PRIORITY
Safe and Clean Streets
Milwaukie should be a place where everyone feels safe, whether you are walking to school, biking to the store, or simply sitting on your front porch. That means addressing homelessness with real solutions, keeping our neighborhoods protected, and fixing the roads we all depend on.
WHAT Will WILL DO AS Mayor:
Invest in public safety by fully funding our police department and building out the safety continuum so every call gets the right response, whether that's an officer, a behavioral health worker, or both.
Get people experiencing homelessness off our streets and into the care they need by investing in supportive services, shelter capacity, and wrap-around behavioral health support that actually helps people stabilize.
Fix our roads and fill our potholes by fully funding the six-year repaving plan so residents aren't dodging the same craters year after year.
Calm our streets and connect our neighborhoods with traffic calming improvements and a bike and pedestrian network that lets kids reclaim their blocks as a place to play and makes it possible to get around safely to get around without a car.
WILL'S TRACK RECORD:
Worked with Clackamas County to open a 23-hour stabilization center in Milwaukie, giving people in crisis a place to get help instead of ending up on our streets or in our emergency rooms.
Added two police officers and a behavioral health case manager to Milwaukie's public safety team, the city's first overall staffing increase in nearly a decade, ensuring we have the right resource for every call.
Committed $600,000 per biennium to street safety improvements, made the SPOT program permanent so neighbors can request improvements directly, created the Safe Streets Enhancement Fund to deliver bike and pedestrian upgrades fast, and launched the six-year repaving plan to finally get ahead of Milwaukie's pothole problem.