is coming from to pay for debt... (the fees that they just increased)

Just read the last line of each bullet point. (It shows which bonds are being paid for by an INCREASE in property tax rate!)

Monday, September 14, 2009

Why did Mazda get money and not Audi, Porsche and Honda?.

Tuesday, Sep 8th, the city unanimously spent an additional $750,000 of sales tax revenue, to replace a foreclosed Mazda dealer with another Mazda dealer. If car dealership revenue is so important (as stated in City Council meeting) to the City of Orem, then why is Hyundai, the only car dealership that has increased revenue in this economic downturn, relocating to Lindon when the City Council rejected their proposal to stay in Orem (March of '08)?

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Monday, August 31, 2009

Looking to Orem's future/ Orem Pride

Orem Pride to me means a city where you want to live, where you want to work, where you want to play, where you want to gather, a city you want to call your home. As a community, when we do these things, everyone benefits. What is the city's role in nurturing and promoting civic pride? What can the residents do to show Orem Pride? How can our local businesses cultivate Orem pride?

Why Midtown Village?

A picture from its better side!

Is the Midtown Village concept of putting 310 families and the equivalent of a Wal-Mart Supercenter on 8 measly acres the future you envision for our community? If so, then why weren’t plans put in place at that time for the widening of Orem Blvd and 400 south to accommodate the increased traffic, which comes with this type of density?

Why did the city create a special improvement district in order to issue a warrant for $7 million to the Midtown Village project for the construction of a parking lot? According to the Daily Herald article below, the city even agreed to upkeep and maintain said parking lot? Why isn’t the bond (warrant) for this parking structure, which is now in default being foreclosed? Why is the city even considering refinancing this note?

Why was it necessary for the city to rezone the adjacent acreage around Midtown to the same extremely high-density zone so that “additional street level parking” could be provided? This so called parking in such a dense new zone created a huge probable windfall for the developers and brings with it the potential for another unsightly twin tower. Can’t street level parking lots be constructed in any commercial zone? Do the residents in north Orem even realize that another one of these projects, named North Tower, was slated for 1955 N State?

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." -John Adams

Please refer:

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/article_ee605dca-bf44-5354-977d-e5d40b38a4fd.html

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/article_a2c88c5c-a249-5e89-8b3e-a7fdb0d49a87.html

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705296663,00.html

Luke 14:28-30

Friday, August 28, 2009

What friends and supporters are saying about Phil!

A New Arts Auditorium

Should the C.A.R.E. tax money be spent on a new 7.1 million dollar auditorium? For example, the SCERA has offered to modify one of their large theaters as a location to accomplish such a purpose. Should the city look to alternative options like this before spending such a large chunk of taxpayer dollars? Are there other places, or ways, this money could be used to better benefit the citizens?

Please refer:

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/central/orem/article_aa90ffda-7572-5493-a460-b368b702d4de.html

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Who is Phil?

My name is Philip Hornberger, and I am a native Orem resident, and I have enjoyed growing up, living and working in the city of Orem. I attended Orem Elementary, Lakeridge Junior High, and Mountain View High School.

While having grown up in Orem, I have had many opportunities to work for different employers, and run my own businesses. From having a paper route when I was young to owning and operating a retail and eating establishment, to owning and operating my own successful property management company, I have come to know and understand business in Orem. Currently, I invest in and sell real estate in our city.

Not only have I enjoyed doing business in Orem, but I have also taken advantage of the wide variety of recreational opportunities available here. I am avid outdoor recreational enthusiast. I enjoy organized team sports, golf, swimming, and running.

Although I have done much in the city of Orem, I have also traveled extensively. In the past six years, I have traveled more than a half-million miles and visited over two hundred cities across America with a local firm, EWI. I started at lowest levels of the company, but I quickly worked my way up to become the head of their audio/ visual department where I led large groups of people to set up multi-million dollar shows all across the country. Soon there after I was given the privilege to go from behind the scenes to the forefront of the public eye where I became a nationally recognized professional speaker.

Through my work and travel across this great country, I truly recognize the good life that Orem City has to offer its residents. I am working to enhance what we have now, and create a better future for tomorrow.

There is truly no place like home. I no longer travel, but continue my real estate work at home with my sweetheart as we look forward to the birth of our first child with the New Year. I look forward to raising my children and grandchildren right here in Orem, where they will have safe places to live, work, play, and where the citizens demonstrate a sense of community.

Why am I running?

I’m not running because I have great political ambitions. The mayor’s office is a non-partisan responsibility. The mayor has a stewardship for the well being of the community and it’s citizens. As mayor, I promise to be a great ambassador for our city, promoting family values, healthy lifestyles, opportunities for business growth, fiscal responsibility and safety. I will exercise good judgment when faced with tough issues. As part of the future generation of the City of Orem, I look forward to helping our fine city meet the needs of its citizenry while nurturing the prosperity that comes with good planning for the coming decades. I look forward to working with the great employees and elected officials we have in Orem to promote and advance these ideals.
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson

Why Mayor?

I, like many Orem residents, have become uncomfortable with the direction the city has taken in recent years regarding growth, finance and zoning. While pondering these serious matters I concluded that I couldn’t be a proper member of this community by continuing to be a silent citizen, hence implying agreement with these actions. Therefore I determined that I must do something. My discomfort with the status quo caused me to file my candidacy to shed light upon these far reaching issues and offer a conservative choice to those residing in Orem. I will not stand by and watch while my future and my home is being mortgaged for a fleeting fancy. (Please refer to the Blog questions)

I feel it is the right time for someone of courage, character, strength, and someone without political baggage or background to step up to the mike, to ask the tough questions and to lead Orem towards a future designed with the citizen in mind.

I will steer our community far from debt and financial entanglements. Under my direction the city will live within its means, setting the example for its citizenry to do the same whether those means be great or small. As troubling economic times have a firm hold upon this community and our great nation, I will honor the city's charter, to provide with a smile, various necessary community services, as well as a safe, secure place where our city's sons and daughters may prosper in peace.