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As a proud citizen of Westerville I feel that my experience, skills, and perspective will benefit the direction of our city. It's an opportunity to give back to the community I love.

I am a business owner, homeowner, and family man all in Westerville. I have used a majority of the services and amenities in the city and can provide applicable feedback. I view the city as business whose purpose is to return the best value for tax dollars invested. My profession as a financial advisor, tax preparer, and business owner is a natural fit for a role in guiding our city's resources.

25 years

Westerville is small enough where you can be familiar with people when you are in the community, but large enough where we have plenty of amenities and conveniences. Westerville is made up of many great people with different viewpoints and when needed I have seen the community forget differences and come together as a whole.

My business is located in Westerville so I get to spend a good part of my work week meeting and helping people in Westerville. My church is located in Westerville. My daughters are plugged into the dance community, which by default plugs my wife and I into that community. As parents my wife and are plugged into our children's schools.

I apply the two ears and one mouth approach. Listen well and process the information before responding. In that process I try to look at issues from multiple perspectives. I grant that when someone's viewpoint is different than mine that they are coming from a place of genuine concern and so I don't take a different viewpoint as an attack, but an opportunity.

We need leaders who recognize the difference between elected official and activist. Taxpayer dollars are pooled by the city to benefit every person equally. The spending of tax dollars needs to honor that principle. City officials need to understand that the citizens have placed their trust in them to lead the city as a whole, not small pockets of people who share their beliefs, that is activism. Staying in your lane as city council is imperative.

• Serve the defined role of City Council

• City works FOR the citizens culture

• Promote community

Recently some of our current city council has decided to impose their politics on the citizens at taxpayer expense.. Spending for the benefit of ALL citizens with prudent and grounded guidance is the role of city council. I will stay in my lane as city council should. I will not use city council as a platform for activism.

It means that as we develop the small amount of land attached to Westerville that we incorporate Westerville's small town history into the design and zoning approval. As a city we hold onto the core of what makes Westerville desirable as we grow.

I will support a well trained, well supplied, and well respected police force. I will continue the good work the city has done already to provide great parks and recreational amenities. I will do my best to listen and give a voice to residents and businesses that feel unheard.

One cultural shift that I would like to see in Westerville is the city works FOR the people. When a business comes with a proposal to the city the answer should not be 'no', the answer will be let's see how the city can help you.

I would hope that if I am elected and once my tenure is over that the people of Westerville remember that the city was in a golden age during that time, but may not remember my name because I simply came to do the job. I stayed in my lane.

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