In my time on the Commission, I’ve worked hard to be a representative of the whole Town–to be someone that YOU, and the entire Town, can trust. Earning and keeping the trust of my constituents means delivering on two major promises.
Apart from the achievements I shared with my fellow Commissioners, I am proud to have been the main driver behind initiatives that reflect my distinctive interests and my personality.
In the run-up to the Commission Candidates' Forum, the League of Women voters asked candidates to submit written answers to two questions. My answer to the first question is in my previous blog post.
In the second question of their questionnaire, the League of Women Voters asks,
What are the three most important issues facing your municipality? For each concern, how do you propose to mitigate/improve/resolve the issue?
Yesterday morning, in our last official act of the 2024-26 term, Vice Mayor Tina Paul and I helped to re-dedicate Little Bay Park, on the corner of 92nd Street and Bay Drive. The new native-plant garden there has a been a pet project of mine, and seeing it through to completion has been a particular source of satisfaction and pride for me. You can see it in my smile.
In the 2024 election, this blog was one of the signature elements of my campaign. It gave me a forum where I could communicate my ideas at greater length—and in a more nuanced way—than I am usually able to do at Commission meetings, in my printed campaign materials, or in my brief, face-to-face conversations with residents. Often during that 2024 campaign, a resident would mention to me that they had read something that I’d posted on the blog. Whenever that happened, we we
