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Accomplishments as County Board Chairman

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• Reduced County-Portion of Property Taxes – Despite increases in city taxes that cause overall propertytaxes to increase, the county portion of your tax levy decreased 22%

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•  Animal Control - Achieved no-kill status in 2019, while reducing the cost of Animal Control by $220,000

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•  Tax Levy - County Board voted to reduce tax levy by $1.8 million in November 2017. In November 2018, did not raise tax levy.

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• Public Safety - County Board approved budget increasing resources for public safety: one more Sheriff’s deputy, four jailers, one probation officer, one public defender, and one deputy coroner.

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• Purchasing – saved money through honest and open bidding

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• Buildings – saved millions in courthouse and jail renovation, correcting decades of deferred maintenance

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• County employee management – Require county employees to track hours worked by clocking in and out, tracked by an HR info system just like the private sector

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• Metro East Sanitary District – Appointed new leadership, improved drainage, and saved millions

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Accomplishments as a citizen

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• 2011 – a leader in campaign that defeated 1% sales tax

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• 2013 – a leader in defeating the $18.8 million backdoor tax increase to remodel jail

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• 2016 – led campaign to put tax cut referendum on November ballot. Voters approved (4 to 1) reducing general fund tax rate from .25 to .20, saving taxpayers $2.5 million/year.

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• Accomplishments as County Treasurer 2010-2016

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• Exposed unethical tax sales. In 2014, former treasurer Fred Bathon went to federal prison for criminal bid-rigging.

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• Reduced budget by 30%. Saves $300,000/year

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• Ran ETHICAL tax sales – with penalty rates 4% (compared to Bathon’s 18%)

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• Exposed investment scheme between two prior treasurers and on Little Rock, Arkansas bond salesman

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• Increased deposits in LOCAL banks, from $30 to $90 million