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