I will prioritize public safety policies that promote community engagement, address underlying causes of crime, and build trust between law enforcement and residents.

Let’s get back to the basics by:

• Exploring innovative and effective strategies to ensure that accurate and rapid information regarding public safety is communicated to all residents by leveraging the latest technologies and communication platforms. Additionally, streamlining crisis coordination between city departments and external partners for rapid response.

• Creating comprehensive school safety plans that involve all partners, including students, parents, teachers, and community members, addressing issues such as emergency preparedness, crisis response, and the prevention of bullying, harassment, and violence.

• Implementing solutions to prevent pedestrian and auto accidents to make the streets walkable including adding more midblock crosswalks, doubling down on overhead street lighting, increasing compensation for crosswalk employees, and planting trees and greenery to increase the urban canopy.

• Prioritizing community policing through building strong relationships between law enforcement officers and the communities they serve to foster trust, improve communication, and help prevent crime.

At any age and any stage, everyone deserves a quality, safe, and affordable place to call home.

Let’s get back to the basics by:

• Increasing access to quality housing options across a broad spectrum that is attainable for all income levels through increased investments from the city's Redevelopment Agency in affordable housing developments, zoning changes that promote private investments, and grants to homeowners to increase neighborhood vibrancy and livability.

• Encouraging homeownership and wealth building by expanding accessibility to incentives for first-time homebuyers, such as down payment assistance programs and additional support for public servants who call Ogden home, such as educators, firefighters, police officers, postal workers, and Ogden City Employees.

• Supporting affordable rental housing by providing tax incentives for landlords who rent to low-income tenants, creating a rental assistance program, and increasing funding for affordable housing developments.

• Addressing the root causes of housing affordability such as income inequality and lack of economic opportunity. This can be done by promoting human-centered economic development, increasing access to education and job training programs, and working to retain and expand existing businesses, as well as attracting new businesses to Ogden.

As your mayor, I will bring the community into every decision made at every level.

Let’s get back to the basics by:

• Establishing a participatory budgeting process that ensures Ogden residents have a voice in how their tax dollars are spent will be a top priority. Under this process, residents will have the opportunity to suggest projects and programs that they believe should be funded by the city. These suggestions will be collected and compiled into a list of proposed projects, which will be presented to the community for review and discussion. Residents will then be invited to rank projects they believe should be funded. We will hold public meetings in different neighborhoods throughout the city, and provide information in multiple languages.

• Increasing government transparency by making government documents, budgets, and meetings more accessible to residents. I will create a user-friendly website with easy-to-find information and an opt-in system to disseminate regular information vital to residents.

• Increasing accessibility to city facilities, especially City Hall, by literally and figuratively unlocking and opening the doors.

• Using social media to connect with residents and provide regular updates on city government activities. We will continue to live stream city council meetings, post video recaps discussing important issues, and directly and consistently respond to residents' questions and concerns on social media platforms.

• Providing multilingual services ensuring that all residents, regardless of their language, can access government services and information. This will include providing translation services, creating multilingual documents, and hiring and increasing compensation for bilingual staff.