My Priorities

Fiscal responsibility and transparency

Taxes, fees, and utility bills with special emphasis on the following:

• Consultant spending

• Right-sizing reserve account balances

• Strategic debt management and financial stewardship of the city

Environmental protection and natural resources

Focused stewardship of trees, water, wildlife and parks — and listening to the people who care the most

Public safety policy and accountability

• Police and fire service quality

• Joint powers agreement (JPA) scrutiny

• Audit and oversight of operating committees

Traffic safety and enforcement

• Pedestrian safety

• Speed management

• Enforcement practices

Government transparency, ethics, and public trust

• Oversight of city staff and questioning assumptions

• Administrative transparency

• Rebuilding trust in operations

Public participation and civic voice

• Resident input at meetings

• Ensuring meaningful community participation in decision-making

City services performance and operational effectiveness

• Public Works performance, including

• Service delivery standards

• Parks fiscal management

• Roads and infrastructure maintenance

Technology, surveillance, and privacy (Flock cameras)

• Cost-benefit analysis

• Determining Public safety value

• Acknowledging privacy concerns

• Governance of surveillance tools

Community engagement

Let’s make surveys and public opinion a normal part of doing business rather than an exceptional event and let’s harness the talent that resides within the city

Water quality is in everyone’s shared interest

Let’s right size the strategy and reach a decision and insist on financial equity in our decision. At a bare minimum:

• Make the water fund solvent

• Provide options to residents that do not overwhelm and confuse

• In 2025, the city published a pavement management plan — why can’t we do the same thing for water strategy?

• Develop a coherent council plan and commit to it