800 MHZ Millage Language vs Capital Improvement Plan

The 800 MHZ ballot language as approved by the Emmet County Board of Commissioners is as follows:

“Shall the total taxable property rate limitation in Emmet County be increased by .31 of a mill (31 cents for each $1,000 in valuation) and levied for five (5) years, beginning in the year 2019 and continuing through the year 2023, inclusive, for the purpose of financing facility, equipment, maintenance and operating costs of the Charlevoix, Cheboygan, and Emmet County 911 (CCE) public safety call answering and dispatch services? If approved and levied in its entirety, this millage raises an estimated $896,565 in the first calendar year after its approval “

Emmet County already has millions of dollars of debt. Please note the use of the word "financing ..." in the above proposal. 

The 800 MHZ ballot language as approved by the Charlevoix County Board of Commissioners is as follows:

"Shall the tax limitation imposed under Article IX, Section 6 of the Michigan Constitution on the amount of ad valorem taxes which may be levied by the County of Charlevoix, State of Michigan, against taxable property in the County be increased by up to .5 mills ($.50 per $1,000 of taxable value) for a period of three (3) years, 2018 through 2020, inclusive, for the purpose of providing Charlevoix County's share of the funds needed by the CCE 911 Central Dispatch Authority(CCE) to purchase, install, maintain, and replace upgraded radio equipment for use by CCE and emergency service providers within Charlevoix County, and shall the Charlevoix County Board of Commissioners be authorized to levy such millage for these purposes?  If approved and levied in its entirety, this millage would raise an estimated $1,074,742 for Charlevoix County in 2018."

Charlevoix County stated they have funds sufficient to pay for needed 911 infrastructure and the millage spread over 3 years will pay for upgraded radio equipment.  

The 800 MHZ ballot language as approved by the Cheboygan County Board of Commissioners is as follows:

"Shall the tax limitation imposed under Article IX, Section 6 of the Michigan Constitution on the amount of ad valorem taxes which may be levied by the County of Cheboygan, State of Michigan, against taxable property in the County be increased by up to .5 mills ($.50 per $1 ,000 of taxable value} for a period of four {4} years, 2018 through 2021 , inclusive, for the purpose of providing Cheboygan County's share of the funds needed by the CCE 911 Central Dispatch Authority {CCE} to purchase, install, maintain, and replace upgraded radio equipment for use by the CCE and emergency service providers within Cheboygan County and to upgrade radio system infrastructure, including tower and tower equipment, required by the upgraded radio equipment, and shall the Cheboygan County Board of Commissioners be authorized to levy such millage for these purposes? If approved and levied in its entirety, this millage would raise an estimated $717,761 for Cheboygan County in 2018."

Cheboygan County has millions of dollars in reserve funds, exceeding both the recommendations of the State of Michigan and the County's own fiscal policy. Only Cheboygan County has the excess cash reserves to pay now and not delay the radio upgrades. If the upgrades are needed, they should be prioritized and funded now, from the millions of dollars the County has in unassigned reserve funds. There are no good reasons  to spread the cost of the improvements over 4 years. Will Administrator Jeff Lawson and the County Commissioners be held accountable if a First Responder or Law Enforcement Officer is endangered or killed 2, 3, or 4 years from now because the millage is still trickling in? Vote no now and prioritize this needed upgrade.   

From Cheboygan County's current Master Plan:

Emergency 911 telephone service is provided to Cheboygan County through a multi-county 911 system for Cheboygan, Emmet and Charlevoix Counties. It is a state-of-the art enhanced 911 system, which provides emergency dispatch for all calls to the police, fire departments and ambulance service for the entire three county area. Police cruisers are equipped with laptop 107 “mobile data terminals” for direct communications between the 911 dispatch and the officers in the field. The mapping system used by the 911 system was developed through the use of satellite technology through a GPS (global positioning system) unit.  

Introduction: 

The Michigan Planning Enabling Act (Act 33, 2008) requires local municipalities that have adopted a master plan to annually prepare a Capital Improvement Program, a planning tool that can coordinate community planning, financial capacity and physical development. A Capital Improvement Program may be considered a blueprint for planning capital improvement expenditures, and seek, in part, to improve quality of life and achieve a community’s long-term goals. The Act provides that the Capital Improvements Program show those public structures and improvements in general order of their priority that in the judgment of the Planning Commission will be needed or desirable and can be undertaken within the ensuing 6-year period. 

