I am running for Cheyenne City Council Ward 1 because I believe in service, community, and the importance of having leaders who listen. As a proud third-generation Wyomingite, Cheyenne is home, and I want to help protect what makes our community special while building a strong future for generations to come.
Throughout my career, I have dedicated myself to serving others through nonprofit leadership, communications, fundraising, and community engagement. I have helped raise millions of dollars for Wyoming nonprofits, built partnerships, developed programs to address community needs, and led initiatives that created meaningful impact.
My experience has taught me the importance of collaboration, transparency, and finding practical solutions.
I believe Cheyenne’s greatest challenges are responsible growth, maintaining quality city services, supporting public safety, strengthening our local economy, and ensuring residents have a voice in the decisions that impact their lives.
As our community grows, we must plan thoughtfully while preserving the values and character that make Cheyenne special. This includes investing in infrastructure, supporting law enforcement and first responders, and ensuring taxpayer resources are used responsibly.
I believe solutions come from listening, collaboration, and transparency. My experience in nonprofits has taught me the importance of bringing people together to address challenges.
Affordable housing is a challenge facing many communities, including Cheyenne. I believe solutions require collaboration between city leaders, builders, developers, nonprofits, and community partners. We should encourage responsible growth, reduce unnecessary barriers to housing development, and support a variety of housing options for working families, seniors, and those looking to own a home.
As a council member, I will focus on listening to residents, supporting practical solutions, and ensuring we balance the need for housing with protecting the character of our neighborhoods and being responsible with taxpayer resources.
Development of data centers requires careful research, transparency, and thoughtful planning. I support economic development and the creation of good-paying jobs, but we must ensure growth is balanced with protecting our community’s resources, workforce, and quality of life.
As someone whose family has deep ties to Cheyenne’s water infrastructure, I understand the importance of protecting our water resources. Recent concerns raised by community members, workforce impacts, and environmental questions show why we need to slow down, gather facts, and make informed decisions.
I believe in these opportunities, including the skilled trades jobs they create, but we must pace development responsibly to ensure long-term benefits for Cheyenne.
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I’m running because I care deeply about Cheyenne and believe people deserve to be heard and represented. As a single dad, homeowner, taxpayer, volunteer, and longtime resident, I understand many of the same challenges families face every day. Professionally, I’ve spent more than two decades in leadership, communications, and training, currently serving as Director of Training and Internal Communications at Blue FCU. I’ve also served in ministry and community leadership roles, mentoring individuals, leading groups, helping families through difficult seasons, and learning the importance of listening before acting. What makes me qualified isn’t politics-it’s a lifetime of serving others , building relationships and solving problems.
Housing affordability, responsible growth, infrastructure, public safety, and keeping costs manageable for residents are some of Cheyenne’s biggest challenges. Families are feeling the impact of rising costs while our city faces important decisions about development, utilities, roads, and economic opportunities. My approach is simple: listen to residents, gather facts, talk to experts, and carefully evaluate the pros and cons before making decisions. Every issue should be measured by whether it helps Cheyenne families, improves quality of life, is financially responsible, and reflects community input. Good decisions come from listening first and focusing on long-term results.
There is no single solution, but we can make progress. We need more housing options at different price points, including starter homes, workforce housing, townhomes, and housing for seniors. We should also review city processes to reduce unnecessary delays and costs that can drive up housing prices. Growth is going to happen, so we need to plan for it responsibly and ensure infrastructure keeps pace. I believe the city should work with developers, businesses, nonprofits, and residents to identify practical solutions that increase housing opportunities while preserving the quality of life that makes Cheyenne a great place to live, work, and raise a family.
I’m not a hard yes and I’m not a hard no. Residents have valid concerns about water usage, power demand, environmental impacts, infrastructure, housing pressures, and long-term sustainability. Those concerns deserve serious evaluation. At the same time, data centers can bring high-paying jobs, contractor work, support local businesses, generate millions in tax revenue, attract additional industries, and contribute to community organizations. My position is that all proposals or industries looking at Cheyenne, should be evaluated individually. I’ll listen to residents, consult experts, evaluate the benefits and risks, protect taxpayers, and make decisions based on what’s best for Cheyenne’s long-term future rather than politics.
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I am running for City Council Ward 1 because I have been continuously disappointed by the voting habits of the current city council members. I believe I am the most qualified candidate because of my ingenuity and out-of-the-box solutions.
More importantly, an effective city council member is able to convince the other members that their ideas and policy solutions will be effective to garner enough votes to put it into action. I believe, although I have been critical of the members in the past, I will be more than capable of producing legislation that the majority of members will agree with and support.
The greatest challenges facing Cheyenne all revolve around growth. The current council has been pushing at lightning speed annexation, business, housing and more.
Energy price increases are constantly approved by the city without requiring large businesses to supplement their power usage. Water availability is becoming a larger and larger issue, especially with no stop to allowing large scale data centers to move in. Housing is routinely touted as "affordable" only to see the only affordable options as quickly built apartment complexes not ideal for families or long term growth.
