Six things this council does not get to ignore
Not a platform of promises. These are the problems already on the agenda, and how I think about them.
The landslide
Portuguese Bend is moving substantially slower than it was a year ago, and the deep dewatering wells have pulled more than half a billion gallons out of the hillside since 2024. That is progress, not a finish line. The hard part is keeping the work funded after it stops making news.
Wildfire risk
Open space is what makes this city, and in a dry year it is also what threatens it. Fuel management, evacuation routes, and defensible space are not line items to trim in a tight budget year.
Roads
Streets are what residents touch every day and what quietly falls apart while more urgent things take the attention. Deferred maintenance is a loan taken out against the next council.
Burglary
Residential burglary is the crime people here actually experience. Patrol coverage and response times cost money, and they are worth what they cost.
Development
I spent years reading staff reports and sitting through hearings on the Planning Commission. Growth decisions should be made in that room, by people who live with the result.
Rules from Sacramento
State mandates keep arriving one size fits all. My record is consistent: quick local action when it was needed, and pushback when the rules stopped fitting local conditions.
Listen, read, decide, own it
Local decisions should stay local whenever they can. That is what Keep RPV, RPV means, and my record reflects it — quick local action when it was needed, and pushback when one-size-fits-all rules stopped fitting local conditions.
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