Priorities & Projects
Sherwood is the envy of NW Oregon. Our city is steeped in tradition, with world-class public safety, excellent schools, and a vibrant sense of community. As your Mayor, I will focus on meeting the challenges we face today and ensuring that we are set up for success in the future. I have the following goals:
Maintain and enhance confidence in local government and its leaders.
Champion "traffic calming" and traffic congestion solutions that enhance safety and livability.
Ensure the safety of our students as they use our roads and trails to get to school.
Complete Pedestrian Bridge at 99W and Sunset, connecting trail systems.
Secure state and/or federal funding for a grade-separated pedestrian crossing at Cedar Creek.
Promote, encourage, and nurture our incredible community-based non-profits that add so much to the character of our city.
Focus growth on projects that are compatible with our community values, goals, and expectations.
Promote stable funding sources that do not put additional tax burdens on our citizens.
Find stable funding for the senior center and enhance programming.
Promote economic development and bring family-wage jobs to Sherwood.
Work with regional partners to fight pre-emption of local control by Salem.
Ensure that city services are available to all members of our community in an equitable, accessible, and inclusive manner and that city-sponsored programing reflects the diversity of our community.
Check out the projects for more detail on specific issues and challenges that I am working on.
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Growth is inevitable. If we choose not to grow, surrounding communities and the county will expand around us, without our input. The question is not "Do we grow?" the question is "Who controls growth?" It is critical that we stay in control of our future. This is why it is so important that we have a plan. (Read More)
On January 2nd, 2018, the council approved a contract that secures the YMCA place in our community. With this action, Sherwood closed a painful chapter in its political history. A chapter that strained public trust in local government to the breaking point. Watching the community come together to effect change was inspiring. Our Citizens have given us the opportunity to press the reset button and rebuild public confidence in local government. (Read More)
On February 20th, 2018, The Sherwood City Council decided to move forward with applying for a grant to build a skate park in Sherwood. Late that year the grant was approved. As we move forward with a groundbreaking in the spring of 2019, we need to make sure that we are working with our partner the YMCA and the community to get this right. (Read More)
The Sherwood Broadband utility was formed back in early 2004 with the goal of providing broadband internet services to homes and business in the Sherwood community. In 2009 the business model of Sherwood Broadband was refined to focus on Business to Business services and not compete against private residential providers like Comcast and Frontier. Is it time to start providing residential services? (Read More)
In 2015 the City of Sherwood commissioned a staffing study of the Sherwood Police Department and community desires as it relates to public safety. The recommendations were never acted on by the council and mayor at that time. Since that study, the population continues to rise, school enrollment is growing and dispatched police call volume is increasing, yet we still have the same number of officers that we had in 2007. We are loosing ground. (Read More)
As Sherwood continues and the region around us grows, we see more and more truck traffic on our roads. To avoid traffic congestion on 99W, Roy Rogers and Tualatin Sherwood Road trucks are starting to use our side streets. It is time to get ahead of these threats to the safety on our streets and the character of our neighborhoods.