I will push for mandatory energy supplementation by large businesses and a complete ban on data centers in Cheyenne.
Admittedly, a city council will have relatively little total affect on making housing "affordable" overall.
A strategy I would be willing to support, however, is currently being implemented by councilmen Mark Moody; cutting unnecessary items from the UDC code.
The answer for affordable housing cannot come from government. That may be a tough answer but it is the correct answer. Having said that, the city council can only ease or increase burdens on developers willing to build houses in communities.
In general, I support easing burdens on developers while increasing the standards by which houses are built. Houses need to be built to encourage families and generational success.
I oppose the development of data centers in Cheyenne.
Currently there are nearly 4,000 data centers in the U.S., problems of water usage, electricity usage and rates, noise pollution, light pollution, foreign workers, massive layoffs, and hundreds of other issues are being brought up all across the country. Data centers are essentially a massive experiment for our cities, culture, and environment. I am not willing to allow Cheyenne to be turned into an experiment with a high probability of failure.
There are also many unanswered questions regarding creating a surveillance state around the current flock camera systems being implemented in Cheyenne and the current member's misunderstanding of a "15 minute city".
I am running for City Council because I believe I can offer an underrepresented perspective to the governing body of Cheyenne. I am a professional artist and former art educator with a bachelor's degree in Fine Art. As a landscape painter, I care deeply about the stewardship and care of our prairie ecosystems. I grew up in Cheyenne and am passionate about preserving our history for future generations. For many years I have championed the rehabilitation of the Pumphouse. My family owned and operated a downtown restaurant and I grew up working alongside them and eventually became the general manager. I proudly represent creatives, service workers, and women small business owners. We are hardworking tax payers and deserve representation.
Access to mental health care is a major challenge for Cheyenne. Treatment availability is sparse. Suicide rates in Laramie County rose 63% in 2025--a big cause for concern. Resources for people experiencing a mental health crisis are very limited, and the burden of care often rests on our hospitals and jails. In addition, related problems such as homelessness and addiction often follow declines in mental health. This contributes to 200 children experiencing homelessness in Laramie County every year. With little funding on the state level, it comes down to municipalities to support pathways to care. City Council could do more to support local organizations and promote awareness through a community-based model specific to Cheyenne needs.
I support recent city initiatives such as easing regulatory restrictions on building new homes as well as tools like Tax Increment Financing (TIF) to promote re-development or rehabilitation of underutilized land and buildings. However, the city could be more aggressive courting private and public partnerships for new homes. The recent $3.5 Million private donation from Related Digital is an example of Cheyenne getting its housing needs met through philanthropy. Rather than generous handouts, the city could be actively negotiating with billion-dollar industries, who are contributing to our housing crisis, to help pay the cost as part of the exchange for our invaluable land and infrastructure.
I am concerned about the environmental impacts of data centers. I also understand that state lawmakers have welcomed this new industry with open arms. This means that Laramie County is an undisputed host region for data centers, regardless of a moratorium. We should remember that our land, approvals, water, and electricity give us more leverage than it did in the past decade, when data centers required much less of our resources. We have an opportunity to create lasting prosperity for Cheyenne in the form of high-value investment from Big Tech--not just tax revenue and jobs. City Council can enact laws that protect our prairie ecosystem from careless industry practice. I support empowered partnership agreements and strict regulation.
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I am running for City Council because Cheyenne is growing rapidly and we need strong practical leadership that protects our residents, controls costs, and ensures smart, responsible development. My educational background and work experience in both business and finance and community service being part of the committee of housing and community development and committee of transit advisory in city hall has prepared me to deliver real results on the issues that matter most to Ward 1 families. Not only am I involved in the community being a member of the Chamber, I have the experience in governance as well being part of this 2 Committees for 5 years at the housing and community development and 2 years with the transit advisory committee.
The greatest challenge that the community has currently are local economy, annexation, property taxes and city spending. I would support implementing grandfathering clauses that safeguard existing property rights. I would also support a 100% property tax exemption for qualifying senior citizens. I would fight for lower utility costs by expanding resident options through Choice Gas where residents can pick their provider increasing competition among energy providers. I will reduce overall city spending and restore fiscal responsibility by carefully reviewing expenditures and prioritizing essential services. I would strengthen small businesses by offering targeted incentives to companies that prioritize hiring Cheyenne residents.
As a member of the committee of housing and community development at city hall for 5 years I witnessed the challenges of the city upfront and we have made decisions on funding the various non profit organizations. I would cut red tape on developers but not sacrificing safety issues on building. I would create tax incentives for builders especially those that hire local Cheyenne residents that would boost the economy. I would continue to support non profit organizations by looking for more of them that would support our residents.
I support measured growth by slowing unchecked expansion to prevent long term impacts to infrastructure and quality of life, while aggressively negotiating for greater local benefits and community investments. Data centers are vital for national security and we need them but we have to get the best deal that we can get out of them without comprising what is good for our community. These companies wanting to put up data centers can build recreational centers that Cheyenne does not have. Further study have to be done before we jump into this so I am for a moratorium of at least a year on data centers.
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