Kingston has been my home for many years. It is where I built my career, raised my family, started businesses, volunteered. It's a City that has given me a great deal, and I want to give back.
I'm running because I want to continue serving our community and helping shape a City where my children, your children, and every resident can build a strong future. A City that supports people through every stage of life, creates opportunities, and fosters a true sense of belonging.
Like many of you, I'm a parent, a small business owner with payroll to meet, a taxpayer and a long-time volunteer. I see this City from a lot of angles — and all of them are getting more expensive.
Today, Kingston is a mix of families whose roots here go back generations, newcomers, students and seniors. Different lives, same problem: it costs more to live here every year.
For twenty-four years I've volunteered with Youth Diversion. Restorative justice has taught me to ask one question: how do we make this right? Not who do we blame — how do we fix it.
I think about the budget the same way. Every dollar on your bill came out of somebody's pay. My commitment is to ask the hard questions and carefully analyze how your tax dollars are spent. Every decision should be backed by evidence, deliver value to residents, and stand up to public scrutiny.
I don't pretend to have every answer. I do have commitments I'm willing to be judged on — and a habit, from twenty-four years of restorative justice work, of getting people in a room and keeping them there until something is fixed.
