Priorities

Local option receipts in Massachusetts are an important source of revenue for towns because they provide municipalities with additional financial flexibility and help reduce reliance on property taxes. These receipts include revenue from local option taxes on meals, hotels, and recreational cannabis, as well as excise taxes on motor vehicles and other locally adopted fees. By properly managing these revenue streams, towns can generate funds to support essential services such as education, public safety, infrastructure maintenance, and community programs.

Additionally, local option receipts help towns maintain financial stability and invest in long-term projects without relying only on increased property taxes. The funds collected through these sources can be allocated toward capital improvements, debt reduction, or targeted initiatives that enhance the local quality of life. By leveraging local option revenues strategically, Natick ensures sustainable financial health while meeting the evolving needs of the town.

Natick can attract, retain and support its businesses without resorting to tax breaks or incentives and I've worked to do precisely this.

Natick is an expensive town in which to purchase or rent a home. Many who advocate the town expand its affordable housing stock cite the benefit of increasing the diversity of its residents, but it is more than only that. Many of our police officers and firefighters, town employees, and people who grew up in Natick cannot afford to live here. Increasing our affordable housing stock is critical, not only because of the need for affordable housing, but to avoid "unfriendly" 40B developments if the town falls out of the 10% state mandate, or falls out of "Safe Harbor."  Read More

Natick's Town Charter, which establishes and defines the structure of town government and distributes powers, duties and responsibilities among local offices was approved by the voters in 1980. Although it has since been updated through amendments, the Charter needs to be comprehensively reviewed to determine whether the current form of government best serves its residents. So I have been asked, "do you support the Charter Commission process?"

While Natick cannot defeat climate change on its own, our community must continue to commit the necessary time and resources to implement our ambitious 2021-2025 Net Zero Action Plan. Read More

I have been asked several times in different forums the reasons I do not support running Natick town government like a business. Here I explain my personal philosophy on government and how I believe Natick can adopt best practice from the private sector while providing its residents first-in-class services. Read More