The inclusion of a project in a Capital Improvement Program will not require any public entity or County department to fund or complete the project. This report has been prepared and projected on a one-time cash basis that lists the potential project and its estimated cost as provided by various agencies and departments. This cash method of reporting may suggest a substantial one-time cost for many improvements. Not considered are such factors as debt amortization or shared expenses such as grants or other sources of financial aid. 

The projects listed in this report should be identified or prioritized as needed or desirable by the Planning Commission and determine that they do not conflict with the adopted Master Plan. 

Definition: Capital Improvements for the purposes of this Capital Improvement Program shall be defined as additions to County assets which are the result of construction or purchase of land, buildings or facilities or renovations of the same, with an estimated useful life of five (5) years or more and exceed an estimated cost of $15,000.00.

Project Prioritizing Projects are presented in a general order of priority in consideration of factors listed in the following categories: 

 2 a) Needed (essential; should do): 

 Addresses an objective of the Master Plan. 

 Satisfies a legal obligation. 

 Corrects a condition dangerous to public health and safety. 

 Reduces future operating and maintenance costs. 

 Leverages local, state or federal funds. 

 Prevents irreparable damage to a valuable public facility. 

 Stimulates economic growth and private investment. 

b) Desirable (important; could do): 

 Provides a new or expanded level of service. 

 Provides a facility improvement that would enhance efficiency or use with minimal or no increase in operating costs. 

 Enhances cultural or natural resources.

Public Safety Emergency 911 services are part of the Cheboygan County Master Plan. The County Administrator, Planning Commission, and Board of Commissioners annually prepare a Capital Improvement Program to plan and prioritize capital improvement expenditures over $15,000.  All of these proposed "projects" are on the 2019 Capital Improvement Program. The 800 MHZ radio upgrade is not one of County Administrator Jeff Lawson's "pet" projects. Administrator Jeff Lawson and the County Commissioners know the public would vote no to additional taxes for most of these projects. The 800 MHZ radio upgrade is a hot button issue. It should prioritized and funded now, from the millions of dollars the County has in unassigned reserve funds, and the need to spread the improvements over 4 years will be avoided. 

Project Description

Project Title: Fuel Tank and Fuel Dock Replacement and Upgrade    $800,000

Agency: Cheboygan County Marina 

Project Title: County Building Security Windows and Doors                $100,000

Agency: County Building Maintenance Department

Project Title: County Building Trim Panel/Window Replacement         $550,000

Agency: Cheboygan County 

Project Title: County Building Elevator Replacement                           $250,000

Agency: County Building Maintenance Department

Project Title: County Building Court Room,                                          $100,000

Treasurer’s Office Remodel and Indigent Defense Meeting Rooms 

Agency: Cheboygan County 

Project Title: County Building Parking Lot Seal Coating                        $50,000

Agency: Cheboygan County 

Project Title: County Building Drive                                                     $200,000

Agency: Cheboygan County 

Project Title: Sand Road Senior Center                                                $35,000

Central Air Conditioning Upgrade 

Agency: Cheboygan County Council on Aging

Project Title: Sand Road Senior Center Parking lot                              $50,000

seal coating and paving 

Agency: Cheboygan County Council on Aging

Project Title: Wolverine Senior Center Parking lot resurfacing             $50,000

Agency: Cheboygan County Council on Aging

                                                                                                         _________

                                                                  Sub-Total                        $2,185,000

Project Title: Terminal Ramp Rehabilitation (2022)                             $635,000

Agency: Cheboygan Airport Authority

                                                                                                         _________       

                                                                    Total                             $2,820,000

Cheboygan's Countywide Emergency Service Radio Proposal-Is It Truth or Fiction?

I know many of us have already cast absentee ballots for the November 6th election. Others will remain undecided in the booth until they check the box beside their chosen candidates. There are many factors in our personal and private decisions to cast that secret ballot choosing our best candidates to both represent and serve us. I do know old dogs never change. Give them a treat and they will still piddle on the floor. I will clean up after an old dog, but old politicians should just be retired. The incumbents in almost every case will deliver the same old stuff. You reward them with your vote, and they piddle on your foot. Do you want more of the same names, same old ideas, and more wrong decisions? Cheboygan County has a history of making the wrong decisions, time after time. It is time to break that mold and cast our new future.

