City of North Richland Hills Council Member, Place 4
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John Schleeter
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Matt Blake
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Why are you running for city council and how does your background prepare you for this office?
How would you ensure adequate, timely and comprehensive public input and transparency at city council meetings?
What policies, procedures and guidelines would you support to protect residents from discrimination in response to federal funding requirements related to DEI programs and language?
What level of cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would you or would you not support under 287(g)?
What are the most critical issues facing the city, and how will you address them?
Richland High School and UT Arlington graduate. 30 years in IT Consulting and Project Management. HOA President for 3 local neighborhoods. NRH Capital Projects Advisory Committee. Volunteer and founder for several civic and political organizations.
I am running for City Council primarily to bring attention and focus to improving our basic infrastructure such as our huge backlog of road repairs and aging fire stations. For far too long our city has neglected basic needs, in favor of funding all sorts of special interest projects. I believe my background in Project Management and conservative fiscal approach will serve this role and the city well in improving our essential services that we all expect as taxpayers.
I am in favor of open, transparent government and ensuring all discussion and decisions are available for public review. Only a limited, small as possible subset of legally specified items should be shielded from public scrutiny. It currently seems like too many Freedom of Information requests have to be made to city officials to get some basic information which should be readily accessible.
I am 100% against filtering down partisan culture wars to the city level. Our city should have in place policies and regulations to protect staff and citizens from any form of harassment or discrimination, including sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and the other targets of extremists. A city should place the interests of its citizens above threats of funding cuts from a federal administration with a discriminatory agenda.
Our police officers are sworn to uphold U.S. and state laws, and this includes enforcing and reporting immigration laws and violations to appropriate authorities. However, local police are not ICE agents, and should not be participating in raids or active enforcement operations with federal agencies. We need to reserve this trend of forcing local police departments to staff and pay for law enforcement activities that historically were provided by state and federal agencies.
We need to address the large backlog of street repairs and basic infrastructure, and prioritize these capital projects ahead of most other expansion proposals. I am not against expanding the library, or building a new service center. I just believe that first priority goes to our basic needs and emergency services. I would also like to see an expansion of the Trinity Metro On-Demand Rideshare service around our two train station areas.
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