Winnebago County Board,
District 10- Neenah
Winnebago County Board,
District 10- Neenah
You need a representative who listens to you, supports your ideas, and fights for the needs of your community. You deserve a representative who respects you, your rights, and treats you as an equal. Look no further for someone who truly cares for you and our community.
Let's get our voice heard! The next Winnebago County Board meeting is coming up soon. Please let me know how I can be your voice or, better yet, join me for the meeting!
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Your voice serves all of us. Thank you for your commitment.
Focus on those we serve and be the voice in Winnebago County for those in District 10. Protect and champion the innocent; foster a safe environment for all residents to live, worship, work, and play. Uphold civil liberties and fundamental rights for all within our community. Every. Single. Person.
We have significant issues with opioid and fentanyl abuse and deaths, as well as suicide. Our neighbors are suffering. While we have started to address this, we need a coordinated, multi-faceted approach focused on proactive mental health care, easy-to-access resources, law enforcement resources, and a focus on long-term recovery. I will work to establish a task force to address overdose deaths and suicides.
The tone and manner of local governance must change. Too much silo and fiefdom thinking, poor communication, and a lack of focus on those we serve. First, find ways to build bridges within county government and avoid getting in the way of serving our neighbors. Then, forge pathways and create true partnerships with all the local municipalities. We are in this together! We must work with all community members and encourage all voices to be heard (especially with those you disagree with); open, transparent, and accountable communications within governmental bodies and the community we serve.
Fight labels and bullying; stop tearing others down; invest in building skills and educational opportunities for all our residents; seek to encourage entrepreneurial spirit by offering support, reducing roadblocks to startup and small businesses; help the community grow and improve without dragging others down.
We can’t thrive as a community if we don’t address our critical needs, identify goals, and institute a clearly communicated and supported plan. Providing the service levels and programs we all enjoy in the community without a strong infrastructure will be challenging. We must maintain our assets (buildings, properties, work vehicles, etc.) and ensure long-term financial stability. I will push for a strategic plan and a fiscally sound budget without asking for more from our neighbors.
We must focus on fiscal responsibility to ensure a strong and vibrant community. This includes ensuring our long-term services and programs are sustainable beyond short-term grants and taking from our reserve funds. We must ensure our significant bureaucracy growth is fiscally viable beyond the current budget. While the Spirit Fund Commission concept is more transparent in distributing ARPA funds than most other governmental bodies, the process should be evaluated, improved, and more clearly communicated. I also support the reevaluation of the process and the remaining fund balance.
As a lifelong Wisconsinite and a resident of Neenah with my wife and son for over 20 years, I know Neenah and Winnebago County are extraordinary places to live, worship, work, and play. I am honored to represent my neighbors and be a voice for Neenah in Winnebago County.
I have been privileged to serve on the Winnebago County Board since 2021 as a standing member, including participating and leading in the annual budgeting process.
From 2021-2022, I was a member of the Winnebago County Human Services Board and Aviation Committee.
Since the April 2022-2024 term, I have had many leadership roles, service roles, and participation in the budgeting cycle.
I have many experiences in servant leadership and management focused on the growth of people and the organization.
I have built upon my various business management roles at Aurora Health Care, Bemis Manufacturing Company, and Kimberly Clark Corporation to lead large cross-functional teams to achieve our goals. I started and have been running a small business retail chain store with my wife since 2007, operating in Neenah, Appleton, Greenfield, and Brookfield. I am also an adjunct professor in the Business and Economics Department at Concordia University Wisconsin and have substitute taught at Fox Valley Lutheran High School. I hold an MBA in Marketing with various post-graduate certificates in Management, Marketing, Insight Generation, and Critical Thinking Systems. I also sit on the advisory committee for Entrepreneurial Studies at Fox Valley Technical College.
I volunteer or sponsor many organizations focusing throughout Winnebago County, including Junior Achievement, Fox Valley Technical College, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Safe Families for Children, Men of His Word in Oshkosh, and Lifest. I was also an advisor for the Fox Valley Lutheran High School Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) chapter and judge at DECA events.
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