Issues
City Government; Transparency, Accountability, Integrity, Honest Change
Local Governance; Common sense approach to Urban Planning and Smart Growth putting the Community First.
Police Department; The costs for running and maintaining a high quality police force are rising. We must insure our police force is funded well enough to adequately meet our future needs. Attrition levels keep rising, and attracting new recruits is increasingly more difficult. We need the funding to attract a greater number of high quality new candidates. Simply maintaining a modern computer systems is expensive; not to mention future up grades and eventual replacement. From body cameras to higher technology devices, all costs are increasing. The reality is we need to increase our police department funding, and I want to help see we do.
Environment; Promote a cleaner environment with greater emphasis on water conservation. Address the long awaited Cleanup of SSFL; Stop the unintended oil flow causing the oil pit in Chivo Canyon; Clean up the oil pit in Chivo Canyon
Aging and Senior Services; Improve local transportation for Seniors, and provide the improved public transportation for free, Reduce or eliminate property tax on seniors, Build a new Senior Center with expanded services at the East Valley Community Center.
Community Emergency Preparedness; Insure the Community Emergency Preparedness Action Plan as well as all emergency supplies are up dated and ready. Before the emergencies occur is the time to prepare.
Turn back on the Water: In an ill advised effort to lower our City water consumption, our City Government made the decision to shut off the irrigation water to much of the public roadway landscape areas. This short sighted remedy for increasing water conservation and lowering the maintenance costs, got our elected City Officials a few accolades for lowering the City's budget, but in the long term, that decision has cost the City much more taking into account of the wasted landscape infrastructure that is a direct result of shutting off the water supply and forgoing any landscape maintenance. Tens of thousands of dollars worth of plants have died, and the landscape infrastructure has been over exposed, rotted out, and simply washed away. Now the public is left with dead, weed covered roadway landscape, and exposed broken sprinkler pipes. The City shut off the water with no plan in place on how best to relandscape the areas with drought tolerant plants and proper ground cover. Now our roadway landscaping looks no different then the surrounding mountain areas. It's time for a change. It is time to turn back on the water. It's time for some Common Sense in City Government.