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Please list your Community Activities:
I have been actively engaged in Winchester civic and political matters since 2004, and have lived here much longer.
Committees
- Climate Action Advisory Committee (appointed by Select Board) Current
- Climate Action Task Force (nominated by Planning Board; appointed by SB) Past
- Davidson Park Committee (appointed) Past
- Advisory Committee to Town Manager on Recycling (appointed by Town Manager). Past
I am founder and project director of the WIN Fast Forest initiative
I have worked with, serve on or have formally addressed these groups
- DPW
- Aberjona Initiative
- Grow Local
- Friends of Winter Pond
- Town Center Initiative
- Conservation Commission
- Board of Health
- WHS AP environmental science classes
- Lincoln School Green Team
- Wright-Locke Farm
- Rotary Club
- TMM (since 2019)
- Brennan Speaker, 2017 Jenks Center
Questions to address in your candidate statement
What Winchester issues do you think are most important?
My biggest concern is people’s tendency to substitute ideology or beliefs for accurate information. We are stretched thin with commitments; not recovered from COVID; and braced for “what’s next.” Still, that should not keep people from calling out lies and misinformation. Facts are still facts.
I care about finding and implementing best combination of
- top-quality town services including schools
- increasing mixed housing
- slowing the rate of tax increases
- implementing the CPA for best environmental stewardship.
Of those important issues, which one do you feel most passionate about, and what is your position on that issue?
I look forward to helping act on the following, which will decrease both town’s carbon footprint and households’ expenses.
- startup of the CPA
- changes in global recycling
- grants town has won
- new electric municipal equipment
What does Winchester do well and what might be improved?
We have some terrific municipal staff and volunteers –sometimes it seems the town runs on volunteers! Thank you all -
