My Voting Record
VOTED FOR:
• Cut in city property tax to .11
• Video recordings of all Work Sessions & Special Meetings (sponsored)
• Providence Central (short/long term traffic relief / white collar jobs, secured extra funding for improvements within District 4)
• Providence PUD Amendment to add a residential component above retail to bring the first Urban-style integrated mixed-use to the city
• New permit to help bring in entertainment and amusement venues
• Waterford Park, formerly Cawthon Farms (secured extra funding for improvements within District 4. Additional funds earmarked for parks & recreation, extra protections for Providence Landing residents, and speed humps on Sunnymeade)
• Ordinance to have Land Use Amendments go to MJ Regional Planning Commission before coming to MJ Board of Commissioners (cosponsored)
• Amazon w/road improvements / lighting
• MJPD license plate readers (Guardian Shield)
• Storm Water Utility
• Protecting city employees from unconstitutional mandates
• Pro “2nd Amendment” Safe-city Resolution (co-sponsored)
• Sponsored new park property for soccer fields
• Sponsored new District 4 parkland properties for future community / rec center
• Cosponsored new park property for trails/restroom on Beckwith Rd. North
• Funding of new Lebanon Rd. Fire Hall #2
• New Deputy Fire Chief, EMS Chief, and additional firefighters
• Bay addition at FDMJ Station #3
• FDMJ EMS (Ambulance Service)
• Expansion of MJPD headquarters and hardened dispatch center
• Sponsored equal time for retailers/restaurants/liquor stores to sell beer (under 8%) across the city beginning at 10 am on Sundays (retailers were being penalized)
• Addition of fourth liquor store in city limits
• Official set of city greenway rules initiated from BPAC
• 22/23 Budget
• Sidewalk/signal projects
• MJPD “New Leash on Life”
• ADA sidewalk improvements
• Comprehensive Multi-modal Transportation Plan
VOTED AGAINST:
• Adding hotels to the middle of town
• Lowering the 5/1 (food/beer) ratio for restaurants which would bring more bar-like places (dive bars) to the city
• Lowering the 20 acre minimum in RM-8 zoning to 10 acres, allowing multiple pockets of multi-family (townhomes/apartments/condos) all over the city
• Minimum 10,000 ft2 lot w/15,000 ft2 average lot size for single family residential
• Extending the noise ordinance by 1 hour, from 9 pm to 10 pm
• Zoning regulation changes to reduce 20 acre minimum to 5 acres for multi-family (townhomes/apartments/condos), in order to create a downtown area
**Note: I have said “no” to several developers who have proposed multi-family projects, and a rental community within District 4 over the past three years.