Remember, the ballot is not a test. You do not have to select a candidate for every available seat. When the section for State Board of Education, Regents, Trustees, of Governors for a University says select not more than two, do not go eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Educate yourself on the candidates and make a wise decision or just skip that section.

The ballots for the November election have a backside with ballot proposals and solicitations for more taxes. Three statewide ballot proposals appear because concerned citizens circulated petitions gaining hundreds of thousands of signatures of support. These grass-roots initiatives placed the decision on the ballot of legalizing and regulation of recreational marijuana, a more apolitical re-districting of congressional, state, and house districts, and a proposed State Constitution reform promoting simpler voting registration and straight party voting. Those are proposals 1, 2, and 3 and the people will decide.

There is a very important countywide ballot proposal seeking .5 mills, 50 cents per $1,000 taxable value for four years to pay for a needed 800MHZ radio upgrade for our first responders. If the need is real, the raise in your property taxes is not.  I sat through county meetings at Mackinaw City, two CCE-911 meetings, and additional meetings back in Cheboygan County. County Administrator Lawson and County Commission Chair John Wallace stated repeatedly that we needed to fund an 800 MHZ radio upgrade for the CCE-911 dispatch service. There was much discussion of telephone surcharges or an extra millage. Employing fuzzy math, the Cheboygan County Board of Commissioners, with Commissioner Cal Gouine the only no vote, proposed .5 mills additional taxes on every taxable parcel in Cheboygan County to raise an estimated $717,761 in the first of four years. Commissioner Gouine stated added millages never seem to go away.

You should know that Cheboygan County has a surplus of unassigned funds totaling $8.035 million dollars. On page five of the 2017 annual audit: “At the close of the current fiscal year, the County’s governmental funds reported combined fund balances of $10,163,232, an increase of $487,404 in comparison with the prior year. Approximately 79%, or $8,035,234, of this amount is available for spending at the government’s discretion (unassigned fund balance).”

The Cheboygan County Policy of 30% unassigned funds exceeds the State of Michigan recommendation of a 15% to 25% “rainy day” fund. The $8.035 million dollars as reported by the auditor is 69% of the annual budget and exceeds the County own fiscal policy by over 100%. Fiscal responsibility should mandate the County Commissioners stop over-taxing us, asking for more millage, and instead spend part of the more than $4 million surplus dollars, our tax dollars they already have stuffed into money-market accounts. Unlike our CCE-911 partners, Emmet and Charlevoix Counties have debt on the books; Cheboygan has been over-taxing us and socking away surpluses, $487,404 in just the last audit year.

When you vote no on the “Countywide Emergency Service Radio Proposal", the Commissioners can go to Plan “B”. Spending part of that $4 million dollars surplus directly funding the CCE-911 800 MHZ Radio improvements will speed the needed upgrades. Taxpayers deserve truth in advertising. The need for the additional millage is instead a bald-faced lie. 

The incumbent County Commissioners, excepting Commissioner Gouine who voted no, are complicit in the deceit. Commissioner Gouine runs unopposed. You can vote the others out on the same ballot that bears their millage proposal. Vote for your new County Commissioners and vote NO to new taxes.   

Same Old, Same Old-A Harbor Master Returns

People still ask, do you think Cheboygan will eventually see the growth and prosperity that our neighboring counties and communities enjoy? It will never occur until Cheboygan recognizes and acknowledges that a community culture based on multi-generational familial relationships bordering on tribalism, and the products of that culture, unreasonable and indefensible biases and prejudices must end.

Cheboygan’s vocabulary does not seem to recognize the words nepotism and cronyism. The same people elect the same people and those people then appoint the same people generation after generation. It becomes an incestuous relationship unmatched since the centuries of Royal inbreeding and political alliances in Europe. The Inverness Township Board’s failures under Clerk Beethem’s leadership to deliver water, the Tuscarora Township Board and Tuscarora DDA’s inability to create a business friendly environment, and the Cheboygan County government’s decades of laisser-faire County Commissioners looking inward and allowing the staff to run the show, all contribute to the ongoing malaise.

