Effective Leadership on our Economy
For the past eight years I have been fortunate to have the chance to serve on the Asheville City Council. These are some of the accomplishments that I am proud to have been a part of:
- We partnered with Buncombe County to bring Linamar to Asheville, who will create at least 400 or more good paying manufacturing jobs and put the property formerly occupied by Volvo back into productive use.
- We invested substantially in Mountain BizWorks to help provide aspiring small business owners with loans to help them get their new businesses off the ground.
- We adopted a policy to assure that Asheville employees and contractors with the city are paid a living wage.
- We partnered on the development of projects like the Glen Rock Hotel Apartments on the French Broad Riverfront, which provides 60 families with an attractive, affordable home.
- We held the line on property tax rates.
- We invested more than $35 million to fix our long neglected water infrastructure.