Accomplishments

• Left $81 million in property taxpayers’ pockets
• Refused campaign contributions from special interests, lobbyists, and county contractors
• Spearheaded money-saving Community Health Screening program
• Reduced cost of Ada County’s trash contract by $750,000
• Funded the county justice center’s Executive Director position
• Chaired the Hazard Mitigation Plan Committee
• Reduced parking rates at the Ada County courthouse
• Teamed with ACHD and ITD to install signal and crosswalk in front of courthouse
• Identified the need for security cameras in unsupervised jail classrooms for instructor safety
• Purchased foreclosed foothills land linking Ridge-to-Rivers trails to the Avimor trail system
• Obtained the necessary support to remove Ada County Misdemeanor Probation from poorly-managed private control

FIRST TERM, January 2001 – January 2003

• Prompted a $6 million property tax rebate by revealing, and objecting to, the county’s $20 million slush fund
• Saved $7 million for taxpayers on an emergency radio system by questioning the initial, more costly, proposal
• Saved $412,000 a year (ongoing) on pre-sentence investigators
• Called for replacement of a life-threatening 9-1-1 dispatch system months before all other local leaders
• Objected to Lariat Productions’ takeover of Les Bois Park, which turned harmful almost immediately