What does looking inward mean? County staff reportedly met with the Cheboygan County Waterways Commission, a group of appointees made by the County, in late 2015. They met to discuss the future of the County Marina. They acknowledged that revenues had been dropping for five or six years. Curt Chambers, then serving as Harbor Master, would retire in December 2016 from his $43,542 per year job after 26 years of employment. In a news article on his retirement, Chambers said the perks of the harbormaster position were wonderful. County Administrator Jeff Lawson then proposed to restructure, not to save money, by hiring two or three seasonal Harbor Managers who would report to him. By April of 2017, the Waterways Commission was discussing dropping fuel sales, 18 years of Marina income insufficient to maintain the facility, and the proposed “Harbor Managers” had become a singular Harbor Master.

That Harbor Master, whose 2018 pay was $16.59 an hour, has taken a position with one of the State run harbors at the Straits. County Administrator Jeff Lawson facing recent public complaints on basic maintenance of the County Marina, then looked not inward, but backward and rehired former Cheboygan County Harbor Master Curt Chambers, a County retiree and pensioner. Did Lawson even post the job? Apparently unwilling to work for the existing wage, the County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a 20% increase in pay to $20 per hour. I hope the recent Harbor Master did not resign a $16.59 an hour job and move for better pay. He or she could have had $20 an hour. I suspect he or she instead left for a better boss or better career opportunities.

Reported on the Tribune’s front page, Lawson said, “Because he’s coming back from retirement, he (Chambers) can’t work over 1,000 hours for the county. There would be a pension issue if he did. It’s just a summer position.” It will be a full time position for this fall and all of next summer paying up to $20,000 if Chambers works those 1,000 hours per year. Lawson reported Chambers would not be receiving any retirement or other fringe benefits from the county as their employee.  That is because he is already enjoying a defined benefit pension and full health care benefits as a Cheboygan County retiree.

That was Lawson talking around the subject of civil servant double dipping, a pensioned off person returning to the same job with the same government unit. Most communities would find fault with that practice. It denies a $20 per hour job to a younger person who actually needs a job. Vice-Chair Commissioner Sangster reportedly wants to make sure the county stays attentive to the improvements needed at the facility. Are those the same deferred maintenance needs identified at more than $4 million dollars over a decade ago? The same improvements overlooked for more than two decades. The same people, doing the same job, will usually produce the same results. Until every person in Cheboygan County stands up and demands better, we will continue to see people serving only their own best interests and our communities will continue to suffer.

A Community Standard To Determine What is Blight?

As a community, we are increasingly asking our local government, City, Township, or County to enact and enforce ordinances to eliminate blight or nuisances. Intelligent people approach the subject with trepidation. While we might agree upon the appearance of a blighted or diseased plant, it is not so easy to identify or define blighted private property.

Decades ago, before much of society accepted pornography and obscenity as a norm, the Supreme Court recognized the risk in legislating what constitutes obscenity, and necessarily limited the scope of the criteria. The first measure was “the average person, applying local community standards, looking at the work in its entirety, must find that it appeals to the prurient interest”.

Cheboygan County is by no measure a racially or ethnically diverse community, but it is a very economically diverse community. Bridge magazine in 2015 reported Northern Michigan has some of the worst income disparity in the country.  In Cheboygan County, the top 5% had a median income of $241,494 in 2015. The lowest 20% of income earners had a median income of $10,927. If the Cheboygan County income inequality seems outrageous, Emmet County with a median income for the top 5% of $374,282 and the bottom 20% median income of $13,656 ranked 2^nd in the state among Michigan’s 83 counties.     

The community standards of what looks nice, looks right, looks attractive to these economically diverse groups can vary widely. The owners of a modest home in the City of Cheboygan or a more rural location living within the statistical median family income of $38,000 might have one standard. Keep the grass cut, bring the garbage can back in, and do not turn the front yard into an automobile parking lot or worse, a wrecking yard. The ownership of a nice boat, travel trailer, snowmobiles or atv’s is a matter of pride and will invariably get parked in the front yard for all to see and perhaps envy.

People living in a more up-scale neighborhood or with a cottage on a lake, some of them in that top 5%, with a median $241,494 income, will have a very different standard. Manicured, fertilized, irrigated lawns, leaves raked as they fall, with professional landscaping and flowerbeds surrounding an always maintained and immaculate residence. I know many including myself enjoy that curbside appeal that results from pride of ownership and money freely spent. I cannot personally afford that standard. I know the majority of my neighbors by choice or economic necessity have some lower standard of aesthetics. 

