ISSUES

We must address in the 1st District and throughout St. Louis County.

Rita Days

Crime Reduction

- Help make our communities safer
- Address problem and nuance properties
- Work with local municipalities to have a coordinated approach to crime
- Work to attract diverse talent to our police and public safety agencies
- Work with police to address traffic problems
- Strengthen our neighborhoods and communities

Improve the Quality of Our Neighborhoods

- Attract diverse quality housing to the district
- Help support existing home owners
- Help seniors remain in their homes if they like
- Help attract goods and services to our communities
- Work with the police and citizens to help make our communities safe

Jobs and Economic Opportunities

- Support existing business and employers in the district
- Work with the County and local Cities to aggressively attract new business to the district
- Work with our universities, social service agencies, school systems, unions and business communities to develop programs to train a local workforce

Diversity and Inclusion

- Improve access to jobs for minorities and women in St. Louis County government
- Improve access to business opportunities for minority and women owned businesses
- Increase the diversity of St. Louis County’s Boards and Commissions
- Transparency - Require that St. Louis County publicly provides monthly diversity reports

St. Louis County Government

- Demand TRANSPARENCY and ACCOUNTABLITY from the County Executive and St. Louis County government on all issues
- Demand that the County Executive and St. Louis County government provide the 1st District with the resources necessary to address the needs of the district
- Work with other members of the Council
- Demand transparency with the County budget
- Develop programing for St. Louis County youth

Covid-19 response

- Use Covid funds to assist those communities who have been decimated by Covid
- Use Covid funds to develop programing for those underserved communities whose conditions worsened the impact of Covid
- Assist small businesses in the 1st District who were negatively impacted by Covid
- Assist those school’s systems in the 1st District whose student were impacted by Covid

Criminal Justice

- Set minimum standards for all police departments
- Improve the training for police officers
- Track problem police officers (St. Louis County and local municipalities)
- Improve the diversity of the St. Louis County Police Department
- Criminal Justice Reform

Seniors

- Make sure our seniors have access to goods and services
- Working with communities to make sure our seniors are safe
- Advocating for secure, quality housing for seniors

Youth

- Fighting for a recreation center for North County
- Assist local school districts to help them educate and prepare our youth

IT'S OUR DUTY TO LEAVE OUR COMMUNITY BETTER THAN WE FOUND IT AND I AM COMMITTED TO SEE TO THAT HAPPENING..