SECOND TERM, January 2009 – January 2013
- 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
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