Priorities
Our Challenges
You have worked alongside me; you know I’m a workhorse. I’m not coming to this job to phone it in or offer platitudes.
Our family put down roots in El Dorado County 50 years ago and have been tending the land, and making great wine ever since. As an outdoors person, mother, and active businesswoman from an agricultural El Dorado family, I understand the issues and share your concerns.
In farming, we need to respond to the dynamic environment and be flexible enough to ensure our crops are healthy and productive. Any farmer unwilling to be responsive, proactive, and adaptive stands to lose what they’ve worked hard to create. The future is coming, and we are not ready.
We cannot survive unless our county leaders have the courage to look forward, build a strong, resilient economy, meet the needs of our residents, and put policies in place that protect our open space, rivers, forests, and agriculture.
Our community has tremendous energy and passion. I believe we can prepare for the future in a way that protects our culture, our way of life, and our precious landscape.
Local Economy & Community Support
If our economy relies on big box stores AND formulas, what makes us different?
Support a rural economy that protects our open space—gives local residents the autonomy to support local businesses, and creates a unique future for El Dorado.
Exercise proactive control over our economic destiny. Otherwise, we will be steamrolled by outside pressures, and lose our culture and the open space we love. To do nothing means the death of our home.
Because county processes can be super frustrating to deal with, we will create a responsive local government that facilitates the rights of residents instead of getting in the way.
Shift our county’s culture so that we are supporting residents to build their dreams, and providing opportunities to re-invest in our local economy.
Housing
It’s time to Create a plan that ensures we have adequate housing, especially for residents, as they are ready to downsize.
Create a housing plan in a way that addresses our community needs and maintains our open space, outdoor beauty, and quality of life.
Maintain and support the thoughtful land-use planning we’ve put in place to prioritize and protect our rural, agricultural, historic, and open space zoning, and limit suburban sprawl as we responsibly meet State-mandated obligations.
Planning for a secure and stable future
The future is coming, and we are not ready.
Create long-term economic and environmental resilience.
Plan a future that creates security for our unique culture and our residents. We have great building blocks, but if we don’t put a plan in place that supports our independence, we will not be economically sustainable, and we will lose the things we love most about living here.
SAFE AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
Protecting our land and our loved ones.
Support the men and women of law enforcement, the people who put their lives on the line each day to ensure our safety. The same goes for firefighters, EMTs and other first responders who are there when we need them most. These are the public servants who help make ours a safe and healthy community.
Support and facilitate wildfire preparedness, community engagement and education for emergencies and identify opportunities, funding, and programs to improve the resiliency and preparedness of the county.
