Currently holds the office of St. Paul City Council - Ward 7 until December 31, 2027.
Candidate for St. Paul City Council - Ward 7 in 2023 Minnesota General Election.
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Get StartedFix our potholes and improve our snow removal services. I will work with the Department of Public Works to reevaluate routes, services, and road quality in all seasons. I will support the will of the voters if a sales tax increase is put on the ballot to fix our aging roads. Learn more
Ensure our department policy and practices are upheld in ordinance to ensure no-knock warrants are completely and fully discontinued. Enforce speed limits on Eastside roads. Cars are speeding unchecked across the Eastside, leading to dangerous situations for everyone in our neighborhoods. Learn more
Improve our licensing and permitting processes and make it easier to open or expand Eastside businesses. Keep Eastside dollars on the Eastside. This means working with property owners to fill vacancies (like TJ Maxx) at Sun Ray Shopping Center and strengthening our business corridors like E 7th St and White Bear Avenue by bringing in additional city investment. Learn more
Make it easier to walk, use transit, and bike within the Eastside and to connect to other parts of the city. You can count on me to make sure our neighborhoods are places where we can walk and bike to meet daily needs. Grow green jobs in our city and create better career pathways into household-sustaining wages in careers in clean energy and clean transportation. Learn more
Work with the state and Met Council to increase bus transit funding, better bus service, and increased service. Ensure that our urban forestry diversification replacement efforts are strategic, funded, and learning from our past so that we don’t lose more of our beautiful tree canopy. Learn more
Fight for state and federal funding to ensure we can successfully implement the city’s Climate Action Plan to weatherize more homes, improve the quality of our buildings, and dramatically reduce emissions overall. Conduct a study on potential lead exposure to Eastside water lines and the overall addressing of water quality specifically on the Eastside including Hillcrest, Pigs Eye Lake, and the 3M plant as well. The city has shown strong leadership in prioritizing lead water line replacement and I’d like to see that focus expand even more broadly, particularly on the Eastside. Learn more
Fund the Homelessness Assistance Response Team (HART) to ensure our unsheltered residents are treated fairly, humanely, and provided the resources they need. Work with the Department of Public Works and city staff to minimize increase in taxes. Eastsiders have experienced large increases in property taxes and many residents don’t feel this increase translates to better or more services. Learn more
Build more affordable housing at all levels and prioritize deeply affordable housing. Preserve our current affordable housing stock and provide strong renter protections, such as the right to counsel in housing court, just cause notice policy, screening criteria reforms to prevent rental discrimination, and funding the Department of Safety, Housing and Inspections so we can better hold landlords accountable and ensure tenants have better resources. Learn more
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