Issues
We have a lot of work to do, and it starts with rebuilding public trust in our elected officials.
I intend to do this by serving with humility, honesty and integrity. I will conduct town business in a radically transparent and collaborative way. I will treat all residents equally, and will not give special treatment to some while dismissing or excluding others.
My current positions on FS1, the process of hiring our next Police Chief, Thurston Middle School, Canton St. Sidewalk, and the Town’s lawsuit against the Land Trust are posted here. I’m happy to discuss them in detail, but am most interested in your opinions on these important issues.
I do not pretend to have all the answers and my campaign is not about advancing a personal agenda.
It is about valuing and including More Voices.
I have met with many residents and attended community meetings over the course of this campaign, and will continue to do so. These conversations have yielded many good ideas and I am grateful for residents for sharing their time, expertise, and perspectives with me. I plan to leverage these for the benefit of our community.
I will consider, first and always, the best interests of our community as a whole, when making every decision, big or small.
I will proactively share important information with residents and other potentially affected stakeholders. If an important issue requires public attention, I promise to raise it.
I will reach decisions in open, in person meetings, subject to extremely limited exceptions. Public disclosure, scrutiny, and discussion will be the rule, not the exception.
I will cooperatively engage and partner with residents, town boards and committees, local businesses, philanthropists, and nonprofits, and seek their input at every stage of decision making processes. This includes residents who hold minority or dissenting opinions, who have too often been dismissed or excluded from important discussions. I will keep an open mind and work to understand others’ points of view.
I will do the painstaking work of building consensus in order to leverage expertise, balance competing interests, find common ground, and arrive at an end result which serves our collective best interests.
This process is essential to rebuilding public trust and increasing community participation in town government.
It will produce better solutions, at lower costs, and strengthen our connections to our community and to one another, for the benefit of all of us.