Climate and Environment

• Continue to support the creation of new public transportation options to reduce our carbon footprint, offering public education on these important issues
• Encourage renewable energy sources for all county buildings and new development
• Assist lower income homeowners with an energy audit; seal homes to reduce fuel consumption
• Encourage schools to continue to compost and reduce food waste
• Encourage residents to chose Energy Star products when replacing old appliances
• Continue to work on the Solid Waste Advisory Board (SWAG) to reduce our waste stream; support new technology efforts converting waste to fuel
• Encourage the acquisition of land through the “Lands Legacy Program” to protect important natural habitats and forests
• Support Orange County’s Voluntary Farmland Preservation Program currently 121 farms, 15,433 acres, about 6% of the county.

Economic Development

• Work with our Economic Development team to identify and attract new business. In 2019, I assisted in the negotiation of over $100 million dollars invested in the Buckhorn EDD, bringing 650 living wage jobs over the next 5 years.
• Continue to support local business with Article 46 tax dollar grants
• Work with UNC “Innovate Carolina” to create space and retain new start business in Orange County
• Support and continue working with the laUNCh business incubator
• Continue to support Women Entrepreneurs at “WEpower”
• Grow tourism though the Orange County Visitors Bureau, promoting clean Economic Development
• Support programs at Durham Tech – Orange County Campus to support newly located company workforce

Affordable Housing

• Allocate remaining funds from the 2016 bond
• Continue conversations with town leaders to identify housing opportunities
• Continue working with Orange County’s housing non-profit organizations to enhance housing stock
• Consider land by Carrboro Elementary for teacher and school staff housing
• Continue to explore affordable housing options with our partners on the Greene Tract  – currently 100 families are homeless in the CHCCS system, we can and must do better
• Revisit zoning options to make it easier to build a variety of housing

Schools

• Continue to address unfunded state mandates
• Support efforts to increase safety on all school property
• Identity funding sources; increase economic development
• Support ongoing data presented in SAFPO
• Continue discussions on where to locate new schools
• Continue to address inequities between old and newer schools
• Encourage the schools to make all custodians CHCCS employees paid a living wage
• Continue to encourage a long-term maintenance plan for all facilities

Social Justice

• Push an anti-racist message and voice opposition to hate groups
• Continue efforts with UNC to assure students and faculty are safe on campus
• Support the Human Relations Committee’s programs and outreach efforts
• Implement new transportation concepts for rural Orange County
• Continue to help people relocate from manufactured homes where land is being sold for redevelopment
• Continue conversations with the Compass Center to create safe homes for women and children in abusive relationships
• Work with the Department on Aging to make sure our seniors are safe and have access to regular meals
• Continue working with the Partnership to End Homelessness and the Family Success Alliance to identify families needing assistance with basic needs such water and electricity – children need these essentials to perform well in school

Leadership, Boards and Commissions

• Rotating Chair – Chatham-Orange Joint Planning Task Force
• Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization
• Orange County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council
• Legislative Issues Workgroup
• Solid Waste Advisory Group
• Triangle J Council of Governments
• Upper Neuse River Basin Association
• Finance Chair – Orange County Visitor’s Bureau
• NCDOT – Orange County group
• School Collaboration
• Chapel Hill/Carrboro Chamber of Commerce “Big Ideas” initiative
• Rural Broadband Workgroup
• Kenan Mentor Board of Directors
• School of Government Ambassador Leadership Alum

Sponsored Resolutions

• Resolution in Response to Recent Acts of Racial and Ethnic Intimidation on the Campus of UNC-Chapel Hill
• Resolution Supporting the More Powerful NC Campaign Against the Opioid Epidemic
• Resolution Supporting North Carolina’s Working People and Their Families
• Resolution in Support of Expanding Medicaid Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act
• Resolution Condemning the Ku Klux Klan and Other Similar Group