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Accomplishments in Public Service
- Strong support for and implementation of land use planning, including creation of an award winning Comprehensive Plan and development of targeted area land use plans
- Worked with community through community plans creating parks’ improvements and open space conservation throughout the County, one of which included military buffers
- Support ordinances that protect our military facilities, their missions and their regional economic benefit, such as County dark skies and sign ordinances
- Initiated local sales tax to fund road maintenance and improvements to bring forth local support to assist in addressing formulaic gap from gas tax
- Initiated and supported development of Community Wildfire Protection Plans throughout the County and current and future forest management and economic development efforts
- Work in a leadership role with city jurisdictions, state and federal agencies during emergency events, such as Bellemont tornado, the Rodeo-Chediski, Brins, and Slide Fires, etc.
- Regional transportation planning and the establishment of the regional transportation system
- Resolved 30 years of need for our County Capital Building Program and Capital Improvement Planning, including the jail and related programs
- Worked to get an act of Congress to resolve a long-standing boundary issue in the Mountainaire residential subdivision that borders Forest Service land
- Worked together to establish the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council through which innovative criminal justice programs have been implemented
- Demonstrated fiscal responsibility with the adoption of a balanced budget that included the avoidance of layoffs, pay cuts or mandatory furloughs during the recession using recessionary planning and 10 year forecasting
- Participated in the most recent Camp Navajo Strategic Planning Process
- Built intergovernmental relations and cooperative agreements in the past 18 years with Federal, State, Tribal and Local governments and communities