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Boyce seeks to bolster city
By Kevin Carr
Contributing Writer
Columbus Post
As a member of Columbus City Council since 2000, Kevin L. Boyce has worked on financial issues affecting the city through the council’s finance and administration committees.
“We need to find areas where we can save dollars and employ the strategy that allows us to manage those dollars,” Boyce told the Columbus Post.
He points to recent successes in using money from cellular phone revenues to keep the city’s recreation areas and senior citizen areas open, as well as savings in workers’ compensation programs. Boyce’s plan is to link the budgetary resources of the city in order to save money.
“We’ve got to find ways to reduce the cost that we have on the table instead of finding better revenue sources,” he said.
Raised in Columbus, Boyce was seven when his father was murdered. Struggling emotionally and academically, Boyce recalls being labeled an at risk youth. Influenced by his own experience tenure, Boyce helped establish a Columbus Youth Commission in addition to sponsoring legislation to prohibit racial profiling during his five years of service on city council.
“An area that I think is crucial at this stage is that we have to find a way to put our young people first to prevent the tragedies we’ve seen in the last couple years,” Boyce said referring to the rising violence and fatality rates especially among young people in the city.
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