10/28/2017
I am coming to you, yet again, asking for your support in the November 7th Town of CF elections. I have served 2 previous terms and have worked extremely hard in that role to try and do my best to help the Town and progress it forward. Our Town faces so many struggles, struggles that the people don’t fully know or understand. I’m happy to speak with anyone that wishes on this! I’ve been working over these years to try and increase government transparency. Some of what’s been accomplished in this area is setting a better meeting time for the citizens to attend, having a Town website created, and a Town page created. There’s still work to be done there with adding minutes, financials, and policies to that site so citizens can go check them out whenever they wish. Our Town is still stuck in the past in so many ways. It’s time to move forward. I am a firm believer that you never want to forget your past, but you have to keep looking to your future. Calhoun Falls could have a very promising future, but we first have to get control of our government, administration, and internal controls. We can’t move anywhere until we can operate soundly, effectively, and efficiently! This is something I really want to put more focus and effort on this next term, if elected. I could sit here and name the obvious: business recruitment, transparency, beautification, and of course, our water issues, but none of these things will happen or work CORRECTLY if we can’t get our internal controls taken care of. There is so much time and work that needs to be put into reviewing our policies, making updates, IMPLEMENTING our policies, I am still a firm believer in needing a good Administrator to carry these tasks out. That’s something I will continue to work on as well. If the citizens truly believe the people you elect can make all of these changes happen on their own, well, your faith in us is very strong and should be moving mountains. It takes all of us tho working together, and we need help!!! I often get asked why would you want to keep putting yourself through the stress and scrutiny? The answer is simple, I don’t do it for me, I do it for the place I love! The place I call home, and the place where i’d Love to see my children want to stay one day and grow their families and lives. I want to see this Town reach it’s full potential and the people be proud of it again. I really could go on and on about so many different things, but I’m not going to do that. I just wanted to let everyone know that I’m here again willing to serve, and I hope to have your support. Thank you and please feel free to share!!!