Platform
Economic Development
1.
Provide additional resources for job development, especially for
small business development and minority business development.
2. Promote livable communities that end
the flight of jobs and residents out of state.
Health & Safety
3. Establish a county
health department to eliminate Delaware County’s status as suburban
leader among infant mortality rates, sexually transmitted disease
rates, preventable cancer and Lyme disease incidence.
4. Provide the county health department with
adequate resources to prepare for and fight bio-terror.
Education
5. Provide funding grants
to our community college for non-credit courses for job training
purposes, thereby providing additional economic development
resources and ending Delaware County’s status as the only suburban
County that does not contribute funds to a community college.
6. Address the current schools crisis and
minimize the impact of partisan politics on the public education of
our children by encouraging local, non-partisan citizen groups to
run bi-partisan school director tickets.
Political and government reform
7. Replace the county
council with a county legislature that will provide direct
accountability to district voters, reflect in its composition the
diverse population of our county, and secure the benefits of
two-party government.
8. Reform county hiring practices to insure we
hire the most qualified, not the most connected.
9. Oppose the privatization of essential
public services.
Environmental Conservation and Land Preservation
10. Promote smart growth
strategies that emphasize environmental conservation and land
preservation.
11. Establish a County Grant Office to provide
assistance to local governments in preparing grant applications for
these purposes.
Taxes and Reassessment
12. Use the clout of county
government to urge property tax reform in Harrisburg.
13. Institute a regular, recurring tax
reassessment plan to avoid the mistakes that lead to the recent
reassessment debacle.
14. Insure the assessment appeals process is
fair to all property owners.