How do we control, minimize, or eliminate private property blight with this huge disparity in incomes, expectations, and community standards? If I were protective of my investment in a $500,000 home, I would organize a formal or informal homeowner’s association to assure everyone in the neighborhood had similar expectations and a shared community standard. Pride of ownership must also compete with our Christian ideology condemning the worship of material goods. Never love anything that cannot love you back.

If you expected me to offer some simple solution to blight, I am sure you are disappointed. After listening to many people’s expectations of what they want a blight ordinance to accomplish, I am always disappointed. I watched the Mullett Township Board under the leadership of Supervisor Mary Anne Gale waste thousands of dollars in legal costs revising and revising again a blight ordinance that she eventually tossed. It started with the most onerous of enforcement action available under Michigan law, eminent domain. Make your house and property meet some community standard set by the top 5% or we will take it away from you. That is as ridiculous as telling a native Cheboyganite that our rusty, trusty, salt corroded winter beater needs to be patched, painted, and polished before it can be driven down your street.  

I do know some of the factors that contribute to blight. Eliminating risk factors, quitting smoking, is easier than curing the disease of lung cancer. We have low-income neighborhoods, old housing stock, many landlord owned units, high poverty rates, people on assistance, low-pay jobs, high seasonal unemployment, high drug use, and many elderly retirees on low fixed incomes. If we want to reduce blight, each of us within our personal means and abilities should be working to mitigate those risk factors.  

There is also public property blight. Our blighted infrastructure, neglected roads, sidewalks, lighting, and other things that new eyes identify as ugly can create a lasting and negative memory for visitors. That is another subject for another day.

An Open Letter to the Cheboygan County Commissioners

Dear Cheboygan County Administrator Jeffery Lawson and County Commissioners John Wallace, Rich Sangster, Cal Gouine, Mike Newman, Bob Bolinger, Karen Johnson, and Roberta Matelski;

I have addressed this to each of you because you should all know that the Cheboygan County voters and taxpayers are not as dumb as you think. Do not tell us one thing and then do another.

I sat through county meetings at Mackinaw City, two CCE-911 meetings, and additional meetings back in Cheboygan County. Mr Lawson and Commissioner Wallace stated repeatedly that we needed to fund an 800 MHZ radio upgrade for the CCE-911 dispatch service and our first responders. There was much discussion of telephone surcharges or an extra millage. Employing still fuzzy math the entire Board agreed to propose .5 mills additional taxes on every taxable parcel in Cheboygan County to raise an estimated $717,761 over four years. That total is $2,877,041 in additional taxes.

That exceeds the earlier estimated cost of $2.74 million dollars. I should repeat again that the county has a surplus of unassigned funds totaling $8.035 million dollars. The Cheboygan County Policy of 30% unassigned funds exceeds the State of Michigan recommendation of a 15% to 25% “rainy day” fund. The $8.035 million dollars as reported by the auditor is 69% of the annual budget and exceeds the County own fiscal policy by over 100%. Fiscal responsibility should mandate the County Commissioners stop borrowing, over-taxing us and instead spend the more than $4 million dollars, our tax dollars, they have stuffed into money-market accounts.

It does get worse. The .5 millage proposed wording as agreed upon by the unanimous agreement of the County Commissioners says nothing at all about an 800 MHZ infrastructure upgrade and new radios for Cheboygan County’s first responders.

It will instead be spent, as the proposal states, “for the purpose of financing facility, equipment, maintenance and operating cost of the Charlevoix, Cheboygan, and Emmet County 911 (CCE) public safety call answering and dispatch services”. It will pay for borrowing money, maintenance, and operating cost for the entire Charlevoix, Cheboygan, and Emmet County 911 (CCE) public safety call answering and dispatch services. That far exceeds the stated need to pay for upgrades to 800 MHZ radios.

Taxpayers deserve truth in advertising. This millage proposal is a bald-faced lie. The incumbent County Commissioners are complicit in the deceit; they should be voted out of office on the same ballot that bears their millage proposal. 

Let these people who have lied to us about the need for additional taxes know this nonsense must stop. Their emails are public. I encourage you to personally let them know that Cheboygan County does not need any more lies.   

Vote for your new County Commissioners and vote NO to new taxes.   

Thank you,

Carl Muscott

Indian River

Elect Carl Muscott as your Cheboygan County Commissioner for District Six. Please make a vote for our future on the August 7, 2018 Primary ballot.   

