Education
20-yrs government (8-yrs City Councilman, 4-yrs Planning & Zoning Chair, 8-yrs Commissions Chair), 6-yrs military (Combat Vietnam), 30-yrs Corporate (EDS), 20-yrs nonprofit boards (veterans, food, housing, healthcare, EMS, transportation, roads)
Experience
Leadership under fire (real fire – combat type); $500M P&L budgets; economics & int’l relations; municipal governance; small weapons & tactics; aviation, military command; Quality is Free; strategic planning, relationship & solution selling.
Campaign Phone
2147282274
Proactively with greater leadership: Transportation – Greater focus on safety and capacity improvements, advocating for more funding for state and federal highways, focus on 380 and 75; Water – working with water districts, state and federal agencies to gain greater capacity, working with municipalities to manage usage, preparing for drought situations; Public Safety –strengthening the Sheriff’s patrol force, improving rural emergency service response; Financial – double homestead exemption, improve budgeting process, focus on debt reduction
With my 6-yr experience on the Dallas Regional Mobility Coalition and the North Central Texas Regional Transportation Council: Improving current roadways – gaining more state and federal funding focused on 380 and 75, implementing AI to improve traffic flow and safety at intersections; Expanding systems – building relationships with and leveraging mobility providers, focusing on future technologies, support certain ride-share programs and exploring or utilizing mass transit systems that produce significant and returned benefits from the investment.
Requiring specific procedures: state or federal ID certifying citizenship, verifiable paper ballots with electronic tabulation systems, re-enforcing chain of custody, require effective polling place backup plans ensuring voting continuation through technical failures or disruptions, funding cybersecurity tools, improving voting system testing, performing post-election audits, ensure safety and security of voters and election officials
Public safety is essential yet underfunded. Patrol units were reduced to afford staffing in new jailing facilities. Protecting citizens means more visibility of patrol units, not less. We need to review the spectrum of law enforcement staffing, implement technology that reduces tasks and increases efficiency, and focus on crime prevention and response. We need to concentrate on emergency services and response times, especially medical in rural communities. We need to focus on traffic accident hotspots and eliminate issues causing injuries and loss of life or property.
Immediate! The health and welfare of the county’s citizens are the highest priority. We need to be pre-prepared. My experience chairing the Emergency Planning Preparedness Council delivers expertise focused on preparation, training, tested execution, scenario exercises, documentation and cross agency training so when the outbreak occurs, we are prepared and act swiftly and decisively. Maintaining connection with and involving subject matter experts ensures rapid and correct response. Public health is about policy, preparation and practice.
From my military experience, chairing the Emergency Planning Preparedness Council & over two-decades of governance: Plan – Train – Test – Evaluate – Correct and Modify – Upgrade – Repeat. We don’t train to get it right. We train not to get it wrong. Of 13 types of natural disasters, Collin County can experience seven (tornadoes, floods, wildfires, droughts, blizzards, heatwaves, hailstorms). Also, disasters can be manmade – biohazards, chemical attacks, infectious disease, etc. It takes multi-agency, multi-disciplined preparedness to correctly address emergencies.
First, going upstream. Criminal justice is a process from criminal behavior. Improving the system means reducing criminal behavior through law enforcement and exposure. The more law enforcement is visible, the less criminal behavior. When the behavior happens, we must be prepared with a strong district attorney’s staff. Also, we must have a strong court and constable system to handle the case load in a fair, equitable and expedient manner. Finally, our penal system must be efficient and effective to incarcerate and rehabilitate those within that system.
Financial – Our debt load is huge. Although it is layered, compared to the sources of revenue for the county, it is overwhelming. Day one I will be examining our influx of funds, our uses of funds, the projected needs for additional funds and how we avoid expanding and overburdening the taxpayer. We must be proactively prepared for legislative changes to the revenue stream and sadly we are not. Water – Although we do not control the water districts, we must work with them to ensure an adequate supply of safe water. Currently the system is stressed by growth. We need a better plan.
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