Issues for Chico

The current city council conservative majority has failed and my opponent would continue with the same failed policies. My opponent wants MORE money for cops—at $36 million already (nearly 40% of the budget), how much more? 50%? 75%? Meanwhile; emergency response times throughout our district are double the national average thanks to no fire station, and firefighters are paid 30% less than the next 15 cities of comparable size in California.

CPD already can’t recruit enough street cops, since they’re tired of being overworked so much (and on ineffective nonsense like this)—the word is out, that Chico has become a terrible place to be a cop.

He had FIVE YEARS—as the CHIEF, no less—to fix CPD. He FAILED. And now, he… wants a promotion?

We need to properly fund our Fire Protection Services and build Fire Station 6. We need to repair our roads and implement cutting edge mobile phone infrastructure, so there's no more dropped calls.

We can work more effectively with local Non-Governmental Organizations, like the DCBA, Chamber of Commerce, Commercial Real Estate developers, to reinvest towards a thriving downtown business environment.

We can fund this with savings from:

• fixing the Chico Police Department mismanagement and their bungled homelessness approach;

• freeze on top salaries;

• top-to-bottom review of city spending since 2018, especially with so much closed session work;

• ending of legal fights over Legal Services agreement;

• a bond measure.