Use state and federal grants and direct improvement funds toward drainage, pump stations, and water infrastructure.
Evaluate departments for 10% savings and freeze open positions before reducing essential services.
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Clean energy investments
Streamline rooftop and community-solar development, expand energy-efficiency financing and rebates, and install solar-plus-battery systems on public facilities.
Terminate participation in the Clean Energy Connection program.
Flood protection systems
Coordinate flood-risk reduction, enforce resilient building standards in high-hazard flood zones, and pursue FEMA Community Rating System savings.
Invest in stormwater systems, flood protection, emergency preparedness, and recoverable infrastructure.
Beach protection projects
Invest in mangroves, oyster reefs, sea oats, living shorelines, and hybrid coastal defenses.
Supports beach-renourishment and coastal-protection projects to protect property, infrastructure, tourism, and shoreline access.
Affordable housing redevelopment
Replace aging parks with resilient, energy-efficient condominium communities and give low- and moderate-income residents first opportunity to rent or purchase replacement units.
Continue property-tax-rate reductions for housing costs and move more than 30 inspection types online.
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Conservation Chair, Suncoast Sierra Club
2022 to presentCommissioner - District 2, Pinellas County