Public Safety

• Ensuring that there is funding for our public safety partners.

• Holding people accountable for their crimes, especially violent crimes, because our residents deserve to be safe in our community.

• We also must invest in our communities, empower our youth, and support those seeking a second chance.

• Reversing the decline in volunteer firefighter staffing

• Enhancing programs that engage youth (e.g, Police Explorers, Cadet firefights, Police Athletic League) 

Enhancing Our Tax Base

• All other policy priorities are contingent on a strong balanced tax base

• Our tax base has been skewed toward residential property taxes for decades and sitting politicians have not only done little to alter our tax base, but they keep approving more and more residential development that exacerbates our tax base imbalance 

• Oppose property tax increases: There are many residents, especially seniors on fixed incomes, who are struggling to make ends meet. Our residents should not have the highest real property tax rate of any Maryland County. We cannot continue to raise residential property taxes!

• We must reverse the declining household net worth of County residents.

Supporting Seniors

• Enact legislation to fix the elderly property tax credit to help seniors age in place.

• Prioritize funding for the senior meals program.

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Promote Quality Development

• I will follow the policies in Plan Prince George’s 2035 that will provide Transit-Oriented Development and livable communities. 

• We need to restore policies that allow the residents to have a voice in the development process. 

• We need to focus on quality development and limit low-quality development such as liquor stores, tobacco shops, gas stations, etc. 

• We must attract healthy restaurants, quality grocery stores, and nice places for people to shop.

• We must focus development around transit stations where we already have infrastructure. I will oppose County Council efforts encouraging sprawl development that costs more than the tax revenue it brings in. 

• We need infrastructure policies that address our overcrowded and dangerous roads, our aging schools and the dramatic shortage of police and fire staff.

Environment

• The Council must enact a no-net-loss of trees policy, including protecting the limited urban green space inside the Beltway.

• I will be a leader in implementing the recommendations of the County Climate Action Plan.

• We must protect urban communities from air quality hot spots by working with the Council of Governments Air Quality Environmental Justice Subcommittee.

• I will support friendly environmental policies such as implementing electric vehicle infrastructure, continued electrification of the County government vehicle fleet, expanding solar panel tax credits and more.

Transparency and Constituent Services

• Residents have complained that At-Large members did not prioritize constituent services. I will have a robust constituent services program. While we will coordinate with and rely upon District offices, there are too many constituent complaints that are systemic (e.g., dumping/storing cars in communities, exhibition driving, illegal fireworks, party houses, etc) that need a systemic response from County agencies (sometimes multiple agencies or multiple jurisdictions). 

• I believe that residents need to feel welcome at the Council. Too many residents feel that they are being tolerated, not welcomed.

• I will hold regular in-person and virtual town hall meetings to engage with residents across the county and I will have a periodic electronic newsletter.

Transportation

• Implementing policies for more walkable communities and building around the Metro Stations.

• Strategizing on ways determine a permanent funding source for the WMATA shortfall of $750 million.

• Increase the capital budget for road repaving, sidewalk repairs and lighting.

• Strengthen adequate public facility requirements for suburban developments but implement innovative standards for Transit Oriented Development.

• Increase programs that provide transportation for seniors.

Safe and Clean Communities

• Residents expect strong Code enforcement to keep nuisances out of their communities. 

• Residents expect timely trash pickups and regular bulk and electronics waste removal.

• I will create a Nuisance Elimination Task Force to develop a strategy for marshaling our limited resources to eliminate the most common nuisances plaguing our communities.