Mike’s Priorities

Preserve What We All Love
While Managing Progress,
with Open and Inclusive Leadership

Priorities:

24/7 top priority is safety of our community:
- Crime and Speeding
- Fire and EMS
- Emergency Management
Economic health
- Policies
- Accurate/informative work of related public departments
- Economic Development
- Capital Planning
School renovation/replacement process/projects
- Short timeline to leverage increased state funding
- Stakeholders will need to work with effort and expediency for the good of our town
Fire Station(s) review/projects
Accountable and effective government
- Policies
- Accurate/informative work
- Efficient work places and workers
- Communication enhancements both in and out of government
Create opportunities/desirable conditions for people to stay in and even come to Willington
- Support educational excellence through close coordination and cooperation with the Board of Education and the Superintendent’s office.
- Support jobs that allow multiple generations of families to build lives here
- Multi-generational housing configurations
- Activities that keep people here
- Retirement and elderly housing stock w/close proximity to services/activities/etc
- Housing for older ages can bring life and tax base w/o the need for more school space

Mike chairing our first on-line Board of Finance meeting during COVID-pulling together all of the components that had only been done in person before and leading the board to a functional and careful budget during uncertain times.

Budget Leadership and Fiscal Prudence

2020-2021….. Tax Decrease of .1 mill/expense increase 00.4%

2021-2022….. Taxes flat (no inc/dec)/expense increase 4.14%

2022-2023….. Tax increase of 1.28 mill/expense increase 2.65%

During Mike’s leadership of the Board of Finance, he worked with both parties’ representatives to develop and present budget packages to the taxpayers that kept tax impact to a reasonable level (above), leading to all budgets passing on the first referendum, unlike the last 2 years (below)!

2024-2025….. Taxation 5.5% increase-failed at referendum

2025-2026….. Taxation 7.5% increase-failed at referendum

Committed to Empowering Willington Together

Willington’s Democrats have put together a broad coalition of Democrats, Independents, and former Republicans in a unity coalition to work together to build a better Willington.

We’re
ALL IN FOR ALL OF US

No person can do this work alone and I am proud to be part of a large group of people all committed to a better Willington. To learn more about all 20 of the candidates on the ballot that will help to accomplish these goals, please take a look at the Willington Democrats homepage.