Growth and Historic Preservation
- Lead change and openness in growth plans that are easily understood and implemented with a customer service-oriented attitude
- Ensure that Bastrop remains a prime place for smart and effective growth
- While encouraging growth, ensure the protection of our historic downtown and its unique character
- Work to preserve the integrity of our historic neighborhoods while also understanding the need for housing and jobs
Infrastructure
- Provide strong leadership on a multitude of major projects to stay within budget and on schedule while being suited to the historical integrity of downtown.
- Implement Best Practices in construction and maintenance of the new water and wastewater plants and street development outside of historic downtown
- Encourage and provide the leadership necessary to ensure that vital improvement projects such as road improvements and police, ambulance, and fire services are world-class
Customer Service
- Ensure proper customer training services for government employees
- Citizens react best when they receive good customer service
- Encourage responsible procedures that inform the public rather than frustrate them
- Promote reasonable and realistic timelines for permitting and other potential development issues so there excessive wait times are reduced
Economic & Fiscal Responsibility
- Encourage economic development through managing the city budget and protecting the citizens’ tax dollars from wasteful spending
- Continue to work with The Bastrop Economic Development Corporation recruiting effective industry to Bastrop
- Ensure the city budget is confined to providing essential services without raising taxes
- As your City Councilman, I will continue to ensure that we attract the industries that will improve our economy and quality of life for all of Bastrop’s citizens.
Other Issues
- If it is important to you, it is important to me – please email me with your comments and concerns. [email protected]