 

 

CHARLEVOIX, CHEBOYGAN, AND EMMET COUNTY 911 CONSOLIDATED DISPATCH SERVICES MILLAGE PROPOSAL

Shall the total property rate in Cheboygan County be increased by .5 of a mill (1/2 of a mill or 50 cents for each $1,000 of valuation) and levied for (4) years, beginning in the year 2019 and continuing through the year 2022, inclusive, for the purpose of financing facility, equipment, maintenance and operating cost of the Charlevoix, Cheboygan, and Emmet County 911 (CCE) public safety call answering and dispatch services? If approved and levied in its entirety, this millage raises an estimated $717,761, in the first calendar year after its approval.

Shall the proposal be adopted? ___ YES ____ No

July 5-2018 email to Cheboygan County Commissioners

Dear Commissioners,

I see again in the Cheboygan Tribune that the County of Cheboygan and specifically Administrator Jeffrey Lawson is planning to participate further in this ruse of alleged mediation meetings perpetrated by some members of the Inverness Township Board. I had previously requested the Board of Commissioners suspend Cheboygan County's involvement in the dispute until the Inverness recall situation was legally resolved.  

Last year Mr Lawson had publicly stated in a Board meeting he was "fully qualified" to mediate a meeting between the city and township. In response to a FOIA request seeking proof of his certification or training Mr Lawson stated in writing he had "no qualifications" as mediator. The series of secretive meetings attended by Mr Lawson have had only partial participation by the Inverness Board and the City of Cheboygan Council. To the best of my my knowledge, these secretive closed doors meetings were also attended by the legal counsels representing the two parties.

Administrator Jeffrey Lawson, publicly admitting he is not a qualified mediator, is at best a third wheel that opens Cheboygan County to the possibility of increased exposure to litigation. The Inverness Board and the City of Cheboygan Council are both represented by their respective legal counsel and those lawyers have professional  experience resolving agreements. Mediators do have some legal definition in Michigan and especially mediators acting pre-trial.  The Community Dispute Resolution  Act  260 of 1988 provides some protection from civil liability to a mediator trained and acting under that act. 

http://courts.mi.gov/administration/scao/officesprograms/odr/pages/mediation.aspx

This would all be quite a mess to sort out if Meijer still had any intention to build in Cheboygan County. Who gets sued for the deliberative delays that have created an unwritten moratorium blocking a Meijer store? Everyone and especially Mr Lawson posing as a "mediator". 

Carl Muscott

Excerpt from February 19, 2018 email to B of C.

Finally, after several years of inaction, Mr Lawson reversed his position and offered to mediate the negotiations between the parties. I heard, and the Tribune reported, "Both Cheboygan County Administrator Jeff Lawson and Community Development Director Steve Schnell are fully qualified to mediate a meeting between the city and the township." When I inquired, Lawson stated he had no certifications or training as a mediator and could not speak for Mr Schnell's qualifications. I see that as the head of the County's administration knowingly uttering a false statement. After almost four months of Mr Lawson's efforts conducted while he ignores his county responsibilities, neither party has sat down across from each other at a table.

Vote NO to the County Commissioners Planned Millage

Cheboygan County wants to needlessly raise your taxes again. Please take a moment to respond to their proposed ballot question with a NO on this survey link.

* Shall the total property rate in Cheboygan County be increased by .5 of a mill (1/2 of a mill or 50 cents for each $1,000 of valuation) and levied for 4 years, beginning in the year 2019 and continuing through the year 2022, inclusive, for the purpose of financing facility, equipment, maintenance and operating cost of the Charlevoix, Cheboygan, and Emmet County 911 (CCE) public safety call answering and dispatch services? If approved and levied in its entirety, this millage raises an estimated $717,761, in the first calendar year after its approval. 

Vote NO to tax increase

I have been a local government "Watchdog" for years and need a seat at the table to better represent taxpayers and move Cheboygan County toward a brighter future.

I am the Republican candidate for Distinct Six County Commissioner. If you reside in Tuscarora or Mentor Township, please vote for me on the August 7, 2018 Republican Primary Ballot. I need your support and please spread the word.

The incumbent has more than 20 years at the table with nothing of note accomplished. It is time for a change.

I am always ready to hear what you have to say. Please contact me with your concerns or questions.

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