My Bio
I have served Waukesha County as Supervisor for District 21 (eastern New Berlin) since 2018. At present I serve on the Finance and Health and Human Services Committees. These are two of the most important Board committees, as Finance reviews and approves the annual budgets of all County departments every year, and Health and Human Services is the largest department in the County in terms of personnel and expenditures. In previous terms, I have served on the Human Resources and Public works Committees.
In connection with my duties as Supervisor, I serve on numerous committees and boards which address issues facing the County. These include the Health and Human Services (HHS) Board, the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Board, the Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) Advisory Board, the Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) Steering Committee and Healthy Aging Action Team, and the Criminal Justice Collaborating Council (CJCC) Alternative Interventions Committee.
I am an Elmbrook New Berlin Senior Taxi Board member and an active member St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish.
I retired from We Energies at the end of 2019 after 30+ years in the Finance, Regulatory Affairs, Marketing, and Corporate Planning Departments. My primary responsibilities involved forecasting energy usage for financial, operational, and long term planning purposes.
I received my Master of Science degree in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985. I received my Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983.
I've lived in southeast Wisconsin my entire life (except for college years). I have been a New Berlin resident since 1991. I have been married for 37 years and have two grown daughters. I recently became a grandfather, so I'm back into babysitting, and I'm enjoying that immensely. I get to play and take naps!
In my leisure time, l enjoy golfing (although you wouldn't guess that from my scores), participating in a fantasy baseball league for nearly forty years (winning the league title a grand total of two times), and cheering on Wisconsin sports teams, including the Badgers, Packers, Bucks, Brewers, Golden Eagles, and Panthers.
My Key Issues
Public safety
Protecting the lives of the public is obviously the most important responsibility of any government. That said, I would define public safety broadly to include protecting public health (physical and mental), as well as supporting law enforcement. I was an early and consistent supporter of Waukesha County's innovative program of embedding mental health professionals in the Sheriff's department and emergency dispatch center. This gets the right people to the location of crises so that people get the help they need, frees up law enforcement personnel for other duties, and ultimately saves lives and money.
Fiscal Responsibility
We need to maintain the County's excellence in providing essential services (e.g. public safety and health) while practicing real fiscal responsibility. Otherwise, people will choose to live and work elsewhere and we'll be facing a downward spiral of poorer services and higher taxes. In each of the eight years that I have been on the Board, the County has decreased property tax rates to the second lowest in the state and maintained its coveted AAA bond rating. To build on this success, we must expand our tax base, continue to improve the efficiency of our operations, and explore all avenues to generate revenue, including working with the state for fairer revenue sharing to fund mandated services.
Community Health and Wellness
As a member of the Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) Steering Committee, we developed a five year plan to identify and address the three highest priority aspects of public health in Waukesha County. The areas we identified are Mental Health, Substance Use, and Healthy Aging. Action teams were established to develop action plans for each of these areas. These plans are presently being implemented. I serve on the Healthy Aging Action Team and we are working to reduce falls and promote social connectedness for seniors.
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13795 W Pleasant View Dr, New Berlin, WI 53151, USA