Schools
- Improving Education Quality: A focus on ensuring every child has access to quality education. This includes smaller class sizes, enhanced teacher training programs, and new school facilities to create a positive learning environment.
- Expanding After-School Programs: Support for after-school and extracurricular programs to help students grow beyond the classroom, promoting academic achievement, arts, and athletics.
- Strengthening Partnerships with Parents: Creating more avenues for parental involvement and community engagement in local schools to ensure that the voices of families are heard in education decisions.
Fiscal Responsibility
- Efficient Use of Taxpayer Dollars: Prioritizing a balanced budget and transparent financial practices to ensure that the city’s resources are used effectively, avoiding waste and unnecessary spending.
- Long-term Planning for Economic Stability: Implementing strategies for sustainable growth and investment in the city’s future, focusing on economic policies that prepare for long-term stability and resilience.
- Supporting Small Businesses: Streamlining regulations and offering incentives for local businesses to thrive, fostering job creation and keeping the local economy strong while maintaining fiscal discipline.
Public Safety
- Enhancing Community Policing: Strengthening trust between law enforcement and the community through transparency and accountability, promoting a safer environment for all residents.
- Investing in First Responders: Ensuring police, fire, and emergency medical services are well-equipped and properly funded, with training programs that prepare them for evolving challenges.
- Addressing Substance Abuse and Mental Health: Supporting programs that tackle the root causes of crime, such as substance abuse and mental health issues, with a focus on rehabilitation and community-based support.
Property Taxes
- Keeping Property Taxes Fair and Low: Working to prevent unnecessary tax increases while still maintaining essential services, to make living in the city more affordable for families and retirees.
- Transparency in Tax Allocation: Ensuring residents understand how their tax dollars are being used, with clear communication about the city’s financial priorities and property tax expenditures.
- Exploring Alternatives to Tax Burden: Identifying alternative revenue streams and cost-saving measures to reduce reliance on property taxes, allowing homeowners to keep more of their hard-earned money.
