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		Maryellen O'Shaughnessy drives Columbus' efforts to deliver basic city services creatively, effectively and efficiently as chair of City Council's Public Service and Transportation and Development Committees. Working with city departments, she helps craft engineering and highway construction projects that promote economic development while preserving neighborhood integrity. Promoting traffic calming and median strip beautification projects, initiating reviews of policies on

O’Shaughnessy works with the administration to bring jobs downtown through the City’s Office Incentive Program, saying, ”In this economy we’ve got to creatively find new ways to support job growth to generate income tax revenues to the City to support critical services.” Income tax incentives under the program have secured 20 companies new or expanded downtown with over 1,400 employees in just under two years.

O’Shaughnessy also participates with the Mayor on a policy team to explore how best to manage Columbus’ future growth. The Policy Team’s Executive Committee will develop a plan to deal with job creation and ways to finance a broad range of future infrastructure and facility needs such as school sites, recreation centers, fire station, and major roadways and bridges.

Elected in 1997, O'Shaughnessy continues a family history of public service as the third generation of her family to hold public office. As a Council member, she has worked to increase recycling, clean up graffiti and improve delivery of city services to neighborhoods.

O'Shaughnessy lives in downtown Columbus and operates her family's small business her great-grandfather started 111 years ago. The Columbus native is a graduate of The Ohio State University.

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