The Conversation Continues
Join Me to Keep the Milwaukie Momentum Going!
Hello, neighbors! This November, I hope you will re-elect me one final time, so I can cap off two decades of service to Milwaukie with a second term as Mayor.
Milwaukie is really having its Moment right now: new businesses are opening in record numbers, 275 new units of affordable housing have opened at Hillside Park alongside a growing range of housing options for middle-income residents, and it’s all powered by YOU — a community that comes together for popular events, shows up for neighbors in need, and volunteers to make our city better in countless ways.
This Milwaukie Moment is the product of over a decade of hard work by past and current City Councils and our tremendous staff. Progress like that isn’t just the product of a hard-working mayor — as I emphasized in my recent State of the City address, leadership is a team sport. A small city like ours doesn’t have the funding or staffing to do everything we’d like to do, so we sometimes have to make tough calls about which projects come first. This Milwaukie Moment is the product of a team — Council and staff alike — that has learned to work together to move key initiatives forward.
While we have much to celebrate, there is still real hardship in our community. We have housing and affordability challenges. We have neighbors who live in fear because of their immigration status. We have neighbors who face behavioral health struggles in a system where help is hard to get. That is why you see a unified council on issues of equity, parks and greenspaces, affordability, and economic development — goals we’ve all worked to prioritize for our city, and continue to work on together. I encourage you to watch my State of the City address (see link below) for more on the work we have been doing.
This November, Milwaukie voters have a clear choice between . . .
| A mayor who has studied and served Milwaukie for over two decades, from neighborhood chair to utility committee to Planning Commission to City Council to Mayor. | OR | A candidate who moved to Milwaukie in June of 2023 and ran for council less than a year later. |
| A mayor who has been involved in Hillside, Clackamas County’s largest affordable housing community, from the very beginning: planning in 2018, land use approvals in November 2021, and the decision to allocate $1.7 million in city funding in March 2023. | OR | A candidate who was in college when Hillside planning began and did not even live in Milwaukie, let alone serve on City Council, at the time of any of these decisions, yet claims credit for Hillside on his website and in his newsletters. |
| A mayor who served for several years on the Boards of local nonprofits (Farmers Market, Milwaukie Parks Foundation, and North Clackamas Watersheds Council) and who has stayed focused on Milwaukie, turning down recruitment efforts to run for county and other offices, and who, in her final term, is determined to finish projects she has worked on for years, including Milwaukie Bay Park and the Kellogg dam removal. | OR | ??? |
If you’d like to see more about the work your City Council has been doing, check out these three videos:
