Ban Evictions Through September - YES
While the pandemic may feel like it's mostly over for many of us, others aren't so lucky. For Corte Madera residents whose housing situation remains unstable due to lost income or unemployment resulting from the pandemic, I voted to prevent these individuals from being evicted from their homes through September, which will allow them to take advantage of what housing relief funding remains at the County. Come the end of September, it looks like pandemic-related housing suppor
Support New 101-Tamalpais Overpass with Bike/Ped Path - YES
With rather short notice, CalTrans has announced that they will be renovating the Highway 101 overpass at Tamalpais Drive. This is a generational project for our community, and arguably the most important single piece of transportation infrastructure in Town. It's critical to our lived experience as residents, with many of us using the overpass multiple times a day, and is a symbol of Corte Madera to the millions of drivers that pass over and beneath it every month. The proje
Approve Response to Grand Jury Report on Electrifying Buildings - YES
In June, the Marin County Civil Grand Jury released an insightful and instructive report on the importance of building electrification (removing appliances in buildings that run on fossil fuels) if we are to make meaningful progress on protecting our communities from climate change. Of course, this will be no easy feat, and in our response, the Town formally concurred with all of the Grand Jury's findings on both the imperatives and challenges associated with this monumental
Create Climate Action Coordinator Position - YES
This is an absolutely monumental accomplishment for Corte Madera: the creation of a dedicated, management-level position to oversee our response to the only existential threat our Town faces, climate change. Once filled, this individual will oversee a portfolio of important tasks, such as implementing the Climate Adaptation Assessment, our road map to protecting Corte Madera from flooding and wildfire; implementing the Climate Action Plan, which guides Corte Madera to reducin