Why a Community-Backed Agenda?
I do not think a candidate should walk into a city of nearly 100,000 people pretending he already has every answer.
A campaign platform should tell residents what a candidate believes. It should also leave room for residents to show the candidate where he is wrong, what he missed, and what deserves more attention.
The public should be able to see the agenda changing.
This website is being built so residents can support a priority, oppose it, request changes, or submit something entirely new. That does not mean every online vote automatically becomes City policy. It means community priorities deserve an organized, visible path into the campaign's research and decision-making.
“You set the priorities. I do the homework.”
Not every promise is the same.
A Commissioner can personally promise to read the material, meet residents, explain a vote, introduce an idea, advocate, and cast a vote. A Commissioner cannot honestly guarantee that six other elected officials will agree. The site therefore labels commitments according to who actually controls the outcome.
Changing a position is not automatically a failure.
If better facts, a legal limitation, a fiscal problem, or strong community evidence changes my position, the appropriate response is to explain what changed and why—not quietly rewrite history.