• Protecting our Residential Neighborhoods

Our residential neighborhoods are the backbone of the community and can be fragile.  We are a “family-friendly” community and our neighborhoods are where our families live.  We must stand fast and protect our neighborhoods from negative intrusions.

• Strong and Healthy Financial Position

Maintaining a strong financial position is paramount. Our finances are strong and well-funded. frankly our financial position has never been stronger. Sales Taxes are up, taxes are up, and property taxes are down. debt levels are down and manageable. We have established an Economic Emergency Fund to provide funds should something unexpected happen in the future.

• Emphasis on all Aspects of Life Safety

I believe in providing “extremely” strong “life safety” services as this is the most important service our Village government can provide to citizens.  When you have an emergency, you need paramedics, fire fighters, or police to come to your aid, you need them to arrive quickly and prepared. Nothing is more important to you at that moment.

• Ongoing Economic Development

Development and growth throughout the Village has been off the charts all around our Village. Downtown has seen 9 new residential building built in the past 4 years bringing a level of vibrancy we have never seen. We had 7 new restaurants open in 2024. I will continue to promote appropriate and compatible re-development and developer-friendly policies. 

• Strong Business Community

Maintaining a healthy and vital business community and economic environment is key to the overall financial well-being of Mount Prospect.   I will continue to support policies to keep Mount Prospect a place where individual business owners to large corporate entities want to invest, do business, and put their risk capital to work.  The fact is that healthy Residential Community goes hand in hand with a healthy Business Community.

• Focus on Basic Village Services

Providing strong basic services such as Police, Fire, Public Works, and Human Services is the primary reason Village Government exists and I will continue to support policies to appropriately fund these departments into the future.

• Fiscal Responsibility

By policy and purposeful action, the Mount Prospect Village Board has always maintained a responsible, careful approach to Village finances and maintaining a healthy Village budget which has provided us with great flexibility.  As such, our Village has been able to weather the storm during economic downturns and move forward in strong economic environments.  Today our financial condition is extremely strong.  We have well-funded General Fund Reserves (our Village saving account) and our various accounting funds are more than adequately funded to assist us with necessary capital expenditures in the future.  We have also put policies in place to more aggressively fund our future required pension payments so as not to come up short.  We (I) have voted to expend the funds necessary to stay ahead of our infrastructure repairs and improvements with the goal of minimizing the funds required to be spent.  If deferred, the cost of capital improvements tends to grow exponentially. 

Finally, we have accomplished this with a stated goal of minimizing increases in taxes.  In fact, given our current strong funding situation, the Village’s portion of the tax levy is down 11% in the past 2 years and vehicle stickers have been eliminated.

• Long standing and Consistent Platform Positions

While I can be extremely flexible in my day-to-day viewpoints, I have maintained long standing and consistent positions around my basic platforms as they pertain to our financial position, fiscal responsibility, taxes, development, and quality of life.