Supporting our Community – Making Verona a great place to live for all Verona residents
As Mayor, I support:
- A Vibrant Downtown – Our downtown is important and all Verona residents benefit when our downtown does well
- Quality city services
- Supporting community spaces like our parks
- This includes building new pickleball courts
- Maintaining our good relationship with the Verona school district
Responsible Development – Keeping Verona’s Hometown feel even as we grow
Development in Verona should be:
- Supportive of good jobs
- Walkable and bikeable
- Environmentally responsible
- Fiscally sustainable
- Inclusive of a variety of housing options, include options accessible to middle class families
Protecting the Environment – a lot of green initiatives are worth doing on their own, but they have a side benefit of saving money or even generating a little money.
- Invest in renewal energy – not only is this cleaner energy, it can even return some money to the city.
- Protect Verona’s natural areas
- Conserve energy – this is the responsible thing to do and it can help us save money.
- Expand the use of electric vehicles
Accountability
Key components of accountability in city government are:
- Transparency – it’s important that the city is transparent about it’s actions, responds promptly to open records requests, and makes information freely available to residents and reporters.
- Staff accountability – A part of the job of being Mayor is making sure city departments are well run and serving the public.
Fiscal Responsibility – no matter what you’re trying to do at the city level, you need a solid fiscal foundation.
- Minimize city borrowing
- Keep the city’s aa1 bond rating – the city achieved this improved rating in 2023, and I am proud of this accomplishment and plan to keep it.
- Prudent budgeting – this includes appropriately funding equipment replacement funds and contingency funds.
Economic Development
- Support development that includes good jobs
- Work to continue to develop our downtown – downtown development can be an economic driver for the entire community.
- Support development that includes both residential and commercial retail. Putting people by businesses means the businesses are close to potential customers or employees.
