Good Evening Ward 1,
This will be my only email through this account to formally announce my campaign for reelection. If you are interested in hearing more about my campaign or in supporting my campaign, please email my personal email address, fulcher@gmail.com.
Thank you,
Shana
I am excited to share these three priorities that continue to energize me in my run for reelection this fall. I have enjoyed connecting with Ward 1 and other Takoma Park residents on these issues and would be honored to represent Ward 1 for another term of moving forward with these important causes.
The advancement of pedestrian, cyclist, and public transportation rights to safety and quality of experience.
As a community who champions environmental stewardship, we need to align our pedestrian experience with that value. I support the recent changes to Administrative Regulation for Traffic Calming and Sidewalk installation to make it easier for residents in high density areas to engage in the traffic calming process. These changes also call for proposed installations be evaluated for how they connect our community to schools, public parks, and public transportation. When choosing which MWCOG boards to sit on, I specifically sought to be on the Transportation Planning Board because I believe it best positions me to understand bigger regional issues in achieving our local goals.
Advancing homeownership opportunities for middle income residents.
Takoma Park has an obligation to diversify housing stock, both through building new homes and supporting changes in single family housing zoning. Homeownership is one of the best ways that we achieve generational wealth and opportunities for homeownership need to be expanded. I supported the Minor Master Plan Amendment as a zoning tool to remove a barrier in the creation of more housing. I recently attended the MML’s Summer Housing Symposium to better understand State resources available to Takoma Park.
Addressing the City’s structural deficit.
Over the past year I took part in a Finance & Budget Working Group along with two other council members to examine some possible solutions. We did not find simple answers. The deficit that we have will have to be addressed by the City Manager’s Office and City Council working together to make big changes in our spending and revenue. The working group expanded the budgetary calendar in order to make bigger changes more feasible and to allow time for more public feedback. When I took part in the hiring of the new City Manager, we made it clear that addressing the City’s deficit is a priority for the City Council. I have recently joined the board of the Montgomery County chapter of the Maryland Municipal League in order to continue to advance the tax duplication issues that we experience and to push our County Executive’s Office of Management and Budget to correctly account services our municipality provides.
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