Every year, once the rainy season ends, the Town embarks on its annual roadwork project to repair and repave the Town's most dilapidated roadways—a key part of our routine infrastructure maintenance. The location of that work rotates around Town based on need, and to ensure that no parts of our community are neglected. This years's work will be located primarily in the Madera Del Presidio, Marin Estates/Granada, and Mariner Cove neighborhoods. In addition to road resurfacing

Sewer infrastructure in Corte Madera has two main components: the public sewer mains and pump stations that are owned and maintained by the Town, and the private sewer laterals that connect each home to those sewer mains, which are the property and responsibility of the homeowner. While the Town has made good progress in updating our public sewer mains and pump stations, by 2018, the majority of private sewer laterals in town were original, and in dire need of repair. If you

This is another step forward in our recent work of shifting from the costly and unreliable model of relying on expensive third-party consultants to provide critical Town services, to offering those services instead through an in-house employee. In parallel to our recent move to bring building inspections in-house, I voted to do the same with Public Works inspections. Public Works inspections play a critical but little-seen role in allowing us to maintain and improve the Town'

Like all cities, Corte Madera has been through a lot over the last few years, including a viral pandemic and associated economic collapse. But Corte Madera stands apart from most other cities—including all of our cohorts here in Marin—for how well we dealt with these twin crises. Thanks to years of careful financial planning and prudent fiscal management, we were the only city in Marin to weather the pandemic while keeping our budget balanced, and avoiding cuts to services or

In parallel with the Town's budget process and approval, I also voted to approve a strong and balanced budget for Sanitary District 2, the separate agency (although closely related to the Town, and also overseen by the Town Council) that is in charge of providing and maintaining Corte Madera's sewer infrastructure. The fiscal year 2022-2023 budget we approved sets out $11.4 million in expenditures for sewer system operations, maintenance, and infrastructure projects. This bud

For decades, Corte Madera has funded and provided our own paramedic service through our fire department, thanks to the passage of a paramedic tax in 1998. That tax funds local paramedics and ambulances, and sharply reduced response times for emergency medical service in Corte Madera. But the tax needs to be renewed by voters every 4 years, and that time is once again upon us. I voted to place a renewal of the paramedic tax on the ballot, to let voters renew this important par

Like most issues that touch on housing and land use, this is a complex one, and while I will provide a high-level overview here, you can get a more detailed understanding here. Since 2003, Corte Madera has had rules requiring developers who build new multifamily housing developments in town (i.e. new apartment buildings) to either price a portion of those units at below market rate (to create affordable housing in town) or make a contribution to the Town's Affordable Housing