1. Basic Services
2. Getting People Back to Work
3. Providing for the Needs of Those Who Have Been Hit the Hardest

“During these tough times, the city government should concentrate its resources (money, time and energies) on—besides the basics of local administration and promoting the public safety and common good through funding necessary services such as infrastructure needs, police, fire/rescue and the like—working with the business community to get people back to work at full pay and full hours and cooperating with local charitable organizations to provide for the needs of those who have been hit the hardest.

Addressing the latter two issues—getting people back to work and helping those who are suffering—may be more about what the city shouldn’t do, than what it should. The city needs to stop imposing arbitrary limits on private property, whether limits that hamper the ability of many businesses to thrive and, thus, employ more individuals and bring more money to the community or limits that deny charitable organizations, such as St. Francis House, the ability to serve and assist as many of those in need as possible. I am in complete agreement with my opponent, Francis Fitzpatrick, that the 130-meal limit that is imposed on St. Francis House by this city must be repealed.”