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In the NEWS

Elected Experience

  • Elected to Waukesha County Executive Committee

  • Waukesha County Human Resources Chair

  • Waukesha County Health & Human Services Board Chair

  • Waukesha County Joint Conference Committee Chair (oversees the Waukesha County Mental Heath Center)

  • Waukesha County Heroin Task Force Co-Chair

  • Waukesha County Community Development Block Grant Board Vice Chair (federal funds are used to address issues such as homeless prevention and shelter, food and nutirition, domestic abuse, parenting, medical & mental heath, and transportation)

  • Bridges Library System Board of Trustees

  • County Executive Representative on the Community Action Coalition Board of South Central Wisconsin (whose mission is to end poverty)

  • UWM@Waukesha Representative on the UWM Board of Visitors

  • Wisconsin Counties Association Health and Human Services Steering Committee

  • Vice Chair of the NACo (National Association of Counties) Commmunity, Economic & Workforce Development Steering Committee

  • Vice Chair of the NACo Arts & Culture Commission

  • Served on the NACo Housing Task Force

  • Served on the NACo Economic Mobility Leadership Network

Community Involvement

  • Friends of the Women's Center

  • Friends of the Waukesha Public Library Board of Directors

  • Carroll University Community Council

  • United Way Safe & Stable Homes Advisory Council

  • Plowshare Fair Trade Marektplace Board of Directors

  • Waukesha Reads Steering Committee

  • Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books Program Committee

  • Member of Waukesha Citizens Police Academy Assocation

  • Member of Library Public Art Committee

  • Member of the Waukesha County Historical Society and Museum

  • Member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation

  • Retired Language Arts teacher, Butler Middle School, 30 Years

Results for
Waukesha

  • Voted for 12 Waukesha Coutny budgets that have kept us with the second lowest county tax rate in Wisconsin

  • Voted to maintain best budgeting practices to protect Waukesha County's AAA bond ratings that has saved hundreds of thoustands of dollars

  • Strongly supported and voted for county/city Health and Wellnes Clinic that has saved city taxpayers $83 million over 8 years

  • Chair annual Heath and Human Services (HHS) Public Hearing and Community Needs Presentations to help our HHS Board give the County Executive important input on the budget

  • Led the successful fight and voted to expand embedded mental heath professionals working with our Sheriff's Department, Waukesha Police, and emergency call center

  • Strongly supported and voted for new Mental Health Crisis Stabilization Center

  • Co-Chair Heroin Task Force (whose mission is working together to break the cycle of substance use through community action and hope!) whose work has helped reduce overdose deaths

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