Priorities

Transit only works when all the pieces connect. Right now, we treat parking, buses, the trolley, and street maintenance as separate issues, but to any resident, they are one single challenge.

As Mayor, I am focused on real solutions. Our new City Hall project will finally provide essential downtown parking. On the MTS board, I am demanding our fair share of regional funding. Most importantly, I will bring the same dedication we gave the Village to El Cajon Boulevard and University Avenue. These busy corridors are vital to La Mesa, and they have waited long enough.

This is the pattern I keep running into, and it's the reason I'm running.

This community has wanted a bigger library since 2008. The post office is moving into the new civic center, which frees up the space, so we finally have a path to build it.

That's one item. There's a list. Grant money nobody goes and gets. Streets that have been waiting a long time for their turn.

I'd like that list to be my job. Keep it short, and keep coming back to it until it's done.

We've done it before. Our community asked for civilian oversight of policing, Mayor Dr. A spearheaded it, and I was proud to serve on the Community Policing Oversight Board. HOME is our program for reaching people living on our streets and connecting them with real help, and it lets our police officers focus on the work they were trained to do. That's what following through looks like, and I'll protect it as Mayor.

While a Mayor can't directly lower the price of groceries, local leadership can make a massive difference in your daily budget.

As Mayor, my focus will be on the things we can actually control — making it easier and more affordable to move around town, encouraging housing development on empty lots, and keeping more of our hard-earned dollars circulating right here in La Mesa. I would much rather promise you a short, honest list of realistic goals than a long list of things City Hall can't deliver.