What I care about
These are the questions I keep coming back to.
What helps Livingston students learn, grow, and succeed? These four priorities are where I think the Board’s work connects most directly to that question, both now and in the years ahead.
Excellent Schools, Great Educators
Our students deserve excellent teachers, staff, programs, and learning opportunities. I want Livingston to remain a place where great educators want to build their careers, and that means looking carefully at compensation, benefits, staffing, and the conditions that help people do their best work.
Sustainable School Finances
I want us to look beyond one budget year at a time. Recurring commitments, revenue limits, and major cost pressures should be understandable before they become urgent. That gives the Board and the community more room to make thoughtful choices instead of reacting late.
See the Budget & Levy evidence →Plan Today for Livingston’s Future
A school building problem does not begin the year students feel it. Enrollment, facilities, capital projects, and financing can take years to plan. I want Livingston to look ahead early enough to understand who will benefit, what the alternatives cost, and what choices are actually ours to make.
Transparency & Community Engagement
Residents should not need to be accountants, lawyers, or school-finance experts to understand major Board decisions. I want the facts, tradeoffs, constraints, and areas of uncertainty explained clearly enough that people can participate in the conversation.
Guiding principle
Be clear about what Livingston can control.
The Board cannot control every cost or every rule that affects our schools. When state law, legal duties, contracts, market prices, or other levels of government shape a decision, I want to say that clearly—and then focus on the choices Livingston can actually influence.