MAYORAL RECORD

FINANCIAL REFORM AND GROWTH

• Consecutive budgets that cut taxes and spending

• I created a Finance Committee to work on fiscal issues

• Long-term financial plan

• Tax abatement and revolving loan fund - developed to spur economic

growth

• Dozens of new and relocated businesses in Isanti

• Main Street business development

• Local jobs - increased by 30% since being elected Mayor

Received statewide Business Recruitment Award for EverCat biodiesel

plant (awarded by Minnesota’s Economic Development Association)

RESPONSIBLE CITY GOVERNMENT

Formal City Rules and Procedures - proposed and passed, first time in

City history

• Foreclosure Management Program- named best in State

• Pavement of all remaining gravel Isanti roads completed by end of

2010 - including soccer field area of Third Avenue, and Railroad Ave.

• Development Impact List - created and provided to City Council to

understand costs and benefits of development

• Neighborhood preservation - protected from proposed City Projects

• Isantian newsletter and new City website - developed to improve

communication

• Mayor’s Great Yard Award and Mayor’s Employer Appreciation Award -

created to recognize individuals and encourage a quality environment

CITIZEN SAFETY

• Water treatment plant completed to remove cancer-causing radium

from our drinking water

• Railroad crossing arms installed at Cajima and to be installed at

South Passage in 2010

• Theft, robbery and burglary down in 2009