Public Safety

Safe communities are the foundation for everything.

• Reduce Homelessness & Addiction: Restore safety in business districts, parks, and public spaces while promoting successful pathways to recovery and self-sufficiency.

• Prioritize Effective Law Enforcement: Support OPNET, equip officers to address encampments and waste, and expand co-response programs to connect individuals to treatment and shelter.

• Measure Real Outcomes: Focus on results—recovery from addiction, graduation from homelessness to self-sufficiency, cleaner public spaces, and a renewed sense of safety for residents, businesses, and visitors.

Economic Development

Create opportunity by restoring confidence and removing barriers.

• Make Clallam a Magnet for Investment: Economic development hinges on public safety. Clean, safe communities attract high-quality, high-paying employers and give businesses confidence their investments will be protected.

• Streamline Growth: Replace red tape with a culture of problem-solving and a predictable, efficient path for business development and job creation.

• Empower Workers to Fill the Gaps: Expand workforce training to address shortages in marine, timber, construction, hospitality, retail, and food service.

Affordability

Work to lower costs, fees and taxes and challenge costly state mandates.

• Promote Housing Affordability: Keep housing within reach for working families by reducing permitting barriers and fees and supporting long-term rentals through incentives and landlord risk reduction.

• Advocate for State Reform: Promote reforms that lower building costs and reduce the tax burden on residents.

Fiscal Responsibility

Protect taxpayer dollars and demand accountability.

• Balance the Budget: Evaluate every expense with two questions: Is it essential? Is it effective?

• Lower System Costs Through Public Safety: Safe communities reduce costs of prosecution, indigent defense, courts, jails, and law enforcement.

• Grow Revenue Without Raising Taxes: Expand the tax base through economic growth and strategic partnerships that leverage county facilities and services—without increasing taxes or fees.

• Ensure Accountability: Require nonprofits receiving public funds to provide transparent financial reporting and measurable results for every dollar spent.