T.I.A. Promise Transparency. Integrity. Accountability.
As a T.I.A. Promise: I’ll work to hear, incorporate and represent your voice and take action. I will fight for your values, your needs, and be a strong voice for your interest, Free of any Interest.
Since I have been elected, I have stood for and will continue to stand for:
Creating more affordable, livable, safe and accessible housing for ALL: Renters + Homeowners + Those in Need of Housing. This requires:
Focusing around the variety of needs and housing for a variety of situations and incomes
Housing for all phases of life and situations
Safe housing; Housing
Homeownership within reach
Dealing with our environmental concerns:
Finding a path out of the toxic waste of PFAS
Mitigating the aftereffects of F-35s and
Supporting green energy
Building and maintaining:
Neighborhood teams & neighborhood associations
City navigators & concierges
Nonprofits- invaluable public servants who work day in and day out to make this City better with limited resources
Closing the GAPS and reducing disparities by:
Age
Gender
Economics
Race
Orientation
Education
Status
Class
and access to opportunities
Protecting democracy and the democratic process of engagement and decision making (no matter where you land on the political scale) as freedom and equality matter
Advocating for a diversity of economic development, new business, growth and job opportunities;
Keeping Madison economically viable, safe and prosperous and affordable;
Making our lives, our schools, our neighborhood, better, safer and more livable for everyone.
We can advocate for a diversity of solutions that can and should be addressed. Issues that the data, experts and really common-sense thinking tells you will impact us all over the long run.
Our agenda can be people focused and centered around what’s best for our neighborhoods in our growing city when we stay in the business of representing our shared community, our neighborhood and navigate the issues upon us, TOGETHER. Issues such as:
Balancing traffic, transportation and budgets; a must for the future of all of us;
Maintaining and sustaining the quality of city services;
Advocating for environmental protections, preservation, clean and renewable energy programs;
Incorporating food, income, household and economic security measures and deference;
Expanding programs like CARES to deal with no-threat-to-public police calls, mental health emergencies and supporting body cams;
Partnering to support our neighborhood schools and students, the future of us;
Advocating for reforms that partner into and around crime reduction, supporting policing in an accountable way and incorporating the well-being and safe keeping of the people in the neighborhood, specifically weeding out what is not effective or honorable;
Reaffirming and investing in housing, business, and local economic development and employment opportunities.
Frankly, it's not my way or the highway nor have I pledged to any agenda, any coalition other than hearing your voice and doing what’s best for the neighborhood and the people in it. Period.
-T.I.A. Promise