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My Top 3 Priorities
City to develop a shovel ready industrial/business park with infrastructure and financing mechanisms to attract new industry/businesses
Improve and increase youth recreation programs, all age recreation programs , and improve the maintenance and development of city parks
Make Merced safer by improving the police - community relations with changes in department procedures and by building a new police station. Improving fire service by building two fire stations in underserved areas in north Merced and southeast Merced
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My Top 3 Priorities
Fix homelessness
Improve economic development
Increase youth services
Experience
Biography
I was born in Merced, California. Other than the years I spent in college, I have lived there all my life. I have been a teacher in Merced for over eight years. I taught at Weaver Middle School for six years and have spent the last two school years teaching 10th grade English at El Capitan High School. All throughout my time as a teacher I have coached youth football and baseball. In 2016, I was elected to the Merced City Council as a representative of District 1. While on the city council I helped form the Arts and Culture Commission, a city-wide cannabis ordinace, and served on numerous subcommittees related to our budget, finances, and parks. I have gained a tremendous amount of knowledge while serving on the city council, and I seek to grow in experience, insight and acumen as I attempt to serve as mayor.
Political Beliefs
Political Philosophy
I suppose you could say that I am an independent. I have never believed in political parties, nor have I ever desired to belong to one. No matter what the issue is, I usually find my own path. In Merced, I have been told that I have liberal views. However, I spent five years in Los Angeles going to college, and down there, everyone told me I was conservative. Maybe, I'm just somewhere in the middle, but it's